If you watched the season finale of "Loki" on Disney Plus, you may be saying to yourself, "Self, I sure wish I'd read the comics and myths this show is based on, so I would understand this gibberish better." Well, I have read the comics and myths. And they do help to a degree. But sometimes they only confuse. (Spoilers!)

Take, for example, He Who Remains. When we first saw his residence at the end of Episode 5, my comics-trained brain reacted instantly. "That," I announced smugly to anyone who would listen, "is either the Citadel at the End of Time or Chronopolis."

And what are those things? The Citadel at the End of Time is the residence of He Who Remains, who in the comics is the final director of the Time Variance Authority. In the comics, the TVA doesn't control the "Sacred Timeline," but does monitor all the timelines for potentially catastrophic Grandfather Pardoxes, Butterfly Effects and the like.

Meanwhile, Chronopolis is the capital of the temporal empire of Kang the Conqueror, a supervillain of long standing in Marvel Comics who enjoys time-traveling to different time periods of the same world and conquering each independently, then adding those timelines to his empire.

As it happens, Kang was already scheduled to make his MCU debut in "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" (2023), where he'll be played by Jonathan Majors.

So Disney Plus foiled my comic book training by, essentially, combining Chronopolis and the Citadel at the End of Time, and substituting a Kang variant for He Who Remains. I can't even get annoyed, because it's such a clever storytelling solution. And what about the rest of the gibberish? Like the dangerous variants of himself He Who Remains mentions? Well, that's certainly spot on. We have seen many versions of Kang, and most of them are pretty awful people:

Kang the Conqueror: First showing up in "Avengers" in 1964, the original-recipe Kang had such awesome future tech that even Thor's hammer wasn't much of a threat. He was born in an alternate timeline in the 30th century as Nathaniel Richards, presumably a descendant of Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, who reconstructs Dr. Doom's time machine, takes over the 31st century and then embarks on his "career" as a cross-time conqueror. Due to his constant monkeying with timelines, there are a lot of versions of Kang.

Immortus: Immortus is who most Kang variants become if they live long enough, a conqueror who's had enough of conquering and lives in the extra-dimensional land of Limbo. And if you asked He Who Remains on "Loki" what his real name is, he'd probably say "Immortus," since he matches most of the criteria for that version of Kang.

Iron Lad: This version of Nathaniel Richards is a teenager who learns of his destiny to become a murderous tyrant, and tries to change it by creating futuristic Iron Man armor and forming the Young Avengers in our current era. That team is becoming more and more likely as the MCU keeps introducing characters who have been members of the team, such as Kid Loki and Eli "Patriot" Bradley (Isaiah Bradley's grandson).

So given all that, the outline of the second season of "Loki" begins to take shape. He'll surely have to deal with Kang, a burgeoning multiverse, the TVA, Sylvie, his other variants and maybe, just maybe ... Agent Mobius on a Jet-Ski. Come on, he deserves it!