The Season 1 finale of ‘Loki’ on Disney Plus debuts Jonathan Majors’ character, who is set to shake up the MCU.
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched Season 1, Episode 6 of “Loki,” streaming now on Disney Plus. Between the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) tormenting townspeople and twisting the fabric of reality to keep her synthezoid loved one alive and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), unleashing the wrath of Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) and completely disrupting the Sacred Timeline all in one vengeful knife jab, it seems that the Sorcerer Supreme (Benedict Cumberbatch) is going to have a lot of clean-up to do in Marvel Studios’ “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” Fans reacted to the “Loki” season finale, which sets up Kang as one of the MCU’s next Big Bads with memes galore on social media. They theorized about what Sylvie’s decision and the newly introduced villain will bring to upcoming Marvel projects — particularly “Multiverse of Madness,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.” Majors, the recently Emmy-nominated actor (for HBO’s “Lovecraft Country”), is already confirmed to reprise the role of Kang in the third “Ant-Man” installment, and because the other two aforementioned films deal with multiversal messes, it is highly probable that the villain will at least have some influence on the narrative based on Kang’s warnings in the “Loki” finale and what Marvel comic book readers already know about the character. But, for the less well-versed in Marvel lore, Kang’s potential impact in future movies and TV series could still be mysterious or confusing, especially after that whopper of a cliffhanger in “Loki” (which will, hopefully, make more sense in the second season). That’s where Variety comes in. Here’s a primer on Kang the Conqueror: If we’re going to get into some of Kang the Conqueror’s background, then we need to at least assume that He Who Remains (Majors) is, in fact, a variant of Kang the Conqueror.
