I'm new here and I've basically just came to know and love Loki's character a couple of months ago when I read all his stories from when he came back as KidLoki to now. I even went back to read the stuff prior to that when he was old Loki, truthfully I didn't really like the old Loki that much, I much prefer how he is written now and how most modern comics are written now. I just think Loki and comics in general are just more interesting with a lot more depth to them now rather than the classic black and white angle that the old comics had.
But I want to bring up something from earlier in these threads.
Its about the inconsistencies of Loki's power and his power levels. I do agree that Loki's show of power has always been inconsistent and it seems that it gets changed to what suits the writer at the time and it pretty much depends on who Loki faces in that moment. So either he seems powerful one minute but seems much weaker the next. I think though Kieron Gillen was the one who explained this in the best way possible and one can call it a retcon, I suppose, but I think there's a lot of sense behind it. But he basically said that Loki pretty much causes his own defeat by subconsciously wanting to lose.
Here's the quote
I think this is a great way to show why Loki is so inconsistent when it comes to powers and power levels. I also really like the fact that no matter how many enemies Loki has or how powerful they may be, the one true enemy of Loki will always be Loki himself and I think this is still pretty much the case now, him and fate. I mean I would still like for Loki's powers to be a bit more consistent but I guess magic is the mostly inconsistent anyway due to the various things you can do with it and there being so many branches of magic. Loki mostly dabbles in Asgardian magic though. I actually want to see Loki do some reality warping stuff since that is what his true power supposedly is, he seems to do this more subconsciously though than consciously, which I think is still very much the case. I do wonder if Loki himself knows what his true capabilities are or if this is a truly a subconscious thing, at least for the moment.
Then again it's been a while since JIM and YA was written and a lot of things have changed and happened since, however this ties into what I think about Loki beating the odds though and going against his so called "nature" and his so called "fate", is that perhaps the one that Loki truly needs to overcome is actually himself rather than actual fate.
Anyway that is my rambling views on that, most of which made no sense probably. But looking forward to Loki #3 and what the children of Eternity want from Loki or what they will show Loki, what this new power is, and what the whole chess placement means.
Okay that's my rambles out of the way, most of which didn't probably make any sense