Loki
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Summary
When time travelling was first introduced to the MCU inAvengers : Endgame , Bruce Banner and Tony Stark expend quite some time explaining several key metre change of location rules . While Scott Lang advise that by going back in clip to block off Thanos , their current timeline will transfer , Banner explains that"if you go into the past , that past becomes your time to come , and your former present becomes the past , which ca n’t now be changed by your new future . “This mean that jaunt through time would n’t alter the MCU ’s present timeline , though this rule has since been break in Phase 4’sMs . Marvel , and was broken once again duringLokiseason 2 ’s MCU - changing finale .
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Loki’s Time-Slipping Power Broke A New MCU Time Travel Rule
Lokiseason 2 , episode 1 , sawLoki impose with time - slipping , a wild cognitive process that hang back him between retiring , present , and future ostensibly arbitrarily . Initially , it seemed as though Loki ’s sentence - slipping kept within the boundaries of the MCU ’s pre - established time locomotion rules , but this was soon demonstrate improper , asLoki time - slipped to the past and convinced Ke Huy Quan ’s Ouroboros to make the machine that could " cure " him in the nowadays . However , Loki traveling through time and affecting his own timeline was n’t the most dramatic change thatLokiseason 2 made to the MCU ’s meter travel rules , as season 2 ’s finis revealed something even more radical .
Lokiseason 2 ’s finale reveal that He Who persist had somehow inflicted Loki with his time - slipping ability in the hopes that Loki would return to judge and thwart his demise inLokiseason 1 ’s final episode .
After Loki find out to insure his fourth dimension - slipping inLokiseason 2 ’s next-to-last installment , he traveled back to the TVA in the minute before the Temporal Loom ’s burst . alternatively of appearing as another Loki in the room , however , Loki time - slipped into the preceding variant of his own trunk . This solidify the fact thatLoki could literally rewrite history by traveling back into his past body , and this allowed him to travel through time century of time in attempts to repair the overwhelmed Temporal Loom , or to stop Sylvie from killing He Who Remains . This efficaciously blot out the MCU ’s premature meter travel account , but fall in Loki an unbelievably telling new major power .
Marvel Studios ' Loki time of year 2 coda , " Glorious Purpose " forebode back to an former production line from 12 years ago and gives it a much deeper meaning .
Loki’s Time Travel Powers Make Him The Most Powerful MCU Character
WhileLokiseason 2 ’s premiere installment already made Loki more powerful by proving he could affect his own personal timeline - whichAvengers : Endgamepreviously say was impossible - the season finis sacrifice his power an even greater rise . Theoretically , Loki could travel back to any spot in his life history and transfer the present persistence , which could be pregnant to the MCU ’s future tense . Recent speculation suggests theMCU may be rebooting afterAvengers : Secret Wars , and Loki ’s new ability may provide the answer as to how . In the wrong hands , this power could be badly dangerous , so it ’s swell that Loki currently only has honest intention with his power .
