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No Jotun we ever saw in the MCU had hair, right? But Hela has black hair, just like Loki has, and has a familial resemblance to Loki, despite apparently not being related to them, but supposedly being related to Thor, who looks nothing like her. We're also never given a potential 'mother' option in the movies, so there's nothing to say this might not have been the case. Frigga and Loki also have a resemblance to each other, which also strengthens the idea, imo.
My theory basically turns Loki from the adopted child, to the half sibling of both Thor and Hela, and the product of a secret interspecies affair that the royal family is trying to cover up. Coming up with the idea of an 'adoption' as a last-resort explanation in case Loki's Jotun heritage ever came to light. (Basically throwing Loki under the bus for being related to a race demonized in Asgard.)
Odin resents Loki (And somewhat resents Frigga, explaining why we never see them interacting outside of Odin commanding Frigga to 'leave' at the beginning of Thor Dark World.) for being the product of his wife's affair and the son of his enemy, thus why he's so distant from them.
I think, if we ignore the bias and retcon-filled phase 4 (Like we should), it also explains why Loki might be smaller than most Jotuns. It's because Loki isn't a full-blooded Jotun, Loki is a half-Jotun. (Which explains why Loki can learn Asgardian magic when we've gotten no indication Jotuns can do so, etc.)
I dunno, this theory came to mind and I wanted to share, lol.
I wrote this on Twitter and it got long:
They really hated how #Loki represented the outcasts and thus had to change him to be relatable to mainstream people instead. Strip him of everything that made him unique and punish him thoroughly in the process.
They hate us so much, they couldn't let us have one badass character we could relate to. If marginalized people feel represented, or worse empowered, by such a character, it has to be destroyed.
Just like the bullies on the schoolyard tried to beat us into normalcy, the bigots in the entertainment industry forcefully strips our beloved character of everything that made him special, everything that made him one of us.
Fuck you! We still have the original MCU Loki, and we don't forget. Some of us weren't broken by you mainstream oppression machine; we resisted on that schoolyard and we resist now.
We won't disappear because you take away our #representation. People who don't fit in will always exist; dandelions through the cracks of you asphalt, if you will. You can hurt us but you will never succeed in erasing us.
That entire scene involving Loki’s clothes being lasered off in the Loki show made me very uncomfortable when I first watched it.
I mean, maybe I’m just sensitive, but, I’m sorry- fanservice-y bullshit like that is just really creepy imo. (I mean, it’s why I don’t watch most modern anime.) Mostly because it’s usually far from consensual, especially in this case.
I mean, maybe if he decided to react a bit coyly to it, or something else, it would’ve been fine. (More so comedic and lightened the mood a lot more. Even then it still would’ve been weird and on top of that, ooc.) but with how he reacts to it in the actual show, it just felt wrong.
In the few seconds you got his reaction, that tremble in his voice especially, it just made it feel gross. Like I personally was intruding on his boundaries.
This coming from someone who’s attracted to him btw, so obviously, the target demographic for said moment. Yet I still found that it was wildly uncomfortable.
I dunno, I just wanted to put this opinion out there because I didn’t see a lot of people mentioning this when they talk about how bad the show was. Honestly, this moment was one of the biggest red flags for me.