LOKI Director Kate Herron Explains Birth Of The Multiverse: "Separate [Timelines] Are Now Connecting"

The season finale of Loki blew us all away with a cliffhanger ending and the rebirth of the Multiverse, which came about after Sylvie killed He Who Remains, a Kang the Conqueror Variant who has spent a million lifetimes attempting to stop his villainous alternate selves from reemerging and going to war with each other.

All those branching timelines have created endless opportunities for the Marvel Cinematic Universe moving forward, with projects like What If? and Spider-Man: No Way Home set to further explore the Multiverse. 

During a recent interview with Murphy's Multiverse, Loki director Kate Herron teased what we were seeing on screen and what those different branches connecting actually means. 

"So, there’s the branches, right, which is like the alternative reality. But then something, you’ll see it. It’s very subtle, but in the very last shot where you see the Multiverse, there’s basically other bigger physical timeline branches," the filmmaker teased. "So, it’s almost like these different separate trees that are now connecting."

"It’s almost like a bridge. If you imagine the branch, it is like another reality. But if the branch extends beyond a certain point, it will then connect to other physical timelines. That last shot we did, there are other like thicker [branches] that are meant to be like our timeline. And there are other timelines like that and the branches are the connectors basically."

Could those connecting branches be what leads to characters from other worlds finding their way to the MCU? It's been rumoured for a while now that Spider-Man: No Way Home's premise will see the villains from past moves pulled into the same reality as Tom Holland's Peter Parker, so it's possible these timelines all linking up is what opens the door. 

We'll have to wait and see, but Herron's comments definitely leave us with plenty to think about.