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* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: The Variant deliberately chooses to "hide" in apocalyptic events because, as Loki works out, alterations to the timeline go undetected if the area is doomed anyway. This prevents the TVA from seeing what she's doing until it's too late. Loki and Mobius confirm this with a trip to Pompeii just as Vesuvius erupts.


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* LawOfTimeTravelCoincidences: The Variant deliberately chooses to "hide" in apocalyptic events because, as Loki works out, alterations to the timeline go undetected if the area is doomed anyway. This prevents the TVA from seeing what she's doing until it's too late. Loki and Mobius confirm this with a trip to Pompeii just as Vesuvius erupts.

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* MotorMouth: After Mobius talks to Ravonna Renslayer following the failed mission at the Renaissance fair, Loki starts to talk nonstop about how he was just teaching him a lesson in not trusting a trickster like himself.
-->'''Mobius:''' Just shut up! Please. What happened to the guy I met on the elevator? Who didn't like to talk. Remember him?

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* MotorMouth: MotorMouth:
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After Mobius talks to Ravonna Renslayer following the failed mission at the Renaissance fair, Loki starts to talk nonstop about how he was just teaching him a lesson in not trusting a trickster like himself.
-->'''Mobius:'''
himself, which Mobius remarks upon.
--->'''Mobius:'''
Just shut up! Please. What happened to the guy I met on the elevator? Who didn't like to talk. Remember him?him?
** When possessing a random guy in Roxxcart, the Variant makes a similar observation.
--->'''The Variant:''' Thank you for helping me stall for time. You really do love to hear yourself talk.\\
'''Loki:''' You're the first person to tell me that.
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* JurisdictionFriction: Hunter B-15's rivalry with Mobius, the analyst from another division, carries forward from the previous episode. Before going to Roxxcart, B-15 snatches and hides Loki's daggers Mobius was about to return to him. Inside the superstore, B-15 and Mobius argue over who takes Loki with them. B-15 wins because it is her field operation and tells Mobius to go "[[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections litigate with Renslayer]]" if he disagrees.
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* MissionBriefing: B-15 gathers the team twice, before venturing to Oshkosh,1985 and Roxxcart, 2050, respectively, and provides them with {{infodump}}s about these locations and the reason they go there.

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* MissionBriefing: B-15 gathers the team twice, before venturing to Oshkosh,1985 Oshkosh, 1985 and Roxxcart, 2050, respectively, and provides them with {{infodump}}s about these locations and the reason they go there.



* MotorMouth: After Mobius talks to Ravonna Renslayer following the failed mission at the Renaissance Faire, Loki starts to talk nonstop about how he was just teaching him a lesson in not trusting a trickster like himself.

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* MotorMouth: After Mobius talks to Ravonna Renslayer following the failed mission at the Renaissance Faire, fair, Loki starts to talk nonstop about how he was just teaching him a lesson in not trusting a trickster like himself.



** “Music/HoldingOutForAHero” also appeared in ''ComicBook/VoteLoki #2''.

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** “Music/HoldingOutForAHero” "Music/HoldingOutForAHero" also appeared in ''ComicBook/VoteLoki #2''.
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* MissionBriefing: B-15 gathers the team twice, before venturing to Oshkosh,1985 and Roxxcart, 2050, respectively, and provides them with {{infodump}}s about these locations and the reason they go there.
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-->'''1182-E:''' [panicking over the phone] This is Analyst 1182-E, uh, reporting a code, uh, 000. [cotinues scrabbling through emergency handbook] Branches rapidly forming at a slope...\\
'''Fellow Analyst:''' [grabs phone] Someone just bombed the Sacred Timeline.\\
'''Renslayer:''' [in her office] [stares in horror at monitor]\\
'''Soldiers:''' [''run'' through time doors]

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-->'''1182-E:''' [panicking ''[panicking over the phone] phone]'' This is Analyst 1182-E, uh, reporting a code, uh, 000. [cotinues ''[continues scrabbling through emergency handbook] handbook]'' Branches rapidly forming at a slope...\\
'''Fellow Analyst:''' [grabs phone] ''[grabs phone]'' Someone just bombed the Sacred Timeline.\\
'''Renslayer:''' [in ''[Renslayer, in her office] [stares office, stares in horror at monitor]\\
'''Soldiers:''' [''run''
monitor]''\\
''[soldiers run
through time doors]doors]''

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%%[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]] [[caption-width-right:350: ''"If you think too hard about where any of us came from, who we truly are, it sounds pretty ridiculous. Existence is chaos.'']]
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* {{Polyglot}}: Loki speaks Latin with a terrible accent.

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* {{Polyglot}}: Loki speaks Latin with a terrible accent.in part because Hiddleston studied Latin at Cambridge.

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'''Renslayer:''' [in her office] [stares in horror at monitor]

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'''Renslayer:''' [in her office] [stares in horror at monitor]monitor]\\
'''Soldiers:''' [''run'' through time doors]
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* MassOhCrap: When Sylvie's device goes off, it drops all the devices she stole all across the timeline. This results in multiple, steeply branching timelines.
-->'''1182-E:''' [panicking over the phone] This is Analyst 1182-E, uh, reporting a code, uh, 000. [cotinues scrabbling through emergency handbook] Branches rapidly forming at a slope...\\
'''Fellow Analyst:''' [grabs phone] Someone just bombed the Sacred Timeline.\\
'''Renslayer:''' [in her office] [stares in horror at monitor]

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: After Loki tries to swat Miss Minutes out of boredom and she hops into the computer, there's a "Test Failed" message on the screen behind him when Mobius comes to fetch him.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: FunnyBackgroundEvent:
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After Loki tries to swat Miss Minutes out of boredom and she hops into the computer, there's a "Test Failed" message on the screen behind him when Mobius comes to fetch him.him.
** Loki spends time bragging about how he was right about the apocalypse being a hiding spot while the ash and powdered rock from Vesuvius pours toward Pompeii.


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* {{Polyglot}}: Loki speaks Latin with a terrible accent.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: During a mission briefing at the beginning of the episode, it's stated that there are many Loki variants that the TVA has dealt with across time, and that each time they were different. Loki also refers to the Variant as ''they'', not ''he''. The Loki that our Loki is looking for is revealed to be female at the end of the episode.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
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During a mission briefing at the beginning of the episode, it's stated that there are many Loki variants that the TVA has dealt with across time, and that each time they were different. Loki also refers to the Variant as ''they'', not ''he''. The Loki that our Loki is looking for is revealed to be female at the end of the episode.episode.
** Loki gives a long speech noting the difference between casting a duplicate on the one hand and projecting an illusion on the other. Our Loki casts perfect copies of himself. Later we'll meet another Loki who can create perfect illusions of other things.
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