Awesome / Loki (2021)

"Asgard is where our people stand."

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Season 1

Episode 1: Glorious Purpose

• Loki is a Physical God strong enough to require one of the heavy hitters on the Avengers to fight evenly. Hunter B-15 shows how little that matters to the TVA when she strikes him with her baton once and arrests him with ease.
• It's revealed that, as part of a bet he lost with Thor, Loki was the infamous D.B. Cooper, and we get to see him pull off the heist with all the suaveness and confidence that you could imagine the real one having, casually flirting with the flight attendant with a confident smirk as he leaps out of the plane and escapes with the money before getting teleported via the use of the Bifröst. By the end of the recording, Mobius is outright Fan Boying about this.
• While he was wrong about the reason that the Avengers travelled back in time, Loki was still able to figure out that they'd time-travelled at all. And he managed to deduce this simply by recognizing the scent of Tony's cologne on two different Tonys.
• Loki is able to freely roam the TVA after swiping Mobius' time twister device from his pocket and reversing time to when he was outside the room. Upon getting the Tesseract and getting caught by B-15, he cleverly uses the device again to end up back in the interrogation room that he was just in before she can prune him. Even more impressively, he did all this without his shapeshifting abilities, proving that even without his magic, he's still a force to be reckoned with.
  • Mobius, who has previously constantly been a step ahead of Loki from having studied him so much can't help but give a wry, vaguely impressed, chuckle realising the God of Mischief managed to pull a fast one on him.
• Loki is later able to repay B-15 for her earlier humiliation of him when she finds him in the recording room. He initially goes for the attack, only for her to grapple and slam against the table, but he's able to grab the key to the time device on his neck and, after reversing the grapple and unlocking it, puts it around her neck and then takes full advantage of his newfound ability to reverse and accelerate her time, Trollishly rewinding and fast-forwarding her.
• More subtly, the scope of the TVA in demonstrating that they possess a collection of Infinity Stones from the timelines they pruned. How powerful are they? They negate these primordial relics that can rewrite the universe of all their power, and use them as paperweights. Between this and their surviving of a war spanning all spacetime, it gives the TVA an impression of being the MCU's Time Lords.
  • Worth noting that the Infinity Stones retain their power in the TVA, they just don't work in the TVA. ^note  All versions of the Marvel Multiverse that have dipped their toes in multiverse travel have explained that the Infinity Stones do not work outside of their own universes. This is shown when Darkseid of DC Comics fame stole them from the Marvel universe and found them to be inert when he returned to Apokolips. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Infinity Stones do work in other universes - or else they wouldn't have in Endgame - but still refuse to work in the TVA dimension. The real awesome part here is that the TVA has apprehended beings that wielded active Infinity Stones... and still stands to tell the tale.
    • If you pay close attention, you can see that the glow of the Tesseract dims considerably as soon as Hunter B-15 shows up in the TVA with Loki in tow.
• A being, apparently another variant Loki, effortlessly defeating a group of TVA agents (who as described above have taken down foes with Infinity Stones), seemingly with just their wits and no powers involved at all.
• Agent Mobius having enough know-how on Loki's backstory and personality to get him into a mental state where he's willing to comply, without even having to use any TVA weapons or even really outfox the God of Mischief, only needing the rewind collar to make sure that Loki sticks around long enough to hear him out. Although nothing the TVA does is really "normal", Mobius is probably the closest that the show has gotten to a Badass Normal by this point.

