Loki Season 01 Episode 04 The Nexus Event Ending Explained [SPOILER!]

SPOILER ALERT: the following article contains massive spoilers, including the ending. If you have not yet seen the show, proceed at your own risk, or better, come back to this article later!

The mercurial villain Loki resumes his role as the God of Mischief in a new series that takes place after the events of “Avengers: Endgame”.

SPOILERS AHEAD

Loki Season 01 Episode 04: The Nexus Event Video Summary

Loki Season 01 Episode 04: The Nexus Event Plot Summary and Synopsis

The episode starts with Ravonna Renslayer arrest Sylvie when she was a kid for unknown crime committed against the TVA.

On Lamentis-1, Sylvie tells Loki she escaped the TVA’s detention as a kid.

In the present, Renslayer informs Mobius about Hunter C-20’s death in uncertain circumstances.

Loki and Sylvie form a romantic bond, creating a unique branched timeline. Mobius has them both arrested, punishing Loki by leaving him in a time loop with Sif.

After Mobius and Hunter B-15 realize they are variants after interrogating Loki and Sylvie, Mobius frees Loki from the loop but is soon confronted by Renslayer for stealing her Time Pad. Mobius tells Renslayer that he wants to go to the time he is really from. She orders to prune Mobius.

Loki and Sylvie are taken to the Time Keepers by Renslayer before Hunter B-15 intervenes. In the ensuing fight, Renslayer’s minutemen are pruned whilst Renslayer is knocked unconscious by Sylvie, who destroys one of the Time Keepers, discovering they are mindless androids.

Loki Season 01 Episode 04: The Nexus Event Ending

Loki is ready to tell Sylvie that he loves her. But Renslayer regains consciousness and prunes him. Sylvie, in anger, overpowers her and demands the truth.

Loki Season 01 Episode 04: The Nexus Event Mid-Credits Scene

In a mid-credits scene, Loki awakens in an unknown realm, surrounded by other Loki variants: Classic Loki, Boastful Loki, and Kid Loki with Alligator Loki. They invite him to come along if he doesn’t want to die.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).

The Ending Explained

The pruning apparently doesn’t work as everyone else thought. At least it doesn’t kill gods, with possible extension to other characters like Mobius with whom Loki befriended. Also, as expected, Time Keepers are only puppets in someone else’s hideous hands.

Cooncel Rating

A great episode that doesn’t tie all the loose ends, but puts some great action on the table for the pre-final episode of the show.

Source: © Cooncel.com.

Title: Loki
US Original Release: June 9, 2021 – July 14, 2021
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Tara Strong, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, Sasha Lane
Directed by: Kate Herron
Written by: Michael Waldron
Synopsis: After stealing the Tesseract during the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority (TVA), a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time-variant”, or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat. Loki ends up trapped in his own crime thriller, traveling through time and altering human history.
Spoiler: S01E01 Glorious Purpose, S01E02 The Variant, S01E03 Lamentis, S01E04 The Nexus Event, S01E05 Journey into Mystery, S01E06 For All Time. Always.
Trailer: https://cooncel.com/loki-new-official-spot-new-peek-at-upcoming-mcu-mini-series-starring-tom-hiddleston-owen-wilson-and-gugu-mbatha-raw/