Loki 2x01: Breakdown, Theories, Reaction and More! 

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I'm so happy that we're finally properly diving deep into the Multiverse Saga with Loki. And I love OB, such a funny character, with a great actor playing him.

That “Following Orders” scene randomly reminded me of that Magneto line from “First Class” : “I’ve been at the mercy of men “just following orders”. “Never again.” 🔥

Owen Wilson and Tom Hiddleston have great chemistry whenever they're on screen together as Mobius and Loki. Great casting in this show all around. Also, it's interesting that Loki's two biggest allies in the TVA right now, Mobius and OB, are both named after things that are circular and infinite (the mobius strip and the snake that eats its own tail). Circular time is definitely a big theme in this show for sure.

Whoah, that 3 loki's falling from the door is a good catch, never noticed it

I rewatched Season 1 the night before season 2 premiered and it honestly felt as if 1 was still playing which I enjoyed Also I definitely cheered when Loki (accidentally) knocked Mobius back before the skin ripping

The theory that the call and pruning in the future are something planned is wild. It may all happen in the last episode or so from the different perspective. Would love to see that!

OB is the Milton of the TVA, and I love him! I would visit him every chance I got!

That episode was great, hope the season continues like this

Very interesting points about the timeslipping origin and I think this happened because Sylvie pushed him through a time door and he's temporally anchored by the TemPad to where they were but since the Citadel at the End of Time lies beyond time and space, it makes it impossible to timeloop between these two. Whenever his temporal aura is trying to loop him back to where he was, it freaks out because it can't find the place so it glitches him through time instead, like frantically rolling through a phone book looking for the number that called 😂. You mentioned some fine pieces of detail that i haven't seen other breakdowns mention. Nice work!

Wait, while watching this video I think I just came up with a crazy theory. If like you said, the timelines that make up the Sacred Timeline are ones where no Kang is created, what is one thing required for there to be a Kang that is notably missing from the MCU timeline, Reed Richards. Kang is supposed to be a descendant of Reed, and therefore Kang can't exist without him. What if He Who Remains' monitoring of the timeline is the in universe reason why we havent seen the Fantastic Four yet!

This was such a treat of an episode. Wonderfully directed and written. OB was also fantastic.

Loki is truly the greatest MCU show

Ob really stole the show for me in this episode. Ob must be protected at all costs.

You know it's high quality review when it's longer than the episode

Awesome deep dive into episode one love it

You can never be too certain but honestly that first episode was just so damn perfect in so many ways I now have full faith that THIS will fully restore people’s hope for the future of marvel at last. After all when you’ve got Tom Hiddleston on board you pretty much have no choice but to make something great.

Low-key a great start to the show.

been waiting for this breakdown, glad it’s finally here!

First thing I did after watching the episode was opening your yt channel lol, happy to see the breakdown is out so quick!

Love having a meaty deep dive into a Marvel project again. It’s been a while and glad it’s Loki being able to do this. Keep up the great work!

So glad to be getting back into your videos man, you’re one of the best!

Let's goooooo I was so excited to watch your reactions on this episode This series is going to be amazing

Thank you a lot for this upload! I just finished it today nd it was full of excitement. I hope u continue doing these👌🏼

Love your videos! You will be my go to for the breakdowns!

Just got time to watch it this Saturday so glad this came out when it did I always look forward to your videos as youre my favorite Marvel RU-vidr.

I really liked this episode! Lots of stuff going on and I’m excited to see where this season goes!

Great video as always Joof! Glad to be back watching. Just getting into season two and will be watching your vids every step of the way. Can't wait!

loving these videos! thx

I did not notice the shadows of loki booting out the time door until you pointed that out interesting. I Laughed and cried at the same time after I watched it, I loved it. I'm a big fan of Tom Hiddleston because of his portrayal as loki and Tom is my celebrity crush Loki’s so adorable. If I ever meet Tom Hiddleston I would probably die lol. Tom's acting was so good in this episode can't wait for the rest of the episodes. I'm the one who pruned loki to save him because i love him. 😂

I was so pleasantly surprised to see how long this breakdown was! Love putting your videos in the background when I do stuff so this is perfect. Keep it up man I love your content

The goat has uploaded!

lets gooo the best marvel show is back! time to watch so many youtube videos explaing it like yours lol

8:30 nice little detail is you can actually see the driver fly away in the background of the scene!

