History Characters / MCUKang

* KnightOfCerebus: Kang doesn't show any of the humorous traits exhibited by his AlternateSelf He Who Remains, being FauxAffablyEvil at best, making him a far more serious threat to Scott and company than either Yellowjacket or Ghost -- all fitting for a villain who's set up to be the the next major BigBad after Thanos. It's significant that the first trailer for ''Quantumania'', is rather fun and whimsical until Kang shows up -- at which point all humor ''stops''. In the film, Scott tries to preserve his line in snarky backchat, but Kang tends to make his jokes a NoSell. He even lacks quips, the main source of humor in [[WorldOfSnark the MCU]], which even Thanos dabbled in occasionally.

* TheStoic: Kang presents himself a stone-faced, humorless tyrant who never raises his voice even while delivering threats and showing that he's not afraid to carry them out. Even in difficult situations, Kang does his best to keep a cool head, [[NotSoStoic although]] he also shows a terrifying capacity for rage when in the heat of battle or when his ego is sufficiently bruised.

* SatanicArchetype: [[FallenAngel He was cast down from a celestial heaven]] into [[{{Hell}} a lower prison realm]] where he used his incredible power to quickly become the de facto ruler. He lies to and manipulates everyone around him, constantly makes [[DealWithTheDevil deals that he will usually renege on]], commands an army of [[TheLegionsOfHell faceless heavily-modified footsoldiers]], and dominates all through intimidation and fear, to the point where [[SpeakOfTheDevil no one dares speak his true name even in private conversations]]. Despite his undisputed mastery of his new kingdom, all he truly wants is to be free, which would spell [[ApocalypseHow doom for everyone]] should he succeed.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the DoctorWhomage. Kang is without a doubt a scientific genius who not only figured out inter-universal travel but built technology that makes him damn near close to a RealityWarper. The problem is that despite his intellect, [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow the complexities of the multiverse and time travel prove too big for him to properly manage]], and he’s far too narcissistic to admit it, even when his hubris has led to the destruction of [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 entire timelines]]. He does seem to think he has better ways of managing the time stream (and He Who Remains shows that it ''is'' possible to do so to an extent) but he is seriously lacking any kind of moral fetters to restrain his actions; he will rationalize any mistake or all-out slaughter he commits as TheNeedsOfTheMany so that he can continue to live out his delusion that he’s a put-upon ScienceHero that just knows better than literally everybody else (even his own alternate counterparts) rather than what he truly is–a dangerously powerful and irresponsible rogue with a serious case of [[ItsAllAboutMe Main Character Syndrome]]. Coming off less like a [[MessianicArchetype Multiversal Messiah]] and more of a [[SatanicArchetype Space Satan]] (see below). Thus, he resembles not the Doctor, but instead the Master or Rassilon.

-->'''He Who Remains:''' Oh, I've been called many names by many people. A ruler. A ''conqueror''. He Who Remains. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers A jerk]].

** The people of the Quantum realm all fear and loathe him and even with their numbers are ''very'' reluctant to face him head-on. Even Krylar admits he's afraid of him.

* AmbiguousSituation: Also RiddleForTheAges because there's a large chance we will not see Timely again. Why is there a Kang variant in the 1800s? Kang is specifically from the 30th century. Was he time displaced? He is explicitly not an adult age Kang who was stranded in the 1800s like in the comics. Or will he eventually develop time travel and travel to the 30th century. This question is important because all variants of characters so far seem to have the same origin. What disproves the latter is that he seems to not amount to much without Renslayer giving him the handbook. What proves the latter is that he is from a branched timeline and He Who Remains ensured he wouldn’t exist.

* InformedAttribute: Their HeroKiller, TheDreaded nature is more discussed than demonstrated between their installments, with ones like the Exile talking about having killed many Avengers without ever actually showing the audience. The fact that they [[TheyKilledKennyAgain seem to die every time they show up]] and have wildly different personalities from one another also throws a wrench into the whole "there are countless versions of him" idea, as he is only really seen losing on screen and talking about how threatening he is or his reputation is purported to be. By Season 2 of ''Loki'', his tendency has been noted and commented on by [[https://screenrant.com/loki-season-2-continuing-kang-death-trend/ publications]] who wonder why he is supposed to be threatening at all.

