Loki
Warning : mollycoddler for Defenders : Beyond # 3Marvel Comics finally admit that retconningLokiafterSecret Warsmay have been a mistake . The late coming back of " God of Stories " Loki asone of the main fibre inDefenders : Beyondwas something that the rooter had been ask for years , and now Marvel admits that this version of the character is more popular than the one they wanted to keep around instead .
Loki ’s graphic symbol history got a slight complicated by the time that Marvel ’s huge issue of 2016,Secret war , add up around . The " original " Loki mastermind his own last during theSiegeevent , to escape his part as the " God of Evil " . He was converted as a younger version of himself , " Kid Loki " , who tried to deliver himself from his past malign deeds . Meanwhile , the remnant of the spirit of the old Loki also scheme to be reborn and took over the body of Kid Loki . However , the version that emerges is not old Loki , but a brand novel one , who reinvents himself as the " God of Mischief " . afterwards , this Loki survived the annihilation of the Multiverse inSecret Warsbybecoming the God of Stories , and literally escaping from the narrativeMarvel Universe in a beautiful meta moment . The Loki that reappeared in the All - New Marvel Multiverse , and is currently feature inThor , seems very different from the God of Stories lover had spring up to love , which sparked disconfirming reactions and demands to bring back the former interlingual rendition of Loki .
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Eight yr after , Marvel gave fans what they want andbrought the God of Stories back forDefenders : Beyond , where a team of heroes is as if by magic get together by Eternity to defend the Multiverse . InDefenders : Beyond#3 , by Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez , the radical arrives in the White Hot Room , the domicile of the staring Phoenix Force , where they are hunt by the cosmic being that present death and rebirth . The Phoenix has set her sights on Loki in particular because he is " out of time " , a " secular glitch that peril drain ' objective reality ' from the ' Loki Prime ' " of his dimension . For this reason , Loki has to either return to his original juncture in time or ( considering that articulation waserased by the Incursionsalong with the entire 7th Multiverse ) be combust away like an infection .
Two Lokis Are Too Many, One Has To Go
keep open in mind that Al Ewing , who is writingDefenders , is also the person responsible for Loki ’s translation into the God of Stories ( inLoki : Agent of Asgard ) , it ’s very potential that , with " draining nonsubjective realness " , he is reference how the popularity of " his " Loki has suffer the version of the character that Marvel or else created for the All - New Multiverse . Indeed , Marvel ’s decisiveness to erase the fibre made democratic by Ewing and , before him , by Kieron Gillen inJourney into Mystery , was very controversial at the time . However , sometimes editorial decision take precedence over what artists do and what rooter want . The All - New Loki still neglect to imprint , mostly because the accomplished want of connection with the premature adaptation of the grapheme throw fans off .
The return of God of Stories Loki inDefenders : Beyondand this direct reference to the damaging influence he has on his " Prime " counterpart could mean two paired things : either this Loki is here to stay , or he will be definitively erased at the remainder of the series to give his new variant a hazard to shine . Either means , Marvel has admit that retconningLokiand getting disembarrass of the God of Stories may have not been the good decision .
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