10 Most Nonsensical Plot Holes In The MCU
4. How Exactly Does A Nexus Event Work?
Prior to the end of season one of the Loki TV show, the Time Variance Authority have been ruthlessly pruning any branching timelines to create one single ‘sacred’ timeline. Those branches are created by Nexus Events - as explained in the show, the moment when someone strays from their path on that sacred timeline, becoming a variant.
Since that's the case, surely Sylvie's Nexus Event was simply being female - yet she was already a young girl when she was grabbed by the TVA, so her branch had been going for a fair few years, subjectively speaking.
It gets sillier. How about the alligator Loki? His Nexus Event was supposedly eating the neighbours' cat. Not being transformed into an alligator in the first place, or whatever happened there: eating a cat. Classic Loki's Nexus Event isn't surviving Thanos' assault on the Asgardian fleet, or anything that happened in the years - probably centuries, possibly even milennia - of isolation that followed
Come to that, why are the Lokis the variants, instead of the Nexus Events that brought them about? And how are Nexus Events possible without some external influence - time travellers, or extra-dimensional visitors, for example?
Look at our Loki again. Supposedly everything the Avengers did in messing with the timeline was "what was supposed to happen", the timeline proceeding like clockwork... so if their time travel wasn't a random external influence, a spanner in the works, how was Loki's variance from that timeline even a possibility?