One year after Loki season 2’s premiere on October 5, 2023, many moments from the MCU series are still impossible to forget. Taking place immediately after the events of 2021’s Loki season 1, the second season presented new challenges for Tom Hiddleston’s Loki variant as he fought with Time Variance Authority members Mobius, B-15, Casey and Ouroboros to save the MCU’s multiverse. Although not as fast-paced as season 1, Loki season 2 still delivered some of the most memorable moments in the MCU’s history.

Loki season 2 marked the titular God of Mischief’s complete transition from one of the MCU’s most regular and sinister villains into a bona fide superhero. Many moments, such as the interrogation of Brad Wolfe, Miss Minutes’ romantic revelation and Loki’s final sacrifice to save the multiverse, stick out as some of the most impressive, cathartic, entertaining and haunting scenes in the MCU. The entire Loki series is considered one of the strongest projects developed by Marvel Studios, and these moments from Loki season 2 had a huge role in achieving this success.

10. Loki Chases Brad Wolfe Through The Streets Of 1977’s London

Loki Season 2, Episode 2, “Breaking Brad”

Rafael Casal debuted in Loki season 2 as Hunter X-05, a TVA Minute Man who turns his back on Kate Dickie’s General Dox to live his own life as actor Brad Wolfe in 1977’s London on the Sacred Timeline. Wolfe had valuable information about Dox’s true mission (pruning all the branching timelines against the TVA’s new protocols) and the whereabouts of Sophia Di Martino’s Sylvie. Wolfe was accosted by Loki and Owen Wilson’s Mobius in Loki season 2, episode 2, “Breaking Brad,” leading to a fantastic foot-chase through the streets of London.

This chase came to an end when Loki whipped out some of his powerful magic. It had been quite a while since Loki had demonstrated his impressive abilities, so seeing him apprehend and restrain Brad Wolfe using shadow figures, while also projecting visions of himself – repeating his iconic move from projects such as Thor, The Avengers and What If…?, was exhilarating. While the past Loki may have harmed Wolfe, however, this new-and-improved version brought him back to the TVA as a prisoner, showing just how much he’s grown.

9. Victor Timely Is Spaghettified Over & Over

Loki Season 2, Episode 6, “Glorious Purpose”

Loki season 2’s finale was packed full of memorable moments, but none were more visceral and tragic than watching Victor Timely be disintegrated by the harmful energy of the Temporal Loom time and again. After each failed attempt to expand the Loom, Loki would time-slip back to before Timely donned the TVA spacesuit, making the necessary adjustments, but it usually ended the same. Victor Timely’s gentle disposition made it so that watching him die over and over again was truly harrowing.

Even so, this made it even more fantastic when he eventually succeeded in making it to the end of the gangway, even if the overall plan still didn’t work. Loki season 2 marked the final time Jonathan Majors was seen in the MCU as a Kang variant, as his 2023 arrest and conviction led to his firing from Marvel Studios and the MCU’s moving away from Kang. Victor Timely was a pleasant and welcome variant of Kang to feature in Loki season 2, and one who thankfully survived as was implanted back into his original timeline.

8. Loki Interrogates Brad Wolfe

Loki Season 2, Episode 2, “Breaking Brad”

Following Loki’s chase of Brad Wolfe through the streets of London, the former TVA Minute Man was brought back home and stashed away in an interrogation room. In an attempt to get some real information out of the sarcastic and hateful Wolfe, Loki locked Mobius out of the room and forced him to watch as Loki resorted to torture to get what he wanted. Loki used the TVA’s shrinking gel-like box technology to trap Brad Wolfe in a cube that periodically became smaller and smaller, almost crushing him, but forcing him to give Loki his information.

Rafael Casal’s Hunter X-05 was adapted from Marvel Comics’ Brad Wolfe, an actor who was playing the role of misogynistic serial killer Zaniac when he was covered in radioactive material that turned him into a demonically-possessed supervillain.

