Let Loki Be Blue

Why do some people insist that Loki faked his death in the first Thor movie?

He let himself fall in an abyss full of explosions, how exactly was he supposed to know that he was going to survive this?

He was crying, he was falling, he had had a breakdown…

How do some people think that this

was not a suicide attempt????

Very little about Loki is actually traditionally villainous in nature, other than the fact that he is disgruntled. He had flaws, certainly. But his most defining characteristic is that he always felt like an outsider among his own people. He discovered the reason for that feeling in the worst way imaginable. At which point there was no support from his family, nothing to buffer him from the negative outcomes, of which suicidal ideation was a statistical inevitability.

People struggle to accept that Loki is a victim because he is presented to us as the antagonist in comic book narrative. We are not intended to have sympathy for him, or at least not much. He is the bad guy, therefore his intentions must be universally bad. The problem with this dynamic is that it reinforces the notion that poor mental health, regardless of its contributing factors, is also universally bad. If someone is presented as a villain, no treatment of that character, no matter how heinous, can be categorized as abuse. Any action that character takes, as a result of their own dysfunction, is regarded as both undeserving of sympathy and unworthy redemption. 

And Loki at first would be uncertain about her reaction to him

But then she’d open her arms to him

“My son…my beloved little boy…how my heart glows at feeling you in my arms again.” And she would hold Loki close, and let him cry if he felt the need to. In that beautiful moment, Frigga would re-play precious memories of their past in Loki’s mind.

Then Frigga would whisper assuringly in Loki’s ear, “My sweetling…My child…I have never stopped loving you, and I never will. No matter what…”

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The Dance. Loki.

Once again, I started with one picture in mind and finished with something else entirely. I’m really not the one in control of this.

So here’s a happy Loki for you.

Painted in the Autodesk Sketchbook app.

Give me Loki swirling his daggers like a boss.

Give me Loki stand proudly for himself, out of Thor’s shadow.

Give me Loki smiling arrogantly at his enemies.

Give me sassy Loki, tricky Loki, free-to-be-himself Loki.

Give me a Loki who doesn’t need to prove his value to anyone, even less to his brother.

Give me a Loki who doesn’t give up.

Give me a Jutunn Loki who uses his Frost Giant powers against Thanos. Or whoever else.

Give me Loki full of strength. Full of power. A Loki who doesn’t need to steal his strength to anywhere.

Give me a Loki in all his glorious God’s aspect. Radiant. Powerful. He’s a God: show us in all his rightful, strong aspect.

Give me a Loki proud of his Jotunn heritage, without renounce at the Asgardian culture.

I was so upset and angry during all Dr. Strange’s scene. A scene with no sense at all. Impossible to occur if you stop and think seriously. I mean…come on!!

Who’s Dr. Strange? A sorcerer? An illusionist? A human being trained to be a magician? And who are you to think to have a tiny chance against a God?

A God.

Louder for the people in the back.

A God.

Maybe someone has forgotten it, or maybe it’s convenient to remarks only when they want point out that Loki is “the villain who cheats his brother with tricks”.

Well, guess what?

Loki is a God.

No, wait, it goes better and better.

Loki is a Frost Giant with the powers of his people, and an Asgardian God. Like Thor.

Frigga teaches him magic.

And he grows powerful.

He became a God. And a warrior.

He’s a God.

Does this thing works only for Thor?

Loki is a God, and all those funny tricks and golden sparkles in the air, can only makes him smirks more amused before to wipe him away from his sight with a gesture of the hand.

Thor: … come in?

Loki: