MCU’s Loki: 10 Major Events That Led To The Disney+ Series
By Screenrant
10/10 Odin’s Discovery Of Loki’s Abandonment
None of Loki’s activities in the MCU would have been possible had he not been discovered by Odin on Jotunheim. Although the son of King Laufey, Loki was abandoned to die for being small and weak for a Frost Giant.
This gave Odin the idea of taking Loki in as his son to one day place him as the King of Jotunheim once he came of age. It was the combination of Laufey’s abandonment and Odin’s plans for Loki that ultimately shaped out his days as a Prince of Asgard.
9/10: Thor Being Insulted By The Frost Giants
Interestingly, the Avengers wouldn’t have formed had Thor not been called a “princess” by a Frost Giant on Jotunheim. That’s because this is what caused him to attack the Frost Giants, leading to the war between Jotunheim and Asgard.
Loki himself wouldn’t have discovered his true nature as a Frost Giant had it not been for his part within the skirmish on Jotunheim since he found this out after he was unaffected by a Frost Giant’s attack. This led to him eventually attacking Earth in The Avengers and setting up the titular team’s formation.
8/10 Odin’s Banishment Of Thor
Loki hadn’t planned on getting Thor banished from Asgard when he let the Frost Giants, in as his intention had been to simply expose Thor as a weak successor to Odin. The All-Father ultimately banished his firstborn to Earth, placing Loki as his successor.
This then caused Loki to become deluded with the idea of becoming king, as he confessed he had never actually wanted the throne until he had it. But once he did, Loki sought to permanently banish Thor to Earth.
7/10 Loki Forcing Odin To Fall Into Slumber
In retrospect, it’s more than likely that Loki’s contempt for Odin could have been resolved had the latter not fallen into Odinsleep. Due to this, Loki wasn’t able to fully hear Odin’s side of the story of his adoption and ended up making his own assumptions that Odin didn’t really love him.
This event caused Loki to think that he needed to prove himself as a worthy son, following which he devised the plan to trick Laufey into Asgard as a way to kill him in hopes of impressing Odin with the death of his sworn enemy.
6/10 Odin’s Rejection Of Loki
Loki went off the rails in his plan to prove himself to Odin as he decided to commit genocide against Jotunheim. This got him into conflict with Thor, resulting in both brothers precariously placed at the edge of the Bifrost Bridge.
Odin was revived by this and managed to get ahold of the duo but also rejected Loki’s claims that he had done it for Odin’s approval. Faced with the reality that his father didn’t acknowledge what he had done for him, Loki decided to let himself fall into space, where he ended up meeting Thanos.
5/10 The Destruction Of The Bifrost
The Battle of New York would never have escalated the way it did had the Asgardians become involved. However, this wasn’t possible due to the destruction of the Bifrost Bridge in Thor, meaning that the most advanced civilization of the Nine Realms was cut off from access to Earth.
Its destruction came down to Loki’s use of the Bifrost Bridge as a way to obliterate Jotunheim. To prevent this from happening, Thor opted to demolish the bridge itself, thus foiling Loki’s plan and stranding the Asgardians to their own realm.
4/10 Loki’s Stealing Of The Tesseract
The status of the Tesseract is one of the long-standing questions the Loki series should answer, with the Tesseract being the cause of the original Loki’s demise. It was supposed to have been destroyed on Asgard in Thor: Ragnarok but Loki couldn’t stop himself from nabbing it before evacuation.
Ultimately, Loki sealed his own doom through this move as Thanos became aware of the Tesseract’s location and traced it to the Asgardians in space. It was by extracting the Space Stone from the Tesseract that Thanos eventually completed the Snap and set the Avengers’ Time Heist in motion.
3/10 All Of Loki’s Betrayals
Although full details are scarce, what’s known so far about the Loki series is that the Time Variance Authority has placed the titular character under Mobius M. Mobius due to his many betrayals across the years. All Loki’s sins have come back to haunt him since the TVA considers him dispensable as a result.
Had it not been for Loki’s habit of stabbing people in the back, he wouldn’t have been friendless and alone, which ultimately contributed to his insecurities. Not to mention that reforming from his traitorous ways is the main theme of the Loki series.
2/10 Loki’s Death At The Hands Of Thanos
Despite whatever happened between the two, Thor and Loki considered each other brothers, and Loki died in his attempt to protect Thor. In Avengers: Infinity War, Loki made a last-ditch effort to kill Thanos by stabbing him with a hidden blade, only to be killed himself as a result.
Thor was consumed by vengeance at the death of his brother and chose not to kill Thanos in Wakanda straight away, opting to pierce his chest in order to gloat in his face that he would make him suffer for killing Loki. This allowed Thanos to complete the Snap, which set the Time Heist in motion, ultimately leading to the alternate Loki’s escape after the Battle of New York. In essence, the death of the original Loki ensured the survival of the alternate one.
1/10 Hulk Taking The Stairs
In-universe, the only way the Disney+ series has been possible is due to the Hulk being denied from taking the elevator in Avengers: Endgame. After the Battle of New York, the Hulk was forced to take stairs, eventually bursting through the lobby that caused the time-traveling Tony to drop the Tesseract.
This fell before Loki, who took this as his opportunity to escape, thus altering the timeline since he was supposed to be taken to Asgard. It’s this fracture of the timeline that got Loki on the radar of the Time Variance Authority and this time-variant Loki is the focus of the titular Disney+ show.
