WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Loki Episode 3, "Lamentis," streaming now on Disney+.

Raw power was always more Thor's domain in the childhood home of Odin's children, and Loki grew up to develop his cunning to compensate. Gaining a knack for the arcane arts, Loki left most of the heavy lifting to Thor. And yet in the latest episode of Loki, he demonstrates a raw display of power that, in some ways, is greater than any Thor has ever performed onscreen. Loki may not show it, but he is one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The display of power is brief, but memorable, as it comes at the tail end of the episode. Amidst the chaos of one planet crashing into the world around them, Loki and his counterpart, Sylvie, desperately try to find their way to the ark that represents their only hope of survival. Loki's magic came in handy throughout the episode as he did his usual illusion craft, released bolts of energy and summoned objects from thin air. Yet in the middle of their treacherous sprint, Loki shows off the most impressive display of strength he's ever performed before, when he redirects a falling building back into the air so that it does not crush them.

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The feat is not performed with physical strength, but still represents a greater amount of kinetic force exerted over a larger amount of matter than any telekinetic act the God of Mischief displayed in the past. As an Asgardian, his strength is typically superhuman, allowing him to toss Tony Stark through the air like nothing and even overpower Captain America himself in hand-to-hand combat. But lifting the top half of a skyscraper is a whole other level. In fact, it's an even greater feat of lifting strength than any performed by Thor himself.

While Thor's super strength is well established, he rarely lifts more than the weight of a car throughout the films. Even tossing Rocket's spaceship in Avengers: Infinity War pales in comparison to Loki lifting the skyscraper, and yet the God of Mischief rarely uses his telekinetic abilities at all. TVA agents kick his keister with little effort, when he could have been blasting them away telekinetically all this time. In fact, the only time he really uses telekinesis is a brief moment in Thor: The Dark World, when he flings away furniture from around him in a rage.

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Loki Lady Sylvie standing side by side.

The showing of his magic's raw power is an important moment in the latest Loki episode, and may well indicate just how much the God of Mischief is holding back. Always opting for the clever solution over the straightforward approach, his time with Sylvie could well result in Loki learning to flex his muscles a bit more. Indeed, the alternate Loki does not appear to share in the same magical abilities, restricted exclusively to the enchantment of others' minds, so there may actually be some credence to Loki's egotistical belief that he is the superior Loki of all time.

It goes part and parcel with the series that everyone would have their own Loki theory. The moment of crisis could well be a hint at the power that is yet to come and that the God of Mischief is not as helpless as he seems. With such a figure, it's always crucial to look for the angles that he's playing, and hiding away abilities which make him one of the strongest beings in the MCU is a wise decision in a universe where those who are too dangerous quickly find a target on their back.

Loki stars Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Sophia Di Martino, Richard E. Grant, Sasha Lane, and Eugene Cordero. New episodes air Wednesdays on Disney+.

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