Warning: Spoilers for Loki Season 1 Episode 1
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- Loki Season 2 recaps Kang’s twist in Season 1, revealing that Loki traveled to the past rather than the future where Kang took over TVA.
- The revelation of time as a circle in the MCU makes the multiverse easier to understand, but also more dangerous, hinting at the inevitable return of “The Remaining One” and potential changes in his plans and goals.
- With the introduction of Victor Tamley and the Council of Kang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum of Madness, Loki season 2 may set up a new villain to replace Kang the Conqueror as a key player in the MCU.
Loki Season 2 has already recapped the shocking Kang twist from the Season 1 finale, hinting that bigger changes are coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.thanks to his variant actions Avengers: EndgameLoki later returned to the Marvel Universe in his own TV series, through which Marvel introduced the Temporal Variation Authority (TVA) and delved deeper into the concept of mutation and how the multiverse works. Loki Season 1 ended with the unexpected appearance of “Remnant” (Jonathan Majors), a variant of Kang the Conqueror.
Loki and his mutant Sylvie (Sofia Di Martino) arrive at the castle at the end of time, where they meet the “Remnants”, the creators of the TVA. He explains that the multiverse war between his variants led him to create the TVA to manage the timeline and prevent another multiverse disaster, but Sylvie ended up killing him.Thanks to the TemPad, Sylvie returns Loki to the TVA, where Loki discovers that the TVA now houses a giant statue of one of the Remnant variants, believed to be Kang—but now, Episode 1 Loki Season 2 revisits this twist for Kang.
“Loki” Season 2 Cancels Kang’s Setting in the Original Finale
Loki Season two picks up where season one left off, with Loki returning to TVA and approaching Morbius and B-15, but they don’t recognize him. This, along with the Kang statue in the middle of the TVA, brings to mind a future where Loki lands and another Remnant variant (most likely Kang the Conqueror) takes over the TVA. This huge change means that the memories of Morbius, B-15, and everyone else will be wiped, which is why they don’t recognize Loki. This makes way for the following theory: Loki Season 1 sets the stage for upcoming crossover Avengers: Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret WarsBut season two completely changed all that.
It turns out that Loki didn’t land in the future, where the Kang variant took over the TVA due to the deaths of the Remnants and the branching of the Sacred timeline, but he actually traveled to the past. Loki In the first episode of the second season, the God of Mischief inadvertently “time-slips” due to the instability of the timeline branch, causing him to jump to a different point in time. When Loki saw Kang’s statue, he had actually traveled back in time, and the statue was the remnant. This is a point in time before the “Remnants” created the Time Keepers and reset the TVA, erasing the minds of everyone who worked there.
Why Loki’s trip back in time was so profound
Loki going back to the past instead of the future is more interesting and deeper than it seems, and it would have huge ramifications for the rest of the Marvel Universe. The multiverse and its timelines in the MCU have been pretty confusing so far, with each movie and show making its own rules and then quickly breaking them, but Loki’s time lapse and the reveal of the Season 1 finale have It’s established that at a point in time in the past, there was a circle in the MCU. This is further confirmed when Loki travels back in time and meets Ouroboros (Ke Huy Quan), whose past conversations influence OB’s current conversations with Morbius.
Time is a circle (also teased in some posters) Loki) makes the MCU’s multiverse easier to understand, but it also makes it more dangerous. Time works full circle to make Remnant’s return feel inevitable, though it’s unknown whether his plans and goals will remain the same, and the implications for the rest of the Marvel Universe are huge.this means Loki The MCU can be seen rebooting, thus providing Kang Dynasty and secret warswhich is hoping to get rid of Kang’s variant for good and ensure TVA is in good hands.
Is Loki making a huge change for Kang?
Revealing how time really works Loki The passage of his time is not only for Kang Dynasty and secret wars (and the chaos of the Sacred Timeline branch), but it also points to potential villain changes. Loki Season 2 will introduce Jonathan Majors as Victor Tamley, another variation of Kang whose presence can still be felt even after he’s dead, so Loki This could be the beginning of the Marvel Universe moving away from Kang the Conqueror as a key character in the Marvel Universe.
This makes more sense when remembering the ending Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantummaniathe Council of Kang reveals that the Conqueror is now dead. Loki Season 2 could be the key to shaping the rest of the MCU multiverse saga, especially Phase 6, as it could not only see the timeline reset and the beginning of the MCU reboot, but also the rise of new villains.
new episodes Loki Releases every Thursday at 6pm PT / 9pm ET on Disney+.