Mobius: Yes, the destruction of TV Tropes and most of its memes. I'm sorry.
Loki: Yes, very sad. Anyway, it got me troping.
- Many French social media comments under the first trailer joked that "Loki is fleeing/gets arrested because he wants to evade taxes".note In France, T.V.A. is the acronym for "Taxe sur la Valeur Ajoutée" ("Value-added Tax
"). - Meanwhile in Quebec, T.V.A. is a television channel.
- "What's a fish?" ExplanationLoki threatens to "gut [Casey] like a fish" if he doesn't give him the Tesseract, but the threat falls flat as Casey has never been outside the TVA and doesn't know what a fish is. This becomes funnier in Episode 11, because Casey (actually Frank Lee Morris) mentions that he and his fellow Alcatraz prisoners will be gutted like fish if they get caught.
- Casey is more powerful than Thanos. ExplanationWhen the contents of Casey's junk drawer were revealed, many viewers joked that his dozens of Infinity Stones would make him even more powerful than Thanos, who only had 6.
- "No ticket."ExplanationThe scene where another variant is immediately disintegrated for not having a ticket, causing Loki to frantically display his own, naturally got a ton of comparisons to the similar scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
- Loki crying at sad movies.ExplanationLoki tears up while he watches his main timeline counterpart's life play out in the Time Theatre, leading to viewers inserting sad scenes from other films (or alternatively events they find sad) he's crying to.
- Loki and Mobius watching events/movies/memes.ExplanationRelated to the above meme, there's quite a few edits of the Time Theater scene to make it look like Mobius and Loki are observing things related to their actors, or other bizarre things.
- If I had a nickel for every time Owen Wilson was in Pompeii, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.ExplanationEpisode 2 has a scene where Loki and Mobius (played by Wilson) visits Pompeii just before it erupts. Fans are quick to point out that this isn't the first time Owen Wilson had to deal with the Pompeii eruption; the first being his role as Jedediah in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.
- Mobius' fascination with jet skis have become this with fans, some of them jokingly begging Marvel Studios to end the series with Mobius riding into the ocean on a jet ski of his own. Became an Ascended Meme in "Science/Fiction" when Mobius's original self, Don, is first seen riding a jet ski.
- Once-ler 2 ExplanationThe reveal that Loki fell in love with his alternate self led to people (mainly on Tumblr) drawing comparisons to the infamous Once-ler fandom from 2012, known for shipping the Once-ler with alternate versions of himself.
- Mobius meeting characters played by Owen Wilson.ExplanationAfter getting pruned, Loki met other versions of himself. Many fans immediately began making jokes that the same thing happened to Mobius, but he instead met the different roles Owen Wilson has portrayed, with the one most commonly talked about being Lightning McQueen.
- Into the Loki-VerseExplanationA joke that's been on people's lips since the reveal of a second Loki in Episode one, which only got funnier at the end of Episode 4, when Loki runs into three more very different Variants of himself.
- There are also many jokes with the "low key" pun.
- Do you really want another One More Day story? ExplanationDue to the spiraling Mephisto theories which range from WandaVision to Loki, some fans wondered if everyone wants to repeat the infamous and controversial One More Day storyline for Spider-Man 3.
- Thanos-copter is canon ExplanationThe infamous and oft-memed Thanos-copter makes an appearance in the Void
- In Brazil, Alligator Loki is jokingly said to come from a timeline where Loki "took the jab" ExplanationPresident Jair Bolsonaro, that has supported anti-Vaxx views, had infamously claimed that Covid vaccination, particularly Chinese-made vaccines, would turn people into alligators
- "You're my favorite" ExplanationIn episode 5 Mobius gives Loki a long goodbye hug but whispers to Sylvie watching them that she's his favorite Loki variant. This is followed by users inserting pictures of any of their favorite things.
- Greta Thunberg is in the MCU. ExplanationThe Season 1 finale opens with several real life sound bites interspersed with clips from the MCU, and people especially latched onto Greta Thunberg saying "How dare they," speculating on what the context of her saying that within the MCU could be. Some even figured she might be fighting Thanos, showing him what true environmental activism is about.
- All this happened because Hulk had to take the stairs. Explanation With the first season ending with the Sacred Timeline breaking into a chaotic multiverse and Kang the Conqueror taking over the TVA, people were quick to remember that an angry Hulk breaking out of a stairwell and knocking the Tesseract into Loki’s reach was what kicked off the events that lead to that mess in the first place.
