![]() ![]() ![]() And it preserves the multiverse even with a new TVA, because as his title indicates he would probably want to conquer other realities, not destroy them - and the TVA, which was Kang’s enemy in the comics, could certainly help with that It’s exactly the kind of poetic dualism that Hollywood storytellers love. Maybe there was another multiversal war, with just one Nathaniel Richards remaining by the end - but a different one this time. Richards thought that if the multiverse came into being that the exact same stuff that he experienced before would play out again. The multiverse didn’t just give us a bunch of new alternate timelines - it gave us a new TVA as well. Now a Richards variant, whose statue looms over the TVA lobby, is openly leading the TVA instead of hiding behind the facade of the Time-Keepers. Mobius (Owen Wilson) doesn’t know who he is and noticing a new monument decorating the place, learns that Richards was wrong. And then Loki, after discovering that Mr. Sylvie kicks Loki back to the TVA, then kills Richards, triggering the multiverse. And I just end up right back here anyways. “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. ‘Black Widow’: The Story Behind That ‘Lame’ Joke About Periods Near the end of Sylvie and Loki’s chat with Richards, they ask him how he could trust them with this choice. So if this guy spewing all this exposition at Loki and Sylvie isn’t Kang, then who is? Well, I think we saw a statue of him in the last shot of the episode. So we have to assume that we’re mostly getting truth here, or at least the truth as he knows it. Because if we couldn’t, then we simply would have no idea what happened on this show. ![]() In a normal story built for mass appeal - which is what “Loki” is - it would be safe to assume he’s telling at least most of the truth. That said, Hollywood storytelling conventions tell us we can trust most of what Richards is telling us, because season finales don’t usually end with a lie that has to be unraveled later. Let’s just say we don’t have enough context to judge this guy. On the other hand, none of us has ever been in a Multiversal War. Not to mention that he may actually have destroyed all those other universes, which is not something you would think a nice person would do. He could be smudging the truth, what with villains often think they’re the hero and all that. Which means he is not including himself among the warmongers - those were other variants. Second: this version of Richards that we know is that that first variant. Uh, Is a Scene Missing at the Very End of ‘Black Widow’? So when he talks about the “first variant” there he just means he’s referring to the first version of himself that he had mentioned earlier in this story, and not some hierarchy of versions of himself. Once I isolated our timeline, all I had to do was manage the flow of time and prevent further branches.”įirst thing here: in the multiverse, everyone is a variant. “That first variant encountered a creature created from all the tears in reality, capable of consuming time and space itself,” Richards tells Loki and Sylvie, talking about the smoke monster Alioth we saw policing The Void in last week’s episode. And it’s a fun idea.įinally, late in Richards’ autobiographical monologue, he tells us which Richards he was. I’m not sure I buy it, for reasons I’ll lay out below, but it’s certainly a valid way to look at this story. Maybe one or more of those guys was Kang the Conqueror. ‘Loki’ Star Tom Hiddleston on How Alligator Loki, ‘Clearly the Superior Loki,’ Caused Delays on Set (Video) ![]()
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