Marvel Could Still Use Loki’s Original Season 1 Ending — With Big Implications for the MCU
Avengers: Doomsday scribe Michael Waldron teases a surprising MCU rewind, hinting the original Loki Season 1 ending—an alternate take on the finale—could still surface in upcoming projects.
File this under Marvel teases that actually matter: Michael Waldron, the Loki creator who is now scripting Avengers: Doomsday, just hinted that an alternate version of Loki Season 1's ending might actually show up somewhere down the line. Yes, the one they batted around before we got Sylvie stabbing the universe in the heart.
The tease
Waldron popped up on Reddit for an AMA tied to his Hulu series Chad Powers. A fan asked about the scrapped Loki finale he has talked about before, and Waldron did that very Marvel thing where he says nothing while saying just enough:
"I actually typed out the answer but never say never, especially in the MCU. Maybe one day you'll get to see it instead of read it."
Translation: they had a different ending on the table for Season 1, and pieces of it may still be in play. That alone is enough to send Loki theorists back to their cork boards.
Quick refresher: what we got vs. what almost happened
The Season 1 finale we know ends with Sylvie killing He Who Remains, which shatters the Sacred Timeline and spins up the multiverse. Waldron has said the writers considered multiple versions before landing on that choice. His comment reopens the door on what could have happened to Loki, Sylvie, and the TVA if the show had ended differently or, frankly, if Season 2 had never been greenlit.
Where this could land
- Loki Season 3: Marvel has not announced a third season, so this is a long shot until that changes.
- The Avengers lane: Waldron also wrote Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and is cooking on Avengers: Doomsday. If a leftover Loki ending fits anywhere, it is in the multiversal/cosmic sandbox.
- Bigger cosmic arcs: Fans keep connecting these dots to names like Doctor Doom, Galactus, and the Living Tribunal. That is speculation, but Waldron's involvement across projects makes the guess less wild than usual.
Why the timing makes sense
Loki Season 2 wrapped in 2023 with a new cosmic status quo: Loki literally becomes the caretaker of the multiverse, holding together a web of timelines that looks like Yggdrasil, the Norse Tree of Life. If you are going to backdoor an alternate Season 1 ending into something else, it helps when your main character is now the guy babysitting all reality. Waldron's coy wording suggests some of those shelved ideas could dovetail with wherever Marvel is steering its multiverse stories next.
The basics, in case you want to revisit
Both seasons of Loki are streaming on Disney+. Waldron created the series and served as head writer, with Kate Herron directing Season 1. The show stars Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie, and Jonathan Majors as He Who Remains. If Waldron is serious, we might not be done with the original Season 1 endgame after all — it just might surface somewhere you are not expecting.