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Loki season 2: Everything we know so far about the new Marvel series

Loki season 2 is on its way – and the next MCU TV show on the Marvel calendar will be arriving on Disney Plus in just a couple of months. As you might expect from a Marvel project, official details on the new season's plot are few and far between, but now we finally have trailer to unpack. The new clip sees Loki back at the TVA, but he's encountered a problem: he keeps 'timeslipping'. More on that later…

We've got your complete guide to Loki season 2, from the release date to a breakdown of the new season's first trailer. We've also rounded up all the best theories, as well as everything the cast and crew have said about the latest installment. Just a heads up, though – there are spoilers for Loki season 1 and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ahead, so turn back now if you're not up to date yet.   

Loki season 2 is arriving on Disney Plus very soon – the new season premieres on October 6, 2023, with new episodes airing every Friday until November 10.

The first Loki season 2 trailer is here – and he's back at the TVA. That is, when he's not 'timeslipping', i.e. being thrown across the time, ending up in various temporal hotspots throughout history. New character OB, played by Ke Huy Quan, is consulted for solutions, but he doesn't quite have the answers for Loki yet. We also get a peek of He Who Remains' lair and a run-in with Sylvie, and you can catch the whole trailer above.

We got our first glimpse at new footage in the Disney Plus 2023 trailer, which you can see below. Among some shots of Loki looking concerned and Sylvie looking fed up, there was also a glimpse at the God of Mischief and Mobius clad in suits. "A little over the top, don't you think?", asks Mobius in the quick clip.

Disney also debuted some footage at the D23 Expo 2022 in September as well. Total Film was on the ground in LA to give us a rundown – the clip hasn't made its way online yet – and detailed how the teaser had a creepy vibe to it.

In it, Loki clues Mobius in on what went down with He Who Remains (Jonathan Major) in the season 1 finale, revealing the villain's face behind a wall in the TVA. He then says he saw terrible, awful things when the timeline broke apart after Sylvie attempted to kill the baddie at the end of season 1. Eerie, huh?

Tom Hiddleston, Jonathan Majors (as Kang), Owen Wilson (as Mobius), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (as Ravonna Renslayer), Wunmi Mosaku (as Hunter B-15), Eugene Cordero (as Casey AKA Hunter K-5E) and Sophia DiMartino will all be returning in Loki season 2. The latter's comeback as Sylvie was confirmed fairly recently after she was spotted on set with Hiddleston. In some leaked pictures, she could be seen outside a McDonald's, sipping from a straw and disposable cup. Some fans have spotted that her outfit bears a striking resemblance to the McDonald's employee uniforms in the '70s.

At D23 Expo 2022, which saw Disney tease a whole bunch of its upcoming projects, it was announced that Rafael Casal and Everything Everywhere All at Once star Ke Huy Quan had joined the cast.

Showrunner Kate Herron previously revealed her departure from the show, stating that she never planned to do a second season. "I'm really happy to watch it as a fan next season," Herron told Deadline. "I just think I'm proud of what we did here and I've given it my all."

Instead, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have signed on as directors. According to Deadline, they will "co-direct a majority of the episodes for season two." The duo most recently directed two episodes of the Marvel series, Moon Knight, which stars Oscar Isaac as a superhero who suffers from a dissociative identity disorder. 

The first season's writers Michael Waldron and Eric Martin are geared up to return, though Martin is taking over head writing duties from Waldron. 

According to Inverse, an MCU leaker known as Cinestealth has claimed that Henry Cavill is in talks to play Marcus Milton/Hyperion – though we might have to take this one with a grain of salt.

The Loki season 2 plot is being kept under wraps, though it was pointed out at D23 that the second chapter will connect to the Multiverse Saga in a big way. Hiddleston (via Marvel) previously stated that he was "excited about the possibilities" and that the team was in "deep, deep, deep discussions" following the announcement of season 2 – but the actor has kept a tight lip since.

Mbatha-Raw told Popculture.com that she's excited for her character to go to "some deeper, darker places." Ravonna Renslayer was initially introduced as an anti-hero of sorts and potential love interest of Mobius, but was ultimately revealed as a villain who values her loyalty to the TVA above anything else. The season finale saw Ravonna go off on her own in search of free will. "She wants to [find] who pulled the wool over her eyes. That's what she's going to go out in search of," head writer Michael Waldron commented. "She is a scary customer to be out there in the Multiverse. So we'll see what happens."

The finale also saw Sylvie, Loki variant and love interest, send Loki into another dimension so she can finally kill He Who Remains. The slaying doesn't fulfill her like she thought it would, and she is left all alone at the Citadel at the End of Time. While Sophia Di Martino told RadioTimes that she's not sure whether or not her character will return, she did comment that Sylvie's final scene is "an interesting place to start another chapter" (via Marvel). Although, we now know she's coming back.

That brings us to the Kang of it all. He Who Remains is a Kang Variant, and, in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, we're finally introduced to Kang the Conqueror properly. Here's where the spoilers kick in, but Kang had grand plans to traverse the multiverse, destroying entire timelines as he went, to prevent his other variants from meddling with time and causing catastrophic incursions. Luckily, the ant-family were able to put a stop to his plans, and he was seemingly killed. 

But, in the Quantumania post-credits, we're introduced to the Council of Cross-Time Kangs – basically, lots and lots of Kang Variants. The leaders want to stop Marvel's heroes from getting too close to the multiverse. That could mean multiple Kang variants in Loki season 2, which is hinted at further in the second stinger. In that scene, Loki and Mobius watch a presentation being given by yet another variant, this one called Victor Timely. Loki is clearly terrified and says this is the same man he met at the Citadel, though Mobius doesn't seem to fully understand the scale of the threat. It looks like Mobius and Loki are tracking Kang variants through time, then. 

When Total Film quizzed Hiddleston about Loki season 2, he said: "What can I say? It's very much continuing to excite and challenge me. At the end of season 1, the story isn't over. I think that’s really clear. Loki's almost more unstable, and as turbulent and passionate and chaotic as he's ever been. And maybe some of that needs resolution. There's stuff to unpack."

Waldron has also hinted at what's to come. "In creating the show in the first place, the only way it's worth doing to me is that we can find a new story to tell with this character," he told Deadline's Hero Nation podcast. "It felt like we had new emotional ground to cover with Loki. That's the only way into season 2. We absolutely found that. It's a great continuation of that story that feels different from season one and hopefully will subvert expectations."

And as always have a chilled day from the Viking