The climax of Loki on the Disney+ has had its consequences, not only for the latest MCU hit Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness but also for the films and series that premiered earlier like its predecessor No Way Home and the animated series What If…?
Producer Richie Palmer talked about this chain reaction while appearing in an interview with Marvel.com.
Here’s what Richie Palmer said:
“If the events of Loki never took place, if Sylvie didn’t do what she did, this movie and the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home wouldn’t have been able to happen,” said Palmer. “It was the activation of the Multiverse, or maybe the reactivation of the Multiverse at the end of Loki that really led to the possibilities that you see in What If…?, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”
How does Loki affect these three MCU movies?
Sylvie, another Loki variant who was introduced in the series, killed the mastermind behind Time Variance Authority, also known as He Who Remains in the finale of the first season. This also allowed for the proliferation of endless alternate timelines, which many have already been seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the episode premiered. No Way Home showed Doctor Strange and Peter Parker getting together to weave a spell that would ultimately remove Spider-Man’s identity from everyone’s memory, which goes on to misfire, creating a multiversal breach. While Strange succeeds to return these alternate-reality visitors back to their own worlds, Doctor Strange 2 reveals that his work has barely begun.
Marvel Boss President Kevin Feige had also discussed the interconnected fallout in Doctor Strange 2, saying, “There’s always a method to the madness even in the Multiverse.” Feige went on to point out that “Loki and Sylvie did something at the end of [Loki] that sort of allowed all of this to be possible… He Who Remains is gone, and that allowed a spell to go wrong in Spider-Man: No Way Home, which leads to the entire Multiverse going quite mad in [Doctor Strange 2].”
How Multiverse Was Set Up By Loki?
Palmer gave clarification, saying, “What Kevin was referring to about that spell at the end of Spider-Man is if that spell had just gone the way that Doctor Strange thought it would, even if Peter Parker messed it up so horribly like he did, it really still would have only affected people within our Universe.” It seems to have been a case of missing vital information: “Doctor Strange wasn’t considering that he had to, in doing that spell and setting it up, worry about all the infinite other universes out there that are filled with people that know who Spider-Man is. That shouldn’t have been a factor. That was something that’s not known to Strange and Wong at that point that they have to be factoring in all these alternate realities in the Multiverse.”
The moment, setting the potential for the Multiversal plot goes back to the first season finale of Loki, as explained by Palmer. “At that moment, the Multiverse expanded indefinitely forward into the future, back into the past, sideways, left and right, to alternate realities we can’t even comprehend,” the producer said. “If it wasn’t for Sylvie, we wouldn’t be here right now.”
Season 1 of Loki is streaming on Disney+ now while the second Season does not yet have a release date yet. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is running in theaters now.
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