If you don’t hear before, Loki will return for season two, and thank God: Finale doesn’t resolve many things, if it gets anything. Well, we found who pulled the string behind the appliance of time and why, but it really functions as an introduction to the villain scheduled to make the next appearance in Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania.
However, Loki never felt like an extended, well, any prequel. It has become a show that mostly stands alone, one who falsified a unique identity besides everything in the Marvel Cinematic universe, including Thor films. After all, this is not Loki that we spend eight years watching on the screen. This is made in 2019 in the middle of Avengers: Endgame, a variant has so far run free from Asgard and all the unlucky Avengers business.
And Loki shows its own way too, not too relied on knowledge about the films through the first and final Avengers films. You can get into this series by knowing a lot about Loki’s fate as the Loki variant and walking away after the first season just knows a little. The final was interesting because for the first time, I did not know how Marvel shows fits the larger scheme. And like he was left, I felt a little exciting.
One thing that is true of all Marvel shows have that we are always known where they should crash into a larger universe. The shield agent was originally intended to be a way for the side stories of the Marvel cinematic universe to develop but for a while it was treated as a place to throw away the rest of the film. Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Iron Fist were originally aimed at establishing the leading defender series. Wandavision is a prequel for a strange doctor and Multiverse madness, while Falcon and winter warriors do characters’ work for the next Captain America film.
But Loki, besides wrapping loose threads from endgame, it doesn’t really tie anything, especially the upcoming project. They didn’t even mention the name of the man behind the curtain, he was just “he was left.” And he was killed at the end of the episode, which meant whenever we saw it from the front point, technically a different person; Another cosmic iteration of the same jerk. Comic fans knew that he was intended to be Kang The Conqueror, but the great reveal was not yet coming – because the man we met was not a conqueror. He is a cosmic bureaucrat.
Conqueror, although filled in the Loki final, will make his first full appearance at the beginning of 2023. He will not remember the events shown in Disney + Show because he is actually not there, which means the film will fully ignore all of us studying here, or explaining it to Anew’s audience. Previous knowledge about Loki should not and most likely will not be needed.
Which makes the two Loki season free to do almost everything he wants. The man who seems to be responsible for TVA is not possible even close to the same man that Scott Lang and Hope Pym must be a person with, because we deal with various possibilities. It throws the next strange doctor’s film into a little uncertainty, because in our original non-covid timeline which should return in May. Do we supposed to see the Multiverse debut before we look at it? Or will there be some other cosmic fitting keys to mess everything for MCU? Many things seem to be unavoidable when all this project was originally announced now has been thrown into uncertainty.