Well I think they are making the TVA look kind of inept on purpose. Loki is our stand in asking the expected questions. He is also the one discovering their loopholes and hypocrisy every episode. I think its very purposeful the juxtaposition of Infinity gems in a drawer...vs what dozens or hundreds of "elite" TVA agents getting slaughtered and outsmarted by a "Variant" until they desperately need Loki's help.
They are purposefully showing them as both impressive in terms of being able to time jump anywhere and be quasi omniscient, but not really. They have glaring security holes, they clearly arent being told the full story by the "Timekeepers". Even Mobius is kept on a leash and fed what they think he should know.
I think we will get answers and probably see the man behind the curtain. Everything so far is pointing to some serious time fraud being perpetrated. And Female loki might have the right idea honestly just blow their ish up. Air the dirty laundry let the multiverse happen
On the subject of the TVA not being as great as they think on paper, I'm wondering if this event Sylvie just caused is actually retroactively the existence of the multiverse, at least for the last several thousand years. Even though they have talked about clipping branches early on and keeping it to one "sacred" timeline for a long time, the TVA seems to exist outside of the normal flow of time and the universe, so the way they experience these things would be different from mortals. But people have compiled online the places and times that Sylvie bombed, and she detonated those devices on various planets in the MCU all at various points in time, thousands of years apart in some cases. That's why the branches that appeared at the end are coming from all over the place.
If these branches don't get clipped in this series, then hypothetically from the point of view of say, the Ancient One or Doctor Strange, the multiverse has always been around, even the cause of its existence wouldn't happen until the events of the Loki series. The Timekeepers may even be savvy about this, and may be the reason why the judge said they were unusually focused on stopping the Sylvie variant.
We'll see how it hashes out, but I definitely see disillusionment with the TVA and/or the Timekeepers not being what they claim being a part of this.
I meant the literal Big Guns, not a team or spec ops because I think that is what Justice Peace, Mo, and Loki are.
I'm talking about weapons so bad, they couldn't erase them.
Given the penchant for trophy rooms, I would not be surprised if something big is hauled out sooner or later. For good or for ill.
Well, I wasn't thinking a big ol' wild west shootout. The specific scenario that comes to mind is a Variant holding an important character (one that if removed from the timeline, a huge redline event occurs) hostage and they take the shot but get the hostage. Because Loki was using illusion projection ...
That's where I was coming from.
The MCU TVA doesn't strike me as a group that would function like that. Maybe when they get more desperate now with all those branches ... they get sloppy.
I predict Mo dies, and we see a 90s clad Loki riding off into a Baywatch-esque sunset on a jet ski, smiling like no tomorrow.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
So far, both MCU series have been about giving the main character a new status quo. Wanda got super powerful, Falcon became Captain America. So I fully expect that Loki will be alive at the end of this, probably as a hero, and back in the MCU after his untimely death. Can't wait to see the look on Thor's face.
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"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
Unlike Chris Evans who didn't want to renegotiate his contract(true for RDJ/Iron Man also) Tom is still keen to be Loki and is, as you know, adored in the role.
My hunch is that the role is Tom's until he does not want it and then, instead of having to cast a male you hope catches on like Tom, you take Loki female. Adds a whole lot more to the "can I re-interest" you dynamic to any one disillusioned by the Loki character.
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Only half right. At the end of Endgame Steve gave Sam the Shield, so no one would bat an eye if he showed up as Captain America in the next movie. F&WS didn't really change any outcomes, just took a detour to get to the already established one.
Now Wanda showing up in the next movie looking for her kids followed by a recolored Vision is going to make the movie only crowd go huh?
Sounds perfect.
Meh. I have given some thought to this idea, particularly as it relates to people saying how bringing the X-Men to the MCU will require explaining how they didn't get involved, with all the stuff that has happened already. Thing is, while this would be a consideration, as far as explaining some conspicuous absence in the real world, I feel like getting hung up on such details, specific to the genre of superheroes -- well, kind of ignores the reality of the genre.
You know, it's like how there might be conflicts for any popular character (like Wolverine, for instance) who appears in multiple team books and solo's, so a real-world take would have to ask when they were doing one thing or another -- in this one book, your character is in an arc in outer space, so how are they hanging out with Daredevil in Hell's Kitchen, in another book. Spider-Man's multiple solo titles present the same problem -- except for special crossover storylines, that intentionally tie each book together into linear episodes, it's always easy to have him lost in the Savage Land in one title, on a spy caper in Europe in another, while in yet another he's fighting home-grown threats in NYC.
Basically saying, I think it would be a mistake for the MCU to get hung up on thinking they need to explain why some characters weren't around, or where they were for a story, before it's time for them to feature in a particular story. Strange wasn't in Westview because it would have been a totally different story, if he had been. You'd probably in fact remove the majority of the conflict and struggle for Wanda. Likewise if any of the rest of the remaining Avengers showed up for that, and likewise how the Falcon and Winter Soldier storyline would have been different if you said, well, we have established that all of these other characters exist, so why shouldn't they show up? Like, now that Nu-Vision has all of his memories back -- realistically, he could have easily handled all of the Flag Smashers all by himself, without really needing Sam or Bucky, at all.
I'm saying, you don't need in-universe explanations for this stuff, because I think we as the audience can understand how trying to keep one great logical, linear path for every introduced character will significantly hobble you, story-wise. And we'd rather have the cool stories, than perfect logical consistency, as far as who should show up for every conflict.
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The thing is Strange was actually supposed to be in it and it's kind of his job to deal with that stuff and the showrunners just left it to the writers of his sequel film to come up with a reason as to why he wasn't involved.
With Wanda showing up in his movies they can't really not address it.