MCU Phase 5 Admits 1 Villain"s Fate Was Worse Than Death
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Loki Season 2 Episode 1
Summary
- In Loki Season 2, a character named O.B. reveals that the consequences of failure for Mobius would be losing his skin, which is considered worse than death.
- This concept of skin peeling has appeared before in the MCU, notably in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 with the fate of the High Evolutionary.
- Mobius's reaction suggests that even death is preferable to living with one's skin peeled off, showing the horrifying nature of this fate.
The MCU isn’t exactly squeamish about death, nor fates worse than death, and Loki season 2 has recently admitted that one MCU villain, in particular, has fallen foul of the latter. Loki Season 2 is now underway, and as it continues to flesh out the implications of the multiverse and Kang’s arrival, a second reference to a gruesome fate has confirmed it to be worse than death. That is, at least, according to one of Loki's main characters.
Loki Season 2, Episode 1 saw the return of the eponymous antihero and his new partner in crime, Mobius, as they wrestled with Loki’s time-slipping problem and the imminent destruction of the Temporal Loom. Their attempts to rectify Loki's visually horrific situation brought them to the new show-stealing character, O.B., (Ke Huy Quan), the TVA’s only Repairs and Advancement employee who thankfully has an encyclopedic knowledge of the inner workings of the TVA (he wrote the book) and how to help correct the course of events. He also knows the price of failure, however, which seems to be a fate worse than death for Mobius.