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LinkMarioSamus posted...

Not saying you don't raise a valid point, but there's a world of difference between consuming a work of fiction and actually being in the situation in question. I'm absolutely sick of criticisms implying the characters should have had the same foresight as the audience. Again, point taken though.

This is a case where the character should absolutely be smarter than me. He has millennia of experience outwitting and playing powerful races from alternate dimensions. The fact that your statement says something is "far beyond his comprehension" just shows how nerfed Loki is intellectually in the show. I don't mind him getting played by Mobius - far from it. What I mind is the sheer slack-jawed... mortality of the character. Loki has been on a downward trajectory as a character for some time. It's similar to killing off Thanos a hundred times in the aftermath of Endgame. I get it - the desire to build greater threats. But don't diminish things that should remain foundational to the MCU in the effort to do so. One of the reasons the comics works well is that, in booking a new threat, great writers like Starlin knew how to maintain the credibility of characters in defeat. But there's a different style of writing on some of these shows that can't manage to let the losers still maintain dignity. It's my same argument with the Egyptian gods just absolutely being the most useless depictions of supposed omnipotence to ever exist on screen.