You by no means know when a Marvel and even Star Wars TV present goes to spring a post-credits scene on you as of late, and Loki’s season 2 premiere episode isn’t any totally different.
What’s enjoyable about this specific scene is the hat tip it makes to a much-beloved period of Thor comics, in a time when Asgard was very totally different than the best way it’s depicted within the MCU. So right here’s the comics lowdown on Loki’s new credit scene, with affirmation from Loki government producer Kevin Wright.
[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Loki season 2, episode 1.]
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In the short scene, we’re reintroduced to Sylvie, the rogue Loki variant whom a lot of Loki season 1 revolved round. Since killing He Who Remains on the finish of final season, she’s efficiently made her escape. She steps out of a time door in — because the chyron tells us — Broxton, Oklahoma. Then she walks right into a McDonald’s and, with an air of satisfaction, says she’d like to attempt the whole lot.
What is Broxton, Oklahoma?
Broxton is an actual city in Oklahoma. But on this planet of Marvel Comics, it featured largely in Thor tales of the late ’00s and early ’10s. It was a interval through which Ragnarok had lastly worn out the Asgardians, and Thor had simply fought his means again from the void, solely to discover the spirits of his individuals had been embodied in human type with no information of their godly origin.
In his seek for all of them, Thor had to arrange a house base someplace, and since he occurred to have reentered the mortal airplane simply outdoors of Broxton, Oklahoma, he summoned Asgard’s capital metropolis to float above it. From 2007’s Thor #1 till 2014’s Thor: God of Thunder #24, the Asgardians retained a particular relationship with Broxton’s residents, and Asgard remained a floating metropolis above a small city within the American Southwest. (Until an evil billionaire purchased the entire city and compelled the Asgardians out to make Thor mad.)
The Sylvie of Loki on Disney Plus even has an additional tie to Broxton: Her comedian ebook namesake was a citizen of Broxton (type of, it’s difficult).
What is Sylvie doing in Broxton?
Well, on the very least, it looks as if she needs some McDonald’s.
“It’s mostly a tip of the hat to fans,” Kevin Wright, government producer on Loki season 2, instructed Polygon about Broxton, “And just a little bit of a nod to the DNA of [Sylvie].”
“It felt fortuitous, in a sense,” Wright stated, “that as we were looking to tell the story of where Sylvie went after leaving the Citadel at the end of time, that she would be really intrigued by a normal life, a small life, something quiet, a town where she could make friends and do [this normal thing]. Would she stay there forever? Who knows? But I think that would be intriguing; [if you were] somebody who grew up in apocalypses, you might go, I want to go see the opposite of that, a quiet, sleepy town. And Broxton is 100% that.”
What extra can we anticipate from Broxton, Oklahoma? Will Sylvie be making a brief keep or an extended one? For that, we’ll have to maintain watching Loki season 2.
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