Loki Episode 4: 8 Easter Eggs And References You Might Have Missed

"The Nexus Event" could have some major consequences for the future of the MCU.

Loki Episode 4, "The Nexus Event" unveiled some devastating truths about the TVA and its members, both for us the audience and for the characters themselves. Last week, Sylvie dropped the bombshell that the agents of the TVA are actually just brainwashed variants and this week, we explored exactly what that meant.

Of course, that didn't happen until the whole Lamentis debacle was finally solved. If you remember from the final moments of last week's episode, we last left Loki and Sylvie staring their own imminent demise in the face as the planet collapsed around them. Thankfully, Mobius was able to swoop in and save them in time, but only because of a powerful and confusing spike of nexus energy.

This then sparked a chain of events that left the TVA crumbling, its agents in disarray, and the fabric of reality itself--well, you get the idea here. Things are not looking good for space and time, though maybe not in the way you'd might expect. Things aren't splintering off into a multiversal web (at least, not yet) but revelations are happening, and none of them are good.

Here are 8 important things to note in this episode, from Easter Eggs to references and nods to the MCU at large.

1. Asgard

Loki has provided opportunities to revisit many places in history, but returning to Asgard (which is currently destroyed in the present day MCU) is a bit of a staple by now. This episode revisits the palace several times, but it's also where we kick things off.

2. Kid Loki

We'll talk more about Kid Loki (the other one) in a second, but we're introduced to a version of the character here as well--kind of. It's not our Loki, it's Kid Sylvie. She's being arrested by Ravonna for "crimes against the sacred timeline." What kind of crimes? We can't be sure--and Ravonna refuses to elaborate. Based on the end of the episode, that could mean that Ravonna is simply a good soldier following bad orders, or something much more sinister.

3. The Wolf

Did you catch the wolf figurine in Kid Sylvie's playset? That's a model of Fenris, of course, who we saw in action during Thor Ragnarok. In that version of events, Fenris was a servant of Hela who she had to resurrect when she attempted to take the kingdom--but it's unclear if the same things transpired in Sylvie's version of history.

4. Sif

Here's a familiar face! Lady Sif hasn't been around in the MCU for quite some time--since Thor: The Dark World, specifically. She'll be back for Thor: Love And Thunder, however, so it's nice to see actor Jamie Alexander in costume again to jog our memories.

5. Kree, titans, vampires

Mobius shouts out the TVA's history with "Kree, titans, and vampires." Kree we know from Captain Marvel, titans is a nod to our good friend Thanos who hails from the planet Titan, vampires, however, is a new one. Hey, remember Morbius? That's coming out. It's not technically part of the MCU, but there's that.

6. The jet ski

Alas, poor Mobius, he "died" as he lived--fondly remembering how cool jet skis are. Of course, Mobius's pruning doesn't necessarily mean that he's gone for good (after all, the mid-credits scene seems to confirm that being zapped out of existence isn't really death) so there's still a chance we'll actually get to see Owen Wilson jet ski'ing around in real time.

7. Who created the Time-Keepers?

After the unsettling revelation that the Time-Keepers are, in fact, just a bunch of robots like the performers at the weirdest and most cosmic Chuck E. Cheese, Loki asks the obvious question: If the Keepers are just puppets, who made them? In the comics, there's actually an answer for this--a being called He Who Remains, a former director of an alternate timeline's version of the TVA, created the Time-Keepers in our reality. But in the comics, they weren't robots--so do with this information what you will.

8. The mid-credits

Hopefully you didn't close your Disney+ app before the credits of this week's episode, because there is a mid-credits scene, and it's a critical one. Not only do we get absolute confirmation that Loki's pruning didn't kill him--at least not in the traditional sense--it also introduces some new and colorful characters.