LOKI: What He Who Remains ACTUALLY Did to Loki

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How much of Loki Season 2 did Kang variant He Who Remains ACTUALLY plan? Did He Who Remains make Loki TOO powerful? Erik Voss explains!
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[@NewRockstars]

Erik here! This is one of the Loki post-season videos I made before I went on my paternity leave a few weeks ago, and yup, I made it before Jonathan Majors was fired. I plan to dig into all of that when I return in January. I think it will be good to give us all some time to reflect and cool off.

[@TheThird1977]

Good idea to keep that until the dust has settled a bit (and perhaps Marvel will have made an announcement on where they are going moving forward). Enjoy fatherhood.

[@GMSquared]

Oh, don't worry, this was a great take, and still valid. I am of the opinion that we'll see Kang Variants that are more unique now.

[@mymomsbasement69]

hahahaahahahahaha

[@omalor]

But you could have not published it.

[@mymomsbasement69]

@@omalor Who cares. Its funny.

[@vipe650r]

Loki also spent proper centuries educating himself on physics, space, and time to be able to match Victor Timely and OB. He has the knowledge, experience, and expertise to bring to the powers.

[@BRONZEMOZART3]

according to kangs plan

[@k1anstation81]

​@@BRONZEMOZART3 No

[@steev927]

I think one thing that's overlooked is that Asgardians, while aging slower than humans, actually get more powerful with age. All of Loki's timeslipping is relative to him, just time dilation with interstellar travel. Not only did Loki age a few centuries in the one cut, he also probably aged dramatically stepping out towards the loom before breaking it. Even without master the timeslipping and learning all the science, he still would have had a massive powerup due to the aging... which may be the reason why he was actually powerful enough to do what he did at the end.

[@thelunatic0297]

loki isnt an asgardian though. he is a frost giant.

[@itsslapjack8577]

@@thelunatic0297Odin converted Loki into an asgardian with his powers

[@TheDarkbluerock]

@@thelunatic0297 He's both

[@yoyomayne]

​@itsslapjack8577 nope can't change genetics with magic, loki says himself he isn't asgardian

[@itsslapjack8577]

@@yoyomayne then why isn’t Loki a frost giant?

[@Unknown_-bt8uv]

I think that people aren't realizing that HWR wants his variants to be defeated and that he wanted his replacement to not be dependent on his technology and that's why he chose Loki the only thing HWR doesn't agree with is the way Loki deciding to do things because all of existence might cease to exist.

[@GroundOfAllThings]

Looks more like HWR put Selvi there, building their connection to make Loki Take the third option saving both Selvi and his friends, seems like he was forced to take this route. HWR might have still made Loki do exactly what HWR wants. Maybe it is still the path he paved for everyone

[@JacobHJones]

I personally think that this is all He Who Remains’ plan still in action. He needs the Multiversal war in order for him to become the one at the end of time. He gave Loki the ability so that someone other than one of his variants would rule after him. All that has to happen now is for all his other variants to start the war, and the loop continues…for all time, always. The war begins, He Who Remains defeats all other Kangs by isolating the sacred timeline. Loki branches off his timeline and gets caught by the TVA and becomes a variant of Avengers 1 Loki. It’s one big loop and it’s all a part of his plan. Remember in season one he said, “You either take my place or you can kill me, thus starting another multiversal war and I just end up right back here anyway”.

[@drgaidhane]

I agree with this, HWR's plan is in action

[@KevKrieger32]

7:32 Not only that. Loki got knowledge by learning everything about mechanics, physics and engineering for centuries. Literally centuries. With that knowledges he understood the equations on He Who Remains' board and found another, even better, solution.

