Loki Episode 2 Breakdown! Kang Easter Eggs & Loki Variant Explained!

what's going on everybody it's warren welcome back to the cosmic wonder and loki episode 2 is out and this is going to be my loki episode 2 breakdown needless to say there are going to be spoilers for episode 2 in this video so if you are trying to avoid those spoilers you should click away now now there is a ton to break down in this video including easter eggs and a lot of time travel rules which i'll definitely explain in a very simple way for you and big thank you to manscape for sponsoring this video more on them in a bit but first i'm going to start off with a theory and i should add that i have not seen past episode 2. i only got to see the first two episodes in advance so this isn't any spoilers for episode 3 or beyond this is a theory coming from me a theory of why lady loki set off all of the reset charges on the sacred timeline while although i do think that was partially her goal i do not think that was her main goal i actually think that this is a distraction at the end of episode 2 when she set off all of the reset charges and the timeline essentially went into madness it looked like pretty much all the tva agents and hunters were dispatched to different points in time rinslayer herself even picked up her gear and went out and this is what i believe was lady loki's plan the entire time get the tva out in the field so she can infiltrate the tva now why does she want to do this well we already know that she doesn't actually want to control the tva and hunter c20 told us that she told lady loki how to find the time keepers where they are this i believe is lady loki's ultimate goal to find the time keepers we also have a little bit more proof of this when our loki variant tells her that he wants to take over the timekeepers she pauses for a second when he says that and the pause is most likely due to her wanting to do the same thing however she clearly thinks that she is the superior loki and decides not to join him because she's just gonna do it herself now part of me thinks that the time keepers may not actually be real i think one possibility is that it's actually just kang the conqueror and he's making it seem like the timekeepers are real but in reality it's just him because he is the master of time there are more kang easter eggs coming up in the breakdown as well but let me know your thoughts on this theory in the comments down below and also let me know what you would rate loki episode 2 give me a number between 1 and 10. now let's get started with the breakdown so loki episode 2 starts off of course with the recap but then we are led to believe that perhaps because this is indeed a time travel show that we are back in renaissance times however we are really at a renaissance fair in wisconsin in 1985 so not even that far back in time the tva immediately shows up and of course they are noticed because they're not in costume like everybody else now the tva immediately picks up signal of the variant that they are hunting we can see the screen says variant detected now of course we learned at the end of episode 1 the variant that they are searching for is indeed loki himself or as we now know herself they are looking for female loki a different variant of loki but they do not know that it's a female yet now the way that they are able to detect the variants is by their temporal aura this was name dropped a couple of times in episode 1. we are led to believe that each variant of loki has the same temporal aura or at least something very similar that gives up an energy that lets them know they're around so they detect the loki variant and go pursue her now as soon as they enter the tent of course they find out that it was a trap the music and recording for the show that is typically shown in that tent comes on and foreshadows the fact that the fight is about to take place saying prepare for battle it also says that the prize is a princess also kind of foreshadowing the fact that the variant of loki that they're searching for is indeed female loki as they search for her she takes control over hunter c20 this looks an awful lot like how the scarlet witch uses her powers also keep in mind that loki's mother frigga was raised by witches and knows witchcraft and that's how loki kind of knows some of his tricks and it looks like we're going to be seeing more of the mystical magical side of loki in this series but notice it's not quite like how the scarlet witch does it fema loki actually has to touch the person with her finger to take control now as the fight proceeds we learn something that makes lady loki extremely dangerous she takes control over hunter's c20 but she is also able to fight herself at the same time hunter c20 hits another hunter with a lance and behind the hunter pops up lady loki stabbing her in the back which of course is a classic loki move not only figuratively but literally and it looks like each variant of loki is the same as owen wilson's character mobius says that i've studied your life and i've literally seen you stab like 50 people in the back so our loki has done it 50 times and all of these other loki's seem to have that same trait now of course lady loki is simply just walking through people here and as she's controlling hunter c20 the other hunter asks what she's doing and she replies having some fun she releases her out of her trance and then she finishes the work herself now this is where we discover what her plan was the entire time trap the tva agents and acquire one of their devices that essentially lets them go in between different time periods and the tva headquarters we see that she hits the button labeled time door and the time door opens and she takes hunter c20 with her and disappears through the portal now of course we later go on to find out that she took her to roxcart and of course she is using her as a part of her plan now the last thing we hear before the title card is the lyrics i need a hero and then after the title card the first thing we open up to is loki reading mobius's magazine which shows us a picture of a jet ski and at the top as you can see here it says volume 26 number four and what i believe this is referring to is the loki comic issue four where on the title it shows loki and it says hero at last and of course loki is the hero that the lyrics i need a hero are referring to now from here we learn something extremely important miss minutes is training loki on everything that he needs