The Defenders
Warning : Contains spoilers forThor#24
The most dear incarnation ofLokiin recent yr is finally back , but he is bringing with him a grave danger for the whole Marvel Multiverse : a baddie so powerful that even the Black Winter , Galactus ' dread master , take care like " an angry jelly babe " in comparability .
Loki is sometimes the god of Lie , and more often the god of stories . Loki has changed aspectsand personality many times over the track of the years , but no version was as well - received as the one present inLoki : Agent of Asgard , an ongoing serial by Al Ewing and Lee Garbett that ran between 2014 and 2015 . At the final stage of the series , which coincided with the destruction of the entire Multiverse at the custody of the Beyonders inSecret Wars , that variant of Loki decide he " needed a break , " and disappeared through a portal to the unknown . The post - cloak-and-dagger WarsLoki was a dissimilar one , but devotee maintain hope that the beloved interlingual rendition create by Al Ewing would reappear . They were rewarded whenMarvel announced the newDefenders : Beyondseries , indite by Ewing , which will star " his " Loki . A story inThor#24 bridges the gap betweenAgent of AsgardandDefenders , showing how and when Loki reappears , bringing with him the monition of impend peril that is ranking to the Black Winter , the cosmic entity that used the mighty Galactus as his own herald , and destroyed one of the previous iterations of the Multiverse .
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Marvel introduced the Black Winter as a powerful raw baddie in recentThorstories , and used it to explain the origins of Galactus . Readers fuck that the creature once known as Galan hailed from a old universe , one that was wholly destroy by an strange upshot ( later discover to be the Black Winter ) . After being leave as the lone survivor of this universe , Galan was converted as Galactus , the Devourer of Worlds . Galactus ' universe of origin is the Sixth Cosmos ( the 5th iteration of the Marvel Multiverse in its constant bike of decease and spiritual rebirth ) , and that ’s where Loki make it in theThor # 24story " What come Next " by Al Ewing , Lee Garbett , and Antonio Fabela . Loki ’s portal opens in the presence of the Scienceer Supreme Taaia , Galan ’s female parent who appear in the recently concludedDefendersseries , also written by Ewing . When she point out that the novel arrival is not a servant of the Black Winter , Loki answers that he just caught a glance of something much , much worse .
Considering that this tale function as an innovation forDefenders : Beyond(coming out in July 2022 ) , it is very likely that the mysterious threatglimpsed by Loki is the Beyonder , who has been teased as the main antagonist for the new serial . Indeed , the story further report it as a menace " from beyond the threshold of time , " and Loki points out that there are " things that have dominion out there , " which all bespeak in the direction of the Beyonders , near - omnipotent brute that lived outside the Multiverse and were apparently put down duringSecret Wars . The Beyonder ( the original member of this species who appear in Marvel ’s stories ) could have survived that case , and his full powers sure enough make even the Black Winter , who was killed by a Galactus - authorise Thor , pale in equivalence .
It is enceinte to see that Al Ewing is bringing back one of his most dear characters for his newDefendersseries . His storytelling always reaches late into the metatextual layer and Loki , in his capacity as the god of tarradiddle , is perfect for that , as he show inAgent of Asgard . Loki ’s wiliness and resourceswill be for sure needed when the fresh Defenders squad baffle the path of the Beyonder ( if he is actually the mysterious threat ) , a villain who makes even the captain ofGalactuslook like a pushover .
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