You All Do Realize Loki Had Sex with a Horse Too, Right?

The backlash to a bisexual Loki betrays how little reactionary fandoms care about source material when it no longer suits them.

One of the weirder aspects of living in the United States is seeing how prickly we can be when it comes to perceived attacks on Christian doctrines or values, and juxtaposing that against the ease with which different religions and deities get remixed in pop culture without anyone batting an eye. Take the following examples with a grain of salt; I haven’t crunched the numbers on this, and I don’t know how I’d even start.

But I’d be willing to bet that most people are familiar with Hades as a satanic villain bent on domination, and not a neutral figure content with ruling an underworld where all mortal souls go, regardless of morality. As best I can tell, the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu was never associated with wolves in Shintoism, but thanks to a forgotten masterpiece from the mid-2000s, that’s how a lot of gamers will forevermore think of her. And the Egyptian pantheon might be best known for forming the basis of a musical number in one of the greatest animated films of all time, where they essentially get set up to job to the Abrahamic God and clear the way for the Ten Plagues.