LOKI Finale BREAKDOWN and ENDING EXPLAINED - Easter Eggs You Missed In Season 2 Episode 6

I know what I want I know what kind of God I need to be for you hey welcome back screen Crush I'm Ryan a and this is all of the Easter eggs references and little things you might have missed in the series finale of Loki yeah what happened with that ending well I know a lot of you have questions about the ending and we actually have answers actually all of this pretty much happened in a comic book that I'm going to talk about in just a little bit and that comic perfectly ties into Secret Wars giving us some big clues about how lowkey will fit into the end game name of the Multiverse Saga so the name of this episode is glorious purpose which was also the name of the pilot episode taken from this quote and I am burdened with glorious purpose now in the pilot the title was meant to be ironic Loki is shown that he has no glorious purpose his role in myth and in the MCU is only to be the villain so others can succeed but in this episode we actually do see Loki's glorious purpose he gets a throne but in doing so his worst fears come true I don't want to be alone I will say though this show had a lot of bitter sweet endings Loki is alone and Mobius has to watch a jet ski on dry land from afar so now the closest will ever get to see Mobius on a jet ski is on our Mobius jet ski t-shirt available at screencrush merch.com the merch store where we design all the shirts ourselves guys shopping our merch store is the best way for you to directly support what we do here we've also got the screen Crush variant hoodie the creepy Miss minutes pinup Doug as Loki and the usual variant t-shirt my personal favorite and we have also just announced our very first live show in Brooklyn New York buy a ticket come meet us say hello and we're going to show exclusive videos that's on February 22nd in Brookland New York the link is below now giving the finale the same name as the pilot is yet another AA Boris Loop for the show as we've talked about many times on the channel Loki is a character that is trapped in like Perpetual Loops in ancient Norse his name is translated from Lock which means not or Loop his actions Institute Ragnarok which causes the death and Rebirth of the world and then like everything starts all over again boom the end start again and in the MCU Loki is trapped in a villainous cycle where he is never able to grow or change because he always feels like he has to be the villain see Loki life is about it's about growth it's about change but you seem to just want to stay the same so this episode takes that idea of Loki being trapped in a Time Loop and makes it literal with him desperately trying to rewrite history to avoid his fate and actually this is also something that Mesto does in the comics but we're not going to go down that road in this video and of course we've talked about how all season long this season is a giant or aoris Loop even introducing a character named oroborus it's like a Sak eating its own tail the best example of this is how Loki from The Future Has to prune Loki from the past so he can become Loki from the future you get the idea so the episode begins with the Marvel Studios intro playing backwards as Loki is slipping backwards through time now this is a kind of time travel commonly known as becoming unstuck in time like the character Billy Pilgrim in Kurt vonet slaughter house 5 it's a kind of time travel where you constantly leap backward into your own body so this this whole sequence where he is constantly repeating history and trying to rewrite the past is of course also like the time Loop movie Groundhog Day where every single time Bill Murray Loops through a single day he becomes just a little bit better at something in fact a great example of this kind of story is actually in the final seasons of Agents of Shield just like in this episode the character who is looping through time has to find all sorts of shortcuts to get everybody caught up on their situation the music during this montage is the 1976 disco hit A Fifth of Beethoven which is actually a very early example of a remix in this case taking a piece of classical music and then remixing it into a disco hit and that's exactly what Loki is trying to do in this Montage he's trying to take an old Story the death of his friends and remake it into something new but much like disco he is doomed oh just a second person hello well certainly I would love to provide you with my social security number it's five hang up Doug but they say I have won a major prize dude it's a robo call it's a scam hang it up but they seem so nice how did they get my my number well dude that's actually the messed up part about this that nobody actually wants you to know they got your number and email address from online data Brokers the internet is filled with Shady people who will pay big money just for access to your private data and I know this because I also used to get a ton of spam phone calls and emails oh you don't get those calls anymore very 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but starting with episode 5 the comics have become very relevant to the story and especially to this ending so I want to explain some of the more recent comics and how the show has adapted them and this could also give us an idea of what's about to happen in Avengers Secret Wars so there was a book called Loki agent of Asgard which reinvented the villain to make him a bit more like he is in the MCU a very long story short Loki was reborn as a young person and then his older Spirit possess that body but this wasn't actually a scheme Loki genuinely wanted to have a second chance he wanted to try to be good he wanted to break his cycle of villainy and be reborn as a hero and this is exactly what we see Loki doing in this show trying to prove he's not a villain and trying to break his own vicious cycle that goes all the way back to myth and is retold in the Marvel Cinematic Universe becoming