What Everyone Missed with LOKI in the Avengers Doomsday Trailer!

We figured out all of the secrets hidden. on Loki's TVA ID badge in the Avengers. Doomsday trailer. After all, finding. Loki Easter eggs is my glorious purpose. Welcome back to New Rockstars. I'm Erik. Voss, and in this week's Avengers. Doomsday trailer, one of the major. changes added to the trailer after the. version I saw at CinemaCon in April was. this glorious insert of Loki, which. might be the most telling and most. meaningful shot in the trailer the more. you look into it. In my big breakdown. video, I clocked how the person holding. this badge is wearing a wedding ring, the same wedding band that we see on. Steve Rogers' hand in the very first.

Doomsday teaser released in December, confirming that Loki is taking the form. of a TVA analyst as he visits the house. of Steve Rogers, the house where he. lives with Peggy Carter and their baby. But, there is a fuller context to what. this scene means that we need to dig. into from additional details hidden in. the design of the badge and the specific. number we see on it. So, let us dive in. By the way, we have so many cool new. shirts available at our merch store. nerdiest.shop like this Ned-themed Guy. in the Chair shirts or this awesome new. immovable Doom design inspired by this. huge moment from the trailer. We always.

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find 3,000 words to say about this. Loki. appears in this trailer wearing his TVA. analyst uniform with the tie, the. button-down collar, and this jacket. And. we only saw him wearing this fully in. one episode of the series, season 1. episode 2, when Mobius and Mobius made. him dress this way as a variant on the. back of his jacket assisting the TVA in. tracking down his variant Sylvie in the. various eves of apocalyptic events. After teaming up with Sylvie, Loki would. lose the jacket through the rest of the. season. But, when time slipping back. through his own TVA history in the later. episodes of season 2, it is possible.

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description. You'll get a $10 bonus just. by signing up through our link. Thanks. to Freecash for sponsoring today's. video. But, either way, Loki is standing. in the house of Steve Rogers, the house. that he stayed in with Peggy Carter at. the end of Endgame, the house that we. saw Steve riding up to in the first. Doomsday Steve Rogers will return. teaser, where Steve cradles his baby. That's definitely Steve's hand holding. the TVA ID badge. The wallpaper and the. curtains and the tree outside the window. behind Tom Hiddleston in that shot are. all part of that same house. So, from. this, we have to assume that Loki, as. the current god of stories holding all.

the strands of time or stories, is using. that grip to peer into one of those. stories and duplication cast or just. project himself down into the story of. Steve Rogers in this new multiversal. sacred timeline to inform Steve of the. risk that Steve incurred by changing. history and staying in the past with. Peggy Carter in 1948. When all four of. those December teasers came out, the. Russo brothers on Instagram called them. not teasers, but stories. And I think. this Loki connection is what they were. referring to. Thor praying to his. Allfather Odin for the safety of his. adopted daughter Love to spare her from.

the storm, seen and answered by Loki. Professor X and Magneto talking about. death comes for us all, this all I know. for sure. The question isn't are you. prepared to die? The question is who. would you be when you close your eyes? That's a story seen and answered by. Loki. Shuri talking about how it's the. king's duty to prepare his people for. the afterlife, but she is a mission of. her own, seen and answered by Loki. But, if Loki appears to Steve Rogers in this. disguised form, you could say, in what. form will he appear to Thor to answer. Thor's prayers and properly warn him?

Well, there is a fun theory that I'm. going to get into at the end of this. video that kind of answers this. question. But, why wouldn't Loki in his. new Zen-like state just be okay with a. slightly messy variation of the sacred. timeline when it's now in a more chaotic. tree that he's actively tending to. anyway? Well, I think for Loki, what. Steve does here is so disruptive to the. tangled bush he's trying to manage that. he has to intervene. That there are. consequences that Steve cannot see. Consequences that could result in Victor. von Doom losing his wife and child. Actually, this is probably what the. Ancient One was talking about when she. said this.

