Yes. I am beginning to really not like Loki's modern incarnation any more than I liked their old incarnation, given their extreme tendency to treat other people like toys with their plot manipulation and shapeshifting, and to visit absolutely horrible fates upon them in Tyr's case, and for personal benefit in Donald Blake's and Thor's cases, even though Donald Blake was Donny Cates' horrible Thor characterisation's fault.
I also do not like that Ewing seems to have embraced the extreme double-standards for Thor and other characters that most Marvel writers seem to hold more tribalist identification with. When written right, Thor is one of the most genuinely virtuous Marvel Comics characters, but here he is written off as arrogant and in need of being killed and reborn as a mortal in order to learn yet another lesson in humility.
Okay, but when is that standard of karmic repentance going to be applied to the 99% of all the current Marvel Comics characters who have far greater moral problems than DeFalco's or Ewing's version of Thor has been portrayed with. Mystique was recently rationalised as being perfectly cuddly and acceptable in a story collection that Ewing participated with, and with his explicit blessing, despite that she has attempted or succcessfully performed plenty of hardcore Nazi level evil atrocities over the years and is an unrepentant thrill-killing sadistic supremacist and serial rapist. Heck, Ewing even wrote Storm as far more arrogant and overpowered than the way he handled Thor with the Odinforce, but that was perfectly manageable and acceptable then?
And despite that I generally like Ewing's writing quality and characterisations, he also has a bad continuous habit of breaking the narrative/story setting by completely overpowering plenty of characters who are not deemed to automatically be part of a problematic group, like Thor apparently is.
So, I probably agree with 99% of the values as such of this part of my fellow leftists, but not with a part of the applications. I strongly believe in equality for everybody, but equality means equal rights for everybody, which also means equal moral responsibilities for everybody, not one far less severe set of rules for one group, and enormously less strict rules for another, and certain artificial divisions of humanity as a whole being granted enormously greater power than all of the others, as that comes across as reverse-supremacism and a form of hatred in itself.
If we are going to learn to all get along on this planet, all of the ego-tripping tribalist artificial "group" versus "group" divisions need to end, especially in terms of jingoistic ultranationalistic supremacism, but the "I'm the bestest supremiest best supreme being that ever bestest, and no moral rules or standards apply to me" narrative tendency is also not a wise choice at all, with the Krakoa storyline perhaps being the worst amoral excess displayed yet, and is only helping to drive lots of easily brainwashed people who are not part of favoured groups for the writers into becoming supporters of far right extremist complete monsters instead of getting convinced that equality and love for all is the best available option.
And the whole narrative concept that all the people with powers systematically get away without any bad consequences no matter how extreme atrocities they perform, in comparison to all the regular people who almost all end up tortured forever after they die, regardless that it is completely disproportionate retribution, and not based on rehabilitation and making up for their sins with good deeds, in the slightest for those who can be reformed and redeemed, also sends a horribly supremacist message to me, as does the concept that the people with powers are somehow oppressed by the people without any, while they keep emphasising how superior they are to everybody else, and perform absolutely horrible transgressions without any bad consequences, which is the X-Men concept in a nutshell, and completely opposed to how oppression in the real world usually works.
Sigh. Oh well. I seem to have got off track again. In summary, I just really don't like any form of tribalism, supremacism, or extreme moral double-standards and ego-tripping. One love and equality for all in the true sense of the world. That is all.
And Thor learning more about the struggles of regular people might turn him into an even better character in the long run for all that I know.
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