Loki on Disney +: The Fever for Villains Comes to the Marvel Universe

Disney + premieres series about Thor’s brother, with star signing of actor Owen Wilson

Death is almost never the end for a superhero. Inexhaustible vein of possibilities, they refuse to disappear, moving between realities or multiverses, looking for the ultimate adventure in the comics or on screen. Like matter, they are not destroyed, they only transform. Thor’s always mischievous brother breathed his penultimate breath in ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ , but the tesseract, like the mushroom from Super Mario, gave him an extra life. One that has to live in another timeline, tied in a short by Owen Wilson and that explores ‘Loki’, the new Marvel series that Disney + premieres today.

The fiction, in addition to delving into one of the most complex characters in the franchise, allows Kevin Feige to solve Marvel’s pending account with the villains. Although Thanos and his fanatic cause enriched the flattened world of the bad guys in the story, it was not until this series that the company finally managed to make up for itself. It was not necessary to invent a villain to match, the villain par excellence was at home, ready to animate the increasingly hackneyed –and oversized– universe of superheroes with his deceptions.

A good ‘bad’: Loki on Disney +: The Fever for Villains Comes to the Marvel Universe

“We are attracted to characters like Loki because they are broken, they have traumas and defects that remind us of ourselves and, furthermore, we identify more with their stories because they make us aspire, like them, to be a little more heroic”, Michael tells ABC Waldron, scriptwriter and executive producer of the six-part fiction. “The key to a good villain is that you do not have to agree with their actions but you do understand them,” agrees the director, Kate Herron, for whom ‘Loki’, “an epic science fiction adventure”, enters “the gray, intermediate zone, which makes the god of deception not only good or bad but captivating.

Starring the charismatic Tom Hiddleston, who here changes his costume as in the movies Thor does his weapon, ‘Loki’ goes a step further than the other Marvel series for Disney +, but continues its dynamic of exploring secondary characters to return to three-dimensional something that was flat before.

Surprises

More complete than ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ and less original than ‘Scarlet Witch and Vision’ , the edges of one of the most ambiguous characters in the franchise and the time travel that dominate the plot allow this fiction to bring together, and even better, the great assets of its predecessors. «The series is like the protagonist, full of mystery and suspense, chaotic and charming and, at times, also painful . It is pure Loki ”, sums up Herron, who advances multiple surprises throughout the episodes, broadcast, as usual, weekly on the platform.

Marvel has put all the meat on the grill for one of the most anticipated projects on its tidy calendar. Great signings, such as that of a Wilson turned into an agent of time, very Fincherian references and Feige’s promise that he will have more impact on the cinematographic universe than previous series. It is also an undisguised commitment to diversity –Loki is a fluid genre– and an ambitious goal, that of acquiring notoriety beyond the classic ‘fandom’ . “The series challenges you, generates a discussion both with Loki and with the rest of his characters, that’s why it is convincing,” says the director. Loki on Disney +: The Fever for Villains Comes to the Marvel Universe