You just can’t keep a good bad guy down.
Everyone in the entire world has seen Avengers: Infinity War by now but nonetheless, here is a polite warning before we proceed:
This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and the current timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and related television shows.
Right. Now that that’s out of the way, we shall press on.
We know what you’re thinking.
“But JOE! Loki is definitely 100% dead after Thanos crushed the life out of him in the opening minutes of the last Avengers movie, so how could be getting a TV show of his own?”
It’s a fair, if long-winded observation and question, dear reader.
Tom Hiddleston’s trickster was indeed killed off at the beginning of the highest-grossing movie of 2018, but it’s not like Loki hasn’t returned from certain death before.
Still, his demise did arrive before The Finger Snap of Doom and thus you’d hope, for the sake of credibility at least, that this one and a few others stick by the time Avengers: Endgame reaches the end credits.
As for the Loki TV show… well, he’s a god, isn’t he? And so you can probably just insert him into any point of history and see what chaos he can conjure up.
Sources suggest that may well indeed be the plan over at Disney, who are developing the new series for their upcoming exclusive streaming service Disney+.
Hiddleston is expected to reprise his role, while Rick & Morty writer Michael Waldron will oversee the project in a showrunner capacity as well as scripting the pilot.
That’s per the Hollywood Reporter, who note that Disney+ will also debut several additional Marvel-crafted shows including The Vision and Scarlet Witch, and a team-up featuring Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
So, Endgame isn’t really the end game, after all.
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