[@Brisingam]

timelines began to die for the reason that HWR warned Loki (multiverse war would begin in which no one would survive). Seeing confirmation of this prediction after destruction of the loom, Loki begins to feed timelines with his magic (which, unlike the loom's rings, is infinite), thereby serving as a multiverse artificial ventilation of the lungs. Loki keeps multiverse alive, giving TVA and everyone else a chance to win instead of die trying to fight for free will. The branches of the Yggdrasil are purple (the color of Kang, there is a war in the "future"), and the trunk is green (the color of Loki, which provides artificial ventilation). Thus, Loki needs to keep the multiverse alive until TVA and Avengers defeat Kangs at the top of the purple branches before timelines finish mutual destruction. When Avengers succeed, Loki will retire because multiverse will be able to breathe on its own.

[@NiyiDaNinja]

I think HWR really did want Loki to replace him

[@ZyliceLiddell]

They had that as a backup plan!

[@kylespevak6781]

Seemed pretty obvious, especially when he controlled Sylvia

[@lilokiola9525]

Maybe. But this is means too, that Loki will be bad again. I'm not sure if Marvel can do the same thing as they do in 2012, but maybe... We will see that :)

[@mchljunior_]

@@lilokiola9525 why does he need to be bad? He will do what is necessary. It doesn't make him bad. I think there will be a bigger threat (Galactus or something). Loki will have to make a decision that will split opinion. But I dunno if he will be bad. He isn't the power hungry weirdo from before.

[@random3832]

i thinks that he who remains put loki on the path the whole season. he gave loki time-slipping, and also was the one to put him at the end of time to replace him. if he could pave the road to make loki think he could change time to defeat him, he could also do it and pave to road to make him the one at the end of time. in season 1 he who remains said that he was old and he was tired of this job, and that loki would be the perfect one to do it. but he put him on a longer road to make sure that this choice was really his, that loki would really want to do it for everyone else. hwr made this road in season 2 to give loki the knowledge and understand the job truly before he would sit at the end of time.

[@ashtingillurd4751]

U smart smart

[@wh1tew0lfalpha]

Perfect interpretation and explanation.

[@ItsJordiee]

Yes this is what I was thinking. This was always hwr’s plan !

[@scosee2u]

HWR told Loki this plan in season 1 right?

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

Didn't he want both Sylvie and Loki to be taking over?

[@kevinslater4126]

The look on his face I'm 90% certain that He Who Remains was lying and was caught off guard by Loki's movement through time.

[@pixxiespit]

Loki Did👏 The👏 Home👏 work👏 HWR didn’t account for Loki’s longevity, which didn’t allow him to consider how long he had to learn quantum physics (100+ years or so). That’s how with one glimpse, Loki was able to decipher HWR’s equation, then later figure out his own third option of a living/dying fractal timeline which he could navigate and guide instead of prune to suit one specific narrative. Time-God/Tree of Life

[@ZyliceLiddell]

But Loki *IS* ’He Who Remains’ now that ‘Kang has been conquered.’

[@TON__618.]

😑😑

[@ryantortolano7764]

Mobius said he needed a loki who remains, that's why he went to OB

[@gonx9906]

I feel bad that we are losing the actor behind He Who Remains i really enjoyed his performance.

[@MementoMiri]

He died? 🫣

[@ahmadsarr4277]

@@MementoMiri nah police case

[@Louie-capo]

looks like a benny hill video

[@extrashotofespresso_]

He should’ve been more smart with his actions. Way too old to act like a teen boy who’s running from his crazy gf

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

​@@MementoMiriHe was convicted by a jury for assault and harassment of his ex.

[@melissabritt31]

Hopefully you have been watching the news when posting. Hoping the Loki storyline gets the family reunion he and we deserve

[@extrashotofespresso_]

He’s been living in the real world and taking care of his pregnant wife who is expecting his child. You know, like a normal human who needs breaks

[@kaviyak9220]

He welcomed their son last week.. and now he's with his wife and son taking paternity leave

[@lilokiola9525]

​​@@extrashotofespresso_This one would be not bad idea. Imagine Loki & Sylvie kids have a fun with Thor's adopted daughter Love... But knows Marvel I feel, that Loki and Thor possibly will die in Secret Wars 😢

[@TheJohnmusk]

I could see the Avengers failing to deal with a time traveling Kang, and Loki can sense it and goes to help.