* MarqueeAlterEgo: Zig-zagged. While Kang's famous television helmet in the comics is translucent and shows his face, his outfit in ''Loki'' as depicted via his statue lacks said helmet. In ''Quantumania'', Kang sometimes wears his iconic helmet with his translucent blue face, but he frequently turns it off when when he's speaking to other characters (activating it tends to indicate SeriousBusiness), and he loses it in the final showdown.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'' | ''Film/AvengersTheKangDynasty'' | ''Film/AvengersSecretWars''

[[folder:Immortus]]
!!Immortus
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"None of us killed him. They did."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Unknown
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JonathanMajors
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania''
->''"They're beginning to touch the Multiverse. And if we let them, they will take everything we have built. So let's stop wasting time."''
The leader of the Command Triumvirate of the Council of Kangs. Immortus is tasked with preventing the rest of the multiverse from tearing down everything the Council has established.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Immortus is an AntiVillain at worst, and generally tends to blur the line between ally and enemy of the Avengers. While he ''did'' secretly create the Council of Kangs, it was with the hope that their clash of egos would result in [[EnemyCivilWar infighting that would eventually lead them to destroy each other]]. Here, Immortus openly leads the Council and they follow his agenda, [[DecompositeCharacter with He Who Remains taking his more sympathetic traits]].
* AllOfThem: After [[spoiler:the Exile is killed by the Lang-Pym family]], Immortus calls a meeting of the Council of Kangs. The Scarlet Centurion asks how many he called, and he replies with this.
-->'''Scarlet Centurion:''' How many did you call?\\
'''Immortus:''' ''All'' of us.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Unlike his other named variants, Immortus has blue skin.
* BeardOfEvil: He has a very bizarre mustache-beard, and leads the villainous Council of Kangs.
* ContinuityNod: His facial hair vaguely resembles one of the android Time-Keepers from ''[[Series/Loki2021 Loki]]'', albeit less bushy and alien-looking.
* CompositeCharacter: Of his comic book counterpart and of Kang Prime, who leads the Council in the comics.
* EvilOldFolks: Certainly looks and sounds like he's got a considerable amount of years on him compared to all his variants.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Speaks with a quiet but very husky and dark voice.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Leader of the Council who chose to [[spoiler:exile the Conqueror, setting the plot of ''Quantumania'' -- and eventually, Phases 5 and 6 -- into motion. After the supposable death of the Conqueror, Immortus decides to call the Council together, believing that the Sacred Timeline is becoming a threat to the Council.]]
* HumansAreSpecial: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:Unlike the other leaders of the Triumvirate, he is fully aware that the Exiled One being killed by a hero from Sacred Timeline Earth, much less a hero that isn't even all that powerful compared to numerous others within that timeline, spells ''extremely'' bad news for the Kangs. He even acknowledges that humans of Earth have incredible potential even ''he'' is frightened of and wants to stomp out before the embers spread to flame. However, this means that Earth is now on high alert from an extremely powerful and unknowable Council of Kangs and Scott (as he feared) has now unleashed something far worse than Thanos ever was onto the universe he calls home.]]
* SummonBiggerFish: [[spoiler:Though he is not sure whether or not the Exiled One is actually dead, he considered that fact that a hero from the MCU's "Prime" timeline was even able to defeat a Kang variant at all to be a big enough cause for concern that he summons every known living Kang variant, apparently intending to unleash them on said hero's home universe]].
* TechnicolorEyes: He has distinctively yellow eyes, unlike the rest of his variants.
* WeirdBeard: Immortus has a very odd-looking mustache that grows down over his face and is braided to look almost rope-like in nature.

[[folder:Scarlet Centurion]]
!!The Scarlet Centurion
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"How many did you call?!"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human

One of the Triumvirs of the Council of Kangs.

