and I ended up visiting
sigridhr, who has turned out some interesting essays about Thor and Loki (especially Loki) and their depictions in the movies. If you like that sort of thing, you might want to take a long look at
this one on gender roles, and this one on
internalized racism (not the only take on that issue in Thor out there on the internets, but a good one). The comments are excellent as well, and I commend them to you.