Loki season 2: What is the Zaniac in Marvel Comics?

Zaniac in Marvel Comics
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Loki season 2 episode 2 is all about actor Brad Wolfe and his movie, Zaniac. And while we won't spoil exactly what goes down in the episode, the story of Brad Wolfe and the cursed film Zaniac are inspired directly from Marvel Comics 🐽in one of the MCU's most obscure adaptations to date.

In Marv🧸el Comics, just like in the MCU, Brad Wolfe is an actor starring in a horror movie titled Zaniac, in which he plays the movie's eponymous slasher killer, as seen in 1982's Thor #319 by writer Doug Moench and artist Keith Pollard.

While filming a scene involving some explosives, Wolfe 😼was caught in an accidental blast which triggered lingering atomic energy from the Manhattan Project (comic book science!), somehow summoning forth a demoඣn from the Dark Dimension, which bonds with Wolfe.

The Dark Dimension is of course the home of Doctor Strange's archenemy Dormammu, and Strange's wife Clea who is Dormammu's niece♕. In fact, the demon which bonds with Wolfe is a creation of Dormammu himself, who created the entity out of a swarm of demonic horrors, bonding them into a single form.

Later, the Zaniac demon possesses a different guy, a criminal named 'Thug' Thatcher (very original nickname) who actually winds up murdering Thor's girlfriend Jane Foster. Thor then enlists the help of the TVA to travel back in time and prevent Thatcher from ever becomꦑing the Zaniac, saving Jane's life as a result.

We won't spoil how the story comes to Loki, but needless to say, the TVA comic book connection is definitely something to look out for. Elsewhere, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Loki's director confirmed to us that this version in the show isn't the𒀰 same as that comic version. "Go a few timelines💮 over and you'll probably find someone who's more like the villain character," he said.

Loki season 2 streams new episodes every Friday on Disney Plus.

I've been Newsara💮ma's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic book historian since 2011. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitarist of many heavy riffs. (༺They/Them)