Lokis Ending Sets Up A Secret Wars Adaptation

Loki’s Ending Sets Up A Secret Wars Adaptation

Loki’s shocking ending not only introduces a terrifying new threat to the MCU, but lays the seeds for an adaptation of an Earth-shattering event.

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Lokis Ending Sets Up A Secret Wars Adaptation

The finale of the first season of Loki changes the very fabric of the MCU as we know it, but it also introduces the spark that might catch fire and become a full-blown adaptation of Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars. The show’s first season follows Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and his vengeful variant Sylvie’s (Sophia Di Martino) quest to destroy the Time-Keepers and the Time Variance Authority, the temporal agency responsible for upturning both of their lives and pruning countless timelines in the process. However, along the way, they discover that the ancient deities behind the TVA, the Time-Keepers, were nothing more than a front to cover up for the true mastermind behind it all. Loki episode six revealed this mastermind to be none other than He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors), a variant of the ruthless Kang the Conqueror from the far-flung future.

Unable to abandon her quest for revenge, Sylvie murders He Who Remains and inadvertently breaks the Sacred Timeline in the process, opening up countless branches and potentially splintering the MCU into a multiverse in the process. This is a concept that will be explored in various facets throughout much of Phase 4, as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will follow the Sorcerer Supreme and Wanda Maximoff into multiple different realms, and Spider-Man: No Way Home is heavily rumored to introduce Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men through multiversal trickery. After the finale of Loki, however, the project with the potential to offer the biggest answers might just be Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is set to introduce the true villainous persona of Kang the Conqueror.

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Sylvie and Loki’s actions may have created a space for the arrival of one of the greatest villains in the Marvel Universe, but the repercussions don’t end there. If Loki’s version of the villainous Kang is to be believed, a throwaway line from him might spell doom for various universes within the newly created Multiverse.

When explaining his reasoning for creating the TVA, He Who Remains tells the two Loki variants that after discovering the existence of alternate realities in the 31st century, the man who would become the villainous Kang made contact with various versions of himself. At first, they were peaceful, albeit narcissistic, but before long the variants turned to violence and a conflict that spiraled into a long-standing Multiversal War. While the scope of this war has yet to be explored, He Who Remains states that Kang variants fought amongst themselves for universal survival, implying that each universe was at risk for some unknown reason. While this is terrifying for obvious reasons, it also sounds suspiciously like the set-up for Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars.

In the lead-up to Hickman’s Secret Wars, the shadowy secret group called the Illuminati discovered that because of the untimely destruction of an alternate universe Earth decades earlier, the Multiverse has contracted, causing alternate universes to collide into each other in cataclysmic events known as Incursions. With seemingly no other option at hand, the Illuminati (at the time made up of Namor, Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Black Panther, Hank McCoy, and Black Bolt) decided to create anti-matter weapons that could be used to trigger the destruction of a universe early, before it collided with their Earth. Of course, this solution proved to be only temporary. In the end, the 616 and Ultimate Universes collided in one final incursion before the Multiverse was re-created into Battleworld by Doctor Doom, who’d secretly stolen the power of the Beyonders – setting the stage for Secret Wars.

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While the Illuminati has yet to be introduced into the MCU, there are a handful of people who are now aware of the existence of the Multiverse – Doctor Strange, Loki, and the Scarlet Witch, each of them characters who aren’t afraid to make dubious moral decisions to save lives. And if the appearance of Kang the Conqueror is one great enough to lead to another Multiversal War, we might soon see some of our favorite heroes forced to make some terrifying and difficult moral decisions. The first season of Loki has forever changed the nature of the MCU, and it might lead to a conflict even more terrifying than that of the Infinity Saga.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/loki-ending-finale-secret-wars-adaptation-setup/

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