* AlliterativeName: Both Scarlet and Centurion start with the same sound: /s/.
* BaldOfEvil: Unlike most other variants who have a full head of hair, the Centurion sports a shaved head.
* CoDragons: He and Rama-Tut are subservient to Immortus.
* ColorCharacter: '''Scarlet''' Centurion.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite being the '''Scarlet''' Centurion, his armor does not actually have any red detailing.
* NoodleIncident: Why he hated the Exiled One and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou wanted to be the one to kill him]] isn't explained.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Implied to have harbored this feeling toward the [[spoiler:Exiled One/Conqueror]] variant.
-->'''Rama-Tut:''' [[SmugSmiler Must really eat you up that you're not the one who killed him.]]
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: If what Rama-Tut says is to be believed, Scarlet Centurion had a great deal of enmity towards "The Exiled One". That said, he's displeased to learn that he died at the hands of Ant-Man instead of his own.
* PoweredArmor: Wears an armored suit that makes him look like a hybrid of [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] and Franchise/{{RoboCop}}.

[[folder:Rama-Tut]]
!!Pharaoh Rama-Tut
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"So, the Exiled One is dead. You sure he's dead?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human (cybernetically enhanced)

One of the Triumvirs of the Council of Kangs.

* CoDragons: He and Centurion are subservient to Immortus, with him even bowing his head when their leader approaches.
* {{Cyborg}}: Rama-Tut sports a pair of cybernetic arms and some modifications to his torso. If one looks closely, it appears that at least his midsection has been replaced by a robotic spinal cord, and based on how his movements are slightly shaky and stiff, it is possible that his whole bottom half is robotic.
* EasterEgg: His existence was previously alluded to via an image on the jacket of one of Harrow's cultists in [[Series/MoonKnight2022 "The Friendly Type"]].
* EvilSoundsDeep / EvilSoundsRaspy: Has a deep voice but his voice is also raspier than The Exiled One’s.
* EyeTwitch: Has a more severe condition of this than the Exile.
* FacialMarkings: Rama-Tut sports a version of Kang's facial scars, though Rama-Tut accentuates his with gold face paint.
* TheGadfly: Revels in rubbing in that Centurion wasn’t the one to kill the Exiled One.
* InterserviceRivalry: He takes the time to rub it into Centurion's face that he wasn’t the one to kill the Exiled One.
* NephariousPharaoh: In keeping with his standard portrayal.
* PsychoticSmirk: He gleefully smirks at Centurion when pointing out his failure to kill the Exiled One.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Unlike his counterparts, he goes around sans shirt to go with his pharaoh attire.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: He wears a typical nemes instead of the green hybrid of a nemes and a pschent like in the comics.

[[folder:The Council of Kangs]]
!!The Council of Kangs
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!!!'''Species:''' Various

An alliance of various iterations of Kang the Conqueror throughout the Multiverse.

* AllianceOfAlternates: Much like as in the comics, they are a whole gathering of variations on the same guy.
* BloodKnight: Many of the Council members are shown barking, letting out war cries, or otherwise cheering with extreme enthusiasm as they prepare to engage in war with the Avengers.
* TheCameo: A Kang in a business suit, appearing to be Mister Gryphon, appears in the middle of the coliseum.
* CompositeCharacter: Of the comics' Council of Kangs and the Council of Cross-Time Kangs. The former was a straightforward assembly of versions of Nathaniel Richards in a gambit by Immortus to eliminate the Kang variants. The latter had the distinction of being an assembly of beings, humans and aliens, who usurped the Kang mantle from their universes' Nathaniels. The MCU's depiction of the Council shares the former's name and membership of Kang variants while sharing the latter's inclusion of aliens taking the Kang title.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They were responsible for banishing the Exile into the Quantum Realm because even they found the Exile's bloodlust to be too vile and dangerous for them.
* EvilLaugh: When the Triumvirate enters the assembly, many of the Kangs are seen laughing maniacally.
* EvilVersusOblivion: Part of the reason why the Council of Kangs was formed is because they realize their war against each other was destroying their timelines and universes across the Multiverse. When one Kang variant proved to be too successful and dangerous in his multiverse conquest, the Council of Kangs banded together and took down this Kang, banishing him into the Quantum Realm where time and space are beyond his reach.
* KillAndReplace: One of them is a Skrull, implying that he killed the Kang of his universe and took his place.
* MadScientist: A shot of their assembly showcases a collective of howling, power-mad lunatics.
* MythologyGag:
** Their appearance in ''Quantumania'' is a live-action recreation of the Council's reveal in ''Avengers'' #267, albeit acting much rowdier than originally depicted.
** One of the variants is dressed exactly like Kang was in his original comic book appearance.

