Loki! (spoiler thread)

[Older Beholder]

She had the pen from the school her prime variant works at is the big one I think

There was the fact that she still had that pen. It seems a little odd to hold onto a keepsake from a time and place you don't remember.

Then again, Mobius had his jetski magazines, so I guess they do still maintain a lot of that on a subconscious level.

Of course, the pen!

I did notice that, but the meaning didn’t click at the time and with everything else happening I forgot about it.

 

[trappedslider]

No, That's Not Kang the Conqueror in the 'Loki' Finale

But you're close

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[Enevhar Aldarion]

The more I think about it though, I think you’re right: the last we see of Renslayer she leaves to find out more (I think she says she’s off to find free will) which does imply that she didn’t know what was going on.

Well, the actress said in an interview that this was the beginning for her character. I take that to mean she is the version of the character who has not yet met, and fallen in love with, a version of Kang, as she does in the comics. I would think that will be explored some in season 2.

 

[Parmandur]

Speaking for myself, I didn't like a number of the questions unanswered or unsatisfyingly answered by the finale.

What was Sylvie's supposed crime? We never get an answer, and I don't for one second believe that Ravonna didn't remember. Why, during her trial, did everyone seem to just stand around and stare when she made her escape, rather than at least attempting to stop her? A reasonable conclusion would be that there wasn't a crime, that the trial was a farce, and she was simply picked by He Who Remains to be one of the Lokis who would be present at the finale. But why her in particular, and not some other Loki?

Why couldn't Ravonna be pruned? Mobius contacted her with the glowing end of the stick, and nothing happened.

I think Sylvie's crime was that Odin & Freyja revealed her adopted status. Simple as that, changed the course of her life in a way that would have led to a different 31st century, and had to be pruned.

 

[Tonguez]

I had only ever seen both Guardians of the Galaxy movies, Captain Marvel and Black Panther before I watched WandaVision. I did watch the Legends shorts on both Wanda and Vision beforehand, but I enjoyed the show just fine without having seen Age of Ultron or anything else. In fact, that show is what made me want to watch everything else, whereas previously I'd not been that interested in the MCU.

After showing my girls all of WandaVision, I remember asking them if they wanted to see more of Wanda, Vision, Woo or Darcy. They picked Darcy, so we watched Thor. And now I've seen all the MCU movies except the Spider Man ones as well as all three Disney+ shows.

Heh welcome to the Cult of Marvel

 

[Maxperson]

No, That's Not Kang the Conqueror in the 'Loki' Finale

But you're close

www.thewrap.com

This actually shows that @Echohawk and I were both correct. When the Threshold was passed, the timelines begin to branch. This happens before Kang's death. However, Kang says, "“What’s the worst that can happen? You either take over and my life’s work continues, or you plunge a blade in my chest and an infinite amount of me start another Multiversal War. And I just end up right back here anyways. Reincarnation, baby.” It's when that happens that the timelines explode into furious expansion.

I think that whenever Thresholds were passed, new timelines that Kang then sent the TVA to prune started to bud and that's what we saw in the last episode. Upon his death, it became confirmed that he would not be pruning any of them, freeing them to expand quickly and create a bunch of new timelines. Had they opted to take Kang up on his offer OR let Kang live, then those buds we see happening would have been pruned.

 

[Tonguez]

“Eons ago, before the TVA, a variant of myself lived on Earth in the 31st Century” so He Who Remains at the end of time dies, the Timelines reset, a variant establishes a TVA, Loki goes back to that variant TVA, multiverse proceeds.

I think it would be neat to have the Multiversal War played out as a mini-arc in a series of post-credit scenes with Johnathan Majors portraying a different variant not-Kang after each of the the upcoming movies/shows.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I think part of the ending is telling us that we could have had a normal multiverse, once the Threshold was crossed, if He Who Remains had not died. But because Sylvie was still a selfish child and had to have her revenge, her killing him allowed all the Variant Kang to come back into existence again.

 

[Umbran]

I think part of the ending is telling us that we could have had a normal multiverse

I'm not sure what a "normal multiverse" is. We have presumably only seen the MCU under Kang Who Remains - a single universe, not a multiverse. What Kang told us was that before then, the "normal" was a state of multiversal war.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I just figured He Who Remains was the MCU version of Immortus.