Loki season 1 recap: Everything to remember before Loki season 2

Rejoice with glorious purpose, Loki season 2 is almost upon us! Here’s a rundown of what all happened in Loki season 1 – with ALL the spoilers.

It is almost time for Loki season 2! If you’re excited for Tom Hiddleston to bless us with his beautiful self again for the Marvel Studios show to come back to Disney Plus but, much like myself, you tend to forget the details amid the grand scheme of things of the first season, worry not. I am here to help you untangle the knots of what unfolded.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe series will return to Disney Plus with new episodes on Thursday evenings, marking a change from the previous season which premiered new episodes on Wednesday mornings. But the streamer’s schedule is evolving, as Loki season 2 becomes the second show to debut in primetime after Ahsoka.

But now that you know when to watch it, let’s get into what you need to remember. This has every single spoiler from the first season. If you’re planning on watching season 1 for the first time but stumbled upon this article, please know that the whole show will be spoiled here.

*** This article contains SPOILERS from Loki season 1. Don’t read on if you don’t want it spoiled for you. ***

What happened in Loki season 1?

Remember that scene in Avengers: Endgame where Loki popped off into the timestream? Well, Loki season 1 took us all the way back there to begin with.

In case you don’t remember that scene, a select group of the surviving Avengers had time-hopped from 2023 back to 2012 in order to find all the Infinity Stones before Thanos has a chance to find them himself. While attempting to take the Tesseract from their past selves, 2012 Hulk “accidentally” sends 2023 Tony flying, which then accidentally tosses the Tesseract further away. Ever the opportunist, 2012 Loki wastes no time in grabbing the Tesseract and vanishes.

The opening moments of Loki season 1 sees the God of Mischief finding himself lost in a desert, and in the clutches of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) –  which is comparable to the DMV, but you’re dealing with the fabric of time itself instead of waiting for a new driver’s license.

Marvel introduces the TVA

The TVA keeps the sacred timeline on track and, when things go a little sideways, they prune off any variants. While there, Loki meets Mobius, played by the ever-charming Owen Wilson, who persuades the Time Keepers (the mysterious heads of the TVA) to let Loki join their cause. Of course, this doesn’t sit well with Ravonna Renslayer, who’d prefer to see Loki get pruned instead.

Finally teaming up with the TVA, Loki sets out to stop another Loki variant, Sylvie – a badass, blonde,

absolutely beautiful

female version of himself.

It turns out she’s been playing a deadly game of hide and seek with the TVA, hiding out in apocalyptic events where her actions don’t mess up the already-compromised timeline. In true Loki fashion, Loki ends up teaming up and leaving with Sylvie in order to understand what’s going on and try to take down the TVA together.

Loki teams up with Sylvie to take down the Time Keepers

After getting caught up in a conflict with Renslayer and her crew, Loki and Sylvie end up on Lamentis-1 in 2077, a moon about to be crushed by a planet. There’s a lot of emotional bonding between Loki and Sylvie, during which she drops the bomb that changes everything – that TVA agents are actually brainwashed variants of Earthlings.

Meanwhile, back at the TVA, Sylvie’s influence helps a TV agent, Agent B-15, recover her pre-TVA memories, which only confirms what Sylvie revealed back in Lamentis-1. Mobius learns of the existence of another variant, Agent C-20, and with this newfound insight, he helps Loki escape an absolutely torturous memory loop involving his childhood friend, Sif, who can be remembered from the Thor movies. However, playtime is over and Renslayer prunes Mobius for insubordination.

Loki and Sylvie take down the Time Keepers, only to realize they’re just androids. Loki gets pruned and sent to the Void, the end of time, where he meets… well, himself. Multiple times over, and many different versions – a power-hungry presidential version, a wise Classic Loki, a Boastful Loki, a young Kid Loki, and the absolute best Loki variant: Alligator Loki. They’re all trying to survive against a monstrous cloud creature, Alioth, who devours everything in its path.

He Who Remains arrives

Eventually, Loki and Sylvie manage to enchant Alioth with the help of the Classic Loki, revealing a citadel beyond the Void. Here they encounter He Who Remains, a Kang the Conqueror variant and the force behind the TVA.

He Who Remains tells it all: he’s the last of a group of Kang variants who, after a multiversal war, used Alioth to clean up the timeline mess. Now, he leaves Loki and Sylvie with a choice – kill him and risk another multiversal war or take over the TVA themselves.

Despite Loki’s pleas, Sylvie kills He Who Remains, causing the timeline to branch out into a ton of alternate realities. She then sends Loki back to the TVA, where he realizes that Mobius and B-15 no longer recognize him, and the Time Keeper statues have been replaced by He Who Remains.

And this is where the series will pick up when the second season of this glorious show returns.