Tom Hiddleston has returned to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Loki in the upcoming crossover film Avengers: Doomsday, and the actor recently addressed one of the most sensitive questions surrounding the character. Loki has already died more than once on screen, including a brutal exit in Avengers: Infinity War, before an alternate version of the God of Mischief rebuilt his life across two seasons of Loki. That later version ended the series as the God of Stories, seated at the end of time and holding the branching timelines together.
On Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, Hiddleston responded to a question about Loki’s potential demise in Avengers: Doomsday. “If I keep going down the path of the end of this sentence, I will find myself revealing things that, uh, it depends what you, you know, I’m not. I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I have to.” The actor cut himself off before the thought could become a spoiler.
Hiddleston then turned to Loki’s present role rather than finishing the earlier thought. “We live in a multiverse now, I think, and Loki is the God of Stories.” He also made clear that Loki is integral to Avengers: Doomsday and that the character’s duty of holding the timelines together remains part of the conversation around the film.
Hiddleston’s unfinished sentence is more revealing than a blunt refusal would have been, because he began to qualify death instead of ruling it out. After “it depends what you,” he started a hard “c” sound, as if the next word might have been “call,” which would have pointed toward “it depends what you call death” or “it depends what you call dies.” That incomplete turn makes the possibility of Loki’s death in Avengers: Doomsday real enough to take seriously as the Multiverse Saga heads toward its conclusion.
Loki first appeared in Thor in 2011 and has remained one of the longest-running figures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Over that span the character has been a usurper, a prisoner, an ally of the Time Variance Authority, and finally a guardian who accepted isolation so that other lives could continue. A death in Avengers: Doomsday would therefore land on a very different Loki than the one Thanos killed at the start of Avengers: Infinity War.
The series Loki ended with the destruction of the Temporal Loom and with Hiddleston’s character taking the weight of every branching reality onto himself. Separate comments from the actor have stressed that Avengers: Doomsday begins from that finished arc rather than erasing it. If the film still chooses to kill Loki, the story would have to reckon with a God of Stories rather than with a prince who once chased a throne.
Avengers: Doomsday is the opening half of the two-part close of the Multiverse Saga and is directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo from a screenplay by Stephen McFeely. Official synopses say universes collide as beloved heroes from three distinct universes are set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they have encountered. Robert Downey Jr. appears as Doctor Doom, while the ensemble draws from the core Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Fantastic Four of Earth-828, and veteran X-Men who now share the same crisis.
Avengers: Doomsday opens in theaters on December 18, 2026. The feature is listed at roughly 165 minutes and will be followed by Avengers: Secret Wars on December 17, 2027.
