Loki season 2: Release date, cast, trailer, and latest news

And now Disney Plus has released the first poster for the season, giving fans a look at Loki in many of his different forms.

Marvel Studios tweeted out the season 2 poster (below), writing: T-minus 100,000 minutes until #Loki Season 2."

The poster shows the alternate versions of Loki running around the face of Miss Minutes, a cartoon clock who appears in the first season of the series, teasing that Loki is perhaps running out of time to find Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), Ravonna (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Miss Minutes after season 1.

As a reminder, fans saw Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) kill He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors) and unleash the multiverse as we know it. Not ideal.

Of course, season 1 led into Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, with Majors returning as Kang the Conqueror, the MCU's new villain - and director Peyton Reed told RadioTimes.com he is set to "change everything".

He wasn't kidding either. The mid credits scene of Quantumania shows just how much of a threat Kang is set to be in the MCU, while the end-credits scene sets up Loki season 2 with the return of Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Owen Wilson as Mobius.

It's made clear that the pair are set to face up to the villainous Kang in the next season of Loki, and while Mobius isn't too fazed, Loki is uncharacteristically worried about the new villain, suggesting he knows just how much of a threat he's set to be.

Read on for everything you need to know about Loki season 2.

Loki season 2 release date: When is it coming out?

Loki season 2 will land on Disney Plus on 6th October 2023.

It's a little later than expected given that many fans were expecting a summer 2023 release, but if there's anyone who's worth the wait, it's the god of mischief.

Marvel announced the news in May 2023, alongside the news that new series Echo will drop shortly afterwards in November.

Basically, there's lots to look forward to!

In April 2021, executive producer Nate Moore told IndieWire that Loki is a project envisioned for "multiple" seasons, suggesting it might continue even further than the second instalment.

"I think there’s a lot of storytelling in Loki that’s really irreverent and clever and cool, but also lends itself to multiple seasons in a way where it’s not a one-off," he said. "Tom Hiddleston, I think, is doing some of his best work on that show.

"It really is kind of amazing. I think of all the great stuff he’s done, but this show is going to show such different sides and really the true scope of his range. I think that show is going to surprise a lot of people."

Loki season 2 cast

A number of Loki cast members will be returning for season 2, including Tom Hiddleston back in the title role. The following have been confirmed.

• Tom Hiddleston as Loki Laufeyson
• Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie Laufeydottir
• Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer
• Eugene Cordero as Casey/Hunter K-5E
• Owen Wilson as Mobius M. Mobius
• Ke Huy Quan as TBC

Of course, he isn't the only Loki in town anymore, so we could very well see more from his mischievous Loki variants, of which Sophia Di Martino's Sylvie has been the most prominent.

We could very well learn more about DeObia Oparei's Boastful Loki as well as Jack Veal's Kid Loki, but it looks unlikely that Richard E Grant's Classic Loki will be able to come back from his encounter with Alioth – then again, the Lokis do pride themselves on finding sneaky ways to stay alive.

Fans will be keen to see what happens next for the TVA's top agents, now revealed to be brainwashed variants, after Owen Wilson's Agent Mobius and Wunmi Mosaku's Hunter B-15 appeared to have forgotten Loki in the final scene.

If the comic books are any indication, we'll definitely see more of Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer given that she's one of Kang the Conqueror's closest allies – with the ruthless TVA judge going on a search for free will in the series finale.

Meanwhile, Quantumania has pretty much confirmed that Majors will be back for Loki season 2.

Fans were thrilled to see the actor show up in the season finale – thank goodness we didn't have another Mephisto situation on our hands – with an electric performance that takes cues from some truly iconic sources.

"Some cultural pop references were, of course, The Wizard of Oz, Sunset Boulevard, Citizen Kane, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory,” Majors told Empire Magazine. "The archetype of the wizard and what happens to him when he gets bored, you know? And he becomes a trickster.

"I think when we meet He Who Remains, he’s on the borderline of those two things. You don’t really know where he’s at. And I think the ambiguity of that is one of the wicked things about it."

Director Kate Herron said she felt a "big responsibility" to get the casting of Kang right given how significant the character will be to the future of the MCU, revealing the decision to hire Majors was made in collaboration with Ant-Man's Peyton Reed as well as Marvel Studios executives Kevin Feige, Lou D’Esposito and Victoria Alonso.

She told The Hollywood Reporter: "Jonathan Majors is an actor that we were all just blown away by; I think everyone who knows his work is blown away by him. He’s an amazing actor, and the thing that I love about him is that he’s this chameleon.

