What exactly happened to the Kang Council? 

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Sometimes I feel like Disney is just waiting for fans like you to create an explanation to all this so they can use in the MCU

Whoa! The isolation of the Timeline is a big revelation! I consume so much marvel content and never heard anyone talk about this detail! Awesome!

I think the Kate Herron interview confirms for me that the other Spiderman universes exsisted before the events of Loki, but were seperated from the sacred timeline similar to the council of Kangs. This makes a lot of sense because the differences between those universes and the MCU are definitely enough to be a nexus event. It also helps explain why Dr.Strange's spell went so poorly, those universes weren't meant to be within reach of the Sacred Timeline.

Makes total sense, I didn't realize Nexus events only happen when a new timeline is created that will produce another He Who Remains, which would obviously end up in another multiversal war. You made this so easy to follow, thanks!

Even when we get in speculative area, you keep sticking to the facts

The MCU being isolated instead of being the only universe existing before Loki S1 explains a lot of things. Great video as usual

I think u might be a variant of he who remains. Since you know so much about the timeline hahaha

this really the best channel for MCU content hands down

I can't wait for Season 2! Loki Is my favorite post-endgame project so far.

I think when the council refers to the “exiled one” at the end of Quantumania, they are actually referring to He Who Remains (who exiled himself) and are just now realizing that the sacred timeline that they do not have jurisdiction over is able to touch their multiverse (because HWR is dead). I also think it’s possible the Kang in Quantumania is the same as HWR, but timeslipped at the end of the movie into a place where he could then form the TVA and isolate himself from the others instead of fighting them.

Since He Who Remains and the exiled variant of Kang have shown the sacred timeline as a circle, I like to think of the Quantum Realm as the center of it, where realities can coexist without interrupting one another, being able to access others. universes through it, and as you get closer to the depths of the quantum realm or, failing that, to the center of the circle, time passes differently, explaining why Janet and Scott experienced time differently

I'd like to add that maybe the black hole in Loki may be the visual of the 2 different multiverses being separated

wow this video is so in-depth and amazing! thank you for all the hard work you put into this and all your other videos

THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! Just as changing events creates two different timelines, two timelines that, through a divergence, result in the same events occuring become one. This explains so much, like why it is that timelines seem to have a level of natural resistance to divergence like why moving a stone doesn't cause a branch, because it doesn't change things sufficiently to create a new chain of events that keeps them separate. The red line in the TVA is presumably the infinite web of possibilities created by the wider multiverse, and any event that passes it becomes identical to one of those other timelines (and thus a bridge for the Kangs). It also makes sense as a way for the Avengers to cut out the multiverse (which presumably Disney won't want to keep around in the MCU forever because of all the narrative problems it creates) by basically cutting off the Sacred Timeline again from the multiverse. That not only puts them at odds with the Kouncil of Kangs who presumably want the sacred timeline for some as of yet undisclosed reason, but is also a lot more palatable than our heroes having to wipe out every other possible universe just to save theirs. Also, could this explain how Wong was able to use the spell Doctor Strange used as mentioned in She Hulk? If the risk for incursions only became a reality after He Who Remained died, it suddenly seems a lot more reasonable to use it to make people forget a party XD. It would be interesting to see how the sorcerers reacted to He Who Remains' death; the Ancient One's speech in Endgame shows that they have some understanding of the multiverse, but not a complete picture as she is still reciting what is essentially TVA propaganda. I feel like opening up the sacred timeline to the wider multiverse would have a tangible impact on magic and at least high level sorcerers would be aware that something had changed, even if they don't know exactly what.

GREAT breakdown, Thank you for nerding out for us!!!!!

Best explanation of the Multiverse by far! Thank you for the video!

That so amazingly awesome! Thank you for all the great analysis! I really enjoyed it

Love your breakdowns, they really seem to fill some gaps

Amazing video! You're able to lay it all out so well!

Brilliant video, love how much you understand and care about the MCU, it's so good, too much hate on it these days, can't wait for Loki S2

kevin feige taking notes rn (but in all seriousness i appreciate the amount of work you put into all your videos!!! they way you laid this timeline out just connected phase 4 & 5 even more which is just so *chef kiss*. the world building is my one of my fav parts about this universe so thank you for all of your contributions ❤️🤘)

Bro, neither the writers or producers of the MCU give a shit about consistent writing. You're putting more effort into this than it's worth.

