Loki’s Not Done: Marvel Boss Teases Tom Hiddleston’s Return to the MCU
Thought Loki Season 2 was the end? Marvel TV head Brad Winderbaum just hinted in a chat with Brandon Davis that Tom Hiddleston’s MCU journey may not be over — and his ties to Marvel could extend beyond Loki’s finale.
If you thought Loki bowed out after that operatically bittersweet season 2 finale, hold that thought. Between a new tease from Marvel TV boss Brad Winderbaum and Tom Hiddleston himself chiming in online, it sounds like the God of Mischief might not be done pulling strings in the multiverse just yet.
Marvel just hinted Loki’s story might keep going
Winderbaum, who oversees TV, streaming, and animation at Marvel Studios, sat down with Brandon Davis and talked about how Loki season 2 was engineered to end with Loki literally taking the throne and binding all those wild timelines together. He called it a beautiful ending with, yes, a glorious purpose. Then he added this little eyebrow-raiser:
"who knows where it is going to lead in the future."
Winderbaum also nodded to Hiddleston’s increased involvement behind the scenes. Tom is an executive producer on Loki, which lines up with the way the show leaned hard into comics lore and the character’s evolution into the so-called God of Stories.
Where Loki sits right now in the MCU
End of Loki season 2 recap, in one line: Loki sacrifices his freedom to sit at the center of creation, holding the branching timelines together. He is essentially the franchise’s living fuse box. That positioning makes him very hard to ignore if Marvel is steering Phase 6 into multiversal endgame territory.
Hiddleston is also fanning the flames
After the cast reveal for Marvel’s upcoming Avengers: Doomsday made the rounds, Hiddleston popped into the comments on a TikTok from creator Max Balegde. He joked he wasn’t sure Marvel would put his involvement out there this early and then added:
"Very excited. It’s been an extraordinary chapter in my life playing Loki, and it’s not over yet."
Could he be talking specifically about Doomsday? Probably. Paired with Winderbaum’s comments, it also suggests Loki’s role could stretch past Phase 6.
How Loki could factor into Doomsday (and beyond)
This is the part where we connect the dots. If Doctor Doom is the new big swing on the board, his plan is almost certainly multiversal. Which means, structurally, he has to deal with the guy literally holding the multiverse together.
Two clean ways this could go:
1) Doom makes a beeline for Loki and tries to recruit or neutralize him. He is Doom, after all, ruler of Latveria with a brain that can hang with Reed Richards and Tony Stark, plus a nasty blend of science and sorcery. Or 2) Loki senses the multiverse breaking again and leaves the throne to intervene, teaming with the Avengers before everything snaps.
Either path puts Loki in the blast zone. Doom’s toolkit is the exact kind of thing that can rattle a cosmic caretaker. And if the heroes do manage to put Doom back in his box, someone still has to keep the timelines stable. Loki is already doing that job. Feels like a built-in runway for Hiddleston to stick around if Marvel wants him to.
Quick Doomsday snapshot
- Title: Avengers: Doomsday
- Director: The Russo Brothers
- Major cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie
- Release date: December 18, 2026
Bottom line: between the God of Stories setup, Winderbaum’s not-so-subtle tease, and Hiddleston saying it’s not over yet, Loki looks a lot less retired than he did a few months ago.
Loki is streaming on Disney+ in the US.