SO there’s the moment in
Inifinity war that was gifed by @lupitanyongio, and I thought, Okoye’s reaction is very
mother-like.
But then I thought about it a
bit. It’s not a heart-broken mother reaction, it’s a soldier’s heart-broken
moment.
I refuse to believe that the
people in Wakanda didn’t know about HYDRA, at least as a concept. Within the
MCU, HYDRA wasn’t really a secret, and the parts they played in WWII, was so integral to the course of history, there’s no way it was left out of any sort of history book. And it’s not like Wakanda is ignorant of what’s going on – they have War Dogs, spies posted internationally, they had to have had some inkling as to the stories of the Winter Soldier.
So enter Bucky Barnes with a programming inside his head, and he doesn’t feel safe – he’s not himself. He hides away in his little hut with his goats, because this is all he ever wanted in life, peace and quiet.
One day, Okoye’s curiosity gets the better of her, and she visits Bucky.
At first, he doesn’t really want to speak to her, but his mama raised a gentlemen, so he’s not going to tell her to get lost. But the moment she see’s him, she knows.
Okoye isn’t some wide-eyed warrior who’s just joined the Dora Milaje, she’s their General. She’s seen battle. She’s seen death. She’s seen more than enough of it in her 20, 30 years of serving the Dora. To stand before a man who has seen so much in his 100 years, battle, war, death, unspeakable crimes. To have had his will to act, his will to live stripped away.
She sees all this, and her heart breaks, because she knows.
So that look that she makes when Bucky asks “where’s the fight?” That’s of a soldier who knows her comrade has seen too much, and yet, is going back to do the right thing.
Remember Avengers 1 when Loki and Stark met in the Tower and Stark says:
“You’re brother, the demigod, a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend. A man with breathtaking anger-management issues, a couple of master assassins and you, big fella,…
But Loki simply answers:
Like… LOKIS PLAN WAS TO MAKE THESE GUYS WORKING TOGETHER AS A TEAM SO THEY CAN DEFEAT THANOS! HE IS THE REASON THE AVENGERS EXIST LIKE WE KNOW THEM TODAY!
I’ve always wondered why it was his plan to piss them off, because it actually doesn’t make sense, but now, it does.
Plot Twist: Loki’s been trying to defeat Thanos from day 1 and he purposely created the avengers
This is not so far fetched, guys. It could have been a nod to the original Avengers comic from the 60s where they formed because of Loki (and Ant Man was an original member), or this could have been planned since the beginning.
The theory I’ve had since the movie is that Thanos tortured him, used the mind stone to control him, threatened Asgard in retaliation if he didn’t cooperate or all of the above. Thanos’ primary method of recruitment is torture, and Loki looked pretty unhinged when he first showed up in Avengers.
Add to that the bruised, out of breath, bags-under-his-eyes, mildly freaked out look–
–and it’s pretty obvious sh*t went down before his arrival. It’s made clear in the movie that when Loki uses that thing to control minds, the person acts just as they would normally, but with their main priority being to activate the Tesseract and bring the Chitauri to Earth. Even if it means killing innocent people to do it (ala Hawkeye).
But why aren’t his eyes electric blue like the others? Maybe because his eyes are naturally blue? Maybe the color isn’t as vivid since he’s the general of the army? Maybe I’m seeing things (or it’s the lighting), but they seem a brighter blue than normal right after he uses the staff to control Clint and Dr. Selvig…
Thanos could still be controlling him through the stone, and just having him do the dirty work. After all, why would he give an Infinity Stone to the God of Mischief without making sure he can get it back?
Loki does have moments where he acts more like the sass-filled trickster we all know and love and less like the kill-happy lunatic he is in this movie. This seems to happen when he gets knocked around (i.e. when Tony shows up to blast Loki, when Thor throws him from the g-d airplane, etc.)
There’s even the moment after Thor beats the ever loving snot out of him that he seems to show regret for a spilt second when he says “It’s too late to stop it…”
So, what does it take to permanently get out of the mind controlled state? Concussion, apparently. Hawkeye gets beamed–
–Tony almost kills Dr. Selvig–
–and I think we all know how Loki breaks free of it.
It would explain his “wtf just happened” expression. Come to think of it, he was in similar shape when he first arrived. Just sayin’.
Loki’s one of the most intelligent people in the Marvel universe, guys. He’s also held/used multiple Infinity Stones, so he’s probably pretty freaking powerful. I wouldn’t put it past him to be able to subconsciously form the Avengers to take on a big bad that he can’t defeat, while being simultaneously controlled by that same guy. That may be why we have leaked set footage of IW-era Tony stalking knocked-back-into-his-right-mind-end-of-first-Avengers Loki for the next installment of Infinity War. The remaining Avengers may have figured this all out. Especially Hawkeye. Since, you know, he lived it.
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