Funny / Loki (2021)

Loki as an alligator. Now we've seen everything.^note It's best not to question it.

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Trailers

• In the opening 30 seconds of the trailer, lifted directly from his last appearance in Avengers: Endgame, Tom Hiddleston does a marvelous job of acting with his facial expressions alone, going from bemused to intrigued to something along the lines of "Well, mustn't look a gift Sleipnir in the mouth" before he grabs the Tesseract and takes off.
• At one point in the "Exclusive Clip" trailer, Loki views holograms of himself with Mobius. Suddenly, holographic footage of his defeat by the Avengers shows up on the screen. Loki immediately turns away with a look of pure annoyance.^note  In this timeline, Loki had just been defeated not that long ago, so it's probably still a sore spot for him at this point.
• The second trailer shows some of the TVA's bureaucracy.
  TVA Worker: [pushes forward a large stack of paper] Please sign to verify this is everything you have ever said.
  Loki: [incredulous glare] This is absurd!
  TVA Worker: [adds another sheet with the words "This is absurd!" to the pile] Sign this too.
  • Some fans have joked that, with how much Loki likes to talk, that stack is just what he has said while in TVA custody.
• Even people who are burnt out on the Marvel machine have an Actually Pretty Funny reaction to the reveal that D.B. Cooper was actually Loki, since it suddenly makes the real D.B. Cooper's actions make a lot more sense.
• In the second trailer, we get a morbidly hilarious split-second scene of a grinning Loki posing with his arms open while a giant ash cloud from Pompeii rushes towards him. Bonus points for Mobius M. Mobius seemingly using the opportunity to take a picture of him as though the event is some kind of photo op.^note In-show he's actually checking the TemPad to confirm Loki's hypothesis about apocalypses.
• The second trailer ends with a discussion that summarizes Loki's Chronic Backstabbing Disorder to a tee:
  Loki: You can trust me.
  Mobius: Loki, I've studied almost every moment of your entire life. You've literally stabbed people in the back like fifty times!
  [Beat]
  Loki: [gesticulates around himself, feigning offense] Well, I'd never do it again!
• The Miss Minutes TV Spot gives us a brief scene of one of the TVA's machines lasering off Loki's clothes, leaving him utterly mortified before the floor gives way and sends him to another place in the TVA. Predictably, Loki fans gleefully took to sharing gifs of this sequence, particularly emphasizing his bare chest.
  • Loki, waiting in line, scoffs at the bureaucratic nonsense of the TVA... until another prisoner ahead of him refuses to give his ticket to the guard, to which the guard responds by erasing him from time itself as the guy howls in agony. Loki immediately makes a horrified face that screams, "what have I gotten myself into?"

Season 1

Episode 1: Glorious Purpose

• The Previously on… segment showing the events from Endgame leading up to this episode features several alternate and extended takes.
  • Loki's imitation of Captain America is a tad more robotic and mocking.
  • When the Hulk is refused entry into the elevator and is forced to take the stairs, Loki smirks and waves goodbye in a very condescending manner. Considering the thrashing he just got from the Hulk, Loki clearly gets a rise out of the Hulk being inconvenienced.
• After two years, we finally learn where Loki ended up after his sudden disappearance in Endgame... in the middle of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Uneventfully crash landing there, too, mind you. Also doubles as a pretty funny Call-Back to Tony's crash landing in the first Iron Man.
• The very first thing Loki does when he finds a small group of people? Finding the nearest platform to stand over the Mongolian tribespeople. The fact that they don't understand him is icing on the cake.
• The TVA manage to apprehend Loki in the most anti-climactic and humiliating way possible– by smacking him in the face! Even better, it appears that we are seeing him fall making a ridiculous face in overdramatic slow-motion before it becomes apparent that he has actually been trapped in slow time.
  Loki: It's been a very long day, and I think I've had my fill of idiots in armored suits telling me what to do.
• Loki's reaction to The Nudifier is hilarious, to say the least. Especially since he's stripped completely naked in the process!
  Loki: Absolutely not! This is fine Asgardian leather!
  Robot: Hold very still.
  [Loki's clothes are disintegrated by the machine]
  Loki: [completely embarrassed] Now hang on just a minute!
• Loki is dropped into the next room, now mercifully clothed, and the clerk requires him to affirm every word he's ever said on a gigantic stack of paper. Loki's response is a Flat "What", which is then printed out. "And that." Loki protests, so the printer spits out yet another page. Finally, he gives up and signs.
• Loki is dropped into a chamber with a metal detector-like device. The first thing he does upon landing is angrily point up at the ceiling, apparently trying to threaten the clerk in the previous room. The attendant asks him to confirm to the best of his knowledge that he isn't a robot. Loki is genuinely concerned that he might in fact be a robot and not know it. ^note  Though to be fair to Loki, Odin did lie to him about his identity as a frost giant.
  Loki: Do a lot of people not know if they're robots?
  TVA worker: Thank you for your confirmation.
  • And what if he is a robot? Oh, the machine will destroy him, the clerk casually explains.
• Black Comedy as Loki finishes watching the "intro video" for the TVA and scoffs at the whole thing. He then hears someone else complaining about not having a ticket, with a TVA agent simply incinerating them on the spot. With wide eyes, Loki quickly pats his uniform to find his ticket and frantically waves it in the air. Even funnier is that the guard doesn't even look over to acknowledge him.
