Discovery Loki’s Glorious Purpose the loop is finally closed at the end of Loki season two in a way that the God of Mischief turned God of Stories perhaps couldn’t have imagined. Tom Hiddleston spoke about his 14-year journey as Loki on a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance, during which Kimmel asked if this was really the last time we saw the iconic Marvel anti-hero.
Hiddleston has already said goodbye to Loki with deaths that didn’t really follow, including Avengers: Infinity War, which turned out to be a death variant. But the Avengers-the time of Loki who took a break in Avengers: Endgame ended up being the Loki we followed in the Loki series. So, is this the end for Loki? “I don’t know, I really don’t know,” Hiddleston told the host, who asked if he was lying contractually (I’m not counting it). Deadpool and Wolverine, to be honest). He added, somewhat enigmatically: “I know that we reached a sort of narrative conclusion with season twowhich seems very satisfying to me.
Loki’s redemption as the glue that literally holds the multiverse together as the God of Stories might mean he can only exist outside of the timeline, sure, but is this proof that Loki is now a hero in his own right, given the villainous start to his journey. ? (I mean, is it even hard to give him a pass on the Battle of New York?) Hiddleston thinks so. “I’m aware that he’s made some interesting choices, which could be accumulated into a villain-like picture, and once upon a time he made some ill-advised choices,” he shared. Anyone who followed Loki on the Disney+ series knows that he went through a massive bout of ass-kicking and multiverse ego, what with having to learn how to regulate time and everything in the multiverse over the course of hundreds years and the loss of everyone he had. knows – ultimately saving many more people than he carelessly left behind Avengers.
Hiddleston continued. “You know, trying to take over New York and the Avengers having to come together to stop it, it was a bad day at the office,” he said, comparing it to the grand scheme of his weighted destiny by more burden than glory. “I’d like to think that, you know, 14 years later he’s making slightly more generous, loving, heroic choices.”
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