The last episode of Marvel's Loki took on a surprising, thoughtful look at the problem

of opposites.

Of course, the entire series was about the challenges and opportunities of two extremes,

unlimited variability on one side, and absolute control and linearity on the other.

And this whole problem, of course, culminates into the last episode, but to my own surprise,

was brought into an almost theological

realm as the entire climax of the series became a play on Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,

facing the puzzle of the serpent. So we will explore the final episode, and just the general

tendency in both the MCU and DC to move towards this trope of the multiverse in their storytelling.

Just a warning, this video will contain an infinite amount of spoilers, by the way.

This is Jonathan Peugeot and welcome to the symbolic world. The Loki series is of course one of the assets setting up Marvel's face-for-story layout,

of which one of the major themes seems to be the exploration of the multiverse idea.

Here, the Adam and Eve motif in the Loki series, which appears for all intents and purposes at the genesis of this

multiverse in the MCU is certainly not something which is accidental. The multiverse idea,

or the notion of an infinite variability on identities, is one which has been explored both by

Marvel and DC in their comics long ago. and even in some recent movies. For example,

the Spider, enter into the Spider-Verse movie, for example. But this now takes an increasingly

important role in the social narrative, which is itself obsessed with difference and variation.

And so is being taken to the next level in these franchises.

So both Marvel and DC seem to be set on diving into this multiverse notion in their next

slew of projects. Though creating this vision not only within their stories where we discover

the clashing of infinite universes universes which contain infinite versions of every

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