I really appreciate how you read the dialog of the characters, like at 1:17, rather than playing clips of them. Man if I can have you voice over the whole MCU, that would be fucking dope HAHA!

Im very curious as to where the Kang Council story is going.

I really hope they bring back Jonathan Majors as Kang. The man stole the show in Antman & Loki. Majors had a commanding presence in each and every scene he was in. Jonathan Majors is a once in a generational talent and deserves to come back and finish his vision for Kang.

I’ve been trying to make sense of the multiverse ever since Loki season 1 , thank you for this video because I kinda understand the concept now which makes me very excited for the continued multiversal sage 😌

"My father used to say, How you do anything is how you do everything. Called it the first and the last rule of life."

This was so eye opening thank you I love your channel 😮😮😮😮🎉😂😂

Excellent review mate.

Very good video, can't wait to watch season 2 of Loki.

Great video mate👍🏻

Oh man this video was amazing!! It's got me thinking so much about the closed loop time travel thing with Ms. Marvel possibly having something to do with this circle portrayed around He Who Remains. It almost looks like he is isolated in his closed loop that he created to keep his other variants from finding his timelines. Further pointing to your theory that the Bangle and Ten Rings could play a major role these next phases in my opinion.

This is Good. Watching it again.

Excellent work on this video 📹 👏 👌 👍 🙌 😀

thx for this. I always wondered this exact question

I think a better "bunker" analogy (at least one that makes more sense to me) of what kate heron said is that he who remains locked all the other kangs into a bunker (instead of locking himself in one), and prevented them from getting out, which still fits with the fact that he "isolated" himself. When he who remains died, he was no longer there to keep them from getting out, and so the multiverse was out of control again. If he just locked himself in a bunker, he never really "ended the multiversal war", he just hid himself from it, while all of the other kangs were still fighting (and with the quantum realm i still believe there are infinite (one for each universe) because the only thing that doesn't make sense for this explanation is loveness' quote) can't wait for loki s2 and hopefully it (and maybe the timeline book???) will give us some answers!

Appreciate the videos 👍👍

Another great video

For the past 3 years, I’ve wondered how all of this multiversal talk would culminate and describe what’s actually going on in the MCU. I’ve watched many RU-vidrs theorize what’s happening, but none has perfectly explained it like this. This is “deep dive”. This is “getting into it”. This is a VERY good example of a speculative video and I hope it’s all the case.

Fire content you got my sub !

I cannot wait for Loki s2 so excited !

Excellent explanation! Thank you

Amazing summary!

18:43 I believe that he who remains may have used alioth to destroy all the timelines branching of from the sacred timeline effectively cutting it off from the multiverse and the red line point is when the branches would reconnect to the larger multiverse.

Great vid

That graphic at the end is the best part.

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This is the latest I’ve been to a video this month lol

Good stuff very thought provoking

Nice thorough explanation

Nexus events are actually just timelines racing out to the rest of the multiverse. A "branch" reaching out to the rest of the timelines. Bridging the connection and the access to the 616 timeline.

Man, I'll tell you what..… first of all I know one of these movies inside now because I'm kind of an obsessive weirdo (I'm saying that about myself because I know why, please, nobody take that as an insult towards themselves. please lol) but moving on, my dude, you need a seriously proper connection here I dig it.… I'm here for it and 100% DIG IT! I'm first and foremost your logic is 100% sound And by my best recollection, there's no straw grass in here, the dots ARE connecting.… in fact, that's what sold me on subscribing to you. Which is actually the reason for this comment to give you props for that..… We subscribed to channels like videos or whatever, but how often when we sit and we hear the presenter on a video say "hey make sure to click that like and subscribe", did we make a actual conscious delivery acknowledgment and decision to acknowledge and say to themselves "you know what you earned it here you go I want to see what else ya got" 🤷🏻 I don't know that may sound silly to people but like I said man, I'm here for I day yet and I do want to see what else you got, good luck, dude!