to know to be a tva agent and miss minutes asks what happens when a nexus event branches past a redline we have seen this several times in loki episode 1 the tva agents are always checking their monitors to make sure the nexus branch doesn't cross that red line and when a nexus event crosses the red line we find out that that means the tva can no longer reset that timeline so it will become a permanent timeline now this will become extremely important not only for the loki series but for the mcu in general because remember back to one division we had the commercial for a nexus pill and wanda is most likely a nexus being in the marvel universe she has the ability to affect the future so the events that happened in one division could have been nexus events and perhaps they could have crossed that red line we'll have to wait and see but moving forward remember that if the nexus branch crosses that red line it can no longer be reset and according to missed minutes that would lead to the destruction of the timeline and the collapse of reality as we know it this goes back to the nexus war that they showed us in episode one this is what miss minutes is referring to if we get too many timelines they will have a multiversal war now owen wilson comes and he adds them to the team that is going to search for the loki variant here we find out that the loki variants can look very similar or they could look not very similar at all as we see a giant very muscular loki that could even be some type of a troll or an ogre of some sort hey it's time travel anything's possible and they say that for the most part they all have kind of similar powers but much like how the variants can look differently we can assume that the variance power levels are also very different as well now loki makes a statement about him being the superior loki which is really just showing his inferiority complex right now not being able to defeat or escape the tva realizing that the infinity stones are powerless to the tva and of course dealing with the fact that mobius said that this other loki variant was way more dangerous than him and i have a feeling that this is going to be a pretty common theme throughout the entire series and to add on to it hunter b15 said that loki was a cosmic mistake now here's a pretty important scene that we see here mobius tells loki he's not worried about him betraying him because how is that going to help him get a seat in front of the timekeepers now remember in the first episode mobius said that he couldn't give loki salvation but he could perhaps give him something greater and here he is implying that what he could do is get him in front of the timekeepers however when loki asks an audience with the timekeepers is on the table mobius doesn't actually tell him yes he tells him to keep that focus now he could be lying here it doesn't actually seem like he could get him an audience with the timekeepers considering the fact that in this episode we learned that mobius has actually never met the timekeepers himself but loki knows that he can't go back to his original timeline and the timekeepers are the only people who could really spare his life so mobius is essentially using this as collateral and motivation to get him to do a good job and not betray the tva now they go back to the fair and here's where we learn something else that's very important about time travel and nexus events loki asks why they can't just show up a little bit in the past before the variant shows up to catch the variant mobius explains that nexus events destabilize the time flow so you can only show up in real time this explains why once that nexus event branch gets past that red line they can no longer reset it now loki kind of drags the tba and mobius along with a fake story to try and get an early audience with the timekeepers claiming that they are in more danger than they thought mobius sees right through him and they reset the timeline which according to loki is basically disintegrating everything now loki screwed up that mission so it's time for mobius to meet with judge rinslayer about that although we are finding out that she is more than just a judge she is pretty much top dog the only person above her really is the time keepers it is her job to communicate with them fulfill their orders approve missions and mission teams and of course be a judge as well and in her office we see the three time keepers as statues behind her desk and i'm still going to say that one of them is kang we'll have to see how that plays out it does appear to be that there is a head time keeper if you notice the time keeper in the middle is not holding anything but the two time keepers on the outside are both holding hourglasses obviously symbols of time but this could imply that there is actually a head time keeper now it does seem like there is a little bit of a romance happening here between mobius and rinslayer rinslayer states that she has other analysts working for her and mobius asks would you say that i'm your favorite now head writer michael waldron did say that there are going to be some romances in the series he jokingly said that one relationship that we'll see is between mobius and loki however it looks like something is happening here with rensslayer and mobius this is further implied by the ring marks on the desk mobius puts his drink down on the desk without a coaster in which he immediately gets chastised by rinslayer he says the rings were already there and she says they're all from him so this lets us know that they have spent quite a bit of time together whether that's for work or for dating now here we really learn mobius's plan he's bringing r loki on these missions so he can get inside of loki's head because the more that he gets inside of loki's head and learns about him the more he learns about the other variant then mobius says maybe r loki can change but renslayer says only if the timekeepers allow it because remember fate is a big part of the series however right now in the tva they are existing outside of time and essentially existing outside of fate now here we learn that mobius has never met the timekeepers however here is something very very interesting about this scene if you have the closed captions on the subtitles we see that mobius actually says right after he says i've never met them he says that one looks like he's got kind of a and then he's cut off and what i believe he might have been going on to say here is a familiar face that