Loki episode 5 ending: What just happened?

Loki episode 5 ending: What but happened?

(Epitome credit: Disney/Marvel)

The Loki episode 5 ending gave the series a big moment to conclude its penultimate edition, and boy was information technology a sight to behold. And so with still one episode to become, the final moments of "Journey into Mystery" ended (naturally) on a huge bewilderment.

More than that, there wasn't fifty-fifty a post-credits scene to give us some insight into what's coming in Loki's finale. So what the heck just happened? Spoilers for Loki episode 5 ahead!

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The final moments of Loki episode v saw Loki and Sylvie act out a plan that they believe will accept them to the person who founded the TVA. A plan that involved enchanting the extra-dimensional being that consumes anybody in the void, in the hopes of finding a style to the TVA'due south mysterious and unknown ruler.

From the looks of things, the duo'southward plan was a success, with Sylvie and Loki combining their powers to put Alioth under a spell - and opening a portal to a mysterious castle in an unknown location. Well, a mysterious location, because it may be somewhere MCU viewers have seen earlier…

The colorful warping background in that scene looks remarkably like the Breakthrough Realm, the micro-universe that we first saw in the Pismire-Man movies and was utilized equally a make-shift fourth dimension machine during Avengers Endgame. Though the location is much darker than what we've seen earlier.

loki episode 5: quantum realm city in ant-man — (Paradigm credit: Marvel Studios)

A castle in the Quantum Realm seems far-fetched, but ane was already featured in the background of a scene from Ant-Human being and the Wasp. And so not only do things live in the micro-universe, they are capable of edifice complex structures and civilizations.

Obviously the city in Ant-Man and The Wasp is not the aforementioned identify that Loki and Sylvie are heading to. They couldn't expect more different, after all, but it does open up up some questions about the TVA and who is actually behind it.

Could this exist the home of Marvel's adjacent large bad?

E'er since it was confirmed that the Breakthrough Realm could act as a conduit to other times and places, it was speculated that the ruler of the city could be Kang the Conquistador - an infamous time-travelling villain from Marvel comics. Equally his name suggests, he has a habit of travelling to new time periods and taking over.

Speculation increased when it was confirmed Kang would characteristic in Ant-Human three, and after the premiere of Loki's very offset episode terminal month. Fans were quick to notice that one of the Fourth dimension-Keepers was a expressionless-ringer for Kang, generating theories that he would secretly debut in Loki.

The fact that Judge Ravonna Renslayer'southward comic analogue was Kang's lover only added fuel to that detail fire.

loki episode 5: time-keepers — Were these guys controlled by Kang-atha all along? (Epitome credit: Disney/Marvel Studios)

While the theory that Kang was 1 of the Fourth dimension-Keepers turned out to be artificial, it's still be speculated that Kang could be working behind the scenes and ensuring the TVA stops any major deviations to the timeline that might touch his plans.

To brand things even more compelling, Kang likewise has a history with Alioth in the comics, Though the comic book version of the entity is a conqueror in his own right, rather than, every bit Sylvie calls him, a mere guard domestic dog for the TVA'southward ruler.

loki episode 5: alioth — (Image credit: Marvel Studios/Disney)

Every bit we head towards the series finale, it certainly looks as though Kang volition have a role to play before the end of Loki's freshman season. The pieces certainly seem to be falling into place, and they all seem to indicate towards Kang — no matter how many times Kang-actor Jonathan Majors denies information technology.

It's certainly more than mere wishful thinking, like the supposed Dr Strange/White Vision cameo in WandaVision's final scene. Permit's simply promise the series' truthful big bad wasn't actually merely some other Loki.

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