"He’s so different in everything he does, and that’s exciting, obviously, when you’re asking an actor to play a character who’s going to have a lot of different versions of himself. So for us, that was a thrill."

Utopia star Sasha Lane seems to have made an early exit from the MCU as Hunter C-20, who was killed by Renslayer after realising the truth about the TVA – although there could be variants of her out in the universe too.

But one of the biggest departures from Loki has happened behind the camera, as director Kate Herron has confirmed in a surprise move that she won't be returning for the second season.

The filmmaker detailed her decision in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: "I would say that when I joined Loki, it was always going to be those six episodes. We were treating it like a movie, and we were running it like a movie.

"We weren’t doing it in the showrunner system. So it was a lot to direct these six episodes, and I gave it all of my energy and everything I had in my soul and in my heart. I threw everything I loved about Marvel at it. So I always intended just to do these six.

Loki season 2 theories: What could happen next?

The Quantumania end-credits scene has made it clear that Kang will feature in Loki season 2.

The mid-credits scene saw a whole army of Kang variants being summoned, before the end-credits scene zoned in on one particular version of the villain.

In this scene, which appears to be set at some point towards the beginning of the 20th century, we see yet another version of Kang giving a lecture on stage, telling his audience: "Time is everything. It shapes our lives, but perhaps we can change it."

We then cut to the audience and discover a couple of familiar faces in the crowd: Loki and Mobius.

"It's him," Loki whispers – appearing very concerned. Mobius is less worried, turning to Loki and saying, "You made him sound like some terrifying figure!"

Loki simply responds, "He is" before the screen cuts to black and a message appears that promises: "Kang will return."

The variant of Kang we meet in this scene is named Victor Timely, and it looks like he will be the major antagonist in the second run of the Disney Plus series - and Loki certainly doesn't seem too excited about the prospect of coming up against him. Consider us suitably terrified...

Majors last featured in Loki in episode 6 when the series gave fans what they had long been hoping for, delivering the formal introduction of Jonathan Majors as comic book villain Kang the Conqueror – kind of.

The eccentric figure we meet in the season finale is not the ruthless maniacal villain from the comic books but rather a somewhat more reasonable variant under the alias He Who Remains.

While his authoritarian grasp over reality as puppet-master of the TVA can certainly be considered evil, there is a virtuous side to this version of Kang as he strives to prevent the outbreak of a cataclysmic multiversal war.

After Sylvie kills him in the closing moments, he utters "see you soon" as the Sacred Timeline branches into countless alternate realities, one of which is sure to contain an even more dangerous version of himself.

Even aside from Kang, there's still be plenty for Tom Hiddleston's epic sci-fi drama to unravel as it deals with the ramifications of a tweaked timeline in which neither Agent Mobius nor Hunter B-15 can remember who Loki is.

From the jaw-dropping final scene, it seems that Loki may have ended up in a parallel universe where his exploits with the TVA never happened, but it's unclear if Sylvie intended to send him there or if it's a sign the cosmos is already out of control.

The addition of a giant Kang statue in the TVA headquarters, taking up the space once held by a shrine to the fictional Time-Keepers, suggests that perhaps an egotistical variant of the time-traveller is behind this meddling.

Things have been left similarly ambiguous for Judge Ravonna Renslayer, who exited the TVA headquarters through a TemPad portal on a quest to find free will.

In the comics, she becomes a love interest and right-hand woman to Kang the Conqueror, so it's possible we could see the two villains first cross paths in Loki's second season.

Season 1 showrunner Kate Herron isn't returning for the next chapter, but she too has a lot of questions about where the story will go next, discussing the show's renewal in an interview with Collider.

"I would say the decision for that came from Marvel and Disney, and I thought it was just the highest compliment to everyone's work on the show," she said. "They were just excited by the stories and by the amazing work that the writers and the actors were doing.

"And I thought that was so cool because there's so many unanswered questions. It's like, where did Renslayer ago? What are B-15's memories? Who is she? And also beyond that, where the hell is Loki?

Herron added: "Yeah, I think there's definitely more road to travel. And as everyone knows, in the comics, even with six hours, we scratched the surface of who Loki is, so I think there's so much more to be explored.

Is there a Loki season 2 trailer?

There's no official trailer just yet, but some scenes from Loki are included in a recently-released clip from Disney Plus.

Watch below:

Now we have a release date, we'd expect a trailer to come pretty soon - so watch this space!

Loki season 2 will start streaming on Disney Plus on 6th October 2023. You can sign up to Disney Plus for £7.99 a month or £79.90 a year now.

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