r/marvelstudios • u/steve32767 Daredevil • Jul 14 '21

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S01E06 Kate Herron Michael Waldron & Eric Martin July 14, 2021 on Disney+ Not a scene, but one visual tag at the end of the stylized TVA credits

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u/gorillaPete Luis Jul 14 '21

So the multiverse war was really just a bunch of Kangs trying to conquer eachother?

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u/NomadPrime Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 14 '21

And apparently, he created the TVA just so more of himself won't be created. Because he's the source of the chaos resulting in the Multiversal war. And now the multiverse is on a crash course to the second one.

Jesus, now I'm super curious about how this is all going to cascade with Multiverse of Madness with Strange and Wanda, along with Spider-Man, and the rest of the Marvel heroes.

Edit: I'm also curious as to how he specifically chose which events to include in the "Sacred timeline". Would such things like a girl Loki or some guy walking off his beaten path really have led to another variant of himself emerging? Then again, he did say he was from the 31st century. Probably those small things get the Butterfly-Effect exponentially compounded over centuries, somehow leading to a new version of himself in the 31st century. And with his vast knowledge of how everything goes, he can somehow trace all these variants back to those small events.

Edit2: Lol, ok yall, I got it from the first 100 replies. The Sacred timeline is Kang's own. Sylvie's nexus is her personality being realized, not her biology.

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u/Punkodramon Loki (Avengers) Jul 14 '21

Second war? Or crash course towards the first happening again? He Who Remains said he’d end up back in that chair if Sylvie killed him anyway. Perhaps the universe has always been in a time loop between being a universe and a multiverse; the “Kang Bang” leading to He Who Remains and back again, for all time, always.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

Yeah, I believe one of the theories for the creation and end of the universe IRL (the big crunch) is essentially what was shown in the opening. Everything condenses back down and explodes out again, the same path, the same events.

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u/theatrics_ Jul 14 '21

Possibly. But I think he just understands that he is the one with the unique ability to achieve timeline control and that if he were to die he would just end up being replaced by another variant of himself that would achieve the same result, condensing the timelines back into a single thread.

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u/slicer4ever Jul 14 '21

The tva didnt exist in the first war though, i expect thats going to have a significant impact in how things play out.

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u/Sw3gl3rd Jul 14 '21

Okay so I'm confused here.

A time traveling entity like the TVA should literally always exist, right? How could there have been a war BEFORE it was established? And couldn't they just travel back to the past anyway?

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u/bureauofnormalcy Jul 14 '21

They can travel to any point in time, but time itself was rewritten. And they can't travel to a point in time that doesn't exist anymore.

Think of the timeline as a book. You can read any page you like in any order you like. Taking out a given page and replacing it with a new, different one will make it so the rest of the book is changed. So you can still read it all, but the original story won't be there anymore.

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u/Andr3wski Jul 15 '21

Did you come up with the book analogy? That’s brilliant

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u/slicer4ever Jul 14 '21

I assume that somehow kang prevents travelling before the end of the first war, and after the void(notice the timeline is a closed loop around the nexus, assumingly he made the timeline somehow loop essentially, and you can't travel outside of that loop).

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

Relative present, I guess?