Some realizations based off of recent Marvel rewatchings.
The second and third Ant Man films roughly copied, or maybe ripped off, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”. The tip-off is the fact that Hope tells us in the beginning of the second film that when she was a child and played hide and go seek with her mother, she would hide in a wardrobe. The film then gives us a reenactment of this. This isn’t just a simple allusion, but stretches through both films. The Quantum Realm is Narnia, Janet is Lucy, and Kang is the White Witch.
In the Loki show, there are regular references to the conflict between free will and religious dogma, or maybe more properly cosmological dogma. But what I haven’t heard anyone point out is that what is as much being questioned in the show is free will so-called versus Machiavellianism. This exchange is what clued me in to it, from season one episode four:
Mobius: Yeah, I guess you don’t do partners. Unless, of course, it benefits you, and you intend to betray them at some point.
Loki: It was a means to an end, Mobius. Welcome to the real world. Down there, we’re awful to one another to get what we want.
Mobius: Now I gotta have a Prince tell me how the real world works?
Loki is the proponent of Machiavellianism, while Sylvie stands solidly on the side of free will. Their conflict arises amidst the hope that the two positions could somehow be reconciled as friends or lovers, but in the end it is impossible.
The Radicalist skepticism toward religion as anything other than a tool for power or the State is tangible.
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