Cocoa and Con Men: Kang Just Won (theory)
Kang is not a genius.
Kang is human.
Kang lies.
Kang is not a genius.
This is part of what makes him so dangerous. He’s petty, a narcissist and a con man. He wants to be viewed as a genius, but I don’t think he’s invented ANYTHING in his life.
Consider the inventions of Victor Timely, every one of them fails, and every one of them is an off-kilter copy of someone else’s invention.
Kang is a nobody from the 31st century that scooped up a bunch of existing technology to pretend to be a genius.
Kang is human.
He Who Remains wanted to look omnipotent at the end of time. Using his ability to rewind things, he was able to figure out the path he wanted Loki and Sylvie to take. But that was just memorization of a short little scene. A simple con to make him look more powerful than he is.
Kang lies.
We’ve seen it with Victor Timely and Kang the Conqueror. There’s absolutely no reason to trust what He Who Remains to be the truth, and I think the biggest lie is this: Kang has not yet won the multiversal war. But he’s about to.
Who’s in the War?
A lot of the Kangs are united as the Council of Kangs, and they were terrified of Kang the Conqueror (or whoever the Kang was in Quantumania). I really think the whole war was JUST about stopping him, and that HWR is the same variant as KTC.
If you think about how HWR warns about what comes next if Loki and Sylvie don’t keep the TVA going, he’s worried about a LOT of versions of Kang coming, not one singular version. He’s worried about the Council, and not KTC.
But he doesn’t actually want Loki and Sylvie to run the TVA, he wants the S2E4 actions to happen. Boom goes the Loom, ect.
Because HWR wanted Victor Timely to become a “KTC Seed” and spread his KTC essence into every other Kang variant across the multiverse, making the entire Council of Kangs into Conquerors.
Victor HAD to be exposed to the breaking Loom and turned into spaghetti at that moment for this to work.
How did Victor know what to do?
The TVA Manual.
Victor described it as a correspondence. Like it was talking to him. I suspect the manual had a lot of coded messages in it, written by OB to communicate from HWR to Victor.
This gave him the basic ideas on how to think like Kang the Conqueror, how to build a very specific enhancement for the Loom that appears to not work (but 100% works to spread VT out), and a signal that tells him WHEN the plan needs to go down.
Hot Cocoa.
HWR doesn’t have the capacity to remember every moment of his life. He’s only human.
But he would possibly remember the first time he had hot cocoa from a TVA machine (which likely has an entry in the TVA manual, he’d know the machine exists). So HWR anchors the plan to that memory as a way to “synchronize the watches.”
The second Victor sees Mobius drinking hot cocoa from a hot cocoa machine, he stops trying to pretend to be the inventor and gets himself to that machine, so that he’s in the right place at the right time.
He knows he’s about to turn into spaghetti, but he also knows it’s where he wins. So, it’s time to be brave.
Kang the Conqueror is now EVERY Kang variant. He’s won, it’s game over.
Or it was just a moment to humanize Victor and make us the viewer more sympathetic to him when he goes spaghetti.
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