Loki
Warning : spoilers for Loki season 2 , episode 1
Summary
Atthe end ofLokiseason 1 , it was divulge that He Who Remains , a Kang edition , was the real creator and overseer of the TVA , and as such , he was also behind the biggest lie in this establishment . He Who Remains lived through a massive multiversal war set off by his variant , and his death not only meant that the TVA was left without its loss leader but also that the Sacred Timeline would get to branch without dominance . Although He Who Remains is now dead , his fib is still very relevant inLokiseason 2 , and here ’s the story of He Who remain ’ function in the multiversal war and how and why he create the TVA .
When The First Multiverse War Happened
The upcoming multiversal war inAvengers : The Kang DynastyandAvengers : clandestine Warsisn’t the first in the MCU ’s history . century into the future , scientist Nathaniel Richards happen upon the multiverse , and with that , its unlike universes and his variants . Nathaniel and his variants met with the purpose of sharing their noesis and engineering with one another , but some of those variant had bigger plans . These stochastic variable see the multiverse ’s alternate timelines as place to decree over , and this is what triggered the MCU ’s first multiversal war .
However , an exact date of when the MCU ’s first multiversal war happened has n’t been given , butLokiseason 2 has offered a couple of pinch . Lokiseason 2 ’s newest graphic symbol , Ouroboros a.k.a . O.B. ( Ke Huy Quan ) , mentions that the last prison term he had a visitant was 400 days ago , when Loki time - slipped to the past , think of the TVA was already up and bleed at that point . The first multiversal war , then , happen more than 400 years ago ( in terms of analog time ) , and though it ’s unnamed the precise date when it began , season 2 might have already reveal the date when it ended .
When Loki stick with Mobius ( Owen Wilson ) and B-15 ( Wunmi Mosaku ) to the War Room , he time - slue again to the yesteryear , where a wall in the War Room was engrave with He Who Remains ’ cheek . There , Loki found some recording and listened to one that had a conversation between He Who Remains and Ravonna Renslayer ( Gugu Mbatha - Raw ) , where the former give thanks the latter for being instrumental in terminate the war . The transcription has the date June 12th , 2321 , and that ’s the only date there is about the first multiversal war .
He Who Remains Set Up The Time Keepers Lie Around 400 Years Ago
At the get-go of the TVA , everyone working there was cognisant that He Who remain was the loss leader of the organization , but at some point , he made a utter reset of the TVA . He Who Remains erased the memories of every single employee and created the Time - Keepers , three mechanical man who would nonplus as the leaders of creators of the TVA , serve as He Who Remains ’ masquerade . He Who Remains also make Miss Minutes , unreal intelligence that would bring home the bacon aid to the TVA while also being He Who Remains ’ assistant . As the TVA ’s mascot , Miss Minutes propagate the organisation ’s propaganda to its workers and captured variants , and say them the fake story of the Time - Keepers .
Ravonna Renslayer Was He Who Remains' Key Ally In The First Multiversal War
InLokiseason 1,Ravonna Renslayer was a TVA operativeknown as Hunter A-23 , and she was afterwards promoted to preside as a judge . It was Ravonna who doom the current Loki to be pruned , and she finally sent both Mobius and Loki to the Void . Ravonna ended up escaping from the TVA through a Timedoor with the determination of searching for complimentary will , but it ’s obscure where she went . AfterLokiseason 1 came to an end , theories emerge about Ravonna and He Who Remains having a close human relationship , which was confirmed in the above - mentioned tape . Ravonna has now been let on to have been an ally of He Who Remains in the first multiversal war , though what precisely was her role and how she help cease the war is still a mystery .
Alioth Was Key To Ending The Multiversal War
When Mobius , Loki , and Sylvie ( Sophia Di Martino ) were in the Void , they come across Alioth , a trans - temporal entity guarding this topographic point . In the finale ofLokiseason 1 , He Who Remains explicate to Loki and Sylvie that Alioth was created by the rift in time and distance create by his variants during the multiversal war , and so He Who Remains saw its potential . He Who Remains harnessed and experimented on Alioth ’s power , becoming his sea captain , with the fauna ’s power being key to ending the multiversal war .
He Who Remains Betrayed The TVA
The more that is revealed about the TVA , the clearer it becomes that He Who remain omitted various item about the multiversal war , his own story , and the creation of the TVA , and that he did a mess more harm than good to this establishment . He Who persist was n’t honest with those working at the TVA and used them to his benefit , kidnapping variants and constantly erasing their memories in Holy Order to get them to work as he wanted . He Who Remains ’ design through the TVA was n’t as noble as he portray it , and he invariably betrayed the organization and everyone working there .
He Who Remains Built The Citadel At The End Of Time
After resetting the TVA , erasing the memory board of every single employee , and creating the Time - Keepers , He Who Remains build the Citadel at the End of Time . He Who Remains feel an asteroid at the end of time and built his new residence there , from which he oversaw the Sacred Timeline . The Citadel at the End of Time was guarded by Alioth , and Sylvie and Loki were greeted by Miss Minutes when they entered , but it ’s now unknown what bump to the Citadel after He Who Remains ’ death .
Why The Multiversal War Makes The TVA Prune Branches
He Who stay isolated a group of realities with the same baseline and created the Sacred Timeline , with the TVA then built to regularize and protect it from being invaded by his variate . for maintain multiversal peacefulness , He Who rest made sure that every outcome pass off as it had to and that no variants were created , and if the Sacred Timeline branched out and variants emerged , they would be pruned . He Who Remainsclaimed that pruning offset was for prevent his surviving variants from taking over the multiverse again , but through that and his control of the TVA , he was doing exactly what he did n’t desire his variant to do .
