Trapped by Loki / The Vengeance of Loki / The Defeat of Loki

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Oh. Oh yeah. Oh man. Oh yeah. We got Asgard.

We got the Rainbow Bridge. Getting the choir

to do a custom song for every hero is wild work

that I'm here for. I just love it. Oh, he looks

kind of creepy. Not anymore. Now he's Thor. Yeah.

Trapped by Loki. Oh, yeah. Classic Thor costume.

Smooth -shaven Viking. The Rainbow Bridge. There

we go. Called out by Frost. Yeah, plugged. There's

the Prince of Evil. Wow. He's trapped in a tree.

I love his voice. Oh, he needs to make somebody

cry. Wow. Very different intro in the comics

here. I'm about to say, yeah. Feared and despised

by all. Make a move, Reindeer Games. What? It's

just in there. We got Heimdall. Here's Heimdall.

Oh, God. Wow, that's an interesting -looking

Heimdall. I wonder if they got Idris Elba for

this. Oh, man. Nope. Loki successfully poked

Heimdall in the eye with a leaf. I mean, that's

one way to do it. You love to see it. Oh, he's

blaming Thor already. Are you Thor, god of hammers?

God of hammers. Oh, there it is. The hammer.

His magic arrow hammer. Wow, they actually named

the metal already. I know, yeah. He's just...

Lifting beds and stuff for kids? Entertainment?

Like, telepathically, too. He's not even doing

it with his strength. What is happening? I like

his scaly panties. Oh! It's so good. Oh, wow.

He's a rainbow comet? I think? Or something?

Modern dress. Ah. countless ages. Yeah, I love

that he chose the correct style for the age,

too. Yeah, he knows. It's pretty good. His outfit

matches hers. Oh! Her eyes got all big. Oh, wow,

he's gone. Just disappeared right in front of

you, lady. Call the police. Oh, man. Oh, he needs

to cause a catastrophe. Yep. Oh, wow. He transformed

people to living negatives? He's making everybody

black and white. Wow, that's a choice. He's the

god of all evil. Don Blake. Look at that lady

screaming. Somebody got paid for that. Somebody

got paid. We just want you to sit in the background

and scream. Why is everybody disappearing? Everyone's

just like, okay. How did Don Blake just disappear?

I mean, I know he's Thor, but how did he literally

disappear? The secret identity thing. Somebody

just yelled from a different room, look, it's

Thor! I can't wait to see how he fixes this.

Oh, look at him spin that hammer. That's good.

He's spinning it like a dreidel instead of like

a... Uh -huh. Oh, what is happening? What is

hap... Anti -magic particles are being created.

Yep, reversing their atoms. Yeah, yeah, makes

perfect sense. Science babble. Thor, god of atoms.

Oh man, they have really used the recording upgrade

here. I mean, we get people yelling from different

rooms and... Yeah, they've upped their game.

He's like, who are you? Sorry. I'm sorry. I don't

know who you are. Oh, scale pants. Yeah. He's

got a scaly panties on. That's got a shot. Yeah.

Yeah. Silhouette. Yeah. I like it. I like it.

Man, I'm glad they've updated his costume a bit.

That is. That is. Yeah, that's. Yeah. Not good.

Yeah. This was, this was one of the sillier ones

for sure. Oh, no, we got flying. I think he just

took the red carpet. He did that dude yelling

from another room again. There he goes with the

carpet. Okay. Now he's spinning it like a regular

spin. There you go. Like a living helicopter.

That's that's perfect. All right. We got an airborne

battle coming up. Yeah. I was going to blind

him. Blind him with the sun. Oh, he's trying

to hypnotize him. That's better. That makes a

lot more sense. Sleep. I'm asleep. Sleepy. They

must obey. Man, the mind control thing again.

This is really a reflection of the time. They

were really worried about mind control, clearly.

They really were. Oh, what will happen next?

