AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Rumor Reveals Disappointing Details About Loki’s Role
If you’ve spent the last few years assuming Loki was being positioned as one of the most important players in Marvel’s Multiverse Saga, you may want to lower those expectations for Avengers: Doomsday.
A new rumor claims Tom Hiddleston may have a surprisingly small role in Avengers: Doomsday, despite Loki currently sitting at the center of Marvel’s increasingly complicated collection of timelines. According to a new rumor, Hiddleston’s Loki could appear in only a handful of scenes.
After everything that happened in Loki Season 2, we might only get a few scenes with the God of Mischief.
When we last saw Loki, he had gone through one of the biggest character transformations in the MCU. The selfish trickster introduced in Thor had become something much greater, sacrificing his own freedom and essentially taking responsibility for holding together the branching timelines.
Naturally, that ending made it seem like Loki would be incredibly important whenever Marvel finally brought its Multiverse Saga storylines crashing together.
Previous Avengers: Doomsday rumors appeared to support that idea. Now, however, another rumor paints a much smaller picture of Hiddleston’s involvement.
The claim making the rounds says Loki has “2 or 3 scenes” in the movie. One reportedly involves an encounter with Steve Rogers, while another version of the rumor claimed Loki would die in the Negative Zone.
Insider MyTimeToShineHello has reportedly backed up parts of the rumor, although the Negative Zone detail apparently isn’t accurate.
As for Loki’s possible third appearance, another rumor suggests things could get considerably stranger. Loki may turn up alive during a post-credits scene, or he could return from Valhalla and join the massive climactic battle.
Obviously, we’re deep in rumor territory here, so none of this should be treated as confirmed until Marvel actually shows us the movie. Still, if Hiddleston really only gets two or three scenes, that feels like a pretty disappointing use of a character Marvel spent two seasons transforming into one of the most important figures in the MCU.
Then again, Avengers: Doomsday has a ridiculous number of characters to deal with. The Russo brothers are bringing together heroes from several corners of the Marvel universe.
Sam Wilson’s Avengers are expected to collide with the New Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and surviving members of the original Avengers lineup. The movie will also pull story threads from Marvel Studios shows released in the years following Avengers: Endgame.
On top of all that, additional rumors claim Marvel characters who made their live-action debuts before the MCU existed could appear. If even a portion of those reports are accurate, screen time is going to be precious.
Still, Loki isn’t exactly some random cameo Marvel can squeeze into the background. Avengers: Doomsday will mark Hiddleston’s ninth appearance as the character, continuing a Marvel run that began with Thor in 2011.
Hiddleston famously auditioned to play Thor before Chris Hemsworth landed the part, leaving Hiddleston to take on Loki instead. It turned out to be one of the best casting decisions Marvel made during the MCU’s early years.
There’s also the possibility of finally seeing Thor and Loki together again. If Hemsworth’s Thor and Hiddleston’s Loki reunite in Avengers: Doomsday, it would mark the first time the brothers have shared the screen since Avengers: Endgame in 2019.
Given everything both characters have experienced since then, Marvel could get an incredible emotional scene out of that reunion. Which is another reason the idea of Loki having only a couple of scenes is frustrating.
After the Loki Season 2 finale, it seemed like Marvel had placed Hiddleston’s character directly at the heart of the Multiverse Saga. Having him essentially hold reality together only to give him glorified cameo duty in the next Avengers movie would be a strange choice.
Of course, two or three scenes can still carry serious weight. Loki doesn’t need 40 minutes of screen time to have an enormous impact on the story, especially if those scenes involve Steve Rogers, Thor, his possible death, or the fate of the multiverse itself.
And with Avengers: Doomsday dealing with so many heroes, universes, and lingering MCU storylines, it’s entirely possible Marvel is saving some of Loki’s story for whatever comes next.
For now, though, Loki fans may want to prepare themselves for considerably less Tom Hiddleston than they were hoping for.
We’ll find out what Marvel actually has planned when Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, 2026.