Loki has long relished the gag of turning into Captain America to mock the altruism of Steve Rogers, but in his solo series, he finally becomes a true mirror of the iconic hero.
Speaking to CBR, Loki head writer Michael Waldron explained how the series transformed the villainous version of the God of Mischief from The Avengers into a bona fide good guy.
"I think that you could argue that the journey of the season for him is about Loki becoming a hero in a lot of ways, and what's more heroic than doing the right thing for the right reasons and losing anyways? Suddenly, he's in the position that Steve Rogers found himself in after Infinity War, which is really compelling," Waldron said.
"So Loki sits there, in the time theater, with all of that washing over him, and I think that's such a powerful moment when he decides to get up," Waldron continued. "He's changed now and he is a hero, and now he's going to go do what heroes do, which is, 'Alright, there's a threat coming. We've got to deal with it.' And then there's the rug pull of, 'Oh, shit, I thought things were bad before. Things are just getting started.'"
But while Season 1 of the Disney+ show was all about moving Loki into a more heroic position, his main counterpart, Sylvie, spent the six episodes with a singular focus: taking out the TVA. In the end, she accomplished her goal, but the single-minded pursuit and its devastating consequences mean she still has her own heroic journey to undertake.
"We talked about this a lot in the writers room, that what would be really fun with Sylvie's character is to meet her and to quickly realize that she ostensibly has a heroic goal, that taking down the TVA is a heroic thing, and over the course of the show and there at the very end, pull the little switcheroo that maybe it's not so heroic, that it's like she was doing it perhaps just for the wrong reason, that it was never necessarily about granting free will or doing the right thing, but maybe it really was just more about vengeance, because I just think she's not as evolved as Loki yet."
Season 1 of Loki's heroic turn is streaming now on Disney+. The show has been renewed for a second season.
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