  • It also doesn't seem too dissimilar to his reaction to seeing the Hulk again on Sakaar, either.
  • The person in question complaining about not having a ticket? A few minutes prior, we saw them being told to take a ticket, and they rudely refused to do so. Now we see them claiming they tried to get a ticket but weren't given one. It's unlikely that anyone feels bad for him when he gets incinerated.
    Guard: Take a ticket.
    Martin: What is this, a deli? No.
  • Loki also initially refuses to take a ticket, pointing out that there are only two of them in the queue. Eventually, he does take one but holds eye contact with the guard angrily while awkwardly stumbling through the turnstile.
• Mobius' Establishing Character Moment has this bit of Bilingual Backfire with Hunter U-92.
  Mobius: [In French] I'm sorry... my friend is an imbecile.
  Hunter U-92: [English] Hey, yo! [French] I speak every language in the timeline too. Jackass.
• Loki knew that the incident that allowed him to escape was caused by the Avengers time-travelling. How does he know? He recognized Tony's cologne. Which must mean that Tony really likes Axe body spray, and never stopped using it in the last eleven years.
• While at his trial for messing with the timelines, Loki tries using his powers to escape. He talks a big game, sounding pretty badass, and then he closes his fists... And nothing happens. What makes this even better is that the judge is confused, and B-15 can't help but laugh.
  Judge Renslayer: What's going on?
  Loki: Hang on. Everyone quiet.
  B-15: [holding in a laugh] He's trying to use his powers, ma'am.
  Loki: Don't rush me.
• After Loki meets Mobius:
  Loki: I'm gonna burn this place to the ground.
  Mobius: I'll show you where my desk is. You can start there.
  • A minute later, Mobius says that the TVA is very real... along with all the paperwork, which will be 'good tinder for your fire'.
  • Then:
    Loki: This is a nightmare.
    Mobius: That's another department. Now that department I'll help you burn down.
• Mobius leads Loki into a private room.
  Loki: For the record, this really does feel like a killing-me kind of room.
• As they watch Loki's "greatest hits reel", they come to the famous "If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now." line as the Avengers apprehend him, Mobius half-mockingly offers him a can of Josta right on cue.
• It turns out that D.B. Cooper was actually Loki, and apparently the whole incident happened because Loki lost a bet with Thor.
  • It is now the trope quote for Stock Unsolved Mysteries.
  • Loki's soft and innocent smile when he tells the flight attendant that he has a bomb. It's apparent how much fun Loki is having "meddling with these affairs of men".
  • There's also the hilarious implication that Heimdall was a part of this scheme.
  • Loki's claim that "he was young" as his reasoning behind the thing is ridiculous when you factor in that the incident happened 40 years ago and he is over 1,000!^note Though, if Frost Giants have roughly the same lifespan as Asgardians (5,000 years, according to a conversation he had with Odin), he still is young.
• Mobius discovers Loki has escaped, having pickpocketed the Time Twister remote from him when he helped him up before - he can't help but chuckle that despite how well he knows Loki, the God of Mischief actually got one over on him even without his powers.
  Mobius: Michevious scamp...
• Loki pulls Casey behind a desk, then calmly asks what his name is. Once Casey tells him, Loki shifts gears and threatens to gut him like a fish if he doesn't tell him where the Tesseract is. Casey replies that he doesn't know what a fish is, to Loki's sheer disbelief, and explains that he's spent his entire life behind his desk.
  Loki: [genuinely taken aback] Well, what difference does it make?!
  Casey: I wanna know exactly what I'm being threatened with before I comply.
  Loki: [beyond frustrated] Death, Casey. Violent, painful death!
  Casey: Okay, okay. I comply, I comply! I comply, jeez.
  • Casey calls Loki "that criminal with the blue box". No, not that one.
  • A little while later, Casey is seen complaining to two Judges about how Loki treated him and B-15's heavy-handed approach to her work.
    Casey: And this guy kept saying he was gonna turn me into a fish, whatever that is, and then they show up and just prune my cart, so there was nothing I could have done.
• Loki discovers that the Infinity Stones, the six most powerful objects in the universe, are so useless in the TVA that the staff use numerous confiscated versions of them as paper weights.
  • There's something so twistedly funny about how dismissively the TVA (and the show) treat the Infinity Stones. These immensely powerful, universe-shaping cosmic ingots, so significant that the first eleven years and twenty-two installments of the MCU were spent building up how powerful and dangerous they were, with even one having the power to destroy a planet. Here? They might as well be made of plastic!
  • When Mobius finds Loki with the Tesseract, he asks "Did you try to use that thing?" in the same tone as you might say "...you know that remote control is broken, right?" And Loki says that he did try, in a tone of "Yes, and it took me an embarrassing amount of time to notice."
• After a fight between Loki and B-15, Loki manages to put the Time Twister collar on her. Loki uses it once to get B-15 out of the room. And then he starts warping her back and forth between the room he's in and a different part of the TVA. It's pretty fun to watch, especially as he starts playing with the remote even more furiously just to let off some steam after all the abuse that she's put him through, and with her telling him to stop it all the while in an increasingly distorted way, no less!

