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diamondnokouzai · 1 year

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so heres my basics of a kid loki animated marvel treatment

first off: pg-13 minimum. this is more towards the ultimate avengers/hulk vs. movies than like, thor: tales of asgard. also: NARRATED. narrated in old-ish poem-ish writing the way everything is in the comics.

second off: to make sure everyone knows that this is separate from the mcu, we start with classiclokis death. in order for us not to get bogged down in comic book details, we're making up loki dying when surtur tried to invade asgard. that didnt happen in the comics, but we really dont have the time to get into all of that (im trying to adapt journey into mystery 622 -- 645 in one movie)

before the funeral is where we put in the introductory seven magpies bit, up to ikol exploding in the library. this part is more watercolor-y than the rest, and we get a flash of green in the seventh magpie's eye for foreshadowing. then we flash back to:

funeral scene for loki: hes so fucking dead. his body is burning. hes dying so much. thor is like the only one even a little sad about this, including thor.

next: thor is doing what he always does when hes depressed: wandering around midgard being a hazard to air tower control. he sees a kid doing 3-card monte or something in paris who looks like loki, we get the classic eyes narrowed + shadow zoom "loki?" shot. THUNDERSTORM. tourists clear out, kid is cleaning up when thor goes in about one quarter cocked as usual.

chase scene just to make sure everyones awake + its always fun when lokis in a chase scene

the same 'luc is actually loki' reveal as we get in the comics, but now its after a chase scene so its more fun. also, thor explains that loki was killed by surtur somehow. very important.

to be clear: loki doesnt have his magic in this movie, its the same as the comics. he can try but nothing doing.

thor takes loki back to asgard [i choose to have kid loki with his hair down in this movie because its cuter. he can have his stupid condom hood on sometimes but not here] and we get an introductory shot of thor walking with loki through asgard, some comments 'oh wow i really am in the future' from loki

at the palace thor sticks loki in the library while he [thor] goes to talk to odin about the uh suddenly alive again stopped-being-evil-for-one-second-to-save-his-brother loki. which im sure frigga is fine with. note that im replacing odin with frigga/the allmothers in this movie because explaining odins death takes away from lokis lokiness.

WHILE LOKI IS IN THE LIBRARY, IKOL RETURNS. MONTAGE: loki wandering around, solving riddles while getting suspicious looks from everyone for his loki-ness. thor trying to convince people to be cool with loki. this is mostly interrupted by loki causing trouble. im picturing this + previous part as some light comedy sections/relationship building bits in comparison to how dark most of the kid loki storyline is.

finally: 'this is a place hidden in a whim beneath a daydream'. loki back at the library dropping into the question mark, thor back talking to frigga. we cut between the two as kid loki talks to old loki and thor talks to the allmothers, trying to convince them that loki is like, cool. finish with loki smugly sealing ikol and thor yelling at the allmother about saving his brother.

see the thing about the ENTIRE kid loki arc is that like. so much of it i cant just get rid of or condense very much? like JiM 2011 is schemes on schemes on schemes its so good and it all builds on top of each other. so what im getting rid of is the new mutants sidequest, most of the helwolf, almost all of the serpent/fear lords, and anything post 'i am the crime that will not be forgiven'. ill probably cut out most of the mephisto vs hel arc, since we have surtur going on instead--we'll say loki stole his sword's shadow earlier. and since we dont have the serpent arc, we dont need two leahs either. im thinking most of the montage will be foreshadowing of loki's schemes, considering whats getting cut out in the actual writing

so loki comes out of the library about to introduce ikol to thor, but thor's been locked up for being a little bitch to the allmother. this is where we get loki's 'thor, if you had to do something bad to prevent something worse, would you?' question. volstagg drags loki off to set him to work

(im picturing loki having caused volstagg trouble at least twice in the montage, so here we get a rule of three subversion instead, with volstagg doing the story of toothgrinder and toothgnasher and then 'despite all the ills your other self has caused, i have my own brood of children. unfortunately, im fond of all of you disgusting brats, no matter what mistakes you make' (< not verbatim))

next we get a much shorter montage of 1 loki spying and 2 loki talking to his bird. again, more montageshadowing

loki spying on the allmothers, hears that there is trouble in hel between surtur and hela (i knowww they arent the same place but surtur is basically surphisto in this treatment). frigga says 'no no, lets stay here' but we get the implication that she knew loki was listening and sneaking out

loki breaks the helwolf with the magic bridle, and we make his breaking into hel relatively quick so that he can meet leah and start making friends with her.

some leah+loki bonding with them fighting demons and sniping at each other. loki brings up the bffs thing and we get another comedy moment with his starkphone. he attempts to show her cocomelon (i know they cant do it but i want to see it). they investigate the surtur thing a little bit but theyre both, like, 12. (loki has his condom hood here so leah can make fun of him).

loki goes back to asgard to report the Big News but frigga yells at him for 'bringing an element of hel into Asgard Itself'. they both get in trouble, hela will arrive within a few days to get her handmaiden back.

