It’s not just that Alioth looks and sounds so much like the Smoke Monster(*), that it makes a shared Wizard of Oz reference to “the man behind the curtain” (also the title of one of the very best Lost episodes), or even that the core group of Lokis are hiding in a bunker accessible via a hatch and a ladder that’s filled with recreational equipment (in this case, bowling alley lanes). This is an episode that owes more than a small stylistic and thematic debt to Lost.
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But what makes this episode - and, increasingly, this series - feel so special is the way that it explores the untapped potential of Loki himself, in his many, many variations. And all of that stuff is tons of fun, to be sure. There are the metric ton of Easter Eggs just waiting to be screencapped by Marvel obsessives (I discuss a few of them down below), but which still suggest a much larger and weirder MCU even if you don’t immediately scream out “Is that… THROG?!?!?” at the appropriate moment. There are the many Loki variants we see, with President Loki, among others, joining Classic, Kid, Boastful, and Alligator Loki. But this ruined, hopeless world instead feels bursting with imagination and possibility. Classic Loki insists that his group’s only goal is survival, and any kind of planning and scheming is doomed to kill the Loki who tries. And mostly they are surrounded by the wreckage of many dead timelines. Our title characters are trapped in the Void, a place at the end of time where the TVA’s victims are banished to be devoured by a cloud monster named Alioth. It’s a mark of just how instantly charismatic Loki was that the entire title quickly steered towards him and the other gods.īut once upon a time, anything was possible in Journey Into Mystery, which makes it an apt moniker for an absolutely wonderful episode of Loki where the same holds true. Soon, the lines between Thor and Blake began to blur, and eventually Thor became the real guy, and Blake a fiction invented by Odin to humble his arrogant son.
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It wasn’t even clear whether Asgard itself was meant to exist at first, until Loki turned up on Earth in an early issue, caused trouble, and Blake/Thor somehow knew exactly how to get to Asgard to drop him off. Donald Blake, as the “real” character, while Thor was just someone Blake could magically transform into, while retaining his memories and personality. (*) The early Journey Into Mystery stories treated Thor’s alter ego, disabled Dr.
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