Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8960031-20130430174429/@comment-2054358-20140116031809

If we only work with the present and past and in-universe, Odin's still alive. His death wasn't shown onscreen or mentioned to be dead in-universe. All we got was Loki impersonating Odin. That didn't tell me he killed him. Loki doesn't have to kill anyone to take his shape. He became Captain America earlier in the story. Cap didn't die by the end of the Avengers movie and he has an upcoming movie, so Loki impersonated a living person. There was absolutely no implication of Odin's death except for the word from his unsure actor in an out-of-universe interview. In the present in-universe, there is absolutely no evidence of his death. How do you know he's not locked in the dungeon? That was my first guess. But until there is any confirmation in-universe that he's dead, he should be considered alive. Until we know what happened to him, we should consider him alive.