{"id":386,"date":"2021-06-10T12:42:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dantejspado.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2021-06-10T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:42:53","slug":"is-this-the-most-mischief-loki-has-ever-gotten-himself-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/10\/is-this-the-most-mischief-loki-has-ever-gotten-himself-into\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the most mischief Loki has ever gotten himself into?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Dante Spado<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spoilers for episode one of Loki<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m baaaack. Like Loki himself, you may have thought I was gone, but I\u2019m here to make a glorious return in the form of a new blog. I\u2019m hot off watching the Loki <\/em>series premiere and I thought it was only fair to write a blog about it, just like I did for the other two Marvel shows.<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instantly, I get WandaVision<\/a><\/em> vibes from this show. It\u2019s weird and a little confusing, but in a good way. Fresh off of stealing the Tesseract (name a more iconic duo than Loki and his favorite blue cube) during the events of Avengers: Endgame<\/em>, Loki is apprehended by the Time Variance Authorities (TVA)<\/a>, the governing body of the multiverse and its timeline. There have been LOTS of rumors and speculations about the multiverse coming to make its debut in the MCU, especially since such emphasis was put on Steve Rodgers needing to return the Infinity Stones to where they belong lest another timeline pops up. Additionally, the next Dr. Strange movie has the word \u201cmultiverse\u201d in its title and there have been rumors for the better part of a year about a few ex-Spider-Men joining Tom Holland<\/a> in his next movie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Loki and the Tesseract. A love story. Credit to Disney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All that aside, this is the first time within the MCU that they\u2019ve finally acknowledged a multiverse. In true MCU fashion, they were able to make it seem like a natural thing. Like DUH, of course it’s always been here. Instead of displaying its power and importance in a big, spectacular way, it was portrayed as a bureaucratic, DMV-like office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loki, of course, only ever does big, spectacular things, such as leading a full-scale invasion on Earth or faking his own death and impersonating his father to rule Asgard. As you might suspect, the TVA, with its ticketing line and paperwork, wasn\u2019t exactly his style. It takes all of five minutes for him to get the controller for his time-warping collar, escape from the room he was being held in and get the Tesseract back from the evidence drawer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was only one problem: the evidence drawer housed several other Infinity Stones from Variants like Loki who broke away from their timeline. It\u2019s only then that Loki realizes how powerful this place really is; if the Infinity Stones<\/a> have no power in the TVA, what could he possibly do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From getting hit with Hawkeye’s explosive arrow to being smashed by Hulk to being arrested by the TVA, Loki had a rough 24 hours. Photo Credit to Disney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Loki was also humbled by learning he never conquers Earth, or any place, really. He just ends up dying at the hands of his old boss, Thanos<\/a> (I\u2019d love to see Thanos\u2019 reaction to learning the Stones aren\u2019t as all-powerful as he thought).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sidenote: I thought there were a lot of parallels to Thor: Ragnarok<\/em> when Thor landed on Sakaar. He also was taken captive in a weird place, stripped of his identity and restrained by a device on his neck. I guess it runs in the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the god of mischief, Loki has lived up to his name and gotten himself into a lot of precarious situations over the course of his outings in the MCU. From fighting with frost giants, the Avengers, dark elves and the goddess of death (his sister), Loki has interacted with some strange things. However, none may be stranger than helping the TVA track down and apprehend ANOTHER Variant version of himself. Will Variant 2012 Loki, the one who has yet to go through the character transformation of main-timeline Loki, be helpful and play ball with the TVA? Or will he team up with the other \u201cbad\u201d Loki to cause even more mischief and mayhem? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is this the “bad” Loki, as seen in the trailer? The little girl in the church pointed to a portrait of a devil, and here Loki has his signature horns. Photo credit to Disney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After all, the only thing that\u2019s more troublesome than one Loki is two Lokis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dante Spado Spoilers for episode one of Loki I\u2019m baaaack. Like Loki himself, you may have thought I was gone, but I\u2019m here to make a glorious return in the form of a new blog. I\u2019m hot off watching the Loki series premiere and I thought it was only fair to write a blog about it, just like I did for the other two Marvel shows.   Instantly, I get WandaVision vibes from this show.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}