Tom Hiddleston returns as everyone’s favorite Norse god of mischief in the forthcoming limited spinoff series, Loki.
We just finished enthusing over WandaVision and are still awaiting the final episodes of The Falcon and the Winter Solider, but Marvel has a lot more in store for us. The studio just dropped the official trailer for Loki, its spinoff limited series starring Tom Hiddleston as the charismatic trickster demigod and (adoptive) brother to Thor. According to the official premise, after absconding with the Tesseract in Avengers: Endgame, Loki “is a fish-out-of-water when he lands in a world of trouble with the bureaucratic TVA (Time Variance Authority).” One Ars staffer described the overall tone as “Men in Black meets Doctor Who,” which sounds like a winning combination to me.
As we’ve reported previously, Marvel Studios announced the development of its various limited series for Disney+ in 2018, all featuring supporting characters from the films who were not given their own standalone movies within the MCEU. Details have largely been kept under wraps, but we do know that, like WandaVision, Loki will tie into the forthcoming MCEU film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. And like Falcon and the Winter Soldier, it will consist of six episodes.
A brief shot from Loki that aired during the Super Bowl last year showed him wearing a jumpsuit with the initials “TVA” stamped on it. TVA agents are the so-called “custodians of chronology” in the MCU, who monitor violations to the timeline. Catch their attention by trying to change history, and you just might meet the wrong end of the Retroactive Cannon (Ret-Can) and have your entire history deleted from the historical timeline.
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