Loki Season 2: Story, Release Date & Everything We Know

Summary

Loki season 2 brings more time travel drama to the MCU, with the God of Mischief exploring and investigating the multiverse.
The biggest tease for Loki season 2 came in the post-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, indicating that Marvel Studios plans to expand the stories of secondary characters on Disney+.
Loki season 2 released on October 5, 2023, with Tom Hiddleston returning as Loki and the majority of the season 1 cast reprising their roles. The season will consists of six episodes that were released every Thursday.

Loki season 2 released as part of Phase 5 of the MCU, with the Disney+ show revealing more about what the MCU's future might look like. After meeting his demise at the hands of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, the Avengers' Time Heist in Endgame unleashed a variant of Tom Hiddleston's God of Mischief on the MCU, and Loki season 1 saw him exploring the world of the Time Variance Authority (TVA), and coming face-to-face with Jonathan Majors' He Who Remains. The Loki season 1 ending cliffhanger teased another major helping of time travel drama for the series, and season 2 certainly did not disappoint on this frontier.

So far, Loki is the only one of Marvel Studios' live-action Disney+ series' to be gifted a second outing, though the animated What If...? and Spider-Man: Freshman Year have also been confirmed for second seasons too. Loki's time travel and timeline-jumping allowed for endless possibilities for season 2, particularly after the titular God of Mischief found himself in a new part of the timeline at the end of Loki season 1. While season 1 unleashed the multiverse, Loki season 2 changes the franchise perhaps even more drastically across the course of its own chapter of the series' story.

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Owen Wilson as Mobius next to Sophie Di Martino as Sylvie next to Tom Hiddleston as Loki pointing his index finger upward in Loki Season 2

Loki Season 2 Ending Explained

Loki season 2's finale is massive for the MCU as well as for the God of Mischief who's found his ultimate glorious purpose while saving the TVA.

Loki Season 2: Latest News

Loki season 2 released October 5, 2023, and ran until the finale on November 10, 2023, showing Tom Hiddleston back in action as Loki. Prior to this, the biggest step towards Loki season 2 came with the release of the first trailer, and the post-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, as the MCU's first Phase 5 film featured the return of Loki and Owen Wilson's Mobius M. Mobius, who met Majors' Victor Timely in the early 20th Century. This confirmed that Loki season 2 would feature more time travel antics, showing the TVA duo investigating Kang the Conqueror and his variants throughout history.

Loki Season 2 Was Confirmed In The Season 1 Credits

A folder showing a stamp saying Loki will return in season 2

Whereas audiences wait patiently for some projects to be announced and confirmed by Marvel Studios, Loki season 2 was confirmed to be in development in the final moments of season 1. The finale, "For All Time. Always," ended with the stinger revealing that "Loki will return in season 2." This sticks to Marvel Studios' desire to expand on secondary characters' stories while interconnecting them to the theatrical releases.

Loki Season 2: Release Date

Loki suffered delays along with many of Marvel Studios' Disney+ series - but luckily, Loki season 2 hasn't been delayed as drastically as some of its fellow TV shows. Originally planned for a summer 2023 release date, Loki season 2 instead released on October 5, 2023 - having been moved forward a day from its prior October 6 date - and released its 6 episodes weekly. Loki season 2 was the second of the MCU's 2023 Disney+ shows, following June's Secret Invasion.

Loki Season 2: Cast

Actor Name	Role In Loki Season 2
Tom Hiddleston	Loki
Owen Wilson	Mobius M. Mobius
Sophia Di Martino	Sylvie
Johnathan Majors	Victor Timely/He Who Remains
Gugu Mbatha-Raw	Ravonna Renslayer
Wunmi Mosaku	Hunter B-15
Eugene Cordero	Casey, a.k.a. Hunter K-5E
Tara Strong	Miss Minutes
Ke Huy Quan	Ouroboros
Kate Dickie	General Dox
Liz Carr	Judge Gamble
Charlie Cameron	Mail Cart Driver
Jack Cunningham-Nuttall	McDonalds Cashier
Richard Dixon	Robber Baron

Much of the Loki season 1 cast returns for the second season, alongside Tom Hiddleston in the starring role of Loki, the Asgardian God of Mischief. Loki season 2 sees the return of Owen Wilson as Mobius M. Mobius, Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer, Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15, Eugene Cordero as Casey, a.k.a. Hunter K-5E, and Tara Strong as Miss Minutes. Fresh off a monumental win at 2023's Academy Awards ceremony, Ke Huy Quan also joined the cast of Loki season 2 as Ouroboros, the TVA's chief engineer.

Ke Huy Quan is joined by several other new additions, as Kate Dickie and Liz Carr additionally appear in Loki season 2, in the roles of General Dox and Judge Gamble respectively - two high-ranking TVA officials, who provide further obstacles for the protagonists of the show. Rafael Casal and Neil Ellice also appear as Hunter X-5 and Hunter D-90, two lower-ranking TVA operatives. Charlie Cameron, Jack Cunningham-Nuttall, and Richard Dixon round out the roster of newly introduced season 2 figures, with Cameron appearing as a mail cart driver, Cunningham-Nuttall playing the bewildered McDonald's cashier who Sylvie speaks to at the end of the first episode, and Dixon playing Robber Baron, a wealthy industrialist who seeks to acquire futuristic technology.

Kang actor Jonathan Majors also reprises his role as the many variants of the Multiverse Saga's major villain twice in the new season. Majors appears once more as He Who Remains, the guardian of the Sacred Timeline, and as Victor Timely, a more generally well-intentioned Kang variant who gains immense knowledge of the TVA from a young age, and becomes an expert in the field of technology that deals with time and reality as a result.

Loki Season 2: Story Details

By killing He Who Remains, Sylvie unleashed the multiverse, allowing an innumerable amount of branching timelines to form, meaning Loki season 2 could span many different time periods and alternate realities. The Loki season 2 synopsis states that "'Loki' Season 2 picks up in the aftermath of the shocking season finale when Loki finds himself in a battle for the soul of the Time Variance Authority. Along with Mobius, Hunter B-15 and a team of new and returning characters, Loki navigates an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous multiverse in search of Sylvie, Judge Renslayer, Miss Minutes and the truth of what it means to possess free will and glorious purpose." Loki season 2 holds good to this description, as the titular character attempts to deal with the increasingly complicated setup of an ever-expanding multiverse, and questions his own motivations for taking on such a vital and arguably heroic task.

Loki Season 2: Trailer

Audiences were gifted their first look at Loki season 2 as part of 2023's Disney+ trailer, promoting Disney's own streaming service. However, this trailer only gave viewers a brief glimpse at what might unfold in the upcoming series, not revealing much past Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson's returns as Loki and Mobius. At 2022's D23 Expo, audiences were gifted a look at the first full trailer for Loki season 2, which was released later on for the general public.

Loki's He Who Remains Is The Multiverse Saga's New Thanos

He Who Remains was revealed as the man behind the TVA in Loki season 1, and as a variant of Kang the Conqueror. In Marvel Comics, Kang is a time-traveling villain and a thorn in the side of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, often putting the fate of the world at risk. The MCU's Kang the Conqueror and his variants have been shown off in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and since the title of the MCU's next major crossover event is Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, it's expected that Kang is the Multiverse Saga's new Thanos - which all started in season 1, making Loki season 2's exploration of Kang variants even more important.