Loki Can Finally Give The Avengers A Game-Changing Tool They Weren’t Allowed To Use Against Thanos
Loki (Tom Hiddleston) could finally give the Avengers a game-changer in the MCU that they couldn’t use against Thanos in Avengers: Endgame. Although the Avengers can travel through time, certain important rules and restrictions make their mission more complicated. However, the rules of time travel seem to be changing thanks to the God of Mischief, as seen In Loki season 2, episode 1, the titular God of Mischief returned from the Citadel at the End of Time only to find that he’d come back to the TVA in the distant past before he was violently jumped back to the known present. As such, Loki season 2’s premiere revealed that Loki is suffering from “time-slipping”, a violent temporal affliction where his body is involuntarily jumped between the past, present, and future. However, the new MCU show has already shown how useful Loki’s time-slipping could truly be.
The Avengers Weren’t Allowed To Alter The Past In Avengers: Endgame
As seen in Avengers: Endgame, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes discovered a way to travel through time through the Quantum Realm, allowing them to undo Thanos’ slaughter of half of all life in the universe. has been wiped out. However, it’s not as simple as going back and warning about their past or even killing Thanos before he commits his dark deed. According to Bruce Banner’s Hulk, this is not how time travel works: “If you travel to the past, that past becomes your future and your old present becomes the past, the future Your new version can no longer be changed. » Instead, the only solution is for the Avengers to retrieve the Infinity Stones from the past. By collecting the Infinity Stones and bringing them back to their present, the Avengers were able to undo the effects of the Snap. However, everything that had happened prior with Thanos and the five-year Blip all still happened. The main MCU timeline was not rewritten, as the Avengers couldn’t have altered their present by changing things in the past. That would have simply created a new branch timeline in which events would only be different in a newly created reality. The original present would still remain unchanged.
Loki’s Time Slipping Means The Past Can Affect The Future
That being said, “time works differently in TVA” and that seems to include time travel as well. As seen in Loki’s season 2 premiere, the God of Mischief’s time slip effectively broke the rules set by Hulk in Endgame. This was proven in the first conversation between Loki’s new character, Ouroboros (Ke Huy Quan), with Loki and Agent Mobius (Owen Wilson). Having time-slipped during the conversation, Loki is seen speaking with O.B centuries in the past while Mobius continues taking with the head of Repairs and Advancement in the present. As a result, a grandfather paradox is created where O.B initially didn’t have a Temporal Aura Extractor when Mobius asked if he had one, only to remember that he did in fact have one as Loki had just asked him to make one in the past.
Why Loki’s New Skill Still Has Problems
Overall, there are still serious issues surrounding Loki’s time travel and his ability to be a key tool in the future. First, Loki may have lost this ability after the Loki Season 2 premiere thanks to the joint efforts of Mobius and OB. However, time will tell whether Loki is truly stable on a temporary level, as the trailers for Loki season 2 include post-premiere footage of what appears to be further developments. more time. Second, Loki has no control over the time displacement in the premiere, and the process seems quite violent and harmful. As such, it’s possible that prolonged time slippage could eventually kill the God of Mischief. Last but not least, there’s a good chance that Kang the Conqueror himself can kill some time. If he does, the concern would be that Loki and Kang could then continuously slide down the MCU timeline.