I just rewatched Loki last week and for the first time I picked up on the isolating the timeline bit

The exiled one the counsel are talking about when they say hes dead, is kang in the quantum realm. Because kang was exiled. And he died. The counsel was out of existance until sylvie killed he who remains. Then timeslines starting branching and they were able to come about.

My Theory, is that during Avengers Secret Wars, He Who Remains will help the likes of Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Mister Fantastic, Captain Marvel & Star-Lord defeat Kang The Conqueror & reset the Multiverse, destroying BattleWorld!

Once a Nexus event goes past the red line that allows a bridge for other Kangs

I honestly can't wait to see Loki S2. The first season was my favorite D+ creation in the MCU, and I think the second season has potential to be even better than the first.

Another great video! You know, I've watched that He Who Remains speech a bunch of times to try to understand it, and have always found it confusing. This video helped clear things up a LOT. So thanks for this! Mainly I was always confused about how He Who Remains' death caused the timelines to branch out of control. It makes sense if it's directly tied to him being in control of the TVA, and purposely pruning branches to fit his own goals, i.e. preventing more variants of himself from existing in connected branches. One thing I find odd, though, where you point out that He Who Remains didn't kill his other variants, but rather "ended the multiversal war" by simply isolating his own timeline like a protected bunker -- would that really END the multiversal war? Couldn't the other Kangs just go on fighting each other, while he's just hiding out in the safety of his own timeline? Or does that suggest that he was the cause of the war all along? "Who's been messing up the multiverse? It was He-Who-Remains all along!"

A very excellent video, especially on the catching of the "isolating" part. But then there is the Selvig bit, just wow. It flies in the face of what Dr Strange says about "we know frighteningly little about the multiverse". I definitely agree that I think both the Fox timeline/s and the Sony timeline/s were interwoven with the main MCU timeline, no proof just my headcanon. The Quantum Realm becomes a really confusing situation that I didn't even realize until now. Either way I feel like Loki S2 will give us further information or at least I hope so. Amazing catch on the thing with Feige too. As far as the Incursions, since America Chavez's ability is a natural power does her travelling even cause incursions? Dreamwalking I get probably does but that's not how Doctor Strange got to the 838 universe. I do wonder then where the TVA and HWR were located if not in the Quantum Realm (he would of destroyed the TVA if it remotely was). Finally, the Captain America thing? Yes we need to see that, it'll settle that where did Steve go debate.

really great video that actually made sense of the current nonsense mcu worldbuilding. its a basic rule of filmmaking that if you want an audience to remember something you have to say it three times. most of the things in this video were there, but they were barely mentioned once and hardly given enough focus to stick. its no wonder so many fans are losing interest considering the current logic of the multiverse needs a 33 minute video to adequately explain. kudos!

I'm so excited for this second season

Really interesting that i heard that he who remains could be returning in new scenes in season 2, maybe those scenes will give us more info about what happened

It’s amazing how so many concepts are changed in Loki and how somethings are only making sense now

The reference to the multiverse in Doctor Strange wasn’t because there was a multiverse “then”. It’s because when Sylvie killed HWR the multiverse came into existence across all of time simultaneously so in effect it was always there. None of the MCU films take place relative to anything in Loki, the events of Loki occur outside time and retroactively affect everything at once.

In NO WAY HOME, the 3 figures in the sky when the spell was going awry were the 3 Kangs 🤝

The idea of a perpetually reincarnating multiverse when you mentioned the Big Bang/Crunch reminds me of how the multiverse operates in the comics, in which it goes through cycles of destruction and renewal. We are currently in the eighth iteration of the multiverse (Eighth Cosmos). The MCU may be interested in exploring that, especially considering that it was a very important concept in the 2015 Secret Wars event.

The Council of Kangs is located on the Earth's Moon. Take a look back at the room of 4 statues. Thats an astronomical clock on the ground. The travel patterns only go through crescent moons interestingly. 4 statues equal for seasons or quadrants, the destroyed statues being the isolated quadrant. There's a lot more to that room than what we're seeing

It’s still crazy to me that we are getting Loki season 2 after he died in infinity war

The way to think of the quantum realm is that each universe has its own complete quantum reality within and the realm acts like a tesseract as seen in 3D. That is, the realities are constantly folding and warping around each other. You are deposited from your reality and can only cross realities if you can predict how the realities fold around each other. That's why the "inverted mobius strip" works, it's folding around itself to stay in the sacred timeline, a way to navigate your part of the quantum realm. Everything kang variants do comes from that initial discovery

I would like to see more Kangs in the mcu, like Rama Thut fighting the Fantastic Four. I think that could help slowly hinting at what happened, for it to be revealed in The Kang Dynasty.

