Among the many most anticipated films on the 2026 film schedule, if not all time, the Russo brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday additionally has one of many largest casts of beloved lead actors of any film. Loki star Tom Hiddleston is certainly amongst that gifted lineup, providing just a few breadcrumbs right here and there about his maybe surprising arrival within the MCU blockbuster, however even after his newest feedback, I’m holding on tightly to my best-case situation idea for the time-slipping god.
By and enormous, Hiddleston’s reactions to his Doomsday casting have been brief and candy, with out chatting with any theories about Robert Downey Jr.’s return as Physician Doom, of which there are a seemingly infinite quantity. The actor spoke with Males’s Well being about placing on his dancing sneakers for Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The LIfe of Chuck, which additionally co-stars MCU vets Chiwetel Ejiofor and Karen Gillan, and when requested if he’d be bumping into these actors once more for the following Avengers film, he mentioned:
It is a terrific query, and it is one I do not know if I am allowed to reply, honestly. However you’re right in that I’ll seem in Avengers: Doomsday. That I can affirm. And that I will be working reverse another actors in that movie, that I can affirm. I am unable to let you know which actors.
I suppose it is not so shocking that Tom Hiddleston cannot even rule out showing with these two actors in Doomsday. Whereas I am unsure if it might make a lot sense for Gillan’s Nebula to essentially cross paths with Loki within the movie, I do assume Ejiofor’s character might issue into my extra hopeful hypothesis.
However let’s first check out what else the British thesp needed to say:
It’s extremely thrilling. I’ve beloved taking part in Loki. Loki’s been a companion for a protracted interval of my grownup life. Loki’s a personality of such depth and vary and complexity, and it by no means appears like the identical expertise. It at all times feels new, and this one will likely be new in its personal means. I am grateful that I am nonetheless on the group.
You heard the person: he is STILL on the group. So get all these “Loki’s gonna die” theories out of your brains. Or at the very least politely ask them to cool down for some time till one of many actors says one thing extra ominous. Since Loki technically died already, it’d simply be foolish to play that very same tune once more, proper? So let’s placed on some rose-colored glasses (with inexperienced frames, natch) for a extra hopeful outlook.
My Greatest-Case Most Hopeful Loki Principle For Avengers: Doomsday
I would not be shocked if there’s been a idea voiced on-line for 90% of the potential situations for what might play out in Avengers: Doomsday, so I am unable to readily consider that my optimistic hypothesis is singular in nature. Nonetheless, I might quite be positive-minded than distinctive on this particular case.
My idea is that Loki’s interactions with different characters in Avengers: Doomsday will both come through a flashback or dream sequence, or they are going to happen on an astral airplane, which is the place Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Karl Mordo might enter the combo. I am additionally not completely ruling out somebody with mystical powers popping as much as discuss to current-day Loki in particular person, as long as it is solely a dialog that occurs.
As a result of the inspiration of this idea is the hope that Loki continues to be protecting the timelines and multiverse intact by the point each of the upcoming superherol films have concluded. It might be infuriating for everything of Loki Season 2, which already handled Kang-related points, to get upended in a means that cheapens his sacrifice. As cool as it might be to have Loki return to regular society with the intention to assist the heroes face off in opposition to Physician Doom, it might really feel extra like fan service than something.
I suppose there is a situation the place Loki might step down from his duties with the intention to assist others out after which soar again into the timeilne-holding gig, however that looks as if it might require means an excessive amount of clarification for a way he’d be capable of do this with out full chaos ensuing. So till Tom Hiddleston lets one thing slip that makes me assume in any other case, I am sticking with this concept.
Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, 2026.