WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for Loki episode 6.

According to Disney's destroy the Sacred Timeline and cause another Multiversal War. Because of that, the TVA is quickly alerted to any changes in the timeline, promptly showing up to reset things and prune whatever is causing the nexus event. 

In Loki episode 4, Lady Loki (Sophia Di Martino), a.k.a. Sylvie, and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) create an interesting nexus event. Anything that happens in an apocalypse doesn't affect the Sacred Timeline enough for the TVA to notice, so the pair hide on a doomed moon called Lamentis-1. Unfortunately, they end up stranded with no way to escape. When all seems lost, the two Loki variants share a tender moment by a lake on Lamentis-1. Loki tells Sylvie she's "amazing" for taking on the TVA independently, and she grabs his arm. The two Loki variants touching and developing feelings for each other supposedly causes a nexus event that finally alerts the TVA to their whereabouts. The organization captures Loki and Sylvie before Lamentis-1 is destroyed.

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Though Loki initially indicates the intimate moment is the nexus event, the Loki finale has different ideas. In the Loki finale, Loki and Sylvie make it to the Citadel at the End of Time. At the castle, they meet He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors), a Kang the Conqueror variant that secretly controls the TVA. He seemingly knows everything about the Loki variants, including their intimate "look by the lake" that saved them from destruction. And according to He Who Remains, he "paved the road" for all of it. Kang wanted to get the Loki variants there to take over his position at the TVA or kill him and unleash the Multiverse. He Who Remains was behind it all.

Loki, Kang, and Sylvie in episode 6 of Loki

With the reveal, He Who Remains changes Sylvie and Loki's nexus event. While the TVA believes the Loki variants' nexus event was the intimate moment, it also may have been the pair's impending death. He Who Remains needed Loki and Sylvie to survive. The pair making it to him at the Citadel at the End of Time was always part of the plan. Their deaths would obviously deviate from He Who Remains' Sacred Timeline, so that's why the TVA was alerted. While the intimate moment may have played a part in Loki and Sylvie's nexus event, their deaths would be a bigger deviation from the Kang variant's plan.

Loki variants are survivors, which is perhaps why He Who Remains "paved the way" for them in the first place. Because of their survival instincts, many versions of Loki avoid their demise in the Void at the end of time. Loki reiterates this survival skill to Sylvie before their nexus event on Lamentis-1. "We may lose. Sometimes painfully. But we don't die. We survive," he says. He Who Remains needed someone to survive long enough to get to him in the Loki finale, and the God of Mischief variants were the perfect candidates.

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Loki will return in season 2.

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