We’ve seen WandaVision. We’ve seen The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Now Marvel is getting us ready for its next MCU TV series: Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston as the God of Mischief.
The backstory here is complicated. The Loki in Loki isn’t the Loki we followed for the bulk of the MCU; Thanos killed that Loki at the top of Avengers: Infinity War. No, this Loki is the one we saw in Avengers: Endgame, the one who made off with the Tesseract right after his failed assault on New York City. This Loki is still very much in god-of-mischief mode, without any of the character growth that happened later. Apparently, his antics have messed up the fabric of time so badly that the powerful Time Variance Authority has taken him into custody and enlisted his help in setting things right.
Also, the new teaser shows the TVA stripping Loki naked so they can put him in a drab prisoner outfit. Let it never be said that Marvel doesn’t how to put butts in seats.
Will Loki have any cameos from the Thor movies?
There are some other intriguing things in this teaser. To start, we have breakout star Miss Minutes filling Loki in on his situation in her way-too-cheery-for-the-situation southern accent. Also, if I were the TVA, I’d listen to the woman who says, “Trusting Loki is not a good idea.” Yeah, doi.
Perhaps most interestingly, the rainbow bridge from Asgard shows up at the end of the trailer to whisk Loki away to parts unknown. Does that mean we should expect someone from the Thor series to show up? Perhaps Anthony Hopkins as Loki’s dad Odin, Cate Blanchett as his sister Hela, Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie or even Chris Hemsworth as Thor himself?
And it shouldn’t matter if some of those characters are dead, cause it looks like Loki will involve a lot of time travel shenanigans. He is trying to fix the timeline he broke, after all. Things are gonna get weird.
Loki premieres on Wednesday, June 9 on Disney+
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