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Spoilers Loki season one discussion thread

I'm hoping it's because she chose to be female.
Given that none of the other Lokis had ever heard of another female Loki it seems like that was part of it. My head canon is that a lot of Loki's shapeshifting ability is subconscious, that's why he changed from blue to white when Odin found him as an infant. Sylvie ended up being female because as a child she and Thor learned about the Valkyries both became fascinated by them. This initial spark of interest caused her to change shape and she stayed that way because it felt right to her. This might be how she learned she was adopted since no one else in the family can do this, so Odin and Frigga probably had a long conversation with the kids. Eventually this hero worship probably would've lead to her trying to join them instead of the usual Loki villain path.
 
I'm hoping it's because she chose to be female.
It did feel like a commentary on trans erasure when I first saw it, but it seems to me that she was selected for pruning after that point, so I'm questioning it a bit more. It feels that she was always a female-presenting Loki and the TVA got involved a few years later.
 
It did feel like a commentary on trans erasure when I first saw it, but it seems to me that she was selected for pruning after that point, so I'm questioning it a bit more. It feels that she was always a female-presenting Loki and the TVA got involved a few years later.
She’s clearly coded as trans, especially when it comes to her treating Loki as a dead name.
 
it's an interesting thing, and I've been thinking about it.

At the beginning of Ragnorok Thor shows up and sees Loki's play, which is obviously false, distorted, manipulative. Pick one, or all. And everything he says to Thor are blatant excuses and lies. Did Loki actually "enchant" Odin to abdicate the throne to him? I'd be surprised if anyone truly believed that watching the film.

Odin was dyeing and was in a place (Earth, Scandinavia) that he felt at home. Thor and Loki had a deep, sincere conversation with their father just before he died. I had no impression watching this that Odin was in any way enchanted or doing anything he hadn't intended.

Maybe some interpreted this scene as though Loki had manipulated or enchanted Odin Into choosing to die so that Loki could take over Asgard.. I just don't see it that way..
I thought they said outright that Loki banished Odin to Earth and stole the throne?
 
Has anyone else watched The Good, The Bart, and The Loki yet? I think it came out back on Wednesday but I only just remembered to watch it.

It's only a few minutes long and it has all of your typical Simpson and MCU jokes, complete with self-deprecation of each of them and how Disney owns them both now, but it's made fun because Tom Hiddleston is all in. Most of the Springfield denizens as Avengers didn't really work, although Selma and Patty as Wanda and Agnes was a nice touch...and Hans Moleman as, well, Mole Man, was perfection. I particularly enjoyed the post-credits scene with Simpsonfied Judge Renslayer reading Loki the riot act because of all of his terrible deeds.
 
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...and then Homer just rolls with it when he accidently stumbles on the truth because godly magic! :lol:
 
When the Simpsons started they were protested for being too dysfunctional a family. Then just a decade later they were called the ‘Most moral show on television’ and attacked from the other side for being too wholesome an preachy.

The Simpsons didn’t change, we just admitted to ourselves as a culture that the seemingly perfect families were just the ones where the conflict was pushed below the surface, and a family where everyone loves each other and accepts each other at the end of the day is about as wholesome as you get in the real world.
 
Could the Nexus event be that she was born female? To date she's the only Loki variant shown who was born as a female.

Perhaps, but timelines only get pruned when they diverge too much and start approaching the Redline. Angle of divergence of Sylvie's timeline looks to have been very shallow. It took years for it to slowly creep away far enough to get noticed by the TVA. There could also be a later event that could cause the line to make a sudden turn towards the redline. They have left the mystery open deliberately, so hopefully next episode we find out.
 
My vote is Doctor Doom. God-Emperor Doom.
If any previously unintroduced villain shows up, it's going to be Kang because of all of the obvious (and not so obvious) references to him. But as much as I hope that it'll be him, I'm leaning towards agreeing with others that it makes more sense for it to be a Loki variant. That said, I'm still fully expecting the post-credits scene will feature Kang a la The Avengers.
 
After just seeing President Loki, I feel another dark Loki would just be redundant. Mobius being the man behind the curtain makes the most sense to me, if a little repetitive of having your villain in plain sight ala Wandavision. Although I suppose Mobius truly has his memories erased and doesn't remember. Plus it would be quite a kick to see Owen Wilson play a villain. I don't think he ever has before?
 
After just seeing President Loki, I feel another dark Loki would just be redundant. Mobius being the man behind the curtain makes the most sense to me, if a little repetitive of having your villain in plain sight ala Wandavision. Although I suppose Mobius truly has his memories erased and doesn't remember. Plus it would be quite a kick to see Owen Wilson play a villain. I don't think he ever has before?

President Loki was a gag, dispensed with in less than 5 minutes. I don't think that precludes a Loki or Sylvie pulling the strings on a grander scale.
 
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