Caution: spoilers ahead for Loki.
Recent Sylvie revelations have finally explained the strange Kablooie moment from Loki's premiere. Back when the God of Mischief was just starting out on his temporal Disney+ adventure, Owen Wilson's Mobius found a curious item in 16th century France. Asking a local youngster if they'd spotted a murderous Loki variant lurking around, the TVA analyst is handed a packet of futuristic Kablooie gum, left behind by the suspect as a gift. After Loki and Mobius deduce that the variant is hiding in apocalypses, they use the Kablooie to narrow down her location, leading directly to Alabama's Roxxcart mall in 2050.
Based on what Loki has revealed about Sylvie thus far, leaving behind such a vital and obvious clue feels massively out of character. Sylvie is a born survivor who refuses to sit with her back to a door - why would such a cautious, tactically-minded woman drop a clue that could lead directly to her base of operations? It's hardly a low-key thing to do. Some might consider this a convenient plot device to bring Loki and Sylvie together, but Loki's "Lamentis" episode might reveal a deeper reason behind Sylvie leaving the Kablooie in 1549 - and everything starts to make sense.
During their train ride together on Lamentis-1, Loki and Sylvie learn more about each other. Sylvie discovers her counterpart is a pompous prince who can't handle his alcohol, and Loki realizes that his companion is a distrustful enchantress with a penchant for postmen. Sylvie also hints that her childhood was far more difficult than Loki's Asgardian upbringing. As Sophia Di Martino's enigmatic sorceress explains, she barely remembers her own mother. Virtually her entire life has been spent running from the TVA, and the aforementioned mailman was simply a way to "keep going" in the absence of genuine love. Sylvie speaks of Loki's royalty as if it's something she never experienced, alluding toward a less privileged existence. Although Loki hasn't yet unveiled her backstory in full, it seems Sylvie was taken from her parents and immediately forced to fend for herself against Father Time's "omniscient fascists."
Hearing of this immense struggle finally explains why Sylvie might expose her location to the TVA by giving candy to a French orphan - sympathy. Meeting a child fighting to survive alone in the 16th century, Sylvie would've understood the young European's plight, remembering how it felt to miss out on a normal childhood. The least Sylvie could do was donate a small pack of delicious Kablooie, allowing the child a few moments of normality in their otherwise arduous existence. Perhaps emotion overtook Sylvie's reason here, or maybe she knew the risks but empathized so deeply with the kid, she did it anyway. In either case, what once looked like a master criminal making a stupid mistake now appears to be Lady Loki taking pity on someone she relates to on a personal level.
In the space of one-and-a-bit episodes, Sylvie has shown almost as many emotional layers as the MCU's real Loki, but if she really did give the Kablooie out of sympathy, there could be much more to come. Future Loki episodes will feature Sylvie as a young child herself, and when the exact nature of her feud with the TVA comes to light, her story might be even more tragic than finding out you're an adopted Frost Giant with a brother who loves his hammer more than you.
New episodes of Loki release every Wednesday on Disney+.
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June 29, 2021 at 12:07AM
