“Actually, he is quite impressive.” He manages to leave the ‘for a mortal’ part off the end of that sentence, but he means it none-the-less. Stark and the Widow were the only humans to ever stand up to him, face to face, despite knowing the power imbalance. At least Natasha had the glass cage between them though. Stark had looked him in the eye when Loki was at his worst.

Not just anyone would be able to do something like that.

“But I imagine if he knew you were speaking with me, never mind anything else we’ve gotten up to, he would not react well.”