predictable I trust you you betray me round and round in circles weo and this show examines this on a meta level with Loki trying to break this time Loop of the multiversal war causing the deaths of all these timelines he who remains winning forming the TVA dying starting the multiversal war you get my point so in the agent of Asgard comic Loki's main antagonist is his evil self from the future old Loki represents a path that is set in stone where Loki will always end up being alone and unloved similar to how in this episode Loki's path seems to be fixed in stone there is no way for him to save the TVA without killing Sylvie kill her and we protect what we can old Loki even has the ability to travel through time like Loki does in this episode in fact the comic has an Ora Boris of its own when young Loki uses a magic sword to trap old Loki's spirit and then old Loki goes back in time to make sure that the sword comes into existence so he can control it in the future now that Arc of comics ends with Loki becoming the god of stories he used to be the god of Lies but since lies are essentially stories he's able to take control of his own story and rewrite the future now all of this happens on the backdrop of Secret Wars so as Loki is breaking this cycle of Ragnarok and rebirth the entire Multiverse was destroyed leading to its rebirth following Avengers Secret Wars and of course that's the inspiration for the ending of this story which I'm going to explain a little bit later so wait every time Loki time travels is he making a new timeline no well okay so normally in the MCU whenever you time travel you create a branch it's what the Avengers did in endgame but because Loki is time slipping within the TVA his time travel is actual retrocausality meaning the future Loki can affect his past it's more like how time travel and Back to the Future Works oh yeah okay gotcha so he speeduns through the last few episodes and we get a repeat of one of my favorite Back to the Future Easter eggs in the show Obie's model that's not the scale Victor this model is not finished okay there's only one quote of pain on this please excuse the crudity of this model I didn't have time to build it to scale or to paint it and there are a few other similarities to Groundhog Day in there Bill Murray uses his years trapped in a Time Loop to become a great piano player just as Loki becomes a theoretical physicist on par with ob and in Groundhog Day Phil Connor has to accept that no matter what the old homeless man in town will always die just as Loki has to eventually accept that the loom will always explode now I loved this sequence especially how Loki already knows how to correct all of these dumb mistakes whatever you do do not set the multiplier down it will roll off the gang way it's also a lot like Baby Groot setting off the bomb now whatever you do don't push this button hit the green button you can just see Loki in the past having to redo all these mistakes over and over again but he's still being very patient with everyone I mean after all he is a God so he's like 1500 years old so it's a few more centuries learning physics physics physics physics physics physics physics physics physics physics all of this though is so tragic because it shows how much Loki is trying to hold on to these people in his life like he admitted in the last episode I controlled it you learn to control your time slipping he can time slip he can go anywhere any when but he just wants these people the only people in existence he can actually never be with a now you might have noticed something weird in this scene pumpkins well I was curious about that and I found an NPR article about old timey slang in an 1891 book about slang words pumpkins was referenced as being like a big trade like a major event occurring let's get back out there and show that other team why our life expectancy is only 39 years Loki learns that the real reason the room keeps failing is because the Multiverse is infinite so the timelines will increase exponentially so Loki is once again done in by Infinity just like how in the main timeline he was murdered by somebody with Infinity Stones I have been falling for 30 minutes so then he goes back to the true moment that destabilized time when Sylvie killed he who remains in the season 1 finale and then Loki has to relive one of his worst memories ever over and over and over just like his TVA time cell where he had to Loop one of his worst memories when cth told him you deserve to be alone and you always will be now in that time Loop no matter what Loki did or said events always turned out the same way and it turns out that her words were prophecy as Loki ends up being alone at the end of the series good job so Loki and Sylvie fight over and over and notice how subtly the point of view starts to shift over to he who remains we see the event from over his shoulder from his perspective subtly indicating that he has written all of this down and he is watching his story unfold why are you telling my life story to these guys and with each Loop we hear his last words now we always took this to mean that he was referencing like the big MCU time Loop eventually the multiversal war will start again he wins the war forms the TV and then he sees Sylvie back in the same spot but now it's like he was actually speaking to Loki knowing that every time he died he was actually bringing Loki one step closer to this conversation and then it turns out that Loki has been on the path paved by he who remains this entire time I know about the slipping and who do you think paved that road yeah yeah so what is it that he who remains actually wanted to happen well I'm I'm going to explain his actual plan later in the video when I talk about the ending but I will say that he already told us his plan in the finale of season 1 it's very simple and maybe we're a tad guilty on our end for overthinking it be now there are a couple s references thrown into this conversation at one point he remain