I can't wait to see. Oh, we're back. He was sleepy,

but they didn't do sleepy. What they did instead

was mind control. Even though he was like, you're

getting sleepy. It just went away from the sleep

immediately. Oh, boy. Lowered down again. A whole

new world. That's a good question. Oh, the hammer

looks like nothing. Where's the hammer? The head

was gone. It was a nubbin. Yep. Oh, you can't

lift that hammer. Nope. The magic hammer must

never be taken from Thor. He's referring to himself

in the third person. You gotta love it. I must

resort to trickery. Look over there. What? Oh,

boy. He actually made a sea beast come out of

the... It's going to go right through. Shoop.

It's down there with the ring of power now. Oh,

look at it come back, though. So this whole episode

is going to be about him trying to get the hammer

from him. Yeah, I can't wait to see it. Into

what? Give it to yourself. Mystic image. Why

would you hand him the hammer? It worked! Wow,

okay. So he made a duplicate of Thor, and Thor

was dumb enough to just straight up hand it over.

Well, he is mind -controlled, I guess. Now the

hammer's on the ground. Yeah, yeah. Look at these

foolish mortals. Oh, what are those two doing?

Oh, they're trying to pick up the hammer. But

his duplicate can. Yeah, yeah, his illusion can,

apparently. There's that guy from the other room

again. I can't let this thing off the ground.

There's the short tie. Dun -dun! Thor arrives.

Oh, he just disappears. What's with everybody

disappearing? Can't be the same guy. Nope. Secret

identity. He's not wearing glasses. Oh, we get

this shot again. Reused. Yeah, well, it's cool

the first time. It was. Oh, yeah. Why does he

have super speed? Is that? Are you there? He

was just pushing people into the subway. Is that

what's happening right now? Yeah, man. Dude,

that is, that is next level. Like evil, but wow.

Oh, so Thor lifts, lifts the train tracks to

make the train go over them instead of just picking

them up and moving. Yeah. I love it. I love it.

It's a great plan. They got a Pegasus. Pegasus.

He's drunk with power. Wow. Yeah. Why would you

throw that thing? I don't know. Oh, now everybody's

wet. Common Loki theme. It's a theme with Loki.

Everybody's wet, yep. Not even Loki. Oh, now

he's spinning it stupid again. Yep, yep, we got

a dreidel spin. Yep, the dreidel spin. But he,

well, he's got to spin the hammer dreidel so

he can spin Loki that way. His shoulder. It was

Michael Jordan from Space Jam in it just then.

Yeah. Why is his ear doing that? Did he just

tie Loki to the, to Mjolnir and just toss it

back to Asgard? Yep, that's what he did. That's

so good. Oh, that's excellent. Oh, gosh. I don't

think so. Now my job is done. The God of Hammers.

There's Odin. There's Odin. Look at Loki hanging

his head in shame. He's got a sword instead of

gun gear. Never again shalt thou leave this realm.

Hate to tell you, bud, but that's not true at

all. I have some bad news for you. Oh, that's

a scary happy Loki. Oh, angry. Was that angry?

It looked happy. Yeah. Cartoon emotions from

the 60s are a little questionable. Complicated.

What are you doing? All right, we're planning

revenge and we're starting a fire with... Yeah.

Loki started the fire. Yeah. I'm a victim of

Thor. But wait, there's more. His thighs are

just out. It's wild. The fact that he can transform,

like... He doesn't just put on different clothes.

I love it. Yeah, he's a whole different person.

The accursed hammer. Yeah, how? You tried that

with the hammer already. You can't get rid of

the hammer, dude. Oh, he left the realm. You're

never leaving this realm again. Oh, Odin's got

the wrath of Odin. Yes, he did. I have more than

one hat. Makes sense. Sure, sure, fair. You,

come to me. Is this Loki again? I guess it is.

Now, okay. Old man Loki. Yeah, nice. More mind

control. Yeah, well, I mean, that's kind of Loki's

thing. That's not too, well, not mind control,

really. More illusionary. Yeah. Prince of Evil.

