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Season 1 theories

The Time-Keepers are in charge of the Time Variance Authority

The trailer shows statues that look similar to the Time-Keepers. Loki will be forced to work with them to erase branches in the timeline created by the hooded figure in the trailer, similar to how Immortus, a future version of Kang, works for them in the comics. This could be used to set up Kang the Conqueror's appearance in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.

• The trailer supports, if not outright confirms this by having Loki say "The Time-Keepers have built quite the circus."
• Confirmed by the info dump in episode 1
• Ultimately Jossed. It's revealed in Episode 4 that the Time Keepers are merely androids. Someone else is running the whole TVA.

This series will set-up Teen Loki

Teen Loki will eventually join the MCU version of the Young Avengers.

• A younger version of Loki, played by Jack Veal, appears in The Stinger of Episode 4.

Verity Willis will appear at some point

Most likely in season 2.

• Confirmed. A Season 2 Easter egg reveals that Verity Willis is the Prime Version of Hunter B-15.

Beta Ray Bill will appear

Perhaps just as a cameo setting up a further appearance in either Love and Thunder or Season 2.

• Jossed for Season 1 and 2.

The hooded figure in the trailer is..

• Chthon: It makes sense that an elder god with mastery over dark magic would get involved with Loki's shenanigans, even as an enemy.
• Parker Robbins/The Hood: Loki could end up being responsible for Parker Robbins becoming the Hood...and be forced to deal with him when he proves to be very ambitious in his villainy.
• An agent of Surtur: If Loki still intends to take over Asgard, Surtur may want to destroy him before he can try. They could even be one of Muspelheim's mightiest dragons given a "human" form via magic.
• Zarrko the Tomorrow Man: A rogue time-traveler who's messing with time for one reason or another. Loki's deal with the TVA will be to capture him.
• Lady Loki
• Doctor Doom
  • Who is also Zendaya
• Klaus Voorhees/Cobra
• One of the Dark Gods
• Malekith: Specifically, a version of the guy from an alternate timeline.
• Amora The Enchantress
• Most are seemingly jossed. It's stated that the hooded figure is another Loki variant, but we've yet to see if the person is another male Loki or Lady Loki. Plus we haven't actually seen them at all, so it's possible it might not actually be Loki in the first place. More fuel to the fire: The stunt double for the variant is female. Looking more like Lady Loki as we go on.
• Confirmed that it is a Lady Loki.
• In the non-English versions, "Randy" is credited as "Sylvie", which points to the possibility of Enchantress instead, but has yet to be confirmed.
  • A TVA incident report that appears briefly in one frame identifies her as "Sylvie Laufeydottir," so Lady Loki and Enchantress may have been composited together

Loki is D.B. Cooper.

IRL: Man who robs airplane and parachutes out and is never found. In Loki trailer: Loki has crapload of money on an airplane and parachutes out, only to get swept up (possibly by his own designs) by the Bifrost, never to land.

• In addition, Loki is dressed similar to D.B.Cooper, with Cooper's notable sunglasses
• Confirmed. It was a bet with Thor.

Loki will end up in the "Old West" and have to pose as a cowboy

• I just think it'd be funny to have Loki have to pretend to be an American frontier settler-type. He could even meet and/or clash with a Marvel Western hero like the Masked Raider or the Rawhide Kid. If it were Johnny Wakely/Red Wolf, that could lead to his descendant/contemporary successor William Talltrees appearing in a future MCU project.
  • It would also be a nice Actor Allusion to the fact that Tom Hiddleston played Hank Williams in I Saw the Light.
  • Or, if such a case does happen, Loki encounters Matt Hawk, AKA Two-Gun Kid, who'll accidentally wind up in the future (our present), like what happens in the comics.
• Jossed for Seasons 1 and 2.

The Exiles will make a cameo.

You've already got Loki running missions for a mysterious organization after being ripped out of his own timeline, and with the nature of the Exiles, you don't need to have the exact team from the comics, just alternate versions of the MCU heroes we already know.

• Considering leaked merchandise seems to indicate that What If...? may be forming a version of the team called the Guardians Of The Multiverse, Marvel definitely has interest in that team, which may or may not lend credence to this theory.
• Jossed for Seasons 1 and 2.

Enchantress isn't a Loki Variant, but a lover of one

• Enchantress and Lady Loki are traditionally two different characters, and while it's possible this Enchantress is a Composite Character, it's unlikely that Loki's narcissism would allow him to take a form without his raven-black locks. It's more likely the TVA misidentified her as a variant, and she's simply trying to avenge one.
  • She does say "don't call me that" when Loki calls her by the name Loki, implying that she's either someone else or has at least rejected the identity of Loki.
  • As revealed later in the series, she is indeed a Loki variant but dyed her hair and changed her name because she hated the association to a life she never had.

Lady Loki is actually the reincarnation of Loki from Infinity War

She was born in a different universe but retained or regained her old memories and just wants to be reunited with her brother in the main MCU. If she succeeds, she'll reference the last thing she'd said to Thor before her death: "I told you, the sun would shine on us again."

• Jossed, she's a completely different Variant of Loki with no direct ties to that Loki.

Lady Loki will have a version of Mjolnir

In her universe, she somehow has Mjolnir instead of Thor. This will be the hammer that Jane Foster eventually uses in Thor: Love and Thunder.

• Jossed, the only weapon she uses is a Kukri.

Loki will attempt to betray to Time Variance Authority at some point, only to fail.

Going off the last scene in the first trailer, the idea of this happening seems plausible. It is in Loki's character after all.

• Confirmed, in episode 2 he tries to ally himself with his Variant to overthrow them but is turned down because they want to destroy the TVA instead.

Justice Peace will be a black woman, if the character even appears in the first season at all

She's not confirmed to be Justice Peace, but Hunter B-15 has many similarities to him.

• Jossed. Hunter B-15 is Verity Willis.

Richard E. Grant will be playing an older Loki.

He has the same chaotic energy, the British accent, the angular build and face, and it would be good character development for Loki to encounter an older version of himself as either mentor or antagonist.

• Confirmed in episode 4, complete with classic yellow/green outfit.

The Time Variance Authority will strike a deal with Loki to keep him safe from extra dimensional threats in exchange for his cooperation.

• Since Loki has diverted from the natural flow of the timeline, he's going to have his version of Thanos's forces, Asgardian forces, and potentially Captain America from the prime MCU timeline all after him. The TVA will recognize this and force Loki to work for them in exchange for providing guaranteed safety from any and all outside forces.
• Mixed. While a deal is struck, it's because of the other variant of Loki, that they allow Loki to assist them.

The Time Variance Authority / Time Keepers will be revealed as Evil All Along

If the TVA is concerned with Loki "breaking reality" by taking the Tesseract, then they ought to be furious at the Avengers for travelling to multiple past points in time and stealing the Infinity Stones. Even if Steve put them back exactly where he found them, the Avengers' actions are what allowed Loki to get his hand on the Tesseract, and there is room for discussion on how just putting the Stones back will not just put the timeline back exactly how it was before. The Ancient One had used the Time Stone to see into the future before, but was surprised by the Hulk and what he had to say, and the Avengers' interactions with people in the past could ripple out and change time in subtle ways they didn't realize.

So, this leaves two options. One: the Time Variance Authority will target the Avengers, possibly even try to undo the Blip, because they interfered with time and they want to set it back, caring more about keeping the timeline intact than Thanos doing the Snap and it being undone. Or two: the Time Variance Authority doesn't care about the integrity of the timeline, in which case they're lying to Loki and that definitely means they're up to no good if they intend to have him running through time doing missions for them with an ulterior hidden motive.

Such a twist would be keeping with the origins of the Time Keepers in Avengers Forever, where they were revealed as antagonists, though of Well-Intentioned Extremist type. Additionally, casting Owen Wilson as seeming comic relief that turns out to be a powerful villain seems like the kind of trick the MCU would pull on its audience.

• Too early to tell, but the TVA at least seem to be under the impression that the Avengers' time travel is what was supposed to happen in the timeline.
  • Consider that the Avengers didn't change the past with their gauntlet (calling back those snapped rather than retconning it), then took great pains to (mostly) preserve the timeline, putting the stones back exactly where they got them from with minimal delay. They cleaned up after themselves, basically saving the TVA the effort.
• Even without their response to the Avengers, the TVA still seem a little...off. The fact they mindwipe and brainwash Variants into serving them—essentially enslaving random people for the crime of deviating from a Sacred Timeline, that, by the way, the TVA gets to define with no oversight from anyone else—does not make them look like the good guys.
• Confirmed in Episode 4. Ravonna prunes any TVA agent who begin to realize they're Variants and the TVA they've been working for is all a lie. Later on, it's revealed that the Time Keepers are not real... someone else is behind the whole thing.

Loki will (seem to) be killed/die (again).

Loki's very existence is inconsistent with the Prime Timeline. This makes him a disposable agent for the TVA, or a loose end if he is successful at fixing the broken timeline. Considering that Loki's first enemy will be a variant of himself, it's all but guaranteed that yes, (a) Loki will indeed die by the end of the season.

• Confirmed at the end of Episode 4 with Classic Loki.

Jack Veal will play Kid Loki.

Actor Jack Veal shared a publication to express the emotion he feels for participating in this Marvel Studios and Disney + production, confirming in this way that he is part of the main cast of the series and is likely to play Kid Loki in the series.

• Confirmed. Jack Veal appears as a younger version of Loki in The Stinger of Episode 4 and during Episode 5.

Ikol will be Loki's reincarnation in the MCU after introducing Kid Loki in the series.

In the comics: After Loki dies during the Siege, Loki put his soul in a hidden location within Asgard, but left clues so that the next incarnation of him could find it. When Loki's new form found him, Ikol told this new incarnation to be good, because "A Trickster is Useless without a Playground". Ikol now follows Loki and guides him, but only if Loki asks for help. Loki told Ikol that he would be the opposite of him in every way.

So it is likely that Ikol is the reincarnation of the deceased Loki in Avengers: Infinity War, and he becomes Kid Loki's companion and mentor in the series and in the MCU, where he will guide him and Kid Loki will develop certain associations with the Magpies in the series and in the MCU.

• Jossed.

Mobius will say “Wow!” at least once during the series

Come on, it’s Owen Wilson, what did you expect?

• According to a recent interview with Kate Herron, this is unfortunately jossed.
• Honorable mention: Mobius gives a confused "How?" in episode 4 with the same elongated vowel Wilson uses when he says "Wow".

The Big Bad will be Kang the Conqueror, as a way to set up Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Much of this series will be about time travel, and Kang is quite possibly the most famous evil time-traveler in all of Marvel

• Confirmed, although it is a variant of Kang that goes by “He Who Remains.” His death likely sets in motion the events of Quantumania.

Loki will learn what happened in the main timeline post-2012

He'll have an opportunity to watch his alternate self's character development from Dark World, Ragnarok, and Infinity War. Then seeing Thor's breakdown in Endgame will drive home the point that no matter what he does his brother will still care for him, bringing him back to the point of full Heel–Face Turn and ultimately merges back into that timeline.

• Confirmed.

Mobius M. Mobius' middle name is...

• ...Mobius.
• ...Murdoch.
• ...Marvel.
• ...Multiverse.
• ...Mjolnir
• ...Michael

Every organization in the world with the acronym TVA is a subdivision or front of the Time Variance Authority

At least in the MCU anyway.

