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. In accordance with 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 “Males in Black meets Physician Who,” which appears like a profitable mixture to me.

As we have reported beforehand, Marvel Studios introduced the event of its varied 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). Particulars have largely been saved underneath wraps, however we do know that, like WandaVision, Loki will tie into the forthcoming MCU movie Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity. And like Falcon and the Winter Soldier, it would encompass six episodes.

A quick shot from Loki that aired in the course of the Tremendous Bowl final 12 months 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 within the MCU. Catch their consideration by making an attempt to alter historical past, and also you simply would possibly meet the improper finish of the Retroactive Cannon (Ret-Can) and have your total historical past deleted from the historic timeline.