Originally Posted by
Raye
He has been killed, and I don't think his personality got overwritten, I think that aspect has been done away with, to be honest. I think he just resurrected himself both times, if the first time you are talking about was with King Loki, then he 'died' with a sort of plan, and while I think Ewing may have intended it as a sort of replacement at the time, Aaron backtracked on that part like immediately, and he was back to his old self, with all his memories etc intact. Then with Laufey, he died, but his soul ended up unable to move on, probably because no Valkyries, then magicked himself back together. Again, personality intact, because the soul that was there unable to move on obviously just re-entered his body. The flashbacks we got in Loki's solo to his childhood and to the old West, and also him wanting to reconnect with Verity, would not mean anything if he was rebooted, because those would have been aspects of the previous one. So I don't think the whole reincarnation thing has kicked in since JIM, and it may simply have been done away with. Just saying, I think we have to kind of let that go as something that definitely happens when he dies, stuff has altered that since it was said. We are talking about something that relies on a single line of dialogue in Young Avengers, it was framed as sort of his best guess as to what happens, and he may have been mistaken. And frankly, I prefer it this way, since I REALLY am not interested in him being rebooted constantly at the drop of a hat, erasing all that came before in terms of what makes him who he is. People are the sum of all the events in their lives, removing that aspect, making it so that past events did not contribute at all to his current self, kind of gives him less depth as a character.
But I have doubts he will be killed, I think Aaron still has plans for him in Avengers, which offers him some protection, and Cates said in that podcast that he had lots of plans for Loki over several arcs. It may be that Loki dies at the end of those arcs, but I don't know exactly what it would accomplish in terms of Thor, it can't just be about him killing Loki and then.... That's it, the end. Thor has to have some kind of realization and character development from that, there has to be repercussions. Killing Loki is not a story, especially with Loki where he is at now, its a story beat, It has to lead to something more. And the obvious things, Thor realizing he was wrong, war with the frost giants, or something like that, seems kind of cheap at this point, like the tradeoff of losing Loki would not be balanced by what could be accomplished with it.