WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for Loki episode 1.

Disney’s Loki is a trippy, time travel adventure through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it has a strange connection to another movie franchise as well. In Loki, Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief is arrested by the Time Variance Authority following his Avengers: Endgame escape and charged with a crime against the Sacred Timeline. The series follows Loki’s journey at the TVA as he’s recruited to help stop a more serious threat, a mysterious villain that’s changing the timeline. 

In the series, Loki meets Casey, a TVA employee who works diligently at the front desk and doesn’t seem to do much else. Casey, played by comedian and actor Eugene Cordero, is a low-ranking TVA member and a large part of the comedy relief in Loki. As a TVA employee, he was made by the Time-Keepers, the mysterious gods watching over the Sacred Timeline, simply to perform his desk job. His whole life has been behind a desk collecting items turned in by the TVA, such as Infinity Stones, and he doesn’t really know a lot about what's outside TVA walls.

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Casey’s naivety in Loki allows for a hilariously weird Easter egg in the premiere, “Glorious Purpose.” While trying to escape the TVA, Loki spots Casey, who confiscated the Tesseract from the God of Mischief at the beginning of the episode. Loki first asks for Casey’s name, perhaps to make his threat more personal, and then demands, “Give me the Tesseract, or I’ll gut you like a fish, Casey!” Confused, the desk worker replies, “What’s a fish?” (He just wants to be clear on what the threat is before complying.) It’s one of the funniest exchanges of the episode, and it’s also a word-for-word reference to the 1996 horror classic Scream. 

Loki Episode 1 Loki and Casey

The Scream Easter egg is as unambiguous as possible. The iconic opening scenes of Scream show Drew Barrymore’s character receiving a number of calls from the Ghostface killer. During one, the killer threatens, “I’ll gut you like a fish.” Even more blatantly, Barrymore’s character in the movie is also named Casey. Though, unlike the Casey in Loki, it appears Barrymore's character immediately understands the threat.

While Loki has plenty of Easter eggs that are perhaps more relevant to the MCU, the Scream reference raises some pivotal questions. First of all, has Loki seen Scream, as this reference suggests? Sherpas more important, does this Loki Easter egg mean something? Like the Casey in Scream, is the Casey in Loki not long for the world? And, perhaps most importantly, was Casey just named Casey to make this one spot-on Scream reference? If so, that’s the kind of mischief Loki could probably get behind.

Loki releases new episodes every Wednesday on Disney+.

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