Does Doom Kill Loki at the Tree of Time? What One Leak Claims, and Why It's a Third Theory, Not a Repeat

This site has already built two competing theories about how Doctor Doom gets past Loki's power in Avengers: Doomsday: one arguing Doom stole or received a transfer of Loki's God of Stories power, the other countering that Doom never needed to steal anything — he just out-plans him. A specific leak circulating separately from both offers a third, blunter answer that doesn't require either heist or strategy: Doom traces Loki's path through the reformed TVA, finds his way to Loki's throne at the end of time, and simply kills him there.

The Claim and Its Infinity War Echo

The leak states plainly that Doom "is said to trace Loki's path through the TVA and attacks the multiversal policing agency, in order to find the way to Loki's throne at the end of time," with a separate, related claim asserting Doom kills everyone at the TVA, "including Loki." The staging, if accurate, would land as a deliberate callback: *Infinity War* opened with Thanos casually killing Loki to make a point about what he was willing to do. A film that opens its own Doom-centric arc the same way — a god-tier villain casually ending Loki to prove the stakes are real — would be Marvel repeating a structural beat it knows works, on the same character, for the same reason.

What Makes This Version Different From the Two Existing Theories

The power-theft theory needs a mechanism — some offscreen ritual or confrontation where Doom specifically extracts Loki's cosmic authority, mirroring the comics' Beyonder power transfer. The out-planning theory needs Doom to route around Loki's power rather than confront it directly. This leak needs neither. It describes something closer to Thanos's Vormir-adjacent pragmatism than Doom's usual chess-master patience: Loki isn't a power source to be harvested or a variable to be planned around, he's simply an obstacle in the way of the throne, removed the fastest available way. That's a genuinely different Doom than either existing theory assumes — less a sorcerer performing a ritual, more a conqueror clearing a room.

Why Loki Being "Uncast" Might Fit Right Into This

This site has separately noted that Marvel still hasn't confirmed Tom Hiddleston has a credited role in *Doomsday* at all, despite a rune-covered floor visible in Doom's throne room footage. If this leak is accurate, that absence of a cast credit stops being a mystery about whether Loki appears and starts looking like a spoiler hiding in plain sight — Marvel wouldn't need to credit a role that exists mainly to end in the opening act.

All three readings can't be simultaneously true in their strongest forms, and none of them are confirmed. What's genuinely useful about laying them side by side is what it shows: however Doom actually gets past Loki, multiple independent lines of theorizing and leaking keep landing on the same underlying belief — that Loki's throne at the end of time is exactly where this film's stakes get established, one way or another.