says survey says which is from the game show Family Feud but it's not just a throwaway line though the answers on Family Feud are taken from random people surveyed in a shopping mall hey person person I want to tell my joke now okay so there's just two muffins right Doug not right now we're doing an Easter egg video then after he who remains reveals this has been his plan all along Loki says we die with a dying but born with a dead yeah what is that some kind of Norris poetry no no no that is a verse from the great TS Elliott he of J Alfred proof Rock Fame the very same high five this is from a poem called little gu and the opening verse is what we call the beginning is often the end and to make an end is to make a beginning essentially as soon as you have begun to do something you have also begun to stop doing that because that's the nature of time everything that ends has a beginning everything that has a beginning will always end and the full verse that Loki quotes is we die with the dine see they depart and we go with them we are born with the dead see they return and bring us with them because he who remains was dead but he was still able to bring Loki back with him like look I could do a whole breakdown just of this poem TS Elliott is the man but the poem broadly is about the passage of time and Humanity's need for purification through fire now there's also a lot of imagery surrounding time about ancient trees essentially being the same age as a rose when you weigh that against the length of Eternity now the end of the poem even speaks of a crowned knot of fire just like the knots of the timelines that Loki brings together to make a crown for himself at the end of this episode but the imagery of the trees and Eternity also calls to M yasil that's the world tree from Norse mythology which has a huge connection to this ending that I'm going to talk about in just a bit and cash flow 03 on Twitter had another great insight about this poem it's about Humanity's flawed understanding of life and turning away from God and how that leads to a cycle of warfare but this can be overcome by recognizing the lessons of the past which is exactly what Loki does in this finale it's a god learning from the past and breaking a circle of death and warfare when he who remains is messing with Loki he pretends to struggle to predict the future you're having some some some problems with the the temporal Loom and this is actually from an old Johnny Carson bit where he would be a sear named carac The Magnificent sheep and husbands what does Elizabeth Taylor count to help fall asleep then he Reveals His ultimate trump card that no matter what the sacred timeline always wins the loom is a fail safe designed to prune all the variant timelines if it fails and this is why in episode 5 the screen said fail safe initiated it's why the TVA workers were put back on their timelines because the branches were all about to be pruned and then he who remain would rebuild the TVA after the multiversal war and he tells Loki that no matter what he mes and this is Loki's true glorious purpose to make others great he even calls this a burden that he carries now originally Loki thought this meant that he was so great that he had to rule over others it was his duty you were made to be ruled but this episode shows us that his glorious purpose was to rule and it truly is a burden he ends up separated from everyone he loves he who remains says something very interesting here my variants are already out there now look at this particular time the variants have not been set loose on the Multiverse yet but he knows that because Loki is time slipping that means that he was stabbed in the chest which means that in the future where loky comes from his variants are all running a muuk so this is showing how he who remains has like a fourth dimensional view of time like he's viewing it like it's all happening at once the entire show is about fate versus Free Will Loki as an agent of chaos represents Free Will so now it's appropriate that he tries to find a way to break he who remains equation he who remains acts like he's heard this all before and around and around and around we go so the choice here boils down to he has to kill Sylvie to protect the TVA now the old Loki from The Avengers would not have hesitated he would have killed her in a heartbeat but now he's trying to be good he wants to be merciful so he seeks the advice of the most merciful man he knows Mobius and then Mobius gives him his back story that he and Rin Slayer used to be partners but she was way more ruthless than him and he's more suited to a desk job now this explains their long friendship that they talked about in season 1 but the real point of this talk is that Mobius teaches Loki an important lesson about the burden to rule most purpose is more burden than glory in other words when you rule you will be unhappy he who remains was basically the master of time the master of everything but he wasn't able to use time to make himself happy his glorious purpose was to keep the variant from starting a multiversal war his burden was that he was alone forever and then Mobius becomes spaghetti but I think this is just an effect of showing time slipping from Loki's point of view as he comes back to Sylvie to say goodbye Sylvie tells him that the point of Free Will is not just to win it's to fight and to have the ability to keep fighting like Free Will is its own reward and then it Dawn on him that he can't just let the TVA be destroyed or let he who remains stay alive he has to actually replace this system with something better so he takes one last moment to be with his friends before going off and doing the old Spock in the radiation Chamber from rra Theon I know what what kind of God I need to be for you the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few no actually the sign here says high chroniton levels and chronitons are a fake radiation that was invented in Star Trek four time travel episodes yeah