Loki Episode 3: 10 Biggest Questions
4. Why Does Sylvie Hate Being A Loki?
When Loki first started working with the TVA as a consultant, he learned that there were multiple, possibly infinite different variations of himself scattered throughout the multiverse. Before this he had never suggested that he knew this to be true, and seemed to accept the bizarre reality relatively quickly.
The counterpart he was hunting was a female version of himself, at first referred to by fans as Lady Loki, until her name was confirmed to be Sylvie in episode three. When Loki referred to her as a Loki, she warned him never to do such a thing again, but why does she hate being a Loki so much?
All of a sudden, being a 'Loki' is an adjective rather than an actual name it seems, and to be a Loki comes with certain personality traits and flaws. Clearly, Sylvie disagrees with being labelled as a Loki after seeing what the rest of her variations are like throughout the universe, but what could she have seen that would truly be enough for her to forsake her own name?
Is she really that different from the other Lokis? She wants to destroy the TVA, resulting in a huge power vacuum and chaos throughout the multiverse, she uses her magic to manipulate people with little remorse, and has no problem killing people, so why does she hate her own name so much when she seems to embody everything that a Loki should be?