I theorize that... 1. The quantum realm is so vast that you are less likely to run into your own variant. 2. Each universe has it's own entry point or entry points into the quantum realm, which would explain Janet ending up in the same area of the quantum realm. 3. The kang we saw in quantumania is either from the future of the mcu 616 timeline and that's how he ended up in the same part of the quantum realm as Janet, or he is from a "neighboring" universe with a close enough entry point, or he was in a different part of the quantum realm and fled for some reason. Maybe he was in the area where what if Janet had the virus and escaped.

For Loki season 2 viewers, the key word here is “A variant of myself in the 31st century…” HWR will be the last & remaining variant at the end of time. My theory is that HWR is caught in a time loop that he created for himself in the TVA. Giving himself the TVA handbook in the sacred timeline was Victor Timely’s nexus event.

Can’t wait for this season the first one was good and this one looks good too

The problem is, HWR said that he ended the Multiversal war using Alioth, so we still don’t know what exactly he did, I mean, if he ended it then why isolate himself, but from the other hand, maybe he only thought he really ended it while actually it was just postponed, and maybe (it’s just guesses at this point but it would be cool) he teamed up with the 3 Kangs against the original one (the Conqueror was the one who started the war) and Aliothed his timeline while the others sent him to the QR, and then HWR was like “maybe he was right that the Multiverse will collapse under your watch, so you do your own thing while I’ll separate my timelines”; Anyway, I think the council of Kangs is in a similar place to the Citadel, except it overlooks the whole Multiverse (not the Sacred Timeline); Also, the description with the bridges matches this scene from quantumania 10:29 perfectly, it’s the Sacred Timeline merging with the rest of the Multiverse, I did not think of that earlier; And I think the fact that one Janet got a virus and the other didn’t can be explained easily, maybe there was one in this part ow the QR but not where our Janet went, or our Janet was just lucky (it’s a virus after all, it isn’t everywhere at all time) Either way, can’t wait to get the answers, but until then we can make these theories which is also fun, or switch our attention to Ahsoka, where there are lots of mysteries as well

It will be epic.

The only thing about that is, the mention of the multiverse could have happened depending on when Loki occurred. Like from a time standpoint, when did Loki happen because when they crossed the threshold time I believe started again and the branches started breaking out creating the multiverse all over again which went away due to goliath and he who remains.

The Quantum Realm is MASSIVE if not totally infinite. Remember: People there are way smaller than an atom. Heck, the cities are smaller than atoms, and if you have cities smaller than sub atomic particles even if the entire QuantumRealm size is just comparable to a planet that's a HUGE amount of space to fill with different sectors. Maybe every single universe and timeline is given a set place to spawn when first getting to the Quantun Realm

The pit of phase option seems the most plausible. We’ve seen string/rope like allegories used before so they could go the route of string theory that suggests that we exist on one plane of existence and that theoretically another earth exists right in the same physical space as our planet but is vibrating at a different frequency. Could just say each universe had its own frequency we are tuned to and the quantum realm isn’t built so that these frequencies can interact

still would love to see the video ranking who had the best haircuts. thor’s the dark world hair was his best, nat’s solo movie is his best, captain marvel’s new hair from the trailers is her best!

In comics kang is a descendant of reed Richard’s dad, so maybe the reason we haven’t gotten a fantastic 4 in 616 yet is because this is true. This could mean to prevent a new variant of himself unraveling kang got rid of timelines with reed’s dad and so that’s why we’re only now getting a mr fantastic and fantastic 4 after he who remains has died.

