According to star Tom Hiddleston, Marvel's Loki series is all about the God of Mischief's ever-changing sense of identity.
“I want to preserve the freshness of the show for when it emerges, but something to think about is the [show’s] logo, which seems to refresh and restore,” Hiddleston said in an interview with Empire Magazine. “The font of how Loki is spelled out seems to keep changing shape. Loki is the quintessential shapeshifter. His mercurial nature is that you don’t know whether, across the MCU, he’s a hero or a villain or an anti-hero. You don’t know whether you can trust him. He literally and physically changes shape into an Asgardian guard, or into Captain America repeatedly. Thor talks about how he could change into a snake [in Thor: Ragnarok]."
“I think that shapeshifting logo might give you an idea that Loki, the show, is about identity, and about integrating the disparate fragments of the many selves that he can be, and perhaps the many selves that we are," Hiddleston continued. "I thought it was very exciting because I’ve always found Loki a very complex construct. Who is this character who can wear so many masks, and changes shape, and seems to change his external feeling on a sixpence?”
Created by Michael Waldron, Marvel's Loki show picks up with the time-displaced version of the trickster god following his escape with the Tesseract in Avengers: Endgame. This is the latest iteration of the character to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Hiddleston joined the franchise in 2011's Thor. In that film, Loki discovered he was taken in by Odin after being abandoned by his biological father Laufey, the ruler of the Frost Giants on Jotunheim. Loki then conspired to impress the King of Asgard by tricking his brother Thor into attacking Jotunheim unprovoked and subsequently destroying the Frost Giants on his own.
When his scheme failed, Loki entered a deal with Thanos to use the Scepter and his Chitauri army to conquer Earth, in return for Loki finding and giving Thanos the Tesseract. In truth, however, Loki was corrupted by the Mind Stone within the Scepter, transforming him into a proper super-villain. The character then reverted into more of an antihero in his subsequent MCU appearances, culminating with him sacrificing his life while attempting to kill Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War. Of course, the time-displaced God of Mischief in the Loki show hasn't gone through any of that, having only just been foiled by Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Loki stars Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, Sasha Lane, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku and Richard E. Grant. The series arrives Friday, June 11 on Disney+.
Source: Empire Magazine