Another episode of Loki has arrived, bringing with it some twists, a long-awaited cameo,
and even some unexpected romance. What does it all mean? Where will our favorite God of
Mischief be heading next? Here's the ending of Loki episode 4 explained.
The immediate question coming out of Episode 3 was how Loki
and Sylvie were going to escape death in the face of an apocalypse on Lamentis.
That kind of life or death situation brings out some real honesty in both of the two Gods
of Mischief. Faced with the possibility of being crushed to death, the two grow closer
and Sylvie opens up about why she's trying to dismantle the Time Variance Authority.
As it turns out, Ravonna Renslayer is the Hunter who originally snatched Sylvie from
Asgard when she was just a young girl, which we see at the beginning of the episode.
The trauma of being ripped away from her home has given Sylvie the goal of destroying the TVA.
In any case, Sylvie definitely has a bone to pick with Ravonna herself,
blaming the TVA chief for forcing her to grow up through "the ends of a thousand worlds."
As Loki and Sylvie await their doom, the two Variants have a brief,
tender moment in the face of Armageddon, with Sylvie affectionately touching Loki's arm.
However, when two Variants interact like that, it creates a new timeline branch,
which alerts Mobius and the rest of the TVA to their location so they can retrieve them.
One of the most surprising moments of the episode was a delightful cameo from Lady Sif,
who hasn't appeared in the MCU since "Thor: The Dark World," unless you count a 2015 episode of
"Marvel's Agents of SHIELD." Although her role in the episode is only a minor one,
it forces Loki to take a closer look at himself. Mobius traps Loki in a time
loop where Sif repeatedly beats him up in Asgard for cutting off her hair as a joke.
Sure, the physical beating is torturous, but it's not the true purpose of the loop.
Rather, it's what she says to the trickster that slowly chips away at Loki's resolve:
"I hope you know you deserve to be alone and you always will be."
The God of Mischief has always seen himself as a loner and an outsider,
even though he was considered family by the likes of Thor and Odin. Obviously,
this version of the character didn't get the original story arc after the events of
"The Avengers" that made him realize that he truly has a family. But this time loop
is clearly setting the Asgardian up to realize that he doesn't want to live like that anymore.
Additionally, Loki is falling for Sylvie - something Mobius
finds hilarious in his interrogation scene,
"What an incredible seismic narcissist! You fell for yourself!"
Indeed, Loki's in love with himself, a development that definitely doesn't seem like it will end well.
However, Loki's conversation with Mobius leads to the God of Mischief trying to convince
Mobius that everyone at the TVA are actually variants whose memories have been erased.
Loki's insistence that Time Keepers are kidnapping Variants and wiping
their memories to work for the TVA pushes Mobius to look into his claims. In fact,
it says a lot about the impact Loki has had on the TVA analyst that he's
started to take him seriously. Mobius and Loki have struck up a genuine friendship,
even if that friendship is based on the two of them trying to outsmart each other at every turn.
It's that friendship that makes Mobius sneak a look at Ravonna's TemPad after she refuses to
explain what really happened to Hunter C-20, which allows him to discover that Loki was
right about the TVA. This means Ravonna is covering up the Time Keepers' deceit.
Obviously, Ravonna doesn't want this information to become public knowledge,
so when Mobius starts wondering aloud about what his life was like before being a cosmic
bureaucrat, she orders a hunter to prune him. Hopefully, this isn't the last we see of Mobius.
Ever since the first episode of "Loki, fans have suspected that the Time Keepers aren't even real,
largely because we haven't seen them in action at all in the series so far. But in a surprise twist,
Ravonna takes the two Loki Variants to meet the trio of "Space Lizards" - leading to
an interesting conversation between the TVA chief and Sylvie. After everything,
Sylvie is still desperate for answers about why her life was thrown into ruin because of the TVA.
The show still hasn't explained what Nexus Event made the TVA go after Sylvie,
and Ravonna isn't about to open up about that just yet. Instead, she brushes Sylvie's question off,
saying she doesn't remember why they were sent after her, which visibly crushes and enrages Sylvie.
After an atmospheric battle in the Time Keeper's smokey chamber,
the series reveals the three aliens running the TVA are actually androids... so clearly,
someone else entirely is pulling the TVA's strings. But who's really behind the TVA?
Regardless, the Variants have proved that perhaps a dash of chaos is exactly what
the Multiverse needs. They're even on the cusp of confessing their feelings for one
another - a possibility seemingly ruined when Ravonna prunes Loki right in front of Sylvie.
But wait - there's more! The series' first mid-credits scene reveals that Loki might not be dead.
Once again, the trickster cheats death in the MCU, and the Asgardian wakes up in what looks
like a ruined version of New York asking if he's in Hel. In response, a dramatic voice replies,
"Not yet. But you will be, unless you come with us."
And that's when the show's biggest twist yet is revealed, introducing us to four more
Loki variants. Is this new world filled with other dead Lokis? Or is it home to countless
pruned Variants from across the multiverse? Hopefully, Episode 5 will have more answers.
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