[@snuffybox]

Was it a mistake though? Seems like HWR plan worked out exactly as intended. He wanted someone else to take over, loki took over. Plan success...

[@mightheal]

No he wanted Loki to kill Sylvie so that he can remain as the god of time. Sylvie still kills Kang while Loki becomes the loom.

[@Hoosonova]

Virtually "becareful what you wish for".

[@monas9777]

@@mightheal watch season 1 kid, hwr said "either you take place or you can kill me, thus start another multiverse of war..."

[@mightheal]

@@monas9777 The only way Loki can take his place is by killing Sylvie...

[@emiltrapiello47]

Damson Idris would be the best Kang choice. John David Washington would be cool, but those who've seen Snowfall... Damson will deliver the emotion and cadence we loved about Majors in season 1

[@RashaadGenie]

John David doesn’t have the range.

[@vultan2000]

Interesting that Loki had the time powers that HWR could only use through technology. With the non-linear nature of their stories it could well be true that HWR derived his abilities from analysing Loki.

[@jacobgarcia8092]

I doubt the Kang character won’t really feel the same anymore. Might be a overreact but I just feel like after a few movies and shows it won’t be the same… that’s like switching Thor after a few movies. Seems like certain people are made for a character

[@ashleydesrosiers7150]

True. They should have let him finish the part.

[@Hoosonova]

In some what of a bitter sweet poetic justice with loki being in The position he is in now, they can actually explain Kang away. Especially to get antman out of the paradox that he was left in, in the last movie. Loki should have the ability to simply snap all kangs out of all time lines and existence. Easy peasey all done.

[@Matisaro]

This was how it was going to go, I am absolutely certain you have nailed almost all of it.

[@somedayitsgonnamakesense]

He Did Not Remain

[@gonx9906]

Underrated comment.

[@My_in-laws_condo]

Remains in jail….. not likely but possibly for a year. 😂

[@extrashotofespresso_]

🤣🤣

[@wh1tew0lfalpha]

​@benjaminbell3724 eh probation for first time offense and anger management classes

[@purplef0xx]

The 'pocket', ouroboros paradox you describe is known as a Bootstrap paradox

[@MrSchoemakers]

i think Loki forming the tree is still part of a loop. in the background of the TVA we see the timekeepers and TVA workers prune a tree. by forming the tree loki made sure that he who remains is reborn again as the "sacred timeline" is not his own...

[@A-ds1mt]

I think it was Sylvie who saw what Loki was doing and said "He's giving us a fighting chance." Loki knew he couldn't fix everything but he could hold everything together for other people to.

[@cultofzombie]

Guess Majors isn't really he who remains after all

[@hopejackson1319]

Looking at this from this angle. Loki wouldn't learn it from his adoptive Father... But the surrogate Father (Illustrator) taught him what he wouldn't learn then. Now it appears purpose and choice for Loki, but an answer to his life long dream to rule.

[@Nico12420]

If Loki just let the loom explode then the Multiverse Saga is over!

[@mymomsbasement69]

He Who Was Convicted

[@wh1tew0lfalpha]

Lmaooo

[@ZyliceLiddell]

Now that Kang is gone, how are they going to fix this mess without completely waisting ‘Loki?’ Utilise Loki’s powers to ‘rewrite the story?’

[@extrashotofespresso_]

The storytelling isn’t a waste. It was still an amazing series regardless what happens with that Kang character. Some of you marvel fans get too tied to one thing and very seldom welcome change. Let them (marvel) figure it out.

[@NoTBoB1432]

When you started thanking Jessica I realised you were back haha, congrats on the little one!!!

