#tdw sam

[secretary-ian]

[i-am-xp-64]

I'm summoning the chat!

@weirdsillycreature @astrodrawz @victiniiiii @anna-cute-049 @ella-the-fella @lovelyoliviasblog @alexfreakkkk

I did the donut shop AU thingy I were talking about lol

So welcome the AU:

The Donut World shop AU

TDWS for short

The AU of the LaBelle siblings, Bram and the forth twins (Sam and Sally) working on their donut shop

But with dark secrets of them being deadly killers who are impossible to expose lol

Let's start to introduce

Sam and sally

The waiters

They're blind but quite good at their waiter job, thanks for the floor design on the shop that makes them able to know which table at which coordinat, but don't let those cuties trick you, with their distraction abilities, they can lead you into a dead trap and get away with it since they are the youngests

Rex

The janitor/dish washer

He quiet fun when he spoke and make the cleaning fun for everyone, but also very good with throwing blades that you can't even ran away from him, he also good at carving bodies and slide out organs

Bram

The second cashier

He quite seem paranoid and shy but it actually because of some trauma and pills he takes to stay calm for the job, he quite good with fooling people and axes that he only take the pills to be look shy and weak for the victims to fall in

Albert

The third waiter

He's creeply smiling and a lot cheerfully gentle than other workers due to pills he take like Bram and him being used to any negativity at young ages, but if he comes to your table and ask you to follow him to the restroom, consider yourself dead, because once he got you there, he'll either faith you for another sacrifice or strangle you from the back till you die, this guy is a lot stronger than you think

And lastly

Monster

The main cashier

The least happy worker among the team, she really not a fan of this job, but she also the leader among the other workers due to her high strength being even higher than the strongest one in the team, her fighting ability and brutality killing is making her one of the deadliest killers ever among the streets who haven't been caught because of the lack of evidences to expose her

Might make some comics on this AU, I want to milk it all out✨

(No pause-)

[kymera219]

For the Top Three Fandom Ask Game! I did indeed begin following you for the Teen Wolf content, but I would love to know more about your other fandoms. Unfortunately, I do not yet know what those are 🤔 so the Top 3 Ask game for any non-TW fandom you'd like to talk about!

Prior to Teen Wolf I was pretty big into the MCU so I'll answer for that one!

3 Male Characters I Love

Tony Stark

Loki

Rocket Racoon

3 Female Characters I Love

Sylvie

Hela

Agatha Harkness

3 Romantic ships I Love

Frostiron

Sylki

Thorki

3 Platonic Dynamics I Love

Tony and Jarvis interactions

Sam and Bucky banter

Agatha and Billy Maximoffs mentor/friendship

3 Favorite moments in Canon :

Basically anytime Tony was on the screen 🤣

Lokis hair in Thor TDW

Wanda finally going poof 😌

3 Favorite headcanons :

Tony and Loki totally had that drink together

Odin stole Loki, he wasn't actually abandoned

Steve had a relationship with Howard Stark

3 Least Favorite things about it

Civil War

Killing Loki in that brutal manner in Infinity Wars

That entire last Thor movie

Top 3 Fandom Asks Game

[therese-lokidottir]

I am not understand with thor I meant he looks understand enough what's meaning being king but Sam time no. He showing being king need trust from peoples via verse. But same time he look... Not care.

I am not saying thor didnt have problem but meaning being king or leader is that giving what you have for them, this probably extrem to say but being leader that menat sign up your own death, because you know you not just carry yourself but you must carry everyone with you.

And mcu thor he didn't have that quality , he only listen with someone that like him (like fight). And he looks likely more focusing onto fight rather peoples that stuck on the fight.

To be honest why I so negative with thor it's because how he treats loki, it's not because I am his fan but because loki is close person to thor, yet thor didn't respect him , while I believe thor love loki but how he act it's not look like love. And in my perspective if someone can't be good for peoples that close and around him then how they can be good for stranger.

