Look, we get it: letters are hard. There are a lot of them (26 in the English language alone!) and sometimes it can be difficult to figure out what they are all are. Not to mention… Acronyms? Come on! With that in mind, you might be wondering the meaning of HWR in the Loki season finale.
The acronym drop happens at about 21:48 in the episode — and spoilers past this point — when He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors) reveals everything to Loki (Tom Hiddleston). The truth is that everything that’s happened to our title character in Loki Season 2 has been He Who Remains paving the way for him, once again, just like he did in Season 1. The time-slipping? He Who Remains. The exploding Loom? He Who Remains. Saying his name as an acronym? He Who Remains.
Here are the exact lines of dialogue from the episode:
“Here you were, slipping through time,” He Who Remains says to Loki. “Thinking you were, you were sticking it to the system. Gonna beat the man. And then… Whoop! Here he is. Kiddo, did you really think I was just gonna sit back and let her kill me? And that’d be it? Zip? Nada? RIP HWR?”
Then He Who Remains laughs and explains this is what he meant by reincarnation — and “see you real soon” in the Season 1 finale of Loki. So with that in mind, what is the HWR meaning in Loki?
If you haven’t figured it out already, it stands for “How Wrong is Resurrection?” Just kidding, it’s “Hold Worcestershire, Robert.” Kidding again. It’s “Hello Wong, Rotisserie?” referring to the time Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) offered Wong (Benedict Wong) a whole rotisserie chicken.
No, of course, it’s “He Who Remains.” That’s what HWR means in Loki. Sorry if that wasn’t abundantly clear, and sorry for making fun of you for not knowing what it stood for. I’m a real Hot Wet Rock, if you ask me.
