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That's where alligator Loki comes intro play.
What's the story with alligator Loki? I might know it and never made the connection, but it's not ringing any bells for me.
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That's where alligator Loki comes intro play.
What's the story with alligator Loki? I might know it and never made the connection, but it's not ringing any bells for me.
That was mentioned in the films (Thor: Ragnarok), and the story in the comics did involve alligators (frog Thor lures them out of the sewers with a magic pipe to help the frogs in their battle against the rats), but none of the alligators were actually Loki, they were just alligators.
So as far as I know, I think alligator Loki is just a new variant, showing us that 'variant' covers a lot of ground. But hopefully we'll hear what alligator Loki has to say for themself next episode.
Lastly, my theory on pruning and how we still have Loki/might get back Mobius is that it doesn’t annihilate someone, it’s more a teleporter. Maybe how the TVA gets/prepares Variants to become agents. Maybe. Because I don’t think there’s any way the show is done with Owen Wilson or his arc with roughly two hours to go.
How Loki and Sylvie caused a Nexus event on Lamentis seems important. It should have been impossible because of the whole apocalypse, everyone and everything around them being destroyed, no timeline branching possible thing.
The obvious explanation is it's a fairly lame plot device (in a "actually you can create a nexus event during an apocalypse if <insert arbitrary criteria here>, and that's how they escaped" kind of way), but I don't think it's that, partly because I don't think Marvel are that lazy, but mainly because it's been given a load of significance, both in the episode (the TVA trying to work out what the nexus spike was, Mobius saying that connection could "bring the whole place down"), and by the episode being called, "The Nexus Event."
So... how did they create a nexus event despite being about to be squished by an entire planet?
How Loki and Sylvie caused a Nexus event on Lamentis seems important. It should have been impossible because of the whole apocalypse, everyone and everything around them being destroyed, no timeline branching possible thing.
The obvious explanation is it's a fairly lame plot device (in a "actually you can create a nexus event during an apocalypse if <insert arbitrary criteria here>, and that's how they escaped" kind of way), but I don't think it's that, partly because I don't think Marvel are that lazy, but mainly because it's been given a load of significance, both in the episode (the TVA trying to work out what the nexus spike was, Mobius saying that connection could "bring the whole place down"), and by the episode being called, "The Nexus Event."
So... how did they create a nexus event despite being about to be squished by an entire planet?
How Loki and Sylvie caused a Nexus event on Lamentis seems important. It should have been impossible because of the whole apocalypse, everyone and everything around them being destroyed, no timeline branching possible thing.
The obvious explanation is it's a fairly lame plot device (in a "actually you can create a nexus event during an apocalypse if <insert arbitrary criteria here>, and that's how they escaped" kind of way), but I don't think it's that, partly because I don't think Marvel are that lazy, but mainly because it's been given a load of significance, both in the episode (the TVA trying to work out what the nexus spike was, Mobius saying that connection could "bring the whole place down"), and by the episode being called, "The Nexus Event."
So... how did they create a nexus event despite being about to be squished by an entire planet?
I think it's as simple as what Mobius said, Loki falling for a variant version of himself created the nexus event. And Loki was about to tell Sylvie how he felt about her and right before he got the words out, he said he's never felt that way before so that tells me that he's not supposed to fall in love with ANYONE so falling for his variant might be the actual cause and whoever he fell for doesn't really matter.
Loki and Sylvie "fell in love." Whether that means romantic love, or some kind of meta self-actualization and acceptance, or just two Lokis actually caring about someone else, it was enough to trigger the alarms. Which, them doing that would be more significant than Sylvie hiding, living a day-to-day life at Roxxcart waiting for the apocalypse. And Mobius did say that the sensitivity of their monitoring was turned all the way up at that point, as they were looking for them.
Maybe the Nexus event started happening because Loki and/or Sylvie are not supposed to die and their death would cause a massively destructive event for the multiverse.
How Loki and Sylvie caused a Nexus event on Lamentis seems important. It should have been impossible because of the whole apocalypse, everyone and everything around them being destroyed, no timeline branching possible thing.
The obvious explanation is it's a fairly lame plot device (in a "actually you can create a nexus event during an apocalypse if <insert arbitrary criteria here>, and that's how they escaped" kind of way), but I don't think it's that, partly because I don't think Marvel are that lazy, but mainly because it's been given a load of significance, both in the episode (the TVA trying to work out what the nexus spike was, Mobius saying that connection could "bring the whole place down"), and by the episode being called, "The Nexus Event."
So... how did they create a nexus event despite being about to be squished by an entire planet?
If she prevents that, then IW and EG doesn't happen. Loki isn't killed by Thanos...etc...etc.
There's one big problem though. How does she kill Thor's sister, Hela?
Clearly gods and mortals are both in the TVA- why is that an issue?No one is addressing the tweebadoc in the room...who is this "Alvin?" that young Sylvie sees being manhandled by the TVA at the beginning of the episode? He's wearing jeans and a t-shirt, which implies that he is a mortal. Does this mean that Sylvie had a different life on Earth? As a mortal? As a Loki?
Also, finding Sylvie and Loki during an apocalyptic event, which shouldn't trigger a Nexus event, may have been on purpose. Maybe whoever is actually behind the TVA made it seem as a Nexus event so that the agents would pull them out of there. The Time Keepers wanted to see them personally, which means whoever is running the TVA wanted them to meet and possibly discover that the Time Keepers were puppets. This leads to a theory that Loki is behind the TVA and is hunting down all the Loki variants and placing them in an alternate NYC (notice the destroyed Avengers Tower in the background) for some reason.
With two more episodes left, we are either going to wrap this up quick or have one helluva cliffhanger.