During the final episode of season 2 of ‘Loki’, Yggdrasil was introduced as one of the many references to the comics in the series. Perhaps not many viewers of the show are aware of this element, which is just developing its importance in the MCU, although it has a lot of importance in the comics, especially because of what happens with the Nine Realms.
This tree, which appears in the final part of the season, is called Yggdrasil, which means “Tree of Life,” but it has a much deeper meaning in Marvel, and was first mentioned or appeared in the credits of 2011′s Thor.
The meaning of Yggdrasil in Marvel
In Marvel, (and the myth it’s based) Yggdrasil connects the 9 worlds, which are completely different cultures from each other, including the planet Earth and Asgard, the head of these realms. The rest of the stars are as follows:
- Asgard
- Midgard (Planet Earth)
- Jotunheim
- Vanaheim
- Svartalfheim
- Nidavellir
- Muspelheim
- Alfheim
- Niflheim
In the MCU movies like ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ or ‘Thor: The Dark World’ these kingdoms appeared or were part of the plot, so the concept is not new, although from Loki’s finale this tree will have a completely different function. Also, do not forget that the Disney+ series is a variation of the one presented in the movies.
Prior to ‘Loki’, the MCU mentioned Yggdrasil in the following instances:
- In ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’, when the movie takes us to 1942, the leader of HYDRA, Johann Schmidt, invades the city of Tønsberg, Norway, when he finds the Tesseract hidden in a Yggdrasil tree.
- In the movie ‘Thor’, the God of Thunder draws the Yggdrasil tree when explaining the workings of the Nine Worlds to Jane Foster.
- In ‘Thor: The Dark World’, Jane Foster merged with the Aether and had a vision in which Malekith absorbed the Earth, the Sun, And Yggdrasil, plunging everything into darkness.
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What is the Tree of Yggdrasil in the MCU?
In the series, it is confirmed that this tree is part of the throne that Loki was destined to reach and become the God of Time, the one in charge of the multiverse and one of the few who can stop a Kang the Conqueror, with a destiny that is not to unite the different realities, but to control everything, to channel everything with his powers so that the collapse presented in Season 2 does not occur.
To do this, Loki must “sacrifice” himself to fulfill his destiny as king. It all works for TVA to survive that the temporal ramifications where Mobius is a father of two, B-15 is a doctor and OB is a small-time writer.
For now, little is known about the influence and importance Yggdrasil will have in ‘Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” and “Avengers: Secret Wars,” the upcoming MCU movies in which the Avengers must defeat Kang the Conqueror and his variants, including ‘The One Who Remains’.