Why Mobius Loves Josta & Jet Skis (What It Says About His Real Origin)

Loki's Mobius M. Mobius is a big fan of jet skis and Josta, two weirdly niche interests that may hint at the character's true origin. Loki is the third of Marvel's original series for Disney+ and it follows the 2012 Loki variant created when Loki escapes with the Tesseract in Avengers: Endgame. This Loki is quickly arrested by the Time Variance Authority (TVA), an organization that protects the Sacred Timeline and whose members were created by the Time-Keepers, immortal beings who oversee the proper flow of time. In accordance with the Time-Keepers' will, the TVA disposes of variants and shuts down branching timelines before they can grow into alternate universes.

Owen Wilson's Agent Mobius recruits Loki to help the TVA hunt down another, more dangerous Loki variant who's been killing their agents. But Loki constantly questions the TVA's motivations, and when he tries to learn more about them, he's denied access to any records relating to the TVA's creation. This alone seems to confirm Loki's suspicions that there's more to the TVA than they're letting on, but episode 2's kidnapped TVA Hunter C-20 offers up yet another clue. When she's later found, she's repeating "it's real" over and over and asking to go home. Her fellow agents think she's gone mad, but her rambling may be a clue the Time-Keepers didn't actually create the TVA agents. When C-20 asks to go home, the reactions of her fellow agents suggest she doesn't mean TVA headquarters. That could mean she has another home somewhere else, meaning the Time-Keepers are stealing their agents, not simply creating them, and suppressing their memories.

C-20's memories of her true home are likely awakened by Lady Loki's mind control interfering with the Time-Keepers' work. Mobius, however, hasn't yet experienced anything that might trigger any suppressed memories, if he has them. Instead, his obsession with Josta and jet skis could be hinting at his life prior to becoming a TVA agent. Both the watercraft and cola come from Earth, and both are strongly associated with the 1990s. In Loki episode 2, "The Variant," Mobius says he loves jet skis "because they're awesome" and refers to their 1990s heyday as a "shining moment" in history. Throughout the first two episodes, Mobius is regularly seen drinking Josta, a cola that's incredibly unique to the 1990s because it was only in production from 1995 to 1999. Mobius obviously delights in these items of 1990s Earth culture, and while it may just be this time traveler's favorite era of human history, his obsession could also be the few details of his former life that have escaped the Time-Keeper's memory suppression.

If, in fact, the Time-Keepers are stealing their agents from across time rather than creating them, then Mobius' love for stuff as specific as Josta and jet skis makes a lot of sense. They link him to the time in history he previously called home, and though the Time-Keepers have forced him to forget his former life, it seems some details can't be fully erased. Having Owen Wilson play Mobius might also be a clue, with Marvel using an actor whose career began in the 1990s as a bit of meta-casting, creating yet another link between the character and decade.

Now, why the Time-Keepers would need to take people to become their TVA agents rather than create them is another mystery. It could be the Time-Keepers aren't as powerful as the TVA claims, or that they need agents who originate from the Sacred Timeline in order to operate in it. Either way, with so much secrecy surrounding the Time-Keepers and the TVA, there is certainly more for Loki to reveal in its upcoming episodes. Exactly who the Time-Keepers are, if they even exist, and why the Sacred Timeline is considered the true version of the universe's events are just two examples. In addition to those big mysteries, the full story of the TVA's creation is sure to also be revealed, and it's likely a lot more complicated than Miss Minutes' presentation would have Loki believe.

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Loki releases new episodes every Wednesday on Disney+.