in avengers: infinity war, the titan thanos was required to sacrifice the thing he loved most in life in order to wield the soul stone, which led to the demise of his adopted daughter gamora. later in the film when he finally finishes his plan of wiping out half of the entire universe, we see some of the main characters of marvel cinema disappearing before our very eyes, and the eyes of other wellknown characters. based on the aforementioned sacrifice that the soul stone requires, it is suffice to say that the characters who did disappear were most loved by the characters they disappeared in front of. groot disappears in front of rocket raccoon, who’s already had to lose his best friend once. t’challa disappears in front of okoye, and he is a physical representation of the country she loves and has pledged her life to above all else. peter parker disappears in front of tony stark, who has taken him under his wing as a pseudo father figure. bucky barnes disappears in front of steve rogers, finally reaffirming that he is indeed the most important aspect of the captain’s life, and at this point in the marvel cinematic universe, truly his greatest love. in this essay i will
the fact that Loki’s death scene in Thor 2 was originally intended to be real & retconned later and the end where he’s alive was filmed during pickups has me SO fucked up because now I can’t choose between which headcanon I prefer re: his behavior in Ragnarok. like listen, okay, either:
1. loki was planning on playing dead the whole time and so his very sad death scene & everything he said therein was a calculated move and he was practically writing the theatrical version of it (starring matt damon as himself) as he went along
OR
2. loki really thought he was dying and every melodramatic word of his death scene was 100% heartfelt and then after he realized he wasn’t dead he fucking… woke up peaced out to go take over asgard (lol?) and several months later he was sitting on the throne and could remember every word of what he said to thor on that day and was like “wow im so fucking poetic. that should be a play. starring matt damon as Me perhaps”
the thing i love about t’challa wasn’t just that he took killmonger to see the sunset, it was that he was in tears as he listened to killmonger’s story – that he was arguing that killmonger wouldn’t exist if t’chaka had simply shown compassion, that he understood the black panthers of the past had maybe been wrong. you can feel his empathy for people, and why it makes him the black panther whose story is being told; the most special thing about him isn’t his powers, or his suit, because there were black panthers generations before him. his fighting skill isn’t revolutionary – he gets beaten. the thing that made him special was that he has a big heart. t’challa is a good person. genuinely, a great one.
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