That moment of confusion is heartbreaking. This can't be Loki, not wholly -- but neither is he wholly not Loki, because every snapped word, every precise and accusatory syllable, is utterly his brother in a fury.

But that last accusation hits close to home, not for its truth but because it's so close to what Loki hissed last time, in that last fought Thor has gone over a hundred despairing times in his mind.

"No! I would not have!"