Spoiler alert: In case you are planning to observe Loki however haven’t but watched it, you shouldn’t take heed to our dialogue immediately and watch the collection first.
Loki turned out to be a superb standalone Marvel present, because it was indifferent from the remainder of the MCU. On prime of that, it put a romantic twist on the God of Mischief as Loki (Tom Hiddleston) fell in love together with his time variant Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino). However the larger shock was the introduction of He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors) a variant of Kang the Conqueror, within the season finale. Kang is meant to be the following huge MCU villain who’s already confirmed for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Whereas a few of this might sound just like Marvel Comics followers, it’s really completely completely different. As an illustration, Sylvie just isn’t how she was pictured within the comics — she’s not Sylvie Lushton or the Enchantress, although she does share a few of that character’s powers. A minimum of it’s not a gag like casting Evan Peters in WandaVision, the place Marvel majorly trolled X-Men followers.
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One of many explanation why Marvel Studios made Loki is to set the stage for future titles, together with Spider-Man: No Way Home (December 17), Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness (March 2022), and the aforementioned Ant-Man threequel. The collection additionally gave Hiddleston’s Loki extra time within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one thing he was lacking within the Marvel films.
However for all its variations from the remainder of the Marvel canon, Loki frustratingly shares some hallmarked Marvel traits, together with the way it offers with the loss of life of key characters. The Disney+ collection introduced each Mobius and Loki again after killing them off, in the identical episode.
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