Loki has regressed, for better or worse, to the person he was before the discovery of his heritage in Jotunheim. He is perhaps wiser and less trusting, with all the painful “accoutrements” of trauma, but the role he serves at Thor’s side directly parallels the role he served before Thor’s first coronation. He has resigned himself to a filial dynamic that will always consist of subservience on some level to his brother, without true open communication, because not only their points of view of events, but also their means of communicating their earnest feelings, are so irreconciliably different. Loki realizes that without Thor and Asgard (where he spent both his childhood and his years hiding as Odin in a peaceful and relatively safe state), he is truly alone. So Loki defaults to the means and methods of his youth, as well as the real personality at his core (cautious, cunning trickster). This doesn’t mean Loki is happy per se; it does mean he’s good at surviving. Bearing that in mind, there’s nothing surprising about Tom Hiddleston playing him in a way reflective of the first film. He has come full circle to his childhood and the fundamentals of his selfhood, before Thanos contaminated his personality with the earmarks of war imprisonment and trauma, in order to face that same abuser. In a way, as sad as it is that he’s settling for the person he was before he underwent such steep tests of his will, selfhood, and spirit, it’s also poetic.
Right with you on poetic.
It also helps the audience as some might not have followed Loki’s story as rigorously as some of us Loki fans have. If they missed TDW or even only saw ‘The Avengers’ and/or ‘Thor:Ragnarok’ Then Infinity War gives them a chance to see a glimpse of what he was like before and hopefully see what he can really do as a character.
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