LOKI Season 2 Will Reportedly See Jonathan Majors Play Kang's [SPOILER] Variant

LOKI Season 2 Will Reportedly See Jonathan Majors Play Kang's [SPOILER] Variant

We recently learned that Loki season 2 will feature multiple Kang the Conqueror Variants, and one of those may have been revealed early! It's a deep dive into the comics, and we've got all the details...

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By JoshWilding - Jan 27, 2023 07:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Loki
Source: Daniel Richtman (via Covered Geekly)

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is now right around the corner, and that means we don't have too much longer to wait before finally seeing Kang the Conqueror in action. While He Who Remains was introduced in Loki's season 1 finale, this Variant - believed to be trapped in the Quantum Realm - is expected to be the MCU's new big bad. 

However, there are plenty of Kangs we've yet to meet, and it was recently reported that Loki season 2 will introduce a number of them, with Jonathan Majors obviously set to reprise the role(s).

Scooper Daniel Richtman (via Covered Geekly) has since followed up on that, claiming the Disney+ series will feature a Kang Variant who is an inventor in the past looking to buy specific items in order to manipulate the future. That's pretty vague, but very much sounds like one Victor Timely.

In the comic books, a defeated Kang travelled back to 1901 to plan his conquest of the modern age. Establishing the town of Timely in Wisconsin, he created Timely Industries and began creating various robots (one of his employees, Phineas Horton, would go on to build the original Human Torch). 

Much of the equipment built by Timely Industries would go on to be used by the likes of Reed Richards, Misty Knight, and even Deathlok, showing what an impact "Victor" had on the wider Marvel Universe. 

It was also during this time that Kang built Chronopolis, the fortress we've caught a glimpse of in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. With that in mind, it's possible Loki will be the one who encounters Kang at this time and "defeats" the villain by leaving him stranded in the Quantum Realm (where he eventually encounters the Ant-Man family). 

We'll see what happens, but it's becoming apparent that Kang's fingerprints will soon be felt all over the MCU. 

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania arrives in theaters on February 17, while Loki season 2 is still expected to arrive on Disney+ sometime this summer. 

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bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/27/2023, 8:09 AM
I doubt we'll see Kang's imprisonment in Loki. We might get hints to that version being trapped there and why, but I doubt Loki is gonna be responsible for it.

Aside from that, I do expect Loki to have run-ins with Victor Timely and a few other variants. Maybe even because the TVA (now run by evil Kang) wants them pruned.
TheRose
TheRose - 1/27/2023, 8:20 AM
@bkmeijer1 - That's potentially interesting. Pruning Kang variants would allow for the many variations to get a spotlight instead of becoming generic bad-guys to beat up (see the Black Order in Infinity War/Endgame).
This could be a way to introduce young Kang aka Iron Lad (thought I imagine they will change Iron Lad's battle strategy/power set a bit to avoid overlap with Ironheart. They may not even use the Iron Lad name at all)
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/27/2023, 8:44 AM
@TheRose - out of all the variants, I think Iron Lad is the one we won't get.

I think they wanna have Jonathan Majors as every variant so that we always recognize him as a Kang variant. Doesn't go for obvious reasons with Iron Lad.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/27/2023, 8:24 AM
The multiverse... how could they possibly make it feel stale and overplayed already
Scarilian
Scarilian - 1/27/2023, 8:26 AM
@bobevanz -
If handled poorly, a multiverse makes everything feel irrelevant. It's kinda the vibe that early Rick & Morty was going with, nothing matters, everyone has an unimaginable number of variants who may only vary in that they prefer a specific type of soda or maybe they walk at different speeds.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 1/27/2023, 8:25 AM
Why should we care about Kang if there are countless infinite variants of him, we are talking more than a billion variants of Kang and every other character in the MCU now. The multiverse has removed the tension/stakes and it's made everything so meaningless.
Vigor
Vigor - 1/27/2023, 8:27 AM
@Scarilian - you know. You always do that