[@satch422]

Thor always had faith that Loki has good inside him

[@ZyliceLiddell]

Indeed. There *WAS* always good inside of him. He was just messed in and messed *WITH* in the head.

[@A-ds1mt]

@@ZyliceLiddell Canonically, Thanos was controlling him during the attack on Earth but the MCU seems to have dropped that arc and simplified him as just an inherently bad person who turns completely around. I realize that Loki's motivations haven't been consistent between movies, as he's been a supporting character written by multiple people who didn't initially plan for him to be around this long, but he had Daddy issues, trust issues, identity issues, both an inferiority complex and a superiority complex, and was a hero of Asgard for over a thousand years before the events of the first Thor movie. The Loki series had a lot to play around with but, instead, just portrayed him as a cliche of a megalomaniac villain.

[@kvm1992]

Kang created father time Loki. Loki is centuries old and is able to keep his prime appearance. He is now a legendary figure and would perhaps be the leading member of a council of legends he forms to stop all the Kangs.

[@errorcode1815]

I dont think that was the intention at the end of season 1 in regards to Loki being 'sent back in time', and more of a retroactive change come season 2. I think the season 1 ending was to signify Kang has arrived and changed everything, and setting up a grand multiversal war (which does line up with early pitches of season 2). The writers just pivoted to what we eventually got with the season 2 opener.

[@AljonGo]

Does the fact that Loki, being adopted as a Frost Giant, was imbued with the power of an Asguardian, make him also able to tap this god-like power that he never before had? Or perhaps Kang is more special than we think, perhaps granting him the power as a Beyonder-like being? Perhaps Marvel Studios will explore it making some sort of explaination in an upcoming series or film.

[@gregorybeale]

Being a Dad is the best thing ever! See you in a few weeks!

[@blackninja7083]

Something i just thought is he who remains lies in the season 1 ending about not knowing what was going to happen when he dropped the thing on his desk

[@chrisroerdink4911]

So in the season 1 finale did we really cross the “threshold” of he who remains knowledge of what was going to happen? Or was he just messing with Loki and Sylvie?

[@jovannie]

I'm still just sad about the Jonathan majors thing 😢

[@avalokiteshvara113]

He shouldn't have been an asshole then lol

[@darnelltwine9393]

Can you do a video revisiting the "Threshold" HWR described them passing?

[@topentine]

ALL i know is that Loki's solution is chaos...time branches intertwining... He saved lives but did give them peace...

[@LawMom6]

Help! What is the whisper right as Loki looks at the equation in the citadel? I've listened to it a hundred times and I can't figure it out.

[@samariagraham4502]

I love my GOD OF STORIES shirt!!! So many compliments ❤

[@zn00p58]

WOOOOOW!!!!! I'M FREAKING PART OF THE HISTORY NOW!!!!!

[@DonnieGonzalez-lg3md]

Good video

[@TheKnightArgent]

I don't think Loki can timeslip simply because he's Asgardian. It's because he a variant that was untethered from time in season 1. HWR is a normal human, so he needs the tech. to cheat time.

[@monas9777]

Nope, it was hwr gave him timeslipping

[@James-zn2bc]

Love it

[@felixmak1712]

Good luck with the baby! - I also thought that Loki being a god and now possibly a God, would have not only a different point of view across all of this knowledge (especially since he studied for 'a a thousand' or so years, but his options as a god/God were far greater than a human (no matter how smart and wise). So cool!

[@SaBastian_DeKrabbe]

I think it would be cool if it turned out that He Who Remains is Actually the BEYONDER!!!? But make it so that the Beyonder can shapeshift

[@SaBastian_DeKrabbe]

To explain why no more Majors

[@TheGhepetto]

I love when Peter Capaldi explained belt loop paradoxes

[@samariagraham4502]

Would still love to see an Agents of SHIELD connection.

[@TheFancastPodcast]

Really wish Majors could stay as Kang he made that role his own

[@jtreign]

I would like to see more Hector. He’s killing it!

