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* CantTakeAnythingWithYou: When Loki timeslips while holding a Time Stick, the stick doesn’t slip with him.

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* CantTakeAnythingWithYou: Played with. When Loki timeslips into the future while holding a Time Stick, the stick doesn’t slip with him.him. However, the ''timer'' does, which is a problem because the future TVA is deserted and Loki now lacks the means to prune himself.
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* HaveWeMetYet: O.B. realized that he has already met Loki a long time ago when Loki time slipped to him.

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* HaveWeMetYet: O.B. realized realizes that he has already met Loki a long time ago when Loki time slipped to him.
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* ChekhovsGun: Mobius write "Skin?" in the dust-covered terminal. Loki sees this when he winds up in the future.

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* BadFuture: Something ominous is going on in the future TVA that Loki timeslips into. Alarms are going off, the lights are flickering, and everyone seems in agitation.



* ContinuityNod: The podcast that Casey from the past is listening to is the same that Steven Grant listened to while trying to stay awake in ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}.''

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* ContinuityNod: CantTakeAnythingWithYou: When Loki timeslips while holding a Time Stick, the stick doesn’t slip with him.
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The podcast that Casey from the past is listening to is the same that Steven Grant listened to while trying to stay awake in ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}.''



* HaveWeMetYet: O.B. realized that he has already met Loki a long time ago when Loki time slipped to him.



* JustFollowingOrders: When D-90 apologizes to Mobius for pruning him, Mobius ironically answers that he was just following orders, but then actually forgives him.

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* JustFollowingOrders: When D-90 apologizes to Mobius for pruning him, Mobius ironically answers dryly remarks that he was just following orders, but then actually forgives him.

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* BodyHorror: Loki’s timeslipping is uncomfortable to look at as he is suddenly being pulled apart into strings. Mobius describes it as if he is being born and dying at the same time.

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* BodyHorror: Loki’s Loki's timeslipping is uncomfortable to look at as he is suddenly being pulled apart into strings. Mobius describes it as if he is being born and dying at the same time.



* RetroactivePreparation: Unintentionally done by Loki, who is timeslipped to the distant past with O.B. and uses the opportunity to help him prepare the device and information he needs for Mobius to get him unstuck from time.



* TheStinger: Sylvie arrives in a branched timeline Broxton, Oklahoma through a Time Door and goes to a [=McDonald’s=] where she orders normal food for the first time in her life.

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* TheStinger: Sylvie arrives in a branched timeline Broxton, Oklahoma through a Time Door and goes to a [=McDonald’s=] [=McDonald's=] where she orders normal food for the first time in her life.



* UnstuckInTime: Loki suffers from timeslipping, which causes him to slip between the past, presence and future against his will and at random.

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* UnstuckInTime: Loki suffers from timeslipping, which causes him to slip between the past, presence present, and future against his will and at random.

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* BodyHorror: Loki’s timeslipping is uncomfortable to look at as he is suddenly being pulled apart into strings.

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* BodyHorror: Loki’s timeslipping is uncomfortable to look at as he is suddenly being pulled apart into strings. Mobius describes it as if he is being born and dying at the same time.



* {{Egopolis}}: The TVA is decorated with numerous images of Kang and his variants’ faces in the past when Loki timeslips to that point. Some time between then and the show's main "present", all the Kang iconography was covered up and replaced by the Time Keepers.

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* {{Egopolis}}: The TVA is decorated with numerous statues and images of Kang and his variants’ faces variants in the past when Loki timeslips to that point. Some time between then and the show's main "present", all the Kang iconography was either torn down or covered up and replaced by the Time Keepers.Keepers.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Mobius argues with Loki about being FlayedAlive being worse than being lost to the timestream, because at least Loki would be dead.



* NoEscapeButDown: Loki gets cornered by past Mobius and the Minutemen, and jumps over the railings to escape them.

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* NoEscapeButDown: Loki gets cornered by past Mobius and the Minutemen, and jumps over the railings to escape them.them, landing in a mail truck.



* SanDimasTime: O.B. doesn't remember Loki, until Loki jumps back and starts talking to him, at which point his present iteration remembers those events at precisely that moment.



* TheStinger: Sylvie arrives in Broxton, Oklahoma through a Time Door and goes to a [=McDonald’s=] where she orders normal food for the first time in her life.

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* TheStinger: Sylvie arrives in a branched timeline Broxton, Oklahoma through a Time Door and goes to a [=McDonald’s=] where she orders normal food for the first time in her life.life.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Dox and Gamble marshal a ridiculous amount of TVA agents in the hunt for Sylvie. It's so many, in fact, that D-90 doesn't believe that what they're really doing, despite how dangerous Sylvie's proven herself to be.