You question something about a future movie that hasn't come out yet. Then jump to a conclusion the next sentence and exclaim your dislike of the entire thing.
Reminds me of a few of my exes
Scarilian
Scarilian - 1/27/2023, 8:29 AM
@Scarilian -
We also have one of the worst retcons in the series, in which during Loki it is revealed that none of the characters in the series prior had free will. Everything was a grand scheme via a variant of Kang we barely know and don't care about who shows up to monologue. How utterly lame is that? The idea that everything that happened was predetermined, no choices just people as actors on a stage. It cheapens every action of Phase 1-3. Even the snap and Time Travel was pre-determined, an inevitability as Thanos believed because it was scheduled and planned by Kang.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 1/27/2023, 8:34 AM
@Vigor -
"You question something about a future movie that hasn't come out yet."

These events occurred in Loki Season 1 and Doctor Strange MoM.

In Loki S1:
We had Kang acknowledge that a multiversal war has already happened showing countless variants of Kang. We've already been introduced to a variant of Kang who explained what his variants are like - the only thing they may do is have one betray the others to help the heroes - but they already did that with Loki. We see an endless showcase of all the different variants of Loki and it's just the same guy in a different outfit for a vast majority as Loki scrolls through them.

In MoM:
We see examples of how Disney wanted to depict the multiverse and the most creative things they could come across were paint, a futuristic robotic world and dinosaurs - and they decided to focus on a world where the primary difference was that it was a Utopian society built on a lie - like every other portrayal of a Utopian society in sci-fi. Then we meet Doctor Strange variants and they are all the same, including the backstories and they all love Christine Palmer because they wanted a cheesy line.
malschla
malschla - 1/27/2023, 1:50 PM
@Scarilian - And don't forget that in a multiverse of INFINITE POSSIBILITIES... Mordo is ALWAYS jealous of Strange in every universe.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 1/27/2023, 8:43 AM
Pay off is important. It’s what made the Infinity Saga what it is. But to get there, you have to build. Otherwise, you’d just be making the next Batman v Superman, but that seems to be lost on people these days.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 1/27/2023, 8:47 AM
@PlusUltra -
I don't think people would have had an issue with them 'building' if what they were building was done well and what they were building up to was clear.

If the foundational structure of your new phase is generally considered bad, as Phase 4 has been, then whatever you build upon it is going to have a rough start.
MarvelousMarty
MarvelousMarty - 1/27/2023, 9:04 AM
Hopefully there is a Marvel varient that still makes good movies.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 1/27/2023, 9:40 AM
Should they not start casting multiple actors for Kang? I think people are going to start wondering why peter parkers all look different and why stphen strange and Kang are all the same.
ptick
ptick - 1/27/2023, 12:10 PM
@Matchesz - There should have been at least one Dr. Strange variant who didn't look like Benedict C and you're right it should also be the same with Kang, assuming we get more than two or three of his variants. Loki variants sometimes look like "our" Loki and sometimes don't.
thereeljoefish
thereeljoefish - 1/27/2023, 9:47 AM
When people say they’re tired of the multiverse it’s because you have read 100 articles about it before each installment comes out.
The only multiverse we have currently is Dr. Strange, Loki, Spider-Man and wandavision. You guys are such trash lol.
BB8ANG
BB8ANG - 1/27/2023, 9:52 AM
Is Kang the Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne of the MCU?
DocSpock
DocSpock - 1/27/2023, 4:02 PM
@BB8ANG -

He sure is. Good thought.
Reginator
Reginator - 1/27/2023, 5:39 PM
Shouldn’t it be different actors playing kang variants in Loki 2 like there were different actors playing Loki variants in season 1?
BigPhilbowski
BigPhilbowski - 1/28/2023, 1:20 AM
@Reginator - some variants are the same person. Some aren't. Hiddlestone has played 3 different lokis so far in the MCU
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