He also apparently thought the Casino was Tony's even though that doesn't make sense to me, but as he said in the issue, I am sure that will come back round to bite him in the ass later. Still think Hood is a strong possibility there. I have a feeling his plans changed midway though, he starts out saying he is there for advice, but then never asks for advice, he instead asks... To join the Avengers. Both Thor (when Loki asked him the other day at the library) and Tony find the request ridiculous of course, and tells Loki that they'll let him on the team if he shows up next time with Mjolnir in hand, to which Loki says 'deal.' So of course we know it will happen, now. I mean I have been saying for months and months that he is going to join the Avengers, but I just assumed that when it happened it would be more of a 'we must team up against out better judgement because the situation is just that dire' thing than Loki just asking to join. But now it's set up part of his goal being to join the Avengers, so I think it will happen, especially given the other teases in Avengers itself. One of the teases being that when the Winter Guard showed up they had Perun and Chernobog as an obvious parallel to Thor and Loki, and Tony saying to never go 'double god' after they turned on one another. So of course now the team has to go double god and annoy Tony. Also the teases about Loki lifting Mjolnir, from the cover to issue 1 to "I'm sure I'll be worthy enough any day now" in the Omega issue, to the flash forward to the future, where he has it. There is too much there for it to not happen now, unless it ends up being a case of him realizing that it's not actually what he wanted and retroactively changing his mind. If he gets time powers he may be able to retcon his story.
And speaking of the future. So it appears the book doesn't have the future shown in the flash forward, instead it is a bland 'and they lived happily ever after' ending. Which Thor likes, because he sees it as they having broken the Ragnarok cycle, and just generally a good thing. Loki sees it as the story ending with him never being anything more than 'Thor's brother' and I think he wants to be seen as more than an accessory to Thor's story.
And then Thor leaves after telling him a Loki will never be an Avenger, which, I mean, rude. And a mysterious figure approaches him with a deal, which Loki knows is probably a bad one, but goes along with it anyway, I guess figuring he has nothing to lose. He is whisked away to the House of Ideas, and greeted by 2 children with the same kind of look as Eternity, so I guess the Children of Eternity are literally Eternity's kids. He experiences a flashback of some of his life highlights, good and bad, including him as 'a fancy cowboy' so that's happening, and as for the future, we get one caption 'I fall in love, I die in battle, I get everything I wanted' so we haven't seen the love part, but that does line up with him hitting the Thor story beats, he needs a 'Jane'. In any case, it's been a long time since we've seen him with anyone romantically, aside from that brief thing with Zelma in Dr Strange, I think that was about it in.... decades. So that will be nice to see. And dying in battle seems to line up with what we saw at the end of the first issue. So that end may be what he wants than we first guessed. It seems that he wants a dramatic end to his story if it is to come to an end, rather than just trailing off. Which is kind of sad in a way, it's the same line of thinking that led to him being eaten by Laufey. But at least now he is intending to live first, make a name for himself that's all his rather than a part in Thor's story.
Also, as all this is happening Nightmare enters the waking world through the Nightmare of a woman, and makes her worst fear a reality (having never met the woman who would become her wife) and swears revenge on Loki. So you know set up for next issue.
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