This week on Loki, one thing actually essential occurred. We’re undecided what it was, precisely, however the cliffhanger that we acquired on the finish of Season 2, Episode 4 is the form of factor that might shake up your entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. It may additionally imply nothing, like most all the pieces else within the post-Endgame MCU. Within the meantime, although, we’ve many questions that should be addressed.
Warning: This text accommodates 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 first thread entails Loki and Mobius bringing Victor Well timed to the TVA–a dangerous transfer contemplating {that a} totally different model of Victor used to run the place, however the hope is that he’ll have the ability to assist cope with the Temporal Loom, which remains to be unstable.
In the meantime, Miss Minutes and Renslayer find yourself on the finish of time with the corpse of He Who Stays, and Renslayer learns some fairly essential lore: that she fought alongside He Who Stays within the multiversal warfare, 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 recurrently for everybody who works on the TVA.
This revelation, together with some nudging from Miss Minutes, offers Renslayer a brand new concept: Neglect He Who Stays, Victor, Kang, and all the remainder of them, and simply take management of issues herself. So she tries to recruit Basic 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. However Basic 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 dangerous), they usually introduce him to Victor. And it is right here the place we be taught one thing shocking: 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 discipline guide that OB wrote.
Sadly, there is not a lot time to ponder this paradox, as a result of the Temporal Loom is about to interrupt down, they usually want any individual 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 outdoors.
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 is a fairly large cliffhanger proper there, and we have got about 1,000,000 questions we’re dying to ask about it. Luckily, we should always get some solutions in only a week, however within the meantime let’s ponder the mysteries. Here is our greatest questions after the huge Loki cliffhanger.