It just occurred to me that a lot of people who dislike Loki, including toxic Loki show stans, genuinely think that Loki’s a coward. Someone who runs instead of fights, because he’s not openly belligerent like Thor and only fights when necessary. The true meaning of bravery seems to be missed by so, so many people.
In Thor the Dark world he throws himself at Jane and risks getting sucked into a wormhole. He does this in spite of the fact that he knows he might die, but ptsd aside he does it anyway. The fear is evident on his face.
and there are SO many other instances of LOKI facing apprehension, misgiving, worry, fear, terror, horror… and meeting it head on. usually, completely alone. anyone who thinks that’s cowardice can take a flying fuck.
Lol, in *that* scene in IW he could have teleported away with the Tesseract. Thanos blew up the Statesman, anyway. The only one who might have died additionally would have been Thor. And arguably Thanos intended to kill Thor anyway, since blowing up a ship with someone on board had normally that effect. If Loki had been a coward he would have been gone two seconds after spotting Thanos ship. But he stayed. Out of loyalty.