Episode 2: The Variant

• The Variant Loki's fight against the Minutemen team is a one-sided affair. She reaches out of the darkness to enchant C-20, turning her against the others. They are in total disarray, enabling her to kill all of them quickly. She does all of this while "Holding Out For a Hero" plays from an in-universe source, suggesting that she did it to mock them for not being hero enough to stop her.
• Mobius is able to see through Loki's lie and prevent him from getting an audience with the Time Keepers. It was a good try, and Mobius told Loki that he had him going for a second, but it all came to nothing. What's really impressive is that Loki was almost successful. As Mobius states later, he has studied almost every moment of Loki's life, knows him to be a trickster and a liar and a schemer, but Loki still came within a stone's throw of deceiving him anyway.
• Loki reads the entry from his file on Ragnarok and within seconds, based solely on seeing no Variance Energy was detected, guesses that the Variant Loki is able to avoid the TVA by hiding at such places because actions that take place before an event that wipes out everyone involved won't be able to generate branching timelines. And he's right.
  • Adding to this, based on Loki saying "sad little boy", Mobius is able to remember his interaction with the kid in the first episode, and realize that the Variant is specifically hiding in an apocalypse timeline that sold "Kablooie" candy, which the variant gave the boy.
  • Both of the Loki variants independently hit on the same vulnerability/flaw in the TVA's system, the one being hunted having exploited it for at least decades - possibly centuries, while it's something that's clearly never even occurred to anyone in the TVA as being possible. Clearly a Loki's mind is as powerful as their magic.
• Variant Loki is not only able to give Loki trouble in a fight, while possessing a mortal at that, but she's then able to enact her plot: transport a bunch of reset charges throughout the Sacred Timeline and effectively nuke it, creating branch timelines on a scale that the TVA has never seen before. And impressive as that is, that's just her distraction.

Episode 3: Lamentis

• While she's caught off-guard by her inability to use magic, Sylvie is still able to defeat the Minuteman that she ends up picking a fight with, pruning at least three as she makes her way to the Time Keepers' elevator.
• Loki is able to get the drop on Sylvie by unknowingly dragging her outside of the TVA, where he's able to catch her off-guard with his powers back.
• Tom Hiddleston gets one of these for singing in modern Norwegian (and not Old Norse, which might have been expected since Loki is out of Norse mythology), surprising a number of Scandinavian fans. He's almost perfectly understandable to native ears.
• Loki and Sylvie team up to fight against the guards on the train, with Loki using his magic to knock back a guard and kicking one out of a window, while Sylvie uses her crown as a makeshift weapon. Among the gods of Asgard, Lokis may not be renowned for the warrior aspect like Thors, Odins, Heimdalls, or Tyrs, but they're still Norse gods.
• Unlike with Loki and Frigga, Sylvie didn't have any formal magical training. Her ability to enchant and control people is entirely self-taught.
• The episode ends with a long take tracking Loki and Sylvie as they attempt to make their way through Shuroo to the Ark. They have to fight through the crowds and dodge the damage to the area from the rapidly disintegrating planet. At one point, Loki stops a building from dropping onto him and Sylvie, pushing it back with a simple gesture of his head.

Episode 4: The Nexus Event

• The opening scene showing that Sylvie was able to free herself from the TVA and escape when she was only a child.
  • She also survived all that time, hopping through time until she found out that she could hide in apocalypses.
• An Offscreen Moment of Awesome for the TVA: when we see the monitor for the Sacred Timeline, just prior to Loki and Sylvie getting off Lamentis (via creating a Nexus Event that can be detected even during an apocalypse), it's shown to be perfectly fine. Sylvie's catastrophic bombing plan, which created dozens of branches and was a threat that the TVA had never seen the like of before, was ultimately handled by them, however close the calls may have been.
• The Nexus Event triggered by Loki and Sylvie connecting with each other is of a kind that nobody at the TVA has ever seen before. The branch graph, instead of growing parabolically, is close to linear and almost vertical. The other Events shown would have taken minutes or hours to hit red line, this one nearly did it in seconds.
• Unexpectedly, after having been absent since Thor: The Dark World and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Lady Sif finally makes her return to the MCU... by (hilariously) subjecting Loki to a "Groundhog Day" Loop of slapping him (just like Jane did in the aforementioned movie, no less) and kneeing him in the groin.
• Mobius standing up to Renslayer after discovering the truth, even if it got him pruned.
• Hunter B-15 showing up in the Time Keepers' chamber to help Loki and Sylvie, both deactivating their collars in mid-attempt by Renslayer, and by bringing the Sylvie's sword back. Loki and Sylvie then drop into a Back-to-Back Badasses position to help each other fight the rest of the Hunters.
• Sylvie manages to take down Renslayer, but is disheartened at discovering that the Time Keepers were fake all along. Loki tries to console her and say that they'll figure it out... only for a recovered Renslayer to strike him In the Back with a pruning weapon. Sylvie is predictably furious, overpowering Renslayer and taking the weapon before turning it on Renslayer. The judge just tells her to get it over with and, after everything that Renslayer has been personally responsible for doing to Sylvie, not a soul would blame her for just pruning the woman. But Sylvie chooses to spare her and get answers about everything out of her. Death can be mercy, and Renslayer just took away the last reason she had to be merciful.
• The entire goddamn Stinger. Not only does it turn out that Loki is alive and well after having been pruned by Renslayer, but he's also joined by several variants of himself, including Classic Loki and Kid Loki, along with one that's an alligator.
  Loki: ...Is this Hel? Am I dead?
  Classic Loki: Not yet. But you will be, unless you come with us.

