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- In the first episode of Loki Season 2, shocking details of the Marvel Universe’s first Multiversity War were revealed.
- The remaining man wiped TVA’s memory multiple times, betrayed the Time Keeper’s lies, and seized power for himself after betraying his soldiers in the war.
- The MCU’s timeline is heading towards a potential reboot or disruption, with the possibility of a hard reset creating new continuity and reintroducing characters like mutants.
Marvel just revealed a huge detail that changes everything about the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline and sets the stage for the Marvel Cinematic Universe reboot.In an incredible twist, hidden details are buried beneath Loki The first episode of Season 2 revealed the exact date for the Marvel timeline reboot thanks to new information about Kang’s First Multiversity War.
A bit of a surprising twist Loki Season 2 kicks off with a completely unraveling twist Loki The end of season 1 officially debunked the theory that Sylvie murdered the Remainer (Jonathan Majors) to send Loki to a timeline that Kang had taken over. In fact, Loki was transported into the past, hundreds of years before he first arrived at the TVA in Season 1, and to a period shortly after the end of the First Multiversal War.
Kang’s first pluralist war is in the future, not the past
exist Loki In the first episode of Season 2, Loki travels back in time, where he stumbles upon The Remainers and Lavona Rensselaer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) before TVA wiped their minds. ), in which the former guardian of the Holy Timeline thanks her for helping him win the multiverse war. Shockingly, this video has two immediate revelations:
- Ravona Renslayer is the remnant’s partner and promises that they will rule the castle together at the end of time
- The remaining ones wiped TVA’s memories to sell the Time Keeper’s lies (which according to Loki he may have done multiple times)
The Survivors founded the TVA after their success in the First Multiverse War (season 1 hinted it was Arios, a time monster from the void), they were soldiers in the same battle, the Survivors betrayed them and took that power. he himself.
But the bigger revelation is more subtle, revealed only by players who pause and watch closely at the moment Loki discovers the recording. In the information about the recording, under the sonic visual and under the heading “Event Date Vector”, the date of the recording is shown as 06.12.2321 – June 12, 2321. This provides a tangible point for the event to end. The First Multiverse War.
In other words, the First Multiverse War actually took place hundreds of years in the future from the present day of the Marvel Universe. This means that the victory of the “Remnant” takes place in the distant future, while his plotting of the Divine Timeline takes place in retrospect, which confirms exactly how TVA knew which branch timelines and variants to prune, and Time for why the “Remnant” stronghold is called “The Citadel”.
Apparently, this is thanks to TVA operating outside of time and being able to manipulate any point in the timeline, whether it’s the past or the future. In fact, the Remaining Ones are not only trying to ensure that the Multiverse War never happens again, but they are also trying to direct the Divine Timeline in such a way that it never happens. This also led to the explosive revelation: time is an eternal cycle, and the Marvel timeline is either headed for destruction or reset.
Loki proves the MCU has reset
The origin story of “The Leftovers” does not take place in the distant past, but in the future, 300 years earlier than the current MCU timeline, almost exactly LokiIn fact, the release date for season one. When The Remnant explained that one of his variants discovered that multiple timelines existed, stacked on top of each other in Season 1, he was telling the story of an earlier version of Marvel’s divine timeline, where those variants Some of them seek domination of the timeline prior to the conflict.If this sounds familiar, that’s because that’s exactly what the MCU was built to do Avengers: Kang Dynasty and secret warsThe first time, the Multiverse War was won by the Remnants and TVA, who built the Time Loom to reset time into the sanctioned divine timeline.
When was the MCU timeline reset? This could only have happened at least 5,000 to 10,000 years ago, before the birth of Odin, the oldest character in the MCU. Others, such as the Celestials, and the Elders of the Universe, such as the Grandmaster and the Collector, are believed to have existed from the beginning of existence, but the purpose of the actual timeline reset is not to return to Year 0. , whoever oversees such a reset is simply controlling the flow of time without most beings knowing they exist, and the rules are now so vague that a reset could mean anything.All that’s really known is that whatever happened, the remaining humans managed to erase the events of the Multiverse War from collective memory, which would be key if the MCU does indeed use this LokiA story that sets up a hard reset.
Is Loki setting up a reboot of the MCU?
this is no accident Loki The first episode of the second season is titled “Ouroboros”.As well as showcasing the outstanding new members of Ke Huy Quan LokiAmong the cast of characters, Ouroboros also pays homage to the image of ancient stories of snakes eating themselves: an eternal, inevitable cycle. In fact, Loki is telling the audience that the sacred timeline is a cycle, everything that will happen has already happened, and the end is a multidimensional war that ends everything. Shockingly, this also means that the most likely outcome of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s future is a reboot, if “Remnant” does return or is replaced (possibly even Loki himself, as teased in Season 1 ).
Of course, we’ve seen this story before matrix In the original trilogy, when Neo faced this revelation, the matrix he inhabited was a repeat, and each cycle ended with the Architect resetting the matrix again. In this case, Neo chose free will and rebelled against fate. This is probably the only way for the Marvel Universe to survive a comprehensive reset.But with mutants entering the MCU without explanation in Marvel’s Phase 6, and the precedent of Marvel comics resetting timelines, there’s compelling evidence that the MCU will actually be rebooted Avengers: Secret Wars. It’s just a question of how it is at this stage and what that means for existing heroes.
In the Marvel comics, Secret Wars destroyed the multiverse and reset the Marvel timeline, with only a handful of characters actually remembering the events in Battleworld. While this may seem drastic, the same event will bring some significant benefits to Marvel Studios:
- The already complex lore of the MCU could be pruned out, simplifying things significantly
- Marvel could effectively follow through on Bob Iger’s ominous promise to withdraw from the Marvel Universe (MCU), ditching less valuable properties and focusing on smaller-scale rebuilds.
- Retired and dead characters with huge brands and huge financial appeal—like Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Thanos, Ultron, Black Widow, and countless others—could return in new iterations to provide Marvel delivers James Bond-style continuity update
- The new Marvel timeline will likely include mutants and all elements that were previously impossible due to now-resolved copyright issues, without having to retroactively change continuity to include them. The MCU was built from smaller parts and there was no confidence in the viability or longevity of the shared universe, so it only became a truly scaled shared universe when things were cemented together. The reset allows for cleaner integration.
- Every element of the current MCU timeline could be considered for preservation: The cast could preserve narrative impunity and innocence, allowing a whole new generation of Marvel fans to enjoy those who joined 2008’s Iron Man with a chance to be exposed to something new, without Dozens of movies and TV shows are worth doing continuity homework.
At this stage, Marvel Studios rebooting the Marvel Cinematic Universe might not be the least popular direction to take, and using the multiverse stories set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Lokiand possibly in Avengers: Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars That’s a better way to handle it than a destructive reboot that’s completely back to square one.
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