So that's why in my eyes thor is not good person, or good anything but good as fighter. Sure thor have potential but just... 😬

Also the fact he just dumped his own peoples when he in depress ( I am not blame him but still ), luckily valkery even sex slave trader understand how to be leader, take care Asgard' peoples. So yeah thor really make me uncomfortable.

Also did everyone ever called for him? Beside loki and odin

I don't think I can ever say just how much damage Waititi did to Thor. Remember the end of TDW through AoU and Thor had shown clear development. Remember when he was boasting about the fight and the Hulk but then tried his best to pulled backed when he saw how it was negatively affecting Bruce, or even the crux of TDW where he led a team to lure Maliketh away from asgard because he didn't want wave after wave of man to be sent to fight dark elves until they reached their limit 

Honestly, constant kicking Loki while he's down just makes others look bad. He's on the ground he has nothing, and people look like bullies when they won't lay off

[woulddieforloki]

ITS BEEN EIGHT MONTHS AND 200K WORDS BUT IVE FINALLY PROGRESSED FROM SEPTEMBER 2012 TO NOVEMBER 2013 IN MY FIC AND NOW IT'S THE DARK WORLD TIME

[the-faultofdaedalus]

Author Ask: Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?

oooh ive gotta think about this. im gonna keep it in-marvel fandom because if i go outside of that i will just list ocs and shit, so i think... FRIDAY and Sam, who i haven't really written just because i don't write post ws/aou stuff very much and that's Mostly where they tend to show up.

[fun-and-fandoms]

Masterlist

No Fandom 

Supernatural

Marvel

The Walking Dead

Lucifer

[therese-lokidottir]

It was two years from Iron Man 2 to avengers, one year for Thor and Captain America and four years for the incredible Hulk. The original five movies set up for the Avengers and after the Avengers Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 came out a year later and Captain America was 2 years.

When in takes over half a decade to see a character again you can't blame an audience's attention span. Especially when the audience doesn't know if and when they'll see a character again. Is Shang-Chi going to be in Secret Wars? At least seven MCU projects have come out sense FATWS and not one has mentioned Sam or Bucky.

Nothing is really building to anything. Yes, from the six year period between Avengers to Infinity War ideas had change and story beats left behind, but it was all building to Thanos getting the Infinity Gauntlet and snapping away half the universe. I honestly don't think Secret Wars has any story plans besides; characters show up.

After the first Avengers movie IM3, TDW and TWS were all affected by the events film. Tony was dealing with ptsd from the events of the battle, Thor delt with the aftermath of Loki's actions and Cap's struggled with his place in SHIELD. After the events of Endgame pretty much every story gives the blip and obligatory mention and quickly moves past it.

The MCU is not giving things time. They're basically putting things in front of people faces two minutes and then discarding it when it's not an instant hit.

Also, the constant belittling of what came before. Is the 10- to 17-year-old demographic going to want to go back to and watch phase 1 if character keep saying how dumb and lame everything was? How can people be expected to be invested and take something seriously if the characters in-universe say it's not worth taking seriously?

No, I'm pretty sure the real issue is that the MCU has been turning out terrible stories written by people with dubious track records.

[secretary-ian]

Ughhh my friends asked me who a couple others in the DSAF AU would be yesterday and I BROKE

So. Yu is Jack, and Kadee is Dave, right.

I already had made Soul SazErenos as Henry.

But then, I considered, and...

Dee is Sam. From The Doom Wall.

Peter is the King of Draco.

It kinda makes me wonder who the rest of the Phone Guys could be, but... eh... I really don't know yet.

Yes this implies I'm headcanoning Sam and Yu as brothers. I am. They're bros for life now.

