Loki’s third episode has a joke about H.H. Holmes. Wouldn’t it be neat if Loki and Mobius hunted him instead of all the other season 2 shenanigans they’re up to?
Loki season 2 is already in full swing. There’s a new Kang variant, a few intersecting plots that hold the fate of every universe in the balance, a lot of talk of the Sacred Timeline and pruning, and a time loom that controls the multiverse. Frankly, it’s all a little more than the formerly silly show about good pals Loki and Mobius can bear. But for just one second in Loki season 2’s third episode, we get a hint of a much more fun and interesting version of this season, thanks to a reference to one of America’s strangest serial killers: H.H. Holmes.
Holmes gets a shoutout in episode 3 because Loki and Mobius visit the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, better known as the Chicago world’s fair. This event is historically significant for a few different reasons — one of the first public recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance occurred, a building-sized refrigerator caught on fire and killed 16 people, and Juicy Fruit gum, Cream of Wheat, Quaker Oats, Pabst Blue Ribbon, peanut butter, and brownies all made their delicious debuts — but for a certain type of person, the most notable thing about that particular fair is Holmes’ activities.
