Loki showrunner says the trickster will “struggle with identity” in Disney+ series
Plot details for Disney+’s Loki have been sparse, but showrunner Michael Waldron has shed some light on the “struggles with identity” the series will cover.
Although Marvel Studios has two major blockbusters — Black Widow and The Eternals — planned for this year, many fans are even more highly anticipating its Disney+ series slated to hit the small screen during the latter half of 2020 and beginning of 2021. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and WandaVision will be the first to arrive on the platform, and fans have a pretty good idea what both will entail. Marvel has been less forthcoming, however, with plot details for Loki — although a recent interview with showrunner Michael Waldron has shed some light on what the trickster’s new adventures have in store for us.
During an appearance on Forever Dog Podcast, Waldron shared his thoughts on the main conflict of the series, pointing to Loki’s identity as one of the show’s major themes.
“I think it’s the struggle with identity, who you are, who you want to be,” Waldron said. “I’m really drawn to characters who are fighting for control. Certainly you see that with Loki over the first 10 years of movies. He’s out of control at pivotal parts of his life; he was adopted and everything and that manifests itself through anger and spite towards his family.”
It’s nice to hear that Loki will finally be able to come to terms with everything fans have seen him fail to properly cope with during the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and watching him address his familial issues and how that’s impacted him is sure to make for an equally entertaining and emotional experience.
Apart from Loki’s identity issues, it seems certain that the series will involve plenty of time travel, seeing the trickster journey from timeline to timeline and potentially impacting the MCU in major ways in doing so. As far what kind of antagonist he’ll be up against, that remains to be seen — but with actors like Richard E. Grant and Owen Wilson joining the series’ cast, it seems likely the villain and any side characters will be nearly as entertaining as Tom Hiddleston’s. Let’s just hope they don’t get the better of him.
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Loki is set to arrive on Disney+ in 2021.