Loki lovers everywhere are rejoicing this week after the mischievous character officially came out as bisexual in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—and during Pride Month, no less!
In the third episode of the “Loki” Disney+ series, framed in bi-Pride colored lighting, the character revealed he’s down for “a bit of both” with a cheeky cheers of his glass. Loki has been canonically bisexual in the Marvel Comics for decades, but this scene marked the first concrete acknowledgment of the characters sexuality in the screen adaptions.
The series director, Kate Herron, also openly bisexual, beamed on Twitter after the episode’s drop. “From the moment I joined @LokiOfficial it was very important to me, and my goal, to acknowledge Loki was bisexual,” she wrote to fans, “It is a part of who he is and who I am, too. I know this is a small step, but I’m happy, and [my] heart is so full.”
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Queer Marvel fans anxiously awaited the series’ release when in a teaser trailer, a biographical information file for Loki listed his gender as “fluid.”
Tom Hiddleston, who’s played the character in the MCU since 2011, talked about the importance of his character’s identities. “I’ve known about the breadth of Loki’s identity since I was first cast as the character 10 years ago,” he told Out. “Back then, I did a really deep dive into my own research and could see that not just in the comics, that’s always been there, but also in the history of the character across hundreds of thousands of years, there’s been a fluidity about Loki that I found really interesting and compelling and very much a part of the fabric of the character.”
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is taking a promising turn in a more LGBTQ-positive direction. With on-screen reveals in Loki, and their first openly gay superhero featured in the upcoming Eternals film, they’re forging a strong path for the future that highlights character’s queerness, instead of burying it.
