LOKI Ending Explained: Why KANG is the New Thanos of the MCU | MARVEL Breakdown

welcome to the screen crush break room i'm ryan eary and let's talk about the ending of loki oh man so many fan theories are right and proud we are of all of you so let's talk about the ending of loki season 1 what it means for the mcu going forward and that incredible twist ending so i'm going to talk about a few things that we covered in our easter egg video but i'm going to try not to overlap too much first jonathan magers appears as he who remains the secret creator of the tva this is after it's already been announced that he would play the villain kang the conqueror in ant-man and the wasp iii presumably this kind of goofball insane version of kang is just one variation and the kang that we see in quantum mania will be more of a badass kang does not give up primitive very brief overview of kang he's a time traveling scientist from the future who attempts to conquer all of time in the comics every time he uses time travel he creates an alternate self so there are actually multiple kings including an older version of himself named immortus basically he who remains in loki he claims that he is protecting the timeline from his alternate evil self now this answers a lot of questions all through the series you guys have been asking me how there could be variants if there's just one sacred timeline so i think that what we're seeing here is that there can be variations and other timelines as long as they don't create an evil version of kang so think of the sacred timeline as a rope and each thread is a smaller timeline woven into the hole a nexus event is like a fray in the rope remember how when loki and sylvie touched it made a huge spike you ever seen a branch like that this is because the two of them joining forces will bring them to the end of time where silvi will kill he who remains and bring about the rise of kang now one of the biggest clues about this episode is in one of its first sound bites we think of time as a one-way motion this is a quote by philosopher alan watts so to really dive into this ending and what it means for the mcu and what it means philosophically i've got to talk about the ideas of determinism and causality so this line is from a lecture of watson's called time and the way it changes where he argues that our perception of time is flawed he says that we see events like we're watching a snake crawl past a fence and we can only see one small part of the snake at a time because we see the head first we could assume that the head created the tail just like we assumed that the past created the presence watts argues that all events are just part of the same events that it's all happening at once more like water swirling in a whirlpool this is how the tva and he who remains see time as simply one big event that's happening right in front of them all at once now this is also symbolized by the flat disc that displays events in the past that is also a metaphor for the flat circle theory of time basically that all events are pre-written and fourth dimensional beings would see time as a flat circle of a film reel and not as the film strip itself this is what makes the ending of this show so fascinating sylvie and loki break into the tower believing that they have escaped the structure of the sacred timeline we write our own destiny now then he who remains tells them i already know what's going to happen this comes down to determinism the idea that all events have a predetermined outcome and are not sequential in fact silvie's distrust of loki was i thinking trusting you was actually seated here tell me you think you can trust this guy which also raises the question did sylvie act of her own free will or was she nudged in this direction don't worry about the days would you still have broken it if i hadn't said anything whenever there's a big marvel event like loki i start researching for it weeks in advance not just reading comics i mean for loki i wanted to study books on time travel but i didn't 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time and the timeline actually continues on a little ways past this point now once events do pass that point it's like the characters have reached the page of a book that hasn't been written yet for the first time in the entire series someone is able to display free will so the show is asking was kang always going to become kang because it was predetermined that's the proper flow of time and it happens again and again and again because it's supposed to because it has to or was this all the results of sylvie's chaotic decision and here's the big question has this already happened and it's just all happening again and mortis explains the multiversal war some of us new worlds meant only one thing new lands to be conquered the peace between realities erupted into all-out war each variant fighting to preserve their universe and annihilate the others and the end result of that war was him winning creating the tva and the tva set sylvia on a path to kill the timekeepers which results in kane coming to power which results in a multiversal war and so it goes or as immortus puts it start another multiversal war and i just end up right back here anyways loki's story in norse mythology and in the mcu is defined by loops and here we find ourselves in another loop i'm in a loop i'm caught in a time loop remember in mortise's last words this heavily implies that he has gone through this before an infinite number of silvies has killed him an infinite number of times because they are all trapped