Episode 2: The Variant

• The Renaissance fair guest's annoyance when the Minutemen show up in their anachronistic uniforms.
  Guest: Some of us need this, you know!
  • Does the music playing in the opening scene at the Renaissance Fair sound familiar? It's the same music that plays in The Sims: Medieval! (Well, EA and Disney have partnered up to do Star Wars projects...)
• The opening fight scene is set to a diegetic "Holding Out For A Hero."
  • First of all, if the song wasn't hacked into the system by The Variant, then a modern song being played through electronic means is outlandish Hypocritical Humor, given the Renaissance fair guest's annoyance at the Minutemen's costumes.
  • The fact that The Variant choose to announce their ambush by playing this song proves the late Tony Stark correct once again, "Loki is a full-tilt diva".
  • One can imagine The Variant laughing at them by playing this song. The Minutemen, who think themselves justified in what they're doing, need a hero to save them from her.
• Miss Minutes is testing Loki on TVA terminology. Bored, he asks if she's a recording or actually alive. When she says that she's both, he decides to test this theory by trying to swat her with a magazine. This causes her to jump into a TV screen where she scowls at him with the words "TEST FAILED" glowing in front of her.
  Miss Minutes: Jerk.
  • Made all the funnier for the disproportionate amount of pleasure Loki appears to take from being able to give somebody grief for the first time since he arrived. Apparently trying to bully anything that seems weaker than him just comes as instinct at least before his Character Development.
• Loki's new jacket has "Variant" printed in big orange letters on the back. He's not really amused.
• Before departing to investigate the Variant's newest attack, Mobius shows the team a slideshow of previous Loki Variants. One of them appears to have the blue skin of his Frost Giant side, one is monstrously oversized like the Hulk, and one won the Tour De France. Even funnier is that said Tour de France variant is merely a photoshopped set picture of Loki from Ragnarok to look like any old bicyclist.
  • Loki's reactions to each range from bemused to "WTF?!"
  • Of course Loki won the Tour De France. Asgardians are biking warriors!
  • The TVA has been shown as capable of responding to Nexus Events within seconds, so either Loki really did take part in a Tour De France and simply wasn't supposed to win or someone at the TVA was bored enough to allow the timeline to branch long enough for a Loki variant to take part in and win it.
• Loki's wonderful mockery as he details the distinct differences between illusion-projection and duplication-casting, and ending with "but you already knew that."
  • Mobius mockingly dubs him "Professor Loki" in response.
• Mobius and Judge Renslayer are discussing Loki:
  Renslayer: You really believe in this Variant?
  Mobius: Mmm... Luckily, he believes in himself enough for the both of us. And, hey, if it doesn't work, I'll delete him myself. [whispering] He's really arrogant.
• After Loki ruins the mission at the renaissance faire, Mobius does his best to convince Judge Renslayer that Loki can still be useful. When Mobius leaves Renslayer's office, Loki is waiting outside looking like a naughty schoolboy waiting outside of the principal's office during a parent-teacher conference. Loki then runs after Mobius and tries to convince him how everything was just an elaborate plan on his side, while Mobius looks absolutely done with Loki.
  Loki: That was your first lesson in catching a Loki. Expect the expected! Half the fun of being a trickster is knowing everyone knows you're a trickster, and then, many of your tricks can come from exploiting the fact that you know that they know that you know...
  Mobius: Okay. Just shut up! Please. What happened to the guy I met on the elevator? Who didn't like to talk. Remember him? Now I'm stuck with this guy who won't stop yacking away about what makes a Loki tick!
• Loki being outright insulted when Mobius keeps calling the Variant "his superior."
• When Loki goes through the files about the Variant, he sarcastically comments how, surprise surprise, the Variant attacked yet another team and stole yet another reset charge. A clerk on the desk behind him shushes him, whereupon Loki turns and childishly shushes her right back.
• Loki decides to ask the archivist for more files. She pointedly ignores him until he presses the bell, then refuses all his requests as "classified". When he finally asks what isn't classified, she hands him his own file.
  • The way Loki presses the bell. Presumably being unfamiliar with it, he just presses down on it without releasing it immediately, which has a pathetically quiet clink as a result.
• Loki first discusses his theory of the Variant hiding out in near-apocalyptic events (and possibly retaliating against Mobius' earlier comments) by ruining Mobius' lunch, dumping salt and pepper into his salad to represent actions against the Sacred Timeline before stealing an indignant Casey's drink to drown the salad to demonstrate the destined apocalyptic event. In the end, Mobius is still confused and upset, and Loki admits that it wasn't even a good metaphor.
  Loki: So, let's just say...
  Mobius: What are you doing?
  Loki: ...your salad is Asgard in this scenario.
  Mobius: It's not Asgard, that's my lunch.
  Loki: It's a metaphor. Just hang in there.
  Mobius: I want that salad.
  Loki: And I could go down to Asgard, before Ragnarok causes its complete destruction, and I could do anything I wanted. I could, let's say... push The Hulk off the Rainbow Bridge. [starts shaking the salt into the salad] There he goes!
  Mobius: The salt is the Hulk?
  Loki: And I could also [picks up the pepper] set fire to the palace.
  Mobius: No, just stop. Don't set fire to the palace.
  • Loki musing about pushing the Hulk off the Bridge gets funnier when you remember that this Loki is still fresh from the events of The Avengers (2012). Seems like someone may still be bitter over the "Puny God" incident.
• Mobius refuses to take Loki into the field as he'll "stab me in the back".
  Loki: [greatly offended] I'd never stab anyone in the back! That's such a boring form of betrayal!
  Mobius: Loki, I've studied every moment of your entire life. You've literally stabbed people in the back, like, fifty times!
  Loki: Well... I'd never do it again, because it got old! [Mobius chuckles]
  • How does he finally get Mobius on board? By pointing out "Okay, look, you don't trust me, you can trust one thing. I love to be right." Sure enough, the idea of seeing Loki proven wrong is too much for Mobius to resist, they test the theory... and sure enough, Loki is right.
• Loki and Mobius decide to test the theory about the Evil Variant hiding in apocalyptic events with a trip to Pompeii just before Mount Vesuvius explodes. To prove that changing events won't register, Loki runs out into the street, sets loose a herd of goats, and starts yelling at the people (in fluent Latin) that the volcano is about to go off so they should do as they please. As Mobius confirms that his actions aren't registering as errors, Loki is left standing in his classic outstretched-arms pose while Vesuvius erupts in the background and a cloud of ash races towards him.
  • While they are waiting, Loki is giddy with excitement and raves about how cool all this volcanic ash will be. Mobius tells him to have some empathy for the residents of Pompeii, to which Loki only replies that they're all going to die anyways.
  • When freeing the goats, he yells, "Be free, my horned friends! Be free!"
  • In the middle of telling the residents about their fate, Loki says that he and Mobius are from the future before pausing to ask him if they actually are, because he's not really sure.
    Loki: We are from the future, right? What is the TVA? I mean, it's from the future. It sounds from the future. It's pretty future-y. [Vesuvius erupts behind him] Right on cue!
  • Loki looks like he's having so much fun doing all this, while Vesuvius is erupting behind him, like a Funny Background Event.
  • What prompted Loki to do these things? Mobius wanted to start small, with things like bird noises, and Loki just wasn't having it. To borrow a phrase from the late Tony Stark: sometimes you gotta run before you can walk!
    • Some have pointed out how funny it is to see Owen Wilson in Pompeii again.
• After confirming Loki's theory that the Variant is hiding in apocalyptic events, they decide to start searching events for the one that the Variant is in. When asked how many there could be, Mobius says that he doesn't know, but they're gonna find out. Smash cut to Loki asleep at a desk with a pile of files, with Mobius looking like he's about ready to pass out himself.
• Loki mocks Mobius for believing that some mystical all-powerful "Timekeepers" control things. Mobius turns it right back by pointing out that he's talking as a man born to Frost Giants and raised by Norse Gods in a fantastic kingdom.
• Loki has the gall to complain Mobius calling him a "scared little boy" as taking things too far. Mobius for his part stops listening, too busy with his "Eureka!" Moment.
• When Loki doesn't recognize what Kablooie is, and Mobius explains that it's candy:
  Mobius: Do you have candy on Asgard?
  Loki: Yeah. Grapes, nuts.
  Mobius: No wonder you're so bitter.
• As the team get ready to head to Alabama, Mobius finally decides to trust Loki with a weapon. Loki looks at his knives in awe for about half a second before B-15 snatches them away again.
  B-15: Absolutely not!
• The annoyance of the team when they come into the store all soaking wet... and Loki uses his magic to instantly make himself dry. Loki seems equally annoyed at them that they don't grasp the utility of being dry.
  Loki: So I don't announce myself with every squeaky footstep like the rest of you.
• B-15 and Loki find a man, in the middle of an apocalyptic hurricane, browsing the houseplants. Their animosity disappears as they just take a minute to wig out about how weird this is.
  Hunter B-15: Could that be you?
  Loki: I mean, I probably would have worn a suit, but, yes, maybe.
  • The "man's" reasoning for shopping for plants instead of being in the disaster shelter:
    "Man:" It's a hurricane sale. Azaleas are half off.
• When the Variant possesses B-15, she pulls the trademark Loki grin, to which our Loki returns the favor. It's about as silly as you might imagine.
• The Variant then goes from enchanting a slim store clerk to enchanting a tall and bulky man who kicks Loki so hard in the chest that he slides several meters on the ground.
  Loki: I miss Randy.
• It takes Loki all of about five minutes of talking with a variant of himself before he mutters under his breath that he finally sees why Thor thought he was so annoying.
  Loki: [after getting tossed around like a ragdoll] I'd never treat me like this.
• Loki's reaction to the Variant being a woman. It's a combination of "well, that just figures," and "Oh, Crap!, me as a woman? That's not good."

