Loki quotes from Loki

See, I've read your file. It's you! You're the problem, every time we've ever found a you. Problem is, you think you're special but you're not. So it doesn't matter what outfit you put on, play dress-up or all the little lies you tell your friends or even the lies you tell yourself. At the end of the day, you just make everything worse. For Mobius, for B-15... For your mother. 'Cause that's what you do. You lose. You loser.

Mobius

Loki...

Stop trying to be a hero, man! You're a villain. You're good at it. Do that.

Loki

Thank you, Brad. Very much. I really am touched. You know, you're right. I have done some terrible, awful things. Yeah, maybe that is who I am! I mean, he knows... It's the real me. A loser. Always have been, always will be. And perhaps I've been... Holding something back.

Mobius

Loki--

Loki

Perhaps I've just been... biding my time. Perhaps I've just been waiting for a moment like this, so I can do... terrible, awful things to you.

Loki

You've never wanted to visit your place on the timeline?

Mobius

Look, that's the last thing I should be thinking about.

Loki

Why? Aren't you curious? I mean, don't you want to see the life you were supposed to live before they kidnapped you and brought you into the TVA?

Mobius

Not really!

Loki

Why?

Mobius

Because it's not my life!

Loki

But it could've been.

Mobius

It isn't. This is. I'd like to thank the guy who kidnapped me and brought me here! Got me this pie...

Loki

If you never look, you'll never know.

Mobius

The TVA is the only life I've ever known. I like it!

Loki

Look, I understand. I, like, I-- I get it! Y'know, you might think twice in case it's... something bad, or--

Mobius

Or something good! Something bad, I can handle. What if it's something good? You-- You think I wanna have that rattling around in here? Of course not!

Okay...! Look, I swear, okay?! I went down there and I went to get my life! Okay? Because-- none of this is real!

Loki

Well, if none of this is real... I guess you aren't either.

Loki

It's the future; it's going to happen.

Sylvie

Is it? Really? Because that sounds a lot like the future's already been written. And we both know it hasn't, not anymore. I made sure of that.

Loki

Sylvie--

Sylvie

[angrily] Is this the best you lot can do?

Loki

There was nothing we could do.

Sylvie

Some defense. The TVA is the problem. It's broken. It’s rotten! I’m going home, if it’s still there.

Loki

Please don't. It’s harder...

Loki

To stay.

Victor Timely

Time is everything. It moves through each and every one of us. It shapes our lives. Our futures. But, perhaps, we can shape... it!

Loki

It's him.

Mobius

What? You made him sound like this terrifying figure!

Loki

He is.

Sylvie

Stopping that place from being destroyed and fixing it are two very, very different things. And working with one of his Variants is not gonna get you either.

Loki

Well, your machete hasn't solved any problems thus far.

Loki

So, if your work is based on his work and his work is based on your work--

Mobius

Exactly -- which came first?

Ouroboros

It's like a snake eating its own tail!

Sylvie

What if you're wrong? What if you are wrong to believe this place can be any better? What if I was wrong to spare him? It would just be easier to burn this place down and start from scratch!

Loki

Sure, burn it down, easy. Annihilating it, easy. Razing things to the ground is easy. Trying to fix what's broken is hard. Hope is hard.

Sylvie

Sounds like, whatever we do, we're playing god.

Loki

We are gods.

Loki

Wait... You're a writer?

Yes. Science fiction!

Loki

I'm doomed.

But -- and this is kinda embarrassing -- had to get a PhD to keep my day job teaching theoretical physics at CalTech.

You time travel in a place that has no time, right?

Loki

Right.

That's not possible.

Loki

I know...

So you traveling to a place that doesn't exist anymore is equally impossible, and therefore, it's something you might be able to do!

Loki

Sure. Excellent. Y'know, makes total sense. Doesn't sound like science.

No. But it does sound like fiction!

Loki

[regarding Don's Jetskis] "A beautiful union of form and function..."

Oh, that's lovely, yeah.

Loki

What?! How did you build a TemPad so fast?

I don't know if I'd say eighteen months is fast. Well, nineteen months -- I had to take a break and move out when I lost my job and my wife left me.

Loki

I can bring you back to any point in time. It'll be like you never left. Your boys won't even know you're gone.

Yeah, but I will.