In a still of the writers room, head writer Michael Waldron is pictured in front of a giant whiteboard with story ideas and themes for the series outlined. In the latest installment of Assembled, the Marvel Studios series of documentaries following the making of its Disney+ shows, the team behind Loki share some of their experiences of writing and directing the character-and one moment in particular has caught viewers' attention.
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Get more TV and movie news from Yahoo Lifestyle on our Entertainment page.Marvel Studios' Loki series gave fans plenty of wild stuff to chew on over its first season-but it turns out, we were actually watching a pared down, streamlined version of the creators' original ideas. It remains to be seen exactly what sort of queer identity they've written Loki as this time – what is certain at this point is that he will be gender non-conforming in some form.Īre you excited to see how Loki's LGBTQ main character will be developed? We sure are! However, Marvel Studios has a history of tweaking and adapting character histories from the comics for its MCU storylines. In the 2014 series, Original Sin, Odin referred to his three children, Thor, Angela, and Loki, as: "My son, my daughter, and my child who is both." Loki has been known to take female forms such as Lady Loki, and had romantic relationships with both male and female characters. This ties in with his magical powers, which include shape-shifting. In the Marvel literature, Loki has canonically been depicted at various times as bisexual, pansexual and gender-fluid. Michael Waldron, the head writer of Loki, told Inverse, "I know how many people identify with Loki in particular and are eager for that representation, especially with this character. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku) in Loki. How we do, I think I want to leave the audience to find out." So it’s a thrill that we get to touch on that in some way. I was aware of it from the moment I was first cast. Speaking to Syfy Wire about Loki's gender fluidity ahead of the show's premiere on 9 June, he said, "It’s always been there, in the history of the character, in the mythology and in the comics. Hiddleston has played Loki in the MCU since 2010's Thor and was also an executive producer of the new TV series. WandaVision cinematographer Jess Hall: Each episode recreates new cinematic languageīucky Barnes drinks Tiger beer in episode 1 of The Falcon And The Winter Soldier Loki review: The latest Marvel TV series delves deeper into the anti-hero characterĭisney confirms 2021 release dates for THREE Marvel movies, including Eternals and Shang-chi
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The character had been killed by Thanos in Avengers: Endgame, but in the new Disney Plus series, the Loki from 2012, post-Battle of New York, goes on a time travelling adventure as he is dropped into the middle of the Time Variance Authority's attempts to hunt down an alternate version of Loki who is threatening the sequence of time as dictated by the Time-keepers.
It appears, however, that even before those movies hit theatres, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first LGBTQ protagonist has surfaced in the form of Loki. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and TVA agent Mobius (Owen Wilson) in Loki. The movie Eternals will feature a gay character, Phastos, played by Brian Tyree Henry, while Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie, who is bisexual in the comics, will have a female love interest in Thor: Love And Thunder. The studio is attempting to address that, having promised that upcoming shows in Phase 4 of the MCU franchise will feature prominent LGBTQ superheroes. Marvel Studios has been criticised for the lack of LGBTQ characters in its blockbuster movies, despite the existence of various queer characters from the Marvel comics. Wanna watch Loki? Sign up for Disney Plus here Having said that, we've watched the two episodes of Loki that were screened for the media, and without spoilers, we can say that there's another plot development coming in the second episode which adds another intriguing layer to whatever sort of queer Loki we're heading towards. Going by the above Easter egg alone, we don't quite know yet what kind of LGBTQ character Loki will be portrayed as. We know what you're thinking: sex – the physical, biological features of being male or female – isn't the same thing as gender, a person's mental self-conception of their identity. Loki's TVA file stating that his sex is "fluid".