Why Loki Isn't In Doctor Strange 2 (Despite Breaking The Multiverse)
Warning: Contains spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Despite having a hand in breaking the multiverse, Loki didn’t make a single appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. With all of the focus given to the multiverse in the film, it can come off as odd that Loki, a character now deeply connected to the multiverse, didn’t appear, especially when multiple reports said he would. However, even with the way Loki ended, his absence is easy enough to explain.
As the title implies, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness dealt heavily with the multiverse, yet Loki was nowhere to be seen. Considering the arc his character went through in Loki, if there was any sort of trouble going on in the multiverse like what Wanda was causing in the film, then Loki — who should feel responsible for allowing there to even be a multiverse — should have gotten involved, but he wasn’t in the slightest. The film even expands on the multiverse by revealing that spending too much time in another universe can cause an incursion that will eventually destroy that universe, yet there’s no indication that Loki or the TVA ever did anything about them.
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Loki’s lack of involvement in the film might seem strange, but it’s easy enough to explain. Loki season 1 ended with Loki completely broken after Sylvie’s betrayal and reality being changed so that Mobius doesn’t know who he is, so he’s probably too distraught to think about helping the multiverse, as a whole. Even if that weren’t the case, with Kang the Conqueror back, dealing with him would probably take priority over Wanda and the incursions, especially when Loki would have a personal
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