infinity war part 2 opens with Valkyrie crash-landing back on the dumpster planet to let Jeff Goldblum know that someone’s been fucking with his #1 twink, followed by two and a half hours of Jeff Goldblum smacking Thanos down while everyone else looks on in awe and reluctantly admits that Loki’s self-preserving slutiness really did pay off in the end
Considering what was done to his character in Ragnarok, I would not be surprised if Marvel deliberately killed him before the title card and made him look completely weak and incompetent in the process because they’re mad that this morally ambiguous queer-coded nerd gets more female admiration than the standard male power fantasies they’re marketing.