Hey everyone, I'm The Canadian Lad and in today's video I'm gonna explain how the show
"Loki" took "Avengers: Endgame" to a different level.
Well, don't worry I'm not gonna waste time praising Avengers: Endgame but this video
is mostly about how "Loki" has drastically changed the entire MCU!
It not only kick-started Marvel's Phase 4 but also gave Phase 3 a different meaning
altogether.
So without any further ado, let's just jump into it.
Now we know what the TVA does in Loki.
They're basically the Time-Police who prunes individuals for doing something they're not
supposed to be doing.
So I'm not gonna explain what the TVA is, I'm just gonna assume you know what they do.
Now, remember what the Avengers did in Endgame?
They also basically pruned timelines.
Now to understand what I'm saying, let's play this scene again so we have a better context:
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So the Infinity Stones create what we experience as the flow of time.
Remove one stone and that flow splits.
Now if we take Ancient One's statement word for word, this would mean the sacred timeline
that we saw in Loki, was literally the embodiment of the infinity stones.
Now whenever the TVA would notice such a branch in time, they would simply prune it, right?
So notice what Bruce Banner said to Ancient One:
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Pay attention to the words “But we can erase it” so Banner is essentially suggesting
to do what the TVA already does.
But in Loki we learned this: -CUT SCENE-
So, you may ask the TVA actually never prunes anything, they just transfer everything to
the void, so how did the Avengers manage to prune a timeline by just simply putting a
stone back to where it was taken from?
Well, listen to this: -CUT SCENE-
Ancient One clearly asks Doctor Banner if his science can prevent all of these and he
simply says NO!
So Bruce agrees that erasing a branch in timeline doesn't actually fix it, it just stops it
from branching any further.
So it's pretty safe to say the concept of "Timeline Pruning" was introduced way back
in Endgame, even before the first draft of Loki was written.
So Endgame was essentially just the tip of the iceberg while Loki now shows us just how
big this freaking ice-berg is!
Now that we know the Avengers basically did what the TVA is supposed to do, this is why
the Avengers were never arrested by the TVA.
Because the TVA knew even though the Avengers are creating a branch in timeline by taking
the stones from the past, they would eventually fix it themselves as well.
-CUT SCENE- But all of these leave one big question though.
Wouldn't all this timeline pruning and erasing open up a massive paradox in the MCU?
Well, it actually will.
He Who Remains explained it in the final episode of Loki.
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would unleash another multiversal war and then one superior variant of himself will
rise up again and bring peace to the multiverse, meaning history would repeat itself and he
would come back exactly where he is now.
But aside from the paradox, the fact that Sylvie killed He Who Remains at the end of
Loki, gives another new perspective to conceive the timeline of the MCU.
'Cause notice when Sylvie killed He Who Remains to restore Free Will for everyone, they both
were beyond time itself, meaning they were not in any specific timeline.
So the events inside this castle affected the entire timeline, the past, present and
future all at once.
And that's why we can say whatever we have been seeing since Iron Man 1, all of it was
their free will and their own choices.
Now another reason the Avengers may have gotten away with it, could be because He Who Remains
himself is a fan of them!
Notice in the concept art of Loki's final episode, we could see a helmet of Iron Man
among the ancient artifacts He Who Remains collected.
This could be a variant of Iron Man aka Tony Stark or maybe He Who Remains just kept one
from Tony 'cause that's how influential Tony Stark has been in the MCU!
Keep in mind, we have to take concept arts into account because when an artist starts
making them, they're given full instructions on who the character is, what he is fond of
and what he hates.
So the fact that this concept art includes an Iron Man helmet inside He Who Remains'
office, goes to show he is indeed a fan of Tony Stark, inadvertently the Avengers.
And that's how I came to my conclusion that the series Loki made Avengers: Endgame a 100
times better movie!
Honestly I love how Marvel redeemed Thor: The Dark World, one of the least fan favorite
MCU films through this show and they have also added new meanings to Avengers:
Endgame so we can appreciate the movie even more!
Lemme know if you agree with my conclusion and please comment below your own theories
regarding how Loki impacted Avengers: Endgame for better or worse.
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