Loki Season 2 Brings Audiences Back To A Familiar Kang Location

We only see the Citadel at the End of Time for a brief moment in the “Loki” Season 2 trailer, as the camera pans down to show a lonely figure sitting on the throne of He Who Remains. This is significant because, since Season 1 ended with the death of He Who Remains at Sylvie’s hand, it makes it unclear who or what is sitting on that throne.

What’s more, Loki’s original visit to the Citadel kicked off the beginning of a second Multiversal War, creating countless alternate realities and branching timelines that the Time Variance Authority cannot control. The consequences of that decision were felt almost immediately in Season 1, as Loki returned to find that the TVA had been taken over by yet another variant of Kang the Conqueror, with statues of this variant spread all throughout the facility. With He Who Remains dead, we can only speculate about why the series would return to the Citadel at the End of Time, though it’s worth mentioning that Sylvie was left alone in the empty Citadel after starting the Multiversal War.

Perhaps this scene shows Loki returning to the Citadel to stop Sylvie from starting the war, or perhaps it shows a He Who Remains from the distant past, whom Loki perhaps stumbles upon during his uncontrollable “time slipping.” There are plenty of possible explanations for why the Citadel is making a return in “Loki” Season 2, but until the series premieres, we’ll just have to keep guessing why the Asgardian trickster would return to this outpost at the end of all time.