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>because they literally can't. The fact that the chance to seal up the snarl once and forever has fallen into the gods' lap and they still have to act through clerics and intermediaries rather than directly means, quite obviously you dumbfuck, that they literally can't. That restriction is somehow hardcoded into this world.

Well someone's being a prick. Here's three things to consider:

1) it's irrelevant to my point whether they're physically incapable of acting directly or merely unwilling to, because either way, the rules of the world are not being unfairly applied.
2) They probably ARE capable of acting directly if they really wanted to, as you can see from picrel. The vampire says that refusing to provide a spell is within Thor's power, and he won't do it because of MAD. So you shouldn't be calling people dumbfucks when you're wrong.
3) The Gods don't all agree that cooperation with the dark one is the best idea. Loki and Thor want it, but other Gods are conflicted because they don't trust the Dark One.