in this house we believe loki's not dead

(Please read this Loki theory I spent a lot of time on this)

Loki and Thanos have history together (Thanos masterminds the entire New York attack). Thanos knows how Loki operates and knows not to trust him.

So the question: Why the fuck would Loki try to pledge his allegiance then try to attack Thanos with a butter knife 0.0004 seconds later?

Because Loki needed to remove himself from the picture.

Alive, Thanos knows what a huge asset Loki would be to the avengers, with his knowledge of Thanos’s operation and his own natural cunning.

Dead, Thanos won’t give two shits about Loki or any damage he could possibly cause.

Why would Loki need this level of incognito?

BECAUSE HE’S LOOKING FOR THE EGO STONE!!!!!

While under Thanos Loki probably heard all about the Infinity Stone. It makes sense that Loki would have heard rumors about the ego stone but because it wasn’t necessary for The Snap™️ Thano’s people didn’t look into it.

Another important question often asked: WHERE? THE FUCK?? WAS VALKYRIE?!?!? Or Korg?

Answer: Helping Loki escape!!

And why wasn’t Thor in on this scheme?

Because that pure boy can’t lie for shit

ppl irl:

Okay, I just. I love this photoset, and no disrespect to the OP, but I am getting tired of people outside the Loki fandom behaving as if our belief that Thanos mistreated Loki is “just headcanons.”  There is ample canonical evidence.  Like, you can take Loki or leave him.  No one is excusing his past behavior, and no one is saying he’s a character everyone is gonna love. But let’s just call it like it is: Loki has PTSD from working under Thanos.  

1) Loki worked under Thanos at the same time as Nebula and Gamora.  Like the sisters, he was a fieldmarshal, “child,” and “collectible” of Thanos’s; like all abusers and warlords throughout fiction and actual world history, he uses the psychological tactic of taking the young specimens of a conquered civilization and assimilating them into his own “culture,” in this case an enormous mercenary intergalactic army, for his own purposes, therefore both debasing and demoralizing the enemy.   Nebula and Gamora both suffered “enhancements” to their body chemistry and, in Nebula’s case, to their anatomical structure****  in order to be made better fit to find Infinity Gems.  What was Loki’s role under Thanos? To secure an Infinity Gem.  It is inescapable that Loki was mistreated by Thanos. Why else would he hate him so much for “saving” him and equipping him with power?  2) Why did Loki work under Thanos, if Thanos mistreated him? Because, as the Other made explicitly clear, to deny Thanos his wits, knowledge, and resources would be to be tortured and killed.  If Loki wanted to ever see life beyond Thanos’s grasp, he had to provide the Tesseract.  Having earth to rule in Odin and Thor’s image was just a consolation prize; Loki’s main goal was to SURVIVE THANOS.  I don’t blame people for not realizing this upon seeing Avengers Assemble; the movie was enjoyable but the writing was often convoluted and unclear, making it seem as if Loki’s only goal was to be a “diva” who “freed people from freedom.”  All of that was a distraction.  

3) How do I know that? Not just because of little morsels of evidence, like Loki showing signs of heat exhaustion and back injury, but for bigger, more incontrovertible reasons:  Loki’s conversation with Thor at Stark Tower, during the Chitauri Invasion, before stabbing him in the side.  A deleted scene shows that the Other CAN HEAR LOKI through the Mind Gem in the scepter,  and will take all of Loki’s disobedience directly back to Thanos. Therefore when Thor pleas with Loki to join forces with him, Loki is not at liberty to agree; he has to say “it’s too late” and flee, even though he is brought to tears, lamenting the “sentiment” that he wishes he could acknowledge and indulge, but it would get them both killed. Remember at this point Thor has no idea Thanos even exists, but Loki does.   

4) Loki hid on Asgard as Odin.  Does anyone really believe that was just to be lazy, drink wine, and watch plays of himself?  No.  He was hiding from Thanos, particularly with the knowledge that he had sent the Aether, another Infinity Gem, to the Collector, and kept the Tesseract safely stored in Asgard’s Vault.  Hell, I could speculate that he didn’t even know the Infinity Gauntlet was a fake, as Hela revealed, and thought that as long as that was hidden in the Vault, he was safe, but again, this post is not about speculation. But why is Loki so terrified of Thanos that he’d put his entire life on hold and masquerade indefinitely as Odin?  Because Thanos is a monster and mistreated him.  

5) Probably most importantly, Tom Hiddleston discussed the script of Avengers with Joss Whedon and they decided explicitly that Thanos AND the Chitauri physically and psychologically abused Loki.  (I do not have the old 2012 interview link but if anyone reading this does, please send it).  

I have more reasons but honestly? Tl;dr Thanos mistreated Loki.  It’s a fact, like “Loki has black hair.”  As someone who has PTSD and as someone who has training in counseling, I happen to think it informs his behavior for every film installment from Avengers 1 on.  You can reject Loki as a character, but you cannot reject the facts about his backstory. 

****please note that Nebula was disfigured simply in a fit of sadistic pique over how she couldn’t measure up to her sister, and later when the siblings formed a healthier emotional bond, Thanos killed Gamora in front of, and to further spite, Nebula.  And anyone thinks Thanos wouldn’t also have enough spite to do direct harm to Loki? 

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

I continue to wonder why the hell the filmmakers would go to so much trouble to let the audience know that Loki was operating under duress and under someone else’s orders. We know what kind of person Thanos is. We know what he is capable of.

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Marvel stans:

I carried a large stuffed rabbit whenever I went in public for about a week to observe the reaction of others. The point of the project was to do something harmless yet unusual to see if the action would be considered deviant, in which case someone had to try to correct or shame the behavior.

Long story short, nobody tried to correct my behavior. I was asked about it casually, had a few lingering stares thrown my way and when I was with my boyfriend, shop employees would direct questions to him instead of me. However, nobody refused to assist me when I was alone in a store, nobody said anything about the rabbit besides “oh, thats a cute bunny!” and I attended college classes without even a teacher questioning it.

1. Your mother/father/guardian is a total monster and I don’t get paid enough to fight with them about why you should get less than an A.

2. Your essay well well-written and entertaining despite being full of shit. It deserved an A just for breaking up the monotony of grading 60 identical essays.

3. I really dislike you as a person but I don’t want the faculty to find out.

4. Eh. I dunno. It just had an ‘A’ vibe. 

5. I didn’t read the text either. I don’t understand why we’re required to study 100-year-old white male heterosexual authors when there’s plenty of fantastic modern fiction that actually deals with things that are relatable to the students, written in language that doesn’t put them to sleep. I don’t teach Suffering 101, so why are we studying this? My protest to the faculty is giving everyone As.

6. I didn’t even read your essay but I know you’re smart and you need encouragement. 

7. Look. At this point I’m just happy you can read, even if it’s wikipedia. 

Thirty kindergartners: *screaming with excitement*

Me: Yes she is very big, does anyone know where ball pythons are from?

Kid: The woods!!

Me: Yes, they do like the woods where they’re from. It’s a very big continent. Who knows what continent you find them on?

Another kid: The sun!!

Me: That’s … in space, so no

Yet another kid: Earth!!!

Me: Yes … that’s definitely the planet they and we are on! The snake is from the same place giraffes and lions are from …

Several kids: The zoo!!!!

Me: A continent is–

Teacher, deadpan: It’s where Wakanda is