Did you see the new Marvel video promoting the timeline book? from the way they spoke it seems that our expectations will be met in as much detail as possible

Something I always wondered was why all the TVA agents were human. This, of course, is a consequence of the fact most variants we see are human, since all TVA agents are/were variants. Like you said, a Nexus event occurs when there is a timeline change that would create a variant of Kang. Because of this I believe that it would make sense that most Nexus events would be on Earth or Earth-related, whether geographically or related to people related to Earth. I believe events on the other side of the Galaxy would be less likely to "reach" Earth and create such an impact that would result in a different version of Kang, and therefore create a Nexus event. Loki/Sylvie for instance although aliens, are very much linked to Midgard and events on Asgard would likely influence events on Earth. At first I thought Marvel wasn't being very creating, taking advantage of different species for the TVA agents, but now I think this is very coherent and logical. Of course Kang could also be a bit xenophobic and only hires humans. On a side note, I see many people complaining on the treatment and processing of Variants "if they are going to prune them, why do they event bother with having them sign the forms, and take a ticket to stand in line, and stand in trial, etc". If you think that TVA agents are ALL of them variants it would make sense to have some sort of selection process, to assess which variants would have the necessary skills and mindset to work on the TVA - e.g., respect for rules, intelligence, compliance, organizational skills, etc. This is why the guy in the first episode that didn't take the ticket was pruned. If he doesn't comply to a simple command such as that he would be of no use in the TVA, so he was pruned to save everyone's time. Revonna Renslayer was a teacher, I believe she would have excused herself and agree to all procedures and be very cooperative, and so was sentenced to go work for the TVA, and then ascended in their ranks, as would other variants. This was also very intentional on behalf of Marvel. Thanks for your videos, they are really something else. I have other ideas we can discuss

The Council of Kangs are all in a place like where all the Loki were housed. Trapped.

Really, really, really great video once again man! This makes so much sense. I do have a couple questions tho. So you were implying that you think the kang council was mad about the exiled kang dying (or whatever happened to him) in Quantumania, and wanted 1999999 to pay. But wouldn’t they be happy about that happening? Because aren’t they the ones that exiled him in the first place, so they never liked him, and now he’s gone for good (supposedly). Another question is, if the quantum realm is one shared realm between all universes, then wouldn’t the kang council be able to go into their own quantum realm from their universes (which is the same as ours) and then easily get back to the sacred timeline? I personally think that this is part of what He Who Remains did to isolate the sacred timeline from the rest of the multiverse, so he also put boundaries in the quantum realm in some way, preventing anyone from any other universe from existing into the sacred timeline, keeping it separate. But people FROM the sacred timeline can move beyond the boundaries to branches and such, and still be able to return back (as we saw in endgame). So yeah I feel like boundaries to help isolate it are very important in the quantum realm as well, as it’s a way that we know people can travel the multiverse and time. And this also I think helps answer how Janet’s story was so different in What If, because there was walls (probably metaphorical walls, but maybe physical in some way, idk) separating the sacred timeline from timelines like the What If timeline, that’s why our Janet didn’t get the virus, and why our Janet didn’t meet any of her variants. And then the question is, we’ll can other universe’s characters meet people from other universes that aren’t the sacred timeline? Well I think for that the easiest answer is just like you said, the quantum realm is simply so big and massive, that variants never cross paths. And maybe the quantum realm does that by default, tries to keep unrelated universes separate. And someone might say, well if there’s infinite variants of Janet that went to the quantum realm, would they all meet the same people in the quantum realm and go to the same city. Well I think because it’s so big, the quantum realm kinda just repeats itself over and over (I don’t mean time, I mean like physically there is the same city or same rock other and other again), making it possible for infinite variants to have very similar or the same experience in the same exact realm, but also never meet. And the way the quantum realm’s time works weirdly could also play into this. One more tiny thing, you said that Loki’s time-slipping could be just him going to a time in the TVA before they met him, but I don’t think that explains why there is a Kang statue, because in S1, nobody knew about kang, only the time keepers. Alright, that’s it. Lol sorry for the long comment. Again, fantastic video, this all makes so much sense. Thank you for making these! Have a great day

