Episode 2 of Loki titled “The Variant” dropped a lot of surprises and new mythologies in its final moments. But the entire episode was also packed with much more subtle hints and clues. In a video on the New Rockstars channel, YouTuber Erik Voss walks through the many hidden details that fans of the show may have missed on first viewing.
As Voss points out, the very first scene of the episode contains a cheeky nod – and no, he’s not talking about the “that’s Agatha” theory circulating online. The Renaissance fair in Oshkosh, Wisconsin is held in 1985, which happens to be the year that the iconic comedy Back to the Future was released, a film that would help popularize storytelling about time travel in pop culture to the touchstone be for the basic rules of form.
Speaking of time travel rules, while Loki is busy beating Miss Minutes with a rolled-up magazine, the screen on his desk shows a TVA test question with Thanos and some apples. This is both a discreet type of show illustrating the TVA’s world structure, as well as a possible reference to Doctor Strange, in which an apple was eaten and then not eaten when Steven Strange experimented with the time stone.
In the scene where Mobius goes through various holographic representations of different variants of Loki, we see a number of alternate Lokis. One of them has a blue skin, which corresponds to Loki’s origins as a frost giant. No explanation yet for the Loki who appears to have won the Tour de France, but this scene also provides some helpful explanation of the Loki variants: namely, that they each have unique powers.
When the TVA reset events are shown on a TVA screen at the Renaissance Mass, the timeline returns to normal – and other locations can be seen alongside Oshkosh, including Midavellir, the space forge from Avengers: Infinity War, and Sakaar, the Grand Master’s Planet of Thor: Ragnarok.
During what is perhaps the funniest scene of the episode, where Loki is wreaking havoc in a pre-apocalyptic Pompeii, he lets go of some goats off a cart and tells them, “Go free, my horned friends!” Though it’s primarily there to provide some ease while at the same time confirming Loki’s theory, Voss says, that moment also hints at how he’ll ultimately allow the horned lady Loki to get away with it at the end of the episode.
And as soon as Lady Loki’s plan works and the time bombs go off, we’ll get another shot of a TVA screen showing all the different places she’s upsetting the timeline. These include Knowhere (the skull in space from Guardians of the Galaxy), Niflheim (Hela’s prison dimension from Thor: Ragnarok), Vormir (the soul stone planet from Infinity War and Endgame), Ego (the living planet and father of Star-Lord), Titan (Thanos’ homeworld), Hala (the capital of the Kree Empire) and finally the birthplaces of Thor and Loki, Asgard and Jotunheim.
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