Film guide · 2023

Loki (Season 2)Complete Guide

The parts that are hard to follow from the film alone, explained with a story summary, a character map and key terms.

Released
2023
Runtime
6 episodes (about 50 min each)
Set in
TVA / outside of time

Good to know before watchingNo spoilers

It continues Season 1

Watch Season 1 first.

Time gets even trickier

Reading about the Temporal Loom and time-slipping in the key terms helps.

A new ally

TVA technician Ouroboros, called O.B., is key to the story.

The finale matters

It's a major turning point for Loki.

Character mapSpoilers

Who's who in Loki Season 2 (2023), with Loki at the center. TVA friends are above; people from other times and outside the TVA are below.

Because of copyright, we can't use stills, posters or any other images of the characters as they appear in the film. All face photos are freely licensed photos of the actors themselves (non-human characters are original illustrations made for this site; people without a photo are shown with initials).

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All characters

About the images

Face photos are freely licensed photos of the actors from Wikimedia Commons, cropped to a square and resized. Non-human characters are original illustrations made for this site, and people without a photo are shown with a placeholder (initials).

StorySpoilers

Read the story (spoilers up to the ending)

Episode 1: Ouroboros

Loki suffers from time-slipping. With Mobius and technician O.B., he searches for the cause.

Episode 2: Breaking Brad

They track down a former TVA hunter who fled, to learn what's happening in the branches.

Episode 3: 1893

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, they search for the inventor Victor Timely.

Episode 4: Heart of the TVA

They try to save the Temporal Loom, but disaster strikes.

Episode 5: Science/Fiction

Loki leaps between worlds to find his scattered friends.

Episode 6: Glorious Purpose

To save everything, Loki takes a path only he can walk.

Read the detailed scene-by-scene story

Key terms

The Temporal Loom
The giant machine at the heart of the TVA that weaves time into a single thread.
Time-slipping
Loki's body jumping to the past or future against his will.
Branches
New worlds that split off from the set timeline, multiplying since the end of Season 1.
Pruning
Erasing a branch of time.
Victor Timely
An inventor living in 1893 who looks exactly like the man in the Citadel from Season 1.

Confusing parts, explainedSpoilers

Contains spoilers about the ending.

Is Victor Timely the man from the Citadel?

He's a variant of the same person, from another branch, with a very different personality.

What happens to Loki at the end?

He stays at the end of time, holding the branching timelines together with his own hands, giving up his time to protect countless worlds.

What happens to the TVA?

It shifts from pruning branches to watching over them.

Easy-to-miss details

O.B.'s manual

O.B. wrote the TVA's own instruction manual.

The same title

The finale shares its title, Glorious Purpose, with Season 1's first episode. Notice how Loki's purpose has changed.

Sylvie's fast-food job

Sylvie enjoys a quiet life working at a 1980s fast-food restaurant.

The ending and post-creditsSpoilers

After the end credits

As a series, there are no film-style post-credits scenes.

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