Unreleased Loki Promo Shots For The Avengers 2012

Gentle reminder that TVA Loki and Sacred Timeline Loki only diverged after most of the events in The Avengers had already happened. The Loki we see in Thor 1 and Avengers is actually BOTH Lokis.

Also, consider that Loki and Thor are 1500 years old (according to Thor). To keep the math simple, let's say that the events in Doomsday happen in 2027. That means the split would have happened 15 years earlier, in 2012. 15 years is only 1% of their lifetimes. TVA Loki and Thor were on the same timeline for 99% of their lives (at least from Thor's perspective — we don't know how or if Loki is experiencing time in the tree). It's only the events of the last 15 years that TVA Loki missed out on, and even then he knows exactly what happened during that time. Add in the fact that TVA Loki's timeline was destroyed right after it was created, which to my mind means that Sacred Timeline Thor is TVA Loki's next-of-kin. Thor and TVA Loki are most definitely NOT strangers. They're just brothers with some catching up to do.

#HIS EYES!!!

Hey tumblr pookies, enjoy

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Loki: "Oh you can't just do that" Loki: Am I yours to command? Does the collar 'round my neck have your name on it? I kneel to no king nor god, and I see no crown on you. Odin: You wear a collar? Loki: I may choose to kneel recreationally.

The bastard old man is caked! What is it with pre-2010s comics both making him ugly and grotesque, but still caking him up? Why is his butt crack visible through the tunic? lmao xD

This also shows he's smaller than Jotuns and Asgardians.

i love when villains team up with heroes against a bigger threat ESPECIALLY when it isnt even remotely a moral/change of heart thing its just like. well all i want to do is steal things and kill people but this asshole wants to flatten the entire planet and, like, i live on the planet and don't want to be flattened. so. no shit i'm gonna help stop him. i'm still going back to crime after this btw.

subscribing to a fic isn’t enough I need the author to blast a bat signal into the night sky whenever they update

Loki and the Deeply Valid Fear of Being a Government-Issued Android Without Knowing It

Imagine living for over a thousand years, committing intergalactic crimes, then one random underpaid TVA clerk with a monotone voice suddenly introduces the possibility that, oh, by the way, what if you were secretly a robot this whole time? And Loki, who has always carried himself with the absolute certainty of a god, pauses. Like. “Wait. What if I am?”

He hears that question and immediately does a full mental diagnostic. Have I ever glitched? Ever felt oddly mechanical? Experienced an unusual fondness for oil? Maybe he’s too good at lying. Too good at surviving. What if that’s just the programming?

The TVA worker just moves on. He doesn’t elaborate. no reassurances. theres no safety net. Just the terrifying possibility that he might get instantly vaporized for something completely outside his control.

Id like to note, his hesitation isn’t even just some random existential crisis, it’s trauma-informed. This man already lived through the experience of waking up one day and realizing he wasn’t who he thought he was.

He grew up thinking he was a prince, a god, Odin’s rightful son, only to find out he was actually a stolen relic of war. A Jotun. A creature he’d been taught to hate.

He thought he knew himself before, and he was wrong. What if he’s wrong again? What if theres something else about himself thats been hidden? If he didn’t realize he was a Frost Giant, whats stopping him from not realizing he’s actually some highly advanced synthetic being?

It’s not just a funny existential gag, it’s a callback to one of the most devastating truths of Loki’s existence:

He has never really known who he is.

It’s the muscle memory of having his entire identity ripped out from under him. It’s the learned fear of asking, What am I, actually?

Because the last time he asked that question, the answer ruined him.

Oh so technically Loki IS to asgard what strange is to midgard. (The guy you go to for magic stuff)

I love when Loki gets mentioned as the master of asgard's magic users. Wish they would say it directly instead of making it sound implied.