Tom Hiddleston is clearly having an absolute blast sliding into one of the slipperiest characters to ever grace a comic book page, or the silver screen.
Still trapped and now reluctantly working within the Time Variance Authority, Loki is quickly discovering that he can’t just talk his way out of everything the way he’s used to doing.
Or maybe he doesn’t really want to do that.
Considering what a high opinion he has of himself, he might look forward to meeting someone as brilliant and devious as himself.
As such, seeing the destruction of Asgard in a file hit him about as hard as watching his own death last week.
That this Loki could have a similar redemption arc as the main MCU one remains to be seen.
Mobius seems to have a pretty good read on Loki, but if there’s one thing that seems to always happen it’s that people underestimate the Asgardian.
That’s because betrayal is so much sweeter after you’ve gained trust.
He realized that the best place for a variant to hide would be at a total annihilation apocalyptic-style event.
He and Mobius then enjoyed a delightfully dark jaunt to Pompeii in 79 AD where Loki jumped around and told everyone about the TVA and that they were all going to die.
It’s also not unique to the MCU, as Loki presented female for years in the Marvel comics universe as well.
Our Loki was more concerned in figure out what alt-Loki was up to, which we never quite did.
Back at TVA HQ, we saw that a whole slew of divergent timelines began erupting, leading to a world-class crisis and definitely an all-hands-on-deck situation.
Alt-Loki created a doorway for herself, escaping Roxxcart before the impending hurricane wiped everyone out, but the door stayed around just long enough for Loki to look back at Mobious and the TVA agents running toward him yelling for him to not go through the doorway …
Was he really attempting to escape capture, or was it more about tracking down alt-Loki so she didn’t get away.
And why did she then abandon C-20? The Hunter did reveal to her rescuers that she revealed to alt-Loki how and where she could find the Timekeepers, which could be why she was captured.