How can the "End of Time" be the end of time when we know events occurred AFTER He Who Remains died?

Question

Something doesn't quite add up with the concept of the "End of Time" in Loki.

He Who Remains, aka Kang the Conqueror, dies at the End of Time. Killed, I wager, is more precise. That was Season 1. Season 2 begins, and, clearly, there are events in Season 2 that occur AFTER Kang died. Yes, Loki time slips both in and out of the TVA. But the whole season is basically "Temporal Loom is bad. We need a He Who Remains variant to fix the darn thing," and they find one in Victor Timely. With all these brilliant minds and centuries for Loki to gain all that knowledge, you'd think someone would have asked if the temporal loom plot device could handle infinite timelines, coupled with the throughput multiplier plot device.

But the point is that it defies logic to say that the "End of Time" is the actual end of time. Whose time? Which timeline? If anything that could ever happen was orchestrated by He Who Remains up until the End of Time, that would mean Season 2 and the finale itself all happened before Kang dies at the End of Time. Once time ends, it ends, and everything becomes nothing. The act of being, existing, becomes non-existent or incomprehensible for beings such as us, who can only experience or perceive what we call life in 3 dimensions of space and 1 dimension of time. To my brain, it's illogical that what He Who Remains claims is the "End of Time" is the actual end of time.

Does anyone have an explanation as to what this so-called "End of Time" is and if it's on a timeline? Perhaps this has been explained in the comics? 

Answer 1

Its the End of Kang's Time

HE WHO REMAINS: We just crossed... the threshold. Oh. So, I fibbed. I fibbed earlier when I said I know how everything's going to go. I... I know... I knew... everything up to a certain point, and that point was about... seven, eight, nine, ten seconds ago. But now I have no idea. No idea how the rest of this is going to go.

_{Loki (2021) - S01E06 - "For All Time. Always."}

The End of Time was "seven, eight, nine, ten seconds ago"; the point at which Kang's prescience ended. From that point, there are infinite citadels in an infinite number of timelines, but the Sacred Timeline ended "seven, eight, nine, ten seconds ago".

And remember, infinity is bigger than you think - it contains everything and it's only just getting started with that.

Answer 2

I think it was just a time around the farthest point he who remains had gone. Recall that he knew exactly what was going to happen up to a point. That could have been considered the "true end of time". But really, people give things all sorts of names. Those names are useful, asthetically pleasing or both. But they are not always strictly descriptive or accurate. I think people are reading to much into it. In stories for some reason people seem to expect that all terms are strictly accurate and often try to retcon terminology that was casually dropped in a movie. Look at all the discussions about "binary language of vaporators". (even going to the effort of writing in books about it. You will find whole discussions about "Binary" being the name of the language of droids. But really, just take it at face value. It's the language of vaporators. Is it a programming language? A communications protocol? Both? Probably both. And it's probably composed of two characters.or maybe not. Maybe it's for point to point communications between two devices so binary refers to that. But it's a computer sort of thing and you need something that talks that to perform some sort of maintenance. And my guess is, that's all Lucas I tended when he wrote it. (He's not Tolkien, who honestly DID plan things that carefully)

Similarly, Tolkien didn't write Loki either, so I doubt there is a 50 page document, written in pencil and then written over in ink describing how The One Who Remains arrived at "The End Of Time" and took up residence. It's just a name that sounds cool and describes the general timeframe that He Who Remains lives in. Perhaps there's some technical reasons you can't travel farther than that. Perhaps not. In fact, I think that whether or not that's true actually depends upon whether a writer writing a Marvel story decides at some point that it is relevant to the story. Think of it as being in an indeterkibant state until some writer decides they need it to be this way. At which point, it solidifies into "cannon" and everyone else has to follow it to maintain continuity.