Timeline for What are the rules and logic for time travel set in Loki?
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| Jul 28, 2021 at 0:22 | comment | added | nick012000 | @lucasbachmann "I'd assume the effect is limited and that parallel universe she was from goes on having forgotten about her" This is wrong. The parallel universe she's from gets deleted from existence, and anything that survives the deletion gets sent to the Void at the End of Time. | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 0:18 | comment | added | nick012000 | "There's no contradiction to the time travel rules setup in Endgame because the actions we are seeing are different to inner timeline time travel." It's not, though? In both cases, the people involved are using the Quantum Realm to travel through time. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 20:59 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | @lucasbachmann There’s a question on how physically different variants can exist. I agree with your interpretation that they are always different. I think it’s more to do with actions and outcomes rather than physical differences. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 20:57 | comment | added | lucasbachmann | I'll admit there's a large gap in my understanding of the pruning process. Using female Loki as an example - she gets arrested and a prune explosion goes off. I'd assume the effect is limited and that parallel universe she was from goes on having forgotten about her but not do anything divergent enough to trigger a multiverse war. Some of these Loki existed for quite some time with alternate biographies. So I don't think sacred Loki transformed into a girl one time and TVA put her back on the path like the TVA cartoon. I assume in her universe she was always a girl Loki or near to it | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 18:40 | comment | added | Matthew Read | Timelines are pruned by the TVA, i.e.. removed, they're not pushed back into line or something. If they hadn't branched into their own separate thing, then the Sacred Timeline would be pruned as well. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 10:27 | comment | added | LogicDictates | I'm still not clear about the difference between actually splitting, and just moving away from the predetermined path. The fault may not lie with your reasoning though, but with the show itself being extremely vague about the rules, and not necessarily consistent. I may go ahead and ask a new question related to this, because I'm pretty sure it can't be resolved in the comments, if it can be resolved at all. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 9:39 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | @LogicDictates In Endgame the Ancient One explains that a single timeline can split into 6/7 by taking an Infinity Stone out of it. In Loki we see timelines diverge from the Sacred Timeline and are reset by the TVA. I.e. they don't actually split themselves but are rather moving away from the predetermined path and need to be reset so they that stay on said path... the timeline that diverges though never splits. (At least that's my interpretation of what we see that I believe to be correct). | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 9:36 | comment | added | LogicDictates | Could you explain that difference in more detail? I could post it as a new question if that works for you. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 8:57 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | @LogicDictates I'd argue time travel rules don't apply. The time travel rules tell us how to split a timeline. The rules in Loki show us how timelines can take different paths but they don't split. That's quite a difference. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 8:52 | comment | added | LogicDictates | I'd argue that time travel rules are still important in Loki (or at least, they should be), because while it's true that the agents of the TVA are not time travellers in the conventional sense, they can still affect the Sacred Timeline to the same extent as time travellers, and the Variants they hunt can as well. The conclusion of Episode 6 also suggests that the history of the TVA itself can be altered... somehow. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 8:30 | history | answered | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |