What to Know About Jonathan Majors's Role in "Loki" Season 2 and His MCU Future

Watch out! This post contains spoilers.

Jonathan Majors entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe in season one of "Loki," and he's the most unique Marvel character yet. Officially, Majors plays Kang the Conqueror, but because the MCU is pretty focused right now on multiversal battles and drama, that means he's actually playing tons of variants of the same character.

The first one we met was his "Loki" season one character, He Who Remains, and "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" introduced us to Kang the Conqueror himself. In "Loki" season two, we know he'll play Victor Timely as well. However, in March 2023, Majors was arrested following an alleged domestic dispute, and many have wondered if Marvel will include him in future releases.

Ahead, we break down the role Majors has played in the MCU so far and what we know about his future in the superhero franchise.

Majors's MCU debut came in "Loki" season one, when he appeared as He Who Remains, who controls the sacred timeline as the mystical head of the Time Variance Authority. He Who Remains is a variant of Kang. Though Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) are variants targeted by the TVA and want its brutal rule to end, He Who Remains warns them that if they destroy the TVA, they'll unleash the multiverse — specifically variants of him from other timelines who are intent on conquering others' worlds. Sylvie kills him anyway.

"We knew that we wanted this show to be huge, and we wanted it to really end with a bang and have a huge impact on the MCU moving forward," head writer Michael Waldron told Marvel.com in July 2021 when the episode aired. "Knowing that Kang was probably going to be the next big cross-movie villain, and because he is a time-traveling, multiversal adversary, it just always made so much sense."

He added, "You had to leave a lot of meat on the bone in terms of how evil he could be, because that's He Who Remains' whole thing, that it's not me who you should be afraid of. 'It's the other versions of me that are going to come.' It was trying to really hint at that terrifying evil within without going all the way there."

In "Quantumania," Majors plays Kang the Conqueror, who comes from some point in the future. Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) figures out that he wants to conquer the multiverse, but he says it's to put a stop to all the Kang variants who are trying to do the same thing. It's a similar motivation — but different action — than that of He Who Remains. Kang warns that he's seen how all of time ends, and the ending is not a happy one. He's defeated by the Ant-Family at the end of the film, and it seems this specific Kang variant will not return. However, we see an arena full of Kang variants — all played by Majors — at the end of the film.

As "Quantumania" teases in its end-credits scene, Majors will play a Kang variant called Victor Timely in "Loki" season two, and will appear again as He Who Remains. In Marvel comics, Victor Timely lives in the early 1900s and is an industrialist who rivals Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.

In an Oct. 2 interview with Variety, "Loki" season two executive producer Kevin Wright explained why his team did not take action to remove Majors from the series following his March arrest. "This is maybe — not maybe — this is the first Marvel series to never have any additional photography," he said. "The story that is on screen is the story we set out to make. We went out there with a very specific idea of what we wanted this to be, and we found a way to tell it in that production period. It's very much what's on screen on Disney+."

As for why they decided not to do reshoots, Wright said there was no discussion about making changes to the show after Majors's arrest. "And that mainly came from — I know as much as you do at the moment," he said. "It felt hasty to do anything without knowing how all of this plays out."

Marvel has not made any statement about Majors's long-term MCU future yet. The next hearing for his trial is set for Oct. 25, per Variety.

Before Majors's arrest, we knew Marvel had planned for him to be a major player in the MCU going forward, not just in "Loki" season two. The next Avengers movie, which will be released in the MCU's Phase 6, is subtitled "The Kang Dynasty." That movie is currently set to be released in 2026.

"Loki" season two premieres new episodes Thursday nights on Disney+.