in a circle more like a freaky circle when he dies he's even framed by a circle in our easter egg video we pointed out that this is actually a tri-scallion an ancient symbol of life death and rebirth so as he dies events outside are occurring to make him reborn as kang the conqueror it even makes you think about the cracks in the citadel the broken statue below where those damaged from the multiverse award that's already happened is this castle just the center of a battle that's been happening billions and billions and billions of times no wonder this version of kang seems so insane [Music] no outside we see timelines branching out of control as the multiverse is reborn then we cut to mobius and c15 watching the timeline spread out of control i'm turning back now who said anything about turning back very interesting choice of words turn back because it implies turning back time or rewriting events which is actually about to happen loki reappears in the screening room bringing him full circle to the first episode when he had his emotional breakthrough i don't enjoy hurting people at some point while he's in here missing sylvia and feeling sorry for himself reality is actually being rewritten all around him when he finds mobius in c15 they're sane does he want us to just let them all branch now this is interesting for one thing c15 specifically says him meaning that the tva know that they're working for kang and kang alone but also kang wants the timeline to branch maybe because as it branches it's creating new realities for him to conquer these branching timelines will also create new kangs similar to the council of the kangs from the comics and one of these branches will create immortus who will end the multiversal war create the tva and will start all of this over again now we also know why loki and sylvie touching was such an alarming nexus event you ever seen a branch like that no it turns out that the two of them create the rise of kang the ultimate nexus event then mobius says what are you talking about who are you what's your name now mobius doesn't even recognize him as a variant of loki now this could be because in this new reality loki never existed but i think it's more than likely that this is because loki's are no longer a problem kang wants the timelines to branch he wants multiple realities to rule so loki's are actually helping him accomplish this goal now a lot of you on twitter have been asking me why the mcu all of the sudden changed its time travel rules to back to the future rules but here's what that means in endgame it was established that time traveling does not change your past it just creates a branch in time if you travel to the past that past becomes your future and your former present becomes the past which can't now be changed by your new future meaning that you can never cause yourself to cease to exist like marty mcfly almost did so back to the future is a bunch of now if that's true then why has the tva changed to show a statue of kang instead of the timekeepers well one explanation is that loki could have just ended up in an alternate reality but i don't think so the reason this has changed is that the ruler of the tva is dead he ruled over all of time from a place where one timeline was preserved and once he dies it creates a power vacuum and this new version kang the conqueror steps in to fill the void this could also explain where ravona goes where are you gonna go in search of free will the free will she's referring to isn't a concept it's a person remember earlier miss minutes told her this isn't what i asked for i know but he thinks this will be more useful who so there is definitely something else going on here i think that some alternate version of kang has been pulling the strings behind miss minutes all along now in ant-man and the wasp in the quantum realm we saw a small glimpse of a city in a bubble here that looks an awful lot like kang city of chronopolis in the comics so it's possible that the most evil version of kang has been hiding out in the quantum realm a place maybe the tva can't reach because it exists outside of time and ravona who is king's lover in the comics has left to go find him so what does this mean for the future of the mcu with an evil despot controlling all of time with ravona rinslayer by his side well let's see alfred molina confirmed that he is in spider-man no way home as dr octopus there's also rumors of other spider-man actors appearing in that film meaning that the multiverse that's created here will spill over into that movie and then into doctor strange multiverse of madness so the multiverse is coming to the mcu which probably means that another multiversal war is coming part of that cycle that i mentioned earlier a multiversal war could mean an adaptation of the newest secret wars comics where various marvel characters from several realities are placed on the same planet and battle it out now this could also give us a chance to introduce fox x-men characters to the mcu like deadpool or wolverine or even animated heroes like the spectacular spider-ham i just washed my hands that's why they're wet no other reason maybe they'll bring in all of disney ip and we'll finally get what we really want to see jar jar crushed by a truck but that's just what i think about the ending let me know your thoughts and theories down in the comments below or at me on twitter and if it's your first time here please subscribe 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Length: 12min 28sec (748 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 14 2021