Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Loki Season 2 Episode 6, so read at your own risk!
Ever since he made his MCU debut, Loki has always mentioned that he is "burdened with glorious purpose" and it has become a recurring phrase for the character to the point that "Glorious Purpose" was the name of the pilot episode of Loki.
Now the phrase has come back in the show's recently-aired second season finale as they reused "Glorious Purpose" as its title where we see Loki saving the TVA and the entire multiverse again and, at the same time, find his true glorious purpose.
So what is his true glorious purpose? As it turns out, it's not being the God of Mischief.
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Loki Season 2 Ends with Loki Finding His Glorious Purpose
The second season finale of Loki started where we left off at the end of the fifth episode where Loki time-slipped to the time before Victor Timely was spaghettified while attempting to launch the multiplier into the temporal loom.
Now that Loki was aware of the outcome, he made multiple attempts to prevent Timely's spaghettification to no success. And then finally, he came into a scenario where Timely was able to successfully launch the multiplier and fix the temporal loom.
However, they realized that the fix was temporary as the loom was still set to overload and Timely explained that the multiverse was growing too fast and there was no way for the loom to fix it no matter what.
Loki time-slipped to the events of the first season finale where he and Sylvie were facing off He Who Remains. He tried to prevent Sylvie from killing He Who Remains to no avail again despite multiple attempts.
He Who Remains paused Sylvie and revealed to Loki that he was aware of his time-slipping and he suggested killing Sylvie since he will reincarnate anyway. He also told Loki that the loom was irrelevant to the sacred timeline since its only purpose was to prevent the multiversal war.
Loki refused to listen to He Who Remains' solution and he time-slipped to the first episode of the series where he and Mobius were in the Time Theater.
Mobius told Loki a story about the time when Ravonna Renslayer hesitated on killing a variant. It made Loki realize that his purpose was more of a burden, rather than just being glorious.
Afterward, Loki time-slipped to the time during the fifth episode when everyone was being spaghettified. Loki stopped the time before Sylvie was also spaghettified and she advised Loki that it might be better to destroy something to replace it with a better one.
Loki went back once again to the time before Timely's attempt to launch the multiplier into the loom. He quickly went downstairs, locked his friends behind the door, and decided to go to the temporal loom walkway with no suit at all.
Loki declared that he finally knew what kind of God he needed to be. As he walked through the walkway, his outfit transformed, and used his powers to disintegrate the loom.
He physically grabbed the dying branches and restored them. He also created a crack in the space-time continuum where he walked towards a throne and essentially took the place of He Who Remains.
Loki sat on the throne while holding the branches together. He is now the God of Stories and the multiverse is now being viewed like the Norse World Tree. The TVA has also gone back to normal operations.
After years of following the character, we've finally seen Loki finding his glorious purpose which is to become the God of Stories and he'll make sure that all timelines will have lives of their own.
It's also a huge sacrifice for him since he is now stuck in his new duty alone eternally although the final shot suggests that he is satisfied with his new purpose. It remains to be seen whether that was the last time we saw the character, but at the very least, we know that he'll have a forever existence.
All episodes of Loki are available to stream on Disney+.
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