Thor’s archnemesis and adoptive brother Loki won’t be appearing in The Avengers sequel, according to director Joss Whedon.
Whedon told Empire Friday that the supervillain, who first appeared in 2011’s Thor , won’t be reprising his role for The Avengers 2.
“Everyone is going to be looking for the Loki-Hulk smash moment and you’ll be looking for [a quim moment]. First of all, imitating what I did before is the surest way to do it not as well,” Whedon said, referring to a scene in The Avengers in which Loki (Tom Hiddleston) calls Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) a “mewling quim.”
Whedon added, “Second of all, Loki’s not there to say those terrible things. Although I do think we should bring the word back, not as an insult, it’s just a nice word.”
Hiddleston seemed to foresee his character being cut from the sequel.
“I haven’t spoken to Joss. He’s definitely doing it. So I suspect not, only because I think that probably the audiences are tired of Loki being the bad guy,” he said last December . “Maybe the Avengers need somebody else to fight.”
While Loki won’t be in The Avengers 2 , which is slated to be released May 1, 2015, he will still be appearing in Thor: The Dark World , which is currently in post-production and set to be released November 8.
Joss Whedon also recently clarified that there would not be a crossover between The Avengers 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy .
“We’re following Guardians at Shepperton [with Avengers 2] , but we won’t be swapping cast members,” Whedon told Bleeding Cool . “Every movie is its own thing and has to be. Unless I take a lot of peyote and write a very different draft, and I’m not ruling that out.”
You can listen to Whedon’s entire Empire interview below.
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