A Marvel Series That Cares Little for Marvel’s Universe
For more than a decade, the studio’s films and shows have been paragons of careful continuity. So far, <em>Loki </em>does away with that.
by Shirley Li
Jun 09, 2021
3 minutes
This article contains mild spoilers for the first two episodes of Loki.
For 13 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe built up the Infinity Stones as objects of grand power, capable of manipulating all existence when united. In Avengers: Infinity War, they turned half of the cosmos to dust; in Avengers: Endgame, the surviving heroes chased them down across time. In Loki, the Disney+ series released today, they’re nothing more than colorful paperweights.
The cheeky gag befits a series about a trickster god, but it’s a surprising one for Marvel to pull. The studio
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