The fourth episode of LOKI has released on Disney Plus and there is much to break down,
including a post-credit scene, the reveal of the timekeepers, easter eggs and much more.
In particular, I'm going to be giving you my breakdown of Loki Episode 4 entitled, "The
Nexus Event", in the aim to help you guys understand the events and discover things
you missed.
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But without further ado, let's dive into LOKI episode 4 and all of the newest reveals.
So in LOKI Episode 4, revelations made by the Loki variant Sylvie make several members
of the TVA question their loyalty to the organisation with a Thor character also makes a brief return.
After believing they were doomed to die in an apocalypse on Lamentis-1, the latest episode
of the Marvel series sees Loki and Sylvie captured once again by the TVA for causing
disruptions to the timeline.
Loki throws agent Mobius through a loop however when he tells him the bombshell truth that
Sylvie has uncovered that all of the TVA agents are also variants and were not created by
the Timekeepers, as they were led to believe.
This leaves Mobius feeling conflicted, while also resulting in Hunter B-15 switching her
allegiance and helping Loki and Sylvie in their fight against the TVA.
Furthermore, Ravonna Renslayer is determined to bring
Loki and Sylvie down, while keeping the TVA’s sacred secrets under wraps.
Considering the TVA governs the Sacred Timeline, it should come as no surprise that the organisation
has various time-bending tricks up its sleeve.
After Loki is captured by the TVA again, his interrogation by Mobius leads to him being
escorted through a portal into an Asgardian courtyard, where he stumbles across old acquaintance
Lady Sif, who fought as a warrior alongside Thor.
When Lady Sif comes around the corner, she strikes Loki for cutting off a chunk of her
hair, a memory of a prank he once carried out.
She knocks Loki to the ground, telling him that he’s always going to be alone, before
exiting and then re-emerging in a painful time loop.
It acts as a temporary prison to keep Loki in, that he can't escape until Mobius comes
back.
If Lady Sif could make a return in a new scene from Loki’s memories, perhaps more familiar
faces from Asgard could as well?
We'll have to see, but this does act as a nice moment but also one that again focuses
on interrogating Loki's actions.
But before we get to more of the events that unfolded at the TVA, there was an interesting
opening to the episode which gave us some more details on Sylvie's character.
In fact, with less screen time, this episode gave way more details on her character than
the previous episode, which really didn't give us much at all.
In the previous episode, Sylvie hinted at her past to Loki but didn’t give too much
away.
The latest instalment opens with the first time she came across the TVA as a
young girl when she was captured in Asgard by a squad led by Ravonna and taken to their
headquarters to stand trial as a variant.
The young Loki variant managed to escape, remaining on the run and hiding in apocalypses
ever since.
When Sylvie returns to the TVA and is escorted by Ravonna to meet the Timekeepers with Loki,
Sylvie asks Ravonna what nexus event and breach in the timeline she caused that resulted in
her being on the TVA’s radar in the first place.
Ravonna tells her that she doesn’t remember, which makes the fact that the organisation
completely upended her life that much more painful.
And the elusive Timekeepers are seen in the flesh for the first time – or shall we say,
the androids that have been made to look like the three guardians of the Sacred
Timeline.
While Ravonna is shown paying a visit to the Timekeepers earlier on in the episode, they’re
not shown speaking until they come face to face with Loki and
Sylvie.
During their exchange which leads to a fight between the minutemen and our two main characters,
Sylvie cuts off one of their heads, only to discover that they are androids.
This means that there’s someone else pulling the strings at the TVA or that the timekeepers
we saw are at a different location, only using their android
selves to communicate through.
I think it's the first option and Ravonna is heavily connected to them, making her decisions
actually fall in line with who she is.
She doesn't seem to question the timekeepers and
is fully on their side, so it makes me believe that she would cover up the real villain.
Perhaps it will turn out to be Kang the Conqueror, who’s set to appear in Ant-Man and the Wasp:
Quantumania.
I am worried that the show is hiding the villain too much with only two episodes to go and
I do want to see Marvel deliver a good bad guy
because more often than not, they seem to miss the mark.
