re: Loki Episode 6 Season Finale Thread

Loki Season 2 has to lead into Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantamania. Has to. That comes out February 17, 2023.

Would love a Loki season 2 to come out December of 2022 if possible.

Jonathan Majors and Tom Hiddlestone are about to get paid with all these appearances and playing different versions of their characters. $$$$$

I wonder where he sent Renslayer?

I knew Miss Minutes, couldn't be trusted

What an incredible episode of television. When those doors opened my head was moving a million miles an hour trying to figure out if that was Jonathan Majors. Major (no pun intended) props to him btw playing stupid about Loki, dude was even in a comic shop like a week or two ago buying comics involving Kang so he can “learn about him.”

Like someone else said I had major Banner vibes from Loki with how worried he was.

It’s also incredible how much this makes future projects make sense. The Eternals make more sense, we are definitely getting a Spider-Man trailer soon, etc etc.

I read comics for 20 years. Can't recall a single issue of any with Kang that I really enjoyed. Just never was interested in a character that had multiple variations of himself as different names. Sure- time travel stuff, he's probably the guy. But as a guy with a genius intellect and no discernible powers, he's a letdown. I can think of 20 Marvel villains that would be better in my opinion. They may kill it- I mean, I didn't think I'd care much for GotG, and it's one of my favorites. But to me, Kang just isn't a big enough name to be the future Big Bad.

I’m kind of confused as to what marvel sees the direction of Kang the Conqueror going in. He has already been announced as the villain of Ant-Man 3, and the Ant-Man movies are kind of the comic relief movies of the franchise. They kind of set him up to be menacing and ominous here. And then in Ant-Man he’s going to be trading barbs with Michael Peña and Paul Rudd. I know in the second one, they made Ghost kind of a no nonsense character, but ultimately they did play it silly in a scene or two.

This series continues to be terrible. What a waste of Loki.

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I’m kind of confused as to what marvel sees the direction of Kang the Conqueror going in. He has already been announced as the villain of Ant-Man 3, and the Ant-Man movies are kind of the comic relief movies of the franchise. They kind of set him up to be menacing and ominous here. And then in Ant-Man he’s going to be trading barbs with Michael Peña and Paul Rudd. I know in the second one, they made Ghost kind of a no nonsense character, but ultimately they did play it silly in a scene or two.

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I definitely see what you are saying but Ant-Man is an incredibly important character and franchise in the MCU. The introduction of the Quantum Realm helped them defeat Thanos. Chronopolis is where Kang resides which is heavily hinted at being in the Quantum Realm as seen in Ant-Man 2.

Just because they introduce him as Kang in Quantumania doesn't mean that he won't be heavily featured in the films that follow. He is almost an impossible villain to kill or hold back.

Just speculating but with the Quantum Realm, he would have easy easy access to other universes that he has conquered which is why he probably sets up shop there. It would make sense for him to be in the Ant-Man series as they can easily travel to time and show him in Ancient Egypt as Ramatut, in the future as Immortus, and his other countless variants.

Definitely makes more sense than introducing him in something like Shang Chi or even Thor or Guardians IMO. Those characters aren't really associated with the Quantum Realm. I imagine Kang will have a goofy introduction with Scott running into him thinking he is a great guy before he realizes "holy shite, that motherfricker I met in 2000 BC is the same mofo that killed all those people in the 31st century."

No matter what happens, Feige is batting like .920 at this point so they'll get it right.

Here's a random question- just how wide-open is the timeline now?

I understand that in reality, we won't see this... but in theory, can the MCU now tie into the DC multiverse? As in, are all potential timelines back in play, including universes where Krypton sent a scoutship to Earth 10,000 yrs ago, and we can have Man of Steel in a parallel timeline to the Avengers one?
Or, are things fixed in time up to a certain point? The TVA pruning branches (running in their own timeline, overlapping with present-day Loki's) until Sylvie kills THIS version of Kang, and now the timeline branches only from this point forward?

I bring that up, since Kang knew everything... up to that moment, where he didn't. That seems like an odd, important distinction.

Alright, here to eat crow. I was wrong about Kang showing up ... and couldn’t be more thrilled about it! Majors absolutely killed his role here, even with the late addition. So if I’m following here ... He Who Remains is essentially Immortus, which in the comics is like a future version of Kang. He created the TVA & controls the sacred timeline in order to just keep his own variants, own of whom is undoubtedly the likely more menacing Kang the Conqueror who we’ll see in Quantumania.

Marvel is just ... wow, off the page at this point. Full on into the multiverse this early after Endgame is never something I expected, but I am here for it! Makes sense now why we haven’t seen anything more with MoM, NWH, Deadpool, etc. I’d be willing to bet that Loki season 2 will lead right into Quantumania and we likely see actual Kang there too. Before he transitions into an Avengers movie after that ... or shite, maybe different variants show up in different projects, who knows. He’s obviously the big bad now and a totally different approach than Thanos.

I’ll just say it, Loki blew away all expectations I had. Best season of television I’ve watched in recent memory. Just stellar acting, score, story, cinematography ... the whole nine. Bravo Mavel

This opens up way more possibilities than Kang. You could bring back dead characters, good and bad. They can be completely different in terms of looks and personalities. You can do reboots almost however you like.