Why loki is a good villain

We envy that carefree attitude and confidence that he has. And you know what? We all should honestly have a bit of that in us. Most of us overestimate the severity of our situations. Life is only as stressful and serious as we make it. A good portion of his tough exterior is fake. If something affects you and you repress it, it affects you differently.

The charming charismatic people get the attention and affection of others and the majority of people go unseen or unremembered. Loki is clever, but only a little brother to Thor. We can identify with him. Why does seeing ourselves in someone matter?

But it's resisting that urge that's going to be the challenge for Marvel for many years to come. Look only at Jack Sparrow or Mater the tow truck to see what happens when a side character gets too popular and gets exhausted by his franchise. Marvel clearly knows this, and they're bringing in Winter Soldier-- another villain with a personal connection to the hero , it's worth noting-- for the next Captain America movie, and really outdoing themselves hiring James Spader to play a robot for the next Avengers adventure.

Spader has been stealing scenes with malevolent charm literally since Hiddleston was born, and stands the best chance of making an actual impact-- that is, if playing a robot doesn't hamstring him the way Dark Elf prosthetics doomed Eccleston.

Casting Spader suggests that Marvel realizes they need a new Loki, not just a villain who conveys a threat, but who makes it personal and sympathetic and a little sad.

Marvel is banking hard on its heroes for the foreseeable future, but they know they need to bolster their roster of villains too. Loki will be capable of bringing down the house at Comic Con forever… but not if he has to do it every year. Katey Rich. He is so disgusted by his own heritage that he attempts to commit genocide, to wipe out the Frost Giants just as his grandfather wiped out the Dark Elves.

Loki learned from the best. His motivations within the movie are hazy, with the character presented as something of a generic fascist more in line with characterizations of the Red Skull. He even attacks Germany and fights Captain America. At times, it seems Loki was only included as a continuity reference to the first issue of The Avengers. The structure of Thor means that Loki gets more scenes with Odin than Thor does.

Even after he fakes his death, he returns to Asgard. By the start of Ragnarok , Loki has replaced Odin and is ruling Asgard in disguise. Loki is a terrible person who has done terrible things, but he is also the product of a terrible system. It is no wonder that Loki became a monster. Could he have been anything different? Loki is an orphan taken from his home as a political pawn, the victim of an imperialist power. He was lied to for years, taught to hate his own skin and resent his own identity.

He was never allowed to be himself. For all that pain and resentment, Loki cannot conceive of himself as anything but the son of Odin. And if so, how much?

And if not, why not? Loki was a great device for all that. Journey Into Mystery teased the potential for Loki to cast aside his villainous ways, only to end in such a way as to suggest that he could never escape a destiny to be a bad guy. I kind of hate that — I always want to leave characters somewhere at least a little different, somewhere they can have new stories about them that are different from what's come before.