Episode 5: Journey into Mystery

• It was mentioned in episode 2 that Lokis are one of the most common Variants, but by no means the only ones. That must mean plenty of other Variants end up in the Void. Despite that, the only Variant of someone other than Loki we see in the Void is a buried Throg.
  Classic Loki: Because Lokis survive. That's just what we do.
• Sylvie is so determined to get answers and find out the truth that she prunes herself to reach the Void, despite not knowing for sure what's waiting for her there. She also steals Renslayer's TemPad and brings it with her so she'll have a way out, though she ends up giving it to Mobius.
  • Sylvie even knew better than to trust the woman who just pruned the closest thing she had to a love interest. When she shakes hands with Ravonna, she keeps her grip until Miss Minutes finds the file about the "Void spacecraft". Turns out that Ravonna and Miss Minutes were both lying and stalling for security to find her, so Sylvie's suspicions about Ravonna lying to her were right.
• The reason Kid Loki is the leader of the group of pruned Loki Variants? He killed his version of Thor. The circumstances around him doing so aren't made clear, or whether or not it was on purpose, but it makes him a version of Loki who was actually able to best Thor, which earns him a measure of respect from the other Lokis.
• Classic Loki was able to fake his death with an illusion that even Thanos couldn't see through, and lived in solitude until he was an old man. Considering that in Thor: The Dark World Loki claims that they live for about 5,000 years, Classic was able to avoid detection for almost 4,000 years.
  • The TVA apparently were willing to let him live alone on some unknown planet, which is mighty generous of them all things considered, especially when they were adamant that Loki is scheduled to die against Thanos. The only reason they showed up to arrest him was because Classic Loki eventually missed his Thor enough that he planned to contact him, which would break the illusion that he died.
• Alligator Loki does not take kindly to insults, attacking Boastful Loki when speaking of his Nexus Event (eating the wrong neighbor's cat). Then when President Loki – betrayed by his own group – demands to know why there's an alligator in here, he attacks President Loki and bites his hand clean off!
• Mobius rescuing Sylvie from Alioth and out-driving the killer cloud-dog.
• The fact that Mobius has a car in the first place. Kid Loki tells Loki that a car usually means cannibalistic marauders or cannibalistic pirates. That means Mobius possibly was badass enough to successfully fight off dangerous cannibals and steal their car.
• Classic Loki makes illusions of himself, L1130, Kid, and Alligator Loki that attack President and his goons before he conjures up a portal and escapes with them.
• The USS Eldridge crew actually trying to make a stand against Alioth despite having no idea what is going on or where they are.
• L1130 brandishing Lævateinn, Loki's ancestral sword, which bursts into flames along its length.
  L1130: Come and get me!
• Classic Loki making a full-scale illusion of Asgard itself to draw Alioth's attention to himself, buying Loki and Sylvie enough time to successfully enchant the entity. Both Sylvie and Loki are astonished by this display of power, with Loki reasoning that they're both far stronger than they think they are if Classic can pull off something like that.
  • Classic Loki's last words as he faces his death.
    Classic Loki: (smiling from ear to ear) GLORIOUS PURPOSE!
  • While the above happens, a variation of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" is being used as the soundtrack, adding to the awesomeness.
• Loki is able to work together with Sylvie to enchant Alioth, despite never having done this before. It's implied that seeing Classic Loki's strength and realizing how powerful Lokis really are gave him the resolve he needed to do it. It retroactively gets even more impressive after the reveal in the finale that it's Alioth that ended the multiversal war, so the power of this creature is immense.

