

You’ll need to have seen the first and last Avengers films before watching Loki the show begins by replaying the relevant scene from Endgame where Tony Stark drops the Tesseract right in front of a captive Loki, who grabs it and disappears. Instead, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase IV made its debut on Disney+ earlier this year on the smaller screen instead with WandaVision and now, with the release of the first two episodes of Loki this week, we finally have an idea of where it’s going. Those audiences have already seen Black Widow, Shang-Chi and Eternals - heck, even Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness had an initial release date of May 7, 2021. Somewhere in the multiverse is a reality where the world was not put on hold by COVID, and all the hotly anticipated film releases of 20 came out on schedule. The following contains vague spoilers for the first episode of Loki.
