Loki season 2: Key information
– Arrives on Disney Plus in early October
– Story will pick up right after the first season
– Official trailer released on July 31
– Ties into Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
– Multiple cast members set to return
– Jonathan Majors will feature despite assault allegations
– New cast details officially revealed
– Written by Loki season 1 co-writer
– Helmed by Moon Knight directors
– Acts as narrative thread throughout the Multiverse Saga
Almost three months after the Loki season 2 launch date was revealed, we finally have our first proper look at the hit Disney Plus show’s return. That’s right, an official trailer has landed online – and there’s plenty to unpick from its mend-bending, time-jumping footage.
Luckily for you, we’re here to explain exactly what’s going on in (or, at least, what to expect from) Loki‘s next outing. Below, we’ve rounded up all the information we can find on season 2’s first teaser, as well as other tidbits like the Marvel Phase 5 project’s release date, cast list, story specifics, how it could impact the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and future productions, and more.
Full spoilers follow for previous Marvel productions, including Loki season 1 and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Potential spoilers for Loki 2 are also on the way.
Loki season 2 release date
Loki season 2 will make its debut on October 6. There’s no word on whether one of the best Disney Plus shows get a single or two-episode premiere, though.
Eric Martin – who helped to pen half of Loki season 1’s episodes – serves as season 2’s showrunner. He’s been joined in the writers’ room by Kathryn Blair, Kasra Farahani, Amber Dupre, and Brett Maline, according to the Writers Guild of America directory (thanks to Reddit for the catch).
Moon Knight directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead helmed all six episodes, while season 1 head writer Michael Waldron returns as an executive producer. Lastly, composer Natalie Holt is also back to create another hauntingly beautiful score.
Loki season 2 trailer
At long last, Loki season 2 has an official trailer – and it’s just broken a major Disney Plus record. Additionally, by the looks of it, time is running out for the trickster god to try and stop Kang (or, rather, another of his variants) from causing multiversal havoc.
The teaser opens with Loki and the alternate reality version of Agent Mobius (remember, Loki was sent to a different Time Variant Authority (TVA) in the Loki season 1 finale) visiting ‘OB’, Ke Huy Quan’s TVA employee. It isn’t long before we find out why the duo ask for OB’s help, either, as Loki ‘timeslips’ – the show’s word for a character being pulled across the MCU‘s past and present – to a new location. Just like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Loki is in a universe he’s not supposed to be. And, unless he can find a way to stabilize his cells or return to Marvel-616 (the MCU’s main timeline), he might not survive.
That’s job number one, anyway. As the trailer shows, Loki and the TVA will be looking to stop the multiverse’s collapse, which would help Victor Timely (and the infinite amount of Kang (more on him shortly) variants) from reigniting their multiversal war. We’ll get more about what else the teaser, well, teases in our story section.
Loki season 2 cast
Major spoilers follow for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Here’s Loki season 2’s cast list so far:
- Tom Hiddleston as Loki
- Owen Wilson as Agent Mobius
- Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer
- Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15
- Ke Quy Huan as Ouroboros
- Jonathan Majors as Victor Timely
- Tara Strong as Miss Minutes
- Eugene Cordero as Casey
- Rafael Casal as TBC
- Kate Dickie as TBC
Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Owen Wilson, Wunmi Mosaku, Sophia di Martino, and Tara Strong are all back from the series’ first season.
Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan (Indiana Jones, Everything Everywhere All at Once) has been confirmed as Ouroboros (also known as ‘OB’), an expert TVA engineer. Eugene Cordero’s scene-stealing TVA employee Casey returns and has been bumped to a series regular.
Potential spoilers for Loki season 2’s cast follow.
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Per Deadline, Rafael Casel’s unnamed character will have a major role to play. MCU insider DanielRPK (via MCU News) suggests Casal is portraying a rogue TVA agent, who escapes into the 1970s and becomes a movie star.
Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones) is also believed to be Loki season 2’s primary antagonist. We briefly see her spar with Di Martino’s Sylvie in the trailer and industry insider MyTimeToShineHello suggests Dickie will play an “evil general” whose army of TVA agents destroy any new timelines in the wake of He Who Remains’ death in season 1. Casal’s TVA agent is thought to be part of Dickie’s rogue faction.
