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Loki Season 2 Episode 4 is released and there are a lot of questions around it. This segment of Loki‘s second chapter in the MCU introduces new characters, and it shows us the origin of the TVA with a twist. However, there’s a lot more going on; like MCU probably getting a reboot, and Loki pruning a version of himself before explaining why. In fact, Loki prunes himself in Episode 4 to prevent something terrible from happening, and it might be the key to saving the multiverse.
Spoiler Alert! The following content includes heavy spoilers on Loki Season 2 Episode 4.
Loki Season 2 Time Loop Theory Explained
Loki Season 2 started with a new incident called “Time Slipping.” This is when a person is being called through time and is dragged from one time to another. This can result in that person being lost to time, and Loki has the exact occurrence to deal with. However, this incident is more consequential than Loki just being dragged through time.
There’s a very important thing about him being pulled through time, and that’s when all he does in the past affects the future in the TVA. First off, time travel is not supposed to be possible in TVA, and second, doing something in the past won’t affect your future in the MCU. Unless, the TVA rules are different, and there’s actually a time loop that prevents TVA from being destroyed.
In the first Episode of Loki, we see that O.B. and Mobius try to pull Loki from time slipping. However, things go wrong, and Loki is pulled to the future of the TVA. Still, Mobius manages to catch him after he’s pruned in the future. Now this can happen as many times as Loki prunes himself in the future, just like we saw in the Season 2 Episode 4.
Loki Pruning Himself in Episode 4 Is The Time Loop
Loki Season 2 Episode 4 finally connects what we saw from Episode 1. In the first episode, it’s not clear who is pruning Loki, but in the latest segment, we see that’s no other than Loki himself. With this act, Loki sends himself back in time once more, and just like a serpent eating its tail, he has to redo what he’s been doing in the previous episodes, but in a different way to save the multiverse.
Now after we saw the Multiverse being crashed and destroyed in Episode 4, Loki Episode 5 will probably begin with Loki being pulled from time by Mobius back in Episode 1. That’s the reason Loki pruned himself in Episode 4 because if he doesn’t do it, he won’t have the chance to be back in time, and Victor Timely and everything else will forever be dead.
- Loki pruned himself in Episode 4 to be pulled from time in Episode 1.
- The whole Loki’s time slipping incident is a loop in TVA.
- The loop and destruction of the multiverse will happen over and over until Loki finds a way to save it.
