Can Marvel Use Time Travel Again?

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It really doesn’t matter exactly how time travel happens, it just matters that, in the MCU, you need Pym Particles to time travel. Because of this, the MCU has an easy cop-out anytime fans wonder why time travel isn’t used more.

If there aren’t any Pym Particles, then the characters can’t travel back in time.

Why can’t Loki go back to his timeline?

At the end of the Loki premiere episode, “Glorious Purpose,” the God of Mischief realized he no longer could return to the main MCU timeline. On the surface, this could be read as

him no longer wanted to after learning that no matter what he did, he was always bound to lose in that timeline

.

Is time travel possible with the Tesseract?

The only problem with that is that it’s not strictly possible by the laws of the MCU’s time travel lore so far.

The Tesseract sends you from place to place, not time to time, because the Time Stone controls time

. This is either a huge mistake, or the MCU has just changed the laws of time travel again.

Can Loki go back to his timeline?

That

he can go back and live through the “correct” events of Thor Ragnarok and make his way to that moment in endgame

. There, he can fake his death the same way Classic Loki did, only this time, go on to keep living after Thanos is vanquished, given that there will be no TVA to hunt him down anymore.

How did Loki know Avengers time travel?

It was adorable to see Loki come forward to help capture the Avengers for their time-traveling crime tho. So, basically, Loki says a few lines only about how he knew they time traveled. Then, in a hissy fit,

he recalls smelling two people with Axe Body spray

, and that was about Tony.

How Hulk explains time travel?



If you travel to the past, that past becomes your future, and your former present becomes the past, which can’t now be changed by your new future.

How did Loki use the Tesseract to time travel?

The Tesseract/ Space Stone has the capability to open inter-dimensional portals anywhere within a given reality. Loki could potentially use the Space Stone

to open up a portal to another dimension where the science works differently, and exit that dimension to bring him into a different point in time or reality

.

How did Loki travel through time with the Tesseract?

How would he time travel using the Tesseract? He can use it to time travel. In the MCU, in Runaways S3 we are introduced to the concept of

Closed Timelike Curve

, which is a method of time travel. It basically works this way: you force time to bend back on itself.

Why did Loki take the Tesseract in Endgame?


In order to defeat Thanos

in Endgame, the Avengers decide they must travel back in time and retrieve the Infinity Stones. One group of Avengers travels to New York in 2012 when Loki was attempting to use both the Mind Stone and the Space Stone (a.k.a. the Tesseract) to attack the city and enslave all Earthlings.

Will Iron Man return Marvel?

“It’s an animated version of all the characters we know and love from Marvel and this episode included the Grandmaster and Iron Man, so Robert Downey [Jr.] will do a voice for that.”

Unless Marvel has had a massive change of heart, Downey Jr. will be back as Iron Man/Tony Stark for one last time.

Where did Loki go when he took the Tesseract in endgame?

We get great cameos from our beloved Avengers as we watch a new cut of the Endgame Time Heist in New York City. We learn that Loki escaped to

the Gobi desert

and that the TVA apprehended him the minute he landed there.

Will Black Widow come back?

Good news, Marvel fans! Scarlett Johansson, who played Natasha Romanoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2010 to 2021, is returning to the franchise. However,

she will not be reprising her role as Black Widow

, which makes sense given the events of Avengers: Endgame.

Who broke the multiverse?

This was later elaborated on in Loki with the introduction of the Time Variance Authority and the Timekeepers before

Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino)

destroys the Sacred Timeline and breaks the Multiverse open by killing the Kang the Conqueror variant (Jonathan Majors).

Is Thanos an eternal?

Thanos’ Eternals lineage


In the comics, Thanos is an Eternal

, and one from a very important bloodline: His father, Al’ars, was the son of Kronos, who ruled the Eternals of Earth following a civil war that divided the original colony.

Is Loki LGBT?

Hours after the third episode of “Loki” premiered on Disney+, the show’s director confirmed

the titular character is bisexual

, making Loki the first queer lead character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Does Loki have only one timeline?

Loki writer Michael Waldron confirms there have always been multiple MCU timelines, but only the Sacred Timeline doesn’t have Kang the Conqueror.

Loki’s Sacred Timeline is the only one where Kang the Conqueror doesn’t exist

.

How does Loki know about Endgame?


Loki apparently knows all about the Avengers’ time heist in Endgame

. He tells Judge Renslayer the only reason he came into possession of the Tesseract is because of the Avengers’ time travel shenanigans, and they are the ones the TVA wants.

Where does Loki go with the Tesseract?

During the events of Endgame, the Avengers go back in time to steal the Infinity Stones and bring them back to the present. They fail to do so in 2012, during the events of the first Avengers movie, where Loki picks up the Tesseract and

disappears into a wormhole

, thereby creating an alternate timeline.

How does Marvel explain time travel?

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Time Travel

follows the quantum mechanics interpretation that the universe is always splitting into parallel universes

. Therefore, change/alter the past by going into the past, a new reality branches off.

Who is Professor Hulk?

Professor Hulk is

one of a few alternate personas of Bruce Banner

, but the creation of Professor Hulk is entirely unique compared to the other versions of the Hulk. Banner’s exposure to the gamma radiation that gave life to the Hulk fractured the scientist’s mind and created multiple personalities living in one body.

What years did they travel to in endgame?

There are two alternative timelines in Endgame. During the film, the remaining Avengers go to great lengths to try not to ‘change’ their own past, which would cause the flow of time to split into two alternative realities. They succeed when travelling back to

2012 (via 1970) and 2013

, but fail in 2014.

Will the Infinity Stones come back?

According to Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of the last two Avengers blockbusters,

the Infinity Stones still exist in the MCU

. “Thanos only reduced the stones to the atomic level,” they said in a 2019 Q&A.

What’s next after Loki series?

It’s perfect, actually! Loki ends with the creation of the multiverse and the next Marvel show is all about the multiverse. And, looking further ahead, so are the upcoming films

Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

.

Can Loki open portals?

Selvig even says that he made a back door into the portal machine, because it can’t defend against itself (meaning the sceptor). It also had the same energy color that the Tesseract had. So,

Loki, using the Scepter from Thanos could open the door remotely from his side and enter it

.

Will there be Loki in Doctor Strange 2?

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige must have gotten to Lontzek. The voice actor’s comments suggest that

Loki is in Doctor Strange 2

. Tom Hiddleston is confirmed to reprise his role in the second season of Loki, but Marvel has not reported that he’s currently involved in any film.

Will Thor appear in Loki?

Loki showrunner Kate Herron has revealed that

Thor actor Chris Hemsworth made a small cameo in the Disney+ series

. Herron explained that episode five, which introduced a frog version of Thor, saw Hemsworth take part to voice the small cameo role himself.

How did Thanos know Loki had the Tesseract?

Thanos sent Loki to Earth with the Mind Stone and the Chitauri army to conquer it and retrieve the Space Stone.

Considering how close of an eye he has been keeping on the Infinity Stones he probably knew that Thor and Loki returned to Asgard with the Space Stone.

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