![]() ![]() Mobius, a TVA agent played by Owen Wilson who convinces Ravonna that Loki can help with an ongoing investigation. He's stripped of his "fine Asgardian leather," given a tan prison jumpsuit and subjected to a crash course in TVA history (courtesy of Miss Minutes, a cute little orange clock voiced by Tara Strong), after which he's plopped in front of Judge Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and sentenced to death in this erroneous Endgame-created timeline (he'd still exist in the non-variant timeline depicted following The Avengers, the timeline in which he ultimately dies at the hands of Thanos in Infinity War).Įnter Mobius M. In other words, just the way Loki likes it. deletion), since he is now a "variant," a version of himself who has slipped out of his own timeline and has the potential to cause a lot of trouble. They take him to the retrofuturistic TVA headquarters for processing (a.k.a. Still in 2012, the Tesseract spits him out into the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, where he is smacked into a time-slowdown stupor and apprehended by a team of Minutemen, agents of the Time Variance Authority who pop in and out of timelines using little orange rectangles. All of this happens exactly as it did in Avengers: Endgame. He picks it up and vanishes into thin air. The nearly pilfered blue cube is sent flying and lands at Loki's feet. agent and carrying the briefcase holding the Tesseract. His salvation comes in the unlikely form of the Hulk, who, too big for the elevator, had been forced to take the stairs down from the penthouse, and in his rage barrels through the stairwell door to the lobby right into the Tony Stark of 2023 (the present day of that part of Endgame), who is disguised as a S.H.I.E.L.D. The opening sequence, set in 2012, revisits a familiar scene from Avengers: Endgame (which itself is, thanks to the "time heist" plot of that film, set during the events depicted in the final moments of The Avengers): Loki, handcuffed and gagged, strides through the lobby of Stark Tower after his botched attempt to make New York City the seat of his empire on Earth, still on the make for a way out of his situation. If there's one thing we learn from the delightfully entertaining premiere episode, "Glorious Purpose," it's that you should never give a guy like Loki access to time travel, for Odin's sake. In Disney+'s Loki, Marvel has resurrected the God of Mischief once again and given him his own show (something that would undoubtedly thrill the character himself, obsessed with his own ego as he is), pitting him against a force so formidable it gives even the God of Mischief a suitable amount of pause. Characters like Loki, the erstwhile Marvel Cinematic Universe villain-turned-ally-turned-tragic hero possessing a mind too clever for his own good and perpetually underestimated powers of trickery, are most fun to watch when they're placed in situations beyond their control. ![]()
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