Broxton, Oklahoma is also the hometown of Sylvie Lushton in the comics, who along with Lady Loki is one of the inspirations for Sylvie Laufeydottir in the MCU.

I’ve been waiting for this

Love the videos man keep it up

The second best Disney+ show is back

Been waiting for your breakdown!

Interesting points, great breakdown. We're very lucky to go from 1 Asohka episode a week to 1 Loki episode a week.

this one episode alone made kang more terrifying then antman quantamania even attempted to try💀💀

yes thanks for this video i needed this

With the same actor playing two characters he could be his variant, and there trying to capture him to show everyone that they are variants.

OMG I was waiting for your breakdown and it was absolutely worth the wait! I love how you look into every detail, I'm so excited for this new Loki season! I hope that we know more about the founding of the TVA because I'm sure that He who remains didn't tell us the whole truth, I'm sure that it was a time when the five Kang's rule the TVA together and something happened to HWR isolate them and exiles Kang prime. And about the Loom, I just find it so so interesting that OB says that the Loom is like the heart of the TVA, and I think that the whole thing with circles it's just a whole loop that happens again and again just like the meaning of OB's name. He must be more important than we think because "Kang" put him there to continue to operate and repair the TVA, like from where did he know all that TVA important stuff? I don't know, my head it's just full of theories, thank you for the video 💜

What a great 1st episode!

Joof forgot to reply! Great video, thank you for mentioning the butterfly effect vid, love you hinting at the old Sylvie possibly and the Keanu mention!!!!!

Congrats on 10k bro🎉 it’s funny all these other RU-vidrs may have uploaded their breakdowns but they just try to find Easter eggs and explain what happened in the ep. You go into theories and explaining things we didn’t even know needed explaining lol. You’re the goat at this bro

The sacred timeline is probably a giant ouroboros where the beginning of every timeline starts at the loom and eventually every timeline is destroyed or ends because the universe ends after an astronomical amount of time and is refined into the timeline repeating again like a never ending loop. The branched timelines probably eventually all die out over time and because there’s so many new timelines it overloads the time loom.

I remember time ago when I was not really an MCU fan and just following along the MCU with only some movies (Avengers, Spider-Man, Civil War, and a few more) until Endgame. Even though I didn't see all the MCU movies, I still enjoyed myself with Endgame. After Far From Home (I wasn't a fan of it when I first saw it), I just stoped following (mostly because of COVID and no MCU projects in 2020) and didn't even know about Disney+. It wasn't until I heard about Loki and saw the first season with my mom and cousin. After finishing it, I was immediately hooked into it and started watching explanation, theory videos, etc. I loved the concept of the Multiverse when seeing it and it was until I saw No Way Home that I was fullt hooked in and have seen every MCU project since No Way Home. I am so excited for Loki Season 2 and this 1st episode already has me hooked into this season and I have full faith in this series. My mom is also excited for Loki 😂. Love your videos man, keep it up!

First episode did not disappoint! I'm super excited for the next one mannn

I came to the same conclusion you did about raw time being what's left over after the end of time. The time loom is basically like the head of Ouroboros swallowing its own tail.

A clear editing showing Back to the Future type time travel would involve things shifting into reality as we look at them in the scene. Here, they were playfully hinting at it, but keeping it vague, leaving it equally consistent with a pure time loop option. Lost tv series had the same editing approach at one point iirc, while discussing the general theme of freedom of choice vs destiny. Though in the end, they were closer to predestination, or at least to acceptance/choice to go along with what was planned for characters by the providence.

Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure is one of my favorite personal “cult films” and I wish more people recognized its gold. Thank you for mentioning it. I thought of it and the Doctor Who Xmas special where he’s the ghost of Xmas

I agree that the TVA aren't outside of time. Time clearly affects them, they see timelines branching in real time as opposed to the past branches existing solely in the past, etc. However, they may be outside the main timeline. Basically after watching the season premiere of Loki S2, my new understanding of time is that time and all of its potential branches exist as an amorphous, nebulous, non-physical blob. Each Kang variant created a Temporal Loom to fashion the immaterial time into a physical timeline. And as a result of that physical timeline creation, decisions that created branches are all wound together into this physical timeline but eventually they break off into a physical branch. That's why the TVA doesn't see these branches as having already happened. They did already happen, but the Temporal Loom delayed their manifestation as physical objects in a physical timeline. And the Temporal Loom allows these branches to be used as bridges to other universes (in addition to powering the TVA). But He Who Remains decided to prune the branches that separate from the timeline in order to isolate the "Sacred Timeline" away from the rest of the multiverse. And through all of that the TVA either doesn't exist within the timeline (because it exists outside of the Temporal Loom that is creating the timeline) or it exists at the very beginning of the timeline (since the Temporal Loom is part of the TVA that turns time into a physical timeline). I believe this is closed loop time travel rather than the butterfly effect. Loki was always responsible for that crack being there; he didn't change anything. This also fits with the double-meaning of the episode's title, "Ourobouros", a closed loop with a snake whose head is eating its tail (in addition to being the name of OB). I do agree that the way OB's scene was written and shot that it looked like butterfly effect, but I don't expect that will mechanically make sense as we get to the end of this season. Also Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is totally closed loop time travel, not butterfly effect. :) They were saying they needed to go back in time to put something in place to fulfill the events of the past. That's why Ted's dad's keys are missing at the beginning of the movie before any time travel has even happened and how they speak to their past selves before their past selves have time traveled. (Granted, I haven't seen the third movie, so maybe they changed the rules in it., but the first two were closed loop..) We know from the trailer that Miss Minutes is coming back, so I think she's just loyal to Kang/He Who Remains, and her absence isn't so much due to his death but rather his orders. She'll come back once she's fulfilled his orders, whatever they may be. I really like that immortality explanation. I don't think Alioth is turning the things it eats back into raw time. We're told that Alioth is capable of destroying time and matter. Of course that runs contrary to the second law of thermodynamics, and would seemingly prevent a new beginning of time to erupt from the end of time as a circle would suggest, so I'm more of the mind that Alioth concentrates everything he eats into singularities, like a black hole, and he will naturally create six singularities from everything he has eaten that will then go on to become the Infinity Stones of the reborn universe.

Good video!

hopefully we get to see Throg, the deleted scene from season 1 with him seems awesome

49:00 yes that fits perfectly with the title of the episode. ouroboros

Excited to see where it goes

The decision to visualize the intertwined strands of time on screen is a great choice, Should make it so much easier for General audiences to get the idea of the multiverse and sacred timeline without having to read an article or have someone explain it

Proper breakdown

31:42 Or they could always be giving some kind of a callback to Michael Keaton's Batman when he used spaghetti as a visual metaphor for how The Flash's time travel works.

The mail trucker driver lives, you see it fly back up and sputter away after it falls

They carried forward the vibes, character rapport, and quality of the 1st season, and it felt like we never left. The Time Loom makes things very interesting. It seemed like the TVA could've been in a pocket dimension before we saw this episode, but now it almost seems like the TVA is in a "Time Dimension" or something, for raw Time to be seen and interacted with. O.B. (as everyone has said) is so fun, and I wonder how he worked for over 400 years, seemingly without breaks. Also, imagine you're sitting in the War Room, and the guy you thought killed himself, warped in, grabbed a Timestick, and killed your wall, proclaiming "That! That is who did this!" and is then led out of the room. About the bit where that lady general knows about something happening at the End of Time, I thijk it was something discussed with Ravonna & Sylvie, before Sylvie then pruned herself. Ravonna or Miss Minutes claimed there was a ship they could take to the Void, and it seemed a well-known thing that there was a Void at the End of Time that everything pruned went to. (Which, btw, seems to contradict the explanation of removing you from time, unless somehow the Void is really outside of Time, and is a combination of everything possible, and people just perceive it as physical enough to survive? And how does the Void work in conjunction with HWR's Citadel? It all is surrounded by the Timeline bundle, without evidence of the Loom, or the TVA, and seems to be a hidden "layer" to the Void. There's still a lot to unpack here, and I hope to find out more.

