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Medussa posted...

i wasn't going to speculate on the third loki, since there's basically zero known yet.

Well they did say he was hunting himself. Doesnt sound like speculation.
KogaSteelfang posted...

It literally shows and states that they took multiple timelines and created a single one out of them. So, I'd assume using a spare part from one timeline to fix the main one wouldn't be as big of an issue if it results in the favorable outcome. It'd explain why Gamora and 2014 Thanos and Nebula arent variants get pruned, despite time shenanigans, they resolved themselves and ended up with all the important parts where they belonged, aside from Loki. Which is what we're seeing in his show.

I just think it's lame to say it was all predestined to play out exactly as we saw when the groundwork is there to still allow for what we saw to have happened and make sense with free will. Of course we'll learn more as the story continues, but allowing just a little bit of wiggle room goes a long way in explaining how it might work.

Technically there is free will. Just whenever they make a choice that wasnt part of the sacred timeline (notice the singular in the name, not plural), that timeline gets pruned. The people still made every single choice. Its just that any version that made a differing choice was nuked to oblivion along with everyone else on that timeline. They say in the cartoon they cannot allow any branches. ANY.