The debonair ‘Loki’ may be just the saviour the MCU needs

 
Two years ago, the world was a very different place.
As the pandemic stretched into its second year and patience with stay-at-home orders began to fray, the first season of Loki brought welcome relief to fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Some, including myself, found the adventure starring the Avengers’ most delightful antagonist one of the MCU’s best projects.The series, the third in the MCU’s foray into TV, saw the trickster god Loki (the ever-charismatic Tom Hiddleston) plucked from his villainous 2012 machinations in The Avengers and plopped into an 80s-inspired bureaucratic organisation called the Time Variance Authority, Reuters reports.

Branded a ‘time variant,’ he tried to help Mobius M Mobius (Owen Wilson) stop a great threat to the timeline to prevent being erased from existence. Along the way, he found himself charmed by a female variant of himself from another universe called Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) and even underwent a slight change of heart that transformed him from antagonist to anti-hero. But, when Sylvie decided to kill a version of Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) in the finale, it threw the Multiverse into chaos. For two years, eager fans were kept on the hook to learn what happened next.