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* WriteBackToTheFuture: An unintentional variant. When Loki slips into the future, he's able to figure out it's the future because he sees "Skin?" on the side of a terminal, which Mobius traced into the dust in the present.
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* BodyHorror: Loki’s timeslipping is uncomfortable to look at as he is suddenly being pulled apart into strings.

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* BeyondTheImpossible: O.B. says time-slipping is impossible in the TVA but Loki is well at it.

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* BeyondTheImpossible: O.B. says time-slipping is impossible in the TVA TVA, but Loki is well at it.



** Renslayer's duplicate is brought up as proof that B-15 is telling the truth about everyone being Variants.



* FlayingAlive: This would be Mobius’s fate if either he fails to fire the extractor or if Loki fails to prune himself in time.



* FlayingAlive: This would be Mobius’s fate if either he fails to fire the extractor or if Loki fails to prune himself in time.

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-->'''Mobius:''' So you both kicked each other through time portals simultaneously?

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-->'''Mobius:''' So you both kicked each other through time portals Time Doors simultaneously?


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* VerbalBackspace: O.B. gives Loki and Mobius an hour to complete the plan. Then the window of the Time Loom starts cracking, and O.B. gives them five minutes.
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* FlayingAlive: This would be Mobius’s fate if either he fails to fire the extractor or if Loki fails to prune himself in time.

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* InternalReveal: Loki reveals to everyone at the TVA that "He Who Remains" is the ''true'' founder and that there are more variants of him coming.

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* InternalReveal: InternalReveal:
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Loki reveals to everyone at the TVA that "He Who Remains" is the ''true'' founder and that there are more variants of him coming.coming.
** Mobius learns from Loki that Miss Minutes is secretly working against them and working "He Who Remains".
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** The sword slash Loki sustained in episode 4 is still visible underneath the bloodstained rip in his shirt sleeve.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: In the beginning of the episode, when Mobius and B-15 are discussing what they should about the alarming chain of recent events, they both have valid points about what they should do about it. B-15 is right about how they should reveal the truth about TVA as people on the timelines have lives and should be allowed to live them. However, Mobius is also correct about everyone most likely will not react well they learn everything they were told was a lie and everything were was wrong.
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* NoEscapeButDown: Loki gets cornered by past Mobius and the Minutemen, and jumps over the railings to escape them.
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* BlatantLies: Loki tells Mobius that his fight with Sylvie was a draw, who doesn’t buy it:

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* BlatantLies: Loki tells Mobius that his fight with Sylvie was a draw, who but he doesn’t buy it:

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Loki was pruned from behind, not by Sylvie


* StableTimeLoop: Loki travels to the past TVA to speak with O.B. in the past and unintentionally allows the present O.B. to give Mobius the equipment and directions he needs to fix Loki’s situation. Another appears to be set up at the end when Sylvie arrives at Loki's location in the future JustInTime to prune him as part of O.B.'s plan. As soon as Loki returns, he tells Mobius that they need to find Sylvie in order to close the loop.

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* StableTimeLoop: StableTimeLoop:
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Loki travels to the past TVA to speak with O.B. in the past and unintentionally allows the present O.B. to give Mobius the equipment and directions he needs to fix Loki’s situation. situation.
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Another appears to be set up at the end when Sylvie arrives at Loki's location in the future and an additional unseen person prunes him JustInTime to prune him as part of O.B.'s plan. As soon as Loki returns, he tells Mobius that they need to find Sylvie in order to close the loop.
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* IfIDoNotReturn: Loki is about to tell Mobius something along this sentiment but he timeslips again before he can finish the sentence.
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* {{Egopolis}}: The TVA is now decorated with numerous images of Kang and his variants’ faces.

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* {{Egopolis}}: The TVA is now decorated with numerous images of Kang and his variants’ faces.faces in the past when Loki timeslips to that point. Some time between then and the show's main "present", all the Kang iconography was covered up and replaced by the Time Keepers.



* StableTimeLoop: Loki travels to the past TVA to speak with O.B. in the past and unintentionally allows the present O.B. to give Mobius the equipment and directions he needs to fix Loki’s situation.

