The Loop was a sub-dimension within Reality Zero where everyone trapped inside would be fighting endlessly to death in a time loop. Those people were deprived from their memory and their ability to speak and followed by a deadly Storm, which resets every 22 minutes.
People in the Loop or who were once trapped inside are called "Loopers".
The Loop[]
Catwoman getting a Victory Royale
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- — Batman
The Loop is an endless pseudo-time loop of Battle Royale, created and managed by the Imagined Order. Every 22 minutes, The Storm slowly closes in on the island, resetting the loop when the last person survives (if there is any). This last survivor if at the exact center of The Storm would escapes the loop. Upon entrance of the Loop, inhabitants are rendered mute and their memories start to deteriorate. Despite this, the loop does not reset the environment of the Island, nor does it reset any deeper thoughts of feelings or emotions. Loopers can still communicate via non-verbal means, such as how Batman communicates with Snake Eyes, enabling Batman to escape the loop. For one to escape The Loop, all other combatants must be eliminated and must be at the center of The Storm.
The Loop itself is similar to a computer program, however it had to be monitored constantly by the Imagined Order. During The Device event, it can be seen glitching and bugging with pixel effects, and during The Devourer of Worlds event, Tony Stark describes to the looper, that he 'hacked' the Loop.
Loop Effects[]
| “ | Once you're here, you're not you. You're like a snapshot of who you were.
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- Memory Manipulation
- The Loop deteriorates your memory, especially your sense of identity.[1]
- Inability to speak
- The Loop removes the ability to speak, forcing the Loopers to communicate through non-verbal communication.
- Restricting Metahuman Abilities
- Your special abilities are restricted due to memory loss causing you to lose knowledge of your powers.
- Your body will be vulnerable to bullets[2]
Dialogue from Lexa ponders the question as to why everyone is so vulnerable to bullets. Characters such as Superman are canonically immune, but can be eliminated within the loop.
- Creation of Snapshots
- Escaping the Loop creates a Snapshot, an exact moment of a Looper once trapped inside the loop. A Snapshot is a perfect copy of a looper having the exact same appearance, abilities, memories and personality as their original self. However they tend to evolve differently than them, this is the case of Jones, Geno and Batman's Snapshots.
Outside of the Loop[]
Outside of The Loop, or the Extra Loop, is the location a Looper ends up after surviving the Battle Royale. All usual effects of The Loop are gone, but the escaped Looper is still trapped on the island and unable to remember the reality they come from. It is highly likely that Characters The Looper meets are in the Extra Loop due to their ability to talk, alongside various groups/people in The Lore that maintain and construct things around the island.
Extra-Loop Effects[]
- No Language Barrier
- Everyone will speak the same language and can understand each other.[3]
- Memory Manipulation
- The Extra Loop let you recover the memories of every loop you lived, but not those from before one's arrival on the Island.Cite error: Closing
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- The Extra Loop let you recover the memories of every loop you lived, but not those from before one's arrival on the Island.Cite error: Closing
Breaking the Storm[]
Due to a poor understanding of the connection between the Storm and the Loop, Midas attempted to push back the Storm using the Device which temporarily broke the Loop (this will allow the first meeting between The Looper and Agent Jones) and resulted in The Wall of Water.
Imagined Order[]
The I.O. study and control the Loop. They use it to clone countless Chests, Ammo boxes, Supply Llama and IO Guards. They also kidnap people from countless realities and put them in the Loop.
In The Bridge, I.O. Loop Control room is a spherical monitor room with a massive computer pillar in the middle with multiple Cube panels making vibrations to align the Zero Point energy within the room.
Loop Immunity[]
To prevent the Loop's abilities from affecting certain individuals, materials that can be used to shape new reality like The Zero Point are required to make loop shield devices. A sealed environment suit can also stop the Loop effects. Swimming deep underwater also works.
Sealed Environment[]
A sealed environment keeps The Loop's effects away[4], but doesn't allow the user to escape The Loop, as they still need to escape The Loop through the Eye of The Storm. If the suit gets damaged, all of its effects wear off and The Loop resets the memory. Known users of this method are the members of The Seven, IO Guards and Lex Luthor.
