Peter Parker: -on meeting Loki, offers his hand- Hi, I’m Peter!
Loki: -shakes his hand- Loki of Asgard.
Peter: Aren’t you like…a bad guy?
Loki: It varies from moment to moment.
Peter: So like…on a scale of one to ten, ten being the worst evil imaginable, like…killing puppies, and one being I’ll spit on your hotdog…where are you right now?
Loki: …maybe a three?
Peter: Cool. Lemme know if it gets above a six.
Loki: -thinking- I like him.
It had been a joke, a flippant line, but somehow, Loki found himself taking the youth up on it.
It was hard living around these heroic Avengers, hard trying to stay close to Thor. And when he felt his need for mischief rise too high, when he felt exasperation with these Midgardians turn too close to spite, he would casually say “Six.” to the young man, or sometimes “Seven.”
And Peter would spend the rest of his day with Loki. He would badger him with questions about magic, or drag him across his beloved city to see its entertainments, or take him along stopping petty crimes. He grounded Loki to the here and now, and distracted him from the churning, jagged shards of ice in his mind.
Omfg remember Loki asking Tony in Avengers – “How will your friends have time to fight me when they will be busy fighting you?”
He was right. Holy shit he was proven right down the line. It was Loki’s sceptre that had the Mind Stone that brought up the entire AoU mess so his spectre did work in making the team fight Tony in an indirect way. And in CACW almost the entire team, the entire Avengers 2012 team at least, goes against Tony which leads to all of them breaking up later. That makes them unprepared for Thanos when he comes because they had been too busy fighting each other.
Loki was right. Tony’s team didn’t have time for the enemy because they were busy fighting him. Holy shit callback.
Pearl, I’m literally going to fight you wtf
Okay but you know what makes it even better? Tony’s best reply to Loki saying he has an army is that they have a Hulk. To which Loki comments that he thought the ‘beast had wandered off’.
GUESS WHO DIDN’T MAKE AN APPEARANCE IN THE END (during IW) WHEN TONY WAS HOPING HE WOULD??? HULK!!
Tony leaves himself out of his list of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and ends up away from the rest of the original team on Titan.
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