Loki will learn about his scepter causing the creation of the Scarlet Witch and Pietro in the prime timeline.

Tom Hiddleston had previously noted in an old interview how Loki is indirectly responsible for Wanda and Pietro's powers and the birth of Vision, due to HYDRA getting their hands on his scepter after defeating him. This variant of Loki learning about Wanda could be a way of further connecting them together, even if they don't actually meet.

• Jossed.

One of the alternate timelines Loki will encounter will be the Marvel Television timeline

Where he will have a very awkward meeting with Agent Coulson (or his robot duplicate, depending on what year he arrives). Which may or may not end with someone getting impaled through the chest.

• Jossed.

Loki and Mobius will end up visiting Paris in the 1920s at some point, possibly in the second season.

Because the opportunity for their actors to reunite in that setting again is just too good to pass up.

• Jossed.

Throg will to appear in the series.

Confirmed. Throg appears as a cameo in Episode 5.

Zarrko the Tomorrow Man will appear as a villain.

Since Zarrko made his debut in the Thor comics, and this series focuses on a Thor-centric character traveling across time, it makes sense.

The TVA will be destroyed or at least heavily weakened by the end of the series.

Their desire to keep one singular timeline is not out of any altruistic reasoning. The Time Keepers are the winners of the war that Miss. Minutes spoke of. They set up the TVA to make sure that their time-line unfolds as they want it to, and prevent another multi-verse time war. Loki (any and/or all Loki) will be responsible for ensuring that multiple timelines and universes exist again.

• Consider that their little video said that a multiverse would be madness. What was the title of the second Doctor Strange film again?

Jossed for Season 2. Loki saves the TVA

Judge Ravonna will become a villain

Her comic counterpart is Kang's lover, after all. Either the end of the series or the events of the series itself will reveal that she infiltrated the TVA in order to aid Kang in his rise to power. In the comics she's usually not a villain, but this could always be a case of Adaptational Villainy.

• Confirmed

Rogue Variant Loki's motive:

• To ensure that she becomes ruler over all.
• To permanently alter the "Sacred Timeline" to her benefit.
• To stop the TVA from erasing timelines.
• To ensure another version of Loki was picked up by the TVA to hunt her, and then use that Loki to accomplish what he actually wants.
• To prevent Frigga's death.
• To take revenge against the TVA .
• To look for a specific person.
• To stop them from endlessly chasing her.
  • Not necessarily jossed. There’s likely some goal beyond a face to face with the Time Keepers. Meeting them is almost certainly a means to an end - her true, ultimate goal is unknown. Any of the above are possibilities and would require the TVA out of the way, as any form of change to the quote-unquote “sacred” timeline would be undone by the TVA, any created variants hunted down, any branched timelines destroyed. Cutting the head off the snake by doing away with the Time Keepers while their minions are busy is as good a start as any, whether the plan is to bring the whole thing tumbling down in favor of something Lady Loki likes better, preventing ultimate temporal order, or achieving some technically minor victory by permanently changing the timeline.

Sylvie was taken for pruning so young because she was born female

While Loki identifies as Genderfluid, he generally prefers masculine pronouns and appearance. Sylvie instead prefers female form and pronouns, but didn't discard the Loki name until long after her intended pruning. So, why was she taken? Because she preferred to live primarily as a woman, and Sacred Timeline Loki 'has' to be a man.

The TVA's realm is the remnant of the previous multiverse, the only "true" alternate universe in the MCU.

Miss Minutes' video states that "long ago", the multiverse was nearly destroyed in a war of timelines, and we see shots of destroyed spaceships. It is almost impossible for this war to have been in the past of "our" timeline, as the TVA's technology is infinitely more advanced than what is seen in "our" present. Even the Infinity Stones don't work, despite Endgame showing that they can work in different timelines.

The Time Variance Authority exists in the old multiverse, one that is fundamentally different from the "main" timeline, and built by and from the remnants of the war.

The "main" timeline is their petri dish, and the TVA is examining it from nigh above, being able to see any abnormalities. They have near absolute control over its denizens. However, "our" timeline has the potential to grow and start another multiversal war, one that can affect the TVA's realm.

This also leaves the possibility that there is an even greater power beyond the TVA, and perhaps they have their own, working Infinity Stones.

• The continued existence of the comic book universe means that the multiverse cannot truly have been erased.

The Multiverse timelines that were destroyed in the Multiverse war included the TV Shows

All of the Marvel Television shows that haven't been mentioned have been destroyed in-universe. Agents of Shield, the Netflix shows, Runaways, Clock and Dagger, Agent Carter and Inhumans; all of them are gone. And considering all the time travel that went on in Agents of Shield, that might have even been the cause of the Multiverse war to begin with.

• Another potential deleted timeline was the X-Men universe.
• Unlikely as The X-Men is still alive in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness AND The Marvels

There will be another multiverse war that'll be the finale of Phase 4, started thanks to the events of WandaVision, Loki, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange 2.

By the end of this war, the TVA will once again create a Sacred Timeline where the X-Men and Fantastic Four are all retconned into coexisting with the Avengers.

• Yes... a multiverse war... one that's kept more under wraps... one might even say... a Secret War.

The “are you a robot” scanner question in episode 1 is setting up a punchline where a robot antagonist *does* walk through it and gets cooked from the inside...

The Multiverse War was actually Secret Wars (2015).

The MCU version of the Time-Keepers either helped along with or took credit for the Richards family restoring Earth-199999, and established the TVA from there.

Events that may have lead to divergent timelines

• Loki's attack on New York succeeding: he never killed Coulson so the would-be Avengers don't have their biggest motivation to come together.
• King Loki: he kept a calm head during the events of the first Thor movie or otherwise ensured that Heimdall or Thor's friends didn't get in his way.

By the end of the series, the Time Variance Authority will be destroyed.

• How can we have a 'multiverse' of madness if the Time Variance Authority is always guaranteeing that one concrete timeline happens no matter what? The first episode alone questions many times the idea of how it can be decided what events are supposed to happen, and it is possible that by the time the series wraps up, it will be definitively decided by the main characters that the TVA shouldn't exist.

Antagonist Loki (aka Rogue Loki) and Protagonist Loki are the same variant, just at different points on his/their personal timeline

Rogue Loki's plot is to make sure he exists, by getting Protagonist Loki to go rogue. At the end of the series, Rogue Loki will win as Loki becomes Rogue Loki and travels back to the premiere. Season 2 will be about Rogue Loki trying to destroy the TVA.

• So he's Savitar all over again?
• Jossed. The Variant is a female version of Loki from an alternate timeline.

Mobius M. Mobius is actually a future version of Loki

He's nonplussed about Loki and his history because he's already lived through it, and is making sure things go the way they're supposed to to ensure his existence.

• Jossed. Mobius is a variant of a man named 'Don'.

The TVA headquarters is located in the Quantum Realm

Hank Pym did say that time and space were irrelevant in the Quantum Realm, and it's stated that the TVA is a place beyond time. So it makes sense for this to be our first major look at the Quantum Realm and what's housed within.

Time Keepers are nothing more but fabrication created by Kang the Conqueror

What if Time Keepers are actually The Man Behind the Curtain for the real founder of TVA, Kang the Conqueror? When Loki asks Ravonna of speaking with Time Keepers, she says they are "too busy". Is she telling the truth or was she hiding the fact that she knows there's no Time Keepers and is aware Kang is behind this. (She has a romantic relationship with him in the comics and the actress played coy about her character's connection with Kang).

We don't see Time Keepers because they weren't real to begin with and it was Kang messing around with the timeline to do his bidding!

• Episode 4 shows that the Time Keepers are actually realistic androids. It's still unknown if it was Kang or not, but someone must've created the "Time Keepers" and the TVA.
• Confirmed!

The little child in the cathedral is evil Loki.

Either that, or they are an accomplice. They have set up a trap. Mobius will get the results of the scan and find out that the bubble gum is from the Roxxcart store from the trailers. They will go there and evil Loki will be waiting for them. The trailers showed the figure in the hood watching the security monitors in this store.

• Jossed. He was just a random kid who happened on the Variant while she was killing the Minutemen.
• The reason he possibly didn't show up as a variant is because reincarnated beings don't show up as variants. Even if that particular version was a variant of Kid Loki, Kid Loki is a separate entity on a different life path from MCU Loki.

The TVA employees were not created by the Time-Keepers

They are brainwashed Variants whose memories have been wiped out.

• Confirmed in episode 3. They're all Variants, who had a life on Earth, but were kidnapped and repurposed by the TVA.

The TVA will be destroyed, then rebuilt under Agent Mobius' leadership.

Looking at Norse Mythology Loki's trickery seems to have a consistent theme: corrupt authority figures (such as Jotun Chieftains) tend to die when he gets involved, but hard-working and steadfast people (like the Dwarf Brock) tend to outsmart him and are better off for it. Ultimately, Loki's attempts to subvert the TVA will reveal that the risk of another Multiversal War is a very real danger, but the Time Keeper's decision to limit all of reality to one timeline was unnecessarily strict and unsustainable. ( Which Loki will be responsible for this is yet to be seen).

Agent Mobius will take over, and seek to guide and nurture new Timelines so that they don't come into conflict. He will also (explicitly or implicitly) try to make sure that everyone gets at least one timeline in which they get to be their best selves, so no one is limited to only being "the bad guy" to inspire heroes.

The TVA agents are robots.

They were said to have been created by the Time Keepers but the details are vague. Maybe they are robots and don’t realize it. The TVA does, after all, have a metal-detector specifically for variants who don't know that they are robots. It would make for a nice Chekhov's Gun.

• Jossed. Episode 3 confirms that they are captured and brainwashed human Variants.
• In Episode 4, it's revealed that the Time Keepers are robots, not the agents.

The Protagonist Loki is not the first Loki variant that the TVA recruited.

It was a God(dess) of Stories variant who went rogue either by witnessing too much or was betrayed by the TVA.

The "extra" Infinity Stones being used for paperweights at the TVA will be the way to get the Time Stone back into the Eye of Agamatto.

Mobius will ride a jet-ski at some point in the series

• A scene dedicated to how much he wants to ride them is included for a reason. The only thing stopping him is his fear of branching the Sacred Timeline.
• Mixed, but mostly confirmed. In the episode "Science/Fiction", the real version of Mobius is a man who is named Don, who sells Jets Skis. The episode features a fake out scene, where it appears that Don is riding a Jet Ski on the water. But in reality, he is pretending to ride the Jet Ski in his store.

The Time-Keepers don't actually exist and Mobius is the real Variant

The turn of the season is Loki finally being brought by Mobius to face the Timekeepers...and finding an empty room. When he asks "where is the boss," he sees Mobius smirking and goes "oooh....of course." It turns out Mobius is the real Variant, having taken out the Timekeepers himself and playing being this low-level underling to gain more power and for his own games. Instead of being mad, Loki is actually impressed by the Variant...even as he states "you know, it can only end one way."

• Confirmed that the Time Keepers don't actually exist; they're just mindless androids created by someone else. Jossed that Mobius is the real Variant, it's Sylvie. Granted, Mobius is a variant of an unrelated character.

