Our favorite trickster god teams up with time cops in official Loki trailer

We simply completed enthusing over WandaVision and are nonetheless awaiting the ultimate episodes of The Falcon and the Winter Solider, however Marvel has much more in retailer for us. The studio simply dropped the official trailer for Loki, its spinoff restricted collection starring Tom Hiddleston because the charismatic trickster demigod and (adoptive) brother to Thor. According to the official premise, after absconding with the Tesseract in Avengers: Endgame, Loki “is a fish-out-of-water when he lands in a world of bother with the bureaucratic TVA (Time Variance Authority).” One Ars staffer described the general tone as “Men in Black meets Doctor Who,” which feels like a profitable mixture to me.

As we have reported previously, Marvel Studios introduced the event of its numerous restricted collection for Disney+ in 2018, all that includes supporting characters from the movies who weren’t given their very own standalone motion pictures inside the Marvel cinematic universe (MCU). Details have largely been stored beneath wraps, however we do know that, like WandaVision, Loki will tie into the forthcoming MCU movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. And like Falcon and the Winter Soldier, it’s going to encompass six episodes.

A short shot from Loki that aired in the course of the Super Bowl final yr confirmed the titular character carrying a jumpsuit with the initials “TVA” stamped on it. TVA brokers are the so-called “custodians of chronology” who monitor violations to the timeline in the MCU. Catch their consideration by making an attempt to vary historical past, and also you simply may meet the fallacious finish of the Retroactive Cannon (Ret-Can) and have your complete historical past deleted from the historic timeline.

Disney launched an extensive first-look teaser in December. It opened with a flashback to a pivotal scene in Endgame, the place 2012 Loki snagged the Tesseract containing the Space Stone and vanished by a portal. We subsequent noticed him in a barren desert with some puzzled native denizens wanting on. The teaser additionally confirmed us Owen Wilson’s character, Mobius M. Mobius (“Time passes otherwise in the TVA”). The specifics of the plot weren’t revealed, though it did appear to be the TVA would drive Loki to face up to the harm he has wrought.

This new official trailer confirms that. “We shield the right circulate of time,” Mobius explains to a doubtful Loki. “You picked up the Tesseract, breaking actuality. I need you to assist us repair it. I would like your distinctive Loki perspective.” TVA headquarters appears just like the atrium of a Hyatt in the 1990s, and apparently the brokers are nonetheless utilizing dot-matrix printers. No surprise Loki clearly does not suppose a lot of the TVA and its mind-numbing paperwork at first, dismissing them as “clowns” in the time keepers’ “circus.” The forged additionally contains Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Fast Color) as Judge Renslayer and Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country) as Hunter B-15.

It appears like Loki will accompany TVA brokers on a number of missions to restore actuality, and he demonstrates some spectacular knife work in the inevitable fight scenes. He additionally stays as saucily smug and untrustworthy as ever. “I’ve studied virtually each second of your complete life. You’ve actually stabbed individuals in the again like 50 instances,” Mobius exclaims when Loki insists he will be trusted.

“Well, I’d never do it again!” the god of mischief responds. But can we consider him?

Loki debuts on Disney+ on June 11, 2021. The streamer will even debut a behind-the-scenes documentary after the collection concludes as a part of its Marvel Studios: Assembled collection.

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