WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for Loki episode 2.
Loki episode 2 reveals the show’s Evil Loki Variant doesn’t like being called Loki, and there may be a good reason for that. As shown in the new episode, actor Sophia Di Martino plays a female Loki that’s causing problems for the Time Variance Authority. Thus far, Di Martino’s Loki Variant has attacked TVA agents multiple times, evaded capture, and stolen several reset charges, which are devices the TVA uses to disintegrate matter. The TVA finally catches up to Di Martino’s character thanks to Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, but it turns out to be too late.
In episode 2, “The Variant,” Di Martino’s Lady Loki carries out a diabolical plan to disrupt the TVA’s Sacred Timeline. Early in the episode, it’s revealed that there’s a point where the TVA can’t reset Nexus events, which are events that cause the timeline to branch off into different paths, and Lady Loki wants to make sure that happens. At the end of Loki episode 2, the character sends her stolen reset charges to various points throughout history, causing mass changes. Thanks to Lady Loki, the events of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are completely upended, and it appears the Multiverse has begun.
Before Lady Loki carries out her plan to disrupt the timeline, she has one particularly telling quote. There’s a point in the episode where Hiddleston’s Loki is trying to get Di Martino’s character to join him in overthrowing the Time-Keepers, the mysterious gods controlling the Sacred Timeline, and the TVA. He lays his plan out and asks, “What say you, Loki?” Di Martino’s Lady Loki, who is safely in another location and speaking through other characters, says, “Ugh. Don’t call me that.” It’s a brief moment, but it may hint that there’s more to Di Martino’s character than being a different version of Loki.
Lady Loki may be intentionally separating herself from her past. Conversely, Hiddleston’s Loki is defined by his. In fact, the Loki premiere was all about digging into what makes Hiddleston’s Loki tick, why he has acted like a villain, and how his past has shaped him. Di Martino’s Lady Loki seems to be over that. While Hiddleston’s Loki is all about deception, mischief, and trickery, Lady Loki just wants to blow up the entire MCU timeline. She has no interest in ruling over the TVA. She wants to burn it all down. There’s nothing subtle about it. Becoming a superior Loki may mean destroying the past and shedding her old name too.
Of course, there are also hints that Lady Loki isn’t who she seems. Though Di Martino's character is a Loki variant according to the TVA, she doesn’t look like the other versions of the God of Mischief shown in the episode. Those all seemed to have at least some resemblance to Hiddleston. One of the various versions of the credits at the end of the episode also lists her character as Sylvie, which may indicate she’s actually Sylvie Lushton, aka the Enchantress. In the Marvel comics, Sylvie gets her powers from the God of Mischief, so the characters obviously have a strong connection. Whatever her name is, just don't call her Loki.
Loki releases new episodes every Wednesday on Disney+.
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