Loki Season 2 has just finished its series run on Disney Plus. While it remains to be seen if we're getting a Loki Season 3 in the future, here's an 'ending explained' and recap of what happened in Loki Season 2.
Loki Season 2 Recap & Ending Explained
The Loki series may have been nostalgic for some MCU diehards, but it was ultimately the final journey for the God of Mischief to find his 'glorious purpose' in the billion-dollar franchise.
Now that Loki, Sylvie, and Mobius uncovered the secrets behind the Time Variance Authority, He Who Remains, and how the Sacred Timeline works, Season 2 explores the sudden branching timelines - the outcome after having killed the Kang variant.
Kang the Conqueror Returns
This time, the second season introduced a new Kang variant, aka Victor Timely.
Supposedly thought to be the 'strongest' variant (even stronger than He Who Remains and Kang the Conqueror), Mr. Timely was a swindler for his inventions.
Instead of being the same Victor Timely who was introduced in Marvel Comics as someone undefeatable and incredibly intelligent for his own good to take over the MCU, Mr. Timely is but a small hiccup who was needed at the TVA.
With no one 'behind the TVA' upon losing He Who Remains, any other Kang variant would do in this situation.
That, unfortunately, sailed past its prime, especially when Victor Timely died the first time he tried to save the TVA. As for the second time, well, his efforts to put the Temporal Loom in were a failure.
Considering how He Who Remains mocked Timely's stammering, it would seem that he never intended to 'save' the TVA, as much as Loki and the other TVA agents thought.
What Happened to the TVA Agents?
The TVA agents existed for as long as the citadel did.
With He Who Remains being confirmed to have been the reason behind why these variants were outside the Sacred Timeline aka their own lives on the timeline, at one point in Season 2, the TVA agents ran amok, trying to relive the reality they could have had.
Right when the TVA exploded due to the ever-growing branching timelines, Loki was forced to slip through time once more, which he eventually understood was a part of his greater purpose.
It is through his time-slipping that he was able to find the true origin stories of each TVA agent, including Mobius M. Mobius, in their own realities.
It was exactly for this reason that Mobius chose his own path. Instead of fully dedicating himself to what is comfortable and what is already familiar to him, he sought to live the life of being a single dad who dreamed of Jet Skis.
As you may recall, this isn't the same pivotal moment for each TVA agent.
For Ravonna Renslayer, finding out that she was supposed to rule the TVA alongside He Who Remains was exactly what brought her to her impending doom.
Out of sheer selfishness, she wanted revenge against any Kang variant who promised her the throne. Unfortunately, she did not get her happy ending, considering that her ending involved facing Alioth alone.
What Happened to Sylvie aka Lady Loki?
Sylvie's believed-to-be 'glorious purpose' was to destroy the TVA, which she did in the finale of the first season.
She wanted the TVA agents to have the freedom to choose how they live their lives outside of the citadel. Unfortunately, as meritable as Sylvie's actions were, they did more harm than good.
He Who Remains did warn both her and Loki that killing him would set the TVA free, but could also mean utter chaos and world destruction by causing another multiversal war.
Even though Loki could have just as easily chosen to kill her to save the entire universe, he couldn't. He wanted Sylvie to write her own story in her timeline, where she wasn't bound by fate or destiny.
Loki's 'Glorious Purpose' in the MCU
As it turned out, there was a powerful reason behind Loki's time-slipping ability appearing out of nowhere.
It was to foreshadow Loki's oh-so 'glorious purpose' this entire time. In this case, the 'branching timelines' throughout the second season were all to lead up to his destiny: becoming the MCU's God of Stories.
The 'branch' of timelines was for him to 'burn' through his magic, all so he could save the Sacred Timeline and the Time Variance Authority from collapsing and causing another multiversal war.
He saved the world in this lifetime.
Could the Finale Merit a Loki Season 3?
Loki Season 1's post-credit scenes involved the finale episode getting a Season 2 confirmation, but the latter didn't do the same thing.
The only time Loki Season 2 released a post-credit scene was way back in the first episode, just to keep MCU fans on their toes about Sylvie's whereabouts once the TVA headquarters started falling apart.
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