[ultrahpfan5blog]

I watched Doctor Strange 2 again, and I'm honestly a little surprised by the critical reaction the film has gotten. I get that this isn't quite as much of a four quadrant movie, as other MCU movies usually are, so I understand the slightly more mixed audience reception, but the critical reception of this film is just above Thor: TDW, Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk, and Eternals when it comes to MCU movies and those are almost universally considered the worst of the MCU. And that surprises me because this film is genuinely fun and feels unique and I definitely feel it ranks ahead of a whole host of MCU movies like Ant-Man 2, GOTG 2, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Thor, Iron Man 3, Avengers: AOU etc... I think I like it more than the first Doctor Strange. I don't think its MCU top tier but I feel its safely in 2nd tier MCU along with films like Ant-Man, Homecoming, Far From Home, CA: TFA, Black Panther etc... To me, the only genuine issue I had was in the middle section, with the Illuminati where they characters in question, acted like idiots. But I did enjoy that section more in the 2nd viewing. There are definitely a few things that will stay in my memory. The musical fight scene is quite a hoot and Zombie Strange was a blast. The acting by Olsen and Cumberbatch was excellent. I appreciated the fact that this was an MCU movie with a unique directorial stamp. I have only seen James Gunn, Taika Waititi, and Chloe Zhao do that before Sam Raimi.

[i-am-xp-64]

to: TDWS!Fourths(Sally & Sam)

how are ya doin' my lil babies?✨✨

can i order a few cinnamon donuts and caramel latte?

lol idk why does it look so silly-

Lol funny (mmmm cinnamon donuts 😋)

I love them so much

In any way, these twins will always be my favorite✨

[woulddieforloki]

my poor little meow meows </3

#pain

[luna-rainbow]

12, 16, 27

Thanks for the ask!

12 Is there an unpopular arc that you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?

I actually really liked the family focus of the first two Thor movies and I thought that was one of the better things about the franchise. Both Tony and Steve were orphans by the time we meet them, but Thor’s story was centred around this highly dysfunctional family of epic proportions. It humanised an otherwise fantastical story about gods and other realms. It was a different quality to the familial sense of Steve-Bucky, because Steve-Bucky’s relationship didn’t have any challenges within it (most of the threats came from outside); but it was a fascinating dynamic that supplied a lot of greyness and complexity to everyone within the Odin family. I know a lot of people disliked TDW but - outside of the main plot - I liked what it showed of the messy family, and it was unique to Thor for a long time.

16 If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

This might be a combined rehash of previous rants — but I would pare down John Walker’s role to one that purely serves as a foil for Sam, and to a smaller extent a foil for Bucky. I would make Isaiah’s story the primary focus. I also would have introduced Bucky later into the story and kept him (and probably both of them) out of the grasp of the military. I’d make the GRC clear villains and not a vaguely incompetent organisation that was killing people daily via negligence yet was still framed as the good side “that just needs to do better”. I’d scrap that therapy storyline — I’d much rather have Bucky trying to make amends of his own accord then Sam shoos his ass over to therapy where they work on deconstructing his sense of guilt.

So yeah — my fixit would probably be the story starting with Sam on his own (or with Torres), giving up the shield and getting disappointed by Walker being announced as replacement. I’d bring Walker taking the serum earlier — the secret CIA program gave it to him. This, and the Flag Smasher’s activities pique Sam’s interest and he starts searching leads on these people who clearly behave like super soldiers. Meanwhile Bucky is in Wakanda and spends most of the first half just goat farming and keeping an eye on the news. He’s worried about Sam but he’s not sure it’s his place to intervene. He then hears about Zemo breaking out and that’s when he decides that enough is enough and he leaves Wakanda to find Sam — and let the Wakandans be on Bucky’s (and Sam’s) side about this.

Meanwhile, Sam’s leads have unearthed Isaiah’s existence, and the more he digs, the more he is horrified by what the military/Hydra/SHIELD/CIA have done. There’s a sense of urgency because mystery forces (which turn out to be military/Walker) are trying to stop him from finding Isaiah — or trying to get to Isaiah before he does. Sam also grows sympathetic with the Flag Smashers because of their cause, and he takes on Walker to defend the kids and Isaiah, putting him in direct opposition with the GRC/government organisation as Steve (and himself) had been in CATWS.

