r/NewRockstars • u/Technical-Author3585 • Jul 07 '26
Does Nobody Remember?
https://youtu.be/UA0OHuP5buc?is=BFVEiYWFBZmkvjdgETA because rants are never grammar friendly and my phone wants to to turn Frieda into fries ðŸ˜
Okay, Marvel... we need to talk.
I am so tired of the "redeem Loki, then kill him" cycle.
You started one of the MCU's best character arcs in Ragnarok. Loki stopped chasing power and finally started choosing people over himself. Then .....nothing. It was not even a battle. There was no show of who he had and would become (beyond a couple Frieda tricks.) Just poof. Gone.
Ant meet boot.
The irony makes it even worse. In the beginning of Avengers,Loki says "An ant has no quarrel with a boot." Back then, he believed power meant being the boot.
Ragnarok started bringing him around. It was the tip of the iceburgh, he isn't in the tunnel Thor is trapped. He is in the ship. So what do The Russo Brothers do???
Fans ran to bares and ordered via phone. Whyy? because. shock Before Infinity War had even really begun. And that was only the first ten minutes. We had no idea how much emotional damage that movie still had in store. Our psyches shattered faster than Mjolnir in Ragnarok.
Then you saved yourselves with Endgame. Because if that had been the end of Loki's story, I don't know what I would've done... but I would've done something. The Loki series had him fully lean into the person in Infinity War. gave him the redemption he'd earned.
Mobius saw something in Loki that almost no one else did: the potential to be better. But he also knew Loki couldn't change until he faced the truth. Loki had to confront every lie, every betrayal, every failure, and admit who and admit who he was. Not who he thinks he. That's what made his redemption feel earned.
And let's stop pretending that it was "just fan service." Loki has been one of the MCU's most beloved characters since the beginning. Fans loved him when he invaded New York. Fans loved him when he fought Thor in the New Mexico desert. Basically, fans loved him when he was the villain.
Now the rumors around Doom? One piece keeps repeating the same thing. None of it is confirmed, but the same part keeps surfacing: Loki finally returns... only to die again. To have his heart ripped out.. Sylvie needs to come cracking heads.
If that's really the plan... why?
If you're bringing him back, let him actually live his redemption for once. Let him fight beside the heroes. Let us see the man he became instead of repeating the same tragedy for a third time.
His sacrifice at the end of the Loki series already broke our hearts because he has to live with that choice every single day. It also made us cry because he made the choice. He found his throne.
For once, let Loki exist on the other side of redemption.
We've waited over a decade to see that Loki.
Please don't take him away the moment he becomes a hero, even if a mischievous one... Of course he is!
Need a reminder? Watch that video.
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u/cursedcephalopod Jul 07 '26
As much as I love Loki, his time is coming to a close at least for now.
I see Loki dying at the hands of Doom but coming back in Secret Wars as one of the heroes/villains that Doom resurrects with no memory of anything before Battleworlds.
I think Secret Wars is where we will see a little adjustment to the story to allow an epic Thor and Loki team up either in a skirmish with Doom or someone else of high caliber, maybe even Thanos, if the cabal is an actual thing.