Paul Farquhar
Legend
Got blown up by Hawkeye, and smacked by Jane Foster.
Loki is the party wizard, his fighting skills are mediocre at best. Cast Mirror Image and poke with a dagger. He is hard to kill, but that's about it.
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Loki is the party wizard, his fighting skills are mediocre at best. Cast Mirror Image and poke with a dagger. He is hard to kill, but that's about it.
DeviousQuail
Hero
It was cool to see Lady Sif again. I wonder if she'll show up again in Loki.
I checked Jaimie Alexander's IMDB to see if Blindspot was still going and saw she is reprising her role as Sif in Thor: Love and Thunder. I try not to spoil things too much for myself and failed rather spectacularly this time around.
He's not even using trickery or magic or much of anything in this show. It is the part of the show I like least at this point. Loki is just a guy.
Well, for large parts of the show he's been inside the TVA which blocks his magic. He's used it plenty on Lamentis and when on excursions.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
On this I agree, disappointingly the writing has failed to present us with a clever, scheming Loki and instead we have a prissy, slightly confused, whiney Loki whose best use of magic was a presdigitation spell to dry his wet clothes (yes ignoring escape from Lamentis since combat telekinesis isnt clever scheming either)
Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
And it is one of the things I like the best about the show. This is not the same Loki we saw get a redemption arc in the movies. This is a variant Loki who may just not be as good at fighting or magic as the original. He is more human and more relatable to the audience, which is needed for the lead character.
Eh, I don't know. The branching point is that he managed to escape with the Tesseract after the Battle of New York. That's a fairly recent point of divergence.
That said, overall, MCU Loki is an order of magnitude less powerful than comics-Loki (at least classic villain comics-Loki). Comics-Loki can go toe-to-toe with the X-Men and have a decent chance to come out on top (were it not for their plot armor), MCU-Loki isn't anywhere near that magnitude of power. His status as a significant threat in Avengers is because he has a scepter with the Mind Stone in it, and because he's at the head of an invading army. Once the Avengers actually face him, he's not that big a threat.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Did you miss last week's episode? He used illusion more than once. He magically caught and returned a several ton piece of building that was falling on them back up to where it started to fall. And I think a few other things. It was by far the most magic he's used in any of the episodes.
Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
That sounds more like plot armor for him to not be destroyed almost right away by a very powerful team of superheroes. But then, Plot Armor is the most common superpower in all comic books.
Well, there is some of that. But there's also that comics-Loki is one of the more powerful sorcerers of Asgard – not the most powerful, but probably top 5. MCU-Loki is good at illusion magic, but doesn't have the breadth or magic muscle to do the things comics-Loki does.
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