Loki! (spoiler thread)

[Zardnaar]

Finally caught up watching as a couple.

Quite enjoyed it from episode 2 onwards. She who must be obeyed mentioned it was her favorite as Wandavision started off slow and she didn't pay to much attention to Falcon and Winter Soldier.

Major Dr Who vibes as well.

Think we will do bad batch tonight.

 

[Maxperson]

Even if her gender was the deviation, it wouldn't be conception, just to nitpick. It'd be somewhere between then and birth. Assuming that Loki doesn't just...choose their own gender.

I'm pretty sure XX and XY are determined at conception.

 

[Tonguez]

I'm pretty sure XX and XY are determined at conception.

sort of, but not always. At conception all embryos are female and if the XX chromosones are present then a girl will result.
However the presence of a Y chromosone usually triggers regulator genes to start the development of testes, 90% of the time that works and XY will become a boy, however sometimes the regulator genes fail and you get various development disorders/syndromes XYs with ovaries, intersex etc

relevantly, Loki talked about being able to create duplicates at the molecular level, I suppose being able to control the function of his own chromosones might be part of that and his gender fluidity

 

[Argyle King]

I'm curious how (if at all) Frigga plays into Silvie's story.

Being that (at least) one episode kinda hit the viewer over the head with Loki's emotions regarding Frigga and Sylvie later made it a point to ask about Loki's mother, I think there may be a significant thread there.

 

[wicked cool]

Little confusion on my part
-there has been a repeated scene where one of the lokis sees another person in handcuffs/being tried in court etc. they are not Loki variants but somehow are dangerous to the timeline and yet they seem to have no problem taking people from timelines and basically erasing memories. Think theres any signifigance to these other people?

Lokis powers don't work but at the same time his alternate self (still thinking shes not a Loki) can use her powers at will. Hes also a very good knife fighter and yet he comes off as average at best against security guards

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Lokis powers don't work but at the same time his alternate self

Sylvie cannot use her powers in the TVA either. That was established in episode 3, and when she uses her powers on B15 to recover her memories they leave the TVA in order to do it.

average at best against security guards

The security guards are specially selected, highly trained, and equipped with super-tech body armour. It's their job to deal with Loki variants.

 

[wicked cool]

Sylvie cannot use her powers in the TVA either. That was established in episode 3, and when she uses her powers on B15 to recover her memories they leave the TVA in order to do it.

The security guards are specially selected, highly trained, and equipped with super-tech body armour. It's their job to deal with Loki variants.

hes one of the top marvel villians plus his other variant seems to be much better against guards etc -We seem to be making a lot of excuses for him

 

[Paul Farquhar]

hes one of the top marvel villians

Not in terms of power.

 

[Umbran]

hes one of the top marvel villians

Mm. Not because he's good in a knock-down, drag-out fight, though. Schemes are his bread and butter, not physical combat.

plus his other variant seems to be much better against guards etc -We seem to be making a lot of excuses for him

She has been running from these guards since she was a kid (which, for an Asgardian, is a long time). He hasn't.

 

[wicked cool]

Went toe to toe with captain America and thor (movies), frost giants, multiple elves (some trickery but a lot was hand to hand). took a beating from hulk and survived (was a quick google search and watched a short video).