Quietly Thinking Aloud

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Loki’s Magic in Thor

thescentofwhiterose:

#I will forever and ever wonder why Thor didn’t mention to other Avengers that Loki can travel through reflections #I mean… that’s clearly what he’s doing in the Thor movie and just #nope #not going to tell them that sticking Loki in a giant GLASS case is probably not the best idea

Sorry to go off on your tags like this, but I enjoy reading tags and sometimes people have really good points to bring up and then it makes me want to start vomiting up thoughts and feels!

There’s a lot that we can fill in the gaps on ourselves, like why Thor wouldn’t mention the massive personality shift Loki’s gone through (because, from Thor’s point of view, Loki’s been off the deep end ever since his banishment and he has no real way to judge what’s a further worsening of that and what’s not), even if I do think a, “He’s not normally like this…” would have been helpful.  But, then, Thor’s not really considering himself an Avenger, he’s not considering himself part of S.H.I.E.L.D. and I think he knows that Loki wanted to be on the helicarrier.  I mean, he didn’t run away from the forest when Thor was distracted fighting Iron Man and Captain America, Thor had to know Loki was planning something.  So he wasn’t going to escape from the cage and I think Thor thought that this was the best way to still have access to Loki.  If the Midgardians knew about his ability to escape (which he clearly wasn’t trying to do), wouldn’t that complicate his ability to keep an eye on Loki?

On the other hand, that clashes with Thor’s panic when Loki appears to have escaped the cage, I know, but I’m chalking that up to Thor thinking that Loki was going to leave or do something terrible again, not surprise that he was out of the cage.

But I agree—why not mention the magic?  Aside from that we see VERY LITTLE of it in The Avengers.  We see him using his magic staff and the clones in Stuttgart, but not much else?  Loki is supposedly able to walk between the worlds, so why does he need the Tesseract to get him to Midgard?  He’s supposed to be able to walk through reflections, so why do we never see him doing that?  (Unless that’s how he got out of the cage.)  He’s supposed to be able to hide himself from magic sight, so how does Thor find him?  (That one I’ll allow, because we see Huginn and Muninn, which maybe Loki doesn’t know how to hide from.  One wonders how they found him in the first place, though.  On the other hand, I kind of want to call bullshit—if you can hide yourself from Heimdall, you should be able to hide yourself from Huginn and Muninn.)

But, then, a lot of stuff doesn’t really hold up when you look too hard at Loki’s character.  I’m just chalking this one up to Thor’s not really part of the Avengers, even if he considers Midgard under his protection, and so he’s thinking that he’ll take care of Loki himself.

Uh, where do you get the idea he’s traveling at all in these gifs? He’s creating illusionary duplicates of himself (and in some instances making himself invisible through a similar illusion). He’s not hanging off the bridge and then saving himself (is the bridge actually “reflective”? Or just glowy and translucent). He was never there. At some point prior to seeming to getting knocked there, he stepped out of the spot he’d been occupying and left an illusion in his place. He’s toying with Thor there.

There’s really zero evidence that he can point-to-point teleport within his current realm. There’s no evidence that he can’t — except for Thor not mentioning it as a liability with the containment system, which might be best explained with the simplest explanation that it’s not something Loki can actually do. And there is plenty of evidence that he can create a false image of himself (he does it on a large scale in Germany, and in the Jotunheim gif above we see him appearing in two places at once and see him “cancel” the false image.

Yes, I think we do see him in a reflection at the end of the Thor movie, but I took that as a metaphor for his influence over Selvig, not a literal “Loki is in the mirror. He’s in the mirror. Look to your side, Nick, and you will see that he’s hanging out there in the mirror.” moment.