Episode 3: Lamentis

• The Cold Open of the episode starts with Hunter C-20 and Sylvie sharing drinks at a bar dressed in regular clothes chatting like old friends all scored to Hayley Kiyoko's Demons. It's such a hard shift from how the last episode ended that you'd be forgiven for laughing. The rest of the scene, however, isn't as funny.
• Sylvie's brief Oh, Crap! when she realizes that she can't use her magic inside the TVA.
• Loki and Sylvie spend most of the episode snarkily bickering, including Sylvie outright screaming in frustration because of Loki at one point.
  Loki: Are we a team now?
  Sylvie: Oh God no!
• Sylvie tries to use her magic to take control of Loki. It fails, giving rise to a moment of them looking at each other awkwardly.
  • Even better, because her enchantments require physical contact, and because she went for Loki's neck... the moment comes off looking like an Almost Kiss and can be seen as Hilarious in Hindsight after the sixth episode.
• Loki and Sylvie come upon a secluded house and try to get access to some power. Sylvie attempts to force her way in and gets blasted back several feet by the inhabitant (much to Loki's glee). Loki catches a glimpse of a photo showing the woman with her husband, and shapeshifts into him, telling the woman how happy he is to finally see her again, and how beautiful she looks. Cue the woman promptly blasting him with her weapon, saying that he obviously wasn't her husband, as he'd never been that nice to her.
  Sylvie: [smirking] Which one was that? Diplomacy, or—
  Loki: Don't. Just don't.
  • When Sylvie kicks open the door, her expression of glee immediately changes to an Oh, Crap! before she gets blasted off her feet.
• Loki's Bad "Bad Acting" as the guard escorting Sylvie, complete with an atrocious American accent and stilted manner of speech.
  Loki: Good evening, passengers. Hi.
• After boarding the train, the two try to figure out seating arrangements. Loki tells Sylvie that he can't sit backwards on a train, to which Sylvie retorts that she can't sit with her back to a door. Loki then points out that there are doors on either side of the car.
• Loki's irritated expression when Sylvie tells him that she has always known that she is adopted.
  Loki: They told you?!
• After they board the train, a waitress approaches Loki and Sylvie and offers them champagne. Sylvie declines, so Loki decides to drink both glasses. When Sylvie wakes up from her nap, she finds that Loki's now completely hammered and singing in "Asgardian" (actually Norwegian) with the other passengers. As the song ends, Loki throws down his glass and calls for "another!"
  • Sylvie waves at Loki to get his attention and to ask him where his uniform is, but Loki does not understand what she is getting at and just waves back at her with a big smile on his face.
  • When Sylvie pulls Loki aside to tell him that another guest looked at him suspiciously, Loki gives Sylvie a nibble and recommends that she eat it with figgy port, which he can't find, so she'll just have to take his word on it.
• Loki tries to conjure up a train ticket, but gets it mixed up with the firework trick that he was showing Sylvie previously. He briefly tries to keep the ruse going before giving up and attacking the guard when he puts his hand on Loki's chest.
• Sylvie screams in frustration after Loki reveals that the TemPad was destroyed when he got thrown off the train, as if she can't believe that Loki is ruining everything and nothing is going right for her.
  Loki: Did the, uh, scream make you feel better?
  Sylvie: Yes, it did. You should try it sometime.
  • Loki offers the slim hope that the TemPad could be repaired. It then completely falls apart in his hands just to prove him wrong.
• In a bit of Crosses the Line Twice, Loki and the citizens of Lamentis watching the Ark, their only hope of survival, get demolished by a meteor? Heavy, depressing Downer Ending. Sylvie's deadpan Screw This, I'm Outta Here moment, as she walks off frustratedly? Priceless.
• The TVA agent frantically trying to dial a rotary phone in a hurry, demonstrating why we no longer have rotary phones.

Episode 4: The Nexus Event

• Loki is insulted that Sylvie has four guards watching her while he only gets two, demanding that he get treated with the same amount of caution.
  • Loki and Mobius's immature way to talk back at each other:
    Loki: You betrayed me!
    Mobius: You betrayed me!
    Loki: Oh, grow up!
    Mobius: You grow up!
• Mobius wondering why, out of all the Variants they've brought in (Kree, Titans, and vampires), a pair of orphan demi-gods are such a pain in the ass.
• Loki gets put into a Time Cell and is punished by endlessly having Sif come up to him, berate him, and then knee him in the balls. In one loop, Loki explains that she's a recreation from his memory from an organization that controls time. She considers this, nods, puts her hands on his shoulders... and then knees him in the balls again.
  • Later on, Loki ends up back in the loop again, sitting and ranting to himself that he learned the lesson the first time.
  • The fact that Loki starts panicking when Mobius says "Give my regards to Lady Sif".
• As heartwarming as it is since Loki's never been in real love before, Mobius spells out the issue with Loki and Sylvie's relationship.
  Mobius: Two variants of the same being, especially you, in this kind of sick, twisted romantic relationship? That's chaos, that could break reality — it's breaking my reality right now! What an incredible, seismic narcissist! You fell for yourself!
  • Also, the fact that it causes one of the sharpest Nexus Events ever, just because two Variants of the same person fell in love, is highly amusing to think about.
  • When trying to deny his feelings for Sylvie, he says that "She's difficult, irritating, and tries to hit me all the time."
• Loki, for once, does what Mobius says:
  Mobius: You care about this Variant?
  Loki: Sylvie? I'm not sure if "care" is the right word. I think we've covered this back in–
  Mobius: Shut up! Do you really think you deserve to be alone?
  Loki: [just looks at Mobius]
  Mobius: Loki!
  Loki: You told me to shut up!
• Mobius realizes that accepting Loki's claim that Mobius himself is a variant, and has been lied to and brainwashed by the TVA, requires trusting the word of two Lokis.
• Both Lokis – and the audience – supposedly get to meet the dreaded Time Keepers... only for them to be animatronic robots, much like from a Disney theme park ride.
• There's a bit of dark humor in that, when Loki finally gains some conviction for himself, he ends up getting stabbed through the heart from behind. Now he knows how it feels.
• We meet a Loki variant who is just an alligator, if not a pet of Kid Loki who decided to give the thing its own horned helmet.
  • The sight of Richard E. Grant, one of the greatest British actors of his generation, wearing a 1960's Loki outfit that looks as campy and goofy as something bought at a Comic-Con.

