Hey everyone, I'm The Canadian Lad and
today I'm gonna break down the Ending of the final Episode of Loki Season
2 and explain what really happened at the end when we saw Loki sitting on the throne!
My goodness, what an incredible episode that was! This was by far the greatest ending
I have seen in a Marvel project. This is what I call Marvel at its peak!
The episodes kept on getting better every week. Loki right now is probably the best
written character in the entire MCU! So without wasting any of your
time, let's begin the video! The episode opens with Loki time-slipping to
the TVA just moments before Victor Timely dies. He tries over and over again but
Victor doesn't survive the radiation. So he decides to go further back in the past where
O.B. and Victor Timely met for the first time. And notice even though Loki is now hurrying
the whole introduction but still Victor Timely makes the same noise he made when
he originally met O.B. in the timeline. Oh wait wait, this is not a 0.25x
speed breakdown, aah, force of habit! Anyway so Centuries Later, Loki learns everything
about mechanics, physics and engineering from O.B. He even explains to O.B. and Casey what's
going on instead of the other way around. Victor Timely then successfully docks the
Throughput Multiplier into the Temporal Loom and the Loom starts to get bigger
integrating all of the branched timelines. Loki thinks he succeeded but the
Loom starts to get overloaded again. And Timely says his Loom will never be able to
accomodate the infinitely growing multiverse, because you cannot scale for infinite. So Loki realizes he has to go all the way back
and prevent Sylvie from killing He Who Remains, because his death was the
trigger that caused it all. But here Loki learns that the only
way to stop Sylvie from killing He Who Remains is to kill her instead!
So Loki has to sacrifice the woman that he loves in order to save
trillions and trillions of lives. And He Who Remains also tells Loki that
there's no scaling problem with the Loom. The Loom is supposed to do that.
It was made to delete branches that were never meant to be there.
So Loki understood enlarging the Loom will never solve the problem, because the
Loom will only protect the Sacred Timeline. So what's the other option he has?
Killing Sylvie, which he doesn't wanna do! So Loki Time-Slips back to the Time
Theater where Mobius was questioning Loki. Loki asks for his help, he asks him "How do
you choose who gets to live and who dies?" And here Mobius inspires him with a story from
his own life and says "There's no comfort in life, you just choose your burden"
Hearing this Loki comes back to Sylvie and tells her that in order to
save the timeline, he has to kill her. So at this point Loki was kind
of ready to kill Sylvie and live the rest of his life with this burden.
But he just can't bring himself to do it, so he asks Sylvie what should he do?
And this is Sylvie's response: Hearing these 2 things from Sylvie, Loki realizes
he has a 3rd option, which is destroying the Loom and replacing it with something better!
And that's exactly what Loki does, he destroys the Temporal Loom and literally
holds the entire multiverse together! Now lemme explain what exactly happened
here and what it means for the future of Loki and the entire multiverse as a whole.
As you can see here, when Loki destroyed the Temporal Loom, the branches died immediately.
But as soon as he holds the branches in his hand and enchants it with his powers,
the branches come to life again! But once he lets go of it, the branch dies!
So Loki realized that in order to re-create the branches and ensure the proper flow of time,
Loki would always have to hold onto the branches. Because if he lets go of it, they die.
And the moment Loki opened the portal to the End of Time, that's the moment he made
the decisive choice to sacrifice his existence holding the multiverse together, even if
it meant never reuniting with his friends. When Loki was grabbing timelines after
timelines, he looked up and saw a chair at the top of this jagged fragment.
And when he was going up, notice these gold liquid-like things were also climbing up.
Meaning Loki wasn't only carrying these bundles of timelines, but he was also conjuring
gold and turning this stone into a Throne! Therefore replacing He Who Remains, as
the rightful Custodian of the Multiverse! And notice Loki's crown with 2 big horns has
the same marble pattern as the Citadel of time. Now, although the popular opinion here is
that Loki has become The God of Stories, but I'd side with Rob from Comics
Explained and say this is Loki becoming Atlez in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
Atlez is the custodian of the Multiverse in the comics, he was tasked with monitoring realities,
maintaining their stability and preventing them from falling into the Cosmic Abyss.
A role perfectly mirrored in Loki's actions. And unlike the God of Stories, Atlez's
responsibility involves not creating but sustaining and revitalizing timelines,
aligning more closely with Loki's current role. So in my opinion just like Rob said, Loki has
essentially become the MCU Version of Atlez. And when Loki was walking down the gangway
and the radiation consumed his clothes, Notice Loki had summoned
himself a dark green cape. But later when Loki was grabbing
timelines after timelines, he attached some of them on his shoulders as well.
And here the bundles of branches replace his cape as though Loki is wearing a
cape made of the multiverse itself. Therefore, the branches of the multiverse
became an integral part of Loki Also notice that as soon as Loki
takes his seat on the throne, the throne shines up even brighter than before.
Meaning Loki has become so powerful at this point that whatever Loki comes into contact with is
now pulsating with an intense surge of energy. And when Loki pulls all of the timelines together,
he ends up creating a new sacred timeline Resembling a tree with splayed branches on
one end and stretching roots on the other. And its no surprise that the shape of
the tree looks exactly like Yggdrasil, which is what the Asgardians
think the multiverse looks like. Yggdrasil in Norse mythology is an enormous
ash tree that connects the nine worlds. Which we did get a glimpse
of in the first Thor movie. So Loki weaving all the branches into the World
Tree Yggdrasil, fits his character perfectly. And I just love how the ending of
this episode took references from the first Thor movie.
For example, this one: And when Thor sacrifices his connection
with Jane is reminiscent of Loki sacrificing himself to spare Sylvie.
Loki had a lifelong desire for a throne, but the moment he least wanted it, the moment
he wanted actual friends and relationships, That's the moment he got granted
the Greatest Throne of All. And there's a huge difference
between He Who Remains' Sacred Timeline and this new Sacred Timeline.
Because He Who Remains' Sacred Timeline only protected one single branch and pruned the rest.
Whereas Loki's Sacred Timeline is so powerful, it can incorporate an infinite amount of branches
and they still remain inside the Sacred Timeline. And in the final shot we see Loki with a
heartbroken face, with tears almost welling up in his eyes, but notice he could still hear
what Mobius said from one of the timelines. This implies as the custodian of the multiverse,
Loki possesses the extreme power to perceive and comprehend events unfolding within it.
This elevates Loki to one of the most formidable beings to ever exist in the MCU!
Whether identified as the God of Time, the God of Stories, or Atlez, whatever his
new identity might be, one thing for sure is that Loki fulfilled his Glorious Purpose!
And no purpose is glorious without burden! And Loki is literally burdened with the
entire weight of Multiverse on his shoulders. And as Odin said:
They both were born to be Kings! And that's it.
My 0.25x speed breakdown of this episode where I will reveal every hidden detail
and easter eggs is coming out in 2 days time. Till then, I'm Chris Rock, and I
will see you lads in the next one!
