“All of his spiel about freedom, which he brings up often and how crippling it is for people, I enjoyed enormously writing, not just because it sounds like silly Elizabethan-type talk, but because I really believe that he believes it. It makes perfect sense on some level to say that humanity is not doing a very good job of taking care of themselves and what they’d really like is for Daddy to make it better. And for him to espouse that so articulately and not understand that only a person who’s deeply damaged would ever want to be the person who takes care of everybody is, I think, what makes his character so interesting.”
Joss Whedon during the Avengers commentary.
the difference between innocent and twisted
Looks like a before and after shot of when I join a new fandom
(Source: tawmmm)
oh jesus oh jesus he’s so angry because he is STILL in thor’s shadow
even as an exile, as a murderer, as would-be destroyer of worlds, he still cannot be his own man. he will never be loki of asgard. he will always be loki, brother of thor.
(Source: kimlennox)

In devising his character, one of the things I really struggled with is how sympathetic he had been in “Thor” and what a tragic figure he had been. But, in speaking through Goddard, resident expert on all things evil, he reminded me that he did throw himself into an abyss and that he has come out to the other side of it. And that enabled me to let him (Hiddleston) play the way Loki is traditionally played, which is … for fun. For him to have fun with what he’s doing and for the sadness, the texture that (Kenneth) Branagh had brought to the character to lay underneath it. Every now and then, his need and his resentment gets the better of his evil. But only occasionally in turns, very good at riding that line between truly spectacularly delightfully evil and believable. It’s very easy to go too far in a direction or another.
- Joss Whedon, The Avengers commentary