Loki Season 2 Finale Fixes (Almost) Everything I Disliked About the MCU Multiverse
- I cannot help but think of time as either a straight line or a loop. So, Marvel's depiction of time travel has been hard for me, to say the least. I always wrestled with two major paradoxes. First, if young Thanos travels to the future and is defeated by the Avengers in Endgame; he ceases to exist in the past, hence everything leading up to Endgame could not have happened. Second, if Loki teleports away from the Stark Tower lobby he could never have been arrested and brought back to Asgard. So, everything he did, and everything Thor did as a reaction, could never have happened. Hence, Endgame could not have happened as it did. So, my understanding is Loki having amassed enough knowledge of how time works was able to destroy and, more importantly, replace the time loom. He is now something akin to Atlas holding up the Earth, only he's doing it with time and the multiverse. We saw him bring dying timelines to life. So, I am taking it that Endgame is, in fact, a paradox. But it is being manually juiced into existence by Time God Loki.
- Time is slippery, but technically speaking, Loki became a time god in 2012. Before that there was only the one timeline allowed to exist. Fast forward to Infinity War. Dr. Strange would not have been able to visit 14 million plus timelines as none of them would have existed. Time God Loki is the reason they all exist.
- The Time Stone is...wait for it...green. In the comics it was orange. They changed it inexplicably for the films. I do not believe for a second this was all planned out. But, Kevin Feige very well may be from the future.
- An argument could be made that Loki taking the throne effectively defeats Kang. We don't know the full function Loki is serving, but if he's also a protector of the multiverse he could prevent all of the Kang variants from starting a multiversal war. We don't know what Marvel is planning on doing with the Kang character, due to Johnathan Majors's legal troubles. But this gives them the option to pivot away from Kang. The reading of the tea leaves is that they will move toward Dr. Doom being the next Thanos. Though they would have to clean up the residual mess they made from announcing The Kang Dynasty before the audience even had a chance to meet the character.
- The one thing this does not explain is how variants of Loki are different genders, ages, races, even species. Nothing explains that.
- I cannot help but think of time as either a straight line or a loop. So, Marvel's depiction of time travel has been hard for me, to say the least. I always wrestled with two major paradoxes. First, if young Thanos travels to the future and is defeated by the Avengers in Endgame; he ceases to exist in the past, hence everything leading up to Endgame could not have happened. Second, if Loki teleports away from the Stark Tower lobby he could never have been arrested and brought back to Asgard. So, everything he did, and everything Thor did as a reaction, could never have happened. Hence, Endgame could not have happened as it did. So, my understanding is Loki having amassed enough knowledge of how time works was able to destroy and, more importantly, replace the time loom. He is now something akin to Atlas holding up the Earth, only he's doing it with time and the multiverse. We saw him bring dying timelines to life. So, I am taking it that Endgame is, in fact, a paradox. But it is being manually juiced into existence by Time God Loki.
- Time is slippery, but technically speaking, Loki became a time god in 2012. Before that there was only the one timeline allowed to exist. Fast forward to Infinity War. Dr. Strange would not have been able to visit 14 million plus timelines as none of them would have existed. Time God Loki is the reason they all exist.
- The Time Stone is...wait for it...green. In the comics it was orange. They changed it inexplicably for the films. I do not believe for a second this was all planned out. But, Kevin Feige very well may be from the future.
- An argument could be made that Loki taking the throne effectively defeats Kang. We don't know the full function Loki is serving, but if he's also a protector of the multiverse he could prevent all of the Kang variants from starting a multiversal war. We don't know what Marvel is planning on doing with the Kang character, due to Johnathan Majors's legal troubles. But this gives them the option to pivot away from Kang. The reading of the tea leaves is that they will move toward Dr. Doom being the next Thanos. Though they would have to clean up the residual mess they made from announcing The Kang Dynasty before the audience even had a chance to meet the character.
- The one thing this does not explain is how variants of Loki are different genders, ages, races, even species. Nothing explains that.
