Gender Representation Of Scavengers

like Thor but lean and this is done to emphasis the difference between the two characters. In an interview, Tom Hiddleston, who plays Loki, stated that for the role he had to stay fit in order to keep up with Loki’s prickly martial arrogance, since Loki can hold his own in a fight and is lethal in his own way, and that his workout consisted on lots of running, circuit training, and suspension (Ee, 2013). Loki’s character isn’t about emphasizing on muscle but about being fit, thin, agile and having the stamina to do and withstand all the things Loki does and goes through. Loki’s tall stature is reflected in mythology with the elongated elements of the body. This is a timeliness aspect of Loki’s character and is seen in all the different versions

In mythology Loki is a shapeshifter, and often undermines his own masculinities to accomplish things. He takes the female forms numerous times and he even gives birth. So in the film people often look for clues and hints that interpret this depiction of Loki’s gender ambiguity. The franchise doesn’t openly address this topic because of the fact that Walt Disney is a distributor of two of the films and some of the targeted audiences are children. The difference between the physical body types of Loki and his two closest male relatives, Odin and Thor, serves to underline the gender roles they play. Odin and Thor are associated with manlier, rough and muscular looks when compared to Loki who is portrayed as lean, soft and more feminine. They also display aggressive and brute force in their fighting and by contrast Loki is associated with magic. Although he can fight he prefers to use trickery, intellect and magic in the form of illusions to fight. In this way he fails to live up to the idealized form of masculinity set in the marvel world by Thor and Odin. Loki is also more close to a female character, his mother Frigga, and Thor to a male, his father Odin. Loki preferred to learn from his mother the arts of magic then to practice more “manly’ forms of fighting. His connection to his mother and his preference of using her type of power to fight associates him with feminine attributes because he is a male character using feminized forms of power. According to Alice Nutall “his association with Frigga’s magic feminises him, particularly in comparison to the hyper-masculinity of Thor and Odin; it becomes clear that theirs is a form of power that Loki will never achieve, resulting in a metaphorical castration.” (Nutall, 2016). It is more difficult to image and for women to relate to Thor’s more masculine, aggressive and gentlemanly traits then it is with Loki’s