‘Loki’ episode 4 has an end-credits scene that reveals a game-changing twist

• Warning: Major spoilers ahead for episode four of "Loki."
• The fourth episode, "The Nexus Event," features the show's first post-credits scene.
• The scene introduces four new Loki variants in a destroyed New York City.
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Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "The Nexus Event," the fourth episode of "Loki."

The fourth episode of "Loki" features the show's first end-credits scene and introduces a clutch of brand new characters, promising further strange avenues ahead in the remaining two installments of this six-episode Disney+ series.

"The Nexus Event" has some shocking moments, with two major characters seemingly dying at the hands of the Time Variance Authority: Owen Wilson's Mobius and Loki himself.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw's Ravonna Renslayer orders the "pruning" (killing somebody by erasing them from reality) of Mobius, while she prunes Loki herself.

Sophia Di Martino's Sylvie then swiftly defeats Ravonna in combat, and orders Ravonna to tell her everything about the TVA after the Time-Keepers turned out to be nothing but androids, a false front for the TVA.

That's where the episode ends. But for the first time in this series, there's a post-credits scene.

In the scene, Loki wakes up in an unfamiliar place after being pruned by Ravonna. He asks himself aloud if he is in hell and whether he is dead. Then, a voice returns: "Not yet. But you will be unless you come with us."

That voice belongs to none other than Richard E. Grant, who then appears on-screen as another variation of Loki in a classic Marvel comics Loki outfit. He's alongside three other Loki variants: a man (played by Deobia Oparei) holding a hammer that looks like Mjolnir, Kid Loki (played by Jack Veal), and, carried by the boy, a crocodile wearing Loki horns. Adorable.

In the comics, Kid Loki is a version of Loki who died and was reborn as a child in a 2007 Thor comics run. Meanwhile, Oparei's Loki is listed as "Prahlerischer Loki" in the German voice cast credits. That translates to Boastful Loki.

This post-credits reveal opens up new possibilities for the show, with more Loki variants introduced who are seemingly working together and have a plan. They also seem to know a lot more about what is actually going on, so expect some big details to be revealed in next week's episode five.

It also tells us that being pruned does not necessarily lead to death, meaning that Mobius may still be alive somewhere after what appeared to be his shocking death in this episode. Truly, in the MCU, no one is really gone forever.

Another detail to note is that the new Loki variants are standing in front of a destroyed city. On the right hand side, it looks like there is a demolished looking Avengers tower. So Loki may have wound up in an apocalyptic New York City - it could be in the future in the main timeline, or it could be in another reality.

However, the TVA have been proven to behind so many lies at this point that a "sacred timeline" may be a load of baloney, too. With only two episodes left, we'll likely start getting some answers as to who is really behind the TVA and what is going on.