Jonathan Majors, who played Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man 3, will also appear – but not as the time-traveling warlord.
In Quantumania, Kang was seemingly killed by Ant-Man and the Wasp, with the villain being sucked into the multiversal power core of his Time Chair. Unless Kang pulls a Darren Cross/Yellowjacket move and returns (either as himself or another villain, like Cross’ MODOK), we shouldn’t expect to see him again.
So, who will Majors play in Loki season 2? One of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania‘s post-credits scenes confirms he’ll play another Kang variant called Victor Timely, an early 20th century inventor and industrialist.
In the comics, Victor Timely travels to 1901 to found the town of Timely in Wisconsin and turns it into a technology-rich city. We suspect this will form the basis of Loki’s second season, with Victor acting as an antagonist (primary or secondary) to Loki and Mobius, who travel to the past to track him down.
Why do we say Victor Timely might not be the show’s next major villain? Based on Quantumania‘s other post-credits scene – the Council of Kangs one – we could see multiple iterations from this Kang gang turn up, including Immortus, Rama-Tut, and Scarlet Centurion. Maybe season 2 will feature multiple Kangs, which would give Loki and company some serious headaches. According to The Cosmic Circus, we’ll see more of Majors’ Kang variants than expected, so we could be right on the money with our theory.
All of that depends, though, on Majors’s forthcoming trial. On March 25, Majors was arrested on domestic abuse allegations and later charged for assault, harassment, and aggravated harassment.
Majors and his lawyer have denied the allegations and, as the case remains open, Marvel hasn’t publicly commented on Majors’ continual involvement in the MCU. Majors’ trail was set to begin on August 3, but has been delayed to September 6 (per Variety).
We won’t learn about Majors’ MCU future until the case is closed, but industry insider Jeff Sneider claims Marvel hasn’t made a decision over the actor, while DanielRPK suggests a decision will be made after Loki season 2 airs. We’ll update this section once an outcome.
Loki season 2 plot
Full Loki season 1 spoilers, plus potential season 2 rumors, follow.
Here’s the official plot synopsis: “Loki season 2 picks up in the aftermath of the shocking season finale when Loki finds himself in a battle for the soul of the Time Variance Authority. Along with Mobius, Hunter B-15, and a team of new and returning characters, Loki navigates an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous multiverse in search of Sylvie, Judge Renslayer, Miss Minutes, and the truth of what it means to possess free will and glorious purpose.”
As we mentioned in our trailer section, Loki and Mobius will start the season by trying to find a cure for Loki’s random time-slipping ailment. That’s what’s bound to happen after Loki fills this new Mobius in on who he is, what he’s doing here, and who this mysterious Kang the Conqueror guy is.
In the season 1 finale, Loki found himself in a TVA that he recognizes, but none of its employees (including Mobius) know who he is. Clearly, He Who Remains’ death – at Sylvie’s hands – causes the Marvel multiverse’s various timelines to start intersecting – events known as Incursions, as explained further in Doctor Strange 2 – which are already causing havoc across the MCU.
It seems, then, that Loki will tell Mobius and company about Kang (and his variants) and ask for their help to stop them. As Ant-Man 3‘s second post-credits stinger and the season 2 teaser show, Mobius agrees to help.
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It’s unclear how they’ll stabilize Loki’s condition, but we think the chrono-device or watch, which Loki is seen holding in the trailer, has some part to play.
Anyway, once the pair embark on their buddy cop-style adventure to track down Victor Timely, we’ll surely learn that this Kang variant is the one who founded the TVA, or created Miss Minutes at the very least. The latter is certainly the more likely of the two, as we see a giant Miss Minutes spook attendees at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, which Timely shows off his inventions at.
We’re not sure what role Timely will play this season or, as we mentioned earlier, if he’ll be the main villain of the piece. What we do know is that Ravonna Renslayer, the TVA’s former director, has tracked Timely down as well. We catch glimpses of her in the teaser and, given Ravonna and Kang have a complex relationship in Marvel comics, we’d expect her to join forces with Timely at some point.