Binged all your Marvel timeline episodes looking forward to this one!

Great video, as always! I was waiting for you. Speaking of your last theory, I like it a lot actually. Initially I thought of a possible counterargument, but I realized that it was wrong, so I'll omit it from here 😂 I loved this episode. I was confused at first, especially because of the Back to the Future style time traveling, but yeah, I do believe that there are multiple time streams that can run simultaneously, and the one in which the TVA and the Citadel at the End of Time are located must be different from the one the Sacred Timeline is located. One way of proving this would be to look back at what HWR told Loki and Sylvie when they met him back at the end of Season 1: they asked him what was going to happen and he said that he didn't know. He already knew everything up until that point (because he had planned for all of it already), but he had no idea what was going to happen next, from the moment they showed up at his door onwards. So, coupling this with your theory, that makes me think that the larger time stream, the one where the TVA and HWR operate, is in fact linear, as it should be. The Sacred Timeline was instead *forced* into being circular by HWR through the Temporal Loom, which basically takes the raw time resulting by whatever happens at the end of time and weaving it back into the beginning. And if this is true, then does that mean that O.B. knows about it? I don't think his memory has ever been wiped either, and given that he was the one who built the Temporal Loom, does that mean that he knows who Kang is and what he's doing, but just doesn't care? Or is he being manipulated into believing something else? Maybe he lived through the Multiversal War too and might know something about that as well! Wild stuff! By the way, I find it extremely funny that the manual that O.B. wrote, that is supposed to contain all the instructions and details of every machine and software in the TVA, looks like it's only 70/80 pages long, at best. O.B. must be very good at being succint 😂

Yeah, I belive the final explanation of the Temporal Loom is correct: this is how He Who Remains is able to maintain the Sacred Timeline once it reaches the Void, which, we need to remember, it's something HWR created to be the TVA dumpster and allowing him to use Alioth after the Multiversal War. As you can see, when Loki gets pruned, the aura extractor pulls him out from the End of Time. It's also nice they are specifying that Sylvie is in a Branched Timeline, which, of course, confirms once again that an Alternate Timeline (a Branch) and a Universe are two different things.

This Loki episode was some of the best on-screen MCU material I've seen in a long time! I really don't know what's going on at this point, but I love your theories. I guess I never heard you mention your theory before about Kamala's bangle being Kang tech, but that pretty much just blew my mind! And makes me wonder if the Ten Rings were also Kang tech, and maybe those things are just components of some device that broke apart in the future and got thrown back in time by accident. Maybe the vibranium meteorite that hit Wakanda was also part of that, for all we know. (Ancient Wakandans wouldn't know the difference between a meteorite and a piece of 30th century tech hitting the earth.) Okay, that was a bit of a tangent there, but I'm too tired to think about timeline branches and time slipping and butterfly effects right now.

I’d love if in kang dynasty or secret wars all the avengers especially Thor see Loki being the one to knows what’s going on and being the hero