This torture proved that Loki still did have a villainous side, but also showed that he would go to extreme lengths to protect the multiverse. Brad Wolfe informed Loki and General Dox’s plan, which he was able to stop, and told him where he could find Sylvie, allowing the unlikely pair of variants to reunite at an Oklahoma McDonald’s in the 1980s. This put Loki’s roots as a villain front-and-center, but also put a spotlight on his growing heroism, which was brilliant to see, albeit with Brad Wolfe almost being crushed.

7. Ravonna Renslayer Learns About Her Past

Loki Season 2, Episode 4, “Heart Of The TVA”

The opening moments of Loki season 2, episode 4, “Heart of the TVA,” saw Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Ravonna Renslayer and Miss Minutes, voiced by Tara Strong, travel to the ruins of the Citadel at the End of Time. While Majors’ He Who Remains sat dead in his chair, Miss Minutes showed Renslayer her personal history with the Kang variant, all of which came as a shock to the former TVA judge. Renslayer had helped He Who Remains win the Multiversal War and take control of the Sacred Timeline, but he wiped her memory nevertheless.

This scene explained Miss Minutes’ sometimes-animosity towards Renslayer, as the anthropomorphic clock had already expressed her love for He Who Remains and Victor Timely. The idea of Renslayer and He Who Remains being romantically involved made sense, particularly given Renslayer and Kang’s history in Marvel Comics. This implied that Renslayer was the brains behind the Multiversal War and the Time Variance Authority’s establishment, making her seem even more menacing for the remainder of Loki season 2.

6. Miss Minutes Reveals Her Love To Victor Timely

Loki Season 2, Episode 3, “1893”

While Ravonna Renslayer was revealed to have been He Who Remains’ love interest prior to having her memory wiped, it was Miss Minutes who shockingly declared her love for Victor Timely in Loki season 2, episode 3, “1893.” After manipulating his early life, Renslayer and Miss Minutes approached Victor Timely at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, hoping that he would take He Who Remains’ place at the head of the TVA. Renslayer proposes a partnership with Timely, but he refuses and abandons her, leaving him alone with the twisted clock, Miss Minutes.

Miss Minutes is voiced by Tara Strong, who also took over the role of Mainframe from Miley Cyrus in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 .

At his workshop and laboratory, Timely listens as Miss Minutes declares her love for him, and expresses her wish to be made into a real woman. This obviously disturbs not only Victor Timely, but also Loki’s audience, and the image of Miss Minutes forming herself around the head of a mannequin will be one that won’t be forgotten anytime soon. Thankfully, Renslayer, Loki, Mobius and Sylvie arrive just in time, leading to Victor Timely being brought to the TVA, with Miss Minutes taking Renslayer on a journey of their own.

5. Loki Learns To Control His Time-Slipping

Loki Season 2, Episode 5, “Science/Fiction”

Throughout Loki season 2, Loki was inflicted with time-slipping, a process that violently pulled him through various timelines seemingly at random. This was caused by Sylvie’s destruction of the Sacred Timeline and pushing of Loki back to the TVA in Loki season 1’s finale. Loki ended up in the TVA’s past, where Mobius and B-15 had no memory of him, but Ke Huy Quan’s Ouroboros helped them to realize that he was time-slipping, and presented a solution. This problem seemingly stopped after Loki pruned himself, but re-emerged when the Temporal Loom exploded.

Loki’s time-slipping in Loki season 2, episode 5, “Science/Fiction,” took him to the original timelines of his newfound TVA family. With the help of the original Ouroboros, A.D. Doug, in 1994’s Pasadena, Loki learned how to control his time-slipping, allowing him to stop time, reverse time, and determine exactly where he was going to end up. This allowed him to travel back to the TVA prior to the Temporal Loom’s destruction, and gifted Loki an incredibly powerful new gift that makes him one of the strongest characters in the MCU’s history.

