It’s been slightly over a yr Marvel followers with a Disney+ subscription noticed how Loki Season 2 ended, and whereas it’s nonetheless removed from sure if Season 3 will ever occur, that second batch of episodes is again in dialog because of its forthcoming bodily media launch. Season 2 will have the ability to buy on Extremely HD Blu-ray beginning on December 3, and there might be an assortment of particular options to parse by way of, together with deleted scenes. A type of scenes exhibits how Loki goes manner again with Hercules, and that in flip has me questioning when the place issues stand with Brett Goldstein’s tackle the Greek God, who was launched within the Thor: Love and Thunder finish credit scene.
How Loki And Hercules Are Linked In The MCU
On this deleted scene that was shared by Selection, Loki is telling Owen Wilson’s Mobius about all of the individuals who’ve stated he’s a “downside” whereas the 2 males are within the Time Variance Authority’s commissary having fun with some key lime pie. Most of who he mentions are folks we’ve already met within the MCU, together with him amusingly mentioning Heimdall twice, in addition to Donald Blake, Thor’s civilian id within the comics and the identify Loki says Thor makes use of when he’s on Earth. Technically that’s goes towards MCU continuity since Jane Foster talked about within the first Thor film that Donald was her ex-boyfriend, however I’m not going to nitpick it.
Some surprising names had been additionally thrown in, like Absorbing Man, who was a villain on Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D., however has by no means appeared in a Marvel Studios manufacturing, and Amora, who goes by Enchantress within the comics and has by no means been seen within the MCU. As for Hercules, Loki says he was a “large downside” for him, although didn’t present any particulars. So sooner or later previous to 2011’s Thor, he and Hercules crossed paths, and I’d prefer to be taught what unfolded between them.
When Are We Going To See Brett Goldstein’s Hercules Once more?
Brett Goldstein, greatest identified for taking part in Roy Kent on Ted Lasso and co-creating and at present recurring in Shrinking (which will also be streamed with an Apple TV+ subscription), briefly appeared in Thor: Love and Thunder when his father Zeus, performed by Russell Crowe, instructed him to search out and kill the Asgardian God of Thunder. The twenty ninth of the Marvel films so as got here out over two years in the past, and but there hasn’t been a whisper of Hercules since. So what’s occurring with him?
If Thor 5 had been one of many officially-slated upcoming Marvel films, then it may very well be logically surmised he’d return there, however that’s not the case. It nonetheless stays to be seen if Chris Hemsworth will lead one other Marvel film of his personal, and looking out over what’s on the way in which, the one different cinematic installments the place it’d remotely make any sense for him to look are in Avengers: Doomsday and/or Avengers: Secret Wars. Even that looks like a stretch, however I like Brett Goldstein so much and wish to see him get a correct platform to shine on within the MCU, particularly if it results in Hercules becoming a member of the Avengers someday. Let’s simply hope what we noticed in Thor: Love and Thunder doesn’t turn into a kind of end-credits scenes that by no means pays off.
Subsequent up on the MCU slate is What If… ? Season 3, which premieres on December 22, adopted by Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man on January 29, Daredevil: Born Once more on March 4, and Ironheart on June 24. Film-wise, Captain America: Courageous New World comes out on February 14, and Thunderbolts* and The Implausible 4: First Steps are additionally on the 2025 launch schedule.