LOKI Ending Explained: Why KANG is the New Thanos of the MCU | MARVEL Breakdown 

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It was just sad when Mobius didn't recognized Loki

The complexity of Marvel’s storyline and how each movie intertwines with each other just blows me away every time

The reason Kang's acting over the top is that he is millions of years old and the human mind isn't designed to function that long. Kang is literally crazy at this point.

The only thing I'm disappointed in this season finale, is there is no Post-Credit Scene.

I'm just sad that moebius never got his jetski

This version of Kang was probably the most benevolent. I’m stoked to see him cranked to 11. He did a very very good job. Marvel kills it with their casting.

Never thought I’d get jumpscared by a hologram of an anthropomorphic cartoon clock with a southern accent after the end of time, but here we are…

Something I just noticed…During Kang’s speech he says it can go one of two ways and specifically mentions plunging her blade in his chest…which we know is what happened. Not the head or the neck or the gut. Also when he takes off his time twister he slides it very carefully across his desk to a specific spot…a spot where Sylvie will be able to reach it so she can expel Loki and kill Kang. It’s like poetry it rhymes.

MISS MINUTES SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME 😂😂😂

I'll admit it, I was one of the many clowns who thought MCU had peaked after endgame

Meanwhile, DC: let's reboot Batman with 0 screen brightness

More importantly, this explains Scarlet Witches After Credits Ending. She heard her son's voices through the multiverse.

“while he’s in here, missing Sylvie and feeling sorry for himself..” he is ALLOWED sir

Thanos as a villain was powerful, he had a plan.. However, it's only because Kang wanted it to be this way - now that's ultimate power.

I was half expecting Kang to just suddenly do a musical in front of Loki and Sylvie. He was so interesting and quirky

Someone actually thought of this whole storyline and it is finally being put into motion. Whoever that is/was is the real master of the universe

Jonathan Majors is going to make an amazing and terrifying Kang. As usual Marvel killed it with this casting and it has me very hyped for the future of the MCU. Loki was completely terrified at the end of the episode.

I love how they changed Kang from a time villain to a multiverse villain. He is gonna be such a badass from now on. No more kidding around.

Did anyone else notice that while Loki is running through the archives, his movements aren't really fluid like he doesn't appear from behind the next shelf exactly when he should if it was one fluid motion.. I think that part symbolizes him running through the TVA while many different branches are being created, finally landing him in the one where Mobius doesn't know him

What if Sylvie and Loki's nexus event in Lamentis was actually "dying" in the apocalypse? If they died, no one would get to Immortus (He who remained) and kill him and the Multiversal War could not have happened, so this means that it was all supposed to happen.

The one thing I've learned from this show: You can't trust Marvel trailers! They put so many alternate shots into the trailers that don't match up with the actual scenes in the shows that it's like _they're_ from an alternate reality.

When Kang is shown dead in his chair he is posed like the Lincoln Memorial statue. Right leg stretched out, left leg pulled in, right hand gripping the chair arm, left hand more relaxed. Is this intentional symbolism? Like Lincoln trying to keep the country from dividing, Kang was trying to maintain a united timeline? Or something like that?

Since Silvie was able to bring back old memories by enchanting the TVA agents and now Loki learned how to enchant while fighting Alioth, do you think he will try to enchant Mobius in the next season to help him remember?

jonathan majors acted exactly like what i imagined someone whose discovered alternate realities would act.