4. Miss Minutes Crushes General Dox & Her Loyalists

Loki Season 2, Episode 4, “Heart Of The TVA”

Following her attack on the branching timelines of the multiverse, General Dox and her loyalists were imprisoned in the same room that Brad Wolfe had previously been detained in. This meant they were available for Ravonna Renslayer and Miss Minutes to meet when they returned to the TVA, hoping to take it over and continue He Who Remains’ work. Only Wolfe agrees to work with Renslayer and Miss Minutes, however, while Miss Minutes traps General Dox and her other followers in the same shrinking cube that once held Wolfe.

Instead of relenting as Loki had done, however, Renslayer, Wolfe and Miss Minutes watch as General Dox and her loyalists are crushed to death. Miss Minutes’ face at this moment – with a look of sheer glee – is the stuff of nightmares, and won’t be easily forgotten. The audience didn’t get a glimpse of the devastation that must have happened in the shrinking box. Even so, just the idea of General Dox and her followers being pulped while the villainous trio watch on is gruesome enough.

3. The World Unravels Around Sylvie

Loki Season 2, Episode 5, “Science/Fiction”

In Loki season 2’s penultimate episode, Loki is successful in recruiting the original variant versions of Mobius (jet-ski salesman Don), B-15 (Dr. Verity Willis), Casey (Alcatraz escapee Frank Morris) and Ouroboros (science fiction novelist A.D. Doug). However, Loki is less successful when it comes to recruiting Sylvie into his cause, as she simply berates him for being afraid of being alone. Loki leaves her on her timeline, and she heads to a record store to unwind, but, soon, tragedy strikes, bringing her back into the fray.

While she listens to “Oh! Sweet Nuthin'” by The Velvet Underground, the world begins to unravel and spaghettify around Sylvie. The owner of the record store becomes an unfortunate casualty of this unraveling, and Sylvie is eventually left in just a black space, exiting through a door that brings her to Loki and his crew, but she’s too late. This moment was beautiful and dark simultaneously, as Sylvie faced the consequences of her own actions, with the timeline she had come to know as home being reduced to nothing.

2. Loki Says Goodbye To Sylvie & Mobius

Loki Season 2, Episode 6, “Glorious Purpose”

Loki season 2’s finale included many of the entire series’ most memorable moments. One of the most emotional saw Loki do his farewell lap, saying goodbye to Mobius and Sylvie, his two closest friends, before sacrificing himself to save the multiverse. After speaking to He Who Remains and realizing exactly what he needed to do, Loki traveled back to his original interview with Mobius in Loki season 1’s premiere. He learned more about Mobius’ dedication to his job and Mobius’ own past before his friend splintered before his eyes.

Mobius and Sylvie’s futures in the MCU have been left uncertain after Loki season 2, though there have been calls for both to return.

Loki then met with Sylvie in the seconds before the world unraveled in 1994’s Pasadena. Stopping time gave Loki and Sylvie a brief pause to speak and say goodbye. These moments bring Loki back to the TVA in the present day, convincing him he’s making the right decision. These are very emotional scenes, showcasing just how close to Mobius and Sylvie Loki had become, and how much he considers them to be his family – he traveled back to speak to them, not even to his actual family on Asgard.

1. Loki Destroys The Temporal Loom & Saves The Multiverse

Loki Season 2, Episode 6, “Glorious Purpose”

After consulting Mobius and Sylvie and bidding his farewells, Loki sacrificed his own freedom to protect that of his new TVA family. Loki walked out onto the gangway and destroyed the Temporal Loom, sporting a new godly costume as he grabbed each branching timeline and infused them with magic to bring life back to them. Taking hold of them all, Loki walked to the ruins of the Citadel at the End of Time and took his place on He Who Remains’ former throne – now with gold touches – setting himself up to protect the multiverse for all eternity.

This contributed to one of the most epic moments in the MCU’s history, with the grandiose scale of Loki saving the entire multiverse making him perhaps the most powerful and important figure in the franchise. He finally found his Glorious Purpose, and took his place on his throne, just as he’d always wanted, though, this time, it was as a bona fide hero. Tom Hiddleston seems likely to return to the MCU even after Loki season 2’s perfect ending, so he will surely be the subject of many more memorable moments in the future.