Warning: This article contains spoilers for Loki.
As with WandaVision, Loki leans into the mystery box style of story-telling, inspiring theories, speculation and rampant self-sustaining hype: but what if the most outrageous theory about the show is that the God of Mischief has been dead all along? Not dead as in he never made it out of Thanos’ grim grip in the opening of Avengers: Infinity War, but killed in the first episode and left to play out his dying thoughts.
Considering that traumatic death, Loki was an unexpected bonus for fans who wanted to see more of the God of Mischief in the MCU, but the time travel element of Endgame’s plot offered both an opportunity and a need to close some loopholes. The TVA is a means to control time travel, through the establishment of the multiverse rules (even if the Time-Keepers appear to fascist overlords) to stop it becoming a trick to undo any upcoming traumatic event in the MCU. And resurrecting Loki to work alongside the other brainwashed TVA variants made a lot of sense given his natural tendencies towards mischief and chaos. In effect, the show s is a chance of a second chance, a full-stop, and a tantalizing set-up for the future – and specifically, the Multiverse of Madness.
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