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Summary

• Loki season 2 introduces new concepts to the MCU's time travel, including time-slipping, rewriting the past, and erasing oneself from history.
• Loki's time-slipping rewrites the TVA's history in "real time," bringing a heightened sense of causality to the organization.
• The Avengers' time travel rules only apply to everything that exists within the Sacred Timeline, whereas the TVA has its own time travel rules given that they operate outside of time.

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Loki season 2, episode 1.Loki season 2 adds a new layer of complexity to the MCU's time travel. After finding out the truth behind the Time Variance Authority and witnessing Sylvie kill He Who Remains, Loki faces new challenges in Loki season 2. Time-slipping, rewriting the past, and removing himself from time are all concepts that even Loki finds difficult to wrap his head around. After all, time is a highly flexible thing at the TVA, as it exists independently of the MCU's main time-space continuum.
Time travel was first introduced in the MCU during Avengers: Endgame, where the Avengers' time-travel technology established that interacting with the past doesn't alter the present. Instead, any trip to the past causes the timeline to branch out and create slightly different realities — unless the changes are undone. This is why the Avengers are able to pluck the Infinity Stones from the past and return them once they're done with them in the present. However, Loki season 2's lore reveals that Avengers: Endgame's time travel rules only apply to everything that's inside the Sacred Timeline. Since the TVA headquarters are located outside of time, time travel works differently there.
How Loki Time Travels In Loki Season 2 After being sent back to the TVA after visiting the Citadel at the End of Time, Loki goes through what Ouroboros calls "time-slipping", a phenomenon that brings Loki back and forth between the past, present, and future. Apparently, Loki season 2's time-slipping is a rare anomaly that afflicts individuals who have had atypical interactions with time. Loki's presence at the TVA's headquarters is displaced from their flow of time, causing him to blink in and out of existence, like a flickering light or a glitching computer file. To make things more mind-boggling, Ouroboros suggests that Loki's time-slipping has precedents, but none of them have taken place at the TVA.
Unlike the Avengers' time travel, Loki's time-slipping affects other points in time. For instance, the information Loki gives to Ouroboros during Loki season 2, episode 1 begins to be recorded in O.B.'s memory in the present despite the fact that Loki is talking to him in the past. So, instead of creating a diverging timeline or causing a hard reset, Loki's time-slipping rewrites the TVA's history in what an outside viewer would call "real time". Time didn't matter too much at the TVA prior to Loki season 2. Now, Loki's time-slipping brings a heightened sense of causality to the organization.
How The TVA Time Travel In Loki Loki season 1 suggests that, at some point in the TVA's past, He Who Remains abducted dozens of variants and turned them into TVA agents, providing them with highly advanced technology. The TVA harnessed the power of time travel with TemPads — the handheld devices that allow TVA agents to access any point in the Sacred Timeline. The TemPads seem to work similarly to the Avengers' Time-Space GPS, as both devices pinpoint a specific moment in time as a landing spot. However, the TemPads open their own portals (called "Timedoors"), whereas the Avengers need a Quantum Tunnel to transport themselves to their destination.