Loki (TV Series)

Glorious Purpose (2021)

Gugu Mbatha-Raw: Ravonna Renslayer

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• [Loki is brought before Ravonna Renslayer, a judge of the Time Variance Authority] 

  Ravonna Renslayer : Next case, please. Laufeyson. Variant L, aka Loki Laufeyson is charged with sequence violation 7-20-89. How do you plead?

  Loki : [chuckles]  Madam, a god doesn't plead. This has been a very enjoyable pantomime, but I'd like to go home now.

  Ravonna Renslayer : Are you guilty or not guilty, sir?

  Loki : [scoffs]  Guilty of being the God of Mischief? Yes. Guilty of finding all of this incredibly tedious? Yes. Guilty of a crime against the Sacred Timeline? Absolutely not, you have the wrong person.

  Ravonna Renslayer : Oh, really? And who should we have?

  Loki : I suspect The Avengers. I came into possession of the Tesseract because they traveled through time, no doubt in a last ditch effort to stave off my ascent to God King.

  Ravonna Renslayer : That's quite an accusation.

  Loki : Oh, believe me, you can smell the cologne of two Tony Starks. You speak of Time Criminals? It's they you should be after. Perhaps you could provide me with a task force and resources, and I could return and eliminate them for you.

  Ravonna Renslayer : [sternly]  We're not here to talk about the Avengers.

  Loki : Oh, no?

  Ravonna Renslayer : No. What they did was supposed to happen. Your escaping was not.

  Loki : [laughs]  Right. "Not supposed to happen"? According to whom?

  Ravonna Renslayer : The Time-Keepers.

  Loki : Oh, the Time-Keepers. Right. Well, perhaps I should speak to these Time-Keepers, gods to gods.

  Ravonna Renslayer : I'm sorry, but they're quite busy.

  Loki : Oh, they are? What are they doing?

  Ravonna Renslayer : Dictating the proper flow of time.

  Loki : I see. Right. And then what do you do?

  Ravonna Renslayer : Dictate the proper flow of time according to their dictations.

• [being taken away by the TVA to be forcibly "reset"] 

  Loki : You ridiculous bureaucrats will not dictate how my story ends!

  Ravonna Renslayer : It's not your story, Mr. Laufeyson. It never was.

  Loki : You have no idea what I'm capable of!

  Mobius M. Mobius : [stands up in the back]  I... think I might. Have an idea of what he's capable of.

  Ravonna Renslayer : Approach the bench.

  Mobius M. Mobius : [does so; whispers]  Hi.

  Ravonna Renslayer : [whispering]  If you're thinking what I think you are, it's a bad idea.

  Mobius M. Mobius : Okay, I'm just chasing a hunch.

  Ravonna Renslayer : Anything goes sideways, and it's on you.

  Mobius M. Mobius : Okay.

  [amiable] 

  Mobius M. Mobius : I feel like I'm always looking up to you. I like it. It's appropriate.