Karla Ortiz, an artist who worked on Season 2 of Marvel Studios‘ Loki, has shared some visuals which imagine the fan-favorite character Ouroboros having a different kind of entrance. One of these suggests a callback to an iconic moment for Tom Hiddleston‘s Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor: Ragnarok.
Ortiz posted the art on X (formerly Twitter), first showing a finished piece where Loki approaches Ke Huy Quan‘s Ouroboros, or O.B., who is seated at a table for a book signing event. An earlier stage of the same art appears in a threaded post, along with another piece which is also set at the book signing. However, Loki is now lying flat on the floor, while O.B. looks on from the table. Ortiz captioned the images to explain, “I proposed two ideas, a more elegant meeting, and one where Loki falls through the roof while traveling through time.”
Loki’s pose in the version where he falls through the ceiling is reminiscent of a scene in Thor: Ragnaro in which Doctor Strange locks him into a perpetual fall before returning him to the real world. Although the events of Ragnarok weren’t directly related to the mysteries of time travel that Loki has to endure in his own series, the connection nods to the vast array of reality-bending adventures that the God of Mischief has been through in the MCU.
From the villain of Thor to a Disney+ hero
The first season of Loki premiered in June 2021. Hiddleston reprises his role of the brother of Chris Hemsworth’s Thor and former MCU antagonist. Loki finds himself lost between timelines and apprehended by a shadowy organization called the Time Variance Authority, controlled by Jonathan Majors‘ Kang.
In Season 1, the TVA initially appeared as an institution formed to protect the “Sacred Timeline” and keep the universe from collapsing, but its sinister goals were gradually revealed. Season 2 followed Loki as he teamed up with former members of the TVA who have learned that they were being used, including Owen Wilson‘s Mobius and Sophia Di Martino’s Sylvie, along with O.B.
Thor: Ragnarok and both seasons of Loki are streaming now on Disney+.
