History Recap / LokiEpisode7Ouroboros

* VertigoEffect: There are two dolly zooms when Mobius tries to walk back from tye launcher across the gangway: one with the Temporal Loom as the background element appearing to get larger, and another focussing on the closing blast doors seemingly receding as it becomes apparent that Mobius will not reach them in time on his own.

* CueTheFallingObject: After Loki in a flying mail truck crashes through the window of a TVA office, and the truck falls backward, leaving Loki there, an overhead, round TV screen, damaged by debris, falls from the ceiling. It doesn't happen in the background, though, and ends up being significant because the crack it leaves in the floor can still be seen, only partially repaired, after Loki time-slips, letting him understand he was in the past.

* {{Homage}}: The whole scene in Orobouros's office, from the clustered decor to the character-centered shots, is very similar to Creator/WesAnderson's cinematography (or at least, similar to the various AI-generated Wes Anderson parodies). Further reinforced by featuring one Anderson's favorite actors, Creator/OwenWilson.

* {{Retcon}}: In the Season 1 finale, it was indicated that Loki had arrived at an alternate TVA that has never met Loki, hence why Agent Mobius and Hunter B-15 don't recognize him, and why Casey has become Hunter K-5E. This episode shows that Loki is actually in the TVA's past, and Casey being a Hunter is completely dropped without any explanation.

** A significant one when the war room in the past, with a mural showing Kang's faces, switch to the war room in the present, where said mural is now covered by paintings of the Time Keepers.

** There is a cut from the outside of the door to the Time Loom room to the inside of the door as it's opening.

* VerbalBackspace: O.B. gives Loki and Mobius an hour to complete the plan. Then the window of the Time Loom starts cracking, and O.B. gives them five minutes.

* MatchCut: There is a cut from the outside of the door to the Time Loom room to the inside of the door opening.

* BadBoss: The TVA has signs up in their cafeteria asking employees to limit their lunches to 17 minutes and to minimize chitchat, surely as another means to limit the possibility of anybody learning of their true past.
* BadFuture: Something ominous is going on in the future TVA that Loki timeslips into. Alarms are going off, evacuation orders can be heard over the loudspeakers, the TVA is in disarray with all lights flickering, everyone is in panic, and a monitor says "LOOM CRITICAL."

** Casey has a dramatic pause where it looks like he’s maybe recognized Loki, but then it turns out he’s just realizing Loki is the fugitive that was just reported.

** Loki tells Mobius that his fight with Sylvie was a draw, but he doesn’t buy it:

** Mobius pretends that he remembers meeting O.B., but he doesn’t know his name and then gets details of their meeting wrong.

** One of the Time Keeper robots’ heads is on the table in the war room Mobius and Hunter B-15 attend.

* CantTakeAnythingWithYou: Played with. When Loki timeslips into the future while holding a Time Stick, the stick doesn’t slip with him. However, the ''timer'' does, which is a problem because the future TVA is deserted and Loki now lacks the means to prune himself.

* DuctTapeForEverything: O.B. uses duct tape to fix a crack in the visor of Mobius’s helmet.

* FlayingAlive: This would be Mobius’s fate if either he fails to fire the extractor or Loki fails to prune himself in time.

* InstantlyProvenWrong: While Loki wants to deal with the fallout of He Who Remains’s death, Mobius wants to get Loki checked out first because he keeps disappearing. Trying to downplay it, Loki denies that it keeps happening, and a second later he timeslips again.
* InternalReveal:

-->'''Judge Gamble:''' All my life, I’ve always handed down the same verdict. Guilty. The Time-Keepers deemed it so.

* LyingToProtectYourFeelings: Played for laughs. Loki asks Mobius how his timeslipping looks like and Mobius assures him that it isn’t so bad. A few moments later he admits that it is “horrible” and “terrible.”

* NoSocialSkills: Due to spending most of her life on the run only eating pests and rodents, Sylvie does not know how to casually talk to and order food from a cashier. However, she recognizes this, so her first question is "How do I do this?".

* SmugSuper: Mobius lampshades that "He Who Remains" is a lofty title, but Loki counters that it’s not that lofty if you can back it up.

** Loki travels to the past TVA to speak with O.B. in the past and unintentionally allows the present O.B. to give Mobius the equipment and directions he needs to fix Loki’s situation.
** Another appears to be set up at the end when Sylvie arrives at Loki's location in the future and an additional unseen person prunes him JustInTime as part of O.B.'s plan. As soon as Loki returns, he tells Mobius that they need to find Sylvie in order to close the loop. [[spoiler:The loop is closed in the fourth episode when Loki of that time steps up to prune himself.]]

[[caption-width-right:864:''"Don't do the "Coulda, woulda, shoulda", just focus on what we know.'']]

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* NoSocialSkills: Due to spending most of her life on the run only eating pests and rodents, Sylvie does not know how to casually talk to and order food from a cashier.

* WriteBackToTheFuture: An unintentional variant. When Loki slips into the future, he's able to figure out it's the future because he sees "Skin?" on the side of a terminal, which Mobius traced into the dust in the present.

* {{Egopolis}}: The TVA is decorated with numerous statues and images of Kang and his variants in the past when Loki timeslips to that point. Some time between then
and the show's main "present", all the Kang iconography was either torn down or covered up and replaced by the Time Keepers.

* {{Egopolis}}: The TVA is decorated with numerous statues and images of Kang and his variants in the past when Loki timeslips to that point. Some time between then and the show's main "present", all the Kang iconography was either torn down or covered up and replaced by the Time Keepers.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Annihilating is easy. Razing things to the ground is easy. Trying to fix what's broken is hard. Hope is hard."'']]

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** Another appears to be set up at the end when Sylvie arrives at Loki's location in the future and an additional unseen person prunes him JustInTime as part of O.B.'s plan. As soon as Loki returns, he tells Mobius that they need to find Sylvie in order to close the loop.

'''Loki:''' Yes, but it hasn't happened to you yet. Do you see?