How General Dox"s Multiverse Pruning Plan Affects Larger MCU Explained By Loki Season 2 Director

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Warning: SPOILERS lie ahead for Loki season 2, episode 2, "Breaking Brad"!
Summary

Director Dan DeLeeuw clarifies how General Dox's multiverse pruning in Loki season 2 will have major consequences for the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.
DeLeeuw assures fans that the timelines of the elder Captain America and the Spider-Man universes are safe from pruning.
The expansion of the multiverse and the pruning of branching universes in Loki season 2 sets up a soft reboot of the MCU, with potential for the return of retired characters and the introduction of new iterations of iconic heroes.

Though her plan may have been stopped, director Dan DeLeeuw clarifies how General Dox's multiverse pruning in Loki season 2 will affect the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe. Introduced in the season premiere, Kate Dickie's character is a high-ranking member of the TVA who takes major issue with the growing branches from the Sacred Timeline and works with Rafael Casal's Hunter X-5 to put a stop to them. Episode 2 saw Loki, Mobius and Hunter B-15 learn of Dox's plans to secretly prune every timeline and prevent further chaos, with the trio turning to Sylvie to help stop her and save the people on the branches.
In honor of its premiere, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with director Dan DeLeeuw to break down the major reveals from Loki season 2, episode 2, "Breaking Brad." When asked whether General Dox's multiverse pruning would hold major consequences for the elder Captain America, as well as Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man universes, the director assured that the trio's timelines are safe and that they were particular about which branches met their ends. See what DeLeeuw shared below:

We played around with some of those ideas. We didn't get too specific about who was gonna go, but I definitely made my list of what the same lines were. But, it's something that was kind of was fun. I got to work on season 1 on the visual effects, so I was part of the birth of the multiverse, and then on season 2, I got to be part of the blowing up of the multiverse. [Laughs] Which is kind of nice, Alpha and Omega in terms of what's happening storyline wise.

How Loki Season 2 Paves The Way For A Soft MCU Reboot

In the wake of Avengers: Endgame bringing Thanos' reign of terror to an end, the MCU's future has elected to branch out into The Multiverse Saga, with Jonathan Majors' Kang the Conqueror situated as the next big bad across the Phases 5 and 6. Even before his debuts in Loki season 1 and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the franchise had begun exploring the concept of the multiverse by introducing variant of such fan-favorite characters as Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Captain Carter in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and T'Challa Star-Lord in Marvel's What If...? among many others.
Your browser does not support the video tag. Though many of these could be written off as simple fan service, Loki season 2 further expanding the multiverse and pruning branching universes is the ultimate tease of the MCU setting up a soft reboot. It's long been theorized that the in-development Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars would act as one for the franchise, introducing new iterations of such heroes as Captain America and Iron Man for the ultimate multiverse war against Kang. A recent report further backed up this theory with Kevin Feige reportedly planning to use the latter movie to "prune everything that's not working and just keep what is [working]", as well as bring back retired characters.

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