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mnkboy907 posted...

Yeah I'm not even really sure how these variants even happen if the sacred timeline is just a singular timeline being maintained. Like where do these irregularities even come from unless there's multiple timelines continuing to exist in the first place? Maybe time travelers and the TVA is just bad at neutralizing all the little ripples, so other changes manifest later?

Yeah this is the conclusion I came to by going down the time travel mechanic rabbit hole. We KNOW there logically has to be a ton of alternate timelines that are "okay" because 1) Endgame was already explained as "supposed" to happen and 2) everytime Sylvie hides out in an apocalypse, by the shows logic this is an alternate timeline with differences too small to detect by the TVA.. So following that to the logical conclusion, there is no one alpha timeline. There are actually infinite versions of the "canon" MCU with inconsequential differences that the TVA cannot meaningfully distinguish between. But this would also mean that what constitutes a "Nexus Event" is completely arbitrary and just up to what the TVA decides is different enough to detect and cull. Which could very well be the point! Fascism is arbritrary. So in this version, they don't actually care which version is the "real" timeline but that all the timelines are similar enough and, presumably, don't find out about each other and start fighting again.

Edit: ninjad by rope which is a much more succinct version of this lol

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