Just a couple of months before the series is set to release on Disney Plus, Marvel has unveiled the official trailer for Loki season 2 trailer – and it features as much period-hopping, timey-wimey mayhem as we've come to expect. (It also features more Jetskis, McDonalds' uniforms, and key lime pies than we were anticipating, but that's not what we're concerned about here).
The clip also introduced 'timeslipping', which is seemingly causing Tom Hiddleston's titular anti-hero to glitch out at the most inconvenient of moments and reappear in, well, another time. Loki and Mobius (Owen Wilson) seek out Ke Huy Quan's new character OB to try and stop it, though he's not much help it turns out. ("It's impossible to timeslip in the TVA," he mutters sweetly, as an exasperated Mobius replies, "I know, but we just saw it happen?" This is going to get complicated).
Shortly after the promo landed online, fans of the God of Mischief have taken to Reddit to try and work out the rules of timeslipping and why, if it's caused by interferences in the timeline, it's not something that affected Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (and other Marvel properties like Spider-Man: No Way Home and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse).
"The belief is that it's because it was magic," Rifted-06 claimed on a discussion board. "America Chavez travels the multiverse with her powers but Spider-Man 2099 created watches to travel the multiverse, which is technology, and so technology causes glitching. The Spider-Men in [Spider-Man: No Way Home] came to the MCU though a spell as well so they didn't glitch either."
"These universes were never planned to be canon to one another and the rules aren't going to line
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