Honestly when I watched the episode and saw the 2 options presented, I knew this was going to be REALLY HARD. Option 1: Loki and Sylvie become the new rulers of TVA. This sounds terrible because the TVA goes against the principles of free will. Avengers Loki would have loved it but our current Loki has evolved so much past the point that he realizes that he can't do it. It would continue his loop, he gets to be 'king of all time' but at the expense of everyone's happiness and free will. Sylvie was a fine example of this where her entire life was ruined by the TVA just because she existed. Option 2: Kill Kang and let chaos go crazy which would unlock 'worse Kangs'. Sylvie chooses this because she was so driven by revenge and in a sense continues her Loki loop. Our Loki has surpassed himself as he has seen that if he continues his loop, it would only bring suffering, isolation and unhappiness, and he tries to stop Sylvie from her loop but fails. He lived that life before and didn't want Sylvie to go down the path he did, but she kind of 'becomes him' enacting revenge on Kang. And what a brilliant line he says 'I just want you to be ok' because he can see his former self in her and hopes that with his love, she wouldn't go to the dark side. Unfortunately, Syvlie pushes him away because she's like 'screw love, I just want my revenge'. Love wasn't her priority, not at this time. Love to her was simply a distraction. Loki knows that both options are terrible but was trying to have a discussion with Sylvie to see if he could find a 'best of both worlds answer' but in her emotionally charged state, option 2 was obviously the most attractive to her but after she kills Kang, she realizes the anticlimax. That in her selfishness, she has unleashed hell upon the universe. But actually if you think about it, there probably is no middle ground. Kang knows that there is actually only 1 option: letting lose the multiverse. Because he knows that Loki and Sylvie will not pick Option 1. He's actually not worried about dying because he literally thinks he has mastered the past, present and future. He is immortal because he knows there will always be Kangs out there. Maybe initially he thought that having a dictatorship over the entire universe was the way to go, but now that he sees that Loki and Sylvie were able to make it this far and confront him, he sees 'hey, maybe I can get this to work for me. Maybe I don't just get 1 universe to rule, maybe I can rule MULTIPLE universes' and possibly, he already knew that Sylvie would eventually 'kill him' and kick-off his conquest of multiple universes. So in a way, Kang has played Loki and Sylvie. He actually wins despite 'dying'. I think Loki has become so self-aware that he can see that it is a trap that's why he tries to stop Sylvie but alas, she falls for it and now Loki has to think about how to prepare for the 'attack of the Kangs' and now realizes that now that 'worse Kangs' are out there, the whole universe is gonna suck a whole lot more. At first I thought that the TVA would cease to exist without 'good Kang' but it turns out, 'worse Kangs' now run the TVA so the TVA technically still exists. So the question is will we get our Mobius back? Or Loki will have to do the '50 first dates' all over again to get a Mobius to trust him? It seems now with this change, Lokis, like you said, are not a major threat and new Mobius doesn't even recognize a Loki as a Loki, he just asks 'oh what is your position, who are you?' . The show totally looks like it went 'Back to the Future' where Loki is the constant but everything changes around him as time modifies. And yup, this would certainly be a job for Dr Strange and Wanda to fix with Loki possibly helping on the side.

Sylvie:"I told you , you die for that." He who renains: "you should have aimed for the job...".

MCU's chaotic story lines are actually making me question my reality so hard I think I shit my soul out...just when I thought my ongoing existential crisis couldn't get any worse 🤔

It’s crazy to believe that Endgame was merely the tip of the iceberg

rip the mobius and Loki's friendship :/

This should have been called a miniseries. Just when things get good cliffhanger and see you in two + years.

“We just crossed… the threshold.” Majors’ expression/tonal change was so clear. He’s a great actor/villain 😈 “And they all lead here… but never further.” Like The Ancient One, not seeing beyond her life, He Who Remains couldn’t see past that moment in “time.” Same thunder? in the backgrounds of those scenes. 🤯 Lokis had the chance to take over, like Dr. Strange, but Sylvie released chaos instead. So Dr. Strange/Spider-Man and friends must correct their mistake.

I think kang was tired of always knowing everything and always keeping order. You can see he’s almost giddy to get to the point where he stops knowing, and he is excited at every little thing that happens after he loses sight. He got to witness a show in those last few minutes of his life by dividing the lokis and leaving it to chance.

When kang died I thought it was like when the Sorcerer Supreme couldn’t see past her death, thus making me believe that no matter what. You cant look past from when you die

Did you noticed that the way ' He who remains ' presented the events when he was explaining to Lokis was pretty similar to the way EGO presented his story to Starlord in GOTG Vol 2.

The one who break the loop is actually loki, he did it by doing something no other loki in existense do, doing something for someone else instead of himself, not sylvie because she did what other loki did betray other and ignoring the consuquence of her action thus trap herself in loki loop, you know do a thing-betray other-lose, thus she actually can kill kang was thanks to loki breaking the loop in the first place

It makes sense that miss minutes is being controlled by someone else since Kang was surprised that miss minutes still has a nickname for him, but also would mean that whoever is controlling miss minutes is afraid of Loki because she offers a deal if they drop it all.

I'm glad they used He Who Remains like this I mean the original character doesn't have much to him aside from just it... He Who Remains. This is good.

This episode was AMAZING. A work of art and attention to detail.

I love how the "threshold" point that Kang mentioned crossing, where he no longer knows what is going to happen, syncs near perfect with the moment that Wanda becomes Scarlett Witch in Wandavision. Both take place in the last episodes of their respective shows, and both points are even synced and occur at the same run time of each episode, down to the second. The effort and time that they put into the MCU to have everything intertwine to the extent that everything goes is just so crazy. It's the first of its kind in cinema, and it just keeps getting more insane with each new movie or series. They could literally keep this up forever, to where 20-30 plus years down the line they are still cranking them out, and I would still watch every single thing with fevered excitement lol. My only worry is that I will die while it's still going, and ill miss out on any installments released after I'm gone lol

The more I hear the name “he who remains” the more I think it might be an alternate version of Harry potter

That means the RAT in EndGame is a VARIANT placed there by KANG in order to create all the events we know so we could have the multiverse lol 😆

Thor from our timeline will reunite with our Loki when Kang is defeated. Loki predicted this in infinity war.