>> Remove one of the stones, and that flow splits. Now, this may. benefit your reality, but my new one, not so much. Without our. chief weapon against the forces of. darkness, our world would be overrun. >> Now, there is a potentially crazy detail. that could be tied back in here. In the. very first episode of the Loki series. from all the way back in June 2021, a. background detail that we at New. Rockstars found crazy enough that we had. to make it our thumbnail image for that. video was a possible sighting of a Peggy. Carter variant being arrested and.

brought into the TVA. Now, it was never. confirmed to be Peggy Carter, but how. crazy would it be if in this Doomsday. scene, God of Stories Loki has to just. begrudgingly deploy some TVA agents to. arrest Peggy Carter to try to stop this. greater crisis and then explain to Steve. why it was so necessary. I mean, either. way, it's obviously going to be a hard. sell for Loki to Steve Rogers because. from Steve's perspective, Loki was just. the madman adopted brother of Thor who. invaded Earth in the year 2012, tried to. force a bunch of innocent Germans to. kneel, then killed scores of people. beyond that. Steve never witnessed.

Loki's redemption plot from Thor. Ragnarok to Avengers Infinity War. The. last time Steve saw Loki, it was during. the time heist when 2012 Loki was. deliberately mocking Steve. And then on. the ground level, when 2012 Hulk knocked. Tony, the Tesseract skidded to Loki's. feet and Loki used the Tesseract to. escape, which is how B-15 and the TVA. hunters found him in Mongolia and. labeled him variant L1130, the Loki we. followed in the Disney Plus series. But. again, a Loki that Steve Rogers never. got to see. So, from Steve's. perspective, an evil Loki just. disappeared and then shows up at Steve's.

house pretending to be more empathetic. as the head of some bizarre multiversal. time bureaucracy that Steve never would. have heard of before. And the way Loki. is doing it is with this card, this ID. badge. On the back of that badge, that's. the vertically oriented sacred timeline. that Loki now oversees in the shape of. the Yggdrasil world tree of Asgardian. mythology, the tree of timelines. The. TVA posters in the older era when Kang. variant He Who Remains was running. things did have some trees and branches. as part of the analogies on their. posters, but the full tree and all of.

its glorious branches seen on this card. is clearly a reflection of the new era. after Loki's revolution. Whereas all the. vines and branches that Loki held seem. to be glowing, thriving, and continuous, I find it interesting now that in this. badge's design, so many of the roots and. branches seem to end in little nodes, which we could see as branches of time. that were clipped or pruned before or. after they passed through Kibler elf. Loki in the trunk of the tree. Or, we. could see it as the fruit of the. branches or the root vegetables of the. roots as healthy orbs or worlds that the. best of these timelines blossomed into.

However we look at it, there's certainly. more order and structure to this tree of. time than the one Loki was holding. together in the finale episode. When. Steve flips over the card, we see it has. the TVA logo and a Time Variance. Authority label at the top and this. hilarious goofy ID photo of Loki. Now, two things about this photo. One, Loki. never poses for or takes a photo like. this in any of the 12 episodes of the. Loki series. This is a new photo that. Loki has taken using the TVA's offices. after he has taken over the operation. But also, I might be wrong, but I'm.

pretty sure Tom Hiddleston is doing an. impression of the expression Tom Holland. made for Peter Parker's passport photo. that we saw in the deleted scene of. Spider-Man: Far From Home. Remember the. passport where we learned Peter was born. a month before 9 11? It looks like Loki. just made the goofiest, least. threatening smile he could for an ID. badge for the sole purpose of disarming. Steve and other Avengers when he. reintroduced himself to them. But now, let's talk about the number. 414-620-701-401-220. Since Loki's variant number is L1130, I. think this number refers to something. else. It could be a contact number or a.

phone number as a way to reach Loki. Yes, it is kind of hilarious that you. would be able to reach the TVA through. any normal wired telephone, but in the. 1950s in America, when I'm saying the. scene takes place, there would be only. so much telecommunications technology. that Steve could use. And since the Loki. series dwells in real-world conspiracy. theories explained away by TVA. interference, I like this idea that by. picking up any phone and dialing the. right combination of numbers, we could. reach the front desk of the TVA and. Casey would pick up or we'd get. transferred to another department and OB. would yell at us for bothering him. You'll notice this begins with three.