Excellent analysis. But it's lacking one facet you have apparently overlooked. Recall that in the Loki season one finale, He Who Remains not only allowed Sylvie to kill him - which he proved he could have prevented effortlessly if he'd so chosen - but outright facilitated it. Which begs the question of why he did so. His proffered explanation of being "bored" after "millions of years" is dubious, since there's ample reason to question whether he knows how old he really is, objectively or subjectively. However, there is a logical alternative that makes perfect sense upon the slightest reflection: HWR was guaranteeing his own existence. Think about it: the "Great Multiversal War" as a paracausal event that begins at the end of time, in that citadel, at the hands of a Loki variant, with the effects rippling backwards through the "Sacred [Sheaf Of] Timeline[s]", triggering the multiple incursions that produce the very conflict that leads to HWR's sealing off of his sheaf of timelines, the TVA, and the MCU we've been watching for the past decade and a half. Who else would know how and where it began but HWR? And what we'll see in "Kang Dynasty" and "Secret Wars" will be the establishment of the TVA and the "Sacred Timeline". The Loki season one finale gave us a sneak-preview of the (at least original) Multiverse Saga story arc. Even if Marvel has done a crappy job of following it to date. It's analogous to the uptime temporal agencies in Star Trek allowing the Borg Invasion of the Federation (in the Destiny trilogy) because that led to the final defeat of the Borg Collective that in turn permitted the rise of those same temporal agencies. Self-interested time management.

I would love more information on the different Kangs, but I'm not sure where we are going considering everything with the actor, though they can recast if they need to. I would be interested if in Kang Dynasty the Avengers go to all of the different universes to fight the different Kangs and that could be how we get cameos from all of the variants of heroes from the older movies like the different fantastic four teams, the different X-Men teams etc. where they team up in their separate universes and then all fully team up in Secret Wars in one universe (I believe called Battle World?) before everything is reset and start from scratch so the Avengers, X-Men, Inhumans, Guardians, Spiders etc. can all live in one shared universe.

“People don't change. Times do.”

I wonder the role cosmic entities like the Living Tribunal/Celestials played in this. Considering their roles in the grand scale of the universe/multiverse, were they killed or did they just let he who remains change the flow of time?

Going off your SpiderVerse assessment, I’d like to add the possibility for 838 to have always existed along side 616 given how closely in timeframe the universe line up during the events of Multiverse of Madness but until the events of Loki crossing over from one to another was impossible. This may also explain where the mutants have been in the 616 this whole time, present but not publicly. Lastly, I believe the sacred timeline has multiple concurren timelines due to the nature of Kang’s lifespan + how time travel was explained in endgame. Every time a version of Kang travels through time he creates a new splintered timeline along with a version of himself. For HWR to exist several of these splintered timelines have to exist for a variant of Kang to end up as HWR.

Hopefully we see some more explanations in Loki season 2 and Kang Dynasty!

I think an Incursion isn’t a natural process that happens, it’s when a Kang from the council steps in and destroys one of the two worlds. Now I don’t have anything else to this theory but it’s just a hunch 😅

When I first watched that post-credit scene the only thing I could think of was how many hours of dressing and make up poor Johnatan Majors had to go through to portray all those different variants haha! Marvel always goes above and beyond. I love it! And speaking of the issue with the Quantum Realm, I think your first idea is the simplest way to explain how one Janet got the virus and the other didn't. If you remember the establishing shots, bird's eye view of the Quantum Realm in all the previous appearences in different movies, you could see multiple cities in the background, each in their own "bubble", so to speak, and in between there was A LOT of space filled with all sort of strange things. In Quantumania we actually saw how big just ONE of those cities is, so the whole Quantum Realm must be huge in comparison. Since the Quantum Realm is connected to ALL the universes in the Multiverse, I could easily see how the two Janets just happened to pop up in completely different places within the same Quantum Realm, which explains how just one of them could get infected.

Unrelated but Marvel just released a teaser for the timeline book, with interviews and stuff. Part of me wonders if the October 24th release date is supposed to be where Endgame mainly takes place. But thats just a thought😅

Heres my interpretation. I think when he said he isolated "our" timeline, he meant he isolated all the other kang timelines from each other. He often refers to the other kangs a group. us, we, our. He used Alioth as a deterrent to keep the other kangs in their timeline, thus ending the multiversal war. When he who remains died, so did the threat of alioth to the other kangs. That's why they were all excited at the end of antman, they were finally able to leave their timeline. I think, this is why Kang in quantumania called time a cage.