The ending would be about returning agency to both Isaiah and Bucky. Isaiah gets to choose the method (and whether or not) he wants to go public with his story. Bucky gets to choose the way he wants to manage his sense of guilt. Sam gets to take on the shield in his own terms and not to finish off a job for an incompetent agency. Walker gets to have his rant about “you made me who I am” and it would be more poignant if they had actually made him into a super soldier first.

27 Least shippable character?

I’m sticking with Ego for this answer 🤣

[iamnmbr3]

So, this is going to be a long, two-part ask (apologies in advance for that). Thank you so much for your Loki series thoughts. I discovered your blog by accident, and I am so glad I did. I was trying to figure out why I felt so hollow/not-great after watching the episodes each week, and your posts helped me find the answer. I was so looking forward to this series, to see more Loki, but what we got...wasn't Loki. I tried to see past the flawed writing and absurd 'plot', tried very hard, but eventually I just stopped lying to myself, and finally let myself think 'I did not enjoy this'. It is very clear that Waldron didn't bother watching Thor and TDW, and it also seemed like he only skimmed Avengers, because the characterization comes off like he only watched Ragnarok (and somehow made it worse than it was in that film). It was a huge disappointment that in a show titled 'Loki', Loki wasn't even the main character after the first (or second; everything blended together for me) episode. (Side note: I like the concept of Sylvie, but like...she didn't need to have that much focus, or take over the plot. Also...I don't understand why she was named the way she was; Sylvie Lushton was a completely different character in the comics. Show!Sylvie seems like Waldron tried to mix Sylvie Lushton--in terms of looks--with Lady Loki, and even a bit of Amora the Enchantress thrown in there. Which is...a strange choice. It would have been so cool to see Amora get an MCU appearance, especially given her ties to both Loki and Thor, but I digress.) I even, slightly, shipped Sylki for a bit due to the concept of it being interesting to me, and even did some art for it, but as the show went on, and Sylvie started taking over as the main protagonist, my interest in it waned. (I am much more of a LokixJane fan, anyway. -shrug-) I also shipped it because I just...cannot ship L*kius at all. Like you, I cannot stand Mobius as a character; you are absolutely right: he is what Pierce was to Bucky. Except this show paints that in a 'positive' light, and even worse, that Loki deserved it. I have no problem with darkships or darkfic. My issue lies with the majority of people shipping it treating it is if it is a healthy, fluffy relationship in canon, when it is clearly the opposite. (Also, ever since Mobius told Loki that his only purpose was to basically be a stepping stone for others to reach their full potential, I knew that I would never like him or ship him with Loki. Perhaps it is personal, but a toxic person I used to associate with said basically the same thing to me in terms of my role in my friend group, and it messed me up for years, at least regarding how I thought my friends saw me. It got better when we no longer were close to them, and of course it wasn't true, but still. It screwed with my sense of self esteem for a long time. So seeing my favorite character being told essentially the same thing made my stomach twist.) 1/2

2/2 (continued) And don't even get me started on how Loki's mistreatment is used for comedy. Or how he is shown as incompetent, while in his earlier appearances in the MCU, he is clearly very intelligent. (These asks are all over the place, sorry about that.) That whole 'narcissist' comment also infuriated me. Because Loki is not a narcissist. Mobius, on the other hand... His trauma also constantly being erased did not sit well with me, either. Ugh. And of course, I have to mention how, while Wanda, Sam, and Bucky got new outfits for their shows, Loki did not. Just a few of those drabby TVA outfits. (Which, I am fine with him in Midgardian clothes. But like...these did not suit him. Even Ragnarok did 'Loki in Midgardian clothes' better. :/ Now, there were some things I did enjoy, like meeting the other Loki variants in episode five. Episode one was okay, too, since I thought it was going in a different, darker direction. And there were bits and pieces of some other episodes I enjoyed, too. But as a whole? Definitely disappointed. However, I flipped through my art book of TDW and immersed myself in the beautiful designs and characters, and fell in love with them and their world all over again. (Sorry, these got so long!)

