Warning! This submit incorporates SPOILERS for Avengers: Endgame Encore.
Avengers: Endgame Encore has lastly begun hitting theaters, and already, it’s confirming some main Avengers: Doomsday particulars (together with some character adjustments which may show fairly controversial). Earlier this week, leaks of the extra scenes in Endgame Encore started making the rounds on-line, though, for a time, it wasn’t clear whether or not they have been official or, in the event that they have been, whether or not they encompassed each change being made to the film. Nevertheless, the official theatrical launch has confirmed that these leaks and rumors following early screenings have been true; the film incorporates 4 further scenes, all occurring proper on the finish of the film. Three of the 4 really happen as mid-credits or post-credits scenes.
Amongst them, as rumored, are one involving Loki showing at Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter’s home, one displaying Physician Doom coming to “accumulate” Bruce Banner, one displaying Doom making his masks, and one by which Mobius, Miss Minutes, OB, and Casey are proven within the TVA. The latter had notably drawn questions, because it appeared to contradict the top of Loki. That’s, whereas Loki might conceivably seem at Steve’s home as a projection whereas remaining the God of Tales, Mobius’s look within the TVA appeared to undermine his conclusion in Loki, whereby he was freed from the TVA. Due to that, followers had begun suspecting that this scene would possibly really happen earlier than the top of Loki season 2. Sadly, a blink-and-you-miss-it element in Endgame Encore proves that’s not the case—and it has huge implications for Mobius’s character arc.
Is Doomsday Fully Altering Mobius’s Destiny?
The final time we noticed Mobius—earlier than Endgame Encore, that’s—he was standing with Sylvie, telling her that he was going to simply “let time cross.” The implication was that Mobius was lastly freed from the TVA, largely due to Loki’s sacrifice, and was now in a position to reside his life the way in which he needed. For that purpose, followers had argued that Endgame Encore’s post-credits scene on the TVA should come earlier than Loki season 2’s conclusion. That already didn’t make a lot sense for myriad causes, however one small element in Endgame Encore confirms that’s not the case. Specifically, within the TVA, an image of Loki that claims “Worker of All Time” is hanging on the wall. Clearly, that means Loki is already the God of Tales at this level within the narrative. So, that raises the huge query: Why is Mobius again to work on the TVA?
One might argue that Loki by no means particularly says Mobius’s time on the TVA is completed, though that was closely implied by the conclusion of the present; Mobius, like Sylvie, had earned a life uncontrolled by the TVA or anybody else for that matter, and Loki had given up all the things to ensure they’d that. The truth that Mobius is again on the TVA, even when he’s doing so of his personal accord and eventually has company (as he appears to, at the very least based mostly on this one scene), dangers severely undermining Loki’s excellent conclusion. The truth is, that isn’t even the one manner this may very well be true, as Loki’s return in Doomsday, which has already begun together with his personal added scene in Endgame Encore, additionally runs that threat. As talked about, although, there are methods for Loki to be within the story with out altering his destiny in Loki. The identical seemingly can’t be mentioned for Mobius.