Was Peggy Carter Really in Loki Episode 1?
Loki Episode 2 The Variant finally brought our Loki Variant (Tom Hiddleston) with the one who has been causing mayhem for the TVA: Sophia Di Martinos Lady Loki (or is it Enchantress?). Our Loki figures out that Di Martinos Loki must be hiding in apocalypses throughout history, leading the team to the 2050 destruction of Haven Hills, Alabama. The small seaside town was destroyed in a Category 8 hurricane (which is not a thing  yet) and everyone sheltering in place at a RoxxCart superstore died tragically. Loki is able to figure out that Variants can hide within these cataclysmic events because any chaotic choice made  whether its freeing goats before the destruction of Pompeii or stealing candy from the RoxxCart store shelves  would have no bearing on the future timelines, since no one affected would survive anyway. Its a cool concept that opens up a door of possibilities for other timeline-changing Variants to pop up in future apocalyptic hellscapes. Some folks are theorizing that a Peggy Carter Variant popped up in Loki Episode 1 as an Easter egg. Did Loki just erase Marvels Agent Carter from existence?! Eagle-eyed Loki viewers might have caught a glimpse of a Peggy Carter variant in the background of Loki Episode 1 Glorious Purpose. While Loki attempts to escape the TVAs custody, he finds himself stuck in the labyrinthine hallways of the TVA. At 34:12 minutes into the episode, you can see a time door open behind Loki. An unknown Hunter escorts a woman who looks an awful lot like Agent Carter herself through the door. Look, if theres one thing we know from Avengers: Endgame, its that Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) definitely changed the whole course of Peggys life when he went back to be with her. A key theme of Agent Carter (and what we thought was the canonical version of Peggys life) is that she has to pick herself up after losing Steve and keep going. She is even supposed to wed one of the Howling Commandos Steve saves in Captain America: The First Avenger and spend her life mourning the life she should have had. But Avengers: Endgame changed all that. Perhaps the Time Keepers were fine with this new branch timeline that Steve created. Maybe Steve and Peggy kept his existence a secret for decades so as not to cause timeline chaos. Either way, Peggys life definitely has some timey-wimey issues that need addressing. It shouldnt be surprising that there are Peggy Carter Variants out there. In fact, we should expect it. is one where Peggy takes the supersoldier serum.) So lets just assume its a fun little Easter egg and not a prelude to my colleague Alex Zalbans darkly comic suggestion that Loki and the TVA erase all the pre-Disney+ MCU shows from existence. (They wouldnt undo Agent Carter! WOULD THEY?) That said, I dont think that was actress Hayley Atwell, or else she would have been credited. Its probably a stand-in who just looks like her. Or, its, yeah, just a lady with a 1940s haircut. (And Is Franklin D. Roosevelt Spider-Mans High School?) Loki Episode 2 might have just introduced another Variant in the background or  at the very least  put fuel on our Kang the Conqueror theory fire. In a tense scene between Judge Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Agent Mobius M. Mobius (Owen Wilson), we learn that Mobius isnt Renslayers proverbial Number One Boy. Theres another Analyst shes working closely with. One who has brought back a Snow Globe from San Diego and a pen from Brooklyns own Franklin D. Roosevelt High School. Erik Voss over at New Rockstars has a fascinating theory that the rival TVA Analyst might be none other than a Variant of Mobius himself. If this other Analyst isJonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror! Okay, I know this is going to be the theory that blows up in my face, but between the sculptures of the Time Keepers having seriously similar headgear to Kang, Kangs canonical history pining after Ravonna Renslayer, and the little nod to Franklin, I think its Kang! Franklin D. Roosevelt might sound like the high school Peter Parker (Tom Holland) attends, but its not! He attends Midtown High. Well, one of Kang the Conquerors alter egos is Franklin B. Richards. Which isnt like exactly the same, but its evocative. Either way, Loki Episode 2 makes a heck of a lot more fuss about this rival Analyst for Mobius for it to not pay off. While Peggy Carters background appearance could be a fun little Easter egg, the mystery Analyst is straight up foreshadowing some cool reveal. (As is the fact that Mobius loves jet skis so much a jet ski magazine appears in the Loki closing credits. Wave Magazine, baby! Mobius rides a jet ski or we cancel Disney+!!!) So expect to meet this other Analyst, be he a Mobius Variant or Kang the Conqueror or someone totally different! (I think its Kang. Its probably Mobius.) Where to stream Loki