He had that outfit on and now he still looks

different, though. Oh, it's so good. Oh. Oh.

And we're back. I know. You were gone for 10,

15 minutes. Yeah. Meet me at the park in one

hour. Okay. We're going to tussle? What is happening

here? Go have prep time. That's fine. Yeah. The

way he flew in was hilarious. I have a hammer.

That was the best cat -like speed I have ever

seen in my life. The dodge. The transformation

sound effect. I like the illusory magic. Yeah,

it's good stuff. That feels on brand. The rest

of it, I don't know. Yeah, the rest of it's a

little meh. Thor with no pants on is questionable.

There was something about the age, man. Underwear

on the outside. They couldn't help themselves.

Usually it's underwear on the outside with pants,

though. Thor just doesn't have pants on at all.

We're fighting an illusionary... tiger? Almost

60 seconds. Oh, if he doesn't touch it in a minute,

that's the rule. Yeah, so 60 second clock. Seems

pretty arbitrary. Odin did that. Whoever holds

this hammer for 60 seconds, should they be worthy.

So Loki can do force fields now? Yep. Cool. Dig

under it. Yeah. He's got a force field around

Mjolnir. And somehow that's his grand victory.

Oh, now everyone's going black and white again.

That's his grand plan. Oh, yeah. He just made

the cars into melting ice cream and candy cane.

That's so evil. Oh, my God. Snap. He took his

jacket off. He was the first snap. I'm going

to put an ad in the paper. Four vows to defeat.

Loki. That'll show him. Wow. Jesus. Uh -oh. Uh

-oh. Is he doing illusion magic now, too? I think

he might be. A plastic dummy of Thor. Wow. Perfect.

Perfect. Loki couldn't tell there was a plastic

dummy just standing there. Oh, he's a bird. Wow.

Oh. He just stole a tennis net to catch Loki

as a bird. Got it. There's everybody's heads.

I don't understand that. Oh, his hammer wasn't

even spinning that time. Odin's got a different

hat on again. His hat is strong. Oh, that was

a different one again. And again. Oh, man. He

just can't do it. He can't do it. And can't make

up his mind. Dude, he's having some fashion emergencies.

Oh, man. Wow. Oh, boy. Wow. Well, Thor won. Yeah,

as much as you can call it winning. I don't know

if you care. Okay, so, ladies and gentlemen,

we just watched the Marvel Super Heroes Mighty

Thor Season 1 Episode 4 that consists of Trapped

by Loki, Vengeance of Loki, and Defeat of Loki.

The title really gives away the plot. They don't

bear the lead at all. Oh, not at all. So, John,

you want to hit us with the how on earth that

might relate to the MCU in some way? You know,

I tell you, we do have a direct sign that I immediately

noticed from our jump into the Yoastverse. And

that is Loki in wetness. Yes, yes. You know what?

So far, we're going to have to keep an eye on

that. Yeah, we're going to keep an eye on Loki

and Wetness going forward because this is a thing

that's transcending different times and spaces.

And see, this is why we do Snark Industries.

This is the kind of thing you don't catch otherwise.

That's right. No one's caught Loki and Wet before.

Except for maybe some of the fangirls. But anyway,

so MCU tie -ins. Yes. Again, thankfully, outside

of the realm of just source material, there aren't

going to be a whole lot. You know, we get to

see familiar faces. You know, we get to see Loki

and Thor and Odin and Jane Foster and Thor's

alter ego, which is, you know, sort of original

because everyone had to have a secret identity

before we couldn't just have this crazy guy from

another, you know, another realm. He had to have

a zero identity. So we get Don Blake, which is

a fun plug in because he is sort of in the Thor

movie for the MCU later. Not as a actual alter

ego, but just as a little Easter egg there. Yeah.