Very eloquently put! Also so sorry that happened to you. <3 So many people have been hurt by the toxic and dangerous messaging of this show. Just remember that regardless of how the show presents him, Mobius's behavior is not justified at all. Not only is he not a good friend but in real life he would face very serious repercussions for what he did to Loki and would probably end up going to jail for a very long time. Torture and slavery are heinous acts that are against the law for a reason. The fact that this is normalized in the show doesn't meant these acts are ok and I just a reflection of the moral corruption of Mike Waldron and Kate Herron and the Disney execs that okayed this. Thanks for this very thoughtful ask! And yeah. Going back to the good Loki movies is a great way to deal with this. I rewatched Thor 2011 and Avengers and I'm going to rewatch TDW soon. And read my favorite fics. And forget about this. And so glad you’ve enjoyed my blog!!! <3 

[lokigodofaces]

list of variants/timelines i want to believe exist (and probably canonically do now)

this got long so i'm putting in a cut

a world where all of the events that happened in the Framework are real

bonus if the Framework world has their own version of the Framework that is like the real world in aos

Steve fell off the train, not Bucky. bc of the crap Zola did to Bucky, he survives in ice and well, and everything happens the same but Steve and Bucky's roles are reversed

Coulson doesn't bother to keep it a secret that he's alive, and the mcu is mainly just aos but with all the main characters as well (in other words, there's mainly good writing)

also in that world Steve and Bucky love Lola

Steve doesn't go back in time to live with Peggy

to all the people claiming aos isn't canon: Sylvie just made everything canon y'all. aos absolutely happened, and while i will argue that it happened in the main timeline, if you don't want to believe that it still happened in a timeline

Bucky didn't remember Steve soon enough, not until he killed Steve

Steve killed the Winter Soldier and didn't know who it was until he removed the mask

Hydra didn't hunt down Jiaying and by extent Daisy, so Daisy was raised by Jiaying and Cal who are not crazy bc they didn't have the same experiences they did in the main timeline

Thor never takes the others to Jotunheim, so Loki never learns he is Jotun

Fitz didn't survive almost drowning

Ward wasn't recruited by Garrett, but by literally any non-Hydra agent so he is a good guy

Coulson and May listened to the agent telling them to not send May in at Bahrain, heaven knows what happens there

the government gives the Avengers more than a week to go through the Accords, so they all get to the enhanced-people-have-to-wear-trackers, giant-underwater-prison, enhanced-operatives-can't-investigate-politicians, no-trial-for-enhanced, no-investigation-for-enhanced, etc sections so they all decide to not sign and just don't care what the government says

this is random, but i feel like Bucky as Ghost Rider would be a cool aesthetic.

the Avengers meet Robbie bc he keeps assassinating their targets bc they're targets of Ghost Rider's

Daisy dies instead of Lincoln

Daisy kills Lash before he can save her

Loki never "dies," so he is sent back to Asgardian prison after tdw

Radcliffe never reads the Darkhold, he just gave it to AIDA, so most of s4 doesn't happen

Dreykov comes after Natasha between Avengers and CACW, leading to the Avengers beating his *ss (like Yelena said, the god from space doesn't need an ibuprofen after a fight)

everything's the same but no Joss Whedon going on and on about Natasha not being able to have kids

whatever ship scenario you have is canon now

Loki gets all panicky after the Hulk beats him to a pulp, having now realized what he's done. Thor believes him, and this leads to Thanos being killed in 2012-13

Deadpool sits in the back of everything, shouting comments like "Yay! Superhero landing! But don't do that, it's bad for your knees!"