Episode 5: Journey Into Mystery

• Loki, after first demanding the group "take a quick breather" so he can "ask several thousand questions", is annoyed that Classic Loki's "plan" is "don't die."
  Loki: "Don't die" isn't a plan, it's a general demand of living!
• L1130 comments that after the week, month, or whatever that he's had at the TVA, he's "heartbreakingly" unfazed to see an alligator among all the Lokis.
  Loki: Look, it's been a very, very, very trying past few days. Months? I don't even know how long it's been since New York. All I know is I got pruned, and I woke up here, and now I'm surrounded by variants of myself, plus an alligator, which, I'm heartbroken to report, I didn't even find all that strange!
• The Lokis compare this world to a "shark tank," which prompts Alligator Loki to hiss an objection.
  Classic Loki: There's no such thing as an alligator tank. Besides, it's a better metaphor. He's overly sensitive, like the rest of us.
  Loki: Hang on... Are you telling me that thing's a Loki too?
  Classic Loki: Oh, yes.
  [beat]
  Loki: Okay. Fine, willing to accept that.
• Two words– Thanos Copter. You're reading that right, they actually snuck the Thanos Copter of all things into the show as a Freeze-Frame Bonus!
  • Another freeze-frame would be a small hammer next to a figure in a jar trying to break out. Yes, the show used THROG, with Chris Hemsworth's voice to match!
• Kid Loki claims that the Void is where the TVA sends its trash. It turns out that includes more than the people and places they prune, because there are piles of cafeteria trays all over the place (even buried underground) along with empty juice boxes and soda cans, implying that the TVA prunes them as well so they don't have to deal with cleaning up!
• Every time the Loki variants as a whole react (usually with laughter), the shot will cut to Alligator Loki silently "reacting", implying that he feels similarly. It makes for some great contrast.
• Boastful Loki claims that he managed to defeat his timeline's Avengers and claim all six Infinity Stones. The other Lokis think that he's lying through his teeth.
• When Loki asks if any of them have met a female variant, they all shiver with "that sounds terrifying." He relates that yes, she is, but "that's kind of what's great about her."
• Classic Loki got pruned for trying to escape his self-imposed exile after he escaped his destined death at the beginning of Infinity War, while Kid Loki got pruned because he killed Thor. What did Alligator Loki do to get pruned, on the other hand? Eating the wrong neighbor's cat.
  • A new fan theory has sprung up that Alligator Loki's pruning was actually caused by his defeating Thanos by biting the gauntlet (and Thanos' hand along with it) off.
  • The wording of Alligator Loki's Nexus Event implies that ALL Lokis that have lived long enough have eaten a neighbor's cat. He just ate the ''wrong'' one.
  • Some people have jokingly wondered whether the cat in question might have been Goose.
• The fan theory that Loki faked his death in Infinity War and transformed into the background debris to escape has now been made canon, as how Classic Loki escaped his death at Thanos’s hands.
• During the establishing shots of the scene of the five Lokis chatting in their hideout, it's shown that everyone is drinking wine... except Kid Loki, who has an Ecto Cooler juice box.
• Loki's first reaction to seeing President Loki (and about a dozen more Lokis)?
  Loki L1130: This is a nightmare.
• President Loki getting his hand bitten off by Alligator Loki. And then a fight breaks out with all of the other Loki variants.
  • Upon seeing all of the Loki variants turn against each other, all that L1130 can do in response is either roll his eyes, shake his head in disbelief, or cover his face to cringe. Even he gets sick of seeing all of the incessant betrayals among his various alternate selves. He, Kid Loki, and Classic Loki make a beeline out of there before things can can get worse.
  • You can see him thinking "Oh God, it's not bad enough being Surrounded by Idiots, but they're all me."
  • As a distraction, Classic Loki conjures illusions of himself, Kid Loki, and Alligator Loki to fight the other Lokis. The first thing that the Kid Loki illusion does is toss the Alligator Loki illusion at President Loki.
  • President Loki reacts to his hand being bitten off with a high-pitched scream.
    • It's hard to see in the chaos of the scene, but when illusion Kid Loki throws illusion Alligator Loki into the fight, he lands right on top of President Loki, who lets out another scream.
• The "throne" that the other Lokis fight over looks like something that was salvaged from a Santa's workshop set from a mall and the base it resides in is an abandoned bowling alley.
• In true Mobius fashion, not only does he manage to save Sylvie from Alioth just in time, but he does so in a pizza delivery car.
  • When Sylvie jumps into the car, Mobius also takes the time to admonish her for jumping into cars with strangers.
• Alligator Loki's reaction to L1130's plan (as translated by Classic Loki) of taking out Alioth.
  Alligator Loki: *growls*
  L1130 Loki: See? He's on board.
  Classic Loki: He's praying, he thinks we're going to die.
• In the time it takes L1130 to explain his plan to kill Alioth, the creature has already wiped out the U.S.S. Eldridge causing him to meekly say that the plan needs a bit of work. The look Kid and Classic Loki shoot him indicates that he's not the first Loki to have had that bright idea.
• L1130 introducing Sylvie to the other Lokis:
  L1130 Loki: Us as a child, us in the future, and us as uh... uh an alligator. [Sylvie gives him a look] It's best not to question it.
  • Sylvie silently questioning Alligator Loki's existence is hilarious because, as far everyone is aware, she's the only female Loki ever.
  • When Mobius jokes "you could throw a rock around here and hit a Loki", L1130 is clearly thinking back to the throne room and how true that is.
• After Mobius and Sylvie find the others, they talk tactics:
  Sylvie: So, you're all after the giant cloud monster too, then?
  Loki: Well, we haven't decided how we're going to kill it, but...
  Sylvie: Sorry, come again? Kill it?
  Loki: Yes, we're going to kill Alioth.
  Sylvie: [in a "you have got to be kidding me" tone] Oh my God, that was your plan?
  Loki: [offended] Yeah.
  Sylvie: [to the other Loki variants] And you all went along with it?
  Kid Loki/Classic Loki: [quickly, at the same time] I had my doubts./Probably unsafe.
• After squabbling with L1130 about what they're going to do:
  Sylvie: [confidently] I'm going to enchant it.
  Mobius: [grinning] She's pretty confident.
  • Loki then looks at Mobius with feigned indignation for him taking Sylvie's side.
• After being introduced to the other Variants, Mobius is skeptical that Alligator Loki is actually a Loki.
  Classic Loki: You really don't remember him?
  Mobius: I mean, the TVA have arrested a lot of Lokis but, no, I don't remember an alligator. I mean, who's to say he's even a Loki variant?
  Classic Loki: [shrugs] He is green, isn't he?
  Mobius: I don't know, he could be lying. The long con. Of course, that just makes him more likely to be a Loki.
  • The "he is green, isn't he?" argument becomes funnier when you remember that there is another iconic green character in a different universe who is a version of Loki.
• While Loki and Sylvie are sitting together and talking about what they'll do after they take down the TVA, Loki almost pulls the "it's cold, we should huddle together for warmth" move on Sylvie. He then thinks twice about it and conjures a blanket over himself as if to reassure her that he really wasn't trying anything.
  • He eventually extends the blanket to cover both of them, although Sylvie isn't too impressed by its snuggliness and asks Loki if it's a tablecloth.
  • Also, quite ironically, both Loki and Sylvie are Frost Giants.
• Loki gives Mobius a big hug as he's about to return to the TVA to burn it down. Mobius, looking at Sylvie behind him, whispers to her that she's his favorite.
  • Another thing that makes it hilarious is that he's whispering it within earshot of L1130, who doesn't know that he's saying it to Sylvie and just assumes that it is meant for him.

