Loki

I am Loki of Asgard. And I am burdened with glorious purpose.

Loki (TV series), CC BY-SA 4.0

Clerk: Please confirm to your knowledge that you are not a fully robotic being, were born an organic creature, and do in fact possess what many cultures would call a soul. Loki: What? "To my knowledge"? Do a lot of people not know if they're robots? Clerk: Thank you for your conformation. Please move through. Loki: What if I was a robot and I didn't know it? Clerk: The machine would melt you from the inside out. Please move along, sir.

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Loki: [angrily] THIS IS A MISTAKE! I SHOULDN'T BE HERE! Miss Minutes: [narration] Hey there! You're probably saying, "This is a mistake. I shouldn't even be here." Welcome to the Time Variance Authority. I'm Miss Minutes, and it's my job to catch you up before you stand trial for your crimes. So let's not waste another minute. Settle in, sharpen your pencils, and check this out. Long ago, there was a vast multiversal war. Countless unique timelines battled each other for supremacy, nearly resulting in the total destruction of... well, everything. But then, the all-knowing Time-Keepers emerged, bringing peace by reorganizing the multiverse into a single timeline, the Sacred Timeline. Now, the Time-Keepers protect and preserve the proper flow of time for everyone and everything. But sometimes, people like you veer off the path the Time-Keepers created. We call those Variants. Maybe you started an uprising, or were just late for work. Whatever it was, stepping off your path created a nexu

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Loki: I'm gonna burn this place to the ground. Mobius: I'm gonna show you where my desk is, you can start there.

Loki (TV series), CC BY-SA 4.0

Loki: Are you taking me somewhere to kill me? Mobius: No. That's where you just were. I'm taking you some place to talk. Loki: I don't like to talk. Mobius: But you do like to lie, which you just did. Because we both know you love to talk. Talkie-talkie. Loki: How long have you been here? Mobius: I don't know. It's hard to say, you know? Time passes differently here in the TVA. Loki: What does that mean? Mobiua: You'll catch on.

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That is the proper flow of time, and it happens again and again because it's supposed to. Because it has to.

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