Episode 6: For All Time. Always.

• The episode opens with an Astronomic Zoom out from the Earth, to the Solar System, to the Universe. Then it reaches across other universes right to the end of time itself. In this one shot, the sheer epic scope of the MCU overall and this series in particular is beautifully illustrated.
• This episode finally introduces the true leader and mastermind of the TVA: He Who Remains. Despite this ominous title, his goofy easy-going attitude helps to distract from him being The Omniscient who knows everything that's going to happen.^note Up to a certain point.
  • He Who Remains demonstrating his omniscience by repeatedly jumping away from Sylvie any time she would be able to land a killing blow. When she points out that he's just using a TemPad, he points out that he'd need to know when to program it ahead of time.
  • He Who Remains reveals the Meaningful Name: Eons ago, he was a renowned scientist on 31st Century Earth who discovered the means to contact and travel to an Alternate Timeline. There he met another version of himself, more afterwards, who exchanged knowledge and technology with each other. Unfortunately some proved to be more malevolent than others, ones who only "saw new lands to conquer". This led to the Multiversal War as hundreds of Variants of this man fought to conquer each other or defend against the conquerors.
  • Ultimately He Who Remains discovered Alioth, born from the tears in time caused by the war, and used it to erase the others and isolate his timeline, thus becoming the Sole Survivor of the original Multiverse. He created the TVA, the Time-Keepers, and the Sacred Timeline, all to ensure that no other, worse versions of himself could ever exist and start up the Multiversal War again.
  • When Sylvie and Loki ask for his name, He Who Remains states that I Have Many Names and never gives it, but does reveal other things he's been called such as "a ruler, a conqueror". It's from this one line that many long-time comic book fans will realize who he is.
  • After many weeks of speculation and anticipation by fans, (a variant of) Kang the Conqueror finally makes his debut in the MCU, confirmed by the statue of him in full costume at the very end. Despite acting wackier than his predecessor, it's immediately apparent that he has the potential to be a far more dangerous villain.
• While He Who Remains isn't quite as impressive in his current state, one can't help but marvel at his achievements. The first ever being who successfully crossed the void into other universes, fought and won a Multiversal War against his own variants (who are implied to be as smart as he is if not smarter), and single-handedly came up with a solution that keeps his own timeline in a relatively peaceful state through the TVA.
• Loki's Character Development has him realize that He Who Remains is offering a Sadistic Choice, so he tries to hold Sylvie off from killing him until they can find the best solution. Unfortunately, she doesn't listen.
  • After fighting for a little, Sylvie disintegrates an illusion of Loki and goes to strike He Who Remains... only for the real Loki to appear in the path of her blade, trusting that their bond would cause her to stop dead, even against a person she really wants to kill. He was right, but the sheer balls it took to put himself in that position is something to behold. When Loki is later sitting in the TVA alone, you can see a small fresh cut from Sylvie's blade on his neck, so she barely managed to stop in time.
• This episode at long last gives fans what they've been waiting for since Spider-Man: Far From Home only teased it: the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse. As Sylvie sits despondent next to the body of He Who Remains, outside the Sacred Timeline continues to branch out as dozens, if not hundreds, of Alternate Timelines are born every second.
• You have to stand a bit in awe of Jonathan Majors, who was given a very intimidating task in this episode that would have been disastrous in the wrong hands. He has to basically take over the entire season finale as a character who’s only gotten the barest hints of foreshadowing (especially to those not familiar with the comics) and sell us on this guy being not only an appropriate ending to the story we’d seen building for five episodes, but the new Big Bad of the entire franchise (with Thanos as an extremely Tough Act to Follow), as well as make a massive Exposition Dump about his backstory and the TVA feel entertaining. But from the moment he first appears, he absolutely proves up to the task, seizing the story and having you hanging on his every word, and leaving you aching for more once it's over.

