History Recap / LokiEpisode9EighteenNinetyThree

* AllPartOfTheShow: Loki gets rid of a bully trying to pick a fight by teleporting him away, in the middle of a crowded room at the World Fair. Mobius quickly covers this by making everybody think he's a StageMagician, shouting "The Amazing Loki, ladies and gentlemen! He'll be here all week."

* BadassInANiceSuit: Loki and Mobius once again put on some nice formal wear while chasing a lead that can help them in another timeline. In this case though, they have to put on some period-appropriate suits to attend the 1893 Chicago World Fair, complete with a bowler and top hat for each respective protagonist.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: One of Loki's problems with the presentation of the Asgardians at the World Fair is the inclusion of Balder the Brave, since "No-one's even heard of him." Up until this moment, Balder had never been alluded to, despite being a major Asgardian/Aesir in the comics and original myths.

** At the Chicago World Fair, Loki and Mobius come across three statues of Odin, Thor, and Balder the Brave, the latter of which is a Norse god and Thor's ''actual'' brother in the myths. Loki is especially annoyed with Balder's inclusion, complaining that "no-one's even heard of him".

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Despite anti-black racism being much more common in the episode's time period than today, the RealLife 1893 Chicago World Fair had a designated "Colored American Day", and there was in fact a young black man doing a RealLife presentation there -- George Washington Carver. If Kang variants are all geniuses, Victor Timely would have been in a situation similar to Carver's, making the premise of this episode much more plausible than many viewers would believe.

** At the Chicago World Fair, Loki and Mobius come across three statues of Odin, Thor, and Balder the Brave. Loki is especially annoyed with the latter's inclusion, complaining that "no-one's even heard of him".

* AsYouKnow: In the beginning of the episode, Mobius is explaining to Loki (and the audience) that they are in Chicago 1868/1871 because they want to find Ravonna, and the last time she used her TemPad she went there. Loki already knows this.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Miss Minutes started her existence as a chess-playing program to help He Who Remains pass the time before he upgraded her and gave her the ability to reprogram herself. Now she's a GreenEyedMonster StalkerWithACrush who is seriously creepy toward Victor.

* AllPartOfTheShow: Loki gets rid of a bully trying to pick a fight by teleporting him away, in the middle of a crowded room at the World Fair. Mobius quickly covers by shouting "The Amazing Loki, ladies and gentlemen! He'll be here all week."

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Renslayer and and Victor Timely ride a ferry from Chicago to Wisconsin, but the cityscape in the background shows the boat heading south.

* CallBack:
** The first scene with Victor Timely is an expanded version of TheStinger of ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania''.
** When trying to protect Victor from Sylvie, Loki shouts "I've never met this man before in my life!", much like his Sacred Timeline self did in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' when claiming he and Thor aren't brothers to the Grandmaster. Here though, Loki is completely serious about not knowing who Victor is.
** Miss Minutes and Renslayer both are sure to lay on the charm and compliments whenever they try to manipulate Victor to their side. In the Season 1 finale, He Who Remains admitted that one of the most common traits shared by his variants was a massive case of narcissism; while Victor is seemingly not as malevolent as his other variants, the ladies' sweet-talking still works all the same for the most part.

* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: CentralTheme of the episode. Mobius immediately recognizes that Victor is his own person. Loki, Sylvie, Renslayer and Miss Minutes initially see Timely as He Who Remains because they assume all His variants are the same. Loki is scared of him, Sylvie wants to kill him, Renslayer wants to rule alongside him, and Miss Minutes wants to be his girl. One by one, they realize that Victor isn't He Who Remains and should not be treated as such -- Loki is convinced by Mobius on the spot, Sylvie and Ravonna come to the same conclusion at the end of the episode, Miss Minutes needs one more episode to utter that Victor [[spoiler:will never be Him.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: One of Loki's problems with the presentation of the Asgardians at the World Fair is the inclusion of Balder the Brave, since "No one's even heard of him." Up until this moment, Balder had never been alluded to, despite being a major Asgardian/Aesir in the comics and original myths.

** At the Chicago World Fair, Loki and Mobius come across three statues of Odin, Thor, and Balder the Brave. Loki is especially annoyed with the latter's inclusion, complaining that "no one's even heard of him".

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Despite anti-black racism being much more common in the episode's time period than today, the RealLife 1893 Chicago World Fair had a designated "Colored American Day", and there was in fact a young black man doing a RealLife presentation there--George Washington Carver. If Kang variants are all geniuses, Victor Timely would have been in a situation similar to Carver's, making the premise of this episode much more plausible than many viewers would believe.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite having never appeared even before [[Film/ThorRagnarok Hela's reign of terror and Surtur's destruction of Asgard]], it's revealed that Balder the Brave does indeed exist in the MCU and that Loki is familiar with him. Loki even lampshades it by pointing out that [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall no one's even heard of Balder.]]

* {{Tuckerization}}: The ship that Renslayer, Timely and Miss Minutes get on to evade Loki, Mobius and Sylvie is named the SS Herron -- a shout-out to Season 1 director Creator/KateHerron.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: While Loki and Sylvie work out their differences inside a Ferris Wheel cabin, with mild shouting and hitting each other involved, Mobius and Ravonna stand outside and calmly discuss ''their'' falling out. The two sceens keep replacing each other, and some words of both men and both women could be very well said by their counterparts from the other pair. Both conversations end similtaneously when Loki and Sylvie break the cabin doors, with the same result -- no one found common ground.

* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Miss Minutes directs Renslayer to give Timely a TVA manual, allowing him to (poorly) reproduce 32nd century technology before the 21 century has even rolled over.

* SnakeOilSalesman: Timely sells people inventions that don't actually do what he claimed they would do.
** When the robber baron wants to buy the prototype Temporal Loom, Victor pays a man to outbid him so that he gets more money out of the sale. Soon after, the robber baron accuses Victor of selling him junk and starts to chase him.
** A man approaches Victor, holding "mechanical trousers" that are supposed to make him taller. Victor crouches to pretend that they have already worked, and tells him that it is only a prototype after all and he would readjust it some time later.

* MusicalNod: The band that plays shortly before Victor's presentation is performing an 1800s marching band version of the Loki Green Theme from Season 1.

* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: CentralTheme of the episode. Mobius immediately recognizes that Victor is his own person. Loki, Sylvie, Renslayer and Miss Minutes initially see Timely as He Who Remains because they assume all His variants are the same. Loki is scared of him, Sylvie wants to kill him, Renslayer wants to use him, and Miss Minutes wants to be his girl. One by one, they realize that Victor isn't He Who Remains and should not be treated as such -- Loki is convinced by Mobius on the spot, Sylvie and Ravonna come to the same conclusion at the end of the episode, Miss Minutes needs one more episode to utter that Victor [[spoiler:will never be Him.]]

* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Miss Minutes and Renslayer alternate between seeing Timely as He Who Remains and being annoyed that he isn't. Sylvie wants to kill him because she assumes all He Who Remains variants are the same.

* EvilSoundsDeep: When she catches up to Victor Timely after he dumped her and threatens him, her voice goes very low to show that she stopped pretending to be nice and her intentions are far from benevolent. When Sylvie shows up and confronts her, Ravonna sounds deeper than her.