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Working Designs was pretty unhinged in the Sega CD days, the PS1 Lunar releases were actually pretty chill by comparison(though they of course had their own wacky humor)

Oh no they replaced -generic expression of surprise- with -creative expression of surprise- how dare they completely make up something

The replacement is not more accurate(if anything they embellished even more), but they did replace a meme that could date the translation down the line. Actually it might arguably be dated already.

I'd say the replacement is objectively much more creative as well.

Funny that you appreciate it more after a rewatch since I had the opposite experience. On my first time I thought it was alright but I checked out pretty fast on a rewatch out of boredom.

Even in terms of scheming, there's the interrogation by Natasha where she basically humiliates him there too. Like, they go out of their way to show him at low points not just physically but mentally as well. I don't really have any memories of that movie thinking "Wow, Loki got them good" it's all "Wow, Loki got punked." It was to the point that when he killed Coulson I was actually surprised like "Really? Loki actually managed that?" I think I came away thinking that the staff was more important to the result than Loki himself

To me it's not so much that they 'turned' him into what he becomes in Ragnarok/Loki/whatnot. It's more like they just looked back at what they did to him already and ran with it.

I actually prefer that direction, it's just as a main villain I don't really feel like he's up to the task(and this is even lampshaded in Loki)

I don't know if joke character was the right choice of words but he was portrayed as the opposite of formidable. They go out of their way to show him give speeches about ruling over people, being a god etc. that comes across as a weak person trying to compensate with arrogance. He gets clowned on multiple times, and they even make a joke about how his plan is incompetent.

It feels more like he bumbled into success than connived his way to success(mostly due to having an extremely powerful tool at his disposal). I do agree that it wasn't nearly this exaggerated in the first Thor movie but every movie after that? Nah, they stripped him of any threatening presence

Avengers is kind of a weird movie for me since it's supposed to be this epic story where several heroes come together to cooperate against a major threat but the fact that the face of that threat is Loki who is basically a joke character made it hard for me to really get excited. Like, is this a comedy I'm watching? It's true there's a giant army at the end that is actually a threat but it's just a vague giant army without a real face or identity.

I know that's pretty common for Marvel but I guess I just wanted them to drop that and get a bit serious for something big like the first Avengers movies. Basically what Infinity War did, actually.

It was still an enjoyable movie and all but it's not in the top for me.

It's more like 6 was just really awful(actually was in the top 10 worst rated games in Japan that year on Amazon) so they're quick to try to fix the damage with a hopefully decent entry that addresses most of 6's problems to salvage the series's reputation

The first Thor was the first time you see Asgard in the MCU and the atmosphere and setting is pretty novel at the time since it feels pretty different which keeps the movie fresh (would be better if the main battle wasn't against some pointless lifeless robot thing)

Dark World was a snoozefest

I think I remember the first Thor being better than it is mainly because Dark World was notably worse

Dragon Quest 2's Malroth might be the OG for this.

BLARGH I WILL SUMMON A DEMON GOD TAKE THAT

(Though at least it's supposedly the demon god that his cult worships?)