Wow, just like the episode such a great video. I was really glad to watch someone else's reaction and not sound crazy for having all these theories and noticing small details like the very similar X-men doors. There was so so much in this episode it was really impressive how much they fit into one episode without it feeling crowded or underdeveloped, I hope that continues. I wanna throw this theory out there curious what your thoughts are: I think your dead wrong about Loki being not so far into the future, I think he's very far in the future nearing the end of time. To me that makes the most sense since either everyone was gone or everyone was on a rush out of there (can't remember what it was for the life of me, there was too much to remember in this episode). Also less sure on this one but my guess is that Loki got pruned by... himself. I'm not sure why but I have this gut feeling that him being pruned is going to tie into the same scene from the trailer where two Lokis are together. Also I'm not sure I'm on board with that theory at the end, it would be really cool but it doesn't quite fit for me. I think that was just a really good case of foreshadowing. But man the one thing that I really love about this episode is that it does some stuff with time that I've never seen before, I love time travel, I watch doctor who, legends of tomorrow when that was on, I love endgame, back to future the list goes on and on but I've never seen something convey the butterfly effect in real time before. And not just that but seeing how the TVA is affected by being sucked into the timeline from the death of he who remains all at once, in the past, present and future was so cool. It seemed like you think something else was going on since he who remains was on statues in the past but let me remind you that the end of time where he who remains was outside of time, so his death in my opinion affects everything all at once, past present and future. The same way that opening up the multiverse in season 1 caused things like captain carters world to exist even though that was in the past too. Just my thoughts totally ok if you disagree. And don't worry I'm just teasing you for this one, but man 32:36 we're getting 6 seasons of Loki???? Are you secretly a kang variant from the future? it would sure explain how you know so much. I really hope we get more though, I love this show and it could run for 10 seasons for all I care I'd be so down.

Fan Theory: I think He Who Remains has 3 criteria for including timelines in the sacred timeline. 1. No Kang timelines. For obvious reasons 2. No Wiccan timelines. Because Wanda's son in the comics supposedly a massive threat to him. 3. No Mutants. (maybe not none at all, but suppressed) The way I understand things is that Wanda hearing billy and tommy calling out to her in the end credit scene of WandaVision, took place because the multiverse was unleashed. As for mutants, sure we do technically have mutants in the 616, but not as much as we should. and Even Kamala's mutant abilities seem to be somehow latent without the use of the bangles.

I have tons of thoughts for you but here’s a little theory that I’ve been thinking about. There’s a previous version of the TVA that everyone there is the same but people forget what happened. Sylvie has said that she’s been running her entire life, and since she’s asgardian that is thousands of years presumably. When Sylvie asked Renslayer what her event was, she said she doesn’t remember. What if she had an event in a PREVIOUS version of the TVA. That would explain why no one remembers a female variant. And maybe her escaping could have something to do with the branching in the previous TVA. If the previous TVA had a massive timeline spike due to a female Loki escaping, then when he who remains resets the tva he could’ve added to their directive to prune all female lokis, and that could be why the lokis in the void have NEVER met a female Loki. Kinda a far fetched theory but I’m curious to know your thoughts

Möbius having been mind wiped probably wouldn’t have a great sense of time in the TVA, however OB does. OB being the sharpest person in the TVA recalls things 400 years prior.

Starting to anticipate your vids like KindaCulty’s

It's funny your comment about the light flickering and Morse code (which I do like to think is happening here) and the idea of being situated in a black hole - both of these involve elements from Christopher Nolan's Interstellar

really hoping we get to see thor and loki reunite, it would be very emotional!

I think the timeline branching is happening simultaneously in the different TVA “time periods.” All of time is happening at once from the perspectives of the TVA and the citadel, so He Who Remains death is affecting the TVA the same way at every moment of the TVA’s history, which is now being altered by the events of 1x06 and 2x01.

Loved the episode, been waiting for this one for quite a while. So, first: I don't think Zaniac and X-5 are the exact same person, I think Zaniac is a variant, just like we saw teacher Renslayer in season 1, and maybe his variant does something related to the Sylvie plot that prompts the TVA (or maybe even just Loki and Mobius) to arrest him. I loved the part where Loki listens to the old recording of He Who Remains. The way it was presented to us, it looked like Loki thought he was talking to him through the recording, which must've been incredibly scary for him, thinking that he would see him again. Also, You're correct about Dox not knowing about the End of Time. I don't know how Loki didn't mention it, but I guess he was just really shaken after what happened. It's definitely a hint towards the direction of her character. Loved your theory about immortality with the Quantumania book. If time really does exist in the TVA, it would make total sense that their consciousness was being pulled into their bodies from minutes or even seconds ago, that's really smart. As for the time travel stuff, oh it's 100% butterfly effect, no question about it. I remember theorizing back when Deadpool 2 came out that because they all exist in the same multiverse, depending on the time travel device, time travel could work differently (butterfly effect, branched timelines, or closed loop). This basically confirms it, and I'm kinda glad we finally have an explanation for Ms. Marvel's time travel rules being different than Endgame's, being different from Loki's. Ke Huy Quan was fantastic as O.B., great addition to the cast. As for the scene where Loki gets pruned, I think it's gotta be future Loki who prunes his past self in order to succeed. Like you said, he saw Sylvie from the front, but got pruned from behind, so someone else needed to have done it, and since we know Loki and Sylvie are eventually gonna reunite, it makes sense for them to be working together on this exact thing. Heck, it could even be future Mobius on the phone to make sure Loki was in the exact position he needed to be (or Loki and Mobius's roles reversed). Finally, I like your theory about the end of time, but I think it needs a bit more evidence in order to be considered true. Great theory though, and great video as well!