Season 2

Episode 1: Ouroboros

• Loki's brave but reckless jumping into that civilian's flying car.
• Loki pruning the wall to show the people of the TVA the statues of Kang's face to further try to show them the true responsible.
• The introduction to Ouroboros or OB where we see just how dedicated of a worker he is and just how smart he is which leads into the interesting scene of Loki time-slipping to the past and telling OB about the meeting in the past.
• Loki and Mobius just managing to stop Loki's time-slipping problem and at least temporarily stop the issue with the Temporal Loom overloading with Loki managing to save Mobius from dying after he accomplishes the latter goal.
• Closing on Sylvie arriving in Oklahoma at a McDonalds as an emotional moment of awesome for her as its the first time in her entire life that she is now free and can just live as opposed to having to run.

Episode 2: Breaking Brad

• In contrast with the opening of season 1, where B-15 defeated Loki in a single strike, Loki is finally able to show off some of his true power against X-5/Brad — a highly experienced and capable Hunter, albeit now unarmed. Loki hits him with a Hand Blast to send him flying, telekinetically tosses aside his Time Twister remote with a flick of his finger, and finally chases the man into a corner with his illusion powers before restraining him with his shadows, which he makes look like his horned costume for added flair. Loki even calmly remarks on the imbalance.
  X-5: You quit with the magic and fight fair!
  Loki: ...It's not a fair fight.
  • A subtle bit is when Mobius, the person who knows him best, instinctively comes up to the center Loki of the three, assuming it's the real one, only for the real one to be the one on the right. Loki specifically chose not to be the center of attention, and fooled even Mobius by subverting expectations.
• Loki's new found emotional self control, as ironically he's probably the only character who doesn't act out from emotion in the entire episode.
• The scene where Loki pretends to snap and threatens to kill X-5 to get him to admit as to where Sylvie is and its revealed at the end it was all Loki and Mobius's plan to trick him.
• Mobius, while still a pacifistic character, takes much more initiative in this episode and punches X-5 in the face when he insults him once too much. More impressively, he quickly figures out that X-5 is actually leading them into a huge trap by giving them what they want and gets Sylvie to enchant him to learn what's really going on.
• Though said to cover why he's really concerned, the impending mass pruning of timelines, X-5 notes that Sylvie has killed over 400 TVA personnel - keep in mind when she first escaped she was still a child.
• The raid on General Dox's compound, wherein Loki, Mobius and Sylvie single-handedly put a stop to her and her loyalist's efforts to prune the other timelines. Bonus points for Loki and Sylvie joining their powers to unleash a powerful wave of green fire that decimates all the remaining TVA members trying to bomb the timelines.

Episode 3: 1893

• The Chicago Fair is just as grand and colourful as the real-life one no doubt must have been. You can truly get a sense of the wonder and innovation of the event, especially when you compare it to how basic and lifeless the town was in 1868.
  • Loki is in near disbelief the slum they visited 25 years earlier could have transformed into the Fair.
• Loki demonstrating he's the God of Mischief once more when a large and angry man challenges him to a fight "outside". Loki obliges... by teleporting him into a freak show cage outside.
• Loki scaring all the thuggish businessmen eager to get their hands on Victor Timely away with one powerful blast from his hands. It sends them all scattering and screaming in seconds.
• Sylvie having rapidly achieved near parity with Loki, who has been able to practise and master his magic for centuries while she only demonstrated her self taught Enchantment magic prior to their shared Enchantment of Alioth, at least in terms of skill with magic like telekinesis and Hand Blast.
• Loki managing to counter Sylvie's every move and keep Victor safely behind him despite not wanting to fight Sylvie at all, this is all the more impressive because unlike back in the Citadel he doesn't have a weapon and can't use his illusion powers to hide them from her in the confined space of the Ferris wheel booth. Bonus points for their crossed Hand Blast shattering the carriage of the Ferris wheel and knocking them both away.
• A minor one, but Victor gets props for not only being a genuinely brilliant inventor who is simply limited by the era he lives in, but he successfully evaded Loki and Mobius with only his Con Man wit and knowledge of the Chicago town area.
• Victor quickly reacting to and turning off Miss Minutes and putting her on standby before she can get to him.
• Sylvie finally not only letting go of her obsession with Renslayer, but getting her revenge on her by giving her exactly what she always wanted.
  Sylvie: That's what you want. A seat at the end of time. Well... Be Careful What You Wish For.
  (kicks Renslayer into an open tempad portal and leaving her at the end of time... in the crumbling ruins with the deceased He Who Remains)

