What does red line mean in Loki?

However, the first Loki episode ("Glorious Purpose") informs us that there is one timeline (The Sacred Timeline) and that any branches formed are deleted before it reaches the Red Line, after which it cannot be erased.
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How do timelines work in Loki?

Sacred Timeline is the series of events or paths that all timelines must take, which is within the definition of “sacred” that the Time Keepers deem fit. Each timeline can have divergences, but they need to be within the standard deviation (allowed variance), which again is decided by the Time Keepers.
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What does resetting the timeline do in Loki?

The Time Variance Authority use reset charges to prune alternate timelines in which Nexus events occurred in and sent its contents to the Void at the end of time. Among the many timelines pruned by the TVA were occupied by various Loki variants.
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Why did the timeline start branching in Loki?

From the very beginning of Loki, the show has been clear on what causes the Sacred Timeline to branch. An unplanned decision or moment, known as a nexus event, triggered the creation of a branched timeline and made it the TVA's job to prune these timelines before they became too different.
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What happened to the time bombs in Loki?

The Bombing of the Sacred Timeline was an attack planned and executed by Sylvie Laufeydottir in order to distract the Time Variance Authority so she could infiltrate their headquarters in an attempt to find the Time-Keepers and kill them.
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Is Lady Loki Hela?

In Marvel's comic book mythology, Hela is Thor's niece, being the daughter of Loki, or a Loki, at least; it gets complicated, in that Loki has been resurrected on a number of occasions.
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What did Lady Loki bomb?

After collecting dozens of these reset charges, Lady Loki finally reveals her true plan when she scatters them across time and space, effectively bombing the sacred timeline and creating the kind of chaotic multiverse that the TVA was supposed to prevent.
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Are Loki and Sylvie from the same universe?

Loki and Sylvie are not related

Loki introduced variants and Nexus events into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And fans had questions about variants immediately. Except for Sylvie, all of the Loki variants had the same name.
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Why did Loki end on a cliffhanger?

Always.,” ends on a major cliffhanger as Loki realizes that He Who Remains was telling the truth with his warning. Loki and Sylvie broke the Sacred Timeline, and now they're going to have to deal with the fallout and consequences.
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Is Lady Loki from another universe?

Here, she goes by Sylvie, her TVA file lists her surname as Laufeydottir, and she appears to be a true variant/alternate universe version of our original recipe Loki, whose experiences largely mirror his, just with a few key differences.
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Why is Sylvie a variant?

Remember that Sylvie's family told her she was adopted, meaning she knew her origins all along — just like Thor, and unlike Loki. In fact, Sylvie could even be a reverse-Loki, meaning she's a variant of Thor raised in an adoptive family, giving her something in common with both brothers.
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What does pruning mean in Loki?

Gugu Mbatha-Raw's Ravonna Renslayer orders the "pruning" (killing somebody by erasing them from reality) of Mobius, while she prunes Loki herself.
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What happens if you are pruned in Loki?

What happens when someone gets pruned in Loki? When a person is pruned, they are transported to another world or place in time.
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Is there only one universe in Loki?

As laid out by the Ancient One in Doctor Strange and confirmed by He Who Remains on Loki, the MCU exists in a world “without end,” because the MCU's multiverse is infinite. Vastly different parallel worlds, along with vastly different dimensions, all exist. Anything and everything can happen within them.
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Did the multiverse exist before Loki?

The "beginnings" of the multiverse arc in the MCU is actually Loki. The majority of the series focuses on the idea of the Sacred Timeline which sounds less like a multiverse like what we end up with in Doctor Strange 2, at least at first.
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Can Loki time travel?

According to Marvel, the answer is yes. Back in Avengers: Endgame, the Avengers used an Infinity Stone to travel back in time by creating branched universes — or branched timelines, as they're portrayed in the movie.
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Will there be a Loki season 2?

He'll be reuniting with Owen Wilson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

Loki star Tom Hiddleston has confirmed that production will be starting "this summer" on Season 2 of the MCU Disney+ series.
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Who is Loki's love interest?

Loki and Sylvie's love story has an apocalyptic beginning since that's where the two first begin to bond. Trapped on a moon on the verge of total destruction, the two are forced to work together to find a way out of this situation, only to have it completely fail before their eyes.
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Why didn't Mobius know who Loki was?

When Loki returned to the TVA, which was in panic mode because over 60 new branches had formed off the Sacred Timeline with more constantly being made, Mobius and Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku) didn't recognize the God of Mischief at all. Mobius didn't even identify him as a Loki variant, much less his "favorite" Loki.
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How is there a girl Loki?

In the comics, Loki is reborn as a woman, known simply as Lady Loki, after the events of Ragnarok in Asgard, but even that wasn't too innocent: When Thor and his fellow Asgardians are to be reborn in new bodies on Earth, Loki actually stole the body intended to be for Sif.
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Why did Loki fall in love with Sylvie?

Loki and Sylvie growing to appreciate themselves through a mutual love for each other or definitively choosing to not be alone despite being faced with death may have been the actual cause of the Nexus event, with the romantic reasons only being an assumption from Mobius.
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How old is Loki in human years?

Asgardians live for about 5,000 years and Loki's only been around for 1,070 of those years, which, relative to humans, makes him about 21.4 years old. Thor, on the other hand, is 1,500 years old, which makes him about 30 years old in human years.
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Can Lady Loki mind control?

Lady Loki revealed herself to him at the end of Loki episode 2, and she comes with a new power set from the original Loki. She has the ability to possess other people using mind control and frequently used this power during the episode.
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Who is the girl at the end of Loki episode 2?

At the end of the episode, the hooded figure who had been possessing people and running amok everywhere from 1980s renaissance fairs to the not-too-distant future was finally unmasked: a blonde woman, played by Sophia Di Martino, is seen with a familiar looking horned helmet and cloak.
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Is Loki and Sylvie's relationship incest?

A romantic fling between Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and a Loki variant (Sophia Di Martino). Aka a female version of Loki, their relationship of sorts labeled by some as "incest." Technically, Loki and Sylvie aren't brother and sister, but different versions of the same person.
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