In the second season of the American television show Loki, which is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, viewers will see Loki collaborating with Hunter B-15, Mobius M. Mobius, and other Time Variance Authority (TVA) members to search the multiverse for Sylvie, Miss Minutes, and Ravonna Renslayer. It takes place in the same continuity as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies. Marvel Studios is producing the season, with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead heading the directorial crew and Eric Martin serving as head writer.
Loki Season 2 Ending Explained
There are still a lot of unanswered questions from Episode 5. At the conclusion, Tom Hiddleston’s lead character, who has recently discovered a way to manipulate time slipping, goes back in time to just before Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors) is destroyed in an attempt to intensify the temporal weave.
As Episode 6 begins, Loki observes it occur once more before inquiring as to what went wrong with O.B. (Ke Huy Quan). As per O.B., their speed was insufficient. Thus, Loki believes he only needs to motivate everyone to work hard.
He then goes back to that exact moment repeatedly, hurrying through the directions to thread the multiplier into the loom in an attempt to give Victor a little more vigor. But no matter how quickly they move, Victor always ends up looking like spaghetti. Loki now understands they don’t have to move more quickly at that particular time. He must return to a previous time.
Then Loki travels back in time to when Victor and O.B. first cross paths. He rushes through their introduction and tries to utilize Victor’s prototype to get O.B. working on the multiplier, but O.B. is hesitant because he and Victor haven’t done any brainstorming, so he still doesn’t completely grasp how to solve the problem. Even if Loki would really like to help right now, theoretical physics is not his area of expertise. Or does he?
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How long would it take Loki to understand everything O.B. has to teach him about the subject, Loki asks. Victor believes it would take centuries, even though he states decades. It’s a good thing Loki can return at any time to this very spot.
Thus, Loki does indeed spend several centuries becoming well-versed in theoretical physics. At last, he comes back to that point with a strategy and the know-how to carry it out. What do you know? Victor manages to get down the gangway and fire the multiplier into the temporal weave for the first time. The crew celebrates their achievement for a brief moment.
Before long, though, the loom is overflowing and the readings are incorrect once more. Victor understands that the problem cannot be solved because there is no mechanism to scale for infinite, and that the branches are growing at an unlimited rate. The loom is doomed to failure. At that moment, Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) recognized that this was certain to occur as soon as the timelines began to diverge.
Ping! That’s when Loki’s lightbulb goes out, telling him that, just as Sylvie is about to kill him, he must go back to his and Sylvie’s encounter with He Who Remains at the end of time. Loki makes every effort to persuade Sylvie that she cannot murder him, but she refuses to believe him. Either Loki kills her, or she kills He Who Remains. Even after multiple rewinds and tries to persuade Sylvie otherwise, Loki refuses to murder her.
He Who Remains stops time after, well, who knows how many tries. He asks Loki, “How many times have you been at this?”
His “see you soon” statement from the Loki Season 1 finale turned out to be a little more literal than one might have thought. He says that if he hadn’t known that it would all end at this point, he never would have let Sylvie kill him. After he unpauses Sylvie, Loki pauses her once more. A fresh move up his sleeve, probably now that he’s mastered time management.
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“And why do you think that this is our first conversation about this?” Loki muses. It appears that Loki is aware of what must be done—He Who Remains has even attested to this—but he is still hesitant to accept it.
The One Who Remains informs Loki that the loom is a safety measure that eliminates any branches that aren’t supposed to be there—that is, everything save the Sacred Timeline—when it becomes overloaded. Thus, the TVA receives collateral damage when it bursts, but the Sacred Timeline remains intact. He believes it’s easy enough to fix. But Loki is bound to lose in any case.
But the God of Mischief will not accept that as an answer. Despite the warnings from He Who Remains that it will launch a war in which nobody will survive—not even the Sacred Timeline—he makes the decision to destroy the loom. Loki, though, is unwavering.
Once more, he travels back in time to the very beginning. When we return to Season 1, Episode 1, Agent Mobius is questioning Loki. Anticipating his next inquiry, Loki interrupts and reroutes the conversation. He queries Mobius’s source of solace given that he must decide who survives and who dies, but Mobius maintains that there is none at the TVA.
Mobius recounts an incident in which he was assigned to remove a person who was accountable for 5,000 deaths that did not occur during the Sacred Timeline. He discovered the target was an 8-year-old youngster when he reached the point where he needed to cut the offender. When he paused, another hunter intervened. It was Ravonna Renslayer, the hunter. In the end, Mobius informs Loki, he must select his load.
Just when that timeline is about to morph into spaghetti, all of a sudden it is tearing apart, and Loki is back in A.G. Doug’s (also known as O.B.) workshop. He takes a moment to spend with Sylvie, and as he begins to share everything that he has gone through, she makes an educated guess as to where this is all going. She cautions Loki that killing her will take away everyone’s free will in the event that they ever trigger a nexus event on the Sacred Timeline, even though she is aware that he must kill her in order to keep He Who Remains alive. But if everyone perishes, Loki questions, what good is free will?
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Loki is reminded by Sylvie that it’s acceptable to destroy anything as long as something new can be created and that occasionally he may have to fight to the death. Loki now has a scheme.
He travels back in time to the instant before the temporal loom blows up once more. He opens the bay doors and dashes toward the loom along the gangway before anyone can stop him. He changes into God Loki as he moves, complete with horns, and uses his abilities to destroy the loom.
He starts to take hold of the withering branches as he stands amidst them all and moves toward a rift in space, pulling every branch toward the end of time. He walks over to the citadel’s throne, which was formerly held by He Who Remains, and sits down as he gathers the branches. It seems that Loki has taken over as the new timekeeper when the branches begin to light again.
Viewers are informed that this is “after” via a black title card, yet there is no specific time frame given. Well, time isn’t exactly the same in the TVA, so who knows?
TVA is operational as usual, however, instead of operating sideways as in the past, all of the branches are now running up and down (via Loki). The way the new timelines branch out and intertwine together like a tree suggests that they can all ultimately coexist. Is this the World Tree, also known as Yggdrasill, which links the Nine Realms together?
Mobius is keeping an eye out for new He Who Remains variations to make sure they stay hidden and don’t find out about the TVA. He announces his departure as he and B-15 make their way to the battle room. He’s been trying so hard to save things, and now he wants to go back to his timeline and see them.
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Sylvie shows up when he is standing across the street from his Ohio home—that is, Don’s. Both of them acknowledge that it’s strange that Loki is no longer there, and Sylvie adds she’s not sure where she’s going yet. Mobius chooses to spend the time there absorbing everything.
In the meantime, O.B. has created a revised version of the TVA guidebook, and, fast forward to Chicago in the 19th century, nobody is throwing one through young Victor Timely’s window. The final fascinating section concerns Renslayer, who was banished to the Void. When the wind pushes back the grass to reveal a bronze symbol that reads “for all time always,” similar to the one in the TVA, it raises more eyebrows than when she wakes up in Alioth’s presence.
while the show comes to a close, Loki’s visage is shown while the camera pans across millions of timeline branching. He doesn’t quite have a smile on his face, but he appears happy with his solution.
Summary
In the finale of Loki Season 2, Loki repeatedly travels back in time to alter events, attempting to prevent the collapse of the temporal loom. Despite warnings from He Who Remains, Loki chooses to destroy the loom, leading to a new timeline where Loki becomes the timekeeper. The TVA operates differently, and characters like Mobius and Sylvie contemplate their paths. The fate of Renslayer remains uncertain as Loki oversees a multitude of branching timelines.