Marvel’s Loki is back with a second season, and its trailer has left fans on the edge of their seats. The fresh preview unveiled by Marvel, due to premiere on Disney Plus in just a few months, is abuzz with timeslipping, temporal chaos, and unexpected scenes featuring jet skis, fast food uniforms, and key lime pies. However, it is the concept of ‘timeslipping’ that has intrigued fans and sparked vigorous debate.
What’s going on?
The phenomenon of timeslipping makes its debut in the trailer, manifesting as the titular character Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, glitching between different time periods at the most inopportune times. With the aid of Mobius (Owen Wilson), Loki seeks help from a new character, OB (Ke Huy Quan), though his assistance proves to be somewhat lacking. This baffling occurrence has sparked numerous conversations among fans, eager to decipher the rules governing timeslipping.
Fan theories abound online, with many focusing on why timeslipping seems to uniquely affect Loki. Commentators have been quick to point out that other Marvel characters, like Doctor Strange and Spider-Man, who have dabbled in time interference, don’t seem to encounter the same glitching issue. Some argue that the difference lies in the nature of their temporal travels—being magic-based rather than technology-based—which might be why they don’t experience the same glitches as Loki does.
Fan theories abound online, with many focusing on why timeslipping seems to uniquely affect Loki. Commentators have been quick to point out that other Marvel characters, like Doctor Strange and Spider-Man, who have dabbled in time interference, don’t seem to encounter the same glitching issue. Some argue that the difference lies in the nature of their temporal travels—being magic-based rather than technology-based—which might be why they don’t experience the same glitches as Loki does.
Others have attributed this inconsistency to the separate origin stories of these franchises. Loki and Doctor Strange, they point out, are Marvel’s creations, while Spider-Man’s No Way Home and Into the Spider-Verse are from Sony. This has led to further conjecture, with fans suggesting that each franchise may have its own set of rules for time travel and related phenomena, which don’t necessarily align.
As fans dissect the trailer, there are those who believe that finding a coherent explanation for these discrepancies might be a futile endeavor. They suggest that there might not be a unifying logic binding these distinct narratives, arguing that the separate franchises are better off not being interconnected.