I.O. Technology[]
The Imagined Order developed many forms of technology that allows them to enter The Loop with no memory loss. The most known one is a Portal Device, which was commonly carried by Agent Jones. If a Portal Device gets destroyed or overloaded, the user gets stuck in The Loop. A small device was also given to Deathstroke which created a small force shield around him with the same signature as The Storm, allowing him to bypass The Loop.
World Forge Visor[]
The Batman Who Laughs' visor made from World Forge, a type of material similar to the Zero Point. It keeps his memory and speech intact.
Timeline[]
Before Chapter 1[]
According to Bunker Jonesy, The Imagined Order started various experiments with The Zero Point, One of the experiments was to send Agent Jones into the Zero Point to see what will happens. He discovers The Loop and his first Snapshot: Jonesy The First.
Season 4[]
In Season 4, The Visitor, a member of the mysterious Seven makes his way onto the Island via a meteor crash, and nearing the end of the season attempts to escape it using a rocket, in the Blast Off event. However, during this attempt, the rocket creates several rifts in the sky, causing a sideways rift between reality, a Sideways Rift. One of the results of this is a person from the real world, named Drift, being inducted into the loop.
Season X[]
After the events of The Final Showdown event, the Zero Point is left exposed, and creates another bridge between realities. This time however, it brings another member of The Seven, named The Scientist. The Scientist escapes from the meteor like last time, and whilst working on another rocket, starts to record tapes to try and retain his fading memory and maintain the rocket progress. These tapes detail the Loop for the first time explicitly. The Scientist succeeds, and launches a rocket alongside several unknown members of the Seven, into the zero point. As a result, the zero point expands and begins to absorb the entire island, during The End event.
Chapter 2: Season 1[]
After the result of the End event, a new island is created, and the loop appears to be as intact as the Pre-Season.
Chapter 2: Season 2[]
In this season, Midas first appears on the island and begins to build a device which harnesses the power of the Zero Point to push back the storm. This is unsuccessful, and instead a Wall of Water is created, flooding the entire island. The Storm being connected to the Loop was first revealed here, and this one was temporarily broken. As a result of this, The player is continuously transported to a mysterious office, and a familiar face interacts with the player, showing surprise that they can understand him as they came from outside the loop. John Jones is the man present, and he is the first person aside from the Scientist to be audible.
Jones tells Janice to dial the Resonance Actuator in the Loop Control room to 7.2. causing the Loop to restart and send everyone back into it.
Chapter 2: Season 3[]
In Chapter 2: Season 3, Thor is transported to the island to warn the members of Galactus' arrival, but begins to lose his memories and voice. Due to this, he quickly brings other Marvel characters to island, and in particular, Tony Stark. Eventually.
Chapter 2: Season 4[]
Others that Thor has brought begin to lose their memories, such as Doctor Doom who quickly returns to conquering, and Wolverine, who begins to stalk the woods for unsuspecting victims. However, Tony Stark manages to retain his memories using special technology built into his Iron Man suit. Throughout the season, he constructs a Stark Industries lab and works on a plan to stop Galactus from absorbing the Zero Point. During the The Devourer of Worlds event, with the players help, Tony Stark manages to send Galactus far away from the Island, but the Zero Point was left exposed. During the event, Tony Stark mentions having 'hacked' the loop and made a few million clones of Battle Buses, aiding to his ability to communicate with the player, as with other members of Thor's crew.
Chapter 2: Season 5[]
John Jones is tasked by Doctor Slone to stabilize The Zero Point, and make sure nobody escapes The Loop, but fails to hear the warning to not alert The Seven. Despite this he goes back into the Loop to recruit various hunters from different Realities to help him make sure nobody escapes. Bunker Jonesy is confirmed to have been once based on the original Jonesy, having gone into a bunker in Season 9. you could find him at Camp Cod or Shipwreck Cove, and he'll say to the player that there is a way out of the loop. In Update v15.40, Bunker Jonesy said that he warned us about the Zero Point. In Update v16.20, which came with the new Spire Quests, we learn that, like all the other Jonesy snapshots, he ended up losing his memory, but it was by being locked up in the Bunker for "decades, if not centuries" that he finally regained his memory and that he understood that once in the loop, we are only a snapshot of the person that we are and therefore that he is not "the real" Jonesy.
