//Ah crap I answered this more Smartly™ before but I can’t for the life of me remember where I put it in like 75 solid pages of my meta tag, LOL.
Basically, I think Loki is cooler to the touch than the average Asgardian, but not to the extent that people would feel him and think “ew, he feels like a corpse/an icicle!” because even though Loki led a socially sheltered life, his heritage was a secret from people like the Warriors 3 and Sif, who interacted with and physically touched him on a regular basis, and surely with their vigilance about the safety of the realm and its rulers, SOMEbody would have asked him if he’d fallen ill.
Moreover Loki HIMSELF would have wondered, earlier on, if he were “different,” because he is so analytical and vigilant that he borders on paranoid.
I would say he averages a few degrees cooler, but his and Odin’s combined illusion magic during his infancy would maintain even physiological illusions.
HOWEVER: I think that Loki reacts to a non-Jotun environment less than favorably. He overheats easily, and bright lights bother his eyes.
Looks like Chris Pratt just accidentally let everyone know how he feels about IW
so i saw some people discussing how loki in ragnarok shouldn’t have been at all phased or subverted by dr. strange – which i agree with, but also, hey, it’s comedic and you can argue that he was taken off-guard, but upon re-watch, something stuck out to me –
there’s this moment when they appear at the bottom of the stairs and thor rolls down the last couple and stands up and he says
we could’ve just walked.
and it made me think of how magic works in terry pratchett’s novels, how (to paraphrase) the hard part wasn’t turning someone into a frog, it was not turning someone into a frog when you knew how easy it was.
like, the whole scene with dr. strange is just. all magic. all pointless magic. unnecessary magic, when, well. they could have just walked.
whereas loki doesn’t really rely on magic overmuch in the movie – he uses it as a tool, when he needs it, but if the job can be done with plain old non-magical trickery or a knife, he just uses those. he resorts to magic when he’s cornered by valkyrie, he uses it when his goals are most directly accomplished by using magic rather than by other means.
whereas dr. strange is using magic all over his scene, just to use it. just because he can. magic was unnecessary for ninety percent of what he did in that scene, the only time he needed magic was to whisk them away to norway. but he teleported all over the place even when he only needed to move a few feet, gave thor an ever-refilling beer that just spilled everywhere, floated around to make a show of how ~magical~ he was, when…
he could have just walked.
i mean, i’m very sure that the filmmakers intended it for comedic effect, but there’s also a layer there of dr. strange being much less comfortable with magic than loki is – loki doesn’t need to bust out the magic at every opportunity, it’s simply a skill, a tool that is completely under his control and at his disposal. whereas dr. strange (at least in his scene in ragnarok) is showing off, which reeks of insecurity.
i guess i’m thinking… if you take the magic away, loki is still a deadly, formidable opponent with many tricks up his sleeve, but dr. strange is just a guy in a cape.
this is good and true because in the comics loki and dr strange got in a fight in a parking lot and then both of them had their magic taken away so loki just punched stephen through a wall and called it a gay ass day
in fairness most days for Loki are gay ass days regardless of how many wizards he punches
//SO does anybody realize lmao that if they had just ASKED LOKI WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM WHEN THANOS HAD HIM, they would have known about the Infinity Stones YEARS ago, and could have spent all this time preparing for Thanos??? Instead of waiting for Dr. Strange and his buddy to explain it???? Instead of Thor getting in the magical Nornpool of destiny and being revealed the universe’s secrets??????
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