Mr. Paradox. I've never seen Loki. Is he a villain in it or something? The actor is talented but he's playing more of a stage-y villain compared to the other one. I don't blame the actor - he's good. But the movie is trying to pitch two different things at once.
No, he's a new character. The black lady who arrests him at the end is from Loki tho.
Gambit. Wasn't a fan of playing his accent for laughs and the headpiece made Channing Tatum's face look like a pumpkin.
Tatum's face is entirely too wide to wear a headpiece like that.
I don't really get the TVA. So time travel and multiverse are the same thing, kind of? All multiverses are the result of a split on some event? The TVA delete multiverses that take unapproved paths? If every different event causes a new timeline then doesn't time travel just lead to more universes? Eh, there are probably answers - it's just messy in this movie.
The way it works, according to Loki, is
timelines branch naturally all the time, but this produces variants, and eventually Kang variants will discover time/multiversal travel and end up fighting each other, which will cause the multiverse to collapse. So one Kang killed all the others and set up the TVA with a fake story about a Sacred Timeline that needs protection; the real mission of the TVA, unbeknownst to themselves, is to prevent timeline branches from producing more Kangs. But this Kang is tired and wants to be replaced, and selected Loki (the one who escapes in Endgame) and a female variant of Loki, Sophie, to succeed him in running the TVA. Sophie kills him instead, releasing the branches and bringing back the Kangs. In the end, Loki sacrifices himself/ascends to God of Stories and turns the tangle of timelines into a tree, like Yggrassil, stabilizing the multiverse (Kangs still exist tho), but becoming trapped at its center forever. Since then, the TVA just tries to prevent time/multiverse travel that could cause the universes to become unstable.
So, yeah, time travel and multiverse travel are the same thing, a timeline branch is a new universe, but if it's close enough to the universe it branched from, it's just considered an adjacent split. If it diverges much more, it's a universe of it's own.
Should also be noted that time travel doesn't change the past, only creates branches... except they contradicted that rule in the Miss Marvel show. Maybe it comes down to how you time travel, I don't fucking know.
Deadpool's universe now has two Wolverines? Or is his universe's Wolverine the one from Logan in which case because that's in the future the timelines don't make sense. And if it's not his universe's Wolverine, how does he know about X-23?
Yeah that's unclear, at the time of Deadpool, all the downfall shit that happened before Logan hasn't happened yet, so there's the Wolverine who will be Logan running around somewhere, and the Wolverine that Deadpool brought to the timeline. That said, this Wolverine knows about X-23 because Deadpool told him. She doesn't even exist (natively; obviously there's the future one they rescued) in the timeline at this point.
Deadpool doesn't actually end up in the MCU universe at the end. Thought that was the point.
On the one hand, I think it's better this way thematically. The whole movie is about how Fox and all those other old productions got thrown into the trash, but even as they get made fun of, they mattered. It's not for nothing that Blade is considered the actual start of the "new Comic Book Movie era". So Deadpool and/or Wolverine ditching their world and their people for the MCU would have been thematically hollow.
On the other, the story "heals" the universe, and you can bet your ass this universe will be featured in whatever Secret Wars ends up being, and that's when these characters will properly interact with the MCU.
If Logan dying to save X-23 in his movie means the anchor person is gone and his universe will die then it's impossible / meaningless for him to sacrifice his life to save everybody because when he dies, the universe dies.
This is a cope, but I see a lot of people saying "well, it was a villain who said it, it probably doesn't work exactly like that".
As an aside, between Marvel, Sony, and Fox's corpse, they're adding too many things to the mechanics of their shared multiverse. Interactions between universes cause incursions! There's canon events that can't be avoided or the universe dies! There's anchor beings and if they die, the universe also goes (eventually)! There's nexus beings who exist only once in the multiverse! And so on.