MCUās Loki: 10 Major Events That Led To The Disney+ Series
By Screenrant
10/10 Odinās Discovery Of Lokiās Abandonment
None of Lokiās activities in the MCU would have been possible had he not been discovered by Odin on Jotunheim. Although the son of King Laufey, Loki was abandoned to die for being small and weak for a Frost Giant.
This gave Odin the idea of taking Loki in as his son to one day place him as the King of Jotunheim once he came of age. It was the combination of Laufeyās abandonment and Odinās plans for Loki that ultimately shaped out his days as a Prince of Asgard.
9/10: Thor Being Insulted By The Frost Giants
Interestingly, the Avengers wouldnāt have formed had Thor not been called a āprincessā by a Frost Giant on Jotunheim. Thatās because this is what caused him to attack the Frost Giants, leading to the war between Jotunheim and Asgard.
Loki himself wouldnāt have discovered his true nature as a Frost Giant had it not been for his part within the skirmish on Jotunheim since he found this out after he was unaffected by a Frost Giantās attack. This led to him eventually attacking Earth in The Avengers and setting up the titular teamās formation.
8/10 Odinās Banishment Of Thor
Loki hadnāt planned on getting Thor banished from Asgard when he let the Frost Giants, in as his intention had been to simply expose Thor as a weak successor to Odin. The All-Father ultimately banished his firstborn to Earth, placing Loki as his successor.
This then caused Loki to become deluded with the idea of becoming king, as he confessed he had never actually wanted the throne until he had it. But once he did, Loki sought to permanently banish Thor to Earth.
7/10 Loki Forcing Odin To Fall Into Slumber
In retrospect, itās more than likely that Lokiās contempt for Odin could have been resolved had the latter not fallen into Odinsleep. Due to this, Loki wasnāt able to fully hear Odinās side of the story of his adoption and ended up making his own assumptions that Odin didnāt really love him.
This event caused Loki to think that he needed to prove himself as a worthy son, following which he devised the plan to trick Laufey into Asgard as a way to kill him in hopes of impressing Odin with the death of his sworn enemy.
6/10 Odinās Rejection Of Loki
Loki went off the rails in his plan to prove himself to Odin as he decided to commit genocide against Jotunheim. This got him into conflict with Thor, resulting in both brothers precariously placed at the edge of the Bifrost Bridge.
Odin was revived by this and managed to get ahold of the duo but also rejected Lokiās claims that he had done it for Odinās approval. Faced with the reality that his father didnāt acknowledge what he had done for him, Loki decided to let himself fall into space, where he ended up meeting Thanos.
5/10 The Destruction Of The Bifrost
The Battle of New York would never have escalated the way it did had the Asgardians become involved. However, this wasnāt possible due to the destruction of the Bifrost Bridge in Thor, meaning that the most advanced civilization of the Nine Realms was cut off from access to Earth.
Its destruction came down to Lokiās use of the Bifrost Bridge as a way to obliterate Jotunheim. To prevent this from happening, Thor opted to demolish the bridge itself, thus foiling Lokiās plan and stranding the Asgardians to their own realm.
4/10 Lokiās Stealing Of The Tesseract
The status of the Tesseract is one of the long-standing questions the Loki series should answer, with the Tesseract being the cause of the original Lokiās demise. It was supposed to have been destroyed on Asgard in Thor: Ragnarok but Loki couldnāt stop himself from nabbing it before evacuation.
Ultimately, Loki sealed his own doom through this move as Thanos became aware of the Tesseractās location and traced it to the Asgardians in space. It was by extracting the Space Stone from the Tesseract that Thanos eventually completed the Snap and set the Avengersā Time Heist in motion.
3/10 All Of Lokiās Betrayals
Although full details are scarce, whatās known so far about the Loki series is that the Time Variance Authority has placed the titular character under Mobius M. Mobius due to his many betrayals across the years. All Lokiās sins have come back to haunt him since the TVA considers him dispensable as a result.
Had it not been for Lokiās habit of stabbing people in the back, he wouldnāt have been friendless and alone, which ultimately contributed to his insecurities. Not to mention that reforming from his traitorous ways is the main theme of the Loki series.
2/10 Lokiās Death At The Hands Of Thanos
Despite whatever happened between the two, Thor and Loki considered each other brothers, and Loki died in his attempt to protect Thor. In Avengers: Infinity War, Loki made a last-ditch effort to kill Thanos by stabbing him with a hidden blade, only to be killed himself as a result.
Thor was consumed by vengeance at the death of his brother and chose not to kill Thanos in Wakanda straight away, opting to pierce his chest in order to gloat in his face that he would make him suffer for killing Loki. This allowed Thanos to complete the Snap, which set the Time Heist in motion, ultimately leading to the alternate Lokiās escape after the Battle of New York. In essence, the death of the original Loki ensured the survival of the alternate one.
1/10 Hulk Taking The Stairs
In-universe, the only way the Disney+ series has been possible is due to the Hulk being denied from taking the elevator in Avengers: Endgame. Ā After the Battle of New York, the Hulk was forced to take stairs, Ā eventually bursting through the lobby that caused the time-traveling Ā Tony to drop the Tesseract.
This fell before Loki, who took this as his opportunity to escape, thus Ā altering the timeline since he was supposed to be taken to Asgard. Itās Ā this fracture of the timeline that got Loki on the radar of the Time Ā Variance Authority and this time-variant Loki is the focus of the Ā titular Disney+ show.
