This week on Loki, one thing actually necessary occurred. We’re undecided what it was, precisely, however the cliffhanger that we obtained on the finish of Season 2, Episode 4 is the type of factor that would shake up the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe. It might additionally imply nothing, like most the whole lot else within the post-Endgame MCU. In the meantime, although, we’ve got many questions that must be addressed.
Warning: This article incorporates main spoilers for Loki Season 2, Episode 4.
There are two core plot threads on this episode, which takes us again to the Time Variance Authority HQ after we spent final week in Nineteenth-century Chicago. The major thread includes Loki and Mobius bringing Victor Timely to the TVA–a dangerous transfer contemplating {that a} completely different model of Victor used to run the place, however the hope is that he’ll be capable of assist cope with the Temporal Loom, which remains to be unstable.
Meanwhile, Miss Minutes and Renslayer find yourself on the finish of time with the corpse of He Who Remains, and Renslayer learns some fairly necessary lore: that she fought alongside He Who Remains within the multiversal struggle, after which he erased Renslayer’s reminiscence afterward. He refers back to the reminiscence erasure as Protocol 42, indicating it is one thing that occurs repeatedly for everybody who works on the TVA.
This revelation, together with some nudging from Miss Minutes, provides Renslayer a brand new concept: Forget He Who Remains, Victor, Kang, and all the remainder of them, and simply take management of issues herself. So she tries to recruit General Dox and her hunters to her trigger (they’re imprisoned for destroying timelines in Episode 2), promising new lives on the timeline in the event that they do what Renslayer says. But General Dox and her troops aren’t into it–except for Hunter X-05. Renslayer kills the remaining utilizing that shrinking field factor from final week, and X-05 goes full baddie. Or did he? We’ll come again to that.
Loki and Mobius return to Ouroboros to see how issues are going with the Temporal Loom (nonetheless unhealthy), and so they introduce him to Victor. And it is right here the place we study one thing stunning: that OB had initially derived all of the TVA’s tech from Victor’s writings. Which is the darndest factor, actually, as a result of Victor’s writings are primarily based on the TVA area handbook that OB wrote.
Unfortunately, there is not a lot time to ponder this paradox, as a result of the Temporal Loom is about to interrupt down, and so they want anyone to return out into the time stream and repair it. Victor volunteers to be the one, and he places on a type of large bomb fits that Mobius wore within the season premiere–but the temporal radiation destroys him as quickly as he steps exterior.
There’s nothing extra they’ll do after that, so Loki, Mobius, and OB simply stand there and watch the Temporal Loom explode, after which the episode cuts to black.
That’s a reasonably large cliffhanger proper there, and we have about 1,000,000 questions we’re dying to ask about it. Fortunately, we should always get some solutions in only a week, however within the meantime let’s ponder the mysteries. Here’s our largest questions after the large Loki cliffhanger.
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