Gosh it feels like forever since good quality Marvel

I’m so calling it now: The post credit scene for Loki Season 2 will be some hint or die tie-in for Deadpool 3. We know some form of the TVA will be around by then so what if we have a Judge call for a “Wade Wilson” to stand trial for his crimes back in Deadpool 2 with cable’s time device?

This episode truly felt like a return to form for Marvel. High production quality with a good, intriguing story? I'm cautiously optimistic to be sure.

What I really like about the episode it was just bang straight into it we know the background it’s straight into the action and into the story. This is where I feel some of the other shows struggled to get going…

I’m not joking when I say that when I was watching episode, multiple times I thought “Oh man, A Bit of Everything is gonna have a headache from this one.” 😅

I just hope that they answer everything that's unclear by the end of the season and don't have any contradicting information

I hope they release the tva guidebook physically for us. I would order it day one it appears.

8:45 Marvel actually used the direct audio from the Moon Knight episode but only in the sneak peek version on RU-vid, uploaded hours before the episode dropped. I'm not sure why it's different but very interesting lol

The thing about the butterfly effect theory is that physically nothing changed. That extractor was always there behind the desk. I don’t think anything has changed at the TVA personally. Everything that is happening has already happened. He Who Remains was clever and has seen all of this before as he stated. I couldn’t understand why the timeline started branching before he died. But now I think He Who Remains timed it that way to apply pressure on Loki’s and Sylvie’s decision. I suspect the loom was already overloading. We now see in season 2 the Loom has overloaded more than once. Sylvie killing He Who Remains had no effect on the sacred timeline. It was already branching before it happened. It was a “parlor trick”. They are still just walking down the road He Who Remains paved. Nothing has changed.

Hope Loki becomes a villain again but still be TVA member

Ohhhh yeah

Ke Huy Quan is FANTASTIC as OB and I'm glad he is playing him but I do wonder what it would be like if Owen Wilson played OB because in the comics they are twins or something. They basically look the same. In the end, I think the writers / director / casting director and whatnot made the right decision.

50min vid? *chefs kiss*

20:45 The concept of "there's no past" or "outside of time" is relatively simple: only one, self-transforming present moment exists *physically* (past or future moments don't, and so, you can't time travel to somewhere that doesn't exist). Obviously, Mobius was wrong, or at least now he's wrong as things may have changed after HWR let go of control.

*Me looking at the video length* "Ah sheet, here we go again." Anyway ... Loki S1 and S2 are definitely back to back. As far as the TemPad, ScreenCrush made a great video about how you need that TemPad device to prevent time slipping which since Sylvie has it is not doing it herself. I am curious what B-15 meant by "this unit". The past bit I'm fairly certain is connected to the previous Multiversal War. As far as the Director's comments about "alternate TVA" isn't entirely inaccurate. I did not catch the Casey thing though. There is one other dilemma with time travel in Endgame and that's how Steve didn't return as he was meant to and that has never really been explained HOW that happened. Also X-5 is Zaniac?! And the recording date? I never saw that either. I think Renslayer might of mentioned the End of Time in S1 because she definitely was aware of the Void. Wait Loki season 6?! But on a serious note, I never considered the flashing light could be something more than what we're seeing. I don't think the Quantumania PCS is after S2 but definitely after S1. They need to release an Official TVA book for us to buy! I initially thought Sylvie pruned him but a Future Loki has been predicted by ScreenCrush. Also your crazy theory actually sounds plausible.

