Along with being the top rated of the three 2021 MCU series to date according to Nielsen, the Disney+ and Marvel Studios show “Loki” scored rave reviews for its outright oddness at times.
From Alligator Loki to Variant Loki fights to robots being used to impersonate reptilian aliens – there’s some strange and imaginative stuff that takes place.
Recently the show’s head writer Michael Waldron spoke to the Ringer-Verse podcast and discussed several unused scenes, including the one that was just too weird even for Marvel’s Kevin Feige:
“Once upon a time, the opening of Episode 3 – when Sylvie is attempting to infiltrate Hunter C-20’s mind – that actually turned into kind of a fight sequence where the TVA had defenses in place. So there are people in the memory, and the beach bar actually turned on Sylvie and were attacking her, and it got crazier and crazier – and there were little kids attacking her, and then I literally wrote in that an armadillo with a laser mounted on it comes [into] the beach bar and is firing, and Sylvie kicks it like a soccer ball out into the ocean. That was in a script.”
Waldron says ultimately the scene, and the laser armadillo, was toned down after being labelled too bizarre: “Kevin [Feige] often references that to me. … He’s like, ‘That might be the bar for [being] too much.'”
The first season is currently available to stream on Disney+ while the second has yet to set a production start date.
