Loki Season 2 Episode 3 Ending Explained

Warning! This post contains SPOILER for Loki season 2, episode 3

Lokiseason 2, episode 3 concludes with a major ending scene, setting up new secrets and a dynamic future for the future of the TVA and Ravonna Rensayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). Joined by the Time Variance Authority's sentient AI Miss Minutes (Tara Strong), it's been revealed that Ravonna was sent to a branched timeline in order to create a new He Who Remains. However, there seems to be a hidden truth about the TVA concerning both Ravonna's past and future.

As seen in Loki season 2, episode 3, the new He Who Remains variant named Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors) makes his official MCU debut. Living on a branched timeline in 1893, Timely is an inventor who was given a TVA guidebook as a child. This was thanks to Ravonna and Miss Minutes who are apparently following the posthumous orders of He Who Remains himself. However, their pans go awry thanks to Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Agent Mobius (Owen Wilson) needing Timely to save the current TVA while Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) simply wants to kill Timely. As such, the episode ends on a surprising cliffhanger, particularly regarding Ravonna.

What Big Secret Does Miss Minutes Know About Renslayer?

As seen at the end of Loki season 2, episode 3, Miss Minutes wanted Timely to build her a real body so she could be with him. Apparently, she always wanted to be with the original He Who Remains who only ever saw her as nothing more than a pet despite giving her full sentience and nearly complete autonomy. However, the inventor rejects her love which has seemingly turned Minutes against him going forward.

Miss Minutes returns to Ravonna Renslayer at the very end of the episode, confirming that she knows plenty of his secrets and suggesting it was unwise for Timely to have made her an enemy as a result. Minutes also reveals that she knows a big secret about Ravonna herself that will "make her real angry." It stands to reason that Miss Minutes will indeed reveal more of Ravonna's hidden past, most likely revealing that she too was mind-wiped like many other TVA agents.

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How Sylvie Sent Renslayer To The End Of Time

As was seen at the end of Loki season 2, episode 2, Sylvie uses the temporal device she took from He Who Remains to send Ravonna Renslayer to the Citadel at the End of Time. This device appears to be a more advanced version of the standard-issue TemPads used by the TVA agents. As a result, this explains why Sylvie is still able to move across the Sacred Timeline and into branched realities despite her hatred of He Who Remains and the TVA he created. Even with the TVA in danger, Sylvie still has the means to independently time-travel and traverse the multiverse while enjoying her new freedom.

That being said, Loki is probably right in his belief that without the TVA, the multiverse will rip itself apart. This would include any branch realities Sylvie's found to live out the rest of her new life. As has already been teased in this new episode, Sylvie will likely join forces with Loki to save the TVA in the coming episodes, despite everything they took from her since she was a child. Regardless, she still got some vengeance by banishing Ravonna to the End of Time, though it's likely Renslayer will make her escape with help from Miss Minutes.

How Loki Season 2, Episode 1 Foreshadows Renslayer's Truth

In the premiere of Loki season 2, the titular God of Mischief found an audio recording in the TVA where he heard He Who Remains thanking Ravonna for her service. This teases a more cyclical time loop of origins, one where Ravonna was present at the very beginnings of the TVA. However, it follows that she doesn't remember her role in the TVA's creation after being mind-wiped by He Who Remains. This is very likely the truth about Renslayer that Miss Minutes will reveal in future episodes, which would naturally make her quite mad.

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What's Happening To The End Of Time?

Banished to the Citadel at the End of Time, it looks as though the entire fortress is falling apart around Ravonna, slowly crumbling away to nothing. Having already been cracked in the finale of Loki season 1, perhaps He Who Remains was the only thing keeping it all intact in this rather volatile temporal space known as the Void, though it could also be connected to the growing multiverse. At any rate, it does look as though Ravonna would have been trapped here as Sylvie intended, though Miss Minutes was shown to be quite familiar with the Citadel as seen in the finale of Loki season 1.

Miss Minutes probably knows how to free Ravonna and help her escape the End of Time. Then, the duo will likely plan their next moves which may involve taking down Victor Timely and the TVA as it currently stands. Perhaps they'll even try to find a brand-new variant to become He Who Remains. As it currently stands, it's hard to gauge their exact motivations and plan in the episodes of Loki season 2 still to come.

How Long Has Past At The End Of Time

Considering the decay of He Who Remains' body, it does look as though a significant amount of time has passed since he was killed by Sylvie in the finale of Loki season 1. At the very least, a good amount of time has passed between then and Ravonna now standing in the Citadel in Loki season 2, episode 3. However, time works differently both in the TVA and at the End of Time, so the actual passage of said time is naturally relative and hard to exactly quantify.

Regardless, it's clearly been long enough for the Citadel to be falling apart and a multitude of new branch timelines to grow with an ever-expanding multiverse. Likewise, new variants of He Who Remains have started appearing throughout the MCU as seen in both Loki season 2 and in past MCU projects such as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania with the Council of Kangs. Clearly, the effects of He Who Remains' death are being felt to a high degree.

New episodes of Loki release every Thursday at 6pm PT / 9pm ET on Disney+.

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