'Lady Loki' is actually Sylvie Lushton, aka Enchantres

First, she has blonde hair. Secondly, she seems to have mind control powers which this Loki only had when he was in possession of the Mind Stone. Thirdly, she didn't like being called 'Loki' and during their conversation, she didn't act the way Loki would act. Fourthly, Loki exclaiming 'I would never treat me like this!' during their brief fight. These are brief clues to let the audience suspect that this 'Loki' isn't who she says she is. It's also a good way to build up Enchantress and introduce her into the MCU.

• Lending more credence to this theory is the fact that she's actually identified as a character named "Sylvie" in the international dub credits.
• Possible elaboration on the above theory based on the first two episodes: if this character is indeed Sylvie, then she was given her powers by the real Loki variant they're chasing (possibly Ikol, who may or may not be Richard E. Grant's character) with Sylvie being their dragon and a red herring for both the TVA and the audience.
• One of the TVA incident reports that Loki flips through identifies her as Sylvie Laufeydottir, so Lady Loki may also be the MCU's Enchantress.
• She may also be a biological sibling of Loki he assumed was a variant, not knowing he had any siblings and just assumed he was the only child of Laufy. It would explain why she hates being called Loki at least, assuming this theory is correct and she's not an alternative Loki.
• Sylvie is a Composite Character of Lady Loki and the Enchantress.

Hunter B15 ends up battling the Dora Milaje

Basically, immovable object vs unstoppable force. What makes this interesting is if the Dora Milaje were somehow able to get TVA tech back to Shuri, who then reverse-engineers it. That would create a branching timeline (assuming it were not part of the Sacred Timeline), which would prevent the TVA from going back in time to prevent it from happening. Now, Wakandian armor and energy shields etc. are effectively Immune to Fate. Once again, immovable object vs unstoppable force.

• Partialy jossed now that Hunter B15 has shall we say, been compromised, but there's still the TVA and the Man Behind the Man out there.

Mobius purposely left out the knowledge that Coulson was still alive

Mobius only showed Loki that he killed Coulson, which he did, Coulson at the time was dead. Mobius may have not wanted Loki to become aware of this since killing Coulson gave the Avengers the push they needed to finish the job and if Loki went back in time to prevent his death from happening it could have caused another variant to appear.

• That could be just a case of Disney not acknowledging Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D as canon and as far as they are concerned, Coulson is still dead.

There is a Gambit Pileup at play, and it is very possible that either this Lady Loki/"Sylvie Laufeydottir" or another of the Loki variants yet to appear are actually in cahoots with a party unexpected by the TVA—the Time-Keepers themselves.

There might be a possibility that the Time-Keepers (if they are real/the way the TVA portray themselves as) may have found some mistakes in how they've maintained the Sacred Timeline (and subsequently, how the TVA has been enacting their will). It's not out of likelihood that they may have instigated the Loki variants as Spanner in the Works, even if they have been doing so indirectly (hence the need for Lady Loki/Sylvie to search for them for a face-to-face). The fact that the TVA also seems blind/disconnected from the Time-Keepers in their day-to-day operations may in fact be the Time-Keepers deliberately making themselves scarce—so that the TVA are further kept flat-footed.

• Jossed.

Agent Mobius' storyline will see him become Kang the Conqueror

He has a professional but friendly relationship with Ravonna Renslayer who has a collection of "souvenirs" from all the missions he's done which he jokingly points out should really be his for completing said missions. There are times where Mobius and Ravonna seem friendly to point of intimate with her giving him a lot of lee-way with the Loki Variant he's recruited.

Its possible that the Time Keepers are Evil All Along and the first season will end with the TVA destroyed, setting up Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and Mobius will become a Well-Intentioned Extremist who'll begin using his technology for his own means. The aesthetics of the TVA can also explain the design of Kang's famous TV helmet.

• Jossed. Kang’s actor has been confirmed as Johnathan Majors for the upcoming Ant-Man movie. Whether or not Kang shows up in this show, Owen Wilson will not be playing him.

At one point, Loki will play "Get help" with Mobius.

He'd happily jump at the opportunity to be on the other side of the trick for once.

• Loki will be disappointed when it doesn't work as well, not realizing that it's because he is much heavier compared to a normal human.
• Though not quite the same, when Classic Loki casts a projection during a brawl of Loki Variants he makes the illusionary Kid Loki throw Alligator Loki into fight in a similar manner.

The writers are familiar with this site to some extent

Ragnarok is listed as a "Class Seven Apocalypse". On the Apocalypse How page, above "Class 6" (where 7 would be) describes "Class X: Planetary Scale, Physical Annihilation" which is what happened to Asgard....That is, unless the ranking on that page was, itself, taken from some other source that this troper was not aware of.

On how Loki will presumably tie into the upcoming What If…? (2021) show.

The alternate timelines and realities that Uatu the Watcher peers into throughout the show are ones created when The Variant carpet bombed the Sacred Timeline, creating branching paths that would grow out of control, become Nexus events and can no longer be pruned by the TVA. Consider the fact that the TVA is so efficient at maintaining the one Sacred Timeline and pruning any branches, thus logically Uatu wouldn't have any long-lasting alternate realities to look at and the What If...? show wouldn't have existed to begin with — unless, of course, that main timeline is heavily disturbed.

• Possibly since the first season ends with the Sacred Timeline acquiring numerous branches on it.

The Sacred Timeline will be permanently splintered by the end of the series, forming an MCU multiverse

This will create the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. timeline, Raimi Spider-Man Universe, Webb Spider-Man Universe, Runaways timeline, and Fox X-Men Universe.

• Confirmed

The "Other Department" references in the first episode is Nightmare's Domain.

In the first episode, Loki passively calls the TVA a "nightmare", Mobius offhandedly refers to that as "another department" and that he would be happy let Loki burn it down like he vowed he would.

Since Nightmare will appear in the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel, is it so weird that the TVA — as big and powerful Celestial Bureaucracy beyond the comprehension of everyone else in the universe proper — has some level of association with other eldritch forces like Nightmare and their domain? When Mobius called it another "department", that's probably just TVA-speak for "other cosmic forces that make up the universe", kind of like how the Masters of the Mystic Arts would refer to them as other worlds or dimensions.

Do they see other abstract entities like Death or Eternity or the Seven Friendless as bureaucrats and directors of other competing departments? Is the reason why the Infinity Stones don't work in the TVA because of some sort of agreement the Time Keepers have with their original creators?

The reason the Loki variant wants to destroy the TVA is because they keep letting Frigga die.

The Loki variant —who may or may not be Lady Loki — probably comes from a timeline where they prevented Frigga's death...only for the TVA to reset the timeline, killing their mother once again.

• Seemingly Jossed by Episode 3. The Loki Variant barely remembers their mother, and so no knowledge of her death.

The Time-Keepers are actually Those Who Sit Above In Shadows.

In the comics, Those Who Sit Above In Shadows were gods or at the very least god-like beings who fed off the energy given off by Ragnarok, and constantly put Asgard through a constant cycle of life and death. What if that's essentially what the Timekeepers are, but instead of Ragnarok they feed off of timestream energy? The idea of "resetting" is actually feeding the variant timeline to the Timekeepers. They are time eaters.

• Jossed. They are puppets of He Who Remains.

The TVA is a religious organization, and the Time-Keepers are their gods.

Not only does the TVA refer to it as the "sacred timeline", we also haven't seen any of the Timekeepers yet. So it's totally possible that some new-age cult from the 70s got ahold of some time-travel technology, and created the TVA to appease their gods

• Jossed.

The Time-Keepers don't actually have any power and the story about The Sacred Timeline is a myth.

Supposedly, they have the power to cut off any alternate branches to the timeline and force them back into The Sacred Timeline, but we never actually see them do this, even when it would serve their interests, such as when Lady Loki creates a whole bunch of branching timelines at the end of "The Variant." Loki was right about them all along: Their so-called control really is an illusion. A cruel, elaborate trick conjured by the weak to inspire fear.

• Semi-Confirmed in Episode 4. The Time Keepers are merely androids created by the real founder of the TVA. However, it's still unclear if the Sacred Timeline is but a myth, though given Sylvie's whole backstory that she was confiscated because she was a girl version of Loki... the whole Sacred Timeline and the true leader of the TVA might be more complicated than that.

Miss Minutes is the Time-Keepers in another form

• Jossed. She works directly for He Who Remains, who created the robot Time Keepers.

Sylvie was a branched timeline Loki from when she was very young.

She reveals that her plan to infiltrate the TVA was years in the making, that she barely remembers her mother, and that she's told that she was adopted way earlier than either main timeline Loki or L1130 Loki did. Which, if she really is a Loki variant, implies she was taken away by the TVA for accidentally creating a branching path at a very young age, and she was about to be pruned until she somehow escaped and became a renegade in the time stream.

• Confirmed in episode 4. Sylvie is arrested by the TVA as a young girl in Asgard playing with dolls.

Odin was the variant in Sylvie's home timeline

• Odin telling Sylvie she's adopted a lot earlier. Presumably, this means that it was the Variant Odin who actually got taken away by the TVA, and Sylvie desperately tags along with him into the TVA's offices. The Variant Odin got pruned, but Sylvie managed to escape.
• Sylvie rejecting the "Loki" identity altogether and realizing her own identity — her character is somewhat coded as transgender, as seen in Episode 3.

Everything that happened after Sylvie tried to enchant Loki is a dream sequence. She did enchant him.

She told him that for stronger minds she needs to create an illusion. The lie that he is so cool that her powers won't work on him is exactly the one he'd believe. Then make him drunk to talk more, just like B-20 in the first scene of the Episode.

• Jossed.

Everything that happened after Sylvie woke up on the train was Loki's illusion to get to know her better

Loki is not normally so careless. He deliberately acted drunk and careless to get himself thrown off the train and faked the destruction of the TemPad to put Sylvie in a desperate situation so he can get some more information out of her. Also, it is strange that a random wealthy woman on a distant planet would know how to play an old Asgardian drinking song.

• Jossed. Neither were trying to trick each other with an illusion.

"Resetting" = wiping out the memories. The next time Loki sees Mobius, Mobius has been reset and won't recognize Loki.

This will give Loki the motivation to confront the TVA.

• Jossed. Though the Season finale ends with Mobius not recognizing Loki, after the latter time traveled.

We are going to learn some sad love story involving Loki.

When he makes that clumsy dagger metaphor, he actually has tears welling in his eyes. Must be something in his past.One of the aforementioned princesses Loki had a relationship with was Sigyn. And something either happened to her or happened between them that explains why she isn't around anymore - and why Loki was on the verge of tears when he made the dagger metaphor.

The TVA's dismissive attitude towards the Infinity Stones is going to blow up in their face.

The Stones would still logically regain their power when taken back into the universe. The TVA seem to simply be full of themselves and think themselves invincible. One of the Lokis or another villain will take advantage of this and how many Infinity Stones they have to their advantage.

• Given how the MCU tends to be fairly comic accurate (for the most part), they may also take the comic explanation that Infinity Stones from a different universe/timeline, don't work in the main one.
• May depend on how far from the sacred timeline they come from. The stones taken during the time heist worked, so these may as well. And we know at least the Space Stone that came with him will probably work.
• It may have already. In episode 3 Loki appears to rewind a collapsing tower, which would imply he pocketed a Time Stone.

