so with Deadpool and Wolverine coming out this week I think there's a lot of people out there who are excited to see it but are also a little confused or need to be caught up about what's happening with the Multiverse Saga in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so this video is going to give you everything you need to know to understand what's happening with regards to the Multiverse Deadpool will reain the whole nine yards so this comes out of four main events within the Marvel Cinematic Universe Loki season 1 Ant-Man and was quantum Mania Doctor Strange
Multiverse of Madness and Loki season 2 now one of the things that I do want to specify ahead of time is that the Multiverse did exist before the events of Loki season 1 Dr Eric Selvig in the MCU theorized the existence of the Multiverse Doctor Strange was sent into the Multiverse by the ancient one when the two of them first met so it's not as though it's never been seen before it's simply just that Loki season 1 is the first time we actually focused on it in any meaningful way now what Loki season 1 did
is it established the character of He Who Remain s and what it told us is that at some point in the distant past that you had a collection of universes the Multiverse right seemingly an infinite number of universes and in every single one of these universes you had Nathaniel Richards I.E King and that at some point at the exact same time they all basically discovered the existence of the Multiverse and the ability to travel into the Multiverse and when I say at the exact same time I mean this is almost down to like the minute
and so what it did is it led to all these different Kang variants meeting and talking to each other now there were two main sides here you have the group that was led by Victor timley and the group that was led by King the Conqueror Victor timley was the guy who championed the idea of sharing knowledge of treating each individual King as an equal giving them access to Technologies from their own individual universes and the collective betterment of the whole K the Conqueror was exactly what he sounded like a guy who realized hey we can
conquer some of these universes and so this led to the multiversal war between these two opposing factions the problem with all of this and what he who remains realized during this multiversal war is that because there's so much travel in between these universes it's causing incursions now how incursions work explicitly in the MCU is not nearly as fleshed out as well as it is in the comics and because the bases Behind these two things are so starkly different we don't have to go into the nature of incursions in Marvel Comics I do have a whole
playlist for that at the end of this video that will cover Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers which covers the collapse of the Multiverse the only real thing that seems to happen here when it comes to incursions is that much like the comics incursions are the result of universes crashing into each other but in terms of how Multiverse travel plays into it whenever a person leaves their universe and travels to another Universe they almost kind of have their own gravity in the sense that they pull their Universe with them into the universe that they're traveling to
these universes crash into each other and both universes are destroyed so you could see how easily it would lay waste to the Multiverse with all these Kang variants jumping back and forth between universes and fighting each other and so with he who remains realizing that the end was nigh and everything would be destroyed he harnessed this being called elith which was basically just this Cosmic destructive force and using elath basically he who remains wiped out all the other universes now I know a lot of you guys are going to say well no actually that is
a point of contention we'll talk about that when we get to Ant-Man and was quantam Mania because that's the best time to offer that explanation because I think that's a big misconception but sticking on track here in the Here and Now what Loki did is the show itself picked up in the aftermath of Avengers ingame when you guys had that scene where Loki picked up the Tesseract and took off he wasn't supposed to do that the only reason any of that happened is because the Avengers time traveled in order to stop Thanos during Avengers ingame
and so when Loki picked up the Tesseract and took off he created an alternate reality and what ended up happening is the TVA snatched him up and that's where you got the second half of the explanation of what was going on that following the destruction of the Multiverse what he who remains did is he formed the time variance Authority and the idea here is that because every universe is the result of any number of possibilities what if Aunt May never died and Spider-Man no way home what if Steve Rogers was never discovered and never thought
out from that block of ice what if Tony Stark never became Iron Man that what he who remains realized is that there are some universes out there that will always result in him and so after all the other universes were destroyed he kept those particular universes that was called The Sacred timeline and the job of the time Varian Authority was to basically monitor the Multiverse or the sacred timeline at all times and anytime anything happened in that sacred timeline that would lead to it branching off and then forming a variant of of King the Conqueror
that was not he who remains the TVA would show up and they would prune the timeline meaning they would wipe the timeline out of existence now in the early days of the tva's formation he who remains worked directly with them he gave them instructions and the whole nine yards but over time what he realized is he couldn't maintain that role forever and so what he did is he wiped all the memories of everybody who worked for the time Varian Authority and replaced it with a lie that basically everybody working for the TVA was told that
the timekeepers these mysterious TR of beings who exist out there were the ones responsible for the ending of the Multiverse War and the TVA works for the timekeepers and they're doing the good thing right they're fighting the good fight that they're righteous in their actions is it nefarious and manipulative yes but it also got the job done when Loki showed up to the time variance Authority in the TV show that he kind of threw a wrench in everything because what he realized is the other half of what the time variance Authority was doing wiping out
entire timelines destroying whole existences different things along those lines now the show itself does have its own plot in the sense that there is a woman named Sylvie who is a variant of Loki trying to destroy the TVA and all that kind of good stuff the important thing and to really stick to the discussion here what ends up happening is that at the end of Loki season 1 silie is dead set on killing he who remains and what he who remains tells them is that if you kill me the timeline will spiral out of control
and when that happens you will meet my variance right all the other versions of King from all these these destroyed universes they will return and when they do the multiversal war will be back on so either you can take my place here and you can just keep the sacred timeline as it is basically stripping people of free will but keeping existence alive or you can kill me you can give people their Free Will and risk the destruction of all of existence Sylvie chose to kill he who remains and so that led to the Multiverse spiraling
out of control and so what this does is this goes directly into Ant-Man and was quantum Mania and this mov basically focused on Scott Lang and Cassie Lang and Hank Pim and all them being sent to the quantum realm right this just infinitesimally small universe that exists within the main Marvel Cinematic Universe itself and what we found there was a variant of King and what seemed to happen is that he was cast out by all the other kings and basically locked there before he who remains had ever ended the original multiversal War so Kang had
