Thor: Ragnarok
Warning : SPOILERS forLokiEpisode 2 - " The Variant " .
Thor is n’t inLoki , although the God of Thunder did appear in footage fromAvengers : Endgamethat showed how the God of Mischief bunk S.H.I.E.L.D. hold in 2012 thanks toLoki swiping the Tesseract . However , theThormovies are a major part ofLoki , who is now displaced and considered a Variant from the Sacred Timeline maintained by the Time - Keepers . Loki received a download of what happened to his other self thanks to the TVA ’s Time Theater and Holo - Projector technology : the beguiler saw key effect like the death of his adoptive mother , Frigga ( Rene Russo ) , inThor : The Dark Worldand the last of his counterpart at the hands of Thanos ( Josh Brolin ) inAvengers : Infinity War .
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However , Thor : Ragnarokwas heavily cite inLokiepisode 2 , and this ties in nicely to the initiative picture when the hooded Lady Loki led the TVA into a trap and played Bonnie Tyler ’s " I Need a Hero " as she attacked the Minutemen . " I Need A Hero " is n’t just a jaunty 1980s pop music vocal , it also plays into how Thor sees and refers to himself constantly inRagnarok . In his narration whenRagnarokbegins , Thor describes himself as"a routine of a hero"with sour humbleness , and later , he tries to inscribe Valkyrie ’s ( Tessa Thompson ) help by remind her,“That ’s what heroes do!“Bonnie Tyler ’s " I Need a Hero " performing while the unsuspecting Minutemen are slaughtered and nobble highlighting how the God of hell dust - and the saturated heroism Thor represent - is missing from the Disney+ show . The birdcall lyrics , which start with"Where have all the good humanity gone and where are all the gods?“aptly describe Thor , but are also a pointed reference that there ’s no mighty God of Thunder to save everyone this time .
" I Need a Hero " is an amusing reminder thatLokiis a show without a traditional Marvel superhero at its center to fight for what ’s good . Instead , the ' sound guys ' are the TVA , who are essentially a group of overworked bureaucrats , and Loki , a random variable the TVA understandably do n’t bank and are reluctantly work with . As for Loki himself , is the God of Mischief even trying to be a hoagy ? Loki has already speak frankly that his endgame is to manage an hearing with theTime - Keepersand overthrow them so he can rule the TVA , which he witness as"the nifty might in the universe” . This variant of Loki is not a bomber and he never was . In fact , to Loki , the events ofThe Avengerswhen he was leading a Chitauri encroachment to capture Earth were just a few daylight ago . Loki may have had a bad-mannered awakening that he’s"a villain"in episode 1 , but he ’s hardly on the side of the angels .
Lokiwould be a very different show if Thor was take because the God of Thunder would overlook the legal proceeding and Thor can be consider on to doggedly do the heroic matter every time . The fact thatLokiis a show without a traditional superhero is a tonic and challenging change for Marvel . The fun ofLokiis set up the God of Mischief , who is at best , an anti - hero , against aneven more villainous rendering of the trickster god . Whatever actions Loki assume wo n’t be the all the way - make out right matter to do , which make the series always feel like a wildcard . Lokiis a no - Thor and no heroes geographical zone instead . And while " I take a Hero " may plead for a champion like Thor to hold start the day , Loki is , amusingly , the dear chance the TVA has got , for better or bad .
Lokireleases fresh episodes every Wednesday on Disney+ .
