Aspect Ratio Switch: Miss Minutes' intro video plays out in a 4:3 fullscreen ratio, another throwback to WandaVision's earlier episodes.Ascended Fanboy: Mobius admires Loki and is happy at the prospect of mentoring him.Loki also speaks with his natural English accent during the event, whereas the real Cooper spoke in a Midwestern American accent. In Real Life, while Cooper did board the plane in the afternoon, much of the actual hijacking took place in the middle of the night. Cooper stunt as shown in the TVA's Time Theater is shown to have occurred on a clear day. Artistic License History: Loki's D.B.It also wouldn't travel anywhere near the speed shown. Unrefined oil has a pretty high flash point and would need quite a bit of time exposed to a flame before even igniting. Artistic License Chemistry: The writers seemed to have confused oil with gasoline.Armor-Piercing Question: Mobius asks Loki several probing questions, among others what his plan is once he is king and whether he actually enjoys hurting and killing people.Ankle Drag: At the end of the episode, the ominous Loki Variant drags Hunter U-92 out of frame by his ankle before he can reset the timeline.Anti-Magic: It is expressly said that magic is rendered useless while in the TVA itself, meaning that Loki can't turn invisible or do any of his other tricks while in their custody.Animal Reaction Shot: When Loki drops through the ceiling into the room where he is supposed to sign the stack of paper with everything he ever said, a cat note or a flerken lying on the floor looks up to him and moves back in surprise.Then, once he becomes "King Loki of X", what next? Loki's response is some vague thing about making things "easy" for his hypothetical subjects by telling them what to do. Mobius has to press on what Loki wants to be king of. Loki's answers seem to indicate that he never really thought that hard about it. And Then What?: Mobius asks Loki what he intends to do when he becomes King.It not only establishes just how powerful this organization is that two beings of such disparate power can be treated as equal in their eyes, it also shows how ruthlessly they enforce their laws to preserve the 'Sacred Timeline'. All Crimes Are Equal: A Spoiled Brat trust fund kid is treated exactly the same as the mass-murdering, world-conquering Loki by the TVA for the crime of being a time variant.Presumably even Asgardians * by adoption don't have time to learn every language on every known world. Turns out there are limits to how broadly this applies: while Loki may be able to speak English just fine, he evidently doesn't know a word of Mongolian. Aliens Speaking English: Deconstructed.
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