The Time Keepers are actually the writers of the show

The Sacred Timeline is just the Time Keepers' attempt to write a coherent storyline for the MCU. Unfortunately for them, Loki will at some point mess this all up and confront his creators, possibly forcing them to write a new timeline where he and Iron Man don't die and everyone lives happily ever after.

• Jossed. Ironically, another Marvel show would follow this plotline...

The multiverse is far larger than the TVA understands, and they're only pruning offshoots of 199999.

Because... well frankly it is. The Marvel multiverse is massive, including Earth-616 (the Main universe), Earth-1610 (the Ultimate Universe) and Earth-1218 (our universe, yes our universe has a designation within the Marvel Universe, don't believe me? https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Earth-1218), the TVA only believe they are single handedly suppressing the multiverse, in reality they're just trying to keep control of the offshoot timelines of earth 199999 (the MCU)^note And if you think about the thousands, if not millions of fanfics that have been written about the MCU, explicitly altering the flow of canon in one way or another, they're not even managing that.

Mobius is a Loki variant.

Episode 3 revealed that all the TVA agents are mindwiped variants, and they've handled plenty of Loki variants previously. Mobius's interest in Loki may be a way of trying to remember who he once was. (Side note: if he's one of the Variants shown in episode 2, I'd guess he's the Tour de France one, since that's the one most likely to have come into contact with jetskis).

• Jossed. His real name is Don.

The opening of episode 4 will be an anti-climax

Loki and Sylvie will be preparing to die...only for Mobius to suddenly appear, annoyed, ask them, "Do you know how many apocalypses we had to search to find you guys?" before dragging them back to the TVA. One character (probably Loki) will comment on how anti-climatic the whole thing is.

• Semi-Confirmed? It was really when Loki and Sylvie began showing feelings for one another that it was enough to cause a branching in the timeline, enough to show the TVA which Doomsday event they're on.

Loki will help Mobius remember his previous life.

He'll use that same trick he used on Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok to bring forth an old memory, namely a memory of Mobius on a jet ski as a call back to their previous conversation.

• Flipped Flopped in Season 2. Loki tries to have Don remember that he is Mobius.

The 'other analysts' that Renslayer refers to are all Mobius.

Mobius collected all the baubles in Renslayer's office but in cases he doesn't remember because they keep wiping his memory.

• Jossed. More TVA members are seen in Season 2.

There are no Time-Keepers

The TVA Judges and other brass decide the timeline for their own enrichment. 'Meeting the timekeepers' is code for 'erasing your memories'.

• Confirmed. The Time Keepers are merely robots... someone else is in charge the TVA.

Related to the above: The real force behind the TVA is Kang The Conqueror.

The "Sacred Timeline" is the timeline where Kang is able to come to power and exert his will over all time and space.

• Confirmed in Episode 6.

The TVA is keeping the Sacred Timeline reality isolated from the rest of the multiverse

The TVA isn't pruning the timelines - it's preventing the other parts of the multiverse from interacting with the Sacred Timeline reality. That's why the other varient Loki's in episode 2 are in such different configurations then the one we are following. They are from very different timelines and coming to this one. Not varients of the Loki from the Sacred Timeline

Miss Minutes is a variant of Twilight Sparkle

Her voice is pretty similar to Twilight's, just with a southern accent. She might be the Twilight from "It's About Time" since that Twilight was the one who time traveled.

• Jossed.

Loki, and possibly Sylvie, are growing more powerful without realizing it

One of Loki's monikers is "The God of Chaos", and considering the crazy and chaotic events they've been exposed to lately it's possible that their power has been increasing.

In Episode 3, Loki is fooling Sylvie

In Episode 2 Loki lost the fight against the humans Sylvie possessed, but Loki should have been able to fight them all off considering he did beat 2012's Captain America in a 1v1. This means he probably lost on purpose. In EP 3, he broke the Teleporter, but later on, it looks like he reverses time. If he had the time stone he could still reverse the time of the Teleporter and get it to work again.

• Jossed.

The circumstances of Sylvie's youth

The mid-season sneek peak is implying that Sylvie's time as a Variant fugitive started as early as her childhood, with her clothing near-identical to most of adult Loki's garb—far more combat oriented than usual. Taking into account how young Thor and Loki were portrayed in Thor, it is possible (until otherwise Jossed or a case of Continuity Snarl) that the Odin of her timeline might have not chosen to marry Frigga. The circumstances of such may also mean this variant Odin remained an expansionary conqueror—with his daughter Hela by his side. (This can also explain why any mention of her mother is almost always vague.) This probably meant that Sylvie, as a variant Loki, did not have Thor to try to one-up, but Hela. Considering how much of her skill-set in the series so far seems to be "a low-powered version of Hela" (prioritizing melee combat apart from her singular kind of magic), it is in fact possibly tying into her own motivations against the TVA as well: if you grew up in pre-Character Development Odin's Asgard, it's quite possibly a pretty stuffy environment someone with a Loki's temperament would run away from. This may also explain the blond hair—explicitly differentiating her from Hela. (This also means, ironically, that in that Variant timeline, she's the closest Asgard had to a Thor.)

The reason Sylvie doesn't identify as a 'Loki'...

Is because she was never named Loki. She was only ever identified as such after being targeted as a variant by the TVA, probably at a VERY young age, so she resents the name because it represents her pursuit.

The other timelines weren't actually deleted.

They were just locked away from interacting with the "Sacred Timeline" because the Time Keepers sought control.

• Jossed.

Loki and Sylvie have the power to cripple the TVA and free the Multiverse

As revealed in Episode 4, when Loki and Sylvie express feelings for each other, they caused a branch in the Sacred Timeline... but this branching was shown more extreme than the normal anomalies. Mobius, in his Heel Realization, once exclaimed that Loki and Sylvie's love for each other could potentially bring the entire TVA operation down. Most likely, their love could even free the pruned timelines, resulting in a massive chain of events that could lead to the downfall of the Man Behind the Man.

Timelines aren't truly reset they're just cut off from the rest of the multiverse

Every time there is a variant it creates an alternate universe when the TVA "resets" the timeline they're severing the link to the original timeline rather then erasing it.

• Jossed.

Pruning doesn't kill some one

Pruning doesn't kill some one, it sends them some where else to be re-educated and mindwiped into working for the TVA.

• Possibly confirmed. The Stinger for episode 4 shows that after being pruned, Loki ended up in a seemingly post apocalyptic world along with other Variants of himself.
  • Fully confirmed in episode 5. Everyone and everything that has been pruned gets sent to a point at the end of time.

It wasn't 100% The Power of Love that caused the Nexus Event in episode 4

In the episode, Loki admits that he's afraid of being alone while Sylvie has been alone her entire life. In that moment right as Lamentis-1 is destroyed, they weren't alone and had each other. It's possible that some love could have fueled this realization, either romantic or platonic/familial.

Sylvie is the true power behind the TVA

She is part of a time loop that involves the TVA's dimension where she continually hunts and overthrows herself. Loki helps her break the cycle at the end. Ravonna tries to convince her the TVA must exist, because the potential love of Slyvie and Loki may tear the world apart. The TVA plot is part of a greater metaphor for the psychological barriers they have placed around themselves.

• Jossed.

The power behind the TVA throne is Miss Minutes

Or at least, Miss Minutes is an avatar of the computer controlling the Animatronic Timekeepers uses to interact with the TVA it secretly presides over.

• Plausible, as Season 2 reveals that Miss Minutes is an A.I. made by He Who Remains.

Ravonna is working for Kang the Conqueror

Ravonna founded the TVA on Kang's (more likely a visually different Variant of him) behalf, seeking to regulate the Sacred Timeline according to his wishes. Kang isn't stepping in personally to run the TVA because he's busy battling the real Time Keepers to pay attention to the Loki-Sylvie problem. Kang will only be name-dropped and/or personally appear in the last episode, his plans being expanded on in Loki Season 2 and future movies.

• Partially Confirmed! While Ravonna isn't aligned with Kang, Season 2 reveals that Ravonna had been directly working with He Who Remains in the events prior to the series.

At one point in Episode 5, the Loki variant will make fun of Classic Loki's ridiculous costume

Surely in episode 5, when variant Loki meets the 4 different variants of him, he will have a moment with Classic Loki, and he will sarcastically make fun of Classic Loki's ridiculous and silly costume and he will say that his costume looks like a "nerdy human geek superhero-loving Earth ComicCon" and Classic Loki won't take any good on that Loki variant joke.

• Jossed.

L1130's point of view in Episode 5 will be him creating an army of pruned Lokis to break into the Sacred Timeline

The place we see in The Stinger of Episode 4 is where all the timelines from before the multiversal war are now, and L1130, Kid Loki, Classic Loki, Boastful Loki, and Alligator Loki will need to travel around this plane to gain support from the other Lokis in order to reclaim their erased timelines; a Loki from the timeline that created the rubble of New York, President Loki from the trailer, and even a Loki from a timeline where he's chosen to be the King of Asgard instead of Thor. Using their combined magic, and possibly King Loki's access to the Bifrost, they'll be able to escape the prison they were trapped in and bring back the multiverse.

• Mobius is also really likely to join up with the army of Lokis, especially if he turns out to be a version of Loki himself. It'd be interesting to see a parallel structure over the episode, as two instances of Loki (L1130 and Sylvie) each work to take down the TVA with the assistance of a former TVA employee who they inform of the TVA's deception (Mobius and Hunter B-15)

• Jossed.

Mobius is a legacy title, given to the most recent Loki variant to join the TVA

In Episode 4, the Mobius we know gets pruned by Renslayer, who says that she doesn't like having to kill her favorite analyst, and in Episode 2, Renslayer mentions that Mobius keeps leaving coffee cup circles on her desk, despite him not remembering it. Since we know also from Episode 2 that Loki ends up being a really good analyst and is able to figure out how Sylvie is hiding from the TVA, it's possible that Mobius is a title given to the TVA's best Loki employee, and that it's passed down whenever the current Mobius gets pruned for having his memories start to resurface; after all, Loki's the god of mischief, magic, and guile, so whatever brainwashing Renslayer uses to keep the Variants she employs in line likely won't work on him forever.

• Jossed.

B-15 will turn out to be a Canon Character All Along

"Why would the viewer not be shown the unlocked memory?". B-15's true self is either plot relevant, or will at least have some sort of emotional payoff. She may be based on a pre-existing character. "I was happy" seems almost deliberately vague when compared with the details given about C-20's true life (Which, yeah, wasn't much, but we still got some details). Also, she wasn't simply pruned after being subdued in the Time Masters chamber.

Parallel to the above: if B-15 isn't specifically a canon character, she may in fact be Wakandan

Similar to the Dora WMG above, it is probable that she was taken from her timeline's Wakanda for reasons yet undisclosed. Besides, it kinda makes sense that her demeanor is the kind of "perfect Minuteman" the TWA is looking for—until now of course.

The true power behind the TVA is Kang the Conqueror

In the comics, Ravonna has primarily either been his love interest or occasionally his foe. Adding to this, Kang has been confirmed to appear in the upcoming "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" and is the primary time-travel based villain of the Marvel Universe. If it wasn't going to be the Time-Keepers in command, he's the only other one who makes complete sense. And to be clear, this includes his various alternate identities like "Immortus," "Rama-Tut," "Scarlet Centurion," "Iron Lad," etc. in this WMG.