Peter Parker's parents never die

the Cavalry is an Avenger

Yondu brings Peter Quill to Ego, causing the universe's destruction

Gamora and Nebula get along their entire lives

Gamora and Nebula switch roles (Gamora becomes the cyborg, Nebula the guardian and Thanos's favorite daughter)

Heimdall actually bothers to look for Loki, seeing if they can find his body for a funeral, to find that he is being tortured by Thanos. Odin refuses to send anyone to save him, making Thor realize just how awful he is. Thor, Sif, and Warriors 3 go with the help of Heimdall to save Loki

Odin and Frigga are actually good parents, creating the most iconic trio ever

tw suicide for the next bullet point

Bucky commits suicide between TWS and CACW (Sebastian said in an interview once that Bucky was suicidal)

Loki keeps coming back as DB Cooper for fun or bc he keeps losing bets

the Eternals did interfere

the shrapnel kills Tony

this one thing i made about Mr Rogers adopting Loki

Robbie is part of the Avengers in 2012, but when he sees Loki he immediately says that Loki isn't the issue and goes off to fight Thanos single handedly (and wins)

for whatever reason Coulson and May do legally adopt all the Bus Kids

Hunter and Bobbi both go to break Fitz out of prison, and they stick around for the rest of the season

Fitz and Jemma never meet (saddest of sad days)

Loki for some reason is in FFH and he sees Mysterio's illusions and just laughs bc he's such an amateur

everything's the same, everyone's just obsessed with classical music and it's constantly playing so i get happy watching it

Asgardians are like the elves in LOTR (books, not the movies), so they're constantly singing and dancing and all

Loki is shown playing a Norse flute-like instrument (we know they exist, we've found them, they're different than your typical flute and we don't really know how they sound but i want Loki to be a flautist and no i'm not not projecting (note the double negative) and yes i headcanon Loki to be a flautist i don't care what anyone says)

everyone gets therapy

someone (Monica or Jimmy) hits Hayward on the head, knocking him out (the same way Gandalf knocked out Denethor in ROTK when Denethor told everyone to flee) and the rest of SWORD works with them because clearly Hayward has issues

Stephen commits to not texting and driving

somehow Luis becomes He Who Remains just for one timeline so the entire story is told like how he tells his flashbacks

Coulson doesn't help Fury and Carol escape

T'Challa does not survive and M'Baku becomes Black Panther

the suit in Iron Man 3 is not garbage the entire movie

Tony doesn't find a way to save himself in time

Ross dies in Incredible Hulk

Loki has a pet flerken he just always carries around

by the same logic, Bucky has a kitten he meets between TWS and CACW that he always carries around. said kitten attacks people when they attack Bucky

Bucky becomes Captain America instead of Sam

when Thor goes back to 2013 Asgard, he drags Loki with him back to 2023

Clint tests the time travel by going to Sokovia and drags Pietro back with him

Steve comes back an old man, but they use Bruce's attempt at time travel to turn him back into the 30 something Steve he was

literally anything happens other than Thanos killing Loki bc Loki only used knives when he isn't even tall enough to reach Thanos's neck

Sam and Bucky straight up kill Walker

Daisy never goes through terrigenesis

Loki somehow ends up a tutor for Daisy

Bucky joins the aos team after they find him on the run from Hydra

Bucky plays baritone saxophone bc bari saxes are awesome and it adds nothing to the plot but he spends at least half an hour in each movie playing bari sax

everything's the same but John Williams is the composer

S.H.I.E.L.D. uses GH-325 to revive a bunch of composers (Mozart, Dvorak, Beethoven, Bach, Bizet, Holst, y'know, all my guys) because they for whatever reason have their bodies because of some wack mission. and now they have a bunch of classical composers alive who insist on writing more music. and what are you going to do, tell Bach to stop composing?

by that same logic, someone working at the Guest House decides to steal Freddie Mercury's body so that they can revive him bc he just loves Queen that much

Thor realizes how awful Odin is and makes it his goal to get revenge for what Odin did to his little brother

Thor meets a bunch of Loki variants (most notably gator Loki) and just decides to stop questioning anything ever

Mobius teaches Loki how to ride a jet ski

Loki arrives at S.H.I.E.L.D. and informs everyone he wants to go to school and learn about politics and run for president and S.H.I.E.L.D. is like "okay whatever just don't tell anyone you're a literal god" but have no way to stop Loki from telling anyone

y'know the "shot heard 'round the world" thing from the Battle of Lexington (first battle in American revolution, if you don't know what it is, we have no clue who made the first shot & both sides were telling their troops to not fire. once that shot was fired the battle broke out)? yeah well that was Loki i'm pretty sure