[[folder:Victor Timely]]
!!Victor Timely
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Time to be brave."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JonathanMajors, Nasri Thompson (young)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'' | ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}''

->''"Time is everything. It moves... through each and every one of us. It shapes our... lives. Our... futures. But perhaps we can shape... it!"''

A variant of Kang who lived in the early twentieth century as an inventor/conman. After the Temporal Loom goes haywire following the death of He Who Remains, Loki and Mobius find themselves in dire need of a spare Kang to help them fix it. And as if by fate, they just happen to run into Timely while on the hunt for Judge Renslayer and Miss Minutes. Unfortunately for all parties involved, this meek swindler wants ''nothing'' to do with their multiversal shenanigans.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: ConMan routine aside, Victor's lab proves he actually does have a genuine inventor's talent; that said, even when not swindling, he's rather squirrelly, nervous, and spacey.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The Victor Timely of the comics was actually Kang Prime from the future (the 31st Century specifically), using his time-travel technology to hide in 1901 Wisconsin, where he founded and became the mayor of a small town called Timely. Here, Victor was born and raised in the 1800s, and only begins to build wondrous things (though not nearly as grandiose as the comics) when Ravonna secretly gifts him a TVA handbook in his childhood.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Victor in the comics used his technological prowess to make himself a powerful politician and inventor in the 20th Century and was intent on finding a way to take back control of time. This Victor does some minor swindling and is distrustful towards people who want to be his "partner", but otherwise is a fairly nice (albeit somewhat self-absorbed) man who just wants to live his own life. When he's forcibly swept into the TVA to assist our heroes in preventing its destruction, Victor proves very resourceful and is affable to everyone.
* AdaptationalLocationChange: Played with. Originally setting up shop in Wisconsin in the very early 20th Century, this version of Kang is shown doing his sales in 1880s Chicago while having his lab across the lake in Wisconsin.
-->'''Victor:''' Lower taxes.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Victor was a confident, manipulative man in the comics, using his knowledge of the future to create technological marvels that stood the test of time. In ''Loki'', Victor is shown to be a much more timid man who speaks with a stutter and immediately runs when his life is in danger, though he is shown to have a slight dark side to him.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Victor was able to build an entire {{Egopolis}} in early 20th Century Wisconsin that was highly technologically advanced. In the MCU, Victor is barely scraping by as a SnakeOilSalesman in 1800s Chicago, and doesn't possess nearly as much advanced knowledge of the future that his comics self had. Furthermore, his comics self had some fighting skills whenever he was backed into a corner, while this Victor is quick to flee at the first sign of trouble.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Unlike both Kang and He Who Remains, Victor values his life to the same extent as any other normal man would, and turns into a sobbing mess when he's threatened. It's likely this huge distinction between him and He Who Remains that played a part in Sylvie showing him mercy.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: As a variant of Kang's, he's heavily monitored by Loki and Mobius and certainly has the capacity for evil, but his brief appearance never shows him doing or saying anything outright villainous. Mobius even doubts if he's dangerous or not. This Kang is revealed to be a con man swindling rich barons out of their money, which suggests a very loose sense of ethics, but [[spoiler:even Sylvie relents in trying to kill him because–as he points out–he hasn't done anything to deserve death.]] As it turns out, [[spoiler:he stalls Miss Minutes and Ravonna while the others try to fix the problem, and dies a tragic hero's death after volunteering to put the loom enhancer in place as he's the only one who can fix it if something goes wrong, despite knowing he risks a horrible death. He even repeats to himself, [[SurvivalMantra "time to be brave"]]. And he is. [[BodyHorror But it's not enough.]]]]
* AmbiguousSituation: Also RiddleForTheAges because there's a large chance we will not see Timely again. Why is there a Kang variant in the 1800s? Kang is specifically from the 30th century. Was he time displaced? He is explicitly not an adult age Kang who was stranded in the 1800s like in the comics. Or will he eventually develop time travel and travel to the 30th century. This question is important because all variants of characters so far seem to have the same origin. What disproves the latter is that he seems to not amount to much without Renslayer giving him the handbook. What proves the latter is that he is from a branched timeline and He Who Remains ensured he wouldn’t exist.
