Time Troubling Trickster

Loki's fans who loved the series - I have a question for you. A hypothetical. Lets say you are talking to someone who is a brand new fan of Loki and only know him from MCU, not comics. You tell them there is a female version of him in comic books called Lady Loki, and their reaction is disguist and they say it terrifiying.

not the addressed target audience cause I don´t love(d) the series but I don´t have so much issue with that particular line per se ...  Watching it the first time I didn´t hear it as so much a sexism based disgust, (but perhaps a rewatch would change that, but it was not my first reaction) ..  like in universe for the characters I heard it less as an “oh ewwww that´s awful and bad, icky women ew”(*) and more an “ohh daamn .. that´s got some potential” as in somewhat shuddering reverence for what change of gender given the way the universe is about gender could unlock new mischief potential (perhaps even as a “oh god no, imagine if our trauma had some additional gender based trauma, that's scary”, like “imagine we had to grow up with misogyny on top of everything else” - I know that part is reaching, so totally reaching, and we don´t even see enough about gender roles in asgard in the movies to make any proper statement there, but I think there could be one in it)  So having the in universe Loki´s that canonicaly only know not female Lokis react that way could make some sense in terms of characterization BUT what I hate about it and really drives me up the walls is [(a) you´re telling me Loki never shifted genders more than that tiny Sif bit and never really explored any shape shifting and none of the of the other Lokis didn´t either? Not one of them went “oh I was female last week but currently I´m feeling more masc” ..  aaand even more so]  (b) what the hell are these writers doing? why did they write a heap of different male Loki variants and EVEN A FREAKING ALLIGATOR (**) (assuming it´s a male alligator) AN ANIMAL ....... why did the writers Smurfette principle Loki??!?!?!? 

oh indeed

things that give me feels and should not be hidden in tags: 

I totally agree that Loki does not fit a NPD diagnosis,   but as far as I know, that while it is indeed unlikely that someone worried about being narcissistic (as in having the personality disorder) is it, it´s not impossible that people with NPD admit to such things, there are people that have the diagnosis, are in therapy and do talk about it, some can be rather perceptive about the traits that make them someone with NPD but they just don´t think that they are a “bad” thing (like here someone might recognize and admit that they want attention, but of course they do because they are awesome and deserve it and how is it bad to want to be recognized for your own greatness)  And this seems to be quite flawed methodology but there´s also this (x)   But I´m also just reading and learning about NPD.  I really wish that people would just in general make more of a difference between Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and the garden variety everyday use of “Narcissism” and not conflate them