Loki comes to dual epiphanies: He can't return to his timeline. All so others can achieve their best versions of themselves."įollowing a brief, hijinks-filled escape, Loki winds up back in the Time Theater scrolling through his own would-be future - The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, Endgame - with Hiddleston providing his first Emmys clip of the season without uttering a single word. You were born to cause pain and suffering and death. "Do you hurt enjoy hurting people?" Mobius asks. With that case closed, Mobius interrogates Loki about what he really wants to know: "What makes Loki tick?" He shows him footage of what would - or should - have been had Loki kept on the Sacred Timeline: Aka Thor: The Dark World, in which he brings about his mother's death. But it made it in and we're so glad it did. When I wrote it, I was like, you never quite know if that will make it in. "That's a story that I love that's such, like, amazing American folklore and, in that moment, happened to be the perfect way to sort of illustrate, 'Why does the TVA not interfere with that sort of thing?' help prove Mobius' point. "The truth is, if it wasn't going to be Don Draper, it was going to have to be Loki," he said. Loki creator and episode 1 writer Michael Waldron gave ET the backstory on the bit. Cooper, the infamous plane hijacker who's remained an unsolved mystery since the '70s. Mobius plays Loki's Greatest Hits from The Avengers and Thor, plus a previously unseen footnote from Loki's past: While running down his biggest and best escapes, Mobius reveals Loki is D.B. Now, the Time Keepers aren't always the most benevolent beings on the page, so we'll be curious to see how Loki runs up against them.īack to the show: Mobius takes Loki to the so-called Time Theater, where we discover the TVA also has a Disney+ subscription. In the series, Loki refers to them as "three space lizards" who "decide the fate of trillions of people across all of existence." In the comics, yeah, that is basically who they are: Lizard-looking entities named Ast, Vorth and Zanth (because there's always a Zanth in the mix), created by He Who Remains to protect time. Let's pause here to talk about the Time Keepers for a moment. Mobius ( Owen Wilson) to help track down a dangerous variant traveling through time and killing TVA Minutemen along the way. Ultimately, Loki is given a choice: Be erased from time and space (something the TVA can and happily will do) or partner with Agent Mobius M. Standing trial before Judge Renslayer ( Gugu Mbatha-Raw), Loki Laufeyson, aka the Loki variant L1130, learns why he was arrested and every single Avenger was not, despite, you know, going back in time to heist half a dozen Infinity Stones. Whatever it was, stepping off your path created a Nexus event, which left unchecked, could branch off into madness, leading to another multiversal war!" Maybe you started an uprising or were just late for work. But sometimes, people like you veer off the path the Time Keepers created. Now, the Time Keepers protect and preserve the proper flow of time for everyone and everything. Countless unique timelines battled each other for supremacy, nearly resulting in the total destruction of, well, everything! But then the all-knowing Time Keepers emerged, bringing peace by reorganizing the multiverse into a single timeline - the Sacred Timeline. "Long ago, there was a vast multiversal war. I'm going to transcribe this part in its entirety because it's important: So, let's not waste another minute," the adorably twangy Miss Minutes (voiced by animation legend Tara Strong) says in a welcome intro video primed for Disney Park synergy. "It's my job to catch you up before you stand trial for your crimes.
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