* BerserkButton: Anyone who proposes being his partner, though this is combined with TranquilFury.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Loki certainly thinks so, responding to Mobius's doubt that this eccentric scientist is really that dangerous with a simple "He is." In the episode itself, he doesn't demonstrate anything like HWR's threat, or Kang's inclination to conquer, beyond an ambition to succeed as a scientist. However, while his "inventions" are almost all cons, they're funding his ''real'' lab, which includes a fully functional prototype pruning rod. Additionally, while he seems a bit silly and out of his depth, he is resourceful, intelligent, and very shrewd, picking up on little giveaways that Ravonna would rather he didn't. Namely, that she's singing more or less the same tune as Loki about fixing the TVA, and based solely off a slight change in her facial expression, that she was the one who slipped the TVA manual through the window.
* BunglingInventor: PlayedWith. Most of his inventions are utterly useless, like a chair with a built in refrigerator or mechanical pants that most certainly ''do not'' cure HeightAngst. However, these are all for swindling purposes. His ''actual'' laboratory does have things that work as intended, such as a fully functional pruning rod, and some other device clearly meant to work in concert with the Temporal Loom. Not for nothing does OB rhapsodise that given the chance he could have outdone Einstein.
* ConMan: In the face of [[OhCrap Loki's overwhelming fear of coming face-to-face with a Kang variant]], all parties are surprised to learn that Timely is decidedly ''not'' some grand multiversal threat (yet), but rather a cheap swindler and huckster who sells bogus and borderline useless inventions to part unsuspecting fools from their cash. That being said, he ''does'' have a real fondness for science and seems to be quite enamored with O.B.
* CosmicPlaything: He's introduced as a pawn of cosmic-level powers beyond his comprehension, getting kicked around by the likes of Judge Renslayer and Miss Minutes (who want him to become the next He Who Remains), Sylvie (who fears he will become the next He Who Remains and wants him dead for it), and Loki and Mobius (who want to use him to stabilize the new status quo at the TVA). He manages to assert himself and start making his own choices, [[spoiler:noble ones]], but in the end it's AllForNothing.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:His character arc (seemingly) ends abruptly when the Temporal Loom's radiation immediately slices him into ribbons. Fortunately, thanks to Loki's TimeMaster powers, he gets better. [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Eventually.]]]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: Victor only appears in the post-credit scene of ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'' as a teaser for his role in the second season of ''Loki.''
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the end, Victor is allowed to live a life free of He Who Remains' influence after being pushed around by strangers who want to decide his fate and being spaghettified in countless loops.]]
* EinsteinHair: Victor's hair is very frazzled and poofy, emphasizing his victorian scientific-like nature.
* FanBoy: He's quite enamored with Ouroboros, likening his own recreations (failed or otherwise) of various TVA technology from O.B.'s handbook to a "correspondence" between the two. That being said, given that most of the TVA's tech was actually created by He Who Remains, this is technically a case of unintentional narcissism. Victor fell in love with his own work without even realizing it. Goofy and bumbling or not, [[{{Narcissist}} a Kang will always be a Kang.]]
* GoodCounterpart: Insists that he is this to his variants, once he understands the concept, that he is not the same man who made Sylvie's life hell. It is unclear whether he is telling the truth, but it isn't impossible.
* InsistentTerminology: No, his inventions aren't ''broken'', they are ''prototypes!''
* LargeHam: He's actually a ShrinkingViolet with a near-crippling speech impediment, but whenever he gives a big presentation he hams it up with a very specific style of delivery to circumvent it. He comes off as equally showy as ridiculous.
* LaughablyEvil: Initially a possibility. This guy is even sillier than He Who Remains was, with his overly hammy way of speaking and squirrelly nature making Mobius question whether he's really as scary as Loki is making him out to be. However, it turns out that [[spoiler:he really was a decent man]].
