Loki’s most significant MCU connections

Episode 5 – Journey into Mystery

In the penultimate chapter, Loki is stuck in The Void, where many MCU-related items are laying around. Did you spot a SHIELD helicarrier or the Dark Aster – Ronan the Accuser’s ship that the Guardians took down in their first film? Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, can be seen alongside other discarded paraphernalia nearby the Loki camp. Going by the TVA’s rules, all of these are in the Void because they were connected to some kind of Nexus event at some point in the timeline.

And is that Yellowjacket’s giant-sized head in the Void’s wasteland. At the end of Ant-Man, the tiny hero disposes of Yellowjacket by internally destroying his suit. Yellowjacket collapses into himself and could even have gotten trapped in the Quantum Realm. Did that Yellowjacket come out the other side to the literal end of time itself or is this a variant version of the villain?

Before moving onto the finale, we have to acknowledge Loki’s “glorious purpose” phrase. It is spoken throughout the season and is a commonly used expression that Loki first uttered to Nick Fury when he came to claim Earth for himself at the beginning of The Avengers: “I am Loki of Asgard and I am burdened with glorious purpose”. The most memorable recycling of the phrase in Loki is splendidly shouted by Richard E. Grant’s classic Loki as he first distracts, and then becomes engulfed by the Alioth.

Episode 6 – For All Time. Always.

The culmination of Loki seems to have more MCU connections of things to come rather than things that already have happened. The conclusion reveals that Kang the Conqueror is behind the “sacred timeline” and the entire TVA. This is our first meeting with the major villain after last year’s news that Jonathan Majors was cast in the role for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Some even suspected his casting for a movie that will not hit theaters for years suggests that Kang could appear in the MCU before Ant-Man 3.

With the season ending in utter timeline chaos, this actually points to the show setting up events of several MCU movies. Peter Parker will have his hands full with a spider-verse in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch will likely deal with the timeline fallout in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and now it looks like the tiniest superheroes will come face to face with an evil version of Kang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Could Loki show up in those feature films? Unlike WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki is the first Disney Plus MCU show to confirm a second season. And after the mess that Loki and Sylvie just made, this decision certainly makes a lot of sense.

Are you looking forward to Loki season 2? Do you hope he shows up in more MCU movies? Let us know in the comments below.