Loki (TV Series)

For All Time. Always. (2021)

Jonathan Majors: He Who Remains

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• [last words] 

  He Who Remains : [stabbed by Sylvie]  See you soon.

• He Who Remains : [to Loki]  You're a flea on the back of a dragon. In for one hell of a ride.

• He Who Remains : I'm tired. And I'm older. I'm older than I look. This game is for the young, the hungry. I've gone through a lot of scenarios... trying to find the right person to take this spot. It turns out that person came in two.

• He Who Remains : You can't get to the end until you've been changed by the journey.

• He Who Remains : Not what you were expecting huh?

  Loki : You're just a man

  He Who Remains : Flesh and blood. Don't tell me I'm a disappointment.

  Sylvie : No, just a little bit easier to kill

  [attempts to kill He Who Remains with a dagger as He Who Remains teleports behind her and laughs] 

• He Who Remains : I understand your moral objections to what the TVA does. And my methods are deceptive. But the mission, it never was. Without the me, without the TVA, everything burns.

  Loki : Then what are you so afraid of?

  He Who Remains : Me.

  Sylvie : And just who are you?

  He Who Remains : Oh, I've been dubbed many names by many people. A ruler, a conqueror, He Who Remains, a jerk. But it's, it's not as simple as a name. Eons ago, before the TVA, a Variant of myself lived on Earth in the 31st Century. He was a scientist, and he discovered that there were universes stacked on top of his own. At the same time, other versions of us were learning the same thing. Naturally, they made contact, and for a while there was peace. Narcissistic, self-congratulatory peace. "I love your shoes." "I love your hair." "Oh, man, nice nose." "Thanks, man." Et cetera. They shared technology and knowledge, using the best of their universes to improve the others. However, not every version of me was so pure of heart. To some of us, new worlds meant only one thing: new lands to be conquered. The peace between realities erupted into all-out war, each variant fighting to preserve their universe and annihilate the others. This was almost the end of everything and everyone.

  Sylvie : And then the Time-Keepers came along and saved us all.

  He Who Remains : Amen. No. No. Nope, this is where we diverge from the dogma. That first variant encountered a creature created from all the tears in reality, capable of consuming time and space itself. A creature you both know.

  Loki : Alioth.

  He Who Remains : Bingo! I harnessed the beast's power and began experimenting on it. I weaponized Alioth and I ended, I ended the Multiversal War. Once I isolated our timeline, all I had to do was manage the flow of time and prevent any further branches. Hence, the TVA. Hence, the Time-Keepers and a highly efficient bureaucracy. Hence, ages and ages of cosmic harmony. Hence, you're welcome. You came to kill the devil, right? Well, guess what? I keep you safe. And if you think I'm evil, well, just wait 'til you meet my variants. And that's the gambit. Stifling order or cataclysmic chaos. You may hate the dictator, but something far worse is going to fill that void if you depose of him. I've lived a million lifetimes. I've gone through every scenario. This is the only way. The TVA, it works.

• He Who Remains : hat's the worst that could happen? Take over and my life's work continues. Or you plunge your blade in my chest and an infinite amount of me start another Multiversal War. And I just end up right back here anyways.

• Sylvie : You treated real people's lives like some kind of game.

  He Who Remains : It's not... personal. It's, it's practical...

  Sylvie : It was personal to me.

  He Who Remains : Grow up! Grow up, Sylvie! Murderer! Hypocrite! We're all villains here. We've all done horrible, terrible, horrific things.

• He Who Remains : This is wild. The two of you, same person I mean it's- it's a little unnatural. Wow,

  [pauses] 

  He Who Remains : wild

  [takes a bite from his apple] 

  Sylvie : He Who Remains.

  He Who Remains : He Who Remains. She still calls me that? Creepy but yeah, I like it.

  [pauses] 

  He Who Remains : Come on. Come on let's talk in my office.