Fantastic Four Theory: Loki Finale Can Explain Where The Team Has Been All This Time
The Fantastic Four MCUmovie is seemingly set around the '60s, and many fans wonder why nobody remembers such a famous team in modern times. Well, one theory may have the correct explanation, and of course, it involves Loki.
The Fantastic Four franchise has had arguably the most turbulent luck with Hollywood adaptations. From the Chris Evans-starring mid-2000s duology to the unfortunate 2015 reboot, it's a dire situation when Roger Corman's low budget unreleased 1994 take on the superhero team is considered by many to be the best of the bunch. But given certain developments, such as the potential timeline of the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, some fans have been cautiously gaining optimism.
Of course, they still have questions, and that's where the theories come in. User FictionFantom posted their idea on how Marvel's quadruple threat can be introduced into the MCU on the Marvel Studios subreddit. In short, they suggest that the Fantastic Four will come from a branched timeline. That's a simple enough explanation on its own. But after the finale of Loki, there's much more to the idea of alternate timelines than before.
The Loki season 2 finale saw the titular trickster god claim his new place in the universe essentially as the keeper of time itself. It was a brilliant conclusion to his character arc from the villain in 2012's The Avengers to a reluctant helper and finally a selfless hero. But it also set new ground rules for how time works in the MCU. At the beginning of Loki, the Time Variance Authority (TVA) had one job: to trim away branching realities to protect the one arbitrary «sacred» timeline that would fall apart if too many others were allowed to exist. Thanks to Loki taking control, all realities can coexist, creating new timelines and characters that would have been pruned before.
As a result, this particular theory makes a lot of sense. The idea is that the Fantastic Four themselves are time travelers whose timeline is now allowed to exist, bringing them
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