Loki comes to Earth and becomes an Avenger and all but only ever introduces himself as DB Cooper. Thor doesn't ever come to Earth, so everyone just thinks DB Cooper found the secret to not age and just showed up to save people. he disappears for stretches of time & everyone stops being confused bc he was in hiding for decades of course no one's gonna find him (he is actually on Asgard)

[iamanartichoke]

In which I react to the trailer, bit by bit, because why not? 

This post is long and image-heavy; sorry, dashboard. 

So first of all, the line that keeps running through my head is a line from a fic AU - Have Tesseract, Will Travel by WinterDusk - wherein Alternate Timeline Loki catches up with Post-Endgame Thor. It’s a glorious series and everyone should go read it right now.

“The Tesseract skids to a stop at Loki’s feet. Loki, not being entirely stupid, picks it up.”

It’s such a good line that it should be, like, a narrative voiceover or something. But anyway. 

I have to say, I love seeing Loki’s “old” armour again, as opposed to what he was wearing in Ragnarok/IW (and what he died in, sorry, what?). His hair is definitely doing something inconsistent, but I’m not terribly bothered by it. (I’m glad his hair looks natural and a bit chaotic, as opposed to the stiff, awkward wigs.) And he’s landed in a desert - so, where has he ended up? On Earth? On another planet? Another galaxy? I guess we’ll find out. 

“You’re taking me somewhere to kill me.” 

I think it’s interesting that Loki assumes that they’re going to try to kill him. He doesn’t look afraid, he doesn’t look surprised, just resigned: You’re going to kill me. I think it makes sense that this would be his reaction, in that he can’t fucking catch a break and he knows it. I’m interested to see how they managed to overpower him enough to get that collar around his neck, which I’m assuming is something that suppresses his magic. A fight scene? 

Another note: the scar on his forehead has already healed up; depending on how quickly he heals, this could be a few days or a few weeks after the opening shot. Either he wasn’t captured right away, or he’s been sitting in a cell for awhile before they deign to bring him elsewhere. 

Also, I didn’t recognize Owen Wilson right away. He looks like a kinda weird combination of Howard Stark and General Ross, lmao. 

Idk about the “you love to talk” line bc Loki doesn’t really like to talk - but, it’s also fair to say that the assumption could be made if one was basing his understanding of Loki on what we saw in Avengers (similar to how Tony says Loki’s a “full-tilt diva,” it doesn’t make it true, just makes it someone else’s perception).

I really like Loki’s “wtf” expression when he looks at Owen Wilson, though. 

Friendly reminder that Loki is the protagonist in his series, which means he’s probably going to going up against whatever big bad this is. Which means we get to see him in the context of being the one the audience is rooting for, instead of the villain. 

I think Loki looks the most beautiful here. Look at that face, that tiny little smirk, that luscious hair. Aw yisss. More of this Loki please (for aesthetic purposes). 

I like his expression here; reminds me a bit of when he’s brought in front of Odin in TDW, but a bit more uncertain - as if he’s thinking, I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I’m not going to let you know that I’m concerned. If that makes sense. 

I also dig the music. 

I wonder if they’re showing Loki possible futures (considering he’s now created a new timeline) or if it’s strictly Loki-Prime’s life, and if it’s the latter, I am super curious to see how he reacts to the loss of Asgard and the subsequent run-in with Thanos. I hope he does not get shown his death because, butter-knife-stupidity aside, it was so brutal that showing it to him would just be cruel, I would think. 

This shot is interesting to me bc it’s from Loki’s POV - it’s what Loki sees when he realizes he’s surrounded. So where are these images coming from, anyway? Maybe the collar isn’t a magic thing, maybe it gives them the ability to see inside of Loki’s mind - or, to at least pull images from it. Idk. I like how Loki is still not showing much emotion, though; he’s just sitting there, arms folded, like okay, sure. 