Episode 6: For All Time. Always.

• After all the buildup of the previous episodes, all the tension, the effort, and the suffering that Loki and Sylvie endured to reach the one truly responsible for the TVA, they both spend so much time dithering at the front door of the Citadel that eventually it opens itself for them.
• He Who Remains: the ominous Greater-Scope Villain of the series, and potentially the entire franchise, is at long last revealed as an ordinary-looking man who doesn't quite seem all there. He shows more interest in the apple that he's eating than the two Loki Variants there to kill him and is pretty chill at the thought of dying.
• The way He Who Remains reveals his many names:
  He Who Remains: Oh, I've been dubbed many names by many people. A ruler, a conqueror, He Who Remains, a jerk.
• His reaction to Loki's and Sylvie's Big Damn Kiss. He is sitting in a Palm on Cheek Pose and is thoroughly enjoying the show, prompting jokes about that time when "Kang was one of us".
• The Reveal that the terrifying Judge Ravonna Renslayer is a Variant of a woman from 21st Century Ohio, and a school principal at that. The Minutemen are as confused and surprised as the woman is with the people wearing tactical gear in her school.
• A not so subtle visual gag that crosses over nightmare fuel is the "sacred timeline" being visually represented as a ring/loop, and how the Citadel sits at the very center of it. Showing how He Who Remains has all of time as we know it (i.e., the entire MCU) LITERALLY revolving around him.

Season 2

Episode 1: Ouroboros

• There's a another Judge in the War Room besides Dox and Gamble, but he doesn't participate in the conversation because he's sleeping in his seat.
• General Dox does a long Headbutt of Love with Hunter X-5 in the middle of a meeting. Hunter B-15 is visibly uncomfortable.
• Loki recounts his last encounter with Sylvie when she kicked him through a Time Door.
  Mobius: Well, I'd ask who won, but...
  Loki: It was a draw.
  Mobius: You both kicked each other through Time Doors simultaneously?
  • In a weak attempt to make Loki feel better, Mobius tells him that "Renslayer kicked [him] down some steps, too."
• Mobius keeps insisting Loki's timeslipping "doesn't look that bad," and Loki keeps insisting that it "doesn't even hurt." Then in the elevator, Loki timeslips again, and Mobius can't hide his horrified expression in time.
  Mobius: I can't keep looking at it, 'cause it's horrible.
  Loki: What? I thought you said it didn't look that bad.
  Mobius: I was lying. It's terrible, looks like you're being born or dying or both at the same time. It's freaking me out.
  Loki: It's okay.
  Mobius: It looks really painful.
  Loki: It's not that bad. I can handle it.
  Mobius: Come on. [speaking to someone offscreen] How does it look?
  Random Woman in the Elevator: [completely freaked out]
• Mobius says you have to be pretty arrogant to name yourself He Who Remains. Loki says it's not arrogant if you can live up to it.
• When Mobius is processing that he doesn't remember He Who Remains:
  Mobius: I have no memory of having my memory wiped.
• Loki time-slips into the present War Room just beside Judge Gamble. She's startled slightly, but otherwise takes it completely in stride reacting more as if someone sneezed loudly beside her.
• As Mobius tries, badly, to pretend that he remembers his previous meeting with O.B., Loki looks on with smug amusement the whole time as Mobius just digs himself deeper with every word. For his part, O.B. doesn't even notice and happily reminisces about their meeting, which was the last visit he's had from anyone in the last 400 years.
• O.B. stating that if their plan to stabilize Loki goes wrong, and there's a high chance, Loki will be erased from time and Mobius will lose his skin. What makes it funny is the two men's resigned reactions and briefly arguing which is worse.
  • O.B. continuously and specifically references the loss of skin from then on, ignoring how uncomfortable it makes Mobius.
  • Later, Mobius writes "Skin?" in the dust on some machinery in the Temporal Loom control room.
  • Past O.B.'s characterisation of how Loki would be erased.
    O.B.: Well... have you heard about how if you fall into a black hole you turn into spaghetti?
    Loki: No?
    O.B.: Good... The less you know about that, the better.
• Just outside the control room is a warning that actually uses the word "spaghettification." Real term.
• When they get to the control room O.B says they have an hour to make the plan work before they had to shut the blast doors to fix the loom, one kaboom later... they have five minutes.
• O.B. cautions Mobius that he will have to "hoof it back" as soon as the extractor is locked in the time stream:
  Mobius: Get ready to see some hoofin' like you've never seen before.
  O.B. [confused but supportive] Okay!
• The Stinger shows Sylvie arriving in 1980s Oklahoma after the events of the last season where she walks into a McDonald's and decides to order everything off the menu.
  • Her original order is "Not squirrel, not possum, not rats. Something that's already dead and nothing with a face."

