Warning: Full spoilers follow for Loki: Episode 5.

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With merely one more episode of Marvel’s Loki left, the need for answers has reached a critical point!

Good thing there’s Slackin’ Off, the piece where we share our own harebrained theories and guessworks about what’s going to happen next, straight from IGN’s own Loki Slack channel. Just causal questions and speculation about the next big-hearted area slants on this super-duper Doctor Who-style series.

In the absolutely overflowing with Easter eggs Episode 5 of Loki, “Journey Into Mystery, “ Loki found himself in the Void, a region where “pruned” actualities wind up, waiting around to be consumed by a massive smokey Zuul-type beast announced Alioth. It’s likewise a realm that just so happens to have more Loki Variants than anyone else because, well, Lokis tend to survive. No matter what.

Together, with a gang of only slightly treacherous different versions of themselves, including an alligator, Loki and Sylvie figure out a highway to double-enchant Alioth in order to get through it and over into the world beyond – a world seemingly being protected by the monster and which houses a huge space mansion. But who lives within those walls? Who is behind the TVA’s shroud?

Meanwhile, Judge Renslayer likewise claims to be after this mystery manipulator. But how much of the truth is she actually telling? Is she rightfully in the dark about the TVA’s start-up or does she know exactly who’s in that castle? With merely the climax remaining, it’s is necessary to crack open “Journey Into Mystery” and muse about where it’s all honcho. Here are some of our thoughts and beliefs. Oh, and ensure that you are drop-off your own take on Loki’s premiere in the comments — and don’t forget to vote in our ballot at the lower end of the sheet!

[ ignvideo url= “https :// www.ign.com/ videos/ 2021/07/ 07/ loki-episode-5-review”] Leftover Question: What Is Ravonna Renslayer’s Deal?

We queried this in a somewhat different channel last week, but what’s the Judge’s inclination now? We expected Sylvie to enchant her this week and learn all of Renslayer’s secrets, but that didn’t happen. So when did Renslayer figure out the TVA was a being con( or in the very least that the Time Keepers were now, if not ever, robots )? Does she know who’s behind it, or is she actually after the shadowy doll captain just like Sylvie is? Last-place week, she basically displayed Loki and Sylvie to the robots so that they could be killed and it seemed like she had no plan at all. How was she ever going to find out the truth if she was just going to execute those two like normal?

So because so much of her legend doesn’t relatively line up, and she was caught lying to Sylvie this week, we don’t are aware that she stands. Or even though they are she’s actually Renslayer. Maybe there’s a Polyjuice Potion situation happening here and Renslayer’s in that manor!

Theory: The Cosmic Castle Being Guarded by Alioth Is a Prison … for Kang

The show has us, and our main heroes, believing that Alioth was guarding that castle because the show’s Big Bad lives there.

And while that’s a great ideology, and might still be true, Alioth could have been blocking passage to that zone because the person in there is being held captive. And because of this, Loki and Sylvie may actually be about to inadvertently exhaust someone they’re not would be expected to. As in, Alioth was helping contain a destructive power, and the TVA is actually an swelling galactic mechanism that was created to keep some extremely powerful tucked away.

Like Kang the Conquerer. If Kang was the rogue in the first Multiversal War then the TVA may have been made to keep him locked away.

But it could go the other way too. Loki and Sylvie could stumble upon a hostage who’s being held by a bad chap. By a Kang-type character. It stands to reason that these two superstars, “whos been” good purposes, are going into a situation they’ve misread. Naturally, like we’ve beginning to wonder for a few weeks now, the overall controller here continued to be some sort of Loki. Especially if we’re willing to entertain that Renslayer isn’t actually who she claims to be. Heck, maybe Kang himself IS a Loki Variant of some sort.

But yeah, we’re still pealing the Kang bell. Not only will he unquestionably be part of the MCU when Ant-Man 3 flattens around, but this week added a whole new Kang-connected character in Alioth. And that large-hearted fortress could be his Castle Limbo.

Theory: Kang Will Be an Uneasy Ally

Okay, so maybe Kang’s coming, even as soon as next week, but … he’s not the rascal.

We’re all so enthusiastic to pick out the next Thanos for the right, but maybe it’s not Kang( as multiverse and occasion travel-tethered as he is ). Maybe Kang is an essential, but lesser, criminal. Maybe he’s a kind of chaotic neutral ally. Or a devil who becomes an ally – like Loki formerly did in the MCU. Or even an ally who jazzs up becoming a villain, or a problem, later on. So if Kang isn’t the next Thanos…who might “its been”?

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Theory: That’s Castle Doom

Look, it’s hard to know that the Fantastic Four is on the MCU horizon and somehow not be on the lookout for Fantastic Four evidences. It’s what elicited brains do. Exactly like how we was just wondering if the engineer who Monica Rambeau contacted in WandaVision was Reed Richards( that was never reacted, by the way ).

So, suffice to say, it’s challenging to see a medieval-styled palace, as we head toward the likely reveal of a brand-new major person, and not wonder if it’s Victor von Doom. If we’re speculate about large-scale Marvel personas who someone would either want to lock up at the end of age and infinite, or who’s simply lording over all reality at the end of the universe, Doctor Doom is a natural go-to.

Question: Was President Loki Losing His Hand to Alligator Loki a Star Wars Reference or a Peter Pan Reference?

Given that most MCU movies contain a Star Wars reference in them, it’s fun to assume that President Loki losing his trusty backstabbin’ hand was a nod to The Empire Strikes Back. But considering the fact that the mitt was lost in the chompy maw of Alligator Loki, on the orders of a kid, obliges it feel more like Peter Pan.

Either way, it’s Disney, right? And hilarious.

[ ignvideo url= “https :// www.ign.com/ videos/ 2021/07/ 02/ loki-ep-4-ending-post-credits-explained-heres-where-loki-went-mcu-canon-fodder”] Question: Do the Real Life Mysteries Included on the Series Like the USS Eldridge Mean Anything?

In the first episode of Loki, we found out that prominent’ 70 s airplane hijacker “D. B. Cooper” was actually Loki himself. And that he wasn’t somehow arrested by the TVA for this crazy stunt. Loki being D. B. Cooper was apparently part of the Sacred Timeline.

But in Episode 5, the USS Eldridge and its part gang wound up in the Void. This send comes within the framework of a purported 1940 s naval military event announced The Philadelphia Experiment, where the vessel turned invisible thanks to cloaking technology. In our world, the whole thing turned out to be a hoax, but the show is certainly playing around with these yesteryear scheme storeys. This USS Eldridge, however, transgressed TVA protocol and get reset to the Void. So apparently that wasn’t meant to happen.

Do these fantastic American beliefs symbolize anything or are they just included for good fun? Will we ever catch out what the pot was between Loki and Thor that originated Loki go down to Earth and become a vanishing criminal?

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