Loki Season 2 Finale Reveals What Happened to Quantumania's Kang (2024)

The Season 2 finale of Loki is very likely a series finale, as well. The God of Mischief became the God of the Multiverse in order to give it and his friends at the Time Variance Authority a chance to be free. While it was a tiny detail in a big, emotional story, the Loki Season 2 finale revealed what happened to Kang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and how he relates to other He Who Remains variants.

Throughout the episode, Loki used his new time-slipping ability to try to perfect the procedure to "fix" the Temporal Loom threatening to destroy the multiverse. After what was many centuries from Loki's point-of-view, he successfully guided Kang variant Victor Timely through the process of trying to make the Loom bigger. Alas, he realized then it didn't matter. The Temporal Loom held the multiverse together only to eventually destroy all branches but the original sacred timeline. Thus, Loki stepped into the center of the multiverse himself, physically holding all of existence together on the throne he always wanted. Fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe wondered how Victor Timely, He Who Remains and Ant-Man 3's Kang were all related. Loki gave them the answer, but it was likely a surprise.

Ant-Man Killed the Kang the Conqueror Variant In Quantumania

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The final moments of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania featured a humorous bit of internal monologue from Scott Lang. In it, he wondered whether he'd actually beaten Kang or if he'd somehow created a bigger problem. Since the post-credits scene of that film was the introduction of Victor Timely, viewers assumed he had. Yet, once the dust settled at the new TVA (now anchored around Loki's Yggdrasil-shaped multiverse), audiences learned that He Who Remains and Victor Timely had nothing to do with the variant of Kang who fought Ant-Man in the quantum realm.

The moment is brushed over because it's the moment Mobius realizes he's leaving the TVA to explore the world for himself. Hunter B-15 approaches Mobius at his desk who gives her a report about a Kang variant on "a 616-adjacent realm" but noted "they handled it." This suggests that version of Kang was killed when he was pulled into whatever nightmare rift Scott and Hope opened up in the final moments of that battle. Thus, when the Kang Council talks about the heroes "killing" one of their own, that's exactly what happened.

Even more important to the future, however, is that none of the Kang variants are yet aware of the existence of this new TVA. They are fully aware of the multiverse. They may have aligned themselves together in this council to avoid the multiversal war He Who Remains warned about. In fact, the Kang who was killed may have been a "past" version of He Who Remains that will never get the chance to tame Alioth and "build" the TVA and Sacred Timeline.

How Does the Loki Season 2 Timeline Fit Into the Larger MCU?

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Trying to make sense of the chain of events could be headache-inducing for some fans. Given what He Who Remains tells the time-slipping Loki, these events are a time loop. It was created this way so that no matter what happens to He Who Remains, so long as the Temporal Loom existed things would always play out such that he's the Kang variant who comes out on top. When Loki re-energized the multiverse, he started all of history across all timelines over again from the beginning.

The multiversal war, He Who Remains and the construction of the TVA all happened before the events of Loki, at least from the perspective of those in the TVA. When Sylvie killed He Who Remains, the multiverse began anew. When Loki destroyed the Temporal Loom, the multiverse started over again. The Multiversal war hasn't happened yet, and if it does, the TVA may spring into action. That is, of course, unless the Avengers and other heroes can handle it.

In fact, this means the Loki variant who disappeared with the Tesseract in Avengers: Endgame was still spit out into that desert he was found in by the TVA. Yet, because the TVA no longer prunes branches, that version of Loki was left to do whatever it was he was going to do. This is also why Mobius is able to go back to his branch timeline and see the version of him that was Don playing with his kids. Whether the Kang variant killed in Quantumania was a version of He Who Remains or not, the current future of the MCU Multiverse is unwritten.

What Does the Loki Season 2 Finale Mean for the MCU and the Kang Dynasty?

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The Time Variance Authority may not be done in the MCU yet, especially if the Deadpool 3 TVA rumors are true. However, with Mobius saying Kang variants aren't aware of the TVA yet, this means future Marvel storytellers can use these characters. If the TVA doesn't show up in Avengers: Kang Dynasty or Avengers: Secret Wars, then that just means the heroes were able to solve the problem without TVA intervention.

Since the TVA are heroes now, they aren't going to pop into timelines and boss variants around. Loki made his sacrifice to ensure Sylvie and all the others in the multiverse could get that chance to "die trying…die fighting" -- something Sylvie said in their final conversation. The TVA can and will intervene should future storytellers want them to. Otherwise, they are there, happily existing outside of the flow of time and protecting the multiverse in hidden, secret ways.

The primary concern for the TVA seems to be Kang variants and their potential for destruction. There is also Ravonna Renslayer, whose fate is uncertain. Yet, they don't have a clear mission like they did when it was just them protecting the Sacred Timeline. The TVA is content to let people live their lives, for better or worse, in the multiverse.

Seasons 1 and 2 of Loki and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania are currently streaming on Disney+.

Loki

TV-14

Superhero

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The mercurial villain Loki resumes his role as the God of Mischief in a new series that takes place after the events of “Avengers: Endgame.”

Release Date

June 9, 2021

Cast

Tom Hiddleston , Owen Wilson , Gugu Mbatha-Raw , Sophia Di Martino , Tara Strong , Eugene Cordero

Main Genre

Superhero

Seasons

2