The Despised God-"Rocky": "Thinking is empty talk." Of Marvel's four dramas in 2021, the other three are Avengers stories, and they all stand on Rogers' position in the civil unrest. Only Loki is an enemy story. But these characters are "nostalgic." In comparison, Loki is the most miserable "nostalgic", who is set as someone who does not deserve to have a home. The entire history of the universe has not allowed Loki to survive. He lives in an atmosphere of exclusion and rejection. Loki in the MCU is not so much a "god of tricks" as a "god of disgust". In his appearance in the episode "Rocky", Loki has reached the bottom of his life. First, from the perspective of the "nostalgic", reviewing his brief experience in the MCU should explain why he is the loneliest of the main characters in the MCU. Or it can explain why Rocky has a similar tendency to romance.
In the normal timeline, Loki is about to be taken prisoner. Odin would say that if his adoptive mother hadn't interceded for him, he was only worthy of death. As the prince of the Frost Kingdom, Loki Luffison was taken as a "hostage" by Odin at birth. But Loki didn't come in handy because the conquest of the Frost Kingdom went smoothly. So Odin used him as an exercise to show his transformation into a "father king". Fight the world with knives, axes, spears, and swords, and then govern the world with rhetoric and chicken soup for the soul. Say something like "a wise king does not seek war..." as if someone else asked you to rule.
In Asgard, although Loki has the title of "Prince", he is in a despised environment. Thor, the son of Odin, is very popular and invites friends. Loki doesn't have a friend, and using pranks to relieve his depression can only make him more disgusting. The title "God of Tricks" means being despised. As we all know, the stratagem of one's own people is called "a scheme", and the stratagem of the enemy is called "a scheme".
It wasn't until Thor 1 that Loki learned that he wasn't actually an Asgardian, but a descendant of the Frost Giant. At this time, what he did was not to return to his homeland of the Frost Kingdom, but to try to defraud the throne of Asgard. Why do you want to return to the Frost Kingdom, the land of the ethnic group that has no sense of existence and is defeated? That is to continue to be weak, to be crushed and despised. Since he was already alone, he might as well have become the "widow" at the highest level. He wants to have power and a higher status, so who would dare to dislike him again? To this end, he did not hesitate to betray the interests of his own ethnic group, and he did not hesitate to eliminate his own blood relatives, thereby paving the way for his own power.
But Loki's trick failed. So he borrowed an army from Thanos to invade Earth. That's the story of Avengers 1. But he failed again. He originally thought that the earthlings were easy to bully. Unexpectedly, the Avengers were also very ruthless. The Hulk smashed Loki to the left and right, then walked away, disgusted. After all, Loki is still too weak. Taking advantage of the time-travel errors of the Avengers, Loki escaped. Then came the opening of the episode "Rocky". At this time, he betrayed his hometown and blood relatives, and his "path to glory" in Asgard and Earth was also frustrated. Although he was disliked in Asgard, he had only what Asgard gave him. After he met the Time Variation Authority (TVA), he had to rely on Asgard's prestige to increase himself. But TVA made him experience being a more undignified "prisoner". The more Loki seeks power, the more he is abused by those who are stronger than him.
The title of the first episode of "Rocky" is "Glorious Purpose". This is an ironic title. Because Loki's "Path of Glory" never worked out. The plan he made was to make himself a target for others to practice on; in the process, others gained more and more experience and honor, while Loki became more and more disgusted. He originally wanted to escape with the space gem, but he encountered a group of TVA agents who disliked him. His motive for seeking "glory" made him the lonely one left behind.
So, will he continue to use tricks to seek power in order to achieve "honorable goals"? In the first episode of "Rocky," Agent Mobius, like a "spirit of the future," may convey the impression that there is no way to go when he shows Loki what happened to Loki. On top of personal tricks, there are "historical tricks" to get lost. Then "know yourself."
"You always put on a posture that you can see through others, but you can't see through yourself." "Rocky" became Loki's way of "knowing yourself", not the way he still insists on climbing to power. You may not be able to see yourself in yourself, so you can know another self outside of yourself, such as the "female Loki" Sylvie who appeared in "Rocky". After the first conversation, Loki, the male lead, said, "I can finally realize how annoying I am."
Since this article is interpreted from the perspective of "nostalgia", it can be said that "knowing yourself" is the way to "return to your hometown", and "sincere self" is "hometown". Looked at this way, the story of "Rocky" is not as much fun as the trick, but it is sublimated to itself. The so-called "nostalgic person" in this article is precisely to echo the famous romantic expression: philosophy is actually a kind of nostalgia, which encourages him to live in his hometown (this is my random translation). An English version of the expression is: Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home... I feel that this expression is more appropriate than the common Chinese translation.
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