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Last night's Disney Investor Meeting also featured Loki's spectacular first trailer and explained his temporary journeys.

Last night's first preview of the Disney+ series Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston, was featured. The trailer gives us clues as to the reasons for the temporary trips that were so much talked about during filming, as well as the many nods to Marvel comics, and does not reveal the role of Owen Wilson and Gugu Mbatha. -Raw in the series.

In Avengers: Infinity War, Loki was killed by Thanos but in Avengers: Endgame, a small accident caused by the Hulk in time travel left Loki already imprisoned after the 2012 Battle of New York to take the Tesseract in order to teleport and escape from captivity in the hands of the avengers. Loki in this version of his character, however, will find himself a prisoner of a different organization: the Time Variation Authority, which monitors the various timelines and possible universes across the Marvel multiverse and will be forced to work for them.

Thematically, Loki will tie into upcoming Marvel Studios releases such as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Scarlet Witch, and Vision y Spider-Man 3, with all multiverses featured.

He continues as he left in Avengers: endgame

The first scene we see in the trailer is just when the avengers traveled back in time to the battle from New York to retrieve the Tesseract, but a clash between future Tony Stark and 2012's Hulk results in the "Cosmic Cube" being in the hands of a Loki guarded by this timeline's Avengers giving him a chance to escape.

Explanation of where Loki escaped

In the trailer, we can see that Loki ends up in a desert and encounters people who apparently wear Mongol clothes. So everything points to Loki ending up in the Gobi Desert, which stretches across parts of southern Mongolia and northern China. However, we first see in this scene Loki surprised by the place, so he hadn't planned to go there, which raises a question: in which Earth did Loki stop, if it is the MCU Earth 616 or another multiverse location? and was it the Tesseract that sent him there for some reason? Recall that the Red Skull was transported to Vormir to become the keeper of the Soul Gem.

Where is the Tesseract?

This scene in the desert takes place immediately after Loki teleports himself out of New York using the Tesseract, but it seems that somewhere along the way he lost control of it and lost it. The state of the Infinity Gems at MCU is a bit confusing as they were blasted to atoms by Thanos after he achieved his goal of eliminating half of all life in the universe, but the Avengers then came back at different times to "borrow the older versions of the gems so they could use them to undo Thanos' snap. Captain America has traveled back in time to return all of the Infinity Gems to the point where they were taken. However, he had no way to return the Tesseract Loki had stolen. Did the Tesseract in Loki's possession cease to exist after he used it? Or did he get lost somewhere along the way, with the muzzle and handcuffs he had in his mouth before teleporting?

The authority to change deadlines

At some point, apparently shortly after landing in the desert, Loki finds himself in the custody of the Time Variance Authority, or TVA: a vast organization tasked with tracking the many, many, many realities across the multiverse, and can reduce timelines if deemed too dangerous to exist. They also take steps to prevent other beings from altering the past or the future. Thus, the change of schedule with Loki as the protagonist certainly attracts the attention of the TVA who decide that instead of killing Loki or throwing him in a cell, they must recruit him as an agent.

VAT first appeared in Thor vol. 1 #372 in October 1986. Created by Walt Simonson and Sal Buscema, it was originally born as a tribute to writer, Marvel editor and continuity expert Mark Gruenwald: the TVA collaborators were all clones of Gruenwald. Authority of variation of time.

Owen Wilson is Mr. Mobius

The Loki trailer subtitles confirm that Owen Wilson is playing Mr. Mobius, a mid-level senior executive in the Weather Variation Authority, genetically modified like many other Authority executives and agents. He rose through the ranks thanks to his perseverance and his love of detail. His job is to keep track of the various deadlines, determining their fate, if necessary. Mobius is loosely based on Mark Gruenwald, a Marvel comic book writer and editor, who died of a heart attack in 1996 at the age of 43.

