Marvel Studio's Loki just referenced a DB Cooper on its very first episode and some are freaking out while others are clueless. Tatler revisits the tale of this mysterious hijacker in real life. Read on to see the real story of photos of the real event. Spoilers ahead!
Marvel has retold the stories of its heroes and villains from the comics for years, garnering them over USD22 million as of last year which is expected to skyrocket this year following recent releases of WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki which was also well-received by MCU fans.
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Those who have seen the Loki series might have felt conflicting emotions throughout the first episode which is imbued with Marvel's subversive humour (often having gods thrown out of frame) and a heart-clenching scene centred on the titular character's life.
In the first episode, the god of mischief is shown footages of his life—from the past and future—which is kept by the Time Variance Authority (TVA), the people who have captured Loki for altering the timeline, as first seen in the movie Avengers: Endgame.
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One of the videos shown to Loki was a baffling unsolved case in history that involved a mysterious hijacker named Dan Cooper, famously known as DB Cooper.
In the video, Loki is seen wearing a business suit, drinking bourbon and soda while waiting for the plane to take off, asking for ransom money before jumping out of a moving plane, and blasted back to Asgard with the help of Heimdall. All because Loki lost a bet to his brother Thor, the god of thunder. Once the video ended, Mobius exclaimed, "I can't believe you were DB Cooper!"