Tag: Loki

Guest: Alright so I asked Joss Whedon this question yesterday, and he didn’t have an answer. So my question is, between Thor and Avengers, we see a really dark change in Loki. I was wondering what you think happened to him between those movies. What got him to that point?

Tom: Joss didn’t tell you?

Guest: He said, he said that it was a back-story he hadn’t thought of yet.

Tom: Well, he’s being too modest. We kind of talked about this idea, cuz at the end of Thor, you see Loki disappear through a kind of worm hole in space and time. And we imagine that Loki basically kind of goes through the seventh circle of hell in a way. He’s out, he’s cut loose. He just gets lost in the wrong districts of the universe. You know like the dark alleyways, the backstreets. And the people he meets are not kind. And he really has to survive on his wits. And also with this kind of reservoir of pain based on the events of that film. Really just we kind of established that there’s this terrible, almost year long journey that he goes on through as it were the jungles of the universe and it is deeply scaring. And it hardens him. It’s like a kind like the Asgardian version of Apocalypse now. He just like goes down that river and it gets pretty wild. But it was really important that he was stronger and more dangerous, and less, am you know, he had a tougher exterior. So that’s what happened. I mean, use your imagination.