Tom Hiddleston Wants To See Loki Fight Doctor Strange

Don't we all?

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Marvel this week dropped the first trailer for Doctor Strange, which will star Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular Sorcerer Supreme.

Looking a bit like Marvel's take on Inception, it promises us a mind-bending epic unlike anything we've seen yet in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Cumberbatch seems to have nailed the role, but even though the movie's not out until November, his old friend and now fellow Marvel star wants to get in on the action.

Tom Hiddleston, who'll be reprising the role of Loki in next year's Thor: Ragnarok, spoke to NY Daily News about his good friend Cumberbatch joining the MCU, and the potential for the pair to face off:

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"In some hypothetical world, I don€™t quite know when, for Loki and Dr. Strange to share the same frame would be very exciting indeed. Because Benedict Cumberbatch is an old friend. So I would think it would be interesting to see who would get the upper hand.€

Although not particularly likely to happen anytime soon, the pair crossing paths cannot be fully ruled out given how all of the MCU movies interlink, and there's no doubt that it would be fascinating to see the God of Mischief, Marvel's best villain to date, go up against Stephen Strange, and for Hiddleston to face off with Cumberbatch, which would probably set fire to the internet.

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Maybe rather than a fight, though, they could just have a dance-off instead?

Hiddleston also refused to say just how many more movies we can expect to see him in (theories suggest he may be the one to die in Ragnarok), simply stating: "Truthfully, I do actually know at the moment how many more times I€™m going to play Loki, but I€™m not going to tell you."

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God of Mischief indeed.

Doctor Strange will be released on November 4 this year. Thor: Ragnarok is currently scheduled for 3 November, 2017.

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