Episode 2: Breaking Brad

• Upon introducing themselves to a disguised Hunter X-5, Mobius feels confident that they'll be able to reason with him. Loki isn't convinced, knowing all too well who they're chasing:
  Loki: Is he running now?
  Mobius: [face darkens as he looks behind Loki] He is running.
• After Loki restrains Brad using his shadows while creating two illusions of himself, Mobius asks the center Loki if that was a bit over the top. The rightmost Loki then says otherwise, revealing Mobius was talking to the wrong Loki.
• When X-5/Brad is brought in, post processing, Loki fluffs up the collar of the fancy coat he's wearing, clearly having waited for the moment to mock someone else wearing one of the unflattering TVA jumpsuits.
• Mobius manages to utterly wreck X-5/"Brad" with a very clever little joke about his acting career:
  Mobius: Knock, knock.
  X-5: [rolls his eyes] Who's there?
  Mobius: Brad.
  X-5: Brad who?
  Mobius: [smirks and shrugs] That's showbiz!
• After Brad upsets Mobius by talking about his life before the TVA, Mobius walks through a hallways with Loki following him, and they accidentally end up in the Key Lime Pie room. Mobius wonders how they ended up there, and Loki says he was just following Mobius, to which Mobius tries to claim that he was following Loki.
  • Adding to this, as they're walking, Loki comments that X-5 got under Mobius' skin, only for Mobius to claim X-5 pissed Loki off.
• In a dark way, Loki revealing that everything that transpired in The Avengers (2012) was simply the result of him having a tantrum because he was angry with Odin and Thor.
• The whole of the torture device Loki and Mobius use on X-5 is both Black Comedy and Nightmare Fuel at its finest. On one hand, the entire concept of it is terrifying, boxing victims inside a forcefield and progressively getting smaller, potentially squishing them to death. But on the other hand, the thing looks absolutely ridiculous. It looks like an unholy love-child between a retro vacuum cleaner, a diesel generator, and a bee smoker that's way too bulky, with Mobius having trouble wheeling it into the interrogation room and needing Loki's help with it. Then there's the fact that it needs to be activated with a pull cord, like a lawnmower. And the entire time, X-5 is terrified of it. He tries desperately to talk his way out of it... with little success.
  X-5: Um, earlier, I said some really hurtful things, and I brought up your mother. And I am really sorry about that.
  • Even though everything is an act, Loki clearly has fun scaring Brad.
    Brad: You could kill me with that!
    Loki: [curiously] Could I?
• O.B. is freaking out about how the blast doors to the Loom are locked shut and everyone is going to die. Then Casey realizes he's the author of the TVA Guidebook and asks for O.B.'s autograph. While asking for a guidebook to be signed is hilarious on its own, O.B. briefly forgets the imminent danger, requiring B-15 to remind him.
• Despite everything that's at stake, once Loki and co. reach the McDonald's where Sylvie is working, Mobius can't help but order himself some lunch while he's there, because they still have the apple pies in a pouch. Then he goes on about how weird life is that they could go from arguing with each other in a cell to eating at McDonalds together.
  Brad: You slapped me in the face. I'm not gonna forget—
  Mobius: But I got you a shake. Okay?
  • What makes the above point even better is the moment of Mobius going for an apple pie is effectively Product Placement, and demonstrably so since that moment actually made it as a McDonalds commercial in real life!
• Sylvie is so established in 1980s Oklahoma that she has a pick up truck and a mullet.

Episode 3: 1893

• To establish the time period, the opening music is, of course, the Marvel Studios Fanfare... except it's an upbeat ragtime cover version instead.
• Ravonna pulls Miss Minutes into a building to keep her from being spotted by a passerby. When Ravonna points out that she doesn't blend in to the 1880s, Miss Minutes responds by changing to a black-and-white early cartoon style and asking if that's better.
  • This then becomes utilized when Miss Minutes grows giant and pretends she's a Bedsheet Ghost, complete with stereotypical ghost wails and a simple "Boo". You can practically hear Tara Strong's voice for Ben Tennyson shine through as she laughs at what she's doing.
  Miss Minutes: You better ruuuuunnnn!!!
• Mobius insists that stopping by the concessions stand is part of his investigative method, and the delicious caramel popcorn they picked up is simply a bonus.
• Victor Timely, a variant of He Who Remains, comes off as more of a cheap, slightly bumbling Snake Oil Salesman than the imposing menace we met in series 1.
• While attempting to calm a man he sold a pair of trousers, claimed to make the wearer taller, Victor carefully crouches slightly before claiming the man looks taller to him... It, and the promise of coming to adjust the "prototype" later, is enough to placate the man.
• Loki complains about The Theme Park Version of the Norse Pantheon, namely that he isn't part of it. As Mobius drags him off, he pettily remarks that Thor isn't that tall in real life. He also wonders why Balder of all people is in the display.
  • What makes it even better is a brief snippet of that "sad violin" theme of Loki's playing as he gives the diorama a Held Gaze...only to follow it up with the above jab at Thor's height.
  • Loki complains about Baldur being depicted alongside Odin and Thor, stating no one knows Baldur. Mobius immediately proves him wrong by calling him "Baldur the Brave." This gets even funnier when you consider that, in some versions of Norse Myth, Loki is responsible for killing Baldur.
• Loki gets provoked twice at the fair, the first after accidentally bumping into a man and the second when he and Mobius are called 'ratbags!' by the Robber Baron. The first time around Mobius tries to talk Loki out of using his magic, the second time while still seeming slightly resigned:
  Mobius: Go ahead.
  • In both instances Loki only decides to use his magic after his outfit is messed with or insulted.
• Loki and Mobius need to pursue the fleeing Timely and Ravonna. Mobius grabs a tandem bike and tells Loki to hop on, while the latter just looks at him like "Really?" and says "Absolutely not." The next time we see them, they're arriving at Timely's place on the bike. Mobius even announcing their arrival by ringing the bell.
  • In the previous season, a variant of Loki was shown that competed in the Tour de France. Seems Loki really does like bikes.

Episode 4: Heart of the TVA

• After Loki presses Timely to come with them, Timely notes "that didn't sound as reassuring as you'd hoped it would."
• Mobius presses on Timely to trust them.
  Timely: I'm from Chicago, friend. The schadeocracy capital of the world. I don't trust anyone.
• Ouroboros and Timely fanboying over meeting each other. Timely actually squeals like a little girl as soon as he sees him.
  • Victor asks O.B. to sign his handbook, and O.B. agrees but only if Victor signs his. In the background, Casey has pulled out his handbook, clearly hoping he can get O.B. to sign it this time. Sylvie interrupts them, and reminds them it's time to get on with fixing the Temporal Loom.
    Sylvie: Guys, sorry to break up this bromance, but can we fix now and sign later?
• After everything he's seen, Timely really seems amazed at the concept of a hot cocoa machine and wants to see it even more than learning anything more about the TVA.
• O.B. worries about turning off the security protocols as that will allow magic to be used in the TVA. While in a phone conversation with two variants who would kill just to get their ability to perform magic again.
  Loki and Sylvie: TURN IT OFF!
• Just like Doc Brown to Marty, O.B. brings out an elaborate, highly detailed model to demonstrate his plan and apologizes for how crude it is and how he's embarrassed to show it to Victor Timely.
  • There's also a large sign on the model of the Temporal Loom that says "NOT TO SCALE."
• Resetting the system causes Miss Minutes to start glitching and looping mid-sentence... which makes Victor sulk, thinking she's mocking his stutter.
• Mobius and Loki arguing over who should be the one to go fix the Loom. Mobius' argument is that he had to do it last time and the figurine O.B. uses to represent the person in the suit has Loki's figure. Sylvie then remarks that the figurine doesn't resemble anyone.
• Apparently, Mobius once fried his TemPad by downloading an unauthorized game onto it. When the files on his current device start corrupting O.B. asks him if it's because he downloaded another game.
  Mobius: No. I'm not going to make that mistake twice.
• While the moment is otherwise very, very dark, Casey's remark as everyone else is trying to grasp what just happened when Victor is spaghettified:
  Mobius: What happened?!
  Casey: I don’t know. It wasn't me.

