Loki: How the timeline and multiverse works in Marvel Comics

How the Loki timeline theory doesn’t work

Here’s a fun fact for you, the Marvel Cinematic Universe exists on an alternate Earth in the Marvel Comics’ universe. The Marvel Comics Earth is 616 while the events of the MCU supposedly take place on Earth 199999. That alone suggests that the Timekeepers’ claims are not true. We also have the fact there were multiple Infinity Stones in the TVA headquarters.

Another fun fact, Infinity Stones don’t work outside of their designated reality (check out Contest of Champions No. 9). Granted, this could just prove that they stopped multiple realities from happening. The Infinity Stones in Loki could just be evidence that they took from the time-crime scene. However, we’ve seen a few Marvel Comics arcs that reveal how the timeline is messed up.

According to Tony Stark and Reed Richards, time is like a living being. The more they abuse it, the more it’s damaged. And Marvel Comics loves abusing the timeline. Days of Future Past, Beast retrieving his younger X-Men from the past, and Cable’s constant time jumps are all examples of Marvel messing with the timeline. Maybe the most obvious abuse came during the comic book series Age of Ultron – a moment where they almost broke time itself. The Timekeepers couldn’t have been okay with this.