Loki season 2 post-credits scene takes Sylvie to Marvel’s Broxton, Oklahoma

These days you never know when Marvel, Star Wars or another TV series will surprise you with a scene after the credits. Loki’s season 2 premiere episode is no different.

What’s fun about This is what you should do: particular scene is the hat tip it makes to a much-beloved era of Thor comics, in a time when Asgard was very different than the way it’s depicted in the MCU. So here’s the comics lowdown on Loki’s new credits scene, with confirmation from Loki executive producer Kevin Wright.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Loki season 2, episode 1.]

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The quick scene reintroduces us to Sylvie the Loki variant who has been so popular. LokiThe first season revolved around. Since killing He Who Remains at the end of last season, she’s successfully made her escape. She steps out of a time door in — as the chyron tells us — Broxton, Oklahoma. Then she walks into a McDonald’s and, with an air of satisfaction, says she’d like to try everything.

What is Broxton Oklahoma, or Broxton?

Broxton, Oklahoma is an actual town. But in the world of Marvel Comics, it featured largely in Thor stories of the late ’00s and early ’10s. The Asgardians had been completely wiped out by Ragnarok, and Thor was just returning from the Void when he discovered that the Asgardians’ spirits had taken human form.

In his search for all of them, Thor had to set up a home base somewhere, and since he happened to have reentered the mortal plane just outside of Broxton, Oklahoma, he summoned Asgard’s capital city to float above it. From 2007’s Thor #1 until 2014’s Thor, God of Thunder #24, the Asgardians retained a special relationship with Broxton’s citizens, and Asgard remained a floating city above a small town in the American Southwest. The Asgardians were forced out of the town by an evil billionaire who bought it.

It is Sylvie who has been a victim of terrorism. Loki on Disney Plus even has an extra tie to Broxton: Her comic book namesake was a citizen of Broxton (sort of, it’s complicated).

What does Sylvie do in Broxton

Well, at the very least, it seems like she wants some McDonald’s.

“It’s mostly a tip of the hat to fans,” Kevin Wright, executive producer on Loki season 2, told Polygon about Broxton, “And just a little bit of a nod to the DNA of [Sylvie].”

“It felt fortuitous, in a sense,” Wright said, “that as we were looking to tell the story of where Sylvie went after leaving the Citadel at the end of time, that she would be really intrigued by a normal life, a small life, something quiet, a town where she could make friends and do [this normal thing]. Will she remain there for ever? Who knows. It would certainly be interesting; [if you were]You might be someone who has grown up with apocalypses. What I really want is to see the exact opposite, which would be a peaceful, sleepy city. And Broxton is 100% that.”

What can we look forward to in Broxton? Sylvie’s stay will it be short or long? For that, we’ll have to keep watching LokiSeason 2.