[You know how Tom Hiddleston looks in Kong: Skull Island? How muscled he is/his physique, etc? That is what Loki looks like under his armor.
Except during times of ill-health (starvation, recovery from torture, etc) Loki is at pique physical condition and is hardly skinny. He is naturally lithe and elegant, and yes, thinner in some ways, but he is well-muscled and physically conditioned. Almost anyone, compared to Thor’s excessive brawn and extreme musculature, is going to be thought ‘skinny’, but Loki really isn’t.
He agile and athletic, and simply has a different body structure than his brother. Since his sibling was so strong and so large, he learned to compensate with speed and alacrity, which meshed perfectly with his magic.
But Loki can stand up to Thor in a hand-to-hand fight, since they have two completely different styles and they literally trained and fought for hundreds of years together. Loki is about movement – rolls, kicks, swift defense and even swifter strikes -, but his father, and trainers, did pit him against simulated adversaries who were large, stronger, and had a variety of fighting styles so he learned to adapt to every situation
Loki is adaptable. He learned that he had to be. One stays alive by being adaptable.
I just really want people to know that Loki isn’t weak. He is warrior – strong, brave, highly-skilled and physically fit -, he just isn’t Thor.]
Tom had to lose a bit of weight for Ragnarök and he did that by running, and he gained some for Skull Island by doing weight lifting and the soldier training, but there isn’t much of a difference really, Loki isn’t as muscular as Conrad but he’s in NO WAY skinny/gaunt, he packs quite a muscle under that armour, obviously not as much as Chris cause they have different body types, even when Tom gained muscle to play Thor he didn’t get as big as Chris, he’s very lean. Loki is not skinny nor weak, he’s very strong and agile, he took out like what? Six? dark elves with nothing but speed, force and a dagger. I don’t know who would win if Loki and Thor fought to the death, they never meant to seriously harm eachother when they attacked, but both seem pretty equal even tho they have different skill sets.
Loki is, without a doubt, one of the most popular characters of the MCU.
It’s a popular belief that Marvel movies have a villain problem, yet
the God of Mischief is always refered to as the exception. I have
recently been thinking about his character and what his role in Infinity
War will be, and i’ve come to realise that he might be part of a way
bigger scheme. My theory is that he knows Thanos is coming and that he’s
doing everything in his power to stop him. Following this theory, Loki
hasn’t done anything wrong, well at least he didn’t have evil ends, only
the means were bad. I think that as the God of Mischief that he is…
he’s been tricking us all!
First of all, let’s take a look back at when Loki hadn’t met Thanos yet. In Thor ,
he ploted against Thor so that he would be vanished. He knew that once
he let the Jotuns into Asgard, his brother would freak out and fight
them in Jotunheim. This led to Thor’s vanish to earth. He knew that Thor
was too unstable to rule Asgard, so it was a difficult but wise
decision. Then, he tricked the Jotuns into thinking that he was gonna
let them into Asgard, only to finally kill king Laufey and his men. So
up until now, he hasn’t done anything evil, he has only done things for
the well-being of Asgard. As he said: “For you! For all of us!” Things
get controversial when he sends the Destroyer to earth as a necessary
evil to stop Thor from coming back and when he tries to destroy
Jotunheim (although the Jotuns had already said that they were gonna go
to war). But as i’ve already said, these are means to keep Asgard and
its people safe. Maybe he was wrong in doing these things, but his
intentions weren’t actually evil as he genuinely thoguht he was doing
the right thing.
We can also appreciate this at the end of the film:
LOKI: I could’ve done it father! For you! For all of us!
ODIN: No, Loki…
After this, he decides to let go into the void and we don’t know if he
knew that he was gonna survive or if he actually wanted to kill himself
after realising nobody around him cares for him or appreciates his
intentions. As the screewriter himself says, Loki “just wanted to
impress his father”.
LOKI: When he wakes, I will have saved his life, I will have destroyed
that race of monsters, and I will be true heir to the throne!
