The Avengers that all Loki fans love: “I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose.” Tricked, in effect, by the man he believed was his father and fully convinced he’s smarter and more righteous than his burly brother Thor, Loki has spent his adult life trying to rise to what he believes is his pre-ordained right to power, come what Avengers may. But then what? If Loki takes over Asgard or even Midgard, then what happens? If Loki is, in fact, born to lead, then what will he lead all of us toward?
It’s one of the big questions of the new Disney+ series
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(The following contains spoilers for the premiere episode of Disney+’s Loki.
Go watch that before you read this.)
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Loki, the eponymous God Of Mischief is apprehended by the Time Variance Authority, a comically bureaucratic organization that has been tasked with maintaining “the Sacred Timeline” by a triumvirate of space gods called the Time Keepers (not to be confused with the DC Comics organization of the same name, which does the same thing, as seen in season one of
on The CW). The TVA is after Loki because, as seen in
Avengers: Endgame, he stole the Tesseract and escaped from custody when the Avengers went back in time to collect the Infinity Stones, changing history and thereby disrupting the all-important Sacred Timeline. Naturally, Loki aggressively objects to being told there’s a seemingly omniscient organization that not only knows everything that happens everywhere, but also uses its power to maintain one su
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You are now free to move about the cabin. and watch the season premiere of
Loki. Clocking in at a meaty 52 minutes, the new MCU show s debut episode introduces viewers to the Time Variance Authority, a seemingly all-powerful organization that monitors and maintains the Sacred Timeline. When Loki Laufeyson (Tom Hiddleston) steals the Tesseract, aka Space Stone, in the middle of
Avengers: Endgame, he becomes a Variant, prompting the TVA to arrest him and reset his timeline.
Instead of wiping this wayward version of Loki from the very fabric of existence, however, one of the TVA s leading agents, Mobius (Owen Wilson), decides to make use of the untrustworthy Asgardian. During the duo s initial briefing, Mobius provides a rundown of Loki s naughtiest acts throughout the millennia, including a transgression that solves a 50-year-old American mystery about the infamous robber known as D.B. Cooper.