Episode 4: Heart of the TVA

• Loki's entire speech to Sylvie about destruction being easier than creation, hope being hard, and about the responsibility that comes with allowing others freewill. Summing it up in sombre responsible echo of his former grandiose boasting:
  Sylvie: Sounds like either way, we're playing God.
  Loki: We are gods.
  • It also perfectly highlights Loki's Character Development over the last season and a half: he still considers himself to be a god, but it is no longer an outlet for his daddy issues - in his mind, godhood and everything that comes with it is no longer limited to the self-serving perks and is no longer something that he is "owed". It is now a responsibility that takes effort, sacrifice and humility on his part, to protect and guide the mortals he took it upon himself to look after.
  • The camera work in this scene needs to be appreciated. You expect Loki to retort "We are gods," since that's been his whole driving motivation, to prove himself a god, worthy of praise and adulation and rulership. You'd expect a closeup, Loki stepping closer, and to announce this with a smug smile, or prideful expression. Instead, the camera pulls way back, making Loki and Sylvie look quite small in the large room, Loki's facial expression lost as he quietly, almost sadly, says "We are gods." Then Loki leaves, walking down the hall towards camera, the low angle making him appear a striding giant. All to show that, while Loki's statement may be actual, factual truth, it is a great and terrible burden, a heavy responsibility. A stark contrast from every other time Loki has proclaimed himself a god in the MCU.
• An extremist who's willing to bomb multiple timelines out of existence she may be, but credit where it's due, Dox faces her impending demise with as much dignity as she can muster. Just before she and her loyalists are painfully crushed to death, the general uses her final moments not to beg for mercy, but to defiantly stare Ravonna in the face and tell her off.
  Dox: How does it feel knowing that all of us here would rather die than follow you out that door, hmm?
• Some major Catharsis Factor to be had when O.B. rebooting the system not only gets rid of Miss Minutes, at least for the time being, but also gives the Lokis their magic back. They work together to overpower Brad by Loki distracting him so Sylvie can enchant him, and then while controlling him, Sylvie doesn't offer Ravonna the Cruel Mercy of banishment this time, just quickly pruning her instead.
• The prototype that Victor Timely insisted on retrieving in the prior episode is revealed to be the key component required for the device O.B.'s been building to expand the Loom's capacity so it can maintain the new temporal branches, built with 1890s technology.
• Credit to Victor Timely, who despite knowing the danger and being woefully out of his depth, gallantly steps up and volunteers to brave fixing the loom himself. It costs him his life, but in that moment, Victor Timely proved that while he was a variant of him, he was NOT the same man as He Who Remains and Sylvie was right to give him a chance.
  Victor: Time to be brave!

Episode 5: Science/Fiction

• A.D. Doug, O.B.'s timeline variant, manages to build a rudimentary TemPad using only the technology of his time and the TVA handbook. While it did take several of his months and is somewhat glitchy in its execution, it's still a very impressive feat in the given circumstances.
• It's an odd mix of a Despair Event Horizon and a Traumatic Super Power Awakening, but Loki finally manages to master his timeslipping, embracing his Determinator status and fighting back the fear he will always ultimately fail.
  Flashback Sylvie: Do you think what makes a Loki a Loki is that we're destined to lose?
  Loki: NOOOOO!
  (the scene changes to just a few seconds before the spaghettification)
• Loki's decision to go back in time to stop the destruction of the Loom.
  Loki: I can rewrite the story.
• Visually the episode is stunning with everything in several scenes just utterly unravelling as reality itself collapses.
• Combining Loki's plan to rewrite the story and OB's talk of science vs fiction, It's heavily implied that Loki is on his way to becoming The God of Stories.

