History Recap / LokiEpisode4TheNexusEvent

** Sif being angry at Loki for cutting her hair is a reference to Myth/NorseMythology, where Loki did the same thing in the ''Literature/ProseEdda''. Loki also asks "Is this Hel?" after he was pruned; Hel is one of the places in Norse mythology where the dead are sent to after they die, ruled by a goddess of the same name ([[Characters/MCUHela known as Hela in the MCU]]).

[[caption-width-right:350: ''"You could be whoever, whatever you wanna be, even someone good. I mean, just in case anyone ever told you different."'']]

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** Cailey Fleming plays young Sylvie in a flashback where she's separated from her family against her will, not unlike her previous role as young Rey in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Similarly, her playing a young girl who has her regular life stripped from her at a young age and later in life lives in apocalypses also sounds like her role as Judith Grimes in ''Series/{{The Walking Dead|2010}}''.

* UncertainDoom: It's left up in the air to whether Mobius's pruning led to him either being KilledOffForReal or only ending up in another dimension like Loki.

* WhamEpisode: To recap, the Time-Keepers are actually just mindless androids, Judge Ravonna ends up being EvilAllAlong, Mobius and Hunter B-15 find out that they are Variants, Loki and Mobius are both pruned, and it's revealed that pruning Variants transports them to somewhere in time instead of killing them, as seen with Loki in TheStinger; Mobius's fate is unknown.

** While waiting to die on Lamentis, Sylvie wonders whether all Lokis are destined to lose. Loki refutes this by pointing out how Sylvie managed to survive all by herself:

* ScrewYourself: As Loki and Sylvie watch the Lamentis-1 moon collide with its planet, Loki inadvertently ends up developing romantic feelings for her, causing a Nexus event powerful enough for the TVA to detect despite it happening during an apocalypse. Mobius calls Loki out for it, calling him "an incredible seismic narcissist".

* SickAndWrong: Mobius initially reacts this way to Loki's and Sylvie's relationship:

* ThePowerOfLove: Despite both of them being minutes away from dying, Loki and Sylvie starting to fall in love with each other causes a Nexus event so powerful that it registers with the TVA despite happening during an apocalypse, which would normally mask any aberrations due to the coming devastation eliminating the evidence. What's more, they've never seen one that progresses that quickly, assumedly because [[RealityBreakingParadox they're different versions of the same person.]]

* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Loki falling for Sylvie -- two Variants of the same person falling in love -- creates a nexus event so powerful that it breaks through the apocalypse on Lamentis-1 and allows the TVA to find them.

* GroundhogDayLoop: The TVA's Time Cells work by trapping someone inside a time loop constructed from their own past, forcing them to relive one physically painful past event from their life over and over until they relent. We see this in action when Mobius throws Loki into one, the latter ending up being kicked in the groin repeatedly by Lady Sif because he cut her hair as a prank. He's able to stop the kicks when he's apologetic and admits his flaws. But the only way for Loki to get out of the loop is with an outside intervention -- in his case, by Mobius himself.

** On the note of the Time-Keepers needing protection, their movement is weird... they move and talk like cheap Disneyland animatronics which is in direct contrast to the MCU's high-quality animation of the nonhuman characters. Turns out they're just that: robots that act as a decoy for who's really in charge.

* BelligerentSexualTension: When Mobius asks Loki whether he and Sylvie are partners, Loki denies it and lists some negative traits of her trying to prove that (which, hilariously enough, describe him perfectly as well).

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Hunter C-20 is pruned for remembering her past life. When Mobius learns of this, Renslayer has him pruned as well. Renslayer also finds out that B-15 spent some time alone with Sylvie and puts out an alert for B-15 saying she now has been “compromised by the Variant” as well.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Hunter C-20 is pruned for remembering her past life. When Mobius learns of this, Renslayer has him pruned as well. Renslayer also finds out that B-15 spent some time alone with Sylvie and puts out an alert for B-15 saying she now has been “compromised by the Variant.”