they know what they were doing yeah they did so now we're getting into explaining the ending and he who remains real plan so one last thing he told Loki was that to rule to have the big chair you have to make tough choices in this moment Loki took that to mean that you have to make sacrifices like killing the ones you love killing Sylvie but that's what old Loki would have done the old Loki did take the throat of Asgard and he was a terrible ruler he used the throne to put on plays about himself and to lounge around and eat grapes and probably having sex with women who called out his father's name the old Loki had issues but the new Loki finally understands what he who remains meant by this the tough decision is not to sacrifice others it's to sacrifice yourself so Loki takes this long walk instead of placing others in danger he's going to place himself in danger I know what I want remember OB kept warning that this radiation would peel the skin off your body and what else sheds its skin Willam def no William why will Theo doesn't shed his skin are you sure I think I saw him shed his skin once no dude a snake a snake sheds its skin oh yeah a snake Okay yeah and Loki even once turned himself into a snake he transformed himself into a snake and he knows that I love snakes so I went to pick up the snake to admire it and he transformed back into himself and he was like yeah it's me and he stabbed me so as he approaches the loom he sheds his old clothes his old skin clothes often Define a job and this is Loki transitioning from a servant to an Asgardian King he even grows out his horns like the Loki from mythology and the channel heavy spoilers pointed out that the material of the horns looks like it's made from the same material that makes up the Palace of he who remains very cool detail from a really fun Channel over at heavy spoilers even though the guy is a then he uses his full power for the first time to destroy the loom and to sever all of the different timelines and this is framed Just Like Old Loki fighting on off elath in episode 5 last season and old Loki even invoked the name of this episode he enchant the sever timelines using them to open a rift to What's Left of the Palace of he who remains this whole scene is like another Ora Boris bringing Loki's Story full circle the first time we met Loki he watched his brother Ascend the steps to take the Throne of Asgard and now he is the one ascending to a larger Throne basically Loki has learned the same lesson Thor did in the first movie that you have to sacrifice your own happiness to be worthy to rule it just took Loki a lot longer to learn that lesson but both of them learned that the first duty of a ruler is to serve his people and not for his people to serve him but then we see the gold kugi cracks that held the Fortress together slowly form a throne for Loki to sit upon and as he takes all of these timelines they weave around him like a cloak and just like in the comic he becomes the god of stories so this was actually foreshadowed last episode when he gained the ability to control his time slipping when he remembered Obie's words about science and fiction focus in on that why you need to say save the TVA so when he re-energizes the timelines with his green energy they form the shape of yaril the world tree oh what's that well yrail is from Norse mythology it's a great tree that held the nine Realms within its branches in the first Thor movie Thor drew it for Jane and told her that there were basically planets inside of the tree the world is one of the nine Realms of the cosmos linked to each other by the branches of victrail the world's tree and of course in Captain America first avenger The Red Skull took the Tesseract from a wall carving of yrail so all of this goes back to that TS Elliot poem which talked about remaking the World Through Fire and that compared a rose to the lifespan of a tree the sacred timeline was a rose a single stem very fragile you are tearing me part Lisa but the tree here at the end is much stronger woven together from many branches that strengthen one another the tree also kind of looks like a wormhole it does yeah any idea why it would look like a no okay then back in the new TVA we see a new poster this time of a mighty tree that reads let's grow together and then we find out that this new TVA has a new purpose to keep tabs on the variants of he who remains so this is a bit more in line with what the TVA does in the comics the TVA are more like time police who go after time offenders like k your time is all ripped up to hell you broke your time twice but the TVA are keeping their existence a secret so no variants will try to come after them Mobius says I guess one of them caused a little bit of a ruckus on 616 adjacent realm but they handled it so so like that shoots down a lot of fan theories for us he of course is referencing Kang the Conqueror from Ant-Man of the WASP Quantum Mania we even see shots of Kang in the file that he's holding so this is the guy that we thought was going to be a big scary big bad who has now been reduced to a footnote by Mobius he still could come back though he still could be the big bat I I really like that character I want to see him come back he also calls the quantum realm an adjacent realm which is interesting it makes me wonder if all of the other dimensions that we saw in the first Doctor Strange weren't like different universes they were just Realms adjacent to the 616 universe Max acman on Twitter hey Max pointed out that at the end the TVA seems to be calling the timelines Realms 616 adjacent realm but maybe in reference to the nine Realms of the world tree so they went full Norse they went full Norse so when he asked Varity AKA Hunter B15 for his file he says those who do not remember the past are you know and the other half of that saying is are doomed to repeat it and this is exactly what the TVA has been doing for Millennia the variants don't remember their past so they have been repeating the