LOKI: What He Who Remains ACTUALLY Did to Loki

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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Written by: Erik Voss
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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.

[viper]

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.

[steev]

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.

[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”.

[Unknown_-btuv]

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.

[KevKrieger]

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.

[random]

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.

[NiyiDaNinja]

I think HWR really did want Loki to replace him

[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.

[kevinslater]

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

[melissabritt]

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

[Matisaro]

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

[ZyliceLiddell]

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

[gonx]

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

[purplefxx]

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

[emiltrapiello]

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

[TheJohnmusk]

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

[vultan]

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.

[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...