I think another thing that I found interesting was Loki saying that Kang was terrifying. Up into that point I didn't pick up on the fact that Loki was scared. But I did notice how quiet he was, he paid attention to everything kang for saying. But when he started talking to Mobius you can really hear the fear.

My thoughts on Loki’s ending: he is in a different universe. In the explanation of He Who Remains we see his variants using those temporal doors to cross over, the same way the TVA does when they hunt down a branched reality. Sylvie pushes Loki through the door, after new branches were formed. He is in the multiverse but at the same point in time, because the multiverse is happening all at once.

Jar Jar crushed by a truck..... yes, for all time, always.

The best argument that I have for the Kang statue TVA being a different universe, is that when we see Mobius and B15 looking at the monitor saying "no turning back now", his hair is quite ruffled up. When Loki finds Mobius and B15, his hair looks combed, or at least in better shape. I truly think he somehow ended up in a different reality

I just find it amazing how Kang’s power makes Thanos look like a little bug. I remember watching infinity war and endgame thinking that Thanos was the all powerful.

The chills I got through my body when Mobius didn’t recognize him 😱

[1:30] Kang told Loki and Sylvie that he had paved the path for them which they followed to meet him(Kang). So, I think that when Loki followed Sylvie from Roxxcart, the order of events became a part of the "Sacred Timeline" under Kang's so called "Creative Adjustments". They were destined to meet Kang. So when they were about to die on Lamentis, the TVA got alerted. Because if you think about it, no matter what Sylvie and Loki did on Lamentis, it should not have made a branch alerting the TVA as they were hiding in an apocalypse where it is impossible to create a timeline. Even if they fell in love, it wouldn't have made any difference as they were still going to die. This proves that them surviving Lamentis to meet Kang was part of Kang's plan.

I must be in a time loop, because once again Tom Hiddleston’s acting absolutely blew me away. 👏🏻 Give the man all the awards 🏆

I realize that the extreme branching on lamentis was due to them about to die, not love. If the lokis are responsible for creating immortus, then if they died on lamentis, that would not create immortus. That is the big branch. After all the TVA at that time only cared about immortus sacred timeline and nexus events that would harm it. Especially since, they got close on many other occasions and didn't branch.

The golden cracks in the castle at the end of time are very likely a reference to Japanese art of Kintsugi (金継ぎ), which itself refers to Mushin (無心) philosophy. One way to say that any branches (cracks) are in the end all parts of the same reality, and that fate is predetermined.

Seeing "Kang" as a kind of lunatic will make him totally dope as the villian in AM&TWQ!🤩

Speaking of loops, season 2 will begin with Loki and Mobius getting to know each other again.

Majors is an INCREDIBLE actor; I’m excited to see more of him!

I really like your miss minutes theory. A hidden Kang makes a lot of sense. Could also be “future” Slyvie, realizing her mistake and trying to correct it, while basically “off the board” as it appears to be

Now everything make sense, why Eternals need to intervene, why Wanda and Doctor Strange is together to correct the reality "Nexus being", why Spiderman is in No Way Home , why we have the Jane Foster as the New Thor and the entrance of Fantastic Four, all is now falling to places 😍😍😍

Whatever happens, the new Dr. Strange movie has the potencial to be fucking good.

Omg the hey y’all was the most successful MCU jumpscare EVER Like jeeeeeeeeez

i have a feeling cap's mission to return the infinity stones has something to do with everything that's about to transpire in the MCU

In Japan, when you repair a broken bowl, you do it with gold leaf. It enhances the broken bowl as if it always was destine to be better.

I was in awe(&aww) this entire episode, I'm definitely going to be watching this series again and maybe again.

I just thought that explaining the mcu to my friends is already pretty complicated. Now how the f am I going to explain them the multiverse/multiversal wars/the concept of time, and how every character fits into this and why there’s spider-pig all the sudden. Jesus.

I think the red line that kept the TVA worried when it's crossed would end up creating variants of the TVA itself.

Also, miss minutes tried pulling a matrix card on the loki's lol

He isn't Immortus. He really is "He who Remains." A completely unique Kang. A light and brutally honest take on the character that fits with Loki.

Thank you for breaking this down. I needed a grander scope of all this👌

The editing the theories, very sound, very good video!

