- "My Variants. Throughout the Multiverse. Playing with time, like children. But I saw how it ends. I saw their chaos spreading across realities. Universes colliding. Endless Incursions. I saw the Multiverse. And it was dying. All because of them. So, I took control."
"You mean you started a war." - ―Kang the Conqueror and Janet van Dyne[src]
The Multiversal War was an all-out conflict across the Multiverse between Variants of Victor Timely. The war began when Kang the Conqueror decided to seize control over other realities, severing the peace made between his other Variants, including the Council of Kangs, and forcing them to fight for their own worlds. After an age of violence and destruction, a Timely Variant dubbed He Who Remains ended the war using Alioth. He then created the Time Variance Authority in order to prevent a second war and isolated a collection of realities known as the Sacred Timeline.
Background[]
- "I am the only one that can see it's broken."
"And who broke it?"
"I did. Every version of me." - ―Kang the Conqueror and Janet van Dyne[src]
Discovery of the Multiverse
In the 31st century, Kang discovered the existence of the Multiverse and countless parallel universes on top of his own. At the exact same time, Kang's alternate selves from other universes started discovering the existence of the Multiverse as well. These alternate selves made contact and started exchanging technology and knowledge in order to improve the other universes along with their own.[1]
A handful of the Variants decided to form the Council of Kangs as a presiding body. However, one of the members, Kang the Conqueror, believed that their collective temporal meddling would result in the end of the Multiverse as it would eventually lead to Incursions and the collapse of all universes and timelines. He ultimately came to a conclusion that the only way to bring the order to the Multiverse and prevent its demise was to conquer some realities while destroying certain others.[2]
Conflict[]
Kang the Conqueror lays waste to the universes
- "The peace between realities... erupted into all-out war, each Variant fighting to preserve their universe and annihilate the others."
- ―He Who Remains[src]
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Kang the Conqueror sparked the war among all of his alternate selves throughout the Multiverse, which resulted in more and more of Kangs also waging war on each other, seeking to annihilate other realities to save their own from a ruthless conquest.[1] This led to countless Incursions which threatened the stability of the Multiverse as a whole. Kang the Conqueror in particular brought destruction to countless universes, all in an attempt to prevent the ultimate demise of the whole Multiverse.[2]
The Kang Variants wage war
As the war continued, the ripples in space-time caused by the Kang Variants resulted in the creation of a trans-temporal entity at the End of Time, which became known as Alioth. He Who Remains discovered Alioth and experimented on him, studying his abilities to consume space and time itself. He eventually decided to weaponize Alioth and used his tremendous power to defeat his alternate selves and put an end to the Multiversal War.[1]
Aftermath[]
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Foundation of the TVA[]
The lie of the Time-Keepers
- "Once I isolated our timeline, all I had to do was manage the flow of time and prevent any further branches."
- ―He Who Remains[src]
In an effort to prevent a new Multiversal War, He Who Remains chose a number of realities and isolated them from the greater Multiverse,[3] creating what he called the Sacred Timeline. He also founded the Time Variance Authority to manage the Sacred Timeline and prevent any further branches from happening, thereby stopping new unscripted realities from coming into existence, branches that could connect to the other realities of the Multiverse if allowed to exist.[1] He Who Remains eventually hid every trace of his existence and wiped the memories of his subordinates,[4][5] which caused every TVA personnel to believe that the bureaucracy was founded upon the idea that, during the Multiversal War, some mysterious beings called the Time-Keepers stood up and stopped the war by restructuring the Multiverse into one single timeline.[6] The decision to prevent divergences in the timelines meant individuals could not have free will and were supposed to follow a very strict guide written and controlled by He Who Remains.
The timelines branching after He Who Remains' death
The TVA itself was in charge of pruning these new realities that could be created either by Multiversal time travel[6] or unscripted decisions made by individuals inside of this Sacred Timeline.[7] The actual and more specific details of the TVA's creation were kept secret to the TVA members themselves, who believed they were created by the Time-Keepers when, in fact, they were Variants stripped from timelines that were pruned.[8] For a long time, He Who Remains brought harmony to the Multiverse as no other Variantsof himself, who could be much worse, had a way to interact with the Sacred Timeline.[9] However, He Who Remains was killed by Sylvie Laufeydottir which resulted in the Sacred Timeline being reconnected to the greater Multiverse, which allowed his other Variants to access the Sacred Timeline.[1]
Banished to the Quantum Realm[]
Kang the Conqueror is banished to the Quantum Realm
- "You wanna wipe away any universe that's a threat to you. That’s what monsters do."
"That’s what conquerors do. They burn the broken world. And they make a new one." - ―Janet van Dyne and Kang the Conqueror[src]
The Council of Kangs were forced to contend with Kang the Conqueror, who was still seeking to start a new war.[2] With the connection to the Sacred Timeline re-established following He Who Remains' death,[1] the Council ultimately decided to banish Kang to the Quantum Realm to stop him. Arriving in the Quantum Realm around the late 1980s, Kang came into contact with Janet van Dyne and joined forces with her to re-ignite the Multiversal Engine Core of his Time Sphere so that both of them could escape the Quantum Realm. However, when van Dyne found out about the Multiversal War and the destruction Kang intended to cause, she destroyed the core, trapping both Kang and herself for several more decades.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Loki: 1.06: For All Time. Always.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
- ↑ Creator Michael Waldron Answers All Our Questions About ‘Loki’ And ‘Heels’
- ↑ Loki: 2.01: Ouroboros
- ↑ Loki: 2.04: Heart of the TVA
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Loki: 1.01: Glorious Purpose
- ↑ Loki: 1.04: The Nexus Event
- ↑ Loki: 1.03: Lamentis
- ↑ Director Kate Herron Reveals Secrets of the Loki Universe (Spoilers Ahead!!)