I see this scene reblogged a lot off the one Hiddleston blog I follow, but it almost always ends with Lokiās āThere are no men like meā line, which is completely missing the fucking point of the scene. And I get that itās about the Hiddleslove, which is great, but itās completely missing the fucking point of the scene. And it is a very important point.
This is one of my favourite moments in the whole MCU because of its incredible power and strength. This is not Captain America with his super soldier serum juice standing up to a god. This isnāt even a young man who might think heās somehow got a chance against the prick with the horns. This is an old, old man who knows, who knows, that heās probably going to die because of what heās doing, but he is not going to kneel to another man like Hitler.
Maybe he did, seventy years ago. Maybe thatās why he would rather die now than remain on his knees. Maybe he *didnāt*. Maybe he fought against his own countrymen, because he wouldnāt kneel to a man like this. Maybe heās always been one to stand up. Maybe he lost everything once because of it. Everything except his integrity, and maybe heās ready to die instead of risking losing that now, at the end of his life. Maybe his integrity cost him so fucking much seventy years ago that he hopes heās going to die for it now because he almost wishes heād have died for it then, but if heās going to die for it, heās goddamn well going to die with it.
Maybe heās a Holocaust survivor. Maybe heās Jewish. Maybe heās gay. Maybe heās Romani. We donāt know.
We donāt know anything about this man, except heās the bravest goddamn person in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
And thatās why it bothers me every time I see this scene go by with his response cut from it. Because itās missing. the. point.
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