Rolling Stone Menu Here’s How to Read the Marvel Comics That Inspired the Latest Additions to the MCU
From superheroes to sidekicks, catch up on these characters’ backstories, before streaming their shows and films online
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After a year without a single release from Marvel Studios, the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is pushing forward with Earth’s mightiest heroes coming to streaming. While Marvel is no stranger to expanding their universe into TV (with mixed results for
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Marvel is hitting the silver screen in a big way over the next few months with major shows like
WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and
Loki arriving on Disney+ in early 2021. These will be the first shows to really follow up the devastating events of
Avengers: Endgame
saga.
WandaVision, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,
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Loki looks out of this world this reality, even. And that’s the intention of the upcoming Disney+ limited series centering around
Tom Hiddleston‘s God of Mischief, who we last saw in
Avengers: Endgame stealing the Tesseract and teleporting off to goodness knows where. And it turns out, Loki isn’t so sure himself, as the trickster god finds himself jumping through time, and various realities, and apparently pursued (and at one point, captured) by a mysterious organization known as the TVA, led by
Owen Wilson.
Loki trailer, so let’s head into our trailer breakdown.
First Full Loki Teaser Pits the God of Mischief Against Owen Wilson
Loki. And perhaps the only appropriate word is “Wow!” Who exactly he’s playing isn’t clear yet, but we now know for sure he works for the TVA, or Time Variance Authority. This organization manifests as an infinite bureaucracy which monitors the multiverse. In comics, they’ve had run-ins with She-Hulk and Kang the Conqueror, both of whom are coming to the MCU shortly. And
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D‘s Chronicoms seemed loosely based on the TVA’s Chronomonitors. We all know the multiverse will feature in a big way in the MCU’s Phase IV, and clearly Tom Hiddleston’s Loki will stake out his own corner of it.