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Tom Hiddleston as Loki

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CHARACTER · WANDAVISION

Loki

Appears in
WandaVision (2021)
Played by
Tom Hiddleston

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Loki is a character in the TV series WandaVision (2021), played by Tom Hiddleston.

9 Interesting Facts About Loki

Interesting Facts (6)

  1. #001

    Marvel is known to be strict about spoilers leaking. Owen Wilson said he "let it slip" that he grew a mustache for his character, Mobius. Later that day, he said, he got an ominous text from an unknown number reading "Strike 1". He suggested it may have come from Kevin Feige on a burner phone, and said he made sure to be careful when discussing Loki.

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  2. #002

    In Series 2, Episode 2, Loki and Mobius travel to the 70s to find X-2 and pass a poster written in a foreign language; on closer inspection it shows the eternal Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani). This ties into the story told in Eternals that Kingo has spent centuries in India as an actor, posing as his own descendants.

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  3. #003

    The series was originally meant to follow Loki "popping up throughout human history as an unlikely influence on historical events".

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  4. #004
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    Long before the show existed, Kevin Feige had an idea for a Loki short film in which the God of Mischief partied at Studio 54 in the 70s, along with concept art of him riding a horse. The idea went nowhere, but the series revealed that Loki did visit Earth in 1971 as D.B. Cooper.

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  5. #005
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    (around 1h 50m) Strange reveals that he has been "dangling over the Grand Canyon for 12 hours", much as a disgruntled Loki in Thor: Ragnarok (2017) was "falling for 30 minutes" after Strange dropped him through a portal.

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  6. #006
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    During the opening credits, the letters of Loki cycle through several forms before settling into the final title, each letter drawn from a different typeface: L in Canterbury Font, O in Demon Priest Expanded Ita Font, K in Bliss Normal Font and I in Si LuNca Italic Font.

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  1. #007
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    The phrase "it's what we do" recurs throughout the film, a compact reminder that power, responsibility and heroism sit at the heart of who Peter is, and the trait links all three Peter variants. In the series Loki (2021), Richard E. Grant's Classic Loki offers a comparable line that defines every Loki variant: "Lokis survive, that's just what we do."

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  1. #008

    Tom Hiddleston has said the title's shifting typefaces are meant to convey "integrating the disparate fragments of the many selves that Loki can be."

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  2. #009

    He screen tested for the title role in Thor (2011), following a strict diet and gaining 20 pounds of muscle. Kenneth Branagh, however, decided he was better suited to the role of Loki.

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