I guess we will see, but I would like for the show to get into
some important motivation behind who is in control and why they are doing what they are.
But with this episode of some shocking revelations, it also sees several devastating exterminations
take place.
Not only does Ravonna tell Mobius that Hunter C-20
has died, most likely at Ravonna’s hands, but Mobius is later pruned when he is seen
helping Loki, with it appearing at the time as though he has been eliminated from existence.
After their fight with the Minutemen, Loki is talking to Sylvie when he too is pruned
by Ravonna, spelling an end to the God of Mischief.
This all ends with Sylvie taking Ravonna hostage and asking for
her to reveal all the secrets she's been hiding.
However, there is a huge post-credits scene which begins to tell us what might have happened
to those that have been pruned and where we could be going from here.
It’s revealed that Loki is still alive, although he’s been transported to an unknown
location.
This location looks to be the ruins of New York, with what looks like Avengers
Tower destroyed behind them, where Loki meets what appears to be three Variants of himself.
Comic fans will recognize two very quickly with the traditional comic Loki,
sometimes referred to as Old Loki, and the beloved Kid Loki from Journey Into Mystery
and the Young Avengers.
The third Variant appears to be a Thor Loki Variant, and teasers show him putting up quite
a fight in future episodes.
Also, let's not forget about a crocodile wearing Loki horns, which Kid Loki is carrying.
Old Loki, played by Richard E. Grant, is straight from the pages of the Golden Age comics and
in his classic green and yellow attire, Old Loki was much more sinister than the toned
future reincarnations of the character.
Old Loki does end up dying in the comics, reincarnating into Kid Loki.
It gets messy, with the old soul of Loki inhabiting a
magpie named Ikol, but eventually, Kid Loki grows into a much more decent God of Mischief.
Kid Loki is a character many readers were hoping to see, with myself predicting
it in my episode 1 breakdown and he does not disappoint.
Kid Loki fights alongside the Young Avengers before ageing up in Volume 2 ahead of the
Loki: Agent of Asgard run.
He’s still his same mischievous self, but not as evil as his first incarnation.
But back to the post-credit scene, after our Loki lands, he asks if he’s in Hell, the
final resting place for the dead, but his Variant selves tell him not yet.
Where these Lokis actually are remains to be seen, but we know that Loki Variants have
been pruned in the past, even prior to Loki and Sylvie being captured.
But where they’ve ended up has been a mystery.
Is there some Multiverse dumping ground for Loki
Variants?
Clearly, these Lokis have been around and know the lay of the land, and how to survive.
Will we see an entire team of Lokis band together to take down the now-villainous TVA?
Well, I hope so, and I think we might be getting that very soon.
My prediction is that whoever is the timekeeper or villain in charge, that they are doing
this to change and dictate a sacred timeline.
I think these Loki variants are now stuck in a future apocalypse, and one in New York,
which they can't get back from as of yet.
Of course, the mystery is, who is the villain pulling the strings?
Well, we'll have to see, but it sure has made the final two episodes interesting.
And maybe, Mobius is riding around on his jet ski in
a land full of other versions of himself.
But that was my brief breakdown video on LOKI Episode 4.
Overall, I found this episode to be much better than last week, which didn't really give us
much plot development or character growth, and instead opted for hinting where we could
be going.
This episode gives us some well-needed examples of that and also teases some big moments to
come.
I especially liked the first 30 minutes, where we had Loki dealing with his memories once
again and Mobius investigating what might actually be going on.
It returned to the crucial elements of the show that worked in episode 1 and it was all
the better for it.
I am worried that the reveal of the villain or timekeeper might be underserved come the
final two episodes, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Hopefully, they don't do what Wandavision did with Agatha, as I found the threat less
interesting than the story of Wanda and it hurt the show in the final episode.
As long as they serve Loki's character correctly and deliver a villain which makes sense to
the overarching story, then I'll be happy with the events that take place.
I'm giving episode 4 of LOKI an 8.5 out of 10.
I hope you guys enjoyed my breakdown, and overall, I'm interested to see what happens
next week in the new Marvel show, which I will be covering here on the channel.
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