Loki season 2’s producer explains that Victor Timely is a strange version of Kang — and that’s the point. Jonathan Majors’ character was planned all along.
The first thing to know about Kang the Conqueror, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s final boss du jour, is that there are a million of him. Loki’s first season successfully imparted that fact with He Who Remains, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe underscored it since in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
But Loki’s second season brings a very different version of Kang to the screen, and producer Kevin Wright says that’s exactly the point.
[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Loki season 2, episode 3.]
Episode 3 introduces Victor Timely, first teased in a credits scene of Quantumania, a struggling Black inventor (and maybe conman?) debuting his Time Loom prototype at the Chicago World’s Fair. This, apparently, is the humble beginning of the man who’d go on to be a multiversal tyrant and found the Time Variance Authority to police his own timeline.
According to Wright, that play against expectation has been the plan from the very beginning, in a “30-page document” he’d penned for Marvel Studios’ internal use, “and also to get Tom [Hiddleston] excited.
