Warning: The article accommodates spoilers for Loki season 2, episode 6 which have the energy to cut back you to tears and want Tony was right here so you possibly can Blip him this time.
Of all the issues I hoped for the variant Loki — after shedding the OG God of Mischief — was him to be comfortable, even when it was as a villain. After his heartbreaking admission that each one he needs is to stick with his pals and by no means be alone, his perpetually destiny as the utterly remoted Keeper of Time preserving each single department timeline alive is past harsh. And we’ll by no means forgive Tony Stark for all of it.
Up till Loki’s season 2 finale, Tony Stark was the final hero who sacrificed his life to avoid wasting the universe and shed his pretentious egocentric go well with to be a real savior. He was form, heroic, intelligent, insanely hilarious, and each optimistic adjective out there…however Loki simply did all that and his destiny is even worse than Iron Man’s as he should stay with it perpetually, by no means capable of finding the happiness he desperately sought all his life. And why is he caught along with his destiny?
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As a result of Tony-annoying-Stark prompt Hulk take the stairs as an alternative of becoming a member of them in the elevator in The Avengers.
We keep in mind how the variant Loki escaped, proper? In Endgame, in a bid to reverse what Thanos did, Tony and the group traveled again in time, hoping to safe the Area Stone. Future Tony virtually received it, however the enraged past-Hulk smashed by means of the stairs, grumbling about being not allowed to take the elevator, and sucker-punched him out of the method. The Tesseract landed proper on Loki’s toes, making a department timeline and permitting him to elope.
Sure, many Loki variants have met their finish at the palms of the TVA. However nothing has been as notably painful as the destiny that awaited this specific variant. If solely, that day all these years in the past, Tony hadn’t let his pastime of choosing on folks, particularly the Hulk, take over, not solely would his future model have secured the Area Stone in one go, however this variant Loki sitting on their own in a gilded throne would have additionally by no means existed. The truth that he selected this curse and embraced it as his destiny to avoid wasting his pals and each residing soul he as soon as plotted to crush makes it much more heartbreaking.
I do know, it’s too quickly to crack jokes, however appears like Tony lastly took his revenge on Loki for throwing him off the Avengers tower in 2012.
