Loki executive producer Kevin Wright recently shared that Season 2 originally featured a version of the multiversal war that He Who Remains teased in the Season 1 finale.
Speaking with Den of Geek, Wright revealed that they briefly considered going "full-on multiversal war" in Loki Season 2. "In one version, we go full-on multiversal war, but even as we were saying that, it felt completely wrong, jumping to something we haven’t earned yet," explained the executive producer. Instead, they decided to "continue living in the moment where our show ended, with a huge character conflict between Loki and Sylvie. That moment where we see B-15 and Mobius."
Wright continued, "They just made a huge decision, so what’s happening at the TVA now? Is everyone in the TVA on board? Probably not for something as radical as this. What happens when the TVA starts finding out they are variants? If Loki can find Mobius, what is he going to tell him? All of this stuff will have bigger consequences for the MCU, but it’s our story, the story we started in season one."
Loki Season 2 Features a New Kang Variant
The first Kang the Conqueror variant, He Who Remains, appeared in the Season 1 finale of Loki, portrayed by Jonathan Majors. Another variant, going by Kang, served as the main antagonist of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania while the 2023 superhero movie's post-credit scenes introduced several other variants, including Victor Timely. This variant, an industrialist inventor in the early 1900s, is set to return in Loki Season 2.
Majors, who has so far portrayed all Kang variants, has been charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment, with the actor set to appear in court on Oct. 25. Some fans theorized that Marvel might have chosen to rewrite certain scenes to remove Majors due to his legal troubles; however, Wright explained that there were never any plans to change Season 2. "No," he said. "And that mainly came from - I know as much as you do at the moment - it felt hasty to do anything without knowing how all of this plays out." Loki Season 2 was also the first Marvel Cinematic Universe series to "never have any additional photography," meaning that the cast and crew never reconvened after principal photography wrapped in October 2022 for reshoots.
Loki Season 2 stars Tom Hiddleston as that variant of the titular God of Mischief first introduced in Avengers: Endgame. The new six-episode season picks up after the shocking Season 1 finale with Loki finding himself in a battle for the soul of the Time Variance Authority. "Along with Mobius, Hunter B-15, and a team of new and returning characters, Loki navigates an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous Multiverse in search of Sylvie, Judge Renslayer, Miss Minutes, and the truth of what it means to possess free will and glorious purpose," reads the official synopsis.
Loki is streaming on Disney+.
Source: Den of Geek