Unlocking the Secret Behind Captain America's Epic Final Chapter: Marvel's Revelation Will Blow Your Mind!
Unveiling the truth behind Loki Season 2's explosive revelations, as Marvel brilliantly resolves Endgame's lingering plot hole and paves the way for an exciting future in the MCU!
Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Loki season 2
Summary
In Loki season 2, it is revealed that Captain America's choice to remain in the past and wed Peggy Carter did not, in fact, cause any disruption to the Sacred Timeline. The revelations brought forth by Loki's Temporal Loom challenge our previous understanding of the Sacred Timeline.
The revelation has significant implications for the future of the MCU, as it clarifies how other Marvel movie timelines can coexist with the MCU without intervention from the TVA.
Marvel's Loki season 2 disrupts the ending of Avengers: Endgame by definitively addressing the long-standing plot hole involving Captain America. In a subtle manner, the show reveals a significant change to Endgame, leaving viewers to interpret it for themselves. This revelation adds to the overarching importance of the Infinity Saga in the MCU. It not only affects the events of Endgame but also has implications for the future of the MCU beyond Avengers: Secret Wars.
Loki Season 2 Reveals The Hidden Truth Of The Sacred Timeline
: Loki season 1's 2021 release unveiled a major plot hole that retroactively altered the otherwise flawless conclusion of Captain America's journey in Endgame. In this ending, Chris Evans' character, Captain America, veered away from the main MCU timeline and returned to the 1940s to lead a blissful life with Peggy Carter, all while ensuring the Infinity Stones were placed back in their rightful locations. However, this decision, though preventing the temporal catastrophe predicted by the Ancient One, resulted in the creation of a new multiverse branch. This branch, which should have been deemed a violation of the Sacred Timeline due to the introduction of the TVA by Loki, should have been pruned. The only plausible explanation thus far has been an implied loophole, suggesting that He Who Remains allowed it as an exception for unknown reasons. However, in a stroke of brilliance, Loki season 2 has now solidified this suggestion as MCU canon.
The Temporal Loom, introduced in the first episode of Loki season 2, is a monumental creation of the TVA designed to grant He Who Remains, portrayed by Jonathan Majors, the ability to govern the passage of time. As unveiled in season 1, He Who Remains had already divulged his involvement in controlling time. In the lore of Loki, it was previously disclosed that He Who Remains succeeded in utilizing Alioth's power to bring an end to the Multiversal War by defeating his uncontrolled variants and eliminating their respective timelines, subsequently uniting them into the Sacred Timeline. However, what had remained unclear was how He Who Remains maintained dominion over time without the utilization of the Infinity Stones (which were claimed to manipulate time by the Ancient One in Avengers: Endgame). In season 2 of Loki, it is revealed that in addition to utilizing the TVA to eradicate deviant branches, He Who Remains employed the Temporal Loom to create the Sacred Timeline in the first instance.
Crucially, the Temporal Loom uncovers another significant revelation: the widely accepted concept of the Sacred Timeline is, in fact, a misleading falsehood. In Loki season 1, simplified depictions portrayed a linear progression with occasional branching offshoots. However, season 2 exposes the truth that the Sacred Timeline is not a solitary thread but rather a conglomeration of distinct timelines bound together like a rope. This seismic revelation implies that, alongside the primary MCU timeline (either 616 or 199999, depending on one's beliefs), numerous other "universes" are interconnected within the framework of the Sacred Timeline.
Why Loki's Timeline Revelation Fixes Endgame's Plot Hole
In essence, season 2 of Loki uncovers that the Temporal Loom had always been intended to unite branches and establish a single, acceptable Sacred Timeline. The outlawing of branches did not encompass all of them; rather, it aimed to prevent an excess that would disrupt the sacred order. As OB explains:
He Who Remains granted permission for the coexistence of multiple universes and branches, as long as they could be interconnected in an orderly manner, running parallel without disrupting the balance. However, the Temporal Loom, unable to handle the excessive number of new branches, is now experiencing overload, resulting in significant disturbances as depicted by the unstable Sacred Timeline in the premiere of Loki season 2.
This is significant for Captain America and Avengers: Endgame as it indicates that the alternate reality created by Cap's return to the 1940s on Earth-616 was just one of many paths within the unified Sacred Timeline. This did not disrupt He Who Remains' plan because it was connected to the Sacred Timeline through the Temporal Loom, providing a belated explanation for why the TVA did not intervene and remove Chris Evans' character, the veteran Avenger.
What Loki's Sacred Timeline Reveal Means For The MCU's Future
As a result, Captain America was able to lead a blissful life without constantly fearing the pursuit of TVA hunters, unlike Sophia Di Martino's Sylvie who was relentlessly pursued by them. While Captain America had to conceal his existence from those in the timeline he once belonged to, knowing that he was "killed" when he was frozen in ice, he eventually managed to achieve his true happy ending by marrying Peggy Carter. This happiness had been taken away from him due to the conclusion of Captain America: The First Avenger.
Furthermore, the recent clarification of the Sacred Timeline in relation to Avengers: Endgame sheds light on an intriguing aspect. It offers an explanation as to why the presence of the Amazing Spider-Man, Raimi's Spider-Man, Sony's Spider-Verses, Fox's Marvel Universe (which will merge into the MCU with Deadpool 3), and essentially every other Marvel movie timeline seamlessly coexists with the MCU, without the intervention of the TVA to prune them, despite their undeniable connections to the MCU.
For future MCU movies, this means that any Multiversal War that results in the restoration of the Sacred Timeline could still incorporate the same alternate universes as threads within the larger timeline system. This allows for the possibility of Deadpool existing outside of the main timeline, if Marvel Studios decides to separate him. It also opens up additional avenues with the Multiverse without requiring a single solution to eliminate other timelines. The exact outcome will be revealed in the upcoming Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars, suggesting that a complete reset to merge all timelines may not be necessary.
New episodes of Loki season 2 premiere on Disney+ every Thursday.
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