But cool to see these characters and kind of

get their first introduction, I think, sort of

period into everything in terms of. you know,

when this was released. And I know we've talked

before and we'll talk again. I mean, Thor was

one of my favorite books to read. I didn't go

so far back as these ones. Yeah. Maybe thankfully,

maybe thankfully, because, you know, this man's

out here just doing a lot. He's doing a lot,

but we'll get, yeah, we'll get to that with some

thoughts and feelings. But in terms of tie -ins

outside of the characters themselves and a couple

of Easter eggs and stuff like that, that we get

to see in the MCU later, there aren't a whole

lot. But why don't you go ahead and shed some

light on the comic book origin tie -ins and stuff

like that for this, you know, as we've discussed

before, copy by copy show. From the comic book

itself. Yeah. So as you say, these are Xerox

from the actual comics. And those came from Journey

into Mystery 83, 85, and 88, all by Stan Lee,

Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirby. So the heavy hitters

of Marvel, really. And 85 in particular is actually

actually 85 and 88 in particular are big comics

because they're actually the first appearance,

as you said, of Loki, the first naming of Odin,

the debut of Heimdall, a lot of characters that

we have come to know very, very well over the

past 60 plus years. Beyond that, it's there's

not a whole lot besides the fact that they come

from the comics. There's there's not that much.

of a comic tie -in because these are comics yeah

well they they are comics but i even at that

i mean if you follow the comics for long enough

all of these powers change so even even that

being a comic tie -in it's it's pretty loose

so uh not a whole lot to hold on to beyond the

nostalgia For me. In terms of comic roots, in

terms of comic roots, they are literal comic

roots. They are. The first buddings of things,

you know, and I'm glad that they have, you know,

it's cool to see. And this is something that's

interesting because I've never gone so far back

in the comics myself. And it's cool to see these

as we're doing them in sort of real time with

all of you. Yeah. To see these sort of origin

stories and to see how much they've changed over

time. It's pretty wild. We've got Loki, which

of course we always know he was kind of a trickster,

kind of doing illusions and things like that.

We've got up here, he's also mind controlling

people and making flying carpets. And he's got

the super speed. He's going down the rainbow

bridge in a blur. He's doing a lot of stuff that

I wouldn't necessarily would say is outside of

the realm of magic, which is ultimately what

Loki does. But it's just very weird and strange.

And he's got all these plans. It doesn't feel

like his flavor. Yeah, he just seems remarkably

inept, which to be fair, all of these so far,

the villains have been remarkably inept, which

I think that overall doesn't make for an overly

interesting story. You know, you want to have

a villain that's believable and also kind of

a threat or else it's just like, well, what are

we even doing? But in terms of whether or not

I liked it, my thoughts and feelings, I did enjoy

it. I've enjoyed all of these because they are

so funny. I mean, you know, to see the origins,

to see where all these things came from is fun

and unique and is a good experience to have.

But just, I mean, I've seen a lot of Marvel content.

I've never sat and laughed like I have when you

and I have been watching these. When he threw

that thing at Loki, he dodged it. Man, that was

so good. I hope if the people listening aren't

able to find this episode, maybe just if you

could find that clip on YouTube or something.

I'll see if I can gif it. I mean, you know, things

like that are just so incredibly funny. In the

Discord or something. Man, that's so good. Yeah,

there you go. Use it as a thumbnail for this

episode. A little shift. But I enjoyed it, you

know, in terms of for what it was. It's not good,

but it is hilarious. And it is the origin of

these characters that we all know and love at

this point. So it's hard for me to say too many

bad things about something, even if it is remarkably

ridiculous. How about yourself? Well, as you

said, it's not good, but it's pretty great. I

mean, they are absurd. They are. Wildly different

from what I expected, like you. I mean, even

being a huge comic guy, I started reading comics

early 90s, late 80s. Those are the kinds of comics

I started really digging into. So, yes, I've

gone back and read some of this old stuff, but

nothing like this. This is this is this is new.

And the OG is very special. Really? Oh. oh my

goodness but yeah that's that's where i can put

a pin in that i have nothing more to add to it

it was it was special and fun and yeah i look

forward to the next absolutely i hope you all

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