[@Plymonk666]

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[@ZyliceLiddell]

Did he manipulate Loki and trap him in the tree? I thought Loki was supposed to be ‘super smart.’

[@mightheal]

No Loki pulled a Doctor Strange. Loki knew the only way to end this once and for all was to let the multiversal war happen one more time in order for the final outcome to be changed completely so no more multiversal wars would happen again.

[@ZyliceLiddell]

I wish they made a stand alone ‘Loki’ movie and a stand-alone ‘Kang’ one instead of mashing them both up and intertwining them! Maybe now that Loki is the ‘God of Stories,’ he can write himself out of this mess! 😖

[@Codeman20]

Most dope.😎

[@hadeszero4526]

I want to know how he changed the equation and to what.

[@arielisbusy]

🤔

[@fredfred9758]

Kang did it all so that his Varients will be activated creating even 10000x a problem

[@ananyasain1241]

I Think HWR Wanted Loki To Sat On The Citadel's Chair Binded By Those Time Lines To Ultimately Stop Loki From Escaping & HWR's Past Variant Can Lead The Way Again To The Future To Become The He Who Remains Again. Because it Wasn't Sylvie It Was Loki & His Variants Which He Who Remain Was Afraid Of So He Technically Locked Loki In The Jail of Keeping Timelines By Binding Him Into Those Timelines With That Chair.😢😢

[@amirreza2612]

It's really hard to think about these theories when we know they actually were building on the idea of a loop and then RR and HWR relationship but they had to change the ending and they came up with this mess.

[@cliveconcept]

Everyone comes from somewhere ..where did O B come from?

[@Plymonk666]

2:00 he seems angry here to the fact he might suggest there was a problem; a reaction he would not have if there really wasn’t one, or if he was worried about the problem that he can’t fix, like he himself is Loki time-slipping back to that point in hope to fix ‘the problem’ that shouldn’t be there… 2:00

[@imobius_1i98]

So...isn't known fact that Asgardian get more powerful as they get older? The temporal radiation ages things. So Loki is basically power level over 9,000. Makes sense the vfx made him look older as he walked further down the pathway.

[@owentaslimi7421]

Cool vid 👍

[@jasonszeto7790]

He who remains .. reminds me of the watcher

[@MagicCityMayhem]

“by the way if you’re seeing less of me…” um, have we? Lol 😅

[@Nima4ever]

And also please somebody tell me: Since he who remains has the power of pausing time, why he didn’t kill Loki and silvi at the final episode of season one And also Why did he paved the whole road in season one

[@ProsunMondol]

I don't see this as a mistake by HWR though. HWR and Loki both acknowledge at this point that they aren't mortal enemies anymore. Far more on the ally side in fact. HWR WANTS the Kang Dynasty to get destroyed, which is why he CHOSE Loki to take his throne. The final conversation they had was great and felt like a professor/pupil office hour session.

[@BlitzinMackGaming]

I never thought it was up for debate who created the tva. I always thought it was He Who Remains.

[@Nostrathomas85]

they never gave us a thor and loki reunion after end game, just like we haven't seen a wanda and white vision reunion... i feel like the impact of these reunions won't mean as much the longer they wait to do them.

[@NPC.JakeGOAT]

He who remains in jail 😭

[@nicholasmilillomusic]

Sad to see his career just plummet, but do stupid things win stupid prizes. Shit got to his head in a bad way.

[@G-mountain863]

I like it

[@Plymonk666]

HWR’s Apple never goes rotten, Strange reversed a rotting apple… neither has done both… 8:18

[@Louie-capo]

When are you going to review Aquaman 2?

[@yinjiro4984]

Why do people think kang didn’t think of everything, i think he knows about kang dynasty and gave them the loop hole so that the other kangs ( that hwr don’t really fw) will lose. Maybe he thought up until the end, planned everything yk

[@EdS-du2wu]

Knowledge, which he can only now understand after being taught it by O.B.

