The concept of time travel and alternate realities that Loki uses might be complemented by some key elements of Asgardian culture. Time travel is one of the most ambitious parts of the MCU. The first title to feature trips through time is Doctor Strange, where the titular sorcerer learns how to trap the evil Dormammu in a time loop. Years later, Scott Lang, Tony Stark, and Smart Hulk all contribute to the invention of science-based time travel in Avengers: Endgame, where it's established that time travel doesn't entail one timeline being altered, but rather multiple parallel timelines branching off from the main one.

Although the Avengers' plan to save the present by going to the past is successful, time travel is only beginning to play a major role in the MCU. Loki reveals that the Sacred Timeline requires an entire organization, the TVA, to protect it, and the presence of rogue variants of the same character, like Lady Loki, represents a huge threat to the multiverse. While Mobius employs Loki because of his potential to redeem himself, there is a subtle hint at a different connection between Loki, his Asgardian family, and time travel.

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During Loki episode 1, the God of Mischief admits he knew the Avengers had time-traveled in Avengers: Endgame because he could "smell the cologne of two Tony Starks.” This is not the first time an Asgardian brushes off the concept of time travel so nonchalantly, as Frigga convinces Thor to confess that he's from the future during his mission to Asgard in Avengers: Endgame. Loki and Frigga's attitude toward time travel suggests the Asgardians, or at least those who are familiar with magic, deem it a rather ordinary concept.

Mjolnir's Triquetra and Tony Stark Solving Time Travel In Avengers Endgame

One detail about time travel that hasn't been explained so far in the MCU is the importance of the Möbius strip — the single-sided twisted cylinder that Tony Stark uses to perfect the Avengers' method of time travel. Stark accomplishes such an achievement by inverting the strip and "finding the eigenvalue of a particle factoring in spectral decomp." Of course, there's no evident correlation between a Möbius strip and the theoretical concepts of time travel and the multiverse in real life, but the MCU can soon develop the importance of this mysterious shape. More specifically, by combining earthly technology and Asgardian magic.

In 2011's Thor, a triquetra briefly appears imprinted on Mjolnir when Odin enchants it with the spell of worthiness. This symbol isn't the "Valknut" figure commonly associated with Odin and Norse culture, but a Möbius strip folded three times. An ancient study of time travel by the Asgardians could reveal why Loki and Frigga don't consider it extraordinary and even reveal why the Möbius strip is so crucial to it.

There are a lot of ways the MCU can go with the multiverse and time travel, but the union between magic and science, previously teased by Erik Selvig's blackboard in Thor: The Dark World, seems one of the most interesting possibilities. Perhaps Mobius M. Mobius' name has a stronger connection to the Sacred timeline, too. For now, viewers may want to keep following the God of Mischief's point of view and witness all of Loki's mind-bending revelations.

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