Loki: But is he really bad or did they just draw him like that?

Loki

Even those not particularly passionate about the superhero genre, had greeted with joy the entry on the scene of a character like Loki, the treacherous brother of Thor, dazzling appearance in the 2011 film and then appeared in six other episodes.

In them he went from trying to seize the throne, exterminate humanity, avenge the death of his beloved stepmother, deceiving everything and everyone, becoming with his behavior one of those "bad guys" who like them more than the good ones.

If in Infinity War he ended up killed by Thanos, we had found him in Endgame, where as a prisoner he was able to escape stealing the Tesseract on the fly, in the struggle caused by the attempt to recover it by Iron Man, Ant Man and Hulk, go back in time to undo the fatal Blip.

A new timeline was thus created, as explained by the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) in Endgame. From that precise moment the new series kicks off, in which we see Loki materializing from NY on the other side of the world, captured by the TVA (Time Variance Authority), "agency" responsible for safeguarding the Sacred Timeline, created by the Keepers weather.

Watch on YouTube. Cornered by Mobius, an agency employee, who gently forces him to an almost psychoanalytic session, he will soon have to review many of his certainties. The master of himself, creator of his own destiny and never pawn of other powers, could take note of playing a complementary role in a game bigger than him (nice speech on which we would have to reflect, adapting it to our lives: we exist for us themselves or to cause consequences in the lives of others?).

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Concept: Michael Waldron Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw Distribution: Disney Genre: Adventure, action, fantastic So for the great narcissist you just have to put yourself at work, alongside Mobius, facing an unexpected path, set against other time violators who in different eras are causing serious anomalies.

To be nominated for the Oscars as Best Casting Choice we would like the one who has chosen Tom Hiddleston for this role, an actor who has a very large group of fans but who, outside the Avengers, plays films that would never have given him so much fame, although he was also the protagonist of a blockbuster like Kong: Skull Island, and has starred in arthouse films like Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris or Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Survive (and let's not forget the hit TV series The Night Manager).

The actor with blond curls was little known at the time but with the character's look he had acquired greater charm, attracting a lot of attention to himself. Such attention to make Loki one of the favorite characters of the Avengers for many.

A divinity never pays for self-affirmation. It is therefore logical to resume him as the protagonist of a spin-off entirely by him, in the vein in which we have already seen Wandavision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. And it's fun to see him grappling with TVA, at the mercy of a depersonalizing super-bureaucratic universe, where he is insufferably treated as the last of mortals.

But Loki just can't stop being what we know to be, arrogant, arrogant, arrogant, and in the first episode this causes several laughs. Alongside him we find the kind Owen Wilson, a TVA analyst who appreciates him and tries to reason with him (the appearance of him as an anonymous bureaucrat is said to be inspired by Mark Gruenwald, one of the leading experts in the Marvel Universe).

His colleague, the stern Judge Renslayer, is played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, while the majestic Wunmi Misaku (Lovecraft Country, Luther, Fearless) steps into the armor of the intransigent hunter of "variants" . Kate Herron directs all episodes, conceived by Michael Waldron (Rick and Morty), under the supervision of the ubiquitous Kevin Feige.

A new strange couple: the god and the bureaucrat Fun then the representation of the Control Agency, a timeless place with super-developed technology but with environments and objects with an antiquated design, a mix between an old institution state of Eastern Europe and Brazil by Terry Gilliam.

Loki belongs to the age-old category of the "nice rascal", the deceiver, the manipulator, the affective, the one who just can't keep his fingers out of jam jar (which for him is the Tesseract and the power that derives from it), who never regrets his actions, and if it happens he accepts punishment as inevitable while waiting to escape with another deception.

But, having reached the brink of true wickedness, he is unable to go all the way. In fact, Loki changes appearance, changes intentions, creates illusions. But he gives the viewer only one certainty: in the extreme moment he never manages to make his beloved / hated stepbrother Thor, often mocked for his excessive correctness, succumb.

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The different looks of the employees of the agency that preserves the timelines Loki is inferior to him in physical strength, but superior thanks to a sharpened brilliant mind of a life less facilitated than that of the statuary Thor. There is obviously an explanation for everything. Loki was irremediably marked by the abandonment he suffered when he was in infants, with the rejection by his real parents, so psychoanalysis could define him as afflicted by a borderline personality disorder, with a refusal to bond emotionally with someone, to avoid ending up again disappointed. Mechanism very well known even to non-divine.

We point out that on Disney + you can watch the Marvel Studios: Legends miniseries, composed of short summary episodes dedicated to each character, to make a quick review useful for the less addicted.

We will see every Wednesday if and how this path will lead Loki to fit into the continuation of the saga. As also announced by the trailers, the series looks promising.