Loki was a trans story
The Marvel show played with gender dynamics much more than is typical from Disney
(Writer’s note: SPOILERS, obviously. Also please don’t send me death threats, this is just how I experienced the show, it’s fine to disagree.)
Towards the end of the season finale of Marvel Studios’ Loki, a hugely popular TV show on Disney+, the two main characters, Loki and Sylvie share a kiss. Moments later, the Marvel universe literally exploded, forever changed.
At first blush, it’s just another kiss between a man and a woman on screen. But Sylvie is actually a “variant” of Loki. Without explaining the whole premise of the show, which revolves around the antics of the two Lokis and a fascistic organization called the Time Variance Authority, which polices the universe for so-called “variants,” or those who did something in their lives to disturb their predetermined timeline.
Some viewers blanched at the idea of the two Lokis coming together romantically, after all, they are supposed to be two versions of themselves. But I saw the two differently. For me, Sylvie is Loki’s “female side,” and the kiss shared was the Loki gender collective learning to love themselves.
In Norse mythology, and in the Marvel comic books, Loki has always been gender fluid, capable of…