• Confirmed! A variant of Kang called He Who Remains runs the TVA.

Sylvie isn't a variant because she's female

The real reason she was a variant was because she was well-adjusted. She had been told she was adopted, so she didn't have the potential angst to erupt later, and she may have not been compared to Thor as much if at all (no Princeling Rivalry to feel inferior over). She may have also have decided to become a valkyrie as that role would be open to her. Since Sylvie didn't have all the resentment Loki had when growing up, she was better able to be empathetic as shown by her reaction to seeing another variant being beaten by the TVA. The irony is that the TVA is why she has become narcissistic like other Lokis.

Pruned Variants wind up in the Mirror Dimension

"You are now inside the mirror dimension, ever present but undetected. The real world isn't affected by what happens here. We use the mirror dimension to train, surveil, and sometimes to contain threats. You don't want to be stuck inside here without your Sling Ring." (Ancient One to Dr. Strange).

• Jossed. They end up in The Void".

The flaming sword from the trailers is key to leaving the "pruned" dimension

.Some additional theories:

• It has magical properties and allows to bridge the gap between dimensions akin to Sling Rings.
• Acquiring it will involve some sort of a test or Only the Chosen May Wield, with other Loki Variants fighting over it.
• If only "the best Loki" can wield it, our Loki will have to admit he is NOT one to pass the test.
• Jossed. It's just a weapon Kid Loki gives to the Loki variant we know so he can defend himself.

The TVA only prune timelines that are a threat to them

Considering we've seen that there are certain instances where people are doing things like messing with time but are still "allowed" but other timelines and variants that seem innocuous are collected and pruned mercilessly, the TVA might not be looking for all variants and timelines, but only ones that, if allowed to continue, could potentially threaten the TVA's authority.

The TVA was created by itself

The TVA is a temporal paradox: it was created in the past by members of itself from the future. No mater how far down you dig there just more TVA. The Lokis will smash this cycle (and also inadvertently cause it to happen).

• I thought stable time loops weren't possible in this universe?
  • You cannot create a stable time loop through time travel within the timeline, but there's nothing saying you cannot create a causal loop, especially in a place removed from time like the TVA.

Even if they do discuss it, Loki and Sylvie have no idea what their "love" is towards each other

In Episode 3, they both seem to admit to never having an honest romantic relationship before and with Sylvie having only had familial love for a brief moment of her life while for Loki recent events have skewed how he sees them, it's doubtful either of them could really describe how they feel/see about the other.

The TVA allowing the events of Avengers: Endgame to happen, despite the large amount of alternate timelines it created, is actually a cover-up for some larger plot involving the Avengers.

If Kang is revealed in this series, he will no doubt be the real mastermind behind this cover-up and he wants the Avengers gone so the Sacred Timeline culminates in his total domination of the universe.

Ravonna pruned Loki to prevent him from confessing his feelings for Sylvie

As discovered by Mobius, Loki and Sylvie's love was powerful enough to cause a branching, even in an apocalyptic event. After going through a Heel Realization, Mobius points out that Loki and Sylvie have the potential to bring down the entire TVA operation. Ravonna appears aware of this, and after she wakes up, she immediately prunes Loki before he could confess his feelings.

If Ravonna is actually working for Kang the Conqueror, then when her plot to kill both Variants to prevent their love from crippling the TVA backfires, then Ravonna could've practically put Kang's entire universe domination plot at risk; especially since she's dealing with Loki Variants, and both hers and Kang's actions actually causes the formation of the Young Avengers.

Season 1 Finale

Looking back at The Avengers movie, Coulson says that Loki will ultimately lose because he lacks 'conviction'. Naturally he does, leading to the events of the series, but what exactly did he lack? A conviction is by definition a firmly held belief or opinion, and his original belief (Glorious Purpose and all that) fell flat because he was only a pawn in Thanos's game - a gambit to be played and discarded.

Cut to the Stinger of Episode 4, and we see that the dimension Loki has been sent to is a post apocalyptic Earth inhabited by other Loki variants. I think that in Episode 5 he will realise that he was right about him having a glorious purpose in life, but wrong about the context. He will realise that his purpose is not to be the villain he became, but to be the hero he would eventually become, by looking inward at his flaws and accepting them. His conviction, therefore, would be that he has the power and the strength to do the right thing for the right reason, with no regard to personal gain.

The fact that he meets alternate versions of himself who also came to this realization will also cement his full heroic turn. He is the Trickster, the Magician, the Guile Hero of the MCU, using his brain, his wits and his charms to succeed over brute force. Given he gains new powers in the series, it could be very possible he gets the green energy blasts.

I think that his conviction will be that he can love, and can be loved, and he will do anything to protect the one he loves, that being Sylvie.

• Mostly confirmed. Loki acts more heroically in Episode 6, and more so in Season 2.

In the finale, Loki will become the God of Stories

There is a common theme of transformation in all these series, Wanda becomes the Scarlet Witch, Sam becomes Captain America. Loki will say that anyone is free to choose and write their own story and "become whatever they want," just like Mobius said to him. With that, he will claim the title he has in the comics, destroy the TVA and open up the multiverse.

• Episode 5 hints towards this with his interest in what were the Nexus Events that the other Lokis caused.
• Episode 11 has numerous hints in the dialogue about story-telling, and Loki himself states he knows how to "change the story".

Kang won't have a Crucial Part in Series 1.

Despite this comic character being associated with time travel and Renslayer... Kang maybe in a teaser cameo, name drop or easter egg, but casual viewers are encouraged to work out a central mystery of the TV show, 'Who is the real power behind the TVA?', those who don't know who Kang is, and any comic book villains who are yet to be introduced in the MCU. Also introducing Kang as the true villain towards the end of the series, might make the series' pay off anticlimactic.

• Basically jossed. A version of Kang appears known as "He Who Remains" and they're killed by Sylvie.

If Kang does show up, his relationship with Ravonna will be portrayed as problematic

...to contrast that of Loki and Sylvie. Expect some Love Makes You Evil and/or Love Makes You Crazy, or him being overly possessive of Ravonna, similar to Anakin & Padme.

• Confirmed. In Season 2, Ravonna learns that she was He Who Remains 2nd in Command. Despite her loyalty, He Who Remains still ordered to have her memory wiped away, along the rest of the TVA.

The original Loki is still alive

Old/Classical Loki explains that he faked his dead and escaped Thanos before going to live in exile. He presumably lived alone for close to 4000 years before he was finally detected by the TVA when he tried to reconnect with Thor. So, there's a good chance the Loki who we saw die at Thanos's hands didn't really die, and the memory reel only stopped because the TVA are unaware of his survival - since, by choosing to live in exile, Loki is still technically dead to the world.

The title of Season 1's finale will be "For All Time, Always"

• Confirmed.

The maker of the TVA is a giant variant parasite made up of compost variants spat out by Alioth

This is why it hides itself from the TVA and possibly communicates with them in the pleasant form of Miss Minutes, the name suggests that the entity itself is made from the minutes of variants' lives.

• Jossed, it's He Who Remains who is a Variant of Kang the Conqueror.

How Kid Loki killed Thor

His "turn into a snake and stab Thor" prank ended up going horribly, horribly wrong when instead of stabbing him somewhere non-lethal (as he presumably did in canon) he actually stabbed him in the heart by accident.

The Founder of the TVA is a Loki

Before his character growth, Loki is obsessed with his right to rule. He calls freedom an illusion and expresses on multiple occasions that people would be better off if they just let him call all the shots. What is The Sacred Timeline but this attitude writ on a grand scale? That’s why there is such an obsession with getting rid of Loki variants and why the power behind the TVA was so insistent on getting rid of Sylvie. Who better to take down the Trickster God than another Trickster God? And now with two Lokis after him and the Nexus event on Lamentis suggesting they are truly teamed up and not going to betray each other, he’s actually sweating bullets.

• Jossed, it's He Who Remains who is a Variant of Kang the Conqueror.

What do the shots from the trailers where Loki gets back to the Stark Tower and rules Asgard mean?

Alternative explanations:

• This is the backstory of the series Big Bad, the founder of the TVA, who is a Loki who succeeded.
• The Big Bad is not a Loki and this is the The Final Temptation for the protagonist, in which case Sylvie's question in episode 5, "how do I know that in the final moments you won't betray me", is Foreshadowing the situation.
  • The scenes don't appear at all, but it's likely they were meant to be shown when Miss Minutes was trying to sway Loki into stopping his confrontation with He Who Remains.

In the end Sylvie dies and Loki absorbs all her memories, becoming one with her

• After their success with Alioth, Sylvie and Loki will try another joint-enchantment. This time, their target with the true ruler of the TVA. This will lead to a Battle in the Center of the Mind with this true ruler, and the battle with involve with Sylvie's death. A Died in Your Arms Tonight will occur, and whatever caused the Nexus Event on Lamentis-1 will occur here. It will be a Fusion Dance uniting the two Lokis. They'll use shapeshifting to represent who is currently, for lack of a better word, "active".
• She will be killed conventoinally by the villain or Loki himself. The takes place afterward.
• Jossed, she lives.

Sylvie is not a Loki Variant

The whole show has been predicated on the conceit that Sylvie is a Loki-variant that the TVA has been hounding for decades (or longer, time works different here). Problem is, the creators have gone out of their way to NOT explicitly confirm Sylvie's Loki-ness. We see her on Asgard, and she has a compatible power-set, but Episode 5 made a point that none of the Lokis remember ever seeing a female variant, and the very idea seems to spark all of their curiosity. Given the strange love subplot, the final episode will reveal that Sylvie is an entirely different character from the Norse pantheon. Maybe Sjöfn?

Mobius is actually Lightning McQueen

Okay, this is obviously just a joke. But maybe he'll say "ka-chow" as an Actor Allusion, especially since both are owned by Disney.

• Jossed.

Mobius is actually John Beckwirth

Considering all of the romantic conquests he and Jeremy had , who is to say that their interference didn't end up messing with The Sacred Timeline and preventing, say, the birth of the future scientist who will discover the cure for cancer? Sounds like a good reason to prune them from the timeline.

• Jossed.

Mobius is actually Roy O'Bannon

He killed the real Wyatt Earp before the showdown at the O.K. Corral

• Jossed.

Loki's ending will lead into What If

• Possibly confirmed due to the timeline branching like crazy at the end of the season.

The real mastermind the TVA is an alternate Ravonna Renslayer variant

She created the TVA to prevent a Kang the Conqueror from being able to conqueror timelines. She created the Timekeepers as body doubles in case someone tried what Sylvie tried. Then she placed one of her own variants as a judge to distract attention from her personal self.

• Jossed, He Who Remains is behind the TVA.

Those who are eaten by Alioth aren't killed

Instead, their memories are erased/repressed in order to be turned into TVA agents.Thus, the process through which variants go through is: Being arrested by the TVA -> Being judged for being a variant -> Getting pruned -> Being sent to the void -> Being eaten by Alioth and have their memories erased -> Being conscripted into the TVA believing they were made for the job.

Miss Minutes is working for Kang the Conqueror

No doubt about it, she knows more than she's letting, she was also a little hesitant to follow Ravonna's orders. Miss Minutes knows something and it all may lead to Kang.