one looks like he's got kind of a familiar face perhaps he knows or has seen this timekeeper before but a different variant of the timekeeper and this is going back to one of my theories that one of the time keepers is kang the conqueror and in the comics there are multiple versions of kang or variants if you will so perhaps owen wilson's mobius could have seen a normal version of kang and this timekeeper looks like him because it could be him but rinslayer states that they've never been so involved on a case they really want the variant caught and that of course is because they realize what this variant is trying to do she is trying to essentially delete the tva causing multiple branches of time to branch out causing a bunch of nexus events to happen and essentially creating the multiverse again which i'm pretty sure is gonna happen but we'll have to wait and see and coming up is another king easter egg but first thank you so much to manscape for sponsoring this 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an agent working for the tva now i am aware that the timekeepers created the tva agents but kang could have worked his way in there somehow especially if he is indeed one of the actual timekeepers basically keep your eye out for kang during the series or perhaps even maybe one or two of them outside of the office loki tries to explain what happened but mobius doesn't really care he tells loki that he's not there for him to learn about him he's there to help him catch and we hear this once again the superior loki in which again loki with his inferiority complex says that i'm not sure superior is the right word and this is where mobius tells loki this was my plan for you to feel so inferior that you would want to prove that you actually are the superior loki by catching this other loki even if he didn't care about the case at all loki states that he has his own plan and he can see that mobius has manipulated him but mobius knows his plan and mobius doesn't really need to manipulate loki he straight up says i'll tell you two things and you can believe what you want one i see a scared little boy and i'm trying to help him or two i'll tell you whatever i need to tell you to capture this other loki and you have to remember mobius actually knows loki better than loki knows himself he's studied loki's entire life and even in episode 1 mobius got him to admit things that perhaps loki didn't know about himself so normally loki is the one manipulating and deceiving but it looks like in this series loki may have his work cut out for him with mobius for starters it looks like he's the only one who can actually control loki the next scene is of mobius telling loki that he's on his final chance and that he's going to have to do some work and that work is to go over every single case file for every different loki variant there is and of course there are hundreds of them but here's the deal loki actually does it because mobius tells him his life depends on it now of course loki gets a little curious and takes this moment where he's alone to try and find out a little bit more about the tva from here he tries to get some info about the timekeepers when the timeline was created the end of the timeline anything he could get his hands on but of course the tva and its members are much smarter than he is so when he asks what he can see the tva worker simply gives him his own case file and on it we see time violation so it does appear that everybody pretty much knows who loki is and that he's a variant and of course you know it's on the back of his jacket but here's where things get pretty interesting and somewhat confusing i've had a lot of people ask me already to explain this scene and i'm going to right now loki starts to go over some case files and he finds the destruction of asgard from ragnarok they say it's a class 7 apocalypse and they go on to say that the rox card apocalypse is a class 10 which makes you wonder what the snap was we're gonna go ahead and say it was a class 3000 apocalypse loki gets teary-eyed because he notices that it was the destruction of his entire civilization and there actually is a pretty cool easter egg here where it says revengers which of course was the name of the team that consisted of thor the hulk valkyrie and loki himself now from here things start to get very very important but loki doesn't exactly do a very good job with his metaphor in describing the situation so i'm going to basically do my best to put it in plain and simple terms in this report of the apocalypse of ragnarok loki sees a line that says no variants energy detected this is where he sort of has the epiphany that this is where the other loki could be hiding and here's the reasoning why right before an apocalypse happens nothing really matters right before it happens why because everything is going to basically become extinct and die get blown up get drowned in water whatever it may be it doesn't matter because the apocalypse is going to happen you could go into the apocalypse and kill a bunch of people and it doesn't matter because they were going to die anyways so you wouldn't create a branch timeline because it doesn't matter so that is where the loki is hiding why because no variance energy could be detected because no branch timeline would be created so loki has discovered that the variant is using apocalypses as a way to kind of shadow herself and not be detected by the tva so they test the theory they go to pompeii and loki literally yells we are from the future we are the time variants authority and nothing happens a new branch timeline is not created and there is zero variance energy detected proving his theory correct we then have a very important scene that essentially explains the fate of the mcu mobius basically says that yes the timekeepers write the past the present and the future he says that they are currently writing the future and once they're done essentially the tva can go away because there will be no more chaos everything will have to be written and will be in order essentially the timekeepers will have written everybody's fate and i'm guessing this is why lady loki has a big problem with the tva and the timekeepers so then from here owen wilson realizes that the female loki variant gave the little kid from the first episode kablooey gum they used this to figure out which natural disaster female loki is hiding in since kablooey was only sold on earth from 2047 to 2051. and that's how they trace her