Victor Well timed’s fingerprints are throughout Loki season 2, even when he isn’t. As one of many many variations of Kang the Conqueror, Well timed instantly feels essential to the second season, even earlier than we all know it’s his designs that impressed (nay, created?) the Time Loom. Certain, that was by He Who Stays’ design, however nonetheless! As we see from his workshop of innovations and the best way Miss Minutes tries to return on to him: Well timed’s bought the juice!
[Ed. note: This post will now spoil the end of episode 4 in some detail, with some speculation of what’s to come. Ye be warned.]
So it’s type of shocking when, after all of the teamwork and energy and Marvel CGI that bought him to the TVA with O.B. to construct the magic machine that saved the day, he simply… spaghetti’d. In simply an instantaneous, Well timed turns into noodles, and Loki is left dumbstruck, simply questioning what the hell they’re going to do with out him, whereas the viewers wonders what the heck Loki will do with out him.
Nonetheless, this season folding in on itself a lot has taught us one factor: This second might need main implications for the space-time continuum. Well timed getting the time-space pasta therapy may imply his existence, life, consciousness, or matter has merely been wibbly-wobblied elsewhere. As such, spaghettified Victor Well timed won’t be gone — or not less than, the narrative won’t be finished with him. So what precisely might have occurred to him? Listed here are our theories.
Idea 1: Victor Well timed’s episode 4 destiny creates Kang the Conqueror
We all know that there are seemingly countless Kangs unfold throughout countless realities, however how did they develop into… you already know, Kang? He comes from the longer term, so his superior expertise (and his supersuit) can account for a lot of of his powers. And we all know he has a genius-level mind, as proven by way of Victor Well timed’s less-than-timely innovations. However his means to govern time and actuality? It’s generally attributed to his swimsuit, however I believe it’s additionally a bit of left open to interpretation.
What if we simply noticed its origin in Loki? The person was, as many have put it earlier than me, utterly and completely spaghetti’d as he approached the Loom and the various completely different branches of the multiverse. Might his essence have been unfold out into the multiverse by way of the Loom, gaining surprising powers within the course of? Or, much more straight, did this occasion in some way change the mind chemistry of all different variants throughout the timelines, resulting from sheer proximity to these timelines? Might this have been the occasion that remodeled Victor Well timed/Nathaniel Richards into Kang the Conqueror? It looks as if the type of factor the MCU would do — they love a grand reveal, in any case, and Loki has been requested to be surprisingly load-bearing relating to the universe’s subsequent Large Unhealthy. So displaying his “origin” of kinds within the collection wouldn’t be that a lot of a stretch. —Pete Volk
Idea 2: Victor Well timed goes to go elsewhere within the Marvel Cinematic Universe
What little we all know in regards to the technobabble of the Time Loom is it’s pulling all the assorted timelines of the multiverse and getting clogged. However in contrast to an precise stitching machine, the Loom is simply sitting in large house, pulling in no matter strands get close to it. So possibly when Victor turns into strands within the huge vacuum outdoors the TVA, his remnants simply additionally get sucked up into the Loom, like one big machine-like wormhole.
From there, Well timed might plop out… wherever! My guess is it doesn’t even should be wherever huge (or definitely shouldn’t be), just like the Battle of New York or the struggle in opposition to Thanos. It’ll simply be a fast little end-credits gag, like the unique Guardians of the Galaxy tag with Howard the Duck. Hopefully he lands someplace he can preserve making his little innovations; if not, properly, there’s at all times the subsequent Kang. —Zosha Millman
Idea 3: Victor Well timed died!
I believe he’s lifeless. Which might seemingly current an issue to the timeline: If Victor Well timed is actually the Kang who invented the TVA, then he’d have to haven’t died earlier than he invented the TVA. Maybe we’re about to see the fallout of that — two climactic episodes during which all TVA workers get up of their regular lives on the timeline, as a result of there was by no means a TVA to drag them out of it. Possibly Mobius would lastly get to trip a Jet Ski. Possibly he’d have to decide on between Jet Skis and placing the TVA again into existence in some way.
However actually, causality solely appears to exist when Loki desires it to, so who is aware of! If Well timed is lifeless, there are a lot extra Kangs to go round. —Susana Polo
Idea 4: Victor Well timed is spaghetti now, interval.
My concept is brief, uncomplicated, and greatest summarized by way of the phrases of Polygon government editor Matthew Patches when he’s in dad mode: pasghetti.
That’s proper, Victor Well timed isn’t He Who Stays, essentially, however he’s an equally if not much more essential variant of Kang: the one who began spaghetti. Contained in the partitions of the TVA, far outdoors the bounds of normal time, all spaghetti, and presumably all European noodle shapes basically, had been found mainly by way of the disintegration of Victor Well timed. Via his sacrifice, the brilliant divinity of his newly noodly kind will slip into the loom and be dispersed all through the multiverse, sliding proper into the proper place in every universe’s historical past to assist somebody uncover the holiest type of pasta sauce supply: the spaghetti noodle.
In fact, it’s essential to keep in mind that Victor is however one man, and his corporeal kind is restricted by its measurement, even when stretched by the unstable Loom. This implies, tragically, that not each timeline will get to expertise the magic of spaghetti. Some misplaced out on its pasta perfection, as a result of their universe was by no means delivered a horrifying Cronenberg-esque noodle-shaped piece of a person. However thank God we exist in one which did. —Austen Goslin