• Confirmed, although it’s a variant of Kang that she calls “He Who Remains”

The castle is empty

Like in Dragon Age, "I have seen the throne of gods and it was empty". By the time they get there, it has long been abandoned, whoever lived there died. The real conflict will be between the two who enter it.

• Jossed, the castle has the true ruler of the TVA, a Variant of Kang the Conqueror called "He Who Remains".

Choice between changing your own destiny or destroying the system entirely

Both Loki and Sylvie will be offered this choice in the finale, and they will make different choices, which will result in a conflict of interests.

• Both confirmed, they were offered the choice of ruling the TVA or destroying the sacred timeline. Loki asks Sylvie to simply talk about the choice, and Sylvie chooses to kill "He Who Remains" and send Loki back to the TVA.

Alligator Loki ate Goose

His nexus event, apparently, was eating "wrong neighbour's cat", so it's safe to assume it was some really important cat. Can you imagine a crocodilian tirckster running around with an Infinity Stone in his stomach? TVA certainly cannot.

There is an alternate timeline to the 2012 Time Heist one where Loki did not escape.

According to Renslayer, the Time Heists did not conflict with the Sacred Timeline, presumably because they were always destined to return the stones so they could continue their pre-determined path. But Loki's escape did conflict, because he had no intention of placing himself and the Tesseract back in their proper place afterwards. There may have been a version of that timeline in which Loki was unable to escape, either due to Hulk not arriving at exactly the wrong time or someone managing to recover the dropped Tesseract before he did, and it's considered closer to the Sacred Timeline and doesn't redline like the version we see was threatening to.

Post-Season 1 & Season 2 theories

Season 2 will be about Loki trying to construct his own ideal timeline

The Working Title for Season One, River Cruise, likely alludes to Loki's being swept up into a very confusing situation that has unexpected turns. Season 2's Working Title, Architect, may be meant to deliberately contrast it. Using the knowledge he attains in Season 1, Loki may come to believe he can become a different sort of god and make a world where he's the one in complete control. Of course, much like with Wanda, it'll end up backfiring on him. Only here it'll be even more severe, causing chaos even the God of Mischief can't find pleasure in and forcing the Time Variance Authority to resort to drastic measures.

• Loki never intends to rule the timelines in Season 2, but by the end of the season, he is guarding them!

Season Two will have a subtitle to it, akin to most MCU films

• Jossed, there is no subtitle.

Season Two will start with Loki being forced to pretend he's a lowly TVA employee before he can escape

B-15 calls in a troop of Minutemen when Loki starts rambling so he may have to start off by pretending to have had a mental breakdown in response to the massive timeline branching to try and cover up what he was saying.

• Jossed, the Season begins with the TVA attempting to apprehend Loki.

Season Two will see Loki Variants team up to try to keep Kang the Conqueror from gaining complete control of the timeline

• Jossed.

Season Two will feature a war between wildly different TVAs all run by wildly different Kangs

One will be run by Rama-Tut and have a stereotypical Ancient Egyptian aesthetic crossed with the sci-fi tech (think Cleopatra In Space), another will be run by the Scarlet Centurion and have an Ancient Grome / Crystal Spires and Togas aesthetic, and yet another will be one run by Iron Lad and have a sleek contemporary aesthetic modeled after Stark Industries and SHIELD.

• Jossed.

He Who Remains didn't create the TVA to end the Multiverse War but to win it.

He Who Remains is just as evil as any version of Kang the Conqueror out there. They enslaved millions at the TVA; killed possibly billions in culling them with Alioth (there are whole cities down there, and somewhere down there is Sylvie's Asgard). Trillions across the multiverse are slaves to their will — go down a wrong street, and you're Alioth fodder or mindwiped to serve the TVA. Also, they lied about a "Sacred Timeline" — there is only a timeline where they are the only winner, no matter what version it is. Remember that mention about reincarnation? They know that even if they die, one of them will always end up at the Castle at the end of time. Loki's mission will be to stop that from ever happening.

There are other factions fighting against He Who Remains and his variants.

He Who Remains claims that the TVA and the "Sacred Timeline" were created to end the Multiverse War caused their variants. But what about the universes where their variants DIDN'T create the technology to visit other universes? Someone else had to invent that technology — and the odds are good that they are opposed to He Who Remains; otherwise why rig the multiverse so that only the variants of He Who Remains are the only ones who end up at the Citadel at the End of Time, every time?

Loki will cameo in a ton of Marvel productions from here on to the second season

He'll make a comment about passing through the various multiverses because he's looking for someone or just trying to find his way back to his original universe. Maybe along the way he'll become interested in the events he encounters and starts keeping a record of them, adopting his "God of Stories" persona.

• So he'll essentially replace Stan Lee as the new once-per-entry cameo appearance?
  • Hiddleston has said that he's willing to keep playing Loki indefinitely or for as long as the fans want him around, given how much he enjoys playing the character it's possible.
• Only one cameo happens between seasons. Loki and Mobius make a cameo in the 2nd End Credit Scene in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantamania.

Ravonna is going to meet an earlier version of He Who Remains and may make a Heel–Face Turn, or at least an Enemy Mine deal.

He Who Remains directed Miss Minutes to give Ravonna a different set of files than what she originally asked for, saying only that they would be "more useful". Ravonna also tells Mobius that only the person at the top has free will, and that she's going to search for free will. And who's the person at the top? It sounds like He Who Remains directed her to his earlier self, possibly his 31st century self, as some kind of insurance policy or new gambit. Since whatever the other Kang did to take over the TVA didn't affect Loki, it's possible it didn't affect Ravonna either, meaning she might not be happy about the new state of affairs either and could be recruited to help the good guys.

• Partially Jossed. Ravonna finds out that HWR had her mind wiped as well, leading herself and Miss Minutes to try and take the TVA over by force.

Season 2 will introduce Iron Lad

He'll be a variant of He Who Remains who is still a teenager and is disgusted with his adult self... selves.

• Jossed. The only new variant who appears is Victor Timely.

Tara Strong will have an on-camera cameo

Where she'll interact with Miss Minutes, with another character saying they sound a bit alike.

• Jossed.

The Edward Norton Hulk and Terrance Howard Rhodey will be revealed to be variants that were pruned by the TVA.

If only to give an in-universe explanation for why they were Other Darrin'ed in their next appearances.

• Unlikely. Both Norton and Howard left Marvel on bad terms, and are unlikely to reprise their past roles.
• Jossed.

Loki will escape the TVA offscreen for a cameo in Doctor Strange 2, and the first scene in season 2 will not be inside the TVA at all

• Jossed. Loki does not appear in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Earth-199999 Pietro Maximoff, Earth-10005 Peter Maximoff, and Ralph Bohner are all Variants of each other.

• Except Ralph doesn't appear to be related to the Maximoffs at all. At best, he's just an Identical Stranger.

Throg will play a significant role in Season 2

It's been confirmed that Chris Hemsworth recorded dialogue for Throg for a full scene that ended up getting cut, leaving the character with nothing but a brief voiceless cameo. I don't know about you, but that sounds like wasted potential to me, and it's possible the next showrunner and/or director may think the same and make Throg an Ascended Extra.

• Jossed.

Season 2 will feature a live action appearance of a character from an episode of What If...?

• Jossed.

Loki will end up meeting a variant of Donald Blake who wields Mjolnir

Loki will at first think that he's meet a Thor variant but it turns out that no it's a mortal doctor who's proven worthy of the power of Thor.

• Jossed.

Season 2 will feature an established character from the MCU or adjacent continuities

Some suggestions:

• Gamora, who is now also a Variant and might have had a history with Loki during the year he worked for Thanos
• Deadpool, another time traveller
• Deathlok, who will be based on the original, futuristic Luther Manning version.
  • Due to being Truer to the Text, he'll essentially be supplanting Mike Peterson as the MCU's canon Deathlok.
• Beverly Switzler, with Lea Thompson reprising her role from the infamous film.
• Bishop, played by a new actor and accompanied by Shard, his sister.
• One of the original Howling Commandos.
• Fandral, Volstagg or Hogun. They could be a Variant or played by their original actor(s).
• Justice Peace and Mr. Alternity. Given that they are important members of the TVA in the comics who have yet to appear in the MCU, it makes sense to have them show up at some point in the series assuming they aren't combined with other characters or Adapted Out.
  • Jossed on all fronts.

In the season 1 finale, when He Who Remains goes silent and then says "we just crossed the threshold", he actually felt Scarlet Witch being forged into existence

He Who Remains became abnormally silent like he felt a strange, presumably chaotic presence from the Sacred Timeline, as she will be essential in the multiverse. When he says "crossing the threshold," it's debatable by what he really meant other than the Scarlet Witch myth had become real, and she had been prophesied to be a nexus being, immune to the effects of nexus events.

• One fan put together a synced video of both finales showing He Who Remains reacting around the same time Wanda became the Scarlet Witch. One comment even noted that the timestamp of both events happen at exactly 27:40.
• Jossed, according to Word of God (Kate Herron) it was just a coincidence.

The cartoon Loki created for the limited edition "Loki Charms" cereal will appear

He'll remain a cartoon character while interacting with the live action cast, similar to Miss Minutes. He'll be used to demonstrate the chaotic nature of the multiverse.

• Jossed

Kermit the Frog will make a cameo

He'll mistake Loki for the Great Escapo (Tom Hiddleston's cameo role in the film) and then walk off all offended and whatnot when a flummoxed Loki questions how a frog puppet can be alive.

• Jossed

Loki will encounter a Variant of himself who's a pirate

Specifically, a pirate who dresses exactly like Disney's Captain Hook, complete with a Hook Hand and a handlebar mustache. This would be an Actor Allusion to Hiddleston voicing a young James Hook in The Pirate Fairy.

• Jossed

In a bit of comedic Ascended Fanon, we'll encounter a small group of different versions of Mobius

All of whom will reference some roles of Owen Wilson's. One will be a more "typical" Owen Wilson character who constantly goes "Wow" at things, one will be a race car driver who wears a red outfit with yellow highlights, two of them are cowboys, and one will be a normal turkey who has a sign that reads "Turkey Mobius" hanging on his neck.

• Jossed

More Sylvie's early backstory will be revealed to further distance her from L1130

Any of the following, or a combination whereof:

• Odin told her that she is adopted because he wanted to marry her off to Thor and unite Asgard and Jotunheim, like he said in Thor ("I thought we could unite our kingdoms one day, bring about an alliance, bring about a permanent peace.. through you.")
• She wasn't raised by Odin and Frigga but was rather given to another Asgardian family to raise instead
• Laufey was her mother, like in the Norse mythology where Laufey is female
• Sylvie comes from a gender bent Asgard. Odin, Thor, and Heimdall are all women, while Hela and Freya are Men. Bonus Mythological points, if Freya is referred to as Frey (a nod to the Norse God, who is also her brother).
• Jossed for Season 2.

Mobius's backstory will be revealed leaving him very conflicted

Any of the following:

• He was a bad guy and did something nasty before the TVA himself
• His friend or family member died in the Battle of New York because of Loki
• He was bad at Jet Skiing.
  • Semi-Confirmed: Mobius doesn't want to look at his life on the Timeline, rationalizing that he'll only feel guilt over what he never had. In actuality, Mobius was formerly 'Don', a family man who had two sons and no connection to any other events.

