Is Victor Von Doom or Kang the Conquerer in the Castle?
Here we go, superhero comradeswe've reached the light at the end of the tunnel. Or portal. Cloud. Something like that. Loki's penultimate episode is a hell of a trip, made up of roughly one percent Alligator Loki sass, two percent Sophia di Martino's Sylvie becoming your favorite MCU character, and 98 percent Richard E. Grant giving the most chaotic performance in the history of the superhero genre. It was great. It was beautiful. And we want to talk about its ending. After Sylvie and Loki part the hungry, hungry cloud, we glimpse a gothic-futuristic castle on the other end. With no end-credits scene to help us out, we're left to our own devices to figure out who could be inside the castle. Whatever's in there, we can safely assume that it'll finally tell us who's been pulling the strings at the TVA all along. You know, there are a lot of castles in the history of Marvel Comics. One of the most famous ones belongs to Victor Von Doom, who is the main villain of the Fantastic Four series. Never known to miss a beat or a throwaway references, fans quickly pointed out how similar Loki's castle is to Castle Doom:  This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. It isn't the craziest thought that we'd see the villainous Latverian show up in Loki, since Kevin Feige has already confirmed that a Fantastic Four flick is in production. But there's much more evidence that Jonathan Majors's Kang the Conquerer is holed up in there, which is a theory fans have been riffing on for months now. If you look closely, the Qeng Tower appears in the hellscape this episode takes place in, which (long, comic-book story short) belongs to Nathaniel Richards, a.k.a. the alias of Kang the Conquerer:  This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. In the opening sequence of today's ep, the name on this tower reads "QENG" which is Qeng Enterprises from the comics owned by a "Mr. Gryphon" aka Nathaniel Richards aka.... KANG THE CONQUEROR!!     Hmmm.... INTERESTING!#LokiWednesdays #Loki pic.twitter.com/P6jlBythVh  Shruti Rao (@shrutiraoart) July 7, 2021  That would likely mean that the castle we saw is Marvel's spin on Chronopolis, the city in the distant future that Kang calls home. (Which could make the structure we saw Castle Limbo, which shows up in Thor comics.) So, even though Jonathan Majors would very much like you to know that Kang won't show up in Loki's finale, it's getting harder and harder to imagine that we won't get a glimpse of Marvel's next Thanos-level threat in next week's finale. Join Esquire Select  This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io