When we last saw Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, he had just absconded with the Tesseract—or perhaps it absconded with him. Either way, Loki split, Infinity Stone in hand, and created a whole new timeline of adventures, and we’ve finally gotten a peek at what’s going on—and a release date: Loki arrives on Disney+ in May 2021.
Marvel isn’t going to make you struggle to remember what happened in Endgame: this teaser goes right back to the moment Loki vanished with the stone, and picks up with him… somewhere else. Before long, he’s imprisoned (again!) at a place called the TVA, where time doesn’t work as the trickster might expect it to. (The trailer doesn’t tell you what TVA stands for: it’s the Time Variance Authority, which keeps tabs on alternate realities.) As Owen Wilson tells him: “You’ll catch up.”
Every gorgeous shot of this teaser is, well, an incredible tease: Is that Black Widow’s red bob we see briefly? What’s with the prison collars? Why are they watching projections of moments from Loki’s past? How does Loki wind up spiffed up in modern clothes and on a plane?
“Brother? Heimdall? You’d better be ready,” Loki says before vanishing, midair, in a rainbow splash. In this timeline, a lot of things could be possible. We’ll find out in May, which can’t get here soon enough.
That scene with him jumping out of a plane and being all spiffy looking is an interesting take on D.B. Cooper!
Still confused about Loki absconding with the Tesseract/Cosmic Cube/Space Stone, but the series seems to involve time travel.
My favorite part is at the end. Loki (and some others around them) wearing the Loki campaign button, from a Marvel comic where Loki ran for president of the US. :-D
I’d vote for them.
YES!
This is going to be fun.
I still don’t know.
On the one hand, this isn’t ‘our’ Loki, which allows Marvel Studios to bring the Trickster back without undoing his redemption and death. So it allows Loki to go down a different road without his post-Avengers character development.
On the other hand, I think it’s a mistake (as is Thor 4). part of me thinks the Cinematic Asgardians have been taken as far as they can. Obviously, Valkyrie is the new face moving forward, but I can’t help feeling the Sons of Odin need to be finally phased out to allow the MCU to keep moving forward.
@Sunspear: It was an alternate timeline 2012 Loki who took the cube, which created yet another alternate timeline, so that’s likely the connection.
Hel (not a misspelling) yeah! Loki’s BAAAACK!!!
All these other news and trailers and now this! However sad I am that all the growth he had after 2012 will be nullified, I am also excited to see what he will be up to now. Seems fun! (And I’d vote for him, too. Probably. Maybe.)
Oh, so it wasn’t just me who thought that might be Widow?
I’m pretty sure, with Wilson’s character’s line about “time works funny here” that this ends with KidLoki
@3: I mean, he couldn’t possibly do a worse job than Darth Stupidus.
@7:
However sad I am that all the growth he had after 2012 will be nullified, I am also excited to see what he will be up to now. Seems fun! (And I’d vote for him, too. Probably. Maybe.)
Like I said earlier, it’s not actually undoing anything. Loki Prime, for lack of a better term, still died and redeemed himself aboard the Statesman in Infinity War and it’s sticking.
This is merely a logical follow-up to a loose end from Endgame. It allows them to bring Loki back without undoing his arc and trying some completely different.
This is a Loki who again lost in Avengers, but now won’t go through the events of The Dark World and Ragnarok and their effect on his character arc.
This is a Loki without Thor to clash swords with for once and who’ll be even more desperate, unhinged, and unpredictable.
I would not vote for Loki, especially given this particular Loki is the one that not too long ago was giving a big speech about how people think they want freedom but just want to be ruled. No thanks. (I love HIddleston and Loki as a villain but he is absolutely a charismatic manipulator. I honestly don’t even know if his redemption in Thor 3/beyond was completely genuine).
I had no idea Owen Wilson was going to be in this but as soon as I heard him talking I started cracking up.
Are they saying Loki is DB Cooper? LOL!
Are they saying Loki is DB Cooper? Lol!
I mean, heh, that’s one way to answer why they never found Cooper’s body, isn’t it?
I had no idea Owen Wilson was going to be in this but as soon as I heard him talking I started cracking up.
Yeah, it was certainty interesting when his casting was announced earlier in the year. I mean, Wilson’s done Genre projects before, but I wouldn’t have expected him to do a comics-based project.
Then again, Sarah Finn (Marvel’s Casting Director) has proven a knack for selecting the right actors with the right parts, or getting non-Genre actors to do these kinds of projects (with Robert Redford being the crowning achievement).
That, or he’s trying to out-do his brother for the latter’s role in DC’s Stargirl, LOL.
I would not vote for Loki, especially given this particular Loki is the one that not too long ago was giving a big speech about how people think they want freedom but just want to be ruled. No thanks.
Again, that’s one aspect of the series I’m at least genuinely interested in. This Loki won’t go through the development of the last two Thor films and he just lost big time in New York (and knows 2012 Thanos will be coming for him now). He’s got nothing else to lose at this point and could be even more dangerous and desperate than his Prime Timeline counterpart was at his peak.