SPOILERS AHEAD FOR “LOKI” SEASON FINALE.
STRONG ADVISORY: DO NOT READ ARTICLE OR COMMENTS BEFORE SEEING THE EPISODE.
The sixth and final episode of “Loki” has been released on Disney+ and surprisingly did not end up being another case of a “Mephisto in WandaVision” no show.
The series bent away from the more self-contained and story ending option of another Loki variant being revealed as the person behind the TVA. Instead, it went with an episode entirely devoted to fleshing out the future of the MCU and ending on a major cliffhanger.
Part of the reason it was able to do this was revealed in the show’s post-credit scene where Marvel confirmed a second season is on the way and the story of the Loki variant we know and love is very much set to continue.
The show’s head writer Michael Waldron had been set to pen a second season a while back, but those involved in the show have often downplayed any talk of further episodes before now. Expect that tone to change in future interviews.
As for the finale itself, the episode introduced us to a somewhat insane albeit still quite civil version of “Lovecraft Country” star Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror (albeit never explicitly named, only dubbed ‘He Who Remains’) – and in the process has legitimately changed the MCU going forward.
“Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and “Black Widow” essentially can be skipped beyond checking out the Contessa scenes on YouTube. “WandaVision” has some impact on the MCU, but most of that is around the Wanda character itself.
“Loki” on the other hand is now required viewing and appears to heavily set up “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and suggests the start of the next multi-year and multi-film arc (the Multiversal War) with variants of Kang replacing Thanos as the big bad.
How this will pan out is hard to say. The second season of “Loki” has not entered production yet and so is unlikely to arrive until late 2022/early 2023. Majors is shooting his Kang role for “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” now with that movie arriving in early 2023 so it’s not clear if events in it will take place before or after “Loki: Season Two” but it’s expected he will be back for the next round of “Loki”.
Both Jon Watts’ “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and Sam Raimi’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” have already been shot and arrive in cinemas in coming months with both expected to get up to their own multiverse shenanigans. Even the next series off the block, Marvel’s animated “What If…”, suddenly makes more sense as a concept now and could be less standalone than we have thought.
Discussions of the episode and its impact can be had below, and spoilers are allowed.
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