The ending of Season 1 of the Marvel Studios Disney+ series Loki saw Loki sent into another timeline after he and Sylvie met with He Who Remains. However, the ending for the show was originally much different.
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The ending that made the cut for Disney+ saw Loki and Sylvie meet up with He Who Remains — a variant of Kang the Conqueror — at the end of time. Their interaction eventually ended with Sylvie killing He Who Remains, unleashing Kang the Conqueror into the world via a domino effect that also separated Loki and Sylvie and threw Loki into an alternate TVA, where no one there knew who he was, and was also overseen by none other than Kang himself.
According to Wesley Burt, a visual development concept illustrator on the series, however, there was originally going to be a much different ending. Burt’s quotes come from the artbook Marvel’s Loki: The Art of the Series, and describe a sort of “sendoff” for Loki, which would have seen him going off on his own adventures in another realm.
“These [suit designs] were going to be … for our sendoff for Loki … it was going to be his suit change at the end,” Burt said. (via The Direct) “He’s grown and changed, and he’s more at peace at this point. He was going to depart off on to some of his own adventures in a different realm … ”
Of course, instead of getting to go off on his own adventures, Loki is still very much wrapped up not only trying to figure out just how he ended up in a new timeline, but also how to stay safe from a new big bad that threatens the entirety of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
While we don’t know much about the upcoming second season of Loki, writer Michael Waldron — who served as head writer on Loki and as a writer on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — told Deadline that the team behind the series had found “new emotional ground to cover.”
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Season 2 of Loki isn’t expected to air until at least early 2023. It’s currently unknown exactly what the season will address, especially following the chaotic end of the first series, which set up Kang as one of the bigger villains in the overarching Marvel Cinematic Universe while seemingly transporting Loki into a different universe entirely.
