Someone should’ve warned Loki what he was getting into when he joined the avengers, I mean they told him the rules, to not be a dick, and to keep things as clean as possible…
What they didn’t tell him is to not provoke you.
Most people who meet you and know you, know that you’re an apex predator, if Steve wasn’t around you’d probably be the leader of the avengers…
People have also said you’re a predator posing as some innocent house pet. And all Loki saw was the house pet, I mean he you could fight, he knew you were always armed, and he knew you were easily provoked..
Yet- he still thought it was an good idea to make you his target of all his ‘pranks’ or whatever he would like to call them leading you to get slowly annoyed and leading the others to get slowly more and more concerned not for you but for Loki…