Loki episode 1 ending explained — what just happened?

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Loki episode 1 ending explained — what simply happened?

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Loki episode 1 ends with a bonfire of ... well, information technology wasn't celebrity — so take this as your Spoiler Warning! Beyond this signal lie plot points from the first episode of Disney Plus' Loki series. If you want a spoiler-free take on the show, bank check out our Loki episode 1+2 review.

So, at present that it'south just me, you lot and our TVA-authorized collars, allow's talk nigh what merely happened. The first episode of the Loki Tv set series may have been an utter delight, merely information technology as well concluded with a big, ominous conclusion, which seems equally if it could be the start of Loki's ain mystery box-like format, similar to how WandaVision kept people guessing until it was Agatha All Along!

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A avoiding Loki that'southward a danger to the timeline

As nosotros saw in the endmost minutes, a hooded figure attacked Time Variance Authority (TVA) hunters, setting fire to a field. As we learned earlier from Mobius (Owen Wilson), this figure is believed to be Loki. Well, not the Loki who's working with the TVA, but some other variant.

This fugitive variant seemingly has it in for the TVA, and while that might fit with Loki, why are they so sure that'due south who this person is? Yes, that kid Mobius met (at the 6th assault that week) pointed at a stained-glass devil, simply Loki isn't the only horned character in the MCU.

Well, we take to look back to the start of the episode. Call back when Loki had been brought into the TVA, and had to go through several levels of security? One clerk passed him through a gate, and created a snapshot of his temporal aura. It took me a while to hear that phrase clearly (temporal aura is right up next to 'rural juror' for hard-to-say phrases), but it's basically the fingerprinting arrangement of the TVA, and how they manage to link variants to each other.

While the audition, and Loki, had to be taught near the nexus events, it appears as if the timeline variant is much more aware of the piece of work of jumping between timelines and the take chances of a "multiversal war" that Miss Minutes told the states about. We wonder if the fugitive variant Loki is really trying to throw the universe into haywire?

And and then that's the big mystery headed into the next Loki episode. Who is this avoiding variant? Are they actually Loki? What is their goal. We doubt all of these questions will exist answered.

Loki'due south other concern: survival

Loki Laufeyson'southward other effect at the moment is getting out of the TVA's captivity. He's trying to talk his way out of information technology all, but the estimate (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) doesn't believe him, and neither does TVA Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku). Mobius, though, seems to really care most Loki, and has done his homework about the misdeeds done past Thor'southward (adopted) blood brother.

Doing this will probable crave either Mobius changing someone else's mind about Loki, or this Loki changing something about himself. The Fourth dimension Variance Authorisation's goal is to protect the sacred timeline, which doesn't seem to take much room for variants.

To quote Miss Minutes:

"Long agone there was a vast multiversal war! Countless unique timelines battled each other for supremacy, nigh resulting in the total destruction of.. well... everything! But then the all-knowing fourth dimension keepers emerged, bringing peace by reorganizing the Multiverse into a unmarried timeline, the sacred timeline. At present the time keepers protect and preserve the proper flow of time for everyone and everything. Merely sometimes people like you veer off the path the time keepers created. Nosotros call those... variants."

That makes information technology sound like the TVA is going to have a hard time accepting the continued beingness of anomalies, which variants nigh definitely are. If the variant Loki nosotros're following were immune to leave the TVA'due south clutches, we're sure he would cause a nexus event.

So, it stands to reckon that our variant Loki needs to find a way to remove his variant status, if he wants to survive.

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Henry is a senior editor at Tom's Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple, reviewing devices and services for the past six-plus years. Prior to joining Tom's Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. He'southward too covered the wild world of professional wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other manufacture veterans.

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