The following article contains spoilers for Loki's season finale.

The third Marvel series on Disney Plus, Loki, premiered its season finale and left fans feeling both excited and worried for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The episode revealed the next big bad villain of the MCU along with the possibility of another Multiversal war, which sets the stage for the upcoming Marvel Studios films Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. But, it turns out that the episode could have ended differently.

In an interview with Marvel.com, the series’ head writer Michael Waldron revealed that there were “different versions” of the ending planned. The creative team looked through all possible endings for the episode during the time when production was halted due to the COVID-19 restrictions. The ending, which fans witnessed in the season finale, was finally decided upon just as the cast and crew returned to film the remaining sequences. 

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At the end of the season finale, “For All Time. Always.” Loki and Sylvie are faced with the decision to believe He Who Remains’ tale about the Multiverse and other Kang Variants or kill the eccentric nemesis. Sylvie is adamant about getting her revenge, whereas Loki is concerned about the consequences of killing the one in charge of protecting the sacred timeline. After a fight scene between the two, Sylvie pushes Loki through a time portal back to the Time Variance Authority and ends up killing the newly introduced villain. The series ends with the cliffhanger reveal of an alternate TVA, where Kang The Conqueror is the one in charge and Mobius doesn’t even recognize the God of Mischief.

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During the production hiatus, it was decided how the Loki creative team would take the story forward, not just for the God of Mischief but Phase 4 of the MCU. “It was an ending that we all knew we wanted...that the multiverse would be born and open again,” director Kate Herron revealed in an interview with Marvel.com. The scene where Loki first returns to the TVA after being betrayed by Sylvie was the first shot after filming resumed following the pandemic-induced hiatus. 

Since the series began, the most popular fan theory was that Kang would be making an appearance in the series. However, after Jonathan Majors was cast to play the role in the upcoming film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the actor went on to deny that he plays the villain in Loki.

He wasn’t entirely wrong since the series did introduce him as He Who Remains, which is something Herron believed Marvel wouldn’t even allow them to do. But, it was permitted and now the series connects to the future film projects in the MCU in a big way. It will be interesting to see how the big reveal in the Loki finale changes the entire reality of the MCU moving forward. 

Loki is now streaming on Disney Plus.

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Source: Marvel