the same Loops over and over and over repeating their same old mistakes but now Mobius is finally breaking his own cycle and moving forward meanwhile OB gets to write a second edition TVA manual even taking them out of a cardboard box like his variant self ad Doug had boxes of his science fiction novels so in the closing we see that the TVA is now ruled by a council of people and Rona Rin Slayer is in the void at the end of time where it looks like she is being eaten by elath but we do see that she is sitting on a pruned plaque from the TVA which mirrored Mobius standing on the same plaque the two two of them have actually chosen very different paths Mobius chose Mercy which led him to a happier existence but notice one last Easter egg here the pyramid in the background could be a reference to ramut an earlier identity of kangs when he traveled back to ancient Egypt and we saw ramut in the post-credit scene of quantum Mania so you never know this light shining on her might not be elath this could be ramut arriving at the void at the end of time to recruit Rin Slayer to be his General in the multiversal war in fact Liam Maguire on Twitter even pointed out the Sphinx which I missed now in the comics the Sphinx houses Ramen T bace and time machine it is possible that the TVA pruned this Sphinx in the past raona sees it recognizes it and then outruns Elias gets to the time machine and gets herself home what like it's hard Mobius looks at his life on the timeline and tells Sylvie let time pass because up until now he has never let time pass before he has always controlled time stopped time guided time but now he can finally experience the flow of time now as for Loki his worst fear has come true he is alone and he always will be but it's for a greater good and we also see see that nobody puts the TVA manual in the window of young Victor timely meaning that he who remains plans have stopped and the loop has been broken I'm free all right so what was say's plan then well it's simple he already told us what his plan was in the finale of season 1 he wanted Sylvie or Loki to take his place because he was tired I mean he's Willie Wonka and Loki is Charlie Bucket he had been ruling the timeline for countless eons all by himself lonely I'm Mr Lonely I have nobody so he wrote himself a path that would have freed him from this burden he knew that Loki the god of Lies aka the god of stories was the person who could rule in his place but Loki was not ready to rule yet he could not handle the true burden of this glorious purpose he had to discover a no- win scenario to truly step up and become a selfless person who could take on his worst fears in order to help others but how did he know all this well look he who remains could basically predict everything that happens because in his younger days he would have developed a probability drive like Kang the conquerors now this drive is used to predict probabilities which help you to navigate the Multiverse CU you can like predict the various timelines and where they'll Branch so he who remains needed to create an outcome where the TVA would still be intact monitoring his variants but he was no longer in charge I'm retiring there's even a subtle hint of this last season when he meets them he's eating an apple and in Doctor Strange an apple is used as a symbol of time manipulation and in the real world an apple rots a seed grows becomes a tree makes an apple it's another Ora Boris Loop now Loki's Throne at the end is also taken from mythology the idea of a god being punished for all eternity to serve humans was part of Greek mythology when the Titan Atlas was forced to hold up the world thank you to Remy Ogburn for that observation and patio furniture reminds us that in Norse mythology Loki was responsible for the death of balder whose statue we saw in episode 3 and afterwards Loki was chained up in the Underworld until Ragnarok similar to how Loki will be holding together these stories until the Multiverse is rebooted in secret Wars or as James and I on Twitter says he's like mimir the Norse god of wisdom who lived in the roots of the world tree and at the end of this episode even creates a tree that governs all of time a tree with branches like branches that can grow fruit like apples and a tree is a perfect metaphor for a healthy timeline the TVA does not have to prune the branches of this tree they can let it grow and flourish while occasionally guiding its branches to not Collide King Papas on Twitter even pointed out that this ending was foreshadowed all the way back in episode 1 look how familiar the vacuum tubes are in ob's workstation like the top of the world tree however this does not mean this is all going to be a happy ending happy ending the Kang variants are are still out there they're still going to go to war and we know that incursions are still occurring it's only a matter of time before the kangs find out about the TVA and launch an attack then in secret Wars or Kang Dynasty I think we'll see Loki freed from his glorious purpose to stand with the heroes against these variants and then he will finally stop being called the god of Mischief or the god of lies and he'll be remembered as the god of stories well guys thanks for watching our coverage of Loki just a reminder we have a live show next year on February 22nd buy tickets with the link below we also have a new membership program where you can join get a custom Doug Emoji priority comment replies and a loyalty badge and look if you have any comments or thoughts things we miss let me know in the comments below or at me on Twitter and if it's your first time here please subscribe smash that Bell for alerts for screen Crush I'm Ryan Ary okay so here's my joke right so there's these two muffins and they're in an oven together right and one of them says oh gee it's getting kind of hot in here

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Length: 27min 16sec (1636 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 10 2023