"You can't know that," Steve said, indignation pouring off him in waves. He wasn't about to let this slip through his fingers just because Tony felt like he was the smartest man in the room. "If it wasn't Loki, then who was it? I don't know anyone else that can make themselves look like someone else."
Loki's eyebrows hitched higher and higher during this. It would probably be best to keep quiet, this didn't actually involve him and it was distracting the mortals nicely. Foolish of them, to let a petty disagreement take focus from the Tesseract, as though anything could be of more import than an infinity stone. But that was the trouble with the races that lived such short lives as humans did, they rarely comprehended things on the larger scale.
But he never had been able to resist sticking his oar in when he could.
"Actually, there are many beings capable of shapeshifting, even here on this pitiful planet."
Not his manner of shapeshifting and illusion, perhaps, but there were definitely some Skrull hiding out here, a lesser Asgardian or two who had been left behind or fled from old campaigns and masqueraded as mortal, perhaps even the occasional elf.
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Loki's eyebrows hitched higher and higher during this. It would probably be best to keep quiet, this didn't actually involve him and it was distracting the mortals nicely. Foolish of them, to let a petty disagreement take focus from the Tesseract, as though anything could be of more import than an infinity stone. But that was the trouble with the races that lived such short lives as humans did, they rarely comprehended things on the larger scale.
But he never had been able to resist sticking his oar in when he could.
"Actually, there are many beings capable of shapeshifting, even here on this pitiful planet."
Not his manner of shapeshifting and illusion, perhaps, but there were definitely some Skrull hiding out here, a lesser Asgardian or two who had been left behind or fled from old campaigns and masqueraded as mortal, perhaps even the occasional elf.