Despite the heightened demand for Loki, Marvel President Kevin Feige stands pat on the original plan to give him a hiatus.

In an interview with Slashfilm, Feige states that Loki's role is done..for the moment. That was the objective of "Thor: The Dark World."

Feige clarifies: "Well, the most important thing for this movie to achieve was capping the Loki trilogy of Thor, The Avengers and The Dark World and evolving the relationship between Thor and Loki. That by far was the most interesting thing to me. But you're asking to how it connects to future movies?"

"Well if you're just talking about how that sets up into Avengers [Age of Ultron], yes it was not in the Avengers storyline that we are putting together for the next one. It would not have been appropriate for Thor to not be there and to be on a throne in Asgard. But from the beginning of the first film, that had always been his destiny. It may one day be his destiny again, but for the time being we want to free him up from that. And Joss [Whedon] was a part of those discussions as we were figuring that out."

Will Loki appear in "Avengers Age Of Ultron" or do we have to wait for "Thor 3?"

"Yeah, I don't think it would be before Thor 3 if there is a Thor 3 and while we certainly have ideas of where we would like that to go, there are no specifics. We have to see how this one does and then go from there. But I like... Clearly I like the notion that some people thing he might die in this movie. That works to our advantage. I wouldn't spoil that necessarily, but I do like that afterwards people can, and there will be references... There are no specific plans, but if in specific movies somebody references Odin, that means that something else is going on up there, which I think is cool."

On the subject of a grand crossover between the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy as hinted by Vin Diesel and teased on Thor:The Dark World's end credit scene:

 "Yeah. I mean we have... We are always sort of building towards additional things and what's fun about that reveal for fans and for fans of comics and fans of movies is I think that's the first time that we reveal that The Tesarac is an infinity stone, that the aether is an infinity stone. You may see another infinity stone in Guardians and certainly fans of the comics know what one can do with all of those stones if, god forbid, they get them and with Thanos showing up at the end of The Avengers, he plays a part in Guardians and leads us towards at least one potential future."