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Disney’s best time-travel show of the decade is making a comeback on streaming
The release of the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday has prompted viewers to return to Loki, pushing the Disney Plus series up the streaming charts. Although Tom Hiddleston’s character appears only briefly in the trailer, the article argues that Loki’s role in the multiverse makes the programme important viewing ahead of the film and highlights it as one of Marvel’s strongest television series.
Loki follows an alternate version of the former Asgardian villain who escapes during the events of Avengers: Endgame and is captured by the Time Variance Authority. After seeing the life, losses and eventual redemption of his original counterpart, he is recruited to help protect the branching multiverse, developing from a Phase One antagonist into a central heroic figure through his partnership with Owen Wilson’s Agent Mobius.
In short
- Loki is rising on Disney Plus after the Avengers: Doomsday trailer.
- The series explores Loki’s transformation from villain to multiverse hero.
- Its story may be important context before Doomsday.
Explained simply
Loki is a Marvel television series on Disney Plus that centres on an alternate version of Loki, originally a villain in the Marvel films. The story begins when this version of Loki escapes during Avengers: Endgame and is captured by the Time Variance Authority, an organisation that protects the timeline from dangerous disruptions.
As the series progresses, Loki encounters the original version of himself and learns about his counterpart's life, losses and redemption, which fundamentally transforms him. He becomes a hero and is recruited to help protect the multiverse—the expanding network of alternate realities and timelines—whilst working alongside Owen Wilson's Agent Mobius, with whom he develops a close partnership.
Loki's character arc has become central to Marvel's multiverse storyline, which increasingly connects the films and television series across the broader universe. The show provides important context and backstory that helps viewers understand how the interconnected Marvel stories fit together.
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