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They established that you can't change history...its not possible.
1. Only within a timeline
2. They have shown that you can change what people at the TVA remember of history. examples:
i. mobius forgetting about the rings on the table
ii. people not recognising previous variants that are now working with them
iii. people at the TVA not remembering their own variant past life.
All you can do is create branch realities. So a new Kang instantly taking over the TVA would be breaking that law.
see above
Nevermind the fact that Loki was IN the TVA before Sylvie killed he who remains. If the TVA's entire history was changed at that point why didnt it effect Loki at all. Plus how could Sylvie push Loki into a TVA that had its history changed, prior to her causing the event that changes history. None of that makes any sense.
the citadel is AFTER everything (and on the timeloop BEFORE everything). events
at the citadel are not interleaved with events at the TVA (other than I suppose people moving into from one to the other).
also this is pre-supposing that history has been re-written which is just one explanation. a reset of the TVA is another.
finally time is on a loop and the citadel is outside of that loop.
Based on what we know from the show and what's be established, this is what I'm thinking....
There was always parallel universes, even throughout all of this the multiverse still existed it was never just a single timeline. Its just that each timeline had it's version of the TVA protecting it from colliding with others and that's what the "redline" represented. In the opening animation we could see the time ring was what appeared to be multiple timelines stacked and flowing together. It even seemed to be isolated to that one black hole which means there could be other multiverses not connected to our multiverse at all. I doubt they animated that entire sequence just because it looked cool, there had to be meaning there. I think the infinite Kangs only cares about protecting their scared timeline they control and stopping them from intersecting.
This explains the whole issue with variants and the way they appear. Otherwise, Loki's variants being so drastically different didn't make any sense. That would mean someone deviated from the scared timeline at some point and that caused Loki to change from a frost giant to an alligator....
ok
could be but I do not agree.
that opening animation could be to show a move from our world (where the MCU is just films) into the MCU(/M) world.
If the TVA are pruning deviations the moment they happen
false. "eventually" NOT the "moment they happen" as explained in ep 2.
a nexus event causes a build up of side effects (chaotically) after divergent actions take place - where the degree is not related to the difference per-se but the difference effect the sacred timeline aims (as miss minutes said and kang indicated. this would explain the nexus on lamentis 1 as well.).
this eventually could lead to a branched timeline but it is not immediate and it is not guaranteed within any timeframe.
loki and mobius talking season 2: ts 22m
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loki: Nexus events happen when someone does something they’re not supposed to do, right?
mobius: Well, it’s a little more complicated, but, yeah.
loki: Great. And then that thing they’re not supposed to do,
cascades into a whole range of other things that aren’t supposed to happen. And so on and so forth, until
eventually, a new timeline branches. Yes?
mobius: Chaotic alterations of a predetermined outcome.
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how could something change in the timeline so drastically and so suddenly that causes Loki to turn into a damn alligator. That fact alone tells me the multiverse has always been there, it was just "neat" before episode 6 happened.
based on a false premise.
(note: jargon vs. in world meaning by the "set designer")
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