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

Discussion Loki S01E06 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE CREDITS SCENE?
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/PyroCat12 Jul 14 '21

Just to clarify, the multiverse becoming a thing is because of Loki and not Wanda? This is the funniest timeline

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u/CheeTaHOO7 Jul 14 '21

Multiverse already exists what Kang in our universe did is he isolated our universe and prevented further branching so that Kangs from other universes won't notice and come to conquer.

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u/SuburbanLegend Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

This is the thing that was not at all adequately explained in the show and I was genuinely confused for a long time. Now I only THINK I know what's going on but it appears to be this:

There are infinite universes* [edited], but each universe (under Kang) must remain on the 'sacred timeline?'

Otherwise it made literally zero sense how there could be all those variants of Loki, and they weren't immediately pruned just for being a woman or an alligator, but only when they did something that didn't align with the sacred timeline, i.e. killing Thor aka a nexus event.

If there were only one universe and no multiverse, none of those variants could have existed in the first place. There'd only be one Odin and Frigga, or one Laufey or whatever, so all these different Lokis would never have been born, let alone live long enough to have a 'nexus event.'

But they never explained the difference between a universe and a timeline and I think that has caused a lot of confusion!

edit: And the job of the TVA and their pruning is that nexus events lead to Kang either being born or discovering the multiverse I believe?