#LOKI EPISODE 1 TRIAL#

Loki predictably escapes after Mobius leaves the room for a minute or two. “You were born to cause pain, suffering, and death,” he tells him. This sends Loki into a rage, where his new agent friend assesses him as the Fredo of his day. Then, Mobius puts the cherry on top, showing him killing his own mother. They even show a scene on how he was the real DB Cooper! This gets Loki jealous, feeling inferior.

They go through how he killed Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) in Age of Ultron and multiple shots of the Avengers looking like heroes, snacks, or both. Mobius gives Loki a history lesson that is meant to catch the viewer up if they forgot who the character is or if somehow you are new to the MCU. Mischief but tells him it’s on him if anything goes wrong. Loki was about to be “reset” after being offended that the timekeepers allow the Avengers to travel across time, but not himself when Mobius steps in. Mobius, a middle-management Bureaucrat for the TVA (who’s a character in the comics more famous for pursuing the Fantastic Four for TVA violations). He then gets an alert the TVA has an interesting find, and many do not know who they have in their possession - the God of Mischief himself. We first meet Agent Mobius when he is investigating a church with a stained glass window of a devil (I’m still hoping it was Hellboy). That’s when Captain Mobius (Owen Wilson) makes an appearance in the MCU for the first time. He has no lawyer, no evidence to exonerate himself, and creates some laughs for the gallery when he arrogantly tries to use his powers to escape.

#LOKI EPISODE 1 TRIAL#

It’s sort of like being put on trial with no rights and defending your VISA in the United States. Loki visits the TVA judge (played by the fetching Gugu Mbatha-Raw). Oh, and if you argue with the guard, they zap you to nothingness. Time jumpers like Loki created variances for mundane reasons that have repercussions like intergalactic wars. In one of the episode’s bests scenes, he gives a ticket to stand in a line of two people and watches a cute animated 1960s style Catch Me if You Can video explaining why the TVA does what it does. They strip Loki down to his skivvies, put him in a TVA prisoner jumpsuit, and make him sign a form of every word he ever uttered.

Kind of like the TSA, but instead of screening human passengers who ride planes, they manage beings that create variances in time (this group of timeline monitors first appeared in Marvel Comics Thor Vol. It turns out TVA stands for the Time Variance Authority.

Loki episode 1