#avengers (2012)

[srdonix]

2012 avengers Steve meeting the winter soldier

[gloriousburden]

Spiraling at the fact that Loki is so tall. Like yeah, obviously he is… but I’m thinking so hard about it and it’s driving me insane… grrrrrrrrr I need him

The way he makes everyone look tiny.. I am unwell

He is so long

[whitoknighto]

I have a headcanon that nyc is not Loki's first mission.

First because of this quote

And second, because is also canon (as said in ragnarok) that are some places on space that the time passes different.

So it is a possibility that he was on other missions, on other worlds, in the name of Thanos.

I personally think that nyc was special not only because of the stones, but because it might be the mission, that if successful, makes loki a true child of Thanos.

Of course, this is just theory and we will never know, but I like this possibility.

[forgan-forge]

The Judge

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Hey guys I’m back with some Loki angst to a Twenty One Pilots song, I’m apparently stuck in 2017 lol :P

[delyth88]

Omg, the green fabric is felt!!

[curryalley]

I think the 2012 Avengers trope is still so beloved in fandom is because we all miss what might have been. In their eagerness for a fight scene every 20 minutes, Marvel forgot that a lot of people loved the characters and the way they interacted with each other. Post party scene in AoU, there just wasn't time for that among all the fight scenes.

[tomboxed]

2012 avengers loki you will always be famous to me

[loopsisloops]

may god bless the dinosaur that died to make the fossil fuel that was treated to become petrol in the car that took his mom to the hospital to give birth to him

[taw-k]

The Loki series would've been so much better if Loki travelled to a universe where he won the battle of new York and saw himself sat on one of Thanos' ships, hovering above new York, clutching the sceptre with bright, traumatized, blue eyes. As Thor, the last one left, was killed by Thanos.

[cbartonscoffee]

2012 Avengers was the best Avengers era and I stand by that.

It gave us Air Vents Clint Barton, Pop Tarts Thor, Coulson Lives fics, and so many more awesome stuff revolving around the life in Avengers Tower that I get sad every time I remember none of it was real because they decided the only option was for them to fight all the time.

[sorrythatwasmean]

For people who like Avengers 2012 vibes, I highly recommend Leverage and it's revival sequel series Leverage: Redemption.

It's about former criminals seeking redemption by using their skills to right wrongs.

It has a grifter who can con people in real lifebut is terrible on a theater stage; a petite, orphaned gremlin woman of a master thief who legitimately loves vents; a cool, black, tech genius; a hitter with long hair and who constantly says things like a type of gun has a distinctive sound. And a former insurance agent who has a beef against rich people who are abusing power.

It's like Ocean's 11 vibes with vigilantism and heists and they say things like "Let's steal a casino."

They ARE the meddling kids.

[gloriousburden]

Okay this is either going to make sense to some, or sound a little insane to everyone.

I love this thing that Loki’s eyelids sort of do sometimes when he’s looking down/his head is at a certain angle. It makes him look like an expressive painting. So pretty!

Couldn’t find better pictures but the first two are mainly what I mean. But you can see it a little in the second. The way his eyes sort of go like / \

Can you tell I’m running out of things to talk about him lol I just adore him. He’s the prettiest! Like a very beautiful yet melancholic painting. So expressive.

[oswildin]

(Possibly?) Controversial opinion incoming:

(Throwing it back to 2012/2013 here lmao)

I feel like the theory that Loki was mind controlled during the Avengers actually takes away the complexity of his character.

w-wait- waIT- HEAR ME OUT!

I think Loki was INFLUENCED by the mind stone for sure, but, to me, he was not controlled.

His anger, his fear, his need for validation and revenge are all what drove him to the events of the Avengers movie. He had just been, what he felt, was cast out by Thor and Odin and his home - those he considered his family and people, he had fallen through space, ended up in such a bad state that Thanos found him and used him for his own gain. (Although, Loki is smart enough to play at that game, ‘you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’ type of thing. EDIT: I mean this sentence in a ‘Loki is good at twisting things to his advantage’ way, not that it means he couldn’t have been manipulated himself in the process.)

I don’t think Thanos or the mind stone had any control over Loki’s mind, not in the way most theories speak of. Loki was controlled by the consequences he would face if he failed his mission, not that he was physically being controlled. I think Loki was given the mind stone because Thanos knew it would enhance those feelings of venom Loki was experiencing - it was an aid of sorts to give him his conviction, which even then, Agent Coulson saw through it.

“You lack conviction.”

Those simple words got to Loki. Because he knew it was true.

Loki never wanted the throne but yet, that was what he was telling everyone was his goal, his reasoning, his motivation… When in his heart, he knew it wasn’t. His motivation was truly fuelled from his hurt, his pain… Not an ambition for a throne.

And that is what makes Loki so interesting.

And that is why I find the theory that Loki had no control over his actions and had no idea what he was doing, takes away from his character, his complexity…

(PSA: I am not here to tell you what you can or cannot headcannon or what theories you believe, it’s a fictional character in a fictional story in a fictional universe… It isn’t that deep, this is just my own personal opinion and preference! If you like the theory for your own reasons, that’s fine too! /gen)

[georgeromeros]

The Avengers (2012) dir. Joss Whedon

[delyth88]

I was watching Avengers the other day and noticed something I haven't ever joined the dots on before.

In this shot of Barton just before he shoots the arrow at the helicarrier, he's pale, sweating, and has dark circles under his eyes. I can only assume this is due to having been under the influence of the sceptre for the last few days.

And then there's this more familiar shot of Loki having just come through the tesseract's portal...

...pale, sweating, and with dark circles under his eyes.

Barton still has those bright blue eyes that indicate he's under the direct influence of the sceptre, and Loki doesn't.

So what I'm concluding from this is that Loki was recently under the direct influence of the sceptre just before he was sent to earth.

This direct control was removed before he was sent, but he remains under the more indirect influence that the sceptre has on people nearby (e.g. the Avengers on the helicarrier). We see his physical health improve the longer he's on earth, which would work with this theory, and this is the same as how Barton recovers after the influence is removed.

I'd never subscribed to the theory that Loki was under the direct control of the sceptre at any point during Avengers, but this makes me think it's very likely he was being directly controlled by it for a period of time shortly before he was sent to earth.

Maybe this was some form of conditioning? Maybe it's easier for the sceptre to influence someone indirectly after they've been directly connected with it? I don't know. Possibly these effects were due to something else, but since Endgame we know it's not travel by tesseract that causes this. Although there's a possibility whatever the SHIELD scientists did on this end of the portal could have had some effect. But it's just too similar a set of symptoms to be unrelated.

I curse it again that we were never given more of Loki's story with Thanos in the series or the Avengers films!!!

[unityrain24]

ok but i'm like in love with the concept of the chitauri scepter acting like a drug. and you suffer withdrawals when you are severed from its influence