And what of He Who Remains? Seeing as he was killed by Sylvie in season 1’s finale, he won’t be back, but we may see other Kangs. Based on the Council of Kangs post-credits scene in Ant-Man 3, other variants might show up, such as Mr Gryphon (owner of Qeng Enterprises, whose headquarters showed up as an Easter egg in Loki episode 5) or any of those seen in Quantumania‘s post-credits sequence.
Speaking of Sylvie, Loki’s female multiversal variant appears as if she’ll be grappling with the huge decision she made to kill He Who Remains. After all, it’s here fault that all of this is happening. As the teaser shows, she’s living a sheltered life as a McDonald’s employee, but she soon crosses paths with Loki again. Although, judging by her pulling a sword on him once more, she might not be all that pleased to see him.
Still, we suspect they’ll put their differences aside and attempt to undo the damage they (or, rather, Sylvie) caused in season 1. We see Loki, Sylvie, and Mobius battling a bunch of TVA agents – like Kate Dickie’s forces – towards the trailer’s end, with the first two using their magical abilities to level the playing field. Who knows what other tricks they’ll have up their sleeves in order to take down Dickie’s character, Timely, and any one else who threatens the stability of the multiverse.
Lastly, industry insider DanielRPK (via the Marvel CineVerse Twitter account) suggests a new temporal concept called the Time Loom will play an integral role in explaining the TVA’s formation and how it exists outside of time and space. Any perilous journey through the Time Loom might explain why Mobius will wear a so-called Temporal Suit, which we briefly glimpse in the trailer. Hopefully, Mobius will have a far greater, more action-packed role to play this time around.
That said, as Mobius says in the teaser, he takes a more patient, cerebral approach to problem solving, so maybe he won’t. Still, we’re looking forward to seeing him and Loki combine their collective intellects (and contrasting personas) again to amusing effect in season 2 – something that was sorely missing after season 1’s first two episodes.
Loki season 2: how will it impact the MCU?
In September 2022, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed that Loki’s second season will connect all Phases 4, 5, and 6 together (per Marvel.com). If one of the best Disney Plus shows acts as the narrative through line for the Multiverse Saga, it’s possible a third season could be greenlit for Marvel Phase 6.
Regardless of whether that’s in the offing, the impact of Loki and Sylvie’s actions is already being felt. Spider-Man: No Way Home was affected by universes colliding, while Doctor Strange 2 examined the multiverse and incursions in greater detail. The first season of What If…? was also loosely connected to Loki’s first season, based on its exploration of alternate versions of MCU characters and the dimensions they inhabit. Lastly, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania finally introduced Kang the Conqueror and set up events regarding Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, which is currently scheduled for May 1, 2026.
As for upcoming MCU projects, Loki season 2 could tie into the Fantastic Four‘s MCU debut. Comic fans will know that Kang is linked to Doctor Doom, the infamous Fantastic Four villain. So it’s plausible that they could battle Doctor Doom and a Kang variant in their first MCU adventure, which is currently slated to arrive on May 2, 2025.
Armor Wars, which will star Don Cheadle as War Machine/James Rhodes, might link to Kang if Marvel decides to bring Iron Lad (another Kang variant) into the equation. In the comics, Iron Lad is the pseudonym of Nathaniel Richards, the descendant of Fantastic Four’s Reed Richards. Nathaniel winds up becoming Kang Prime, aka the first iteration of Kang the Conqueror and his many variants. See? It all ties together.
Additionally, Marvel leakers claim Loki season 2 could impact Deadpool 3, with the multiverse offering a potential route into the MCU for the Merc With a Mouth and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. X-Men 97, a long overdue sequel to the beloved 1990s-era animated series, could have ties to the MCU’s multiverse as well. If Deadpool 3 isn’t a route into the MCU for everyone’s favorite mutants, maybe this animated show will usher them into the MCU. It seems, then, that Loki season 2 (and its predecessor) have a lot to answer for when it comes to the multiverse’s arrival and its wider impact on Marvel’s cinematic multiverse.
For more MCU-based content, find out how to watch the Marvel movies in order. Alternatively, read up on where Loki season 1 placed in our Marvel Phase 4 ranked article, or get the scoop on The Marvels, 2023’s final MCU film.
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