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* StableTimeLoop: Loki travels to the past TVA to speak with O.B. in the past and unintentionally allows the present O.B. to give Mobius the equipment and directions he needs to fix Loki’s situation. Another appears to be set up at the end when Sylvie arrives at Loki's location in the future JustInTime to prune him as part of O.B.'s plan. As soon as Loki returns, he tells Mobius that they need to find Sylvie in order to close the loop.
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* BlatantLies: Loki tells Mobius that his fight with Sylvie was a draw, who doesn’t buy it:
-->'''Mobius:''' So you both kicked each other through time portals simultaneously?
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* JumpScare: Loki slips back right in front of present Casey, causing him to jump in surprise.

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* ContinuityNod: The podcast that Casey from the past is listening to is the same that Steven Grant listened to while trying to stay awake in ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}''

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* ContinuityNod: The podcast that Casey from the past is listening to is the same that Steven Grant listened to while trying to stay awake in ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}''Knight|2022}}.''
* DuctTapeForEverything: O.B. uses duct tape to fix a crack in the visor of Mobius’s helmet.


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* LyingToProtectYourFeelings: Played for laughs. Loki asks Mobius how his timeslipping looks like and Mobius assures him that it isn’t so bad. A few moments later he admits that it is “horrible” and “terrible.”


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* UnstuckInTime: Loki suffers from timeslipping, which causes him to slip between the past, presence and future against his will and at random.
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* ReducedToRatburgers: Sylvie has been subsisting off of these her whole life, as she requests from the [=McDonald's=] cashier anything without a face.
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* JustInTime: When it appears that Loki has run out of time before O.B. can close the blast doors to the overloading number of branches from destroying the TVA, he manages to get pruned in time and return.

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* ContinuityNod: The podcast that Casey from the past is listening to is the same that Steven Grant listened to while trying to stay awake in ''Series/{{MoonKnight|2022}}''

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* ContinuityNod: The podcast that Casey from the past is listening to is the same that Steven Grant listened to while trying to stay awake in ''Series/{{MoonKnight|2022}}''''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}''


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* PhlebotinumOverload: The Temporal Loom creates a single timeline out of several. The sheer number of branches formed in the wake of He Who Remains's death is overloading it, and it's destroying the TVA.
* RapidAging: According to O.B., being so near the Temporal Loom will age Mobius's suit off and then age his skin off.

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* AscendedExtra: Hunter X-5 was the one who pruned Mobius, and now has a major speaking role.

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* AscendedExtra: Hunter X-5 D-90 was the one who pruned Mobius, and now has a major speaking role.


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* ContinuityNod: The podcast that Casey from the past is listening to is the same that Steven Grant listened to while trying to stay awake in ''Series/{{MoonKnight|2022}}''


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* JustFollowingOrders: When D-90 apologizes to Mobius for pruning him, Mobius ironically answers that he was just following orders, but then actually forgives him.


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* TheStinger: Sylvie arrives in Broxton, Oklahoma through a Time Door and goes to a [=McDonald’s=] where she orders normal food for the first time in her life.
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* InternalReveal: Loki reveals to everyone at the TVA that "He Who Remains" is the ''true'' founder and that there are more variants of him coming.
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* Egopolis: The TVA is now decorated with numerous images of Kang and his variants’ faces.

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* Egopolis: {{Egopolis}}: The TVA is now decorated with numerous images of Kang and his variants’ faces.
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* StableTimeLoop: Loki travels to the past TVA to speak with O.B. in the past and unintentionally allows the present O.B. to give Mobius the equipment and directions he needs to fix Loki’s situation.
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* BadBoss: The TVA has signs up in their cafeteria asking employees to limit their lunches to 17 minutes and to minimize chitchat, surely as another means to limit the possibility of anybody learning of their true past.


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* BeyondTheImpossible: O.B. says time-slipping is impossible in the TVA but Loki is well at it.
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** One of the Time Keeper robots’ heads is on the table in the war room Mobius and Hunter B-15 attend.


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* SmugSuper: Mobius lampshades that "He Who Remains" is a lofty title, but Loki counters that it’s not that lofty if you can back it up.
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Loki tries to make sense of what to do as he starts glitching in the aftermath of the fracturing of the Sacred Timeline.

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* AscendedExtra: Hunter X-5 was the one who pruned Mobius, and now has a major speaking role.
* BaitAndSwitch: Casey has a dramatic pause where it looks like he’s maybe recognized Loki, but then it turns out he’s just realizing Loki is the fugitive that was just reported.
* Egopolis: The TVA is now decorated with numerous images of Kang and his variants’ faces.
* ImmediateSequel: This season kicks off what seems to be merely minutes after the end of the previous one.
* YouAreInCommandNow: General Dox and General Gamble have taken over the TVA in the absence of Renslayer.
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