Until here. What does Loki see that makes him close his eyes and turn away? He looks annoyed, he looks exhausted, he looks fed up. My first thought was that he was turning away at the shot of the Avengers - the reminder that he lost, or that he failed. Maybe Owen Wilson was saying something taunting about it. But really, it could be anything. It’s a really interesting moment, though, because it’s a genuine reaction from Loki and I’m hoping that it implies he feels some kind of way about New York and perhaps will talk about it - like that he lost on purpose, or he’ll mention Thanos, or something. Again, Loki being the protagonist means that there’s a ton of potential for really getting Loki’s side of things, and if they’re going through his memories, then we might get to see Loki talk about those memories. 

This looks like Loki’s gone from being the TVA’s prisoner to working for them, which is interesting, but not entirely unexpected, if we’re to assume that the TVA’s interests lie in defeating the hooded big bad from before and they need Loki to do it. I’m also curious if they never intended to capture him long-term at all but, in fact, sought him out because of his magic/skills/etc in order to help them. That would also make sense - that it’s more of a recruiting thing than a punishment thing - considering that Loki isn’t even the one who fucked up the timeline to begin with and that the Avengers are the ones responsible for that. 

We love a flippy-knife Loki, don’t we? 

Post-apocalyptic future? Potential of what could have happened if Loki (and, by extension, Thanos) had won? Or an alternate timeline altogether? I have no idea. Loki looks so smol though, all alone in the ruins. 

I really hope this is a wig and Loki didn’t cut his hair, bc this just looks like Tom with short black hair, lmao. Like the Night Manager with a Loki smirk. It’s not bad, I just don’t care for it. I wonder how Asgard will react when Loki shows up looking like that. 

Action shots! Loki doing stuff! Fighting! Random twirly girl! I’m here for all of the action sequences and I’m not sorry. 

Imagine being that girl. Hoo. 

Everyone was talking about Sam jumping out of the plane without a parachute and haha, another one like Steve, but just look at Loki’s bad ass soaring through the clouds. Also, I am a loser, but the one inconsistency in the “Loki is DB Cooper” theory - for me - is that I thought it was night time and raining when DB jumped. But, that’s just me. 

Also, has Loki always pronounced Heimdall like that? HeimDAAALL, like with a hard A? Or is that also just me? 

And there’s the Bifrost, pulling short-haired DB Cooper Loki to Asgard. 

(That little window for the Falcon trailer came up and I couldn’t minimize it, sorry.) 

I have no idea what is going on here, but I have to say, that gravelly come on! What did you expect? is all kinds of pleasing to me. I have always loved Tom’s deep Loki voice. I am assuming this is something from the comics or that it’s an alternate reality Loki or something like that, but again, context matters and this was really the only part of the trailer that (the first time) made me go, uh can we not? Who knows. 

And there we are. My honest opinion is that, while some of it seems questionable, it overall seems kind of promising to me? I think that if you read between the lines, so to speak, and pick up on all of Loki’s little tells and micro-expressions, what we’ll probably end up seeing is a combination of Thor 1/TDW Loki with a side of Avengers and some Ragnarok-flavored sprinkles. I also think that the trailer has probably sliced up and served the juiciest bits to appeal not just to Loki’s core fanbase but to the Ragnarok fans and to the casual MCU fans who may want to tune in for fun. 

Again, we’re getting approximately two full-length movies worth of a story in which Loki is the protagonist. And I’ll just say it: my initial overall reaction was that I liked it. I’m apprehensive, but I’m hopeful. Look at it this way: nothing in this series will be worse than what we already had to endure in Infinity War. 

So, yeah. We’ll see what happens, but I think it’ll be okay and, even if it’s not? Well, on the bright side, there’s more footage and content to inspire brilliant fanworks (fics, music vids, art, etc), which is just the new life that needs to be breathed into the Loki fandom right now. In my opinion.