Loki is Alive and Well in Infinity War
Before we start, I think I should probably slap a spoiler warning up here. What is to follow is entirely speculation, but I feel like it’s so completely plausible that it might actually end up spoiling a significant plot twist in the upcoming Avengers: Endgame.
If you recall, back in the last Avengers movie, Infinity War, when we first meet the Guardians of the Galaxy, they’re answering a distress beacon.
As they arrive at the beacon’s source, they find the wreckage of the Asgardian ship Thanos just destroyed earlier in the movie, and they also find Thor.
They bring him aboard their ship, so they can ogle him while he’s sleeping, like a team of little Sandy Bullocks, and so that he can recover from whatever left him adrift in the first place.
After he wakes up, he’s rummaging through the ship’s food and whatnot, and the team starts questioning him about what’s going on.
He explains to them that Thanos is collecting the Infinity Stones.
Also, it’s widely known that the Reality Stone has been safe with the Collector on Knowhere for quite some time. Since that’s common knowledge, you can expect that’s where Thanos is headed, to collect the Stone.
Quill interjects and says, “If it’s with the Collector, it’s not safe. Only an idiot would give that man a stone.”
Thor replies, under his breath, “Or a genius,” and the scene moves quickly on.
Let’s stop here, though, and flash back to Thor: The Dark World – the second in his standalone series – for just a moment. (more…)