Kang(2) who weaponized Alioth and ended the war become He Who Remain Kang(1) who find out that universe are stacked So.. Victor Timely is Kang(1) And in Quantumania it's Kang(2)

bravo

I think Kate Herron is one of the few directors knows what she’s actually talking about. So many inconsistencies throughout Marvel projects but she seems to truly solidify how the multiverse that He Who Remains isolated actually worked. The word choice in Episode 6 was broad enough to not explain everything but the hints are right there. The explanation was broad for a reason. I think she wanted for fans fans to interpret that dialogue more after she told us in that interview

He who remains basically pulled a council of ricks move 😂

Agreed about the Quantum Realm - I don't expect they thought that much about the rules it's supposed to follow, or at least that they care to address the mess that it would be if they did think about it; it does whatever they need it to do. I ended up coming up with the same explanation: either it's near impossible to encounter your variants due to its size, or the QR itself consists of layers/"out of phase" realities. But it gets worse! It's not just the variants you should worry about! Take any timeline: each moment in that timeline (past or future from any chosen present perspective) seems to be a world unto itself - and they all exist in the Now (from the outside perspective), or the Meta-Now, the God's Eye, cosmic view. Each moment is its own world, because essentially branching could occur from any point in time at any moment from your perspective (just like Loki's branching happened after and because of the time heist). So what we see as [time]lines from far off, is most likely a collection of discrete dots, likely flowing through some medium, along certain pre-existing paths (stories that already happened once), or branching into fresh, new versions of those stories. So for instance, when you're pruning a fresh outgrowth, you're not only 'destroying' one world. You're doing it to the world at the front, one that veered off first, and to every other world that turned in the same direction following behind it. So while it makes sense that only one Loki would be in TVA (presumably the agents appeared at the front of the new path and pruned it from there after they arrested the Loki-at-the-front), all the worlds behind, with all the Lokis existing moments earlier would be pruned directly into the Void. Which rises the question - where are they?! Maybe the Void is also layered or simply huge? Either way, similar issue concerns something as seemingly simple [conceptually] as leaving the time stream (leaving one moment in time) and entering the quantum realm ('outside of time'). QR was said to be 'outside of time' at least once. Which makes sense. If each moment in time is really a world of its own and those coexistent worlds are merely following paths in a sequence of historical similarity (which we interpret as different moments in time) then in the global view at such cosmos, the view from outside of time, only the Now exists (and objects existing in that realm have no past or future existing physically). But if countless worlds follow the same historical paths, then one Ant-Man leaving time and entering the Quantum Realm means that countless other Ant-Men from relative times t-1, t-2, t-3, t-4.... will do the same thing split-seconds after the first one. Given that physicists divide time to at least Plank-length units, the amount of Ant-Men entering into QR would be staggering. If I count it right, every second 1,86x10^43 Ant-Men would enter the outside from within time (though arguably, given that timelines split in the first place, maybe time is not as dense at more advanced points in history...). Still, you'd expect those Ant-Men to bump into each other, as they exit time just fractions of a second after one another. All those Ant-Men also have their own Janets to entangle with, or connections to their own moments in time to communicate with in real-time (like in the post-credit scene of the second Ant-Man movie, just before the Snap). So it's not only alternate variants, but the historical versions of one character outside of time also must be separated from each other. On a side note, Kang might be even a bigger issue. If all of the above is right, after the first Kang discovered the method to get himself outside of time, not just variants, but zillions of historical versions of him would have entered the outside. Maybe one way around it would be to use something like the pruning technology (but this time really destroying past moments up to a point). Let's say he knows that if he decides to leave time it will cause a new branching path where he will be located. He decides to go with it (the new path starts to grow from the main thread). He sets up the pruning charges and as he leaves (from the front of the branch), all past moments up to that decision get destroyed (while the original timeline follows with Kang who didn't decide to leave). Some time ago, I started to explore another potential solution to all these issues: two-dimensional time, but I had to take a break from that. My head was spinning. lol. I'm still not sure of all of the implications, or even if it brings enough value.