The Time Keepers actually existed and there were four of them, hence the broken statue in the Citadel.

Specific guesses:

• HWR did not want to dictate the flow of time when he won so he created a council at the beginning of time to do it for him, but eventually had to step over himself and replace them with robots, because one of them betrayed the rest.
• Or they existed before him and he supplanted them.
• Unconfirmed.

We've seen the End of Time in S1, in S2 we'll see its Beginning

• Jossed.

Loki's glorious purpose in S2 (and in the wider MCU) will be to prevent or end the Multiversal War

He's been there when it all started and must feel responsible for failing to prevent it in the first place.Confirmed.

The Tempads won't work outside the former Sacred Timeline.

To explain how Loki(s) will conveniently end in "our" timeline without making it a Contrived Coincidence and so as not to undermine the uniqueness of America Chavez's special skills in Doctor Strange 2.

• Jossed. Tempads can be used to travel to branched timelines. In addition, the Season 2 premiere has Loki (the primary variant) unstuck in time. This leads to O.B. and Mobius helping Loki 'anchor' himself in time.

The TVA will attempt to reset (mind-wipe) Loki but it won't work on him..

.. for the same reason Sylvie was unable to enchant him on Lamentis. He will play along and pretend it did. We will also see the TVA's mind conditioning process for new employees in detail.

• Jossed. Loki time-slips away before the past TVA are able to catch him.

Kang will be set up as the Big Bad

Since a variant of him is now the current leader of the Time Authority Variance, as of the Season one finale, he may become the main antagonist of Season 2.

• Jossed. [[spoiler: General Dox, Renslayer and Miss Minutes serve as the Arc Villains of the season, but He Who Remains proves to be the Greater-Scope Villain.

Variant Loki will try to go back to the Void for help.

Given that he is the only one to now know that Kang is now the new leader of the TVA, he may try to go back to the Void to ask the Loki Variants for help on stopping the TVA.

• Jossed.

The Loki Variants will have Important Roles in Season 2

The Loki Variants helped Loki in Season 1 during his time in the Void, The Loki Variants may be having Important Roles in Season 2, on helping Loki stop Kang.

• Jossed.

There will be a reversal of the blanket scene

At some point after reuniting again, they'll have another moment to themselves and Sylvie will conjure a blanket for the two of them, leading to Loki teasing her by saying it's not snuggly enough. She'll respond with a half-hearted/joking "Piss off".

• Jossed.

A Loki varient that is a dinosaur will appear, specifically a Ceratopsid

It specifically will be of the kind known as Medusaceratops, because its species name? Lokii.

• Jossed.

We will see two Variants of Loki who has black skin on his left side and white skin on his right

As a Shout-Out to the character of Lokai.

• Jossed.

There will be a reference to Brazilian rock musician Arnaldo Baptista

Because his first solo album was titled " Loki? ", y'see.

• Jossed.

The TVA staff's memories have been rewritten to reorganize it into Kang's TVA, but their old memories are still there.

Sylvie trained Loki to use the enchantment powers she uses so they could enchant Alioth together. Loki will be able to use those same powers to reawaken Mobius and B-15's suppressed memories.

• Jossed.

Alligator Loki broke his version of Avengers: Endgame by eating the wrong cat.

The cat he was supposed to eat went on to kill the rat that stepped on the keyboard that brought Scott back from the Quantum Realm.

The Loki Variants are living weapons.

Loki will play the role that the Molecule Man did in the ''The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman) "Time Runs Out" (Pre Secret Wars)storyline. Each Loki is a universal weapon placed by the Kang Council. This will be Tom Hiddleston's curtain call to the franchise when the last Loki is defused.

Other residents of the Void

The very nature of the void makes it a great way to introduce all sorts of obscure and forgotten characters from Marvel's vast history Among which:

• Harald Jaekelsson
• Phone Ranger
• NFL Superpro
• 3D Man
• Captain Ultra
• The New Warriors as an in-universe explanation for their show being cancelled before it could air.
• Super Slave
• An Aunt May who is the mother of her Peter Parker
• Gabriel and Sarah Stacy
• Groot, but the villainous one from his very first appearance in Tales to Astonish
• Hypno Hustler
• Legal Eagle
• The Fourth Musketeer
• The Inhumans, as the MCU's way of placing the extremely poorly received show under Canon Discontinuity
• Thunderer
• Demolition Man
• Hawk-Owl and Woody

Other Loki Variants:

• A Loki accurately based on Norse Mythology.
• A Loki in a Devil costume based off of Loki's actual first Marvel appearance in Venus #5.
• A Loki wearing a wooden mask.
• A Loki in a business suit.
• A Loki who is a detective.
• A Loki with a full set of Infinity Stones that are useless in the Void.
• The Ikol version of Loki, the God(dess) of Stories.
• A Loki who is the Sorcerer Supreme.
• The Loki from The Good, the Bart, and the Loki.

Kid Loki will be forced to leave the Void, to set up the Young Avengers.

Because Kid Loki is part of the comic book version of the Young Avengers, something has to make Kid Loki leave the Void. He could be forced out by other variants of Loki (like Boastful Loki or President Loki). Or his grief over the death of Old/Classic Loki will motivated him to leave the Void.

Kid Loki didn't actually murder Thor.

While at first glance, the audience may assume that when Kid Loki said "I killed Thor" that he meant it deliberately. However it might be a misdirect over how his version of Thor died. Kid Loki may of caused it from a prank backfiring or from negligence on Kid Loki's part.

• Another theory, is that it was a flat out lie, in order to intimidate his other variants.

Mobius will say "Wow" at least one time in Season 2.

Because we need to keep up the Owen Wilson 'Wow' meme.

• Jossed. Wow...

Season 2 ends with the Loki Variant running into Thor and Love

Thor and Loki's reunion seems destined, as the Marvel Legends episode for Loki, ends with the archived line of Loki promising Thor that he will return.

• Jossed.

He Who Remains actively repressed the existence and formation of the X-Men and Fantastic Four in the Sacred Timeline.

Given Kang is a descendant of Reed Richards, it would be entirely within his mission to prevent his existence at the very least.

Loki trying to stop Kang will become an Aborted Arc in Season 2.

Given that Kang is set to fight Ant-Man in Quantumania, Loki likely won't encounter the man face-to-face, and will prioritize trying to find Sylvie and bring Mobius back over everything else.

• Jossed. The Stinger in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania reveals Loki and Mobius finding a Kang Variant in Victorian times.

There will be tangential connections to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in Season 2.

While it's doubtful that Scott himself or any of his supporting cast will show up, it's possible that Loki might learn what Kang is doing during the events of Quantumania, or in the very least learn about his connection to the Quantum Realm.

• Possibly? They already made a connection the other way around with Loki and Mobius appearing in The Stinger.
• Confirmed. The events of Quantumania are briefly mentioned in the finale, via a report from Mobius.

Season 2 will end with Loki dying (again) and Sylvie becoming the new protagonist.

While the show initially seems to be about an alternate variant of Loki, it's more about the various mythos and legacy of Loki. This is why the show could switch the role of the protagonist to Sylvie. Not only to show that anyone can die in the MCU, but also to reveal the true purpose of the show, which was to introduce Sylvie as Loki's successor.

• Jossed.

There will be an "Avenger Loki" variant and a Villain Thor variant.

In another universe, the plot of the original 2012 Avengers was flipped and Thor invaded New York. Loki instead allied with the other heroes and became one of the founding members of the The Avengers.

Season 2 will confirm that the universes of the animated Marvel shows, actually appear as cartoons in their universes.

In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, there is a brief moment, where Strange flies through a cartoon style universe. This will be explained by Mobius in Season 2, that the multiverse applies to all different types of universes and not just the "live action" universes.

• This would explain the cartoon appearance of Miss Minutes, who is revealed to be more sentient then she initially appears in Season 1. She will be revealed to be another multiverse variant working at the TVA, with Miss Minutes originating from a 'cartoon like universe'.
  • The Miss Minutes theory is mostly Jossed in Season 2. It's revealed that Miss Minutes is an AI made by He Who Remains.

Season 2 will tie Spider-Man: Spider-Verse to the MCU proper

That series has already tied itself to the MCU in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, but the flip side hasn't happened yet. Additionally, multiverse traveling in that series causes glitching effects unless proper equipment is worn, which hasn't come up in any MCU work involving the multiverse. So Season 2 will be a great opportunity to tie everything together.

• To add onto this, the actions of Miguel's Spider-Society, and even the motivation to form it in the first place, has the TVA written all over it. Remember, in season 1 Loki was recruited to track down and apprehend a variant of himself, and the Spider-Society seems to deal strictly with the events and people surrounding each variant of Spider-Man. We could very easily see, if nothing else, a few lines referencing the TVA starting sub-organizations each populated by variants of the same person of timeline importance charged with essentially policing themselves and ensuring some level of consistency across all timelines.
  • Jossed. The Spiderverse/Spider Society isn't mentioned.

Season 2 will further elaborate on the rules of the Multiverse.

Season 2 will serve a rule book of sorts, of what can and cannot occur in Marvel's Multiverse. It will also explain some multiverse elements:

• Is there truly a location that exists outside of the Multiverse, much like the TVA was claimed to be?
• What causes branching in the timeline, if Time Travel is not a factor?
• Why does America Chavez have no other multiverse variants? And are there others like her?
• Is it possible to override and rewrite the Multiverse entirely?
• Do the Celestials have the abilty to alter or affect the multiverse? And are there Multiverse versions of the Celestials?
• Does the Watcher work for the TVA?
• Did the death of He Who Remains actually result in Kang's takeover of the TVA? Or was it always the destined outcome?
  • If the former is true, then how did He Who Remains' death lead to Kang's takeover?
  • In '1893', Miss Minutes briefly implies that she is still following He Who Remains' plans.
  • In the Season 2 Finale, it's revealed that He Who Remains held the Multiverse together. He planned in the case of his death, the loom would overload. And it would wipe out and reset the TVA.

O.B. is Waymond Wang's Alternate Self in the MCU (or at least one of them).

• Jossed. His real name is A.D. Doug. Though what's to say he's not basically the MCU's equivalent of Waymond Wang?

Loki, Sylvie and Mobius end up becoming the basis for the Time Keepers

They will end up at the creation of the TVA and their actions will create the story of the Time Keepers.

• Potential evidence: there are three Time Keepers and three of them, one appears to have a mustache like Mobius, another looks more feminine in appearance and Sylvie is the only female of the trio, the third seems to have antennae which invokes Loki's iconic horns and this one along with the more female looking Time Keeper just so happens to be depicted as blue which could reference Loki and Sylvie being Frost Giants.
• Jossed.

Loki and his allies will discover recorded footage of Scott fighting Kang at some point in Season 2.

Doing so might help them find other people to reach out to in order to warn the world about what Kang's up to, and could set up for them encountering each other in The Kang Dynasty.

• Jossed. The events of Quantumania are briefly mentioned, but no archive footage is shown.

Loki will be tempted to be villainous again.

Whether it's Sylvie calling him out as a "phony hero" or his lack control within the TVA, something will cause Loki to act more devious and selfish. This will culminates on Loki having to make another moral choice similar to Season's 1 Finale. But it ends with Loki choosing the morally wrong option.

