Loki S2 trailer finds the god of mischief battling for the “soul of the TVA”

The dangerous Loki Variant turned out to be a woman named Sylvie (Sophia di Martino) with powers of enchantment, and of course, the two Variants found each other fascinating. We also briefly met a bunch of other amusing Loki variants in the penultimate S1 episode: Classic Loki (Richard E. Grant), Kid Loki (Jack Veal), Boastful Loki (DeObia Oparei), President Loki (Hiddleston), Alligator Loki, and we even caught a glimpse of Thor as a captured frog, aka “Throg,” whose croaks of rage were voiced by Chris Hemsworth.

Naturally, Loki’s suspicions about the TVA proved well-founded. As I wrote in my review, the first season of Loki was “an excellent mix of action, surprising twists, canny exposition, and intimate character moments, all leading up to the final reveal: what is the TVA’s true nature and purpose, and is there someone (or something) else behind the scenes pulling the strings of the sacred trio of Time Keepers?” The puppet master turned out to be none other than Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors, who reprised the role for this year’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania)—or rather, a Kang Variant known as He Who Remains.

In the S1 finale, He Who Remains informed Loki and Sylvie that he was tired of running the TVA, which he created after he ended a multiverse war among all his variants and set up one single timeline. He told the pair that they could either kill him—and thus risk another multiverse war—or take on oversight of the TVA in his place. Sylvie opted to kill He Who Remains against Loki’s pleading, and a multitude of timelines were unleashed. When Loki returned to TVA headquarters, neither Mobius nor Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku) recognized him, and the statue of the Time Keepers had been replaced by a statue of one of the Kang Variants.