By John Boone
Marvel Studios
Loki doesn't pick up where
Avengers: Endgame left off so much as it actually starts a few minutes before the end of Loki's screen time in that movie: In a quick recap of the Time Heist, we establish the events that led to the 2012 iteration of Tom Hiddleston's God of Mischief -- that is, before his redemption arc and death at the hands of Thanos -- getting ahold of the Tesseract and teleporting to who knows where.
Now, we know where: the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, where he's promptly picked up by intergalactic time cops. Wunmi Mosaku's B-15 informs Loki that he's being arrested by the Time Variance Authority for "crimes against the Sacred Timeline," and when he resists, bitch slaps the hale out of him in splendid slo-mo. Meet the TVA!