Marvel's Loki Season 2: The MCU Questions We Need Answered

| July 16, 2021 |

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Tom Hiddleson as Loki and Sofia Di Martino as Sylvie in Marvel's Loki — *Photo: Marvel*

The following contains Loki spoilers.

Marvel'due south Loki may take only been 6 episodes, but information technology was a wild ride from showtime to stop, reinventing a fan favorite grapheme, wrestling with complex existential questions of free will and fate, and telling one of the franchise's weirdest love stories to appointment. Plus, you know, it also managed to entirely rewrite the reality of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it.

Thankfully, Marvel wasted no time confirming a 2nd season, announcing the testify's renewal in the cease credits of the Season one finale. (Likely because it was obvious that fans would riot if we weren't promised some answers to the many questions – both literal and philosophical – that this bear witness raised.)

Here are just a few of the things nosotros're definitely going to demand Loki Season 2 to explore.

Where in the Timeline is Loki?

The kickoff flavour of Loki ends with a jaw-dropping cliffhanger: He Who Remains is dead, the multiverse is reborn, and when Loki returns to the Time Variance Dominance he doesn't discover things exactly every bit he left them. Mobius and B-20 no longer remember him and the iii behemothic statues of the Time Keepers at the TVA accept been replaced with a unmarried figure carved in Kang'southward paradigm. What in the world is going on here?

Ane of the start key questions Loki Season 2 will take to answer is precisely where and when this Loki and the TVA even are. Is this the remnants of the Sacred Timeline, rewritten into something new by He Who Remains' death? Did Renslayer's deportment somehow alter the TVA? Or did Sylvie'due south temp-pad launch Loki across the multiverse into some other earth entirely? (Though since the TVA is supposed to exist outside of time and reality, could there even exist a 2d ane?)

Thinking too hard about this is enough to make your head hurt, in the best fashion possible.

What's Adjacent for Sylvie?

When last we saw our favorite female Loki variant Sylvie, she was watching time fracture around her afterward killing the human being she'd spent her unabridged life trying to find and punish. Where does she possibly get later that? She'southward literally changed reality – both for herself and everyone else.

Throughout the series, we've seen Sylvie driven by an ambitious single-mindedness. But where does she turn that focus now? Volition she try and build the home she's never been able to have earlier in one of the new timelines she'south created? Runway Loki down in whatever timeline she's sent him to? Or does she begin seeking out the Kang variants, trying to prove that her determination to essentially create them all doesn't accept to doom the universe the way He Who Remains predicted?

Is Sylvie and Loki'southward Romance Doomed?

The season concluded with Marvel's most baroque romance having their first human relationship spat. Of course, for Loki and Sylvie that means literally fighting each other with swords while debating whether the universe deserves free will, all earlier one kisses and so betrays the other by shoving them through a temporal gateway. Shakespeare says the course of true love did never run smooth, guys.

What'due south next for these ii crazy kids is anyone's guess – as far as nosotros know, Sylvie's currently still in the castle at the end of time, and Loki's in…well, Loki's in a timeline that we haven't entirely identified yet. How they'll find their mode dorsum to 1 another in flavor 2 (because of course they will find their way back to one another in season two) is anyone'south guess.

Will Sylvie realize her decision to kill He Who Remains was a mistake? Volition she regret kicking off what may well exist another multiversal war and seek Loki out to attempt and fix what she broke? Will Loki endeavour to observe her again, in the wake of all that's happened?

What Nigh All Those Other Versions of Kang?

According to He Who Remains, Sylvie's choice to kill him would essentially release a veritable regular army of Kang variants across the multiverse, who will wreak untold havoc and destruction until one essentially takes once more. And that appears to be exactly what has happened, to some extent, given that the statues of the Time Keepers at TVA headquarters have been replaced with a behemothic Kang effigy. But which version of the grapheme that is – or what the other, less benevolent version have done in his proper noun – is up in the air.