digits, 414, which could be an area. code. That is the area code of. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Milwaukee was one. of the stops on Steve Rogers' USO tour. in the 2011 Captain America film, the. same tour that he got a kiss from this. woman as the camera flashed that we all. assumed was the woman Steve Rogers lost. his virginity to, a question raised by. She-Hulk. As for the other numbers, this. Reddit post on the New Rockstars. subreddit by. did an interesting breakdown theorizing. on them. This person saying 414 could be. a time code reference to 4 minutes 14. seconds in the 2012 Avengers movie, the.

exact timestamp for Loki's arrival. through the Tesseract portal. 620-701. could be a reference to July 1st, 1962. for Doctor Doom's first comic appearance. in Fantastic Four number five, which. carries a July cover date. And 401-220. could be for December 20th, 1940, the. first published appearance by Steve. Rogers in Captain America Comics number. one, which hit the newsstands on that. date. So, this Redditor's theory, which. I really like, is that the number isn't. a phone number, it's a case number for.

who's making the visit, Loki 414, what. the visit is about, Doom 620-701, and. who is being visited, Steve Rogers. 401-220. Agent matter site. Now, do I. think the Russo brothers or even the. screenwriters thought this hard about. this prop? No, probably not. But, it is. the kind of thing prop masters who. actually build and design these props. and decide what numbers go on them. sometimes do geek out over. Whether or. not these numbers were intentional, I do. think this is what this visit between. Loki and Steve is all about. God of. Stories Loki is warning Steve that what. he did at the end of Endgame created an.

incursion that leads to Doctor Doom. And. if I'm right that Steve is currently in. 828 universe of the Fantastic Four, it's. this visit from Loki that leads Steve to. seek out the Fantastic Four as the. smartest team of heroes in his world to. help fix this problem, which is how. Steve would end up on their ship with. Thor. Or, is this really Steve? Here's. the theory that I teased earlier. I know. many are suspecting something is off. about this final shot of Steve Rogers in. the trailer. In yesterday's video, I. brought up the Captain Hydra theory and. why I think Captain Hydra could still be. in this movie, but I just don't think.

it's him in this shot. Yes, there's a. whole debate over whether an evil. Captain Hydra could summon Mjolnir, and. some are arguing that Captain Hydra does. wield Mjolnir in his alternate history. of the Secret Empire Comics. But, in. that reality, worthiness has a. completely different definition to moral. character than worthiness has in the. MCU. But, another theory is going around. that there is another brother out there. to Thor who would, at this point, be. worthy to wield Mjolnir. Worthy in a. particular way for Thor to consider him. back alive again and catch Mjolnir to. be, in his words, not possible. And a.

brother who has, in multiple times in. MCU history, used his sorcery to. masquerade as Steve Rogers. Yes, the. theory many are discussing is that this. Steve is actually a disguise put on via. sorcery by Loki. I mean, Loki did take. on the appearance of Steve Rogers in. Thor: The Dark World and in Avengers: Endgame during his arrest scene during. the time heist. We know that Chris Evans. loves playing Tom Hiddleston's Loki. playing him. And with the sun so. prominently on the faces of these two. men, is this not a fulfillment of the. promise of I show you, brother, the sun. will shine on us again. I do love this.

theory. But now that we're pretty sure. that this shot of Sam, Bucky, and Scott. in the Avengers Tower penthouse has. Chris Evans as Steve Rogers in the. foreground of the left of it, I don't. know why Loki would continue to keep up. that disguise all throughout these. multiple scenes when he's trying to win. the trust of a whole group of people. Pretending to be someone else that whole. time would complicate his message to. this diverse group of people. And it. would reassign character choices from. Tom Hiddleston, an amazing actor, to. Chris Evans to carry that role. throughout multiple scenes. So, one. moment of Loki pretending to be Steve in. the movie, I can see that. Multiple.

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