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With its planned 2027 release, Avengers: Secret Wars is still a long way off yet, but that didn't stop Marvel from teasing the upcoming movie in the Loki season 2 finale.
In 'Glorious Purpose', which landed on Disney Plus on November 10, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) – now able to control his time-slipping – travels back to the fateful day Team TVA failed to stop the Temporal Loom from malfunctioning, killing Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors), and resetting the others back to their lives on the Sacred Timeline.
The God of Mischief tries his best to make the mission work, for centuries in fact, but every time, his efforts prove fruitless. It's only when Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) sighs, "It's almost as if, as soon as the timelines started branching, this was doomed to happen" that he realizes what he must do: stop Sylvie from killing He Who Remains at the End of Time.
After watching Loki attempt to thwart Sylvie's murderous plan numerous times, He Who Remains (Majors) pauses time and addresses Loki directly, telling him that his death in the season 1 finale was never destined to be permanent and that he built a failsafe that will always branch the additional timelines to keep the Sacred Timeline intact.
The Kang variant goes on to say that without him keeping an eye on things, chaos will consume the universe. Most notably, though, he says that if the branched timelines aren't removed, there will be a devastating war between the different realities. Given the franchise's multiversal shenanigans of late, it's safe to assume that Secret Wars will follow the nine-issue miniseries of the same name, which was published in 2015
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