Avengers: Endgame – Our theory about Loki, Tesseract and his Disney + show

by Laura Prudom

This article contains full annotations for Avengers: Endgame.

Since the announcement of a standalone series of Loki for the Disney + streaming service, fans speculated on the potential return of the beloved god Mischief to the MCU, following his seemingly permanent death in Avengers: Infinity War. Of course, some have speculated that he was simulating Thanos with an illusion of himself and that he had then taken Dodge's hell before Grimace destroyed the ship Asgardian, but the Russo brothers maintained that he was really dead, so we take them at the word

But the Avengers: Endgame events may have introduced a Loki flaw that easily opens the door to new adventures – and maybe even a way back into the main timeline of the MCU if our version of Thor's devious adoptive brother is actually dead. When Iron Man, Captain America, Ant-Man and Hulk revisit New York in 2012, our heroes attempt to steal Tesseract and Loki's scepter from their past, after the events of the New York battle and the defeat of Loki. .

But the actions have consequences, and things go wrong while Tony and Scott try to slip Tony's Tesseract. Just when Premier Timeline, Tony goes away with the box containing the cosmic cube, he gets caught by an angry Hulk who is not very happy to be forced to take the # 39; staircase. The shot sends the Tesseract straight up on the feet of a Loki captive, and the Trickster god immediately scans the cube and portals to unknown parts. Rather than trying to find him, Tony and Steve rotate and decide to return in 1970 to look for an earlier version of the Tesseract from Camp Lehigh in New Jersey, leaving this version of Loki on the run with one of the Infinity Stones.

In their hurry to get their hands on any version of Space Stone, Steve and Tony do not stop to examine the ramifications of this situation (probably because they do not receive the same course on the importance of retaining

According to Endgame's time travel rules – if this is the case – if a major deviation occurs with respect to the existing timeline this creates a branch timeline in which the story will unfold differently from the point of change.Of course, our Tony, Steve and Scott do not know or care about what might happen to them in this version of 2012 because they are convinced that this can not change their future (because it is already their past! Or something.)

But for the Tony, Steve, and especially Thor this year 2012 alternative , life has become much more difficult, even when Pr ime Steve Timeline returns to bring the Infinity Stones back to their place at the end of Endgame, there is no way to fix Tesseract's flight by Loki unless Steve literally returns to 2012 and prevents Loki from disappearing with she in front of him everyone (which, again, one supposes, one would create another chronology of branch different which would not modify still its initial flight. Do you still have a headache?]

So, 2012, Loki has the Tesseract. We can deduce a logical conclusion: either this version of Loki 2012 could give the Tesseract to Thanos to try to regain his favor after losing his takeover of the Earth, that Thor will resume his brother and give it to Asgardian. prison, or that Thanos might succeed in stalking Loki and killing him for the rock as he did anyway in Infinity War. But it is as as possible that this past, Loki, is now visible in space (and potentially in time), which certainly seems a promising premise for a show. Or, as Tom Jorgensen told IGN in the video above, "like Doctor Who, if the Doctor was a real idiot".

It is interesting to note that Marvel describes Space Stone (or Space Gem), as we call it in comics. ) as giving its wearer "the ability to teleport anywhere in the Omniverse, [or to teleport] the user or someone touching him at any place they could mentally imagine, or any person touching the user could represent themselves, even at other dimensions. " In this way, it is quite possible that this past version of Loki could move to another timeline or dimension, either to stay out of the 2012 Thanos radar, or to see what harm it might cause in the future. 39, other universes.

IGN spoke Before seeing Endgame, the directors of the finals, Joe and Anthony Russo, asked them how the new Disney + Loki show had an impact on his apparent death in Infinity War. At the time, Joe Russo's answer looked like a dodge, but in hindsight it might also be a clue:

"Everything does not move now linearly in the Marvel Universe" he stressed. "I think it's fun for the audience to be able to go back and revisit that character, even if it's not going to advance in linear history anymore."

Obviously, this could also be a reference to the rumored plot of the Loki series, which would follow the Trickster "as he changes his form and appears throughout human history, thus influencing historical events." In this way, the series could resume the main version of Loki, hundreds, even thousands of years before his death in Infinity War, without playing with another timeline. But if the time is no longer strictly linear in the MCU, it means that the characters do not necessarily have to move linearly in space or time, in particular if they are in possession of a stone that literally allows. to bend space and time.

Another point in favor of Loki, who travels in several universes? The Disney + show chose producer and scriptwriter Rick and Morty, Michael Waldron, and if anyone knows shenanigans through other universes, it 's about Rick' s alumist and Morty.

Do you think we'll see 2012 Loki and the Tesseract in the new Disney + series, or do you think the show will follow a younger version of Prime Timeline's God of Mischief? Share your theories in the comments, and to learn more about the last chapter of the Avengers, check out our explanation of the other great tease of the timeline, where Gamora is after Endgame, how Captain America could lift Thor's hammer and who was this mysterious kid at Tony's funeral home. Read also why we think Loki is the perfect character for a Disney + show.