Episode 5: Science/Fiction

• Where did Mobius wind up on the timeline? A jet ski salesman.
  • We're introduced to Mobius riding on a jet-ski before the camera pans out to reveal that it's a jet ski in a store with a fan blowing in front of his face that he demonstrates to a potential customer who makes it clear that he is not interested. After the customer leaves, Mobius tells his coworker that he can't get how the customer could refuse the opportunity to test it out himself. Oh, and this potential customer wants a dirt bike. There are no dirt bikes in the store.
    Don: Well, you know what they say, the jet ski is the thinking man's dirt bike.
  • When Loki time-slips to the store where Mobius works a second time, his arms flail out in a perfect imitation of the tube man behind him.
  • Loki tells Mobius that the TVA is gone, and Mobius thinks he's talking about an ATV and cheerily informs Loki that, no, they actually have a couple upstairs.
  • There are no cars in Mobius's garage, but there are two jet skis.
  • Loki tries to explain to Mobius what's going on and that they know each other, but with each sentence he comes off as more unhinged to him until Mobius grabs a wrench ready to fight off Loki if necessary.
• Loki's failed attempts at deliberately time-slipping.
  • What is one of A.B. Doug's methods of trying to induce a time-slip? Tony Starking him with a cattle prod, hoping for a reaction.
    A.B. Doug: [taking notes] Electrical pulses don't initiate time-slipping.
  • Immediately after that, he jump scares Loki (with a very silly scream and waving his arms) as another means of trying to induce it.
• Casey, of all people, was actually Frank Lee Morris, one of the only three inmates to escape Alcatraz. Talk about Hidden Depths. Even funnier is how Frank says that he and his buddies will be gutted like a fish if they get caught.
• Ouroboros was originally A.B. Doug, a struggling sci-fi author with a day job teaching physics. He puts copies of his own book in a bookstore and then tries to buy one, hyping it up to the cashier and getting thrown out by the owner.
  • He totally believes Loki's story as it's similar to one of his "best-selling" books, Sons of Yoman. He then mentions that it'll be hard to find a copy... while the camera is clearly pointing to a stack of these unsold books.
• When Loki meets Sylvie again they both trade a few very tense words... then Loki's time slipping acts up again and freaks out Sylvie pretty bad leaving her bug-eyed.
  Sylvie: Okay, get in the truck. I'm getting you a drink.
• Mobius and Ouroboros simply cannot stop plugging their products to everyone else despite how incredibly odd the situation is.
• Ouroboros casually mentioning that to build the TemPad, he had to quit his job and his wife left him.
• At the very end of the credits, we get quite possibly the biggest Mood Whiplash of an audio-only Stinger from an unexpected source...the Zaniac arcade machine at the bar Loki and Sylvie were talking in.
  Brad: (as Zaniac) You died! Insert your coin, loser!

Episode 6: Glorious Purpose

• The Failure Montage of Loki's attempts to get Victor down the gangway without getting shredded, ending with him slamming his head on a railway in annoyance.
  Loki: (annoyed) Again.
• The fact that in one of the loops, Loki gets so desperate that he asks Miss Minutes for help, something that clearly surprises everyone—including her.
• Loki puts himself through a "Groundhog Day" Loop to get all of O.B.'s technical knowledge and speed-runs the events of the last episode over and over. The look on his face when he realizes how long it will take sells it.
  Loki: O.B., how long will it take me to know everything that you know about mechanics, physics, and engineering?
  O.B.: How much do you know?
  Loki: Let's assume I don't know much, but I'm a fast learner and I'm a god.
  Casey: Let's start at the beginning.
  Loki: Start at the beginning.
  O.B.: We don't have time. Loki, it's better if we work alone.
  Loki: O.B., I understand. But if I had to know, I mean, I really, really, really had to know, how long would it take?
  O.B.: ...Decades.
  Victor Timely: C-c-centuries.
  Loki: [deep breath]
  Centuries Later
  • The others are very put off by Loki's demeanor throughout the episode, as he suddenly knows things he isn't supposed to know and hurries everyone along, trying to not waste a second. This includes giving Victor rapid-fire instructions on exactly how to put on the suit and how to hurry down the gangway. Which leaves us with the implication that Victor had apparently tripped on the way out, as well as dropped the Throughput Multiplier off the gangway, at least once. And forgotten to latch his helmet, though we don't see any of these incidents.
  • A Freeze-Frame Bonus shows that, in some loops, Victor didn't even get the helmet on.
  • Loki "predicting" (or rather already knowing) what Mobius will say to him when he does all the work that O.B. or Casey usually would do.
    Mobius: Better watch out, O.B. Looks like someone's coming–
    Loki: [in a sing-song] ...coming for your job! That's right, I'mma coming, I'mma coming! O.B., watch your back!
  • Mobius eventually snaps and confronts Loki, uncharacteristically using a swear word.
    Mobius: Okay, what the shit are you doing?!
    Loki: Trust me.
    Mobius: No.
    Loki: I know what I'm doing.
    Mobius: No!
  • Despite his effort to squeeze every second out that he can, Loki can't help but persist with insisting the figure in the model of the featureless suit looks like Mobius.
• The Failure Montage of Loki trying to stop Sylvie killing He Who Remains.
  • At one point, Loki gets fed up and asks He Who Remains why he lets Sylvie kill him and not fight back, at which point He Who Remains finally "breaks character" and stops Sylvie dead in her tracks, before proceeding to talk to Loki as if he should have known everything all along.
    He Who Remains: Sooo, how many times have you been at this?
    Loki: What did you do?
    He Who Remains: Oh, come on, you're not telling me you haven't worked out how to... pause... time... yet?
  • After having repeatedly let Sylvie kill him...
    He Who Remains: Oh, kiddo, did you really think I was just going to sit back and let her kill me?
  • Loki quotes T. S. Eliot. He Who Remains, the king of all time, a man with quite literally infinite time and nothing to do, completely misses the reference.
    Loki: We die with the dying. We're born with the dead.
    He Who Remains: ...Uhhuh. Okay.
  • Then finally, when Loki reveals the Wham Line and mimes a finger gun at He Who Remains, the latter acts out a sizzle motion in a clear Touché sign of respect.
• O.B. and Casey are attempting to reboot Miss Minutes. B-15 asks if she's going to kill everyone. O.B. shrugs his shoulders.

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