Loki producer teases "exciting" arc for Gugu Mbatha-Raw's Ravonna after those major Renslayer reveals
Warning! This article contains spoilers for Loki season 2 . If you've yet to tune in, and don't want to know anything that happens, turn back now!
Loki season 2 episode 3 sidesteps the titular God of Mischief a little to focus on Gugu Mbatha-Raw's former TVA head Ravonna Renslayer and Miss Minutes, who've been MIA since the end of season 1.
Taking us back to Chicago in the 1800s, the Marvel show's latest chapter reveals that Renslayer, essentially, created He Who Remains by dropping the TVA handbook – you know, the one O.B. wrote – through his window when he was just a child in 1868. Having grown up reading all about the Authority's timey-wimey adventures and devices, Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors), the version of He Who Remains glimpsed in Ant-Man 3's post-credits scene, goes to on become a technological pioneer – something that's made clear when Loki and Mobius catch up to Renslayer in 1893.
"She has a rich history in the comics of playing multiple roles and being more than than you think she's initially going to be," Kevin Wright tells GamesRadar+. "You know, Renslayer is somebody that we wanted to be really careful about, and like, she does some pretty horrible things. But I think you understand where she was coming from, and why she would be so angry and why she would be so hurt with the things that are revealed throughout the season."
Towards the end of Loki season 1, Renslayer was just as disillusioned as the others to learn that she's a variant, her memories had been wiped, and that both the TVA and the Time Keepers, the fabled beings supposedly in charge of the organization, are essentially fake. In response, she vows to find the TVA's real creator...
In season 2 episode 1, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) overheard
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