- Pray for Doctor Strange. ExplanationFans portray Doctor Strange as the Only Sane Man who has to fix the multiversal shenanigans that Loki has caused, not to mention whatever was alluded to in WandaVision and Kang’s involvement in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Safe to say it's going to be a lot of work for him. However, memes of this very quickly died out after the trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home showcases Strange also botching up a spell that is implied to be the start of said chaos, with characters from previous live-action Spider-Man films appearing in the MCU.
- Sylvie is a variant of Star-Lord. ExplanationFans compare Sylvie's killing of He Who Remains as similar to Star-Lord's outburst in Infinity War in being an emotional outburst that directly results in the universe / multiverse going to Hell, and thus declaring that she is a variant of him and not Loki. It helps that they are both blonde and have a backstory of being taken by strangers at a young age.
- Am I dead? ExplanationThe first panel has any character waking up like Loki did in the Void, the second panel shows a group of characters played by the same actor replying "not yet, but you will be unless you come with us". Alternatively, the first panel has a character who was Killed Off for Real, and the second one has a group of dead characters replying "yep, you are"
- Old man yells at cloud. ExplanationEpisode 5 ends with Classic Loki, an old man who spends his final moments yelling defiantly before Alioth, which is essentially a doglike Cumulonemesis. Fans noticed the amusing similarity to the classic The Simpsons meme.
- Miss Minutes jump scare ExplanationFrom the season 1 finale, when Miss Minutes suddenly appears before Loki and Sylvie in the castle and says "hey y'all!" Completely unexpected, fans took it and began adding it in their videos to scare others.
- What was your Nexus Event? ExplanationFirst panel - Loki asking this question in the Void. Second panel - the shot of Kid Loki answering it, with a random person inserted instead of him and saying something atrocious.
- A massive number of memes and jokes comparing COVID-19 Variants to Variants of Loki or He Who Remains.
- What? Haow? ExplanationDue to Owen Wilson and his Catchphrase “wow” (often spelled “waow” due to the way he says it), many fans were disappointed that Mobius, Owen Wilson’s character, never once says “wow”. So they latched onto the next best thing: Mobius saying “how?”/“haow” toward the beginning of the show’s fourth episode.
- It’s breaking my reality right naow!
- This is the first time. For. Me. In. The, Marvel. Universe. Explanation A clip from one of the show's promotional videos became memetic for the extremely bizarre editing of this line, where it sounds like every word after "time" is awkwardly spliced together from several different takes.
- After the Season 2 Trailer came out, fans joked that Ouroboros (played by Ke Huy Quan) is a variant of Waymond Wang.
- B-15 reaction. ExplanationB-15's disgusted reaction to General Dox and Hunter X-5's Headbutt of Love became a popular reaction meme especially after Episode 3 when Miss Minutes confessed her love for Victor Timely.
- Hiddleston's acting is better than the entirety of QuantumaniaExplanationMany were underwhelmed by Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's attempt to set up Kang as the next Thanos, thinking that it simply made him look like someone who talks big but can't back it up. Many have instead found Hiddleston's acting as Loki utterly terrified of He Who Remains as more convincing proof of Kang's menace.
- The ending of "Heart of the TVA" Explanation (GARGANTUAN SPOILERS)The episode ends with the Loom finally collapsing and exploding, enveloping its timelines and the TVA in a flash of light. While this obviously isn't the end of the MCU or the show itself (with two episodes left), some have joked that this is the anticlimactic and depressing end of the MCU as we know it, with some further joking that Feige has pulled a Rage Quit after worsening public opinions on the MCU and other troubles post-Endgame.
- He Who Ramens/He Who Lo MeinsExplanation (Spoilers!)At the end of "Heart of the TVA", Timely unexpectedly is spaghettified by temporal radiation, leading to dark puns on noodle dishes.
- Loki over here carrying the whole MCU. Explanation (GARGANTUAN SPOILERS) What started as a simple joke about Loki being the best MCU property at the time of its airing suddenly became hilarious following the series finale, where Loki personally gathers up all the timelines and holds them together. Meaning he's literally carrying the whole MCU.
- "Let Time Pass" Explanation (Spoilers) Mobius' heartwarming line from the finale spread around tiktok, usually showing a person having a "let it sink in" moment.
