Loki
This article contains spoilers forWhat If … ?
Loki eventually managed to pull back the curtain and discover the genuine power behind the TVA;He Who Remains , a chance variable of Kang the Conqueror who had triumphed in the last multiversal warfare . As He Who Remains explained , when branched timelines become cognizant of one another the result is inevitable . Many will be peaceful , but some will not , and these branch will inescapably seek to show their transcendency over one another . He Who Remains terminate the last multiversal engagement using Alioth , a piranha that eat up reality , and he established the TVA to ensure no new branches were created . His death , and the downfall of the TVA , led to the parentage of a new multiverse .
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The MCU ’s Phase 4 has proven He Who Remains to be right . The last two installment ofMarvel ’s What If … ?introduced a adaptation of Ultron who became aware of the multiverse , and who extended his mad mission to destroy all life across the dimensions . He was defeated by the Guardians of the Multiverse , but not before he had cut a destructive swathe across countless dissimilar timelines . He was only defeated because the Watcher choose to break his vow of non - interference , form theGuardians of the Multiverseto serve as his agents against Ultron . This has been followed up bySpider - Man : No Way Home , in which Doctor Strange foolishly seek to help Peter Parker out - and unwittingly broke the multiverse .
Doctor Strange ’s example proves even the most well - meaning thaumaturge can unwittingly break the multiverse . And yet , for all that ’s the compositor’s case , it is Ultron who truly demonstrates how grievous the multiverse is . He was only unleashed because he ascended to a level of cosmic awareness where he feel the Watcher ’s regard upon him . Untold numbers of dimension were put down simply because the Watcher happened to look in on the wrong timeline . It really does seem as though the option to a individual Sacred Timeline is simply bedlam and demolition - inevitably so , because for every timeline where people prefer good , there will naturally be an alternative one where they chose evil .
And yet , He Who Remains ' solution to this was even more destructive than Ultron . Ultron take advantage of his brief period of clock time in theWatcher ’s home , the Panoptichron , to sterilize a huge number of timelines of all life . In contrast , under He Who stay ' leading the TVA destroyed every branched timeline that came into existence . For every one person killed by Ultron , the TVA erased billion . He Who Remains may have been right in a theoretic sense , but that does n’t mean he was correct in condition of morality , and the multiverse ’s natural disposition towards chaos will direct to creation as well as destruction . After all , on the basis ofWhat If … ? , for every one timeline that becomes predatory there are eight that are not .
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