Loki season finale: Post-credits scene and ending Of episode 6 explained

Loki season finale: Post-credits scene and ending Of episode 6 explained

Sylvie and Loki are introduced to the puppet master of the Time Variance Authority.

Loki's time-traveling voyage came to a close on Wednesday, with the release of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's sixth and final episode on Disney Plus. The season finale, titled For All Time, Always, picks up with Gods of Mischief Variants Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) having discovered the path to the mastermind behind the Time Variance Authority's castle hideout, and ends with a post-credits scene that opens up a multiverse of Marvel possibilities.

Separately, former TVA agent Mobius (Owen Wilson) returned to his old job, determined to disclose the truth that he and his co-workers are all Variants who were abducted from their previous life and had their memories wiped. TVA Judge Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) isn't sure if she'll assist or hinder Mobius in his mission.

Let's avoid the SPOILER Variance Authority one last time and dig in (or maybe not).

The villain revealed

When Loki and Sylvie enter the Citadel at the End of Time, they encounter He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors), who seems to be a time-traveling comic villain named Kang the Conqueror. We already knew he'd be making his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in February 2023.

It appears that the Kang has yet to appear in this episode, as he is never referred to as Kang. He Who Remains claims to be the lone survivor of a multiversal war that erupted after many versions of himself collided in the 31st century after the universe was discovered.

He tamed and weaponized Alioth, intending to use the trans-temporal creature to put a stop to the conflict (presumably by gobbling up the other timelines). To prevent this from occurring again, he established the TVA to oversee the Sacred Timeline.

Kang is a baddy from the 31st century who has battled the Avengers several times since his 1960s debut.

Multiverse restored

He Who Remains' fate is fought over by Loki and Sylvie, with the latter emerging victorious (after a little Variant kissy time). She hurls Loki back to the TVA and kills He Who Remains, causing the chronology to branch out of control, allowing many different versions of Kang to run rampant across the multiverse.

When Loki attempts to alert best bud agent Mobius (Owen Wilson) and Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku) about the threat, their impact is quickly visible in the TVA. They don't recognize him, and Loki turns to see a statue of Kang towering above the TVA, dressed in his comic outfit — it appears that the God of Mischief has been transported to another timeline's version of the agency, one that Kang openly controls.

This presumably leads directly into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which will be released in March 2022, and ties into the WandaVision finale, in which Wanda heard her missing sons calling out from some plain of reality; Wanda's search will most likely continue in the Doctor Strange sequel.

It also most certainly opens the way for What If...? to be included in the canon. The animated series, which premieres on Disney Plus on Wednesday, Aug. 11, examines other universes based on events that take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a new way. And maybe, just maybe, it'll help Spider-Man: No Way Home break down the barriers between worlds.

Post-credits announcement

A stamp hits Loki's TVA case file, revealing that "Loki will return in season 2" -- the timeline tomfoolery and Variant kissing will continue.

We Hear Some MCU Characters Chatting

We hear phrases from various periods in the MCU chronology and real life as soon as the Marvel Studios logo appears at the beginning of the episode. The obvious ones are as follows:

"Way to go, Tic-Tac." -- Sam Wilson in Captain America: Civil War

"That's how you punch." -- Hope Van Dyne in Ant-Man

"Wakanda forever!" -- T'Challa in Black Panther

"You wouldn't have heard of me." -- Scott Lang in Ant-Man

"Let me put you on hold" -- Natasha Romanoff in The Avengers

"Dance-off, bro." -- Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy

"He's a friend from work." -- Thor in Thor: Ragnarok

"I can do this all day. Yeah I know." -- 2012 Steve Rogers to 2023 Steve Rogers in Avengers: Endgame 

"I'll show you ferocity." -- Hank Pym in Ant-Man

"Higher, further, faster, baby." -- Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel

"We have a Hulk." -- Loki in Avengers: Infinity War

"We're gonna jump on that spaceship and get out of here. Wanna come?" -- Korg in Thor: Ragnarok

"We think of time as a one-way motion." -- philosopher Alan Watts in real life

"One small step for man…" -- Neil Armstrong in real life

"How dare they!" -- Greta Thunberg in real life

"My dream…" -- Malala Yousafzai in real life 

"We have fought for the right to experience peace." Nelson Mandela in real life

"Glorious purpose!" -- Classic Loki in Loki episode 5

"Motivated by women throughout the world." Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in real life

"What is grief, if not love persevering?" Vision in WandaVision episode 8.

"I will rise." Maya Angelou in real life

"Open your eyes." Sylvie in Loki episode 5

We also hear Kylie Minogue's 1987 debut single I Should Be So Lucky, as well as the 1945 song It's Been a Long, Long Time (specifically the Harry James Orchestra version, with vocals by Kitty Kallen), which you might remember Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter dancing to in their alternate timeline marital bliss at the end of Avengers: Endgame. Oh, look, it's the decade of the '80s.