With a second season on the horizon, the Loki finale certainly didn't wrap things up in a particularly neat fashion. In fact, the fates of quite a few characters were left up in the air, including Gugu Mbatha-Raw's Judge Renslayer. In "For All Time. Always.", Miss Minutes provides her with some files "he" (as in "He Who Remains") thinks would be more useful than the origins of the TVA.
With that, she sets off to find "free will," but something tells us Renslayer has a much grander plan.
Talking to Marvel.com, Head Writer Michael Waldron explains: "She has the making of a very complex villain that has her own set of principles and beliefs that drive her/ She doesn't believe that what she's doing is evil. She believes that the mission is for greater good, and Renslayer probably wishes that she never learned that the Time Keepers were fake, that they had just been able to keep doing this forever."
"She's the good soldier of the TVA, just a disciple to the bureaucracy," he continued. "Then it's revealed to be a lie to her. Instead of that galvanizing her and making her question her life's purpose, the way it did with Mobius, Renslayer wants to stay in power. She reacts more in anger. She wants to [find] who pulled the wool over her eyes. That's what she's going to go out in search of. She is a scary customer to be out there in the Multiverse. So we'll see what happens."
Mbatha-Raw added to that by commenting on the moment we meet Renslayer's Variant, Rebecca Tourminet, in 2018. "The idea that pretty much everyone in the TVA is a variant, and that there are other variants of Renslayer in different times, that was kind of mind-blowing to me," she admits. "We just dipped our toe into [this] at the end of the show. But you realize that the Multiverse just is so epic. The possibilities are endless. There's so much potential for what's on the other side of that Time Door. And ultimately, she wants revenge with whoever put this whole facade together."
So, it sounds like Renslayer is heading after Kang the Conqueror, so perhaps she'll be the one to pull Loki out of the new reality he finds himself in? Time will tell on that front, but this episode of Loki also saw Miss Minutes' true nature revealed as a sentient being who had been working for "He Who Remains" this entire time.
Loki director Kate Herron reveals that in an earlier version of the show, "we had a fight scene with Miss Minutes in the Citadel; we had all kinds of stuff [for her]." However, it ultimately became more interesting to explore her dynamic with the Kang Variant she's secretly been serving.
"I liked the idea [that he’s] someone who's living [alone]," Herron adds. "In a weird way, it almost connected with me a bit during the lockdown because I was living on my own for four months like a lighthouse keeper. I was editing the show and probably going a bit strange, and I was just talking to my dog all the time. And maybe that's what it's like with Miss Minutes. Maybe [He Who Remains] just talks to Miss Minutes, and that's it."
Will we see more of her? That's hard to say, but something tells us she might not be finished in the MCU. Judge Renslayer certainly isn't, and given her relationship with Kang in the comic books, a dangerous new alliance could be in the process of forming.