As with everything about Loki, the future of the beloved Marvel villain played by actor Tom Hiddleston is shrouded in mystery.
After the events of "Thor: The Dark World," which opened Friday, the comic book God of Mischief is likely to be out of action for a while. And that fate is confirmed by the official announcement by Joss Whedon that the character won't return to vex the heroes in 2015's "Avengers: The Age of Ultron."
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But Hiddleston himself is scheming to one day return.
"I think it's good to give him a break," Hiddleston told the News last week.
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"What I love is the idea is that Loki is in the Marvel Universe right now and his very raison d'être, his reason for being, is you never know what he's going to do, you never know where he's going turn up."
Loki was never even expected to have turned up quite so much - in three Marvel movies and counting - when he was first introduced in 2011's "Thor."
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But Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige and Whedon hit upon the idea of reusing the villain that would unite the Avengers - and solve their worries about shoe-horning a cosmic character like Thor in with his teammates, whose backstories were decidedly more grounded in reality.
"Which is why Loki ws the bad guy, so that Thor had some purpose and some inside information," Feige said last month ahead of "The Dark World's" London premiere.
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A funny thing happened on the way to Svartalfheim.
Hiddleston's slick trickster's popularity started eclipsing the above the marquee heroes (with the notable exception of Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark.) "Free Loki" T-shirts and "Loki Is My King" signs proliferate San Diego Comic Con.
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So much so that it's likely Marvel is going to feel compelled to bring him back to put the universe in peril at least one more time - even if it's not in a third "Thor" movie.
Beyond the "Avengers" sequel and "Ant-Man" in 2015, the studio has yet to reveal what it's next two movie projects will be - despite already setting release dates for the films.
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"I think he's one of the best characters we have - Tom's portrayal surpassed our expectations and my expectations were very, very high for what we could do with Loki," said Fiege, promising we haven't seen the last of the prodigal son of Asgard. "And look back to the comics, there are plenty of more Loki stories to tell."
Hiddleston says he would like to tell those stories -- and says he personally has a whole reservoir of untapped ideas for his character.
"I I love the idea of somewhere down the line, possibly, potentially, mysteriously Kevin and I could cook up an opportunity where Loki might reveal himself," says Hiddleston.
"He's the puppet master, he's the agent of chaos, if there's chaos somewhere in the Marvel universe, Loki's probably involved."
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