Pride Month Cosplay: Loki Retrospective Gallery
Even before the new Disney+ series Loki started streaming a couple weeks ago, sharp-eyed fans noticed in one of the last promos for the show a dossier sheet on Loki at the Time Variance Authority showed the field Gender and the designation “Fluid.” So like he has been in the comic book Marvel world for a number of years, Loki is now also canonically gender fluid in the MCU.
While this is a welcome development, it is a few thousand years behind the curve of the original Norse myths about Loki. After all, he gave birth to (not sired, birthed) Odin’s steed, the eight-legged horse Sleipnir. Which means I guess the correct pronoun to use for Loki is they, but Loki is most commonly referred to by the pronoun of their current appearance, which is most commonly male, so I will use the Marvel comics and MCU default of “he.”
And lest we go overboard in applauding Disney/Marvel for this move during Pride Month remember that 1) Loki already was canonically gender fluid in the comics, and 2) he is at best considered an anti-hero and most typically a villain. So Disney/Marvel has one acknowledged gender fluid being in the MCU and he is a mass murderer. Not outstanding representation just yet, but a step forward and worth honoring.
Cosplayers in this gallery include Lucky Grim Creative, sycosplay, Cowbutt Crunchies Cosplay, Silhouette Cosplay, sarahjcosplay, midgardiancosplay, 9realms.entertainment, Eldritch Arts, Kelly Green, chantelantoinette, sithcamaro, bettiebloodshed, loki_dark_world, Koi Fish Asylum, Gogo Incognito, IceKhaleesi Cosplay and Photography, katiradactyl, among many others.
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