Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who plays Ravonna Renslayer in Loki, responded to the character's possible Kang the Conqueror connection. Over the series' first four episodes, Ravonna has quietly emerged as one of Loki's villains thanks to her role in the Time Variance Authority. Her relationship with Owen Wilson's Mobius M. Mobius crumbled in the fourth episode when he found out that the TVA is staffed with Variants who have been kidnapped from their lives on the Sacred Timeline. In response to his discovery, Renslayer "prunes" Mobius, seemingly sealing his fate.

It is also revealed in Loki episode 4 that Ravonna took Sylvie from Asgard when she was younger due to an unseen Nexus event caused by the Loki Variant. Ravonna also hid a major secret - the Time-Keepers aren't real. Instead, they are androids and false figureheads of the TVA. As the incidences keep stacking up, it's becoming clearer that Ravonna is more evil than she was initially portrayed as and her connection to one future MCU villain could explain that. In the comics, Ravonna Renslayer has a long history with Kang the Conqueror and Mbatha-Raw addressed that history in a new interview.

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Speaking with Polygon, Mbatha-Raw says that she took a look at the comics history of Ravonna Renslayer before taking on the role, but that ultimately much of it didn't pertain to the story being told in Loki. Still, the actress makes it clear that she is aware of the Kang connection and his impending introduction in the MCU. When asked if Loki was laying the groundwork for the supervillain's introduction, Mbatha-Raw simply laughed and suggested that they could get together in the future or the past, nodding to the Disney+ series' timeline shenanigans.

I took a look at it, but I also knew it wasn’t the most useful information for the story we were telling in Loki. That was how [series director] Kate Herron and our producer Kevin Wright steered me. They told me not to go too deep into that stuff, because it isn’t really the part of time we’re dealing with.

Who knows, maybe we get together in the future or the past or whatever. What is time, anyway, in the TVA?

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer in Loki

In the comics, Ravonna Renslayer and Kang the Conqueror have a long history, one that involves an ill-fated relationship. Initially, Ravonna sacrifices herself to save Kang, but their love becomes more complicated once he betrays her. How this could play out in the MCU remains a mystery, but one thing is clear - Kang is coming in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and with such an obvious connection, audiences can't help but wonder how he could factor into Disney+'s current series.

The actor who will play the villain, Jonathan Majors, has denied rumors he will appear as Kang in Loki, but he is likely sworn to secrecy and wouldn't be able to reveal something like that anyway. With only two episodes left, though, it seems like Majors may be telling the truth. There's a lot of ground left to cover in Loki, including unveiling who, exactly, is running the Time Variance Authority. Still, it seems clear that the presence of Ravonna Renslayer isn't an accident and whether it's indirect or not, the TVA's most fearsome judge is teasing Kang the Conqueror's arrival one way or another.

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Source: Polygon

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