Ravonna Renslayer's story continued in Loki season 2 and if you weren't already convinced of her status as a villain, then the way she brutally killed those TVA agents cemented the fact the former Judge is now beyond redemption.
After being pruned by Sylvie (who had possessed Brad Wolfe), the finale confirmed that Ravonna had been left stranded in The Void. There, she encounters what appears to be a piece of a pruned TVA...and an approaching Alioth!
No longer green after being stopped by Loki and Sylvie, it's widely been assumed Alioth devoured Ravonna. However, eagle-eyed fans noticed there was a pyramid in the background; could that have been a nod to Kang Variant, Rama-Tut?
Talking to Esquire, Loki Head Writer Eric Martin addressed the villain's fate.
"I'll let people muse about what that can mean. She's up in the air," he teases. "There are things that can happen with her. If you look to the comics, there are some fun inferences that can be drawn from the pyramid. And you know, who knows? Does Alioth kill her? Or did they strike up a friendship? Maybe Alioth remembers her? I don't know."
In the comics, Ravonna became the Moon Knight of Ancient Egypt after crossing paths with Rama-Tut. She also has a history with Alioth after inadvertently releasing the creature...perhaps she'll take him from The Void, using his powers for herself? Time is a funny thing so it's also possible that, by the time we see her next, she'll have somehow become a key advisor to the Council of Kangs.
Elsewhere in the interview, Martin also elaborated on Loki's transformation. "The big idea was taking Loki from a lowercase-g god, to a capital-G God, powering him up to that place where he gets his throne - but it's not a throne he wants anymore. This is a duty. He's doing this so everyone else can have their lives."
"He's giving up the thing that he wants most so that everyone else can have their free will," the writer adds. "We wanted to power up his abilities, but also his wisdom and knowledge."
As for whether that means the God of Mischief is suffering, Martin would only say, "I leave that up to interpretation. That final image is meant to be ambiguous. So I'll let people make up their own minds there. If you look into mythology, someone like Atlas is an interesting person to look at with that."
It feels like a tragic end for Loki, though the eventual destruction of the Multiverse could free the Asgardian from his self-imposed exile. If this is where his story ends, though, it's a powerful note for Tom Hiddleston to go out on, especially when you look back at how his journey began way back in 2011.