location to the rox cart apocalypse now when they show up it's raining and notice how loki actually used his magic to make himself dry this is pretty revealing he has his magic when he is outside of the tva however mobius explained in this episode that he's not really afraid of loki because he knows that the tba can just catch him however that doesn't really work out for them though at the end of this episode hunter b15 says that loki has to go with her and of course they end up stumbling on loki the other loki this loki who apparently wants to be called randy can seemingly mind control people pretty easily she takes over b15 and loki meets lady loki and lady loki makes it pretty clear that she is the superior one she says if anything you are me and based off of the way that she's handled everything so far i'm gonna say that's correct now loki would go on to tell us that what she is doing is an enchantment and i know a lot of people are thinking that this could actually be enchantress and i don't believe that to be the case i do believe it is lady loki we have seen her in the comics and i think that's who she is for sure now arloki tells lady loki that he's not working for the tva they're working for him and she seems to think that he's pretty foolish for thinking that and then she switches bodies she switches from hunter b15 to another person and something to notice here is that loki is genuinely concerned if b15 is going to be all right he immediately goes to her side to see if she's still alive but of course loki has to follow female loki because he has to figure out what she's trying to do however he makes a proposition to her first he essentially reveals that he's been using the tva to get to her his true plan is to overthrow the timekeepers and he needs a lieutenant which of course is her loki also reveals that in the renaissance fair he was actually stalling so fema loki could come in and kill the tva members or at least give her time to do her thing as he says he kept them vulnerable for some time so loki in true fashion has been playing the tva pretty much the whole time or at least that's what he wants her to think because i do believe that a part of him actually does want to help the tva so he can get an audience with the timekeepers and essentially save his own life however she denies him she also says that her name is randy but that was the name of the worker that she possessed so that's not her real name meanwhile mobius and the other tba hunters find c20 and she seems to be very very scared repeating it's real it's real now what is real well we really have no idea i'm definitely going to speculate but let's leave that for another video she does reveal however that she gave it away she gave away how to find the time keepers where they are which is very interesting to me that a hunter tva agent would know where and how to find the timekeepers when mobius hasn't even met them himself but this is something that'll have to unfold for us to find out now after possessing another huge body lady loki finally reveals herself which i thought was an insanely cool moment and definitely the highlight of the episode now of course she was really just stalling the entire time she set a bunch of reset charges that are about to go off and from the looks of it she set up around 30 of the reset charges now right before they go off she opens up time doors and sends them away presumably she sends these to parts of the sacred timeline the reasoning to this is because the sacred timeline begins to have a lot of different branches a lot of different nexus events in various different points of time and as i mentioned in my theory in the beginning of the video i think she did this intentionally to cause chaos to get the tva to kind of come out of the headquarters now for somebody who claims to not really want anything to do with loki she does leave the time door open for him it's open for a while enough for him to escape the clenches of mobius and b15 and notice how it closes right as he goes through it like she was waiting for him on the other side now we've seen the previews for where they go they go to an apocalyptic location it looks like there's a moon shattered in the background perhaps this could be titan we know thanos shattered and threw part of a moon at the avengers so this could be titan after that battle also we see on the tva screen where nexus location branches are being set off and we see actually a few known locations from the mcu one location is ego otherwise known as star lord's father but also a planet another planet we see here is titan thanos's home planet and where the eternals used to live some of them at least other locations are new york tokyo japan and hala we do also see that vormir where the soul stone was and asgard are two of the locations as well and here one of the tva agents does confirm that she did in fact bomb the sacred timeline so those time door portals sent the reset charges to different points in the sacred timeline pretty much all of the tva is dispatched presumably to all of these different branches created and of course in true loki fashion arloki gets away now here are my final thoughts on this episode one i don't actually believe that lady loki is going to be the main villain i think that there's somebody else coming and i also don't think that our loki is bad if you met a different version of yourself that was seemingly smarter than you and clearly had a bigger plan than you had you'd definitely want to follow that version and see what they're about where they're from what their story is and what their plan is so i don't think loki is totally bad and totally betraying the tva and i don't think that fema loki will be the main villain i do think kang is going to show up at one point in time but my absolute final thought is that we better see mobius writing a jetski saying wow by the end of the series and i am dead serious about that but overall i super enjoyed episode two let me know what you thought about it in the comments down below let me know what you would rate it give me a number between 1 and 10. of course don't forget to subscribe so you can stay up to date on all things related to loki and the mcu don't forget to like the video and for live updates you can follow me on instagram and twitter as always thank you all so much for watching woof

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Length: 24min 58sec (1498 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 16 2021