A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Easter egg in the second episode of Loki season two drops another reference to an MCU movie that some fans would rather forget.
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Lokiseason two continues todrop Easter eggsleft, right, and center, but in its second episode the show happily climbs aboard Marvels running gag bandwagon by throwing in a visual reference to one of the MCUs most divisive movies:Eternals.
During the opening scene of this weeksLoki, the God of Mischief and his TVA analyst BFF Mobius (Owen Wilson) travel back in time to capture the slimy Brad Wolfe (Rafael Casal), a TVA hunter and variant who has absconded to a past point on the Sacred Timeline to build the life he never got to have as a 70s movie star.
At the premiere of his latest film,Zaniac, Loki and Mobius roll up to the red carpet, but not before passing a range of posters advertizing upcoming feature presentations, one of which happens to star Kumail Nanjianis Bollywood actor Kingo fromEternals!
it’s possible for you to take a closer look at the poster below, as it was captured on set during production onLokiseason two.
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Kingo’s posters featuring on Loki season 2 set… first GOTG holiday special now Loki pic.twitter.com/oSFy5R4eTn
Lokicertainly isnt the first MCU Disney+ project to reference one of Marvels most divisive Phase Four movies, and Kingo himself has been referenced twice before.Ms.
Marvelname-dropped him last year when Kamala Khan unwittingly called out his immortal nature by mentioning both Kingo Senior and his son, while theGuardians of the Galaxy Holiday Specialwent down the same visual route asLoki, positioning Kingo Junior film posters in the background during Drax and Mantis stroll around Hollywood.She-Hulk: Attorney at Lawalso opted to include anEternalsnod when a news side-bar noted a giant statue of a man sticking out of the ocean a reference to Tiamuts frozen Celestial corpse, which was abandoned in the sea at the end of the 2021 movie.
Despite these references becoming quite common in the MCU now, its still not entirely clear what kind of future Marvel is planning for the Eternals.
The immortal synthazoids were admittedly a divisive addition to the sprawling cinematic universe, and theirblockbuster moviegot a fairly lukewarm reception at the time, creating an origin story that juggled the introduction of over ten new characters and that didnt seem to have many ramifications for the MCU.
Personally, I reallyenjoyed Chloe ZhaosEternals, and it does seem like the fandom has softened on it since its release.
Hopefully, the Easter eggs and references scattered throughout these Disney+ shows hint that Marvel will eventually take a gamble on at least some of the characters the film set up in the future, and it seems clear that Nanjianis Kingo is still living rent-free in their heads during the roll-out of MCU Phase Five!
Lokiseason two stars Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Tara Strong, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, Jonathan Majors, Rafael Casal, Kate Dickie, Liz Carr, and Ke Huy Quan, and is streaming now on Disney+.