We know that Jonathan Majors is fix to play Kang the Conquerer in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania but that motion picture isn't set to striking theaters until 2023 and that's an awfully long fourth dimension to let the MCU's new Big Bad sit idle. And then it seems safe to assume that we'll see some version of him popular up in at to the lowest degree 1 MCU property before and then, if not more.

Where Did Judge Renslayer Go?

When last we saw Estimate Renslayer, she seemed adamant to evidence that her life as a leader of the TVA – and the many morally dubious decisions she made as such – had some sort of meaning, despite the fact that her actions were substantially all performed in service to a group of leaders who didn't really be.

After an emotional confrontation with Mobius, Renslayer escapes in search of "free will," which as we know in this universe generally means Kang. Whether she finds him, or what happens during her confrontation with whichever version of Kang she meets is unknown, only since Renslayer is Kang's girlfriend in the comics, it seems safe to presume that she has some paw in the creation of any version of the TVA Loki stumbles dorsum into at the end of the finale.

Why Does the TVA Withal Exist?

Throughout Loki Season 1, the TVA was sort of the literal embodiment of the "you had one job" concept. They were meant to patrol and protect the Sacred Timeline, pruning rogue variants and cutting off dangerous branches earlier they threatened the balance of reality. But at present that He Who Remains is dead and at that place is no Sacred Timeline anymore, then what purpose does the TVA still serve in this new reality?

Judging by the giant statue of some version of Kang in the vestibule, there's every likelihood that the organisation has shifted focus to either battle or track the many variants of the former He Who Remains throughout fourth dimension and space and may have even been created in this reality by ane the the "practiced" Kang variants. But, it's also possible that the TVA is yet trying, in some modest way, to corral or at to the lowest degree organize the multiverse into something where its many branches tin somehow peacefully co-exist.

What'due south the Deal with Miss Minutes?

Miss Minutes, the TVA'south cheerful sentient clip fine art, is one of the near memorable parts of Loki'due south start season. Her organizational prowess is clearly unmatched and very footling appears to ruffle her determinedly perky attitude. But nosotros nonetheless don't know much about her, including how she came to exist or what her ultimate goals are.

Simultaneously helpful and vaguely menacing, it seems clear that she had an agenda of her own throughout the season. But an agenda in service to whom? He Who Remains? Kang the Conqueror? The larger concept of guild? And what sort of secrets does she nevertheless know?

Is Alligator Loki Okay?

Obviously, a existent concern going into Loki Flavor 2 is the fate of all the other Loki variants we met throughout the season. With He Who Remains dead and the multiverse unleashed, will the other Lokis be able to leave their Void prison house and return to their real lives?

Virtually chiefly, is Alligator Loki okay? Are he and Kid Loki hit out on their own now, perhaps to a Disney+ Young Avengers serial near you? Loki Season 2 definitely needs to provide us with an update on our favorite reptilian god.

Could Classic Loki Still Exist Live?

Every bit long as nosotros're talking about Loki variants, does the rebirth of the multiverse hateful that Classic Loki might return in some way? Your mileage may vary on whether or not you think his cede was truly heroic or a heroic piece of misdirection, but nosotros don't actually know what happens to the variants and timelines gobbled upwardly past Alioth.

Sure, the other Lokis hinted that to be eaten by the fog monster equals instant death, but this show as well spent four total episodes pretending that pruning equals being killed, so trust but verify, is all I'm saying. Plus, Richard Due east. Grant is just too good an actor non to put back in a classic Loki costume as soon equally possible.

How Will Doctor Foreign 2 Touch on Loki Season ii?

With reports swirling that Tom Hiddleston will make some sort of appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , information technology seems likely that the film will impact Loki Season ii in pregnant ways.

Of class, the question of which version of Hiddleston'southward Loki we might meet in the film – the same i we saw in Loki or some other maybe equally-yet-unknown variant – remains an open up one, but given that this Loki had a directly hand in the creation of the multiverse, it certainly makes sense that he might cantankerous over to a film dealing directly with that concept. Could Sylvie too pop up? It's certainly possible and after Loki and WandaVision it seems as though anything could happen in this film.