Mobius was first seen in Fantastic Four #352, when Marvel's First Family was arrested for repeatedly interfering with timelines by time traveling. Doctor Doom was supposed to be arrested with them, but he managed to fake his death and go into hiding. Mr. Fantastic tried to defend his team, pointing out that their actions were similar to those of the Avengers and X-Men, who weren't stopped. This only led Mobius to investigate those files as well, forming a plan to interrupt his timeline.

Before Mobius could pass judgment, Sharon started flirting with him. In an attempt to impress him, Mobius showed the Fantastic Four around their offices. This gave them the time and information they needed to escape. Thanks to some sabotage, their timeline disappeared from Authority records, rendering it temporarily undetectable. Mobius moved it later, but decided to leave it at that.

Mr. Mobius explains to Loki what TVA is, and he's already very familiar with the God of Mischief, and points out that he's a habitual liar and "we both know you like to talk."

Who is the hooded character in the trailer?

This mysterious hooded character appears several times in Loki's trailer, and is first seen standing on a patch of tall grass in the middle of a spooky blue haze. The character drops the flashlight he is holding and attacks the TVA agents. He also appears later in the trailer, watching a TVA mission in a supermarket through a room full of CCTV monitors. Everything points to this being Loki's main villain, but given the twisted nature of the multiverse, it could also be an alternate version of Loki. As MCU villains tend to mirror the heroes (like the Abomination being an evil Hulk, the Farmer being an evil Iron Man, the Yellow Jacket being an evil Anteater, or the Black Panther Killing the Farmer ), making the antagonist literally the mirror image of Loki might be interesting, and why his face isn't shown in these early images. And who better to take on an even more twisted version of Loki than Loki himself, as that would also explain his recruitment to TVA.

First appearance in Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Loki's trailer offers a first look at the character played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who is known for his roles in Belle, Black Mirror and the Paradox of Cloverfield. Mbatha-Raw stars as a senior TVA executive, who presides over a courtroom where Loki is brought, in what looks like a trial. It also draws attention to the faces carved on the wall, which could be a nod to the timelessness of the 2021 premiere and the art of the legendary Jack Kirby.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw also appears to have a confrontation with Loki later in what may be an attempt to escape the god of deceit in a scene that may well be a nod to Thor: Ragnarok, when we see Loki wielding the knives.

Possible Black Widow appearance

The budgets and scale of the Disney+ TV series at Marvel Studios means that almost anything is possible, including appearances by other stars of the movie. UCM as Scarlett Johansson. This shot of a woman with short red hair and a black suit sitting on her back is almost certainly meant to invite speculation that Black Widow, who will star in her first solo movie next year, will also appear in Loki. This would definitely work as a cross-promotion, considering Black Widow and Loki will both be releasing in May 2021.

New York Destroyed

This shot of a destroyed New York City, with the crumbling Stark Tower jutting out on the horizon, is possibly from an alternate universe. Whatever the version of Earth, it firmly establishes that there is a vast multiverse filled with worlds where events have unfolded differently. Loki is seen landing in this post-apocalyptic New York with a gray shirt and tie that he wears in several other scenes.

Loki was DB Cooper

There is considerable synergy in the Loki trailer which comes after the release of the HBO documentary The Mystery of the DB Cooper which reignited interest in the one of the boldest unsolved crimes in recent history. In 1971, a man known as DB Cooper hijacked a Boeing 747 flight from Portland to Seattle and held its passengers hostage for a $200,000 ransom. He received his money and jumped out of the plane with a parachute, but was never seen again. Loki reveals that the DB Cooper was none other than Loki himself, and explains the hijacker's mysterious disappearance to an intervention by the Bifrost.

Vote A Loki

Loki's final appearance in the trailer is a nod to the 2016 four-issue miniseries, Vote A Loki by Christopher Hastings and Langdon Foss, in which the God of Deceit is running for President of the United States.

In this story, he promises to lie openly to the American people (rather than indirectly, as most politicians do). If the show explores alternate universes, then it could easily bring comic book stories like this. The costumes of the people around Loki suggest it could take place in the post-apocalyptic New York previously seen in the trailer.