* NerdGlasses: He wears a pair of very round spectacles, and is shown giving a scientific presentation in TheStinger for ''Quantumania''.
* NewEraSpeech: His monologue sounds like an impassioned research pitch to those in his era, but Loki and Mobius are able to recognize it's a barely veiled instance of this trope.
* NiceGuy: Setting aside the fact that he's a shameless ConMan for just a minute, Victor Timely is actually a very decent and genial chap. Despite being something of a NervousWreck, he's incredibly polite to everyone and appreciates genuine kindness from strangers. When he's brought into the TVA, despite some initial fears, he quickly gets along with everyone and even develops a special rapport with his hero Ouroboros. [[spoiler:In the end, he even makes the ultimate sacrifice for the TVA, though it unfortunately ends up being a case of SenselessSacrifice.]] Despite all of the supposed "good" He Who Remains has done, he ultimately proved far too manipulative, ruthless and creepy to be considered a "good" Kang, never-mind the fact that he's unapologetically a genocidal murderer. Victor Timely, on the other hand, is virtually everything Kang the Conqueror ''isn't''. Above all, just a good man.
* TheNicknamer: Due to not knowing the God of Mischief's name, Victor exclusively refers to Loki as a "wizard", due to his magical abilities.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: ''Loki'' Season 2 Director Kasra Farahani noted that Victor Timely was heavily based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Woods Granville Woods]], an African-American inventor in the 1800s who primarily specialized in mechanical and electrical engineering. Like Victor, Granville also had to deal with people trying to steal or otherwise take credit for his inventions, even winning against Thomas Edison himself in court.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Nearly every single word that he says is drawn out in this fashion, particularly as Timely is giving a presentation. It's likely due to his stutter, which is otherwise quite prevalent when he talks.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: His quite understandable reaction on more than one occasion, both in regard to dissatisfied customers and Ravonna, Sylvie, and Loki and Mobius all after him.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Most of Victor's "inventions" that he demonstrates at the Chicago World Fair are actually bogus; he really only demonstrates and sells them so he can swindle people out of their money to fund his real experiments.
* SpeechImpediment: Victor constantly stutters and stammers whenever he's speaking. Though befitting a ConMan, he (mostly successfully) attempts to circumvent it by [[IncomingHam speaking loudly and in a very grandiose manner]] during presentations and sales pitches. Even then, it still creeps in now and again.
* StableTimeLoop: When Victor finally meets his hero O.B., O.B. in turn gets to meet ''his'' hero...Victor Timely. As Victor points out, he based all of his inventions from O.B.'s TVA handbook. As O.B. retorts in turn, everything he invented and put in the book was inspired by the late 1800's inventor Victor Timely. [[{{Beat}} Cue beat.]] When they try and exchange signautures for their respective copies of the handbook, they both quickly learn that they ''already'' signed each others' books. [[Series/DoctorWho As a certain Time Lord once eloquently put it]], [[TimeyWimeyBall time is a non-linear, non-subjective big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.]]
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: [[spoiler:Loki's ability to control his time slipping allows him to try and get Victor to expand the Temporal Loom over and over again until he gets it right, but this means each time he gets it ''wrong'' Victor dies horribly. In addition to his many deaths that are shown, he's implied to have died at least dozens of times offscreen.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Positioned as this to the various Kangs. While he's got a mild ruthless streak (what with casually swindling people out of their money, even if they are rich), and does not tolerate partners (being willing to ditch Ravonna when she states that they're going to be partners), he seems to lack any real signs of true malice and is befuddled (and a bit horrified) by what he's being dragged into. [[spoiler:His decision to sacrifice his own life (unsuccessfully) stabilising the Temporal Loom seems to confirm his lack of evil intentions.]]
* UnwittingPawn: To Ravonna, Miss Minutes, and He Who Remains, with their scheme seemingly providing him with the TVA's knowledge and inspiration to invent. Initially it was believed that he was meant to be He Who Remains, or his successor at least. However, from Miss Minutes' final revelation before she was shutdown ("You'll never be him") and He Who Remains' own dialogue, it turns out that Victor Timely was merely a tiny part of the grand scheme by He Who Remains to prove to Loki the futility of saving the multiverse.

