Loki Season 1 Ending & Future Set-Up Explained
Summary
- Sylvie's decision to kill He Who Remains allows Kang to take control of the TVA and sets up multiversal conflict in the MCU Phase 4.
- Mobius doesn't remember Loki because he landed in a different timeline where they never met, and changes caused by Kang leading the TVA may have altered their history.
- The statue of He Who Remains in the TVA reveals that Kang is now the overseer, ruling by fear, and this will present problems for the MCU's heroes going forward.
Loki episode 6 brought about a suitably grand ending for the Marvel Cinematic Universe series – but also masterfully set up for Loki season 2 and the franchise's wider future. Through season 1's six episodes, audiences witnessed the new "main" Loki variant learn about the nature of the multiverse, the Sacred Timeline, and the Time Variance Authority, with the show slowly making clear that the TVA wasn't quite what it initially appeared to be.
In the Loki season 1 ending, the answer to this puzzle is provided, as Loki and the Lady Loki variant Sylvie meet He Who Remains; the creator of the TVA and crafter of the Sacred Timeline, who quickly explains that he made both in order to stop a multiverse wide war. Despite telling the protagonist duo that killing him will leave another of his variants in his place, Sylvie murders He Who Remains – a decision that, as the show's ending reveals, places Marvel villain Kang in charge of the TVA and thus the MCU timeline, seemingly.
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