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[MCU] If there is only one “Sacred Timeline”, then how can things like Alligator Loki exist?

I might be understanding this wrong but I just wanna know how it works.


I get that the TVA “prunes” things that aren’t supposed to happen, so the sacred timeline remains intact and a multiversal war doesn’t occur. I also get that some leeway, like the Avengers’ time travel, is allowed if puts the sacred timeline in the right direction. What I don’t get is how there can be Lokis that look different, and even an alligator one.


The alligator wasn’t pruned for being an alligator, he was pruned for eating the neighbor’s cat. So this thing clearly came from another universe where some people, maybe Asgardians, are instead alligators. So, are these universes allowed to exist? Up until the cat eating, this alligator did nothing to violate the TVA rules. Does the sacred timeline apply to one universe, or all? I thought other universes weren’t even be allowed to exist until He Who Remains was killed.
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There isn't really a sacred timeline. Kang set up the TVA to prune any timeline that would lead to another Kang. He basically quarantined a timeline away from the wider multiverse to stop the endless flood of Kang invasions he had witnessed all his life. And if that timeline branches in a way that does not lead to a Kang (see The Time Heist), it doesn't need to be pruned.