things keep going wrong-er in asgard even while loki is grounded. shaking water, smell of sulfur, all stuff that generally bodes the opposite of well. but loki isnt there so it cant be his fault.

finally surtur bursts into asgard to Rain Terror And Ragnarok down on everyone. but they cant all die because something something prophecy. another action scene: we see the asgardians fighting various summoned demons, evacuating people, etc. possibly have a subplot about surtur stealing the bodies of asgardians so we can have some excitement up in this bitch. durin the action scene: leah actually fights with daggers while loki is sneaking around getting made fun of or told to get out of the way. they are losing the fight. the first big turn is him releasing thor from prison to help fight. this is when they land the first major blow on surtur.

more loki sneaking around. this is where we see some of the foreshadowing in the montages pay off. all very rube goldberg-y because, again, no magic! however while his contraptions are going off there are some that work for no perceivable reason. like some are going off because we saw him set them off, and then we see a new one that is equally silly but was not planned.

here things split again: loki goes back into the library because things are looking bad: loki says hes looking for answers, but hes really looking for ikol (due to aforementioned unpredicted rube goldbergs)

while loki falls into his book, hela arrives. the tide is now firmly on the side of the asgardians as hela proves herself once again to be one of the least objectionable mothers in asgard (not a huge competition in terms of comics canon). and since leah is her handmaiden, hela has an amputation at the wrist in this movie.

we focus mostly on the action scene with the next few minutes, with only occasional flashes of the lokis' conversation to explain what theyre talking about (how the plan was always for adult loki to take kid loki's body, but we only get one sentence from either at a time). while the asgardians have surtur on the ropes, we get the classic gloat about how neither surtur nor the asgardians can ever truly win because blah blah blah prophecy. meanwhile, adult loki is explaining why the shadow of surtur's sword has to be used, but kid loki doesnt know how to, ha-ha-ha gotcha. kid loki gets depressed, adult lokigets sarcastic and offers a compromise (kid loki does the killing with the shadow, but adult loki gets control of his hands; after that, kid loki can have three conversations before adult loki takes his body)

kid loki agrees, comes back to strike the last blow.

i want to adapt most of the conversations as they go in the comic--so kid loki & classic loki's 'i wanted me to change. not you.', final blow on surtur, everybody laughs and applauds loki, THEN loki's monologue realization with leah, has hela send her away/back in time, then running around the ruins of asgard, people call out to him actually being friendly for once without loki ever replying (3 conversations) THEN loki's 'thor if i ever go bad will you promise to kill me' conversation in the garden. now since i got rid of a lot of the afterlife drama im getting rid of brún's conversation with loki. unfortunately i do like loki refusing to speak to leah at the end so im keeping that there, and im replacing that conversation with a conversation with frigga/allmother, one part 'perhaps we could find a place for you' one part 'oh this lady loves manipulating her adoptive son'.

return to the world inside the book. this we adapt almost word for word, but we add 'i am the crime that will not be forgiven' as the last line (so damn me -> damn you all -> [beat] -> i am the crime that will not be forgiven. and we keep the loki-eating-ikol thing.

green fire burns the screen black. beat. FLASH OF BRIGHT GREEN EYES ONSCREEN. DISTORTED LAUGHTER. credits.

POST CREDITS SCENE: AoA!loki ducking down from the top of the screen, hair dangling. he waves, winks, does a little magic of the asgard skyling blowing ot dust. cut to black. loud sound of a twink falling. END MOVIE.

remember that this is just a treatment that i typed up while rewatching the original thor movie on some weird russian porn site. and i do legitimately believe that the kid loki writing is some of the strongest in modern comics and while i would LOVE to do like, a 12 episode season of an animated show to better adapt all the schemes (not to mention the britannia arc which was just, SO good) i really do legitimately miss the old animated features that marvel did back in the late aughts/early 10s. hence movie.

while im making my wishlist:

i want the backgrounds to be watercolor, but with 2d animation. BUT. during the magpie scene, i want the animation also to be watercolor, and for the scenes in the book, i think paint-on-glass would be SO cool. when loki is falling into the book, i want it to be cell animated from a very basic sketch of a human body up--like, first few frames all you see is the stick legs, rectangle feet, circle joints, trapezoid body, and the details get built up until hes an actual human at the end.

this all being said im not actually SUPER opposed to it being cgi. i just like 2d animation better (it is the nostalgia)

i dont know how feasible this is but i think itd be so cool if the lokis shared a voice actor along with leah and hela.

i want the shadow of surtur's sword to be like, animated as just being the erasure of whatever frame its on instead of being an actual shape

also i want old loki to be the same uncanny valley cgi from the blood brothers series

and i mean obviously theyll never give me the budget to make this (for no good reason even though im so good at writing animated adaptions of comic arcs) but i think they should because im pretty. and i think they should pay me one million dollars for this.

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