• Jossed, but He Who Remains tempts him to kill Sylvie.

Victor Timely hasn't met the other Kangs... yet.

Loki will incorrectly assume that Victor Timely is working with the other Kangs. However, due to the nonlinear storyline for Kang, Victor Timely has yet to meet his variants. This will end with Victor becoming a Red Herring or Victor will be the one to (initially) tip off the Kangs about the Avengers.

• '1893' confirms that Victor Timely has no apparent knowledge of being a Kang Variant.
• Victor's death in Episode 4 confirms the above Red Herring theory

Season 2 will end with the TVA arresting Deadpool.

At end of the season, the TVA will finally catch Deadpool (from Earth-10005) after he altered history from Cable's Time Travel Device. Deadpool will make an in-joke of how long it took the TVA to catch him (a nod to the lengthy Development Hell of Deadpool 3). This will confuse Mobius, as the TVA immediately arrested Deadpool after the events of Deadpool 2.

• Jossed. Deadpool does not appear.

Hunter C-20 is still alive in the void.

Season 2 will reveal that the former TVA Agent was rescued by Kid Loki and/or Boastful Loki. Hunter C-20 will seek revenge against Ravonna.

Ravonna is trying to alter her future with Kang.

Ravonna's plan to alter fate is because of Kang. Ravonna knows that the "Sacred Timeline" version of herself will become an ally and lover to Kang. However, the prime version of herself will meet an unfortunate fate because of Kang.

• '1893' ends with Miss Minutes telling Ravonna, that she know who Ravonna really is. And that Ravonna 'wouldn't be happy' about the details. This implies that Miss Minutes knows about Ravonna's fate with Kang.
• Jossed. Ravonna lost her memory after she worked with He Who Remains. She didn't learn this until after Episode 5.

A major character will be killed off for real in Season 2.

• Confirmed. By the end of Episode 4, Dox is killed off in a very gruesome way.

Similar to how He Who Remains was saved for the first season finale, Season 2 will have Loki going up against the Council of Kangs

• Jossed. The Council does not appear.

Season 2 will have at least one surprise cameo.

Season 1 had the surprise appearances of Sif, Frog Thor, and He Who Remains/Kang. Who could make a surprise appearance this time around?

• Phil Coulson
  • Hilarious take: If Coulson (or at least a variant) does get involved in the TVA plot, he volunteers to be the one to prune Loki from behind in the future, purely for the Catharsis Factor.
• Thor & Love
• Valkyrie
• Deadpool
• America Chavez
• Doctor Strange (Prime or Variant)
• Clea
• Ultron
• Cable
• Hercules
• Balder
  • Sort of confirmed. A statue of him shows up at the 1893 Chicago World Fair.
• Beta Ray Bill
• All Jossed for Season 2.

The entity that pruned Loki in the Season 2 Premiere is...

• A future version of L1130 Loki to ensure a Stable Time Loop.
  • Confirmed.

There's a reason why Ouroboros remembers everything while everyone else doesn't

I find it very strange that Ouroboros somehow remembers everything while all other TVA folks including Mobius and Casey don't remember what happened in the past. So how come He Who Remains didn't wipe Ouroboros' memories? Considering Renslayer was one of the few folks who didn't get their memories wiped, it's possible he is in league with He Who Remains, or more likely He Who Remains just forgot about wiping Ouroboros' memories since people rarely come to his place.

Kang created the Time Keepers to avoid sharing power with Ravonna

He promised that she would rule alongside him to get her help winning the Time War (what kind of help, who knows), but when it was over he realized he didn't actually want her. So he secretly created the Time Keepers, claimed they were threatening to take over and he had to cut a deal with them to allow them to rule in exchange for not destroying the TVA, and forced Ravonna to step back while he retired to the Citadel. She wants "the truth" because she gave up her throne to save Kang from the "threat" the Time Keepers posed, unaware that they were never more than robot puppets.

• Partially Jossed, as Ravonna's memory was wiped by He Who Remains, thus making her forget she assisted him in the past.

Ouroburos is stuck in a time loop. And he might not be alone...

O.B.'s namesake is a reference to Egyptian/Greek lore about the legendary snake that eats itself. The snake is supposed represent Infinity and the Cycle of Life. And this will be a clue to O.B.'s backstory and possibly the TVA as a whole.

O.B will be revealed to be trapped in an infinite time loop within the TVA. Similar to the Eternals, if O.B. meets his demise, he will be "reset" back to the way he was, having his memory wiped clear. The only difference is that he will meet the same demise, no matter the outcome. This could lead to the larger revelation for the TVA that all of its workers are stuck in a never-ending infinite time loop.

• Jossed.

Mobius is a variant of Owen Wilson

Season 2 establishes that Mobius does not know his real name or what kind of life he had before he came to the TVA. As a meta joke, it will be revealed that Mobius is a variant of Owen Wilson who strayed from the Sacred Timeline in some way (maybe he never worked with Wes Anderson) and was picked up by the TVA to have his memory erased and turned into an agent.

• Jossed. Mobius is a variant of a man named 'Don'.

He Who Remains, and most Kang variants, respect O.B.

O.B. is odd amongst the TVA due to his isolation and seemingly not having his memories erased like the rest of the staff, despite the essential role he plays in the TVA. This might be because of his intelligence in keeping the TVA's technology running, and understanding how it works. If so, his intellect would be on par with Kang, and thus one of the few people who he trusts to do his job without needing mindwiping. We see that Victor Timely in 1893 respects O.B. as his major inspiration due to being given his manual. It could also be that mindwiping O.B. might actually be dangerous; as he is the sole person who manages and repairs the TVA technology, erasing any part of his mind might make it harder for him to do his job, so instead he is isolated from the rest of the TVA.

• Confirmed for Victor.

By the end of Season 2, Sylvie will officially become the MCU's Enchantress

Similar to Wanda becoming the Scarlet Witch in WandaVision, Sylvie will eventually assume the moniker of "The Enchantress". Bonus points if she dons her cowl and outfit like Wanda's transformation.

• Jossed.

Victor being spaghettified is all part of the plan

The description in episode 1 of season 2 says anyone pulled into the loom will be spaghettified and ripped apart, lost to time. This is how Kang's variants come to exist scattered across the timeline, a lot of them are his essence that has reemerged following Victor's unfortunate fate and is how He Who Remains planned for his variants to spread through the multiverse, while also eliminating the TVA, which was the only group who could possibly stop his return. I would go so far as to say the TVA's destruction is essential to allowing the Kang variants to rise, as its function relied on just the one timeline, and now that it is destroyed, the timeline can branch without consequence, with Victor being pulled in just before the cataclysmic destruction.

• Technically correct, with the specifics Jossed: The Loom was constructed to destroy every branch save for the Sacred Timeline, ensuring HWR's survival. Victor's death was a casualty of the plan.

X-05 and General Dox are related

As the title says, Dox and X-05 are variants of two people who were related on the timeline, likely mother and son, hence why they're so close even if they don't have their memories of it.

O.B. is a Kang Variant

His role is to make sure that Victor gets the technology to start his trans-temporal empire, claiming that he based the manual on Victor's research to build his ego. O.B. was assigned to the role because he doesn't look like the majority of Kangs, making him a fifth columnist that no one would recognize.

• Jossed.

Season 2 will end with either the return of the Council of Kangs, the return of Kang the Conqueror or the introduction of a new Kang Variant.

With the deaths of He Who Remains and Victor, it makes sense that the season will end with another Kang. This could be another appearance of one of the Kangs from the council, or the council itself. Or it could be the return of Kang the Conqueror, whose fate was never fully confirmed in Quantumania. But another possiblility is that a new variant will appear by the end of the season. This could be Nate Richards, Victorex Prime, Chronomonitor #616, Iron Lad, or a new variant for the MCU.

• Jossed. No new Kang Variant shows up. The Conquerer is briefly mentioned, but as part of a report on the events of Quantumania, which Mobius classifies as "chaos in a 616-adjacent realm".

Loki will become the God of Stories by restoring the multiverse

Loki will die. He will spaghettify. He will sacrifice himself to create the infinite realities of the multiverse so that his friends can live.

• Confirmed, in a metaphorical sense; Loki doesn't die or spaghettify, but he does sacrifice a future alongside his friends to maintain the infinitely-branching multiverse for all eternity.

The season will end with Loki becoming Avenger Prime.

He will become the new overseer of time and ensure the Multiverse always has heroes.Partially Confirmed. He instead becomes 'God Loki'.

In the Void, time works the way it does in the TVA.

I admit I’m not sure where to put this WMG, so if someone finds this who knows where to put it, feel free to move it.

The Loki we see in trailers going on the gangway without a suit is not any Loki Variant.

L1130 made it by Duplication Casting.

• Partially Confirmed. L1130 himself steps out onto the gangway as part of his Heroic Sacrifice to manage the branches on his own.
  • L1130 is still a variant. My reasoning for it being a duplicate was that it was going onto the gangway without the protective suit and magic works in the TVA now. I thought damage done to a duplicate could be undone by L1130.

Pruned timelines can regenerate.

Or at least a copy of them can. This means that while Kid Loki from season one is still in the Void, there is (or was before Dox’s mass bombing) a Kid Loki who wasn’t pruned.

Post Season 2 theories

One of the reasons why there's only going to be 12 episodes

• There's also 12 numbers on a 12-hour clock, tying into the theme of time.

L1130 will discover the Watcher or vice versa

Both are actively watching the multiverse.

L1130 will prune some parts of branches off

But it'll only be timelines where everyone is dead/out of that timeline and he'll only cut off everything after the point when the last being in the timeline dies/leaves that timeline to live in another.

Miss Minutes 2.0 isn't that different from the original.

Loki is K.E.V.I.N.

• At the end of this series, Loki effectively becomes "God of Stories," maintaining the multiverse through force of will. When She-Hulk used her Fourth-Wall-Breaking powers to visit K.E.V.I.N. and write a better ending for her show, she actually traveled to the End of Time and met Loki. Loki made it look like the Disney/Marvel Studios offices and himself like an AI robot both as A Form You Are Comfortable With and to avoid giving away spoilers for his show.
  • Or perhaps K.E.V.I.N. is simply the meta being he was introduced as and is willing to help L1130.

Renslayer and her variants will be the main antagonist of Kang Dynasty

• She was key to He-Who-Remains' rise to power, then got betrayed and memory wiped, a fact she is now aware of. Plus, her fate at the end of the series is extremely ambiguous. This looks suspiciously like Marvel developing a backup plan in case they decide to drop Majors—something that's started to look increasingly likely.

Loki will become the Big Good of the Multiverse Saga and assemble all the heroes to fight Kang in Kang Dynasty

It was all He Who Remains' plan. All of it.

• Loki sacrificing himself to manage the timeline was what He Who Remains wanted all along. As he said in Season 1, his ultimate goal was to die and have Loki take his place managing the timeline, which is exactly what happened in the end. He always knew Loki would never kill Sylvie, he just had to put Loki in that situation in order for him to make that sacrifice. In the end it was all just a gambit by He Who Remains to bring back the multiverse and have someone else deal with his variants.

Ouroboros is an Expy of Greg Egan