mikkeneko:You know, I’m sort of wondering what the textual support is for the idea that “Loki is Tho
mikkeneko:You know, I’m sort of wondering what the textual support is for the idea that “Loki is Thor’s favorite.” Don’t get me wrong — I am all about the Brodinson feels. I love reading (and writing) about their deep and powerful brotherhood, the love they have for each other that spans the centuries, the deep devotion and attachment that transcends their rivalry and makes their current falling-out only an obstacle on the road to their togetherness. Nothing moves me more than the trope of the love so deep that one party would forgive anything of the other, would go down the road to Hell to drag them back. I love it.I’m just wondering just how much of that is fanon, and what basis there actually is for it in canon.Let’s take a look at the first movie. How often do the brothers’ thoughts linger on each other when they’re apart? We’ll start with Loki.To the Warriors Three and Sif, after the disaster on Jotunheim:Loki: I love Thor more deeply than any of you, but you know what he is. He’s arrogant, he’s reckless, he’s dangerous — you saw how he was today. Is that what Asgard needs from its king?To Frigga, over Odin’s bedside:Loki: What hope is there for Thor?To Heimdall, on returning from Jotunheim:Loki: Open the Bifrost to no one, until I’ve repaired the damage my brother has done.To the Destroyer:Loki: Ensure that my brother does not return.Okay, so Loki obviously thinks and talks about Thor quite a lot, even when Thor’s not there. Thor obviously looms very large in Loki’s conception of the world. Of course, it helps that Thor is pretty much the only topic anybody else talks to Loki about. (You know, this was something I actually kind of appreciated about Heimdall in Thor 1 — while everybody else was obsessing over Thor, Heimdall was the only one actually paying attention to Loki. Sure, he distrusted him and eventually betrayed him, but at least he did so in response to things that Loki himself actually did, not just in terms of Loki’s relation to Thor.)So let’s examine the flip side. When Thor is on Earth, getting his notion of the universe turned upside down, being forced to rethink his entire life and re-examine his whole history, what does Thor have to say about Loki?……Hm.Help me out here. Does Thor ever talk about Loki when Loki’s not standing directly in front of him? Does he ever think about him at all?I also love Brodinsons, but it seems pretty clear in Thor (2011) that Thor takes Loki for granted. It’s obvious he loves him, from some of the nonverbal reactions, not to mention his grief at the end. A lot of the affection scenes are the deleted ones. -- source link
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