-->'''Rama-Tut:''' It must really eat you up that you're not the one who killed him.

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* BadBoss: [[spoiler: He ultimately doesn't care all that much about the TVA he created and used to win his war. He erased their memories in order to ensure none of them remember who he was or what their original purpose was. Then it's taken a step further in "Glorious Purpose;" his "failsafe" of the Temporal Loom was bound to wipe out every timeline but the Sacred Timeline and destroy the TVA, which he writes off as easily replaceable.]]

* BigBad: For the first season of ''Loki''. As the founder of the TVA, he's responsible for all of their atrocities committed in the name of protecting the Sacred Timeline. Despite this, he only appears in the final episode of the first season, with Renslayer being [[TheHeavy the direct source of conflict]]. He becomes Loki and Sylvie's primary target after Renslayer causes them to get pruned. [[spoiler: He briefly returns to this when Loki goes back in time to their confrontation at his Citadel, representing the main threat to the new order the protagonists are trying to create.]]

* TheExtremistWasRight: For all his flaws, He Who Remains was right to warn Loki and Sylvie that Variants of himself are dangerous, as shown in ''Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania''. [[spoiler: Even without his Variants, the TVA quickly falls apart without him, putting all of creation in jeopardy.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Season 2 reveals he inflicted this on the entire TVA except for Miss Minutes, in order to cover up the fact he was its original founder.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: As he cheerfully explains, while Loki and Sylvie walked their respective paths, he was the one who paved the road for both of them to get to him. Then, it's taken a step further in Season 2, even after his death - [[spoiler: when Loki gets control of his time-slipping and keeps going back further to try and stop the Loom exploding, before finally going back to the confrontation with HWR, and tries countless times to prevent Sylvie from killing him, he casually reveals that he set all this in motion and that he could have stopped Sylvie whenever he felt like it. The Loom was always going to explode as it was only ever meant to protect the Sacred Timeline, the explosion working as a failsafe, wiping out the TVA so he can start again, effectively coercing Loki into doing what HWR wanted all along and taking his place - having become a TimeMaster in the process. Fortunately, Loki figures out a third option.]]

* NonActionBigBad: The head of the TVA, and a powerful individual, but the most he does in terms of physical combat is dodge. When Sylvie kills him, he does nothing to try to save himself - though as it turns out [[spoiler: he could and didn't because he knew he didn't need to, having already set events in motion, mockingly asking Loki if he really thought he'd just let Sylvie kill him without a plan for what would happen next]]. [[spoiler: If Miss Minutes is to be believed, he was like this during the Multiversal War; [[TheDragon Ravonna Renslayer]] actually led his armies to victory.]]

* NotQuiteDead: Dies at the end of ''Loki'' Season 1. But as he points out, without him around to prune timelines, an infinite number of his variants are now free to exist once again. He similarly compares the process of another multiversal war between his variants until only one remains once more to a form of {{Reincarnation}}. [[spoiler: Furthermore, he's planned matters so Loki has no choice but to go back in time, kill Sylvie and take his place to prevent multiversal destruction. Loki, being Loki, took a third option]].

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: The final episode of ''Loki'' shows that he's more concerned with keeping the Sacred Timeline on script to how he feels it should go, rather than try to TakeAThirdOption to balance out all the branching timelines like Loki did.]]

