If you’ve watched the finale of Loki and have never picked up a Marvel comic, you might be a little lost. It’s a lot to take in and seemingly expects you to have a bit of Marvel know-how before clicking play. Otꦆherwise, the revelation is that at the head of the TVA is… a dude. That’s pretty boring, right? Once you break dow♑n who this dude is though, the ramifications are pretty exciting.
Who was Jonathan Majors playing in Loki Episode Six?
In part, Majors’ character is Kang. Well, they are and they aren’t. Let me clarify. Jonathan Majors portrays a hammy villain in purple called He Who Remains, the elusive head of the TVA. There’s a character called that in the comics, a non-Kang character, but Majors’ rendition combines them with Immortus, an older version of Kang. In the show, he explains that the TVA was founded to avoid another Multiversal War - that part of the dogma was true. However, the story of that war is a bit more complex. The reasoning for the Sacred Timeline push is because of his innate fear of his other selves, an infinite number o✱f variants vying for interdimensional domination. He Who Remains came out the victor as he channeled the power of Alioth, the Void-protecting, trans-temporal being. As the victor, he had to ensure that no other variants of himself would ever crop up to start another war and the only way to do that is to make sure that there is only one timeline, ergo no Kang variants.
He’s the Kang that came out on top: th🍸e conqueror that conquers no more - the winner. He knows all that was, all that will be (up to a point), and what must be. That’s why he’s so arrogant and egotistical in the presence of two Lokis. Yet, despite his massive exposition dump and boasting, he never dives too much into his name or origins.
Who Is Immortus?
What Majors’ character does not say is that he’s Nathaniel Richards, although it seems as though he is. That’s likely why the TVA feels so Earth-centric. In the comics, he time traveled from the 30th century - which is where he says he is from in the show - back to ancient Egypt, becoming the Pharaoh Rama-Tut. The Fantastic Four thwarted this use of time travel and so he fled back to his own era only to hit a time storm causing him to land in the ‘modern’ day - relative to us, that is. Here, he met Doom. The Doctor - Doom, that is, not 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the time traveler in a police box - inspired him to create a villainous identity akin to his own, thus spawning the Scarlet Centurion. However, the Avengers kicked hꩲim to the curb so he gave up on that too. Eventually, he landed on the alias 🧸of Kang the Conqueror, a title we hear He Who Remains briefly reference when he calls himself ‘a conqueror’.
Kang colonized galaxies, various periods throughout time, and gained a foothold o🐓n most of reality. He was a devious villain that the Avengers regularly came head to head with. However, as he grew older, his interest in conquering dwindled, leading him to become Immortus. He was still a villain, but a villain that was less evil than his younger self in his Kang the Conqueror days. Yet, his change in tune caused a divide between his present - or future - and past self, and the two butted heads nearly as much as he did with the rag-tag team of Earth heroes. In Avengers Forever #3, the younger Kang says, “[Immortus] calls himself the Master of Time! “Gardener of Time” is more truthful! He prunes away the chronal branches deemed by others to be dangerous, reducing reality to a bloodless meadow! But that’s not the way of warriors - of men! I say, let it be a forest! Let it be a jungle!” That’s He Who Remains from Loki Episode Six summed up in a neat little paragraph by the comic’s Kang himself. That’s handy. But, he’s not just Immortus.
Who is He Who Remains?
In the comics, he’s the director of the Time Variance Authority. Barring that, he’s a bit boring. He’s the last of his people and he had a scuffle with Thor back in 1976 - well, in-universe, it was at the end of time. He sits in a citadel at the end of E♔ternity, waiting, ꦇwaiting to become a more interesting character. It’s no wonder that Marvel Studios opted to spice things up and take that bare-bones concept and add some flavor with Kang. In essence, the MCU’s rendition is just Immortus with the role of He Who Remains and the title.
Who was the statue of at the end of the episode?
The quote I brought up earlier mentions something of interest - “Let it be a forest! Let it be a jungle!” When Loki arrives back at the TVA, there are statues of Kang the Conqueror in his comic attire, indicating that, in the blink of an eye, t😼he war had already ended and the TVA had already been… well, conquered: wibbly wobbly timey wimey. Anyhow, with that, the other realities should have then been pruned, yet they continued to spiral out of control into infinity.
That’s bec🌠ause we’re dealing with a Kang who evidently shares this same belief that pruning other timelines is a bland way of living and that the multiverse should be left to thrive. Sort of. He isn’t doing this for humane or morally good reasons. Kang just wants to conquer the lot. He now has a playground of infinite realities to dominate. In a way, we saw Majors play two different characters in the finale, although one was merely his likeness on a statue, not an actual performance from the star himself. At any rate, we’re about to see a whole lot go down in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - or is it the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse now?
Majors is playing Kang in the next Ant-Man flick, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, although whether it’s the same o🥀ne that has taken over the TVA - the Conqueror himself - is unclear. It could be another variant, hence why this B-list buffoon is being pitted against him. Nonetheless, Majors has a lot of work cut out for him, but he’s already proven his♋ worth as an actor outside of the MCU, so he should have no trouble juggling such a variety of different interpretations of the same character.
