Loki Episode 1 resolves a major Avengers: Endgame mystery.

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Thursday, 10th June 2021

Marvel Studios has finally explained why the Avengers' Time Heist did not break the multiverse in the latest Disney+ MCU series Loki. And it's a very convincing reason, to be sure. Thanos had decimated half of the universe, including many Avengers, in Avengers: Infinity War. In Endgame, the remaining superheroes banded together to pull off a Time Heist, travelling back in time to acquire the Infinity Stones and undo the Mad Titan's deeds.

Many fans were perplexed as to why these actions did not break the multiverse, as the butterfly effect, when applied here, states that small actions and changes can affect timelines and cause chaos in the multiverse. The Time Variance Authority is introduced in Loki, whose job it is to monitor the minute changes and apprehend ‘time variants' in the timelines so that the Sacred Timeline remains intact.

The show explained to Loki that while the Avengers used time to their advantage, everything they did was SUPPOSED to happen. And that includes Captain America travelling back in time to spend an entire lifetime with his love, Peggy Carter. So they were supposed to save the universe and restore the lives lost as a result of Thanos' snap.

But, according to the TVA, Loki escaping with the Tesseract in Endgame was an anomaly, and thus Loki is a time variant while the Avengers are not. This appears to be a convenient explanation and a ploy to explain what appeared to be a plot hole. Nonetheless, the explanation makes sense.

Many people had wondered how, if Captain America grew old with Peggy, this did not affect the ‘reality' in which Peggy had married another man and had two children, including Sharon Carter.