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After dying at the hands of Thanos just as he was getting used to being a relatively good guy, an earlier version of Loki escapes this grisly fate thanks to the time-raveling shenanigans of the Avengers.
Loki's freedom is short-lived, as his escape immediately attracts the attention of the almighty cosmic bureaucrats of the Time Variance Authority. He is unceremoniously captured, tried, and found guilty of crimes against the Sacred Timeline (presumably, the MCU narrative as we have observed it through Avengers: Endgame). As we saw in Infinity War, Loki was fated to die, which inspired Thor to level up enough to save the Avengers from Thanos and his army (sort of).
By escaping during Endgame, Loki was not playing his predetermined role as the bad guy who motivates and facilitates the growth of Midgard's mightiest heroes. In the kind of metanarrative that comics nerds like me can't get enough of, the first episode of LOKI unwinds the burden of glorious purpose of its star, forcing him to face the possibility that his life had been but a plot device in the journey Thor and the Avengers. The god who would (and should) be king was just a supporting character in a story bigger and more important than his own.
BUT ENOUGH ABOUT HIM...
It all started to come apart mere moments after escaping from imprisonment for his part in The Battle of New York in Avengers.
Loki can't even complete his condescending conquering speech before he is interrupted by my favorite character from the show.
I said all that up front, so I could take the rest of our time today (guilt-free) to rain praise and affection on the supporting character Hunter B-15.
Not trying to be inappropriate, but does Hunter B-15 have a boyfriend?
— GhettoManga Magazine (@ghettoManga) June 20, 2021
I'm a sucker for a full-figured No-Nonsense Black Lady with a Good Ass Job. pic.twitter.com/wreuBMHdKM
Mosaku shifts from brutal to maternal to seductive from one moment to the next in TEMPLE, and she has cranked her badass black lady vibe up a notch in LOKI as the unflinching steel-toe-booted jawbreaker Hunter B-15.
Hunter B-15 wears her power- both physical and bureaucratic- on her sleeve, and fearlessly speaks her truth even in the face of other authority figures. Consistently at odds with Loki and Mobius (his TVA handler - played brilliantly by Owen Wilson - who enlists the doomed Asgardian to help catch a more murderous variant), Hunter B-15 is probably being set up as the typical company loyalist with an axe to grind with the (anti-)hero of the story.
If that's all they do with her, it will be a shame, because this character has potential.
[Note: Hunter B-15 does not appear in LOKI Episode Three, so I have nothing to say about it]
So that's all I have to say about LOKI for now. Like I said before, it's pretty good so far.
Before you go, here's a HUNTER B-15 fan art I made!
Stay tuned, I expect to draw some more LOKI fan art (maybe another Hunter B-15 ♥).
- Samax
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