So as we
can see, he’s just a conflicted character, he’s not fully evil. I hope
that by now you see him with other eyes because this is where my theory
begins:
We can clearly see that when he lets go he falls into some kind of
portal so we can asume that’s how he survives and comes across with
Thanos. I believe that’s when Thanos tells Loki that he wants to unite
the Infinity Gauntlet, Loki feels the responsability to stop him and
embarks on a secret and personal mision to stop this from happening
First of
all, when he meets Thanos, the mad titan gives him his Sceptre, the mind
stone. Now, one of the many asked questions about the MCU is, why would
Thanos give away an Infnity Stone when he’s actually trying to collect
them? Well, who else but the God of Mischief to deceive him into giving
it away? This way, Loki has already taken one gem from him.
The next part of my theory is based on the asumption that Loki’s plan on The Avengers was
supossed to fail from the beggining. This theory is pretty popular but i
gave a spin to it. My theory is that he didn’t want to invade earth and
he just wanted to destroy the Chitauri army and get the Tesseract and
the Sceptre away from Thanos. In Thor and Thor: The Dark World,
Loki shows no interest in earth, so why would he literally go from
wanting to impress his dad to wanting to rule earth? I don’t buy it. He
never wanted earth.
First of all, in the Thor post-credit scene and in The Aveners ,
Loki seems to know a lot of things: He somehow knows that the Tesseract
is in SHIELD’s possesion. He also knows about the Avengers initiative
and its members given that he had a master plan to destroy them in the
helicarrier. If he knew all of this secret info, it’s very possible that
he also knew that SHIELD was making weapons of mass destruction out of
the Tesseract. He even says to Widow: “You lie and kill in the service
of liars and killers”. If he knew all of that that, I think he knew it
was a safe bet that the World Security Council was gonna send the
nuclear bomb and destroy the Chitauri.
Better
yet, what if he even knew that HYDRA was within SHIELD? Curiously, the
movie cuts to Steve finding HYDRA weapondry just after Loki says this
line. He could’ve known that the Wolrd Security Council was corrupted by
Hydra by Alexander Pierce and Gideon Malik (played by the same actor in
AoS and in the Avengers) and that they were gonna send the nuclear bomb to New York.
In the
scene with Loki and The Other, The Other keeps insisting that him and
Thanos want the Tesseract while Loki kept pressuring about the army
blackmailing him with the fact that the Tesseract was in his possession.
So Thanos and the Chitauri have no interest in sending an army to
earth. Loki got the Chitauri into New York, got them destroyed by the
nuclear bomb and both the mind and space stone were far from Thanos’
hands. Yes, a lot of people died in the process, but Loki did it all to
save the universe.
But here is when things get interesting: At the end of Thor: The Dark World, he takes Odin’s place as the king of Asgard and in the mid-credit scene of Thor: The Dark World,
two Asgardians are sent to the Collector’s chambers to give him the
Aether so the stones can be kept separated. Why in the hell would Loki
give away an Infinity Stone if he’s supposedly working for Thanos? It
really doesn’t make any sense and i think that’s what gives his plan
away. So now Loki is finally ruling Asgard with no problem, he has
spared Odin’s life and the universe is safe from Thanos so far.
So this is pretty much my theory. I’m super excited to see where they’ll go with his character in Thor: Ragnarok. Leave me a comment if you liked this.
I’ve figured out the reason for my writing block on this specific blog!
and I know why people do it, so I’m not blaming anyone, but here it is:
Everyone needs to be needed and needs to feel capable of contributing to a relationship. Loki is no exception. For so long he was a victim and embittered about it and he still makes a cause out of fighting against pressures to belong in shadow and taken for granted by his family. But I fear this has made my followers timid about asking for things FROM him. 99 percent of the memes and threads that I receive are people trying to take care of Loki and therefore be the person who is most special to him. And I understand that impulse, but just as much as he needs to be nurtured, he needs opportunities TO nurture. To step outside the role of the damaged fragile villain, and to be both protective snd gentle. To have a functionally positive role in someone’s life. To contribute back equally.
Slutty Yorick 
