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Many fans wondered why the TVA didn’t intervene with Avengers: Endgame’s time heist and the season finale of Loki reveals why.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Loki Episode 6, “For All Time. Always.,” streaming now on Disney+.
In the first episode of Loki, the Marvel Cinematic Universe introduced audiences to the Time Variance Authority, an organization that operated beyond time and whose purpose it was to regulate the timeline itself. As fans learned more about the TVA, it was revealed that its agents enforced the Sacred Timeline, a single timeline of events that was dictated by the Time-Keepers. Since the TVA intervened whenever someone interfered with time, many were quick to wonder why the organization didn’t get involved in Avengers: Endgame. After all, in the Phase 3 film, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes traveled to multiple destinations across time to steal the Infinity Stones.
The premiere episodes of Loki somewhat sidestepped the question, by simply stating that what the Avengers did was supposed to happen. Well, the season finale of the Disney+ series goes a step further by revealing why the TVA didn’t interfere with the time heist.
In “For All Time. Always,” Loki and Sylvie found a citadel at the end of time, where they came face-to-face with the man behind the Time-Keepers and the TVA: He Who Remains, a variant Kang the Conqueror. All three characters sat down, and He Who Remains explained to the two Lokis who he was, what his story was and what he wanted. A long time ago, he lived through the first multiversal war, and he ultimately put an end to it by ensuring that there would be no other branch realities. The only reality that would exist was the Sacred Timeline, and the TVA was created to make sure it would stay that way.
This was how everything worked for a very, very long time, but He Who Remains has gotten tired. And for that reason, he manipulated events all so it could lead to him sitting down with Loki and Sylvie and making them an offer: either take his place as the protector of the Sacred Timeline, or kill him and start the multiversal war anew.
This is what he’s been working towards, but it never could have happened without this variant version of Loki. He Who Remains has seen where everything leads up to a certain point, and he knew that the offer had to be made to this Loki and Sylvie. He orchestrated as the head of the TVA an intricate sequence of events, a specific timeline that had to happen to make his offer. And this Loki, well, he never would’ve existed without the Avengers traveling through time.
Therefore, when the TVA said that what the Avengers did was supposed to happen, it’s because He Who Remains needed them to travel across time. Because of this, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America and Ant-Man went back to the Battle of New York in 2012, and their attempt to steal the Tesseract allowed Loki to escape the timeline — the same one that would later come face-to-face with He Who Remains.
So yes, the events of Avengers: Endgame were supposed to happen. The creation of a Loki variant may have seemed like an unresolved thread, but it turns out it was one of the most important events in the film.
To see the God of Mischief’s adventures continue with the TVA, Loki has been greenlit for another season at Disney+.
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