Loki Period 1 Ending’s Ending Shot Described By Production Developer
The manufacturing developer for Loki, Kasra Farahani, describes period 1’s last shot of what Loki sees in the Time Variation Authority (TVA). Complying With Loki as well as Sylvie’s delight of Alioth in the penultimate episode, “For All Time. Constantly” sees them enter the Castle at the End of Time, which exists atop an asteroid bordered by the Sacred Timeline. After being startled by Miss Minutes (as well as being used a version of happily-ever-after), the pair ultimately meet the man behind the TVA’s curtain.
The TVA’s true mastermind is revealed to be He That Continues To Be (Jonathan Majors), that discusses his position as the last remaining variant of a 31st-century scientist who discovered the multiverse– which ultimately led to a Multiversal Battle in between Kangs/Nathaniel Richards/Immortus/etc. He Who Remains weaponized Alioth and also developed the TVA to ward off his various other variants. He tells Loki and Sylvie that they have 2 options: kill him as well as let loose unlimited adversaries or take over his life’s work. After sending Loki via a time door, Sylvie selects the last; letting loose chaos. The episode ends with Loki frantically looking for Mobius, just to discover that he and Seeker B-15 don’t understand him. The final shot sees a mortified Loki looking at a statuary of Kang the Conquerer within a various TVA.
Consulting with Marvel.com, manufacturing designer Farahani talked on foreshadowing He That Remains throughout the collection along with building his Citadel to mirror the lonesome, exhausted figure within. Farahani additionally exposed the look and also style of the TVA’s Kang statuary by the internal VisDev team was a game-day choice. He went on to say that the established dressing of this various other TVA was identical to the TVA we know “to delay the audience and Loki’s understanding that they remained in a different location, that they remained in a various timeline.”
The ending’s cliffhanger left customers questioning whether there are multiple TVAs on different timelines within the multiverse. Being that the TVA is claimed to exist outside of space and time (possibly in the Quantum World?), it promises that He Who Remain’s forecast came to life– a variant of himself conquered the TVA and wiped the minds of its team, something that Loki views immediately since “time functions differently in the TVA.” Or, possibly it is one more TVA in a different timeline; nonetheless, an unlimited variety of TVAs looks like an unnecessary issue narrative-wise.
Farahani describing the TVA we see at the end of Loki as both “a different place” and also “a different timeline” could indicate either of these things. What we know without a doubt is that “For Perpetuity. Constantly” irrevocably transforms the Marvel Cinematic World. Kang is currently readied to appear in Ant-Man and also the Wasp: Quantumania as well as, presumably, the now-confirmed second season of Loki. With a boundless amount of him running around, he could show up anyhow, from Spider-Man: No Other Way House and Physician Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to Disney+’s What happens if …? Majors’ electric debut as He That Continues to be bodes well for whatever variation of Richards he plays following, ruling the TVA or otherwise.