I think the “See you soon” means that his other versions are coming. I also think that there’s not meant to be any Variants, the TVA has been shutting them down, but without Kang then the timelines aren’t being trimmed down anymore and that results in evil Kangs

I like how it makes total sense that kang wouldn’t stop the two Loki’s from killing him as no matter what they chose that variant of Kang always will come on top and no matter what the TVA will be formed again with the same Kang ruling it.

I am obsessed with your breakdowns they are phenomenal I couldn’t help but think after watching Loki finale, seeing the fear in Loki‘s eyes after meeting He Who Remains/other names. He was more terrified then when he saw Thanos. It’s all started to remind me of the movie Tenant. I honestly can’t wait to see what

Thanks, I really needed that!!

What will really bake your noodle, Loki breaking free with the space stone, making himself a variant and being captured by the TVA, and helping Sylvie reach (and kill) the One Who Remains, is the reason Kang comes here. He was responsible for Thanos - and now he's responsible for Kang.

Kang doesn’t give af anymore, he could’ve stopped his own death but was so chill

This dude always gets films and movies. Definitely the more sound breakdowns. Can't wait to see season 2 and more fan videos.

Hands down the best channel at explaining the MCU and Marvel comics!

I can't believe more people aren't making The Matrix comparisons to this series. Loki is Neo, the anomaly that resets time again and again...

Loki most likely ended up in a variant timeline where it was known that Immortus/Kang controlled the TVA instead of the lie about the Space Liza... I mean Time Keepers.

Thanks for great content, new to your videos, but much appreciate your work. Thanks

What a great ending! But, I was secretly hoping for a show where Mobius and Loki travel through time and solve time crimes/mysteries/ anomalies... guess I'm a time fascist myself! XD

This episode blew my mind. What if Sylvie sent Loki back to the TVA in the past, a previous iteration of the TVA, perhaps?

Determinism vs freewill physicists been arguing about these two issues.

My interpretation wasn’t that “He Who Remains” won the multiverse war, but instead found a way to shield this timeline from the others (that ring around him in the claymation reenactment). His death re-exposes it to the other multiverses, especially the one Kang The Conquerer (evil version) rules over. That’s where I think Sylvie sent Loki to - the mirror universe, where everyone has goatees and is evil. 😂 I’m excited tho, this totally makes sense going forwards (or, sideways?) in the MCU. With the next Spider-Man, Ant-Man and Doctor Strange movies all being about the multiverse, this will be the big thing in phase 4. That will bring us, finally, some good movies about the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. All things are as they should be. All is right with the world.

Great coverage of the Loki series right from the first episode. Keep it up 👍

“He Who Remains”. Hm, the Lokis’ defining characteristic after being pruned is that they survive. Curious if that’s in the middle of this knot.

I really liked the ending. Kang came across as crazy, but I could see why - he's been alive for God knows how many years. Any thoughts on Loki season 2 - could we see Loki battling himself and Sylvie in order to unpick what's just happened, or at least planting the seeds to whatever ends the war?

Multiverse War because Hulk had to take the stairs🙄 Hulk: Aargh so many stairs! Loki escapes and helps Sylvie to unleash the Multiverse War...

Coincidentally Deadpool and Korg had a video together.... seems intentional

I think this final showcase some of tom hiddleston best acting so far.

wow blinkist is the thing i always wanted !!!

I would have given anything for there to be a little scene where Kang went for a meal at the Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

loki is the introducer of major villian. first he works for thanos . now introduce kang.

So it’s a loop? It makes perfect sense for this to be a loop. Because all the events of episode 6 happened *outside of space and time*, meaning traditional time logic does not apply. The catalyst for the loop happened OUTSIDE of space and time, that essentially proves it’s a loop. Everything aligns perfectly. He who remains (kang) was killed by sylvie, which caused the timelines to branch into chaos, which then gave birth to the many evil/good Kang’s (he who remains’) and eventually birthed the Kang we saw get killed in episode 6 who would then bring balance back to the timeline. And who would then be killed by sylvie again which would lead to the timelines to branch into chaos and the loop continues. Also, Kang basically confirmed the loop, when he said if he was killed he’d end up right back where he was (“see you soon”). And again, the catalyst occurs outside of space and time (sylvie killing Kang), so there’s no conflict at all within the loop. Such an interesting turn of events, didn’t even see it coming.

Holy crap you called it !

🤯🤯🤯🤯 this is the start of another 10 year string of movies that ends in another “ENDGAME” which was the best movie I’ve EVER seen! Love this stuff!!

A great episode but... The ending was so sad for Loki! 😭

Yesss!!! Just finished the previous video. Couldn't wait for your explanation as you explain the best!! Thanks a ton!

I was surprised to hear Alan Watt's voice in LOKI. He made great works.

wow what a breakdown mindblowing