just been there this entire time and because time does not exist in the quantum realm what you and I would call like a week for him could be like billions of years outside of the quantum realm again it's a little finicky and a little hairy just understand he had been there for a long period of time what's important here is that this version of Kang wanted to break free from the quantum realm and go back out into the Multiverse and go back to conquering universes again now of course what we saw at the end of
that movie is that that version of Kang was defeated but as a post credit scene we saw all these Kang variants popping back up and this is the point of contention that I want to discuss in terms of what he who remains originally did to the Multiverse in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that where we all just kind of believe that the original Multiverse was destroyed with the exception of the Sacred timeline Kate Heron who was the one running the Loki TV show came out and said actually what he who remains had done is he had
isolated the sacred timeline away from the rest of the Multiverse so all those kings had been in the Multiverse the whole time and that Multiverse had been out there the whole time but like cutting off an arm or a leg the sacred timeline was separated from the rest of the Multiverse but that doesn't really line up because looking at the post credit scene for Ant-Man and was quantam Mania those Kang variants are popping up out of thin air right and they're celebrating the fact that they're seemingly returning so it wouldn't really make any sense to
say that like they've been there the whole time it would just be business as usual right so seemingly their universes were destroyed and they're back here now right so that's why I say it's a bit of a point of contention and different people will argue few different things what is important is that following Ant-Man of was quantam Mania you went into Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness and I know we're doing this out of order to a degree between Quantum Mania and Multiverse of Madness there really isn't a chronology because neither one really influences the other
but in Doctor Strange 2 that was Steven strange exploring the Multiverse alongside America Chavez and it did provide a little more context to incursions which is to say when the Scarlet Witch was jumping from one Universe to the next trying to find her children that she believed still existed duee to a kind of moment of psychosis and Doctor Strange and America Chavez chasing after her it really leaned in to the explanation that when individuals leave their universes and travel to another one they pull their Universe with them basically pulling it into the other Universe they
crash into each other and those universes get destroyed but outside of that again the explanation is still fairly murky Doctor Strange 2 had less to do with the TVA and all that kind of stuff and just had more to do with like showing us the different universe that were out there the kicker to this is that we still don't fully know how it tied in to the events of Loki because it never really referenced it so we don't know if Doctor Strange 2 takes place before the multiverses return we don't know if all the universes
that doctor strange saw were confined to the sacred timeline and nothing else because there are no references to Kang or the TVA or anything like that and so what you end up doing here is getting out of that I do want to reference what if for a second what if is not overly important that's more of just Tales from the Multiverse what if this happened differently what if that happened differently let's go to that universe and find out and that's it right so you don't really have to watch what if to understand anything that's going
on in the Multiverse Saga although again I have not seen Deadpool in Wolverine so I don't know if what if has any bearing on that film and if it does well of course you know you can go back and watch what if season 1 but following this we go into Loki season 2 and what Loki season 2 did is it basically followed up to the aftermath of the events of season 1 the death of he who remains all these Kang variants popping back up that season largely focused on Victor timley one of the Kang variants
who was focused a lot on basically sharing information different things like that although again that version of Victor wasn't really everything that we were hoping for but the long and short of it is that Loki realizes that the Multiverse is going to be destroyed because what he who remains had built was something called the loom and in essence when the TVA goes through and they prune timelines while that's happening those timelines are being sent through the loom which basically ties everything together and creates a kind of cohesive string of universes coming out the other side
essentially providing order to chaos but when he who remains was killed and all these different alternate realities were spiraling out of control because the TVA wasn't getting orders from anybody they didn't know what timelines to prune what timelines to keep that basically the loom was overloaded it was like trying to stuff too much stuff into a hole right you just can't get enough through and so the loom effectively exploded and when it did it destroyed the Multiverse along with it now over the course of that season Loki basically gained the ability to time slip it's
effectively time travel right of his own accord is really what it is initially it happened without his control so he was just being yanked through the timelines and had no idea where he was going or how to control it or anything like that eventually he does and what he realizes is that his powers inextricably tie him to the Multiverse itself which is basically a long-winded way of saying he's the only one that can save the Multiverse and so after the Multiverse is destroyed that what happens is Loki grabs these threads right these strings each one
of which represent a universe in the Multiverse and Loki binds them all to himself and basically charges them all with his power and brings the Multiverse back and so now he just sits on a chair at the end of time holding the Multiverse together which begs the question what happens if Loki dies if I'm a betting man that's what's going to happen that at the end of Secret Wars when this is all said and done Loki's going to die the Multiverse is going to be destroyed and it's all going to go into a singular timeline
going forward now here's the question to ask how does Deadpool Wolverine the X-Men and all these guys tie into it it's actually a fairly simple explanation here so all this happening now is that because Disney owns 20th Century Fox and of course 20th Century Fox was the company that bought the film and TV rights from Marvel for the X-Men Fantastic 4 and so on when Marvel was going broke in the 90s that now all we're really getting here is just this idea that within this Multiverse the X-Men are just over there Deadpool is just over
there and they've always been over there they've been over there this whole time we just haven't seen them before but we're seeing them now awesome and like that's it that's really all it is right I don't think there's any kind of Smashing together of multiverses or anything along those lines right it's just this is the first time that we're seeing them which kind of makes perfect sense every character you see you're seeing for the first time unless you happen to see them before I don't mean to sound like a like a jerk when I say
that I'm just saying like that's how it works but nonetheless that's essentially what's going on when it comes to the Multiverse and and Deadpool and everything so let me know if there's any clarification that you guys need hopefully I explained it well enough to make it all make sense leave a comment down below if you're confused and I will catch you all later peace
