Joss Whedon Suggests Loki Is Not in ‘The Avengers 2’

Posted on Monday, June 17th, 2013 by Russ Fischer

Loki memorably made his debut in Thor and then even more memorably provided the Hulk with some Asgardian rag-doll action in Joss Whedon‘s The Avengers. And we know the character has a significant role in Thor: The Dark World, which hits this fall.

But if you’re expecting Loki to reprise his villainous role in The Avengers 2, might be time to come up with a new expectation. Whedon is talking more and more about his team-up sequel — which is still quite a way off, with release planned for 2015 — and he seems to say that Loki won’t have a role. 

Speaking on the Empire podcast, Whedon addressed some expectations for the Avengers sequel, and suggests that Loki won’t be around:

Everyone is going to be looking for the Loki-Hulk smash moment [in Avengers 2] and you’ll be looking for “quim.”  First of all, imitating what I did before is the surest way to do it not as well. Second of all, Loki’s not there to say those terrible things. Although I do think we should bring the word back. Not as an insult, it’s just a nice word.

There’s a lot that can happen between now and the film’s shoot, but if nothing else, bringing Loki back would be to tread over a lot of established ground, and that doesn’t seem to be Whedon’s interest. That’s a good thing; hell, we don’t even know what shape Loki will be in at the end of this year’s Thor sequel.