Loki: What’s hidden in plain sight in episode 6

The Citadel at the End of Time… and those statues

As Loki and Sylvie ventured their way through what we later learned was the Citadel at the End of Time, it wasn’t hard to see all those cracks everywhere. Clearly, something happened here a long time ago. But did any of you pay closer attention to the statues? Because it seems as though they may tell an even deeper story.

The first statues we see are those of two robed figures flanking one another as Loki and Sylvie enter the Citadel’s foyer, right before they’re surprised by Miss Minutes. However, the faces of those statues aren’t humanoid – they’re clocks. This suggests that this is what Miss Minutes used to look like prior to her becoming a living cartoon character, and that there were others besides her who performed similar duties.

The next group of statues we see are what appear to be the Time-Keepers, which we’ve been told aren’t real. But, if the Time-Keepers were never real, then why are there statues of them in the Citadel? Unless, of course, they were real once. In addition, the camera deliberately lingers on a statue that’s been broken off it’s pedestal and smashed into pieces. In cinematic language, this is something that we, the audience, must pay attention towards because it will prove to be very important later. Now the question is what did this statue depict?

Now in the comics, there was a fourth Time-Keeper named “The Oracle of Siwa” who’d been banished by the other Time-Keepers and spent his exile in Ancient Egypt. In addition, the other Time-Keepers were eventually killed by Kang at the end of the comic book miniseries, Avengers: Forever. It appears that both events happened in the MCU, as well, which also means that He Who Remains really wasn’t being completely honest about what happened. Perhaps he, or another version of Kang, ended up killing the real Time-Keepers in the final days of the Multiversal War. Yet there may also be one surviving Time-Keeper still out there.