However when the new Avengers try to steal the Infinity Stone from the original Avengers, they flub the heist and Loki winds up getting his hand on the Infinity Stone. ![]() They eventually captured Loki and the Infinity Stone that he was carrying. They travel back in time to New York in 2012 when the original Avengers fought Thor’s brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who was trying to take over the world. In order to prevent those fissures from happening, Captain America (Chris Evans) returns all the Infinity Stones to their original locations and moments in time after the Avengers defeat Thanos. However, Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) learns from The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) that if they take the Infinity Stones from different moments in time and do not return them, the Avengers will create a branching timeline that breaks off from their main “true” timeline. In that movie, the Avengers need to travel back in time to steal the Infinity Stones so they can defeat Thanos (Josh Brolin). ![]() The multiverse and branching timelines played a role in Avengers: Endgameīefore we even dive into the events of Loki, we need to backtrack even further to Avengers: Endgame, which introduced the idea of time travel and branching timelines in the MCU. Why are there multiple versions of the same character running around the movie? Who the heck is Jonathan Major’s Kang the Conquerer character and where did he come from? What is the multiverse? The film assumes that its audience has already gotten a download on all of these concepts from other Marvel properties and will likely leave those who have been skipping the MCU’s small-screen offerings befuddled. Yet the new Ant-Man movie doesn’t spend much time explaining these concepts. So far those movies have largely existed as comic diversions from the main action involving the MCU’s more powerful heroes like Thor and Captain America. That show introduced actor Jonathan Majors as the next big bad in the franchise but also seeded information about branching timelines, variants, and a multiversal war that are essential plot points in Quantumania. Did you do your superhero homework? The Marvel Cinematic Universe has grown increasingly demanding of its audience: In order to understand what happens in Marvel’s latest film, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quntumania, viewers will have to have watched not only the Ant-Man and Avengers films but also the Marvel TV series on Disney+, particularly Loki.
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