I really hope I win one of those badass steel books! Love this channel!

I wonder if the way time works in the TVA is personal. We already have this disconnect established from Endgame where you have your own personal timeline of experiences which is detatched from the official "timelines". It seems logical to me that this could be extended to the TVA. The TVA doesn't exist in a timeline, if it did, Loki would be causing a branch, not a butterfly effect. Since the TVA exists in a perpetual present (at least from the perspective of the people that work there), any change that happens in the past MUST always have happened, HOWEVER it has only always happened from the point in the personal timeline of the person who actioned it. Time is passing in the TVA present while Loki is timeslipping, which it shouldn't if it's just time-travel, and time passes in the TVA while agents are out in timelines that is equal to the time they personally experience out there, which means the TVA links to the personal time of those who go there. For example, if a TVA agent was to get stuck in a 20 minute time loop and go through it three times, although only 20 minutes of time in the timeline will have passed, they will have experienced 60 minutes of time, and crucially they will also have been gone from the TVA for 60 minutes. It's almost as if every living creature has a time shadow within the TVA that experiences time there regardless of whether they are there or not, and if they go to the TVA they slot into that time shadow. What makes Loki's time slipping unique is that he has multiple time shadows in the TVA at different points in TVA "time" (which as they said should be impossible), and his body can't quite decide which one he should be in, and involuntarily slips between them.

No Way Home showed us the sacred timeline is no longer secure and separated from the other timelines in the multiverse.

My guess 5 Kangs Statue is - Rama tut - Scarlet Centurion - Immortus - Kang the Conqueror (Antman) - Victor Timely (Loki S2) And He Who Remain destroy all of that later

Hunter X5’s life on the timeline is him being Zaniac is my guess

All this talk about black holes and spaghettification is very interesting to me. Firstly, it’s probably worth pointing out (because like you, a couple others RU-vidrs have also mentioned the Quantumania scene, as well as what Scarlet Witch did to Mr. Fantastic in MoM), the spaghettification associated with black holes in real-life science does not look like that, where it almost looks like a paper shredder slicing someone into strips or like string cheese. Rather, their entire body would be stretched into a *single* long strand of spaghetti (spaghetto?). The Wikipedia page on spaghettification (because yes it's a real thing in physics, not just sci-fi!) has a simple graphic. In 2018, we were able for the first time to directly capture images of a star being spaghettified as it was being eaten by a black hole. Secondly, we’ve heard several references in the MCU to Einstein-Rosen bridges, more popularly known as wormholes (MCU wiki has a whole page on this). It’s evoked as the “scientific” explanation for the Bifrost and Chitauri invasion portal, among other things. In real-life theoretical physics, a wormhole is essentially two black holes (or technically, a black hole and its opposite, a white hole) joined at the singularity, which must be kept “open” using exotic matter with negative mass, the main reason they’re still firmly in the realm of theory (and sci-fi) for now. But when we see travel through a wormhole depicted in the MCU, specifically the Bifrost in Ragnarok, no spaghettification takes place. It could be that spaghettification isn’t observable from the POV of someone traveling through a black hole, only to someone outside it, but it’s interesting nonetheless how in this episode, they specifically reference spaghettification TWICE, once spoken and once in writing on the floor outside the big Time Loom room door. Thirdly (somewhat related to both the last two), just over 10 years ago, real-life theoretical physicists had a bit of a crisis when they realized there was a paradox in our understanding of what happens when things go into a black hole. I don’t claim to fully understand it, or what the ultimate resolution was, if any, but no less than New York Times reported on it at the time. Will post some links below, but sometimes RU-vid auto-deletes comments with links as spam, so I’ll do that in a separate comment. You can also Google ‘black hole firewall paradox’. Sometimes real life is just as strange and fascinating as, if not more than, science fiction!

27:52 Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was not Keanu Reeves' first role, more like his 7th.

The wall of kangs...the middle 1 looks like victor timly😊you can kinda see his hair calved in aswel