Episode 6: Glorious Purpose

• Miss Minutes is characterised as being insane and impossible to trust or side with. Despite this, in at least one time slip, Loki is implied to have successfully convinced her to help them fix the loom in just a few minutes of chatting offscreen.
• Although it was ultimately All for Nothing, Loki and Timely did achieve their goal of expanding the Loom after god knows how many attempts.
• Loki's power growing to the extent that he can stop time with just a thought.
  He Who Remains: So, why don't you just go through this a couple thousand more times? Get your bearings. And then you just, you just let me know. Okay, when you're ready to have a conversation. Okay? [uses his device to bring Sylvie back and unfreeze her]
  [Sylvie refreezes, Loki having grabbed at the air and raised a single finger]
  Loki: And what makes you think this is the first time we've had this conversation?
  • This visibly takes He Who Remains aback, even though he seemed to expect Loki would learn how to freeze time and indeed after his moment of surprise he praises Loki, and with good reason: Loki has now reached the level where he can challenge the Kang-variant who beat all the other Kang variants, who won a Multiversal War... on equal footing. And outsmart him by taking the option that would have never occurred to him.
    He Who Remains: Well done.
  • Jonathan Majors also demonstrates his incredible acting talents once again: he not only effortlessly slips back into the role of He Who Remains, but then adjusts it ever so slightly to reveal him to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing (putting a whole new twist on his actions and statements in the finale of season 1) and even pulling off a pitch-perfect mockery of his other role as Victor Timely when HWR reveals he knew exactly what would happen past his death. It comes off as the character himself imitating the other character, instead of Majors just slipping back into the stutter and dictation of Victor, and it's a strong enough performance to make you completely forget both are played by the exact same guy in the exact same episode and show.
• Loki stumping He Who Remains by quoting T.S. Eliot, making it so the man doesn't have an answer or even a clue for the first time.
  Loki: We die with the dying... We're born with the dead.
  He Who Remains: Uh huh...
• After speaking with his friends through various points of his own personal timeline, Loki decides that it's not enough to fix the Loom, or kill/replace He Who Remains. Every option results in either complete multiversal destruction, or the nearest thing and one fascist dictator in charge. So instead of letting Timely fix the Loom, he goes down there himself.
  • When Mobius and Sylvie see him going down the stairs, he closes the airlock and gives them a tearful goodbye. Then, rather than putting on the suit, he turns to the blast door and rips it open with telekinesis.
  • He steps onto the walkway without any protection. He leans into the wind of the temporal radiation, and every blast appears to be disintegrating his uniform... until it becomes apparent that it's actually revealing a new version of his iconic horned costume. The scenes where his horns slowly build with every blast are particularly stunning, with his features bearing a strong resemblance to Classic Loki as the radiation ages him.
  • Once he gets close enough, Loki reaches up and rips the Loom apart with telekinesis, creating a massive explosion of light. Even in that split second, we can already tell that it's different from when the Loom just exploded on its own.
  • This exposes the branches of time, and they hang loosely throughout the realm, growing gray and beginning to die... until Loki starts grabbing them and infuses his power into the threads, causing them to steadily glow green. He grabs more and more, dragging them behind him, until he reaches the end of the walkway. He steps onto invisible stairs, still grabbing and infusing more threads, until his cape is literally made of them - Dr. Strange, eat your heart out - and comes upon He Who Remains' throne room. All that is left is a bare rock in the middle of nothingness, a shattered window, and the seat of a throne. As gold crawls up the throne, Loki twists, and sits down, holding the threads of all reality around him before he infuses them all with his power. The shot pulls back to reveal that he has created a gigantic new Loom that resembles Yggdrasil, a beautiful World Tree that restores stability to the multiverse and timelines while ensuring his friends can live on to protect it from the coming war. With top-tier acting, visuals, and music, this is how you showcase his ascension to the God of Stories.
  • It's extremely important to remember that for the longest time, Loki was considered one of the "weaker" gods, and even some of his other variants were far stronger than him. Now, he stands as quite likely the most powerful god in the entire pantheon, single-handedly holding the ever-expanding Multiverse together and overseeing the fates of an unfathomable amount of lives. Thor, Odin and Frigga would be damn proud.
• Loki's Determinator status being on full display; he spends centuries learning everything Casey, Ouroboros, and even Timely know in the hope of expanding the loom to sustain all timelines; when he discovers that won't work, he bounces back, and after some more time works out a way to save everyone.
• After Loki's Heroic Sacrifice, the TVA dedicates itself to protecting the new multiverse by keeping an eye on the variants of He Who Remains and preparing to stop them if necessary.

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