Loki
Summary
word of advice ! This article contains spoilers for Loki Season 2 .
time of year 2 ofLokihas care to be perhaps the in force MCU offer of 2023 , thanks in no small part to some seriously quotable dialogue . As far as Marvel characters go , Loki has always been particularly repeatable , the God of Mischief ’s juiceless sentience of mood combined with Tom Hiddleston ’s impeccable timing never failing to provide an impression . But Loki ’s eponymic spin - off series , peculiarly the recent second season , developed his fiber even further through heedful dialogue while also expand on the mind of characters exclusive to the show .
The feeling ofLokiis a captain of many world , able-bodied to seamlessly incorporate impertinent humor and tense , tear - jerking dramatic play in adequate meter . Season 2 ’s good lines of dialogue show off this range , with Mobius , Sylvie , O.B. , and of course , Loki himself get married some clever descent that only get better the more they ’re conceive about . setting can also make all the difference as well , with ostensibly simple production line of dialogue becoming implausibly poignant when the blanket scope of the story they take blank space in is examined .
10"Do you think this is a higher priority than preventing a temporal meltdown?”
Season 2, Episode 2 “Breaking Brad”
Season 2 ofLokihas helped continue the Renascence ofKe Huy Quan ’s return to playing , featuring him as the wholesome and helpful O.B. The tech mavin behind the T.V.A. ’s science fabrication machine , the beginning of season 2 see O.B. struggle to maintain the Temporal Loom , scarcely staving off the collapse of the timeline , when Loki and Mobius ask to snap him away from his work for help on a lesser affair . With a genuine , yet sarcastic - sounding reply every tech support prole can relate to , O.B. brusquely asks the two to reassess the urgency of the matter , get laid that his efforts would be easily drop conserve the Loom .
9“Everything you’ve been doing is wrong, and all your gods are dead.”
Season 2, Episode 1 “Ouroboros”
8“The outcome to this equation remains the same…you lose.”
Season 2, Episode 6 “Glorious Purpose”
Theseason 2 finale ofLokiis unendingly quotable , with so many climactic storylines come to a capitulum and being link off in a shockingly solid manner . But before any of this reward can begin , Loki visit He Who stay on , seek an answer to the unstable timeline that does n’t necessitate the killing of him or Sylvie . propose to instill a signified of hopelessness into the pathetic god to make him actualise the futility of his actions , He Who remain in cold blood permit him down with this line , ironically , only making Loki ’s desire to rule a way to " change the equation " all the unassailable .
7“Not squirrel, not possum, not rats. Something that’s already dead, and nothing with a face…Please."
After the turbulent finale ofLoki ’s first time of year , the Loki variance Sylvie launch herself in Broxton , Oklohoma in the year 1982 , contained within a branched timeline . Stepping foot inside the first signaling of civilisation , a McDonald ’s , she ’s ask what she desire to corrode by a chipper quick food employee . Her gruesome reply arouse some passably brutal imagination thatalludes to what Sylvie likely had to do to survive on the run from the TVA , both before and during the events of the serial . After what she ’d been through , a Big Mac would in all likelihood seem like a welcome change of tempo .
6“Wow! That makes perfect sense! There’s no flaw in that logic!”
It ’s no surprisal that as a series that relies on fourth dimension travel , Lokican get pretty confusing . Between the technical jargon , fork timeline , and multiple iterations of the same character , it ’s a wonder that perfunctory audience are able-bodied to keep up . In a jolly fourth - wall - let on moment , O.B. essentially straight off call out the show itself for this , blurting out this telephone line with a tint so devout that it sounds sarcastic . It ’s a cheeky suggestion to the audience from the writer ’s room to not sample too arduous to break the tenuous logic of the timeline - hopping dangerous undertaking .
5“All my life, I’ve always handed down the same verdict: Guilty. And the time keepers deemed it so”
A big musical theme of season 2 ofLokiis the questioning of government agency . With the T.V.A. ’s clutches on the sacred timeline rapidly deteriorating , the entire organisation has precious little time to do to grasp with the fact that they ’d been gaslit for untold decade , their worldview being shattered with the revelation of the sacred timeline ’s true use and the origin of each T.V.A. employee as variants . Judge Gamble take on thing particularly firmly , ruminating on her preceding efforts and naïveté with this heedful piece of dialogue .
4“Yeah, but I’ll know!”
Season 2, Episode 6 “Science Fiction”
While this short line does n’t seem like much on paper , context of use ca-ca all the conflict for it leaving a big impact . When Mobius is reset back into his old life-time as Don , with no memories of his time at the T.V.A. , we get a coup d’oeil as to just how dedicated of a father he was . As Loki asks him for his help , promising him that he ’ll be capable to get out and come back without his kids even know , Don refuses to agitate , clarify that he ’d still know that he was spend time away from his children , despite how nebulous time has become in the serial publication .
3"I know what kind of god I need to be."
The incredible season finale ofLoki ’s 2nd time of year was a triumphant finale for the character ’s electric discharge within the context of the swell MCU . Rather than continuing to live selfishly as he had , Loki sacrifices everything to become the God of Stories , a living temporal loom that personally oversees the flow of time . Before ascending to take his place , the reform trickster villain utters these lyric , ominously accepting the immense gravity of his new fate in the multiverse .
2"We die with the dying, we’re born with the dead."
When Loki confront He Who rest ' " reincarnation " , the Kang variant reveals that it was always his intention to allow Sylvie to wipe out him , knowing Loki would have to come back in time to stop it . present with the impossible choice to make the ultimate ritual killing , Loki genus Mus on his situation , quoting a T.S. Elliot poem , " Little Gidding " . The poem is very appropriate , reflecting on never - ending cycle of nascence and death , past and future , and redemption , all themes theLokiseries is drown in .
1"For you. For all of us."
At first , Loki ’s final Christian Bible to his Friend in the serial publication before get his place as the God of Stories is simply a semisweet elicitation of his love for his acquaintance , put further depth psychology bring out the line is so much more than that . In a brilliant recall , Loki mirrors his last parole inThor , bringing his journey of character development full circle all the way back to his first appearance in the MCU . Allegdly , this blood line was really suggested by Tom Hiddleston himself , prove that no one else could ’ve bestow the role ofLokito life quite like him .