Chapter 2: Season 6[]
In the Zero Crisis Finale, Agent Jones disregards Doctor Slone's orders to escape and to not collaborate with The Seven to reseal the now vulnerable Zero Point. With the help of The Foundation, he is able to reseal the Zero Point (if only temporarily), but as a consequence is now inside of The Loop himself.
Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point[]
Batman entered the loop through a huge rift in the sky. He figures out how the loop works by creating a shack and filling it with items from the each loop, and they always stay there meaning with the loop, locations with changes don't get looped and destroyed or back to how it was. He also finds out how to escape the loop, he later escapes and find out there's an extra layer of the Loop.
At the end of Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point Issue 2, Catwoman escaped from the Loop thanks to the help of Batman, it would apparently require being in the center of the Storm and killing the last survivor by himself (the last survivor must not die of the Storm).
In Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point Issue 3, Batman successfully escapes the Loop and enters the Extra-Loop with the help of Snake Eyes but is confronted by Deathstroke who is holding Catwoman hostage.
In Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point Issue 6, Batman and Catwoman successfully escapes the island and regain all of their memories.
Chapter 2: Season 7[]
The Bridge Loop Control room was revealed in Impostors mode. A spherical room with large computers. It utilizes Cube monolith panels which are used to control the Loop.
Chapter 2: Season 8[]
A certain cosmic metal from World Forge made The Batman Who Laughs immune to the Loop's memory resets, so he enters it and goes on killing spree.
Chapter 3: Season 1[]
Reality Zero was flipped and Apollo was replaced by Artemis, an island inhabited by the Seven and the Loopers that they freed from the Loop. With the partial destruction of The Bridge the conditions of the Loop are unknown.
Chapter 3: Season 3[]
After the defeat of the Imagined Order and the destruction of The Bridge, the Loop is no longer under the I.O.'s heavy protection and control, meaning that the Loopers are now free. The Seven look for a way to bring everyone home while researching the Reality Tree, but things don't go as planned due to a new and mysterious threat.
At this period, the Loop's status is unknown. Considering The Loop needed to be monitored by the Imagined Order and that the installation of The Bridge were necessary for it to work, The Loop may have stopped working.
Chapter 3: Season 4[]
Fracture[]
As The Herald destroyed Reality Zero, she destroyed at the same time The Loop (in case it still existed).
Chapter 4[]
After the annihilation of Apollo and Artemis, and the creation of Asteria as the new Reality Zero, all the people who have been brought into Asteria now simply live on the Island without being trapped inside The Loop. As the Zero Point is later revealed to be petrified and unusable and no one being there to manage The Loop it can be concluded that The Loop wasn't recreated in the new Reality Zero.
Chapter 5[]
As Jones created Helios and plenty of realities by generating a new Big Bang in the past, around the same time as Apollo and Artemis creation, meaning Helios and Reality Zero coexisted, before Reality Zero's annihilation. For this reason The Loop doesn't exist. Despite the Loop's absence, however, former inhabitants of Reality Zero, now living on Helios are still referred to as "Loopers".
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- Zero War writer Christos Gage implied that some aspects of the Loop may be natural on Twitter.
- However, Iron Man was able to hack the Loop itself during Devourer of World event, meaning most parts of The Loop aren't natural.
- In The Bridge, there is a room called Loop Control.
- Christo Gage was probably talking about The Storm itself as it belongs to The Last Reality.
- In Zero Point comics, Batman notes that Storm's movements were unnatural and that they were controlled by something.
- During The Device event, Midas manage to break the control of The Imagined Order over The Storm, making it out of control and revealing its sentient nature.
- However, Iron Man was able to hack the Loop itself during Devourer of World event, meaning most parts of The Loop aren't natural.
- In Batman/Fortnite: Foundation, The Foundation confirm that The Seven seek to destroy The Loop.
- This strongly imply that The Loop is not something natural as Foundation later confirm several time his goal is to put everything in the natural order of things in Batman/Fortnite: Foundation and Fortnite X Marvel: Zero War.
References[]
- ↑ Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point In the Loop, Batman slowly loses his ability to identify himself and his memories, eventually relying on pure emotions to side with Catwoman.
- ↑ Lexa#Quest Dialogue
- ↑ Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point
- ↑ Batman/Fortnite: Foundation