History Recap / LokiEpisode12GloriousPurpose

* GrandFinale: [[https://x.com/CultureCrave/status/1722827125487702331?s=20 Confirmed to be such]] by Eric Martin.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: At one point while trying to stop Sylvie from killing He Who Remains, an exasperated Loki asks why the latter doesn't even ''try'' to fight back or stop her from doing the deed. Almost as if on cue, He Who Remains freezes Sylvie in her place, utterly stunning him.
-->'''He Who Remains:''' Soooo... how long have you been going at this?

-->'''Mobius:''' No!\\

** Before Loki goes into the Temporal Loom, he tells Sylvie and Mobius "For you. For all of us.", which are the exact same words he said to his father when he was hanging from the Bifrost and explaining his actions in ''Film/{{Thor}}''.

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** Before Loki goes into the Temporal Loom, he tells Sylvie and Mobius "For you. For all of us.", which are the exact same words he said to his father when he was hanging from the Bifrost and explaining his actions in ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
** This Loki gives a tearful smile before he sacrifices himself, just like Classic Loki did.

** Loki finally gets his throne, perhaps the greatest throne of all: he becomes the god of time in function if not in title, and he is doomed to sit on his throne at the end of the multiverse holding the branches of time and sustaining them indefinitely. As Mobius warned him earlier, his chosen purpose is heavy on the burden with little to no real glory save for the gratitude of the [=TVA=].

** Loki continues insisting the model of the featureless suit looks like Mobius.
* CloseOnTitle: To fit the time shenanigans in this episode, this episode closes with the title card.
* ContinuityNod: Mobius mentions a Variant of He Who Remains who [[Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania caused some trouble on an adjacent of 616, but has been taken care of]].

* CrazyEnoughToWork: In one loop, Loki gets the idea to barge into the [=TVA's=] war room and ask for Miss Minutes' help directly. It's unknown if this actually manages to work.

-->[[Theatre/RichardII I've wasted time, and now doth time waste me!]]\\

* {{Determinator}}: Loki spends millennia from his perspective trying to save the multiverse.

-->'''Mobius:''' Better watch out, O.B.! Someone's coming–\\

-->'''He Who Remains:''' Soooo...how long have you been going at this?

* HopeSpot: An extended, particularly brutal one, where Loki and co.'s plan initial plan to save the Loom ''finally'' manages to succeed ... only to find out it was AllForNothing because the branches just grow beyond the Loom's new capacity, and always will.

--> '''Mobius:''' Most purpose is more "burden" than "glory". And trust me, you never wanna be the guy who avoids it 'cause you can't live with the burden.\\

** The first and last episode of the series are both titled ''Glorious Purpose''. In the first episode Loki tells anyone who will listen that ruling over others is the glorious purpose he is burdened with. In the finale, Loki chooses to sacrifice his happiness and accepts the burden of a truly glorious purpose - to become the guardian of all time across the multiverse.

** In "The Nexis Event," the TVA punishes Loki by sticking him in a time loop as torture - Lady Sif kneeing his crotch and then telling him that he deserves to be alone. In the finale, Loki is again caught in a time loop, only breaking that cycle by accepting that he must be alone.

* MythologyGag: Loki's self-imposed burden of binding all timelines to himself (refashioning the multiversal timeline as a new Yggdrasil) is a more benign version of his fate in the original Myth/NorseMythology. There, his punishment by the Aesir is to be bound by his son's entrails and is tormented by the dripping poison of a snake.
** There is also, arguably, an element of Prometheus from Myth/GreekMythology as well (who is bound to a rock and tormented by his liver being eaten--for stealing fire from the gods on behalf of humans). Loki, in essentially "stealing" multiversal potential (on behalf of all the living beings) from the bound Sacred Timeline of He Who Remains, has willingly taken on the burden of isolation for it.

* OtherMeAnnoysMe: While they never actually meet, He Who Remains is well aware of his variant Victor Timely, and he expresses a general contempt for the man and his inadequate solution for expanding the Loom - likely as Timely didn't seem to grasp that the Loom couldn't/wouldn't be able to expand despite having had decades to study the schematics of it.

--> '''Loki:''' [[WhamLine And what makes you think this is the first time we've had]] '''[[WhamLine this]]''' ''[[WhamLine conversation?]]''

** Mobius, after learning about his life on the Sacred Timeline, decides to leave the [=TVA=] and observe it for himself. Sylvie briefly joins him [[SequelHook before setting off for parts unknown.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: He Who Remains was ''not'' expecting Loki to become the new Loom. Although it may be possible He Who Remains simply did not even entertain the thought because of his certainty allowing the multiverse to exist would result in the very war he'd just ended happening again.

** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki's last line to Odin and Thor is "I could have done it! For you! For all of us!" in regards to his genocidal campaign to destroy Jotunheim. At the end of ''Loki'', his last line to Sylvie and Moebius is "I know what kind of god I need to be. For you. For all of us." as he goes to save all worlds, all universes, instead.

* MeaningfulEcho: The first and last episode of the series are both titled ''Glorious Purpose''. In the first episode Loki tells anyone who will listen that ruling over others is the glorious purpose he is burdened with. In the finale, Loki chooses to sacrifice his happiness and accepts the burden of a truly glorious purpose - to become the guardian of all time across the multiverse.

* DidntSeeThatComing: He Who Remains was ''not'' expecting Loki to become the new Loom.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In the centuries spent preparing for an iteration of events that would save the Loom, it never occurred to Loki that the Multiverse's nature as infinite realities would mean it would overload the Loom no matter how much it expanded. Although it may be possible He Who Remains simply did not even entertain the thought because of his certainty allowing the multiverse to exist would result in the very war he'd just ended happening again.

[[caption-width-right:1000:''"I know what kind of god I need to be. For you. For all of us."'']]