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 completely 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 completely different than the way in which 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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Within the fast scene, we’re reintroduced to Sylvie, the rogue Loki variant whom a lot of Loki season 1 revolved round. Since killing He Who Stays 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 wish to attempt every thing.
What’s Broxton, Oklahoma?
Broxton is an actual city in Oklahoma. However on the planet of Marvel Comics, it featured largely in Thor tales of the late ’00s and early ’10s. It was a interval wherein Ragnarok had lastly worn out the Asgardians, and Thor had simply fought his manner again from the void, solely to seek out 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 needed 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 drift 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. (Till 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 e book namesake was a citizen of Broxton (form of, it’s difficult).
What’s Sylvie doing in Broxton?
Nicely, on the very least, it looks like she desires some McDonald’s.
“It’s largely a tip of the hat to followers,” Kevin Wright, government producer on Loki season 2, advised Polygon about Broxton, “And just a bit little bit of a nod to the DNA of [Sylvie].”
“It felt fortuitous, in a way,” Wright stated, “that as we had been seeking to inform the story of the place Sylvie went after leaving the Citadel on the finish of time, that she could be actually intrigued by a traditional life, a small life, one thing quiet, a city the place she may make associates and do [this normal thing]. Would she keep there perpetually? Who is aware of? However I believe that might be intriguing; [if you were] any individual who grew up in apocalypses, you would possibly go, I wish to go see the other of that, a quiet, sleepy city. And Broxton is 100% that.”
What extra can we anticipate from Broxton, Oklahoma? Will Sylvie be making a brief keep or a protracted one? For that, we’ll need to preserve watching Loki season 2.