The key moment in the entire mcu. Loki’s decision to let go, to fall through the void, to basically kill himself, shapes the entirety of the marvel universe.
If loki hadn’t had let go he never would have encountered Thanos. He never would have been given the mind stone, or led Thanos to the space stone on earth. The avengers would have never have formed. Even if there had been a different threat, odin would have never used dark magic to send thor to earth unless it was loki he was fighting. There would never have been a nuke sent to New York. Tony would have never gone through the portal. Tony would never have built Ultron. Wanda wouldn’t have joined the avengers. Vision wouldn’t have existed. Loki wouldn’t have been imprisoned so frigga would have lived as no one would tell the kurse where to go. Odin wouldn’t have been weakened and die of grief. Meaning that thanos would have been out matched, and, as the tessaract was originally part of odin’s treasure chest, he would have stopped thanos from getting the space stone. And if thanos didn’t have the space stone, none of the events of infinity war would have happened.
All of this happened because loki. Let. Go.
I wonder if loki ever realised the significant effect he would have on the universe. I doubt it. I think he let go because he believed himself as insignificant. He was a second son. Everytime he strive for greatness he was overshadowed or stopped by his father and brother. Loki thought himself a footnote in the universe, but instead, he was the author.
As in the comics, Loki truly is the god of stories. He’s been shaping the story of the mcu, even without knowing it.
It was loki’s story that led us into this mess, and you can be damn sure it will be loki’s story that gets us out of it…
Headcanon: Loki’s actually quite good at healing magic, but only because Frigga made him learn it after she got sick of healing young!Thor’s stab wounds every second day.
loki: *stabs thor* don’t tell mom, I’ll heal you, you’re fine, don’t tell mom, it’s only a flesh wound
idk how you watch catws and not pick up on the fact that sam is absolutely a mirror of steve… they even straight up say it in the film.
“I do what he does, just slower”
okay we gonna do this because Sam is a reckless motherfucker that absolutely mirrors Steve’s characterization and i’m goddamn tired of people grossly misinterpreting his character b/c it fits in better with their two dimensional therapy dog version of him
Sam doesn’t like taking orders, he’s not pliant or obedient. He does what he believes is right and damn the rules (sound familiar??). Theres a reason they fucking hit it off so well right from the start.
Following that we have Steve turning up on his doorstep looking like a building got dropped on him. And what does Sam do?
Yeah sure… I’ll let a couple of avengers who just told me everybody is out to kill them into my house. Sounds like a good time. It’s also a bit telling that Sam knows exactly where his suit is. Ten bucks says he’s actually tried to steal it before but couldn’t quite manage it on his own.
And then we start getting into really no holds bar Sam:
Y’all like to forget Sam brought a two inch knife to a gun fight and won. Not to mention, he clearly walks around with a knife on him at all times… not just in his car, but on his person.
Sam gives no fucks and will take you out. Winter soldier? Bitch try it
Some hydra fool who won’t stop talking Nazi nonsense?
Fuck this guy. he’ll take him on in nothing but a fucking t-shirt.
Oh and remember that building that Steve jumped out of? Might as well top that by jumping out of the same one, just about 20 stories up.
Cool, cool, cool.
Going feet first towards the rotor blades of a helicopter, knowing if you miss your legs are mulch?
No problem.
Steve wants to track down an international maybe still brainwashed assassin?
When do we start?
And of course, this wouldn’t be complete without the penultimate Steve/Sam comparison.
So to everyone who trashes him, or does him a disservice by making him out to be nothing more than a therapist who can fix Bucky and Steve I have one thing to say. In the immortal words of the legend Samuel Thomas Wilson himself, “Man, shut the hell up.”
IN THIS HOUSE, WE APPRECIATE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE REAL SAM WILSON
Think about who’s gonna clean up the buildings they smash/blow up.
Think about who’s gonna pay to repair and rebuild all the public property they tear up, let alone people’s homes or the vehicles they need to get to work–oh, wait! The office got turned to rubble.
Think about who’s gonna be staffing the hospitals treating people who were injured in the latest supervillain kerfluffle.
Think about how it seems that superheroes are supposedly there to beat up bad guys while the little people clean up after their great deeds.
No wonder the Flood wiped most of the nephilim.
If Marvelverse was real life, New Yorkers would be mad as hell at the Avengers because of how backed up the subways would be after The Incident ™.
Tony Stark would always have a brick in his window and would have to move his ass somewhere else.
I won’t lie. I’d watch the hell out of a show that pits superheroes against bureaucrats. I wanna see demigods take on shit like DMV.
DMV probably knew Bruce Wayne was Batman before anybody else because why else would Alfred always be coming by to pay off dozens of parking tickets at a time for an unmarked custom vehicle with no plates?
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