[@gambit2632]

Technological wizardry? Sounds kang may have met doom as doom is the only one who combined science with magic

[@BRONZEMOZART3]

kang chose loki knowing he would replace him to hold the timeline permanently. it was all acting on kangs part to convince loki to become... him. remember that was the offer.

[@alpanago2603]

F in chat for Kang Dynasty

[@ClavinZKL]

Is the name god of stories said anywhere or time?

[@user-sf4se1oe5w]

In a way having to hold back on Kang for obviou reasons..us actually a good thing. If He who remains intended to die in order to be reborn whilst using Loki to hold the multiverse together, you wouldn't expect his uprising to happen overnight.

[@2midgetsinatrenchcoat599]

How come when Loki jumped into himself during the interrogation with Mobius, was he not affected by the power damping collar is previous self was wearing?

[@lindacarmichael6762]

he wasn't using magic or any other powers in that scene

[@endelosecosplay1302]

So since Loki is an expert on physics, space, and time does anyone else want to see a scene of Tony Stark, and Dr Banner arguing on something abd Loki making snide side comments at them.

[@Plymonk666]

So if it wasn’t a problem, then why is the answer an infinite scaling problem 1:50

[@ryanell123]

Is it possible that he actually wanted this to happen because he wanted a way to stop his own variants for good? And the only way he could do that is to place the multiverse in the hands of someone he trusts?

[@ts_georgalides]

I think you make a valid point but hear me out Loki can’t just travel to the future or past like Kang, Loki can only travel to a time where he has physically been in before

[@peterskorec8246]

Good question. Im still wating for Loki, The God Of Stories, to make sure we hear Rhodey say “Booom looking for this?!” Btw, off topic, Ryan’s Acceptance Speech for his Emmy winning 😂 😂 posted on Instagram…. Massive W. 😂 he’s hilarious. Especially him and Hugh 😂 also Rdj winning Golden Globe? So happy for him. Bye y’all!

[@prosoporific]

With everything about crowns and looping and sacred time line think crown of ragnorock and that time Thor was like nice but worhless.. and destruction.. and he who remains as one can exist and not remain.. and loki being loki.. who now loki VS loki is now loki not VS everyone else.. as he who remains is just a loki upon himself as well..

[@prosoporific]

Solutions is not holding on to sacred time line but choices to keep alt timeliness in existence as one did not create sacredtime line one is not needed to keep ot going

[@GigiMon-zb1zl]

Loki if just a kid slipping through time, everything within Kang’s dynasty will still come back to this same HE WHO REMAINS, Loki won’t just accept defeat and that will cause multiverse war, We know that all Kang are ready for war.

[@sesemuller4086]

Let's also see who will play Kang in the future!

[@MansourAAhmed]

Loki became the loom it self

[@TheDarknash]

05:30

[@chelseagolden2082]

Still riding the wave of Loki, I see.

[@escott1981]

Its so sad that Jonathan did this to himself. He was so amazing as Kang and all the variants. I just loved how he talked and how clever he was (I'm talking about the character here, just so we are clear, not Mr Majors.) He was on track to be a super star!

[@papasmurf8275]

Interesting, but have you factored in Jonathan Majors' recent guilty verdict? The biggest threat to the Kang Dynasty is the Law.😢

[@getjoshnow]

Who knows if kang dynasty will actually happen

[@chrisalicea6473]

Erick here 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@TheTrueGodOfMinecraft]

He’s not the god of stories he’s the fox of the multiverse

[@zutai1]

he who remains, remains. he didnt have the power to truly fix the multiverse, and now he has the tree of time, and the tva after his lesser remnants. loki is where he needed him to be, while the tva is managing the timelines that wouldnt have fit through his limited mechanical means. the infinity expanding infinite timelines, are managed. and now, he has no reason to stay hidden away at the end of time, waiting for his plan to play out, so he can know peace, away from his variants.