How Many Years Did Loki Really Spend In The Season 2 Finale Time Loop? – Looper

After his plan to fix the Temporal Loom fails, Loki travels further back in time to the Season 1 finale, where he tries convincing Sylvie not to kill He Who Remains. This proves equally impossible; at that moment, Sylvie is utterly convinced the Kang variant needs to be eliminated. Eventually, Loki begins to freeze time so he can speak with He Who Remains. At one point, the villain tells him, “Why don’t you just go through this a couple thousand more times,” implying that the trickster has already run through the scenario at least that many times.

It’s impossible to calculate how long that would have taken him since each attempt was slightly different. In some cases, he tried fighting Sylvie, which took very little time. In others, he tried talking with her, which took a little more. And in many cases, he paused time to talk with He Who Remains for quite a while. For simplicity’s sake, let’s assume that each attempt took an average of 10 minutes and that he went through this particular time loop 2,000 times. Ten minutes multiplied by 2,000 gives us nearly 14 days, which is the best estimate we can arrive at based on the information provided by the episode.

So, how long did Loki spend in time loops during the Season 2 finale? A couple of weeks dealing with He Who Remains is a negligible amount of time compared to the hundreds of years Loki spent studying under Ouroboros, as are the 10 or so attempts shown at navigating the Loom repair with Timely. The shortest time we can estimate, all in, would be 200 years, two weeks, and about one hour, but it could have been much longer.