* ObfuscatingInsanity: When he reappears in Season 2 of ''Loki'', after Loki masters his time-slipping, he reveals that he's not half as kooky as he initially seemed. He's still a little quirky, but [[spoiler: he reveals that he even planned the aftermath of his own death, so it would lead Loki right back to him. Oh, and he can stop Sylvie any time he likes.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While he might be a bit of an oddball, He Who Remains is relatively patient with Loki and Sylvie as he explains his role and why the TVA has to exist. However, when Sylvie tries to present herself as an innocent victim of the organization's dogma, He Who Remains loses his cool and screams that she has no legs to stand on given her own history of taking and ruining lives. He also drops his kooky demeanor when he senses that the chaotic branching timelines have now reached the point where even he doesn't know what happens. [[spoiler: And he does it again when Loki re-encounters him via time-slipping in Season 2 and HWR finally decides to take him seriously as a fellow TimeMaster]].

* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: Casually says everything while simultaneously eating an apple. Even when Sylvie tries to kill him, he's still more interested in eating than avoiding her sword. In Season 2, when a time-slipping Loki desperately demands to know why he isn't doing ''anything'' to protect himself, he keeps eating, before finally revealing [[spoiler: that he can stop Sylvie any time he likes]].
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: He appears to be at a bit of a loss for words after completing his speech to Loki and Sylvie, as he wasn't sure of what happened after a certain point in time despite being aware of the nature of time. He dies shortly afterward, although he's pretty content with this. [[spoiler: Season 2 of ''Loki'' is his massive gambit to undo this, and force Loki to take his place. Loki took a third option]].

* AmbiguouslyEvil: As a variant of Kang's, he's heavily monitored by Loki and Mobius and certainly has the capacity for evil, but his brief appearance never shows him doing or saying anything outright villainous. Mobius even doubts if he's dangerous or not. This Kang is revealed to be a con man swindling rich barons out of their money, which suggests a very loose sense of ethics, but [[spoiler:even Sylvie relents in trying to kill him because–as he points out–he hasn't done anything to deserve death.]] As it turns out, [[spoiler: he stalls Miss Minutes and Ravonna while the others try to fix the problem, and dies a tragic hero's death after volunteering to put the loom enhancer in place as he's the only one who can fix it if something goes wrong, despite knowing he risks a horrible death. He even repeats to himself, [[SurvivalMantra "time to be brave"]]. And he is. [[BodyHorror But it's not enough.]]]]

* CosmicPlaything: He's introduced as a pawn of cosmic-level powers beyond his comprehension, getting kicked around by the likes of Judge Renslayer and Miss Minutes (who want him to become the next He Who Remains), Sylvie (who fears he will become the next He Who Remains and wants him dead for it), and Loki and Mobius (who want to use him to stabilize the new status quo at the TVA). He manages to assert himself and start making his own choices, [[spoiler: noble ones]], but in the end it's AllForNothing.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: His character arc (seemingly) ends abruptly when the Temporal Loom's radiation immediately slices him into ribbons. Fortunately, thanks to Loki's TimeMaster powers, he gets better. [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Eventually.]]]]

* LaughablyEvil: Initially a possibility. This guy is even sillier than He Who Remains was, with his overly hammy way of speaking and squirrelly nature making Mobius question whether he's really as scary as Loki is making him out to be. However, it turns out that [[spoiler: he really was a decent man]].

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: [[spoiler: Loki's ability to control his time slipping allows him to try and get Victor to expand the Temporal Loom over and over again until he gets it right, but this means each time he gets it ''wrong'' Victor dies horribly. In addition to his many deaths that are shown, he's implied to have died at least dozens of times offscreen.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Positioned as this to the various Kangs. While he's got a mild ruthless streak (what with casually swindling people out of their money, even if they are rich), and does not tolerate partners (being willing to ditch Ravonna when she states that they're going to be partners), he seems to lack any real signs of true malice and is befuddled (and a bit horrified) by what he's being dragged into. [[spoiler: His decision to sacrifice his own life (unsuccessfully) stabilising the Temporal Loom seems to confirm his lack of evil intentions.]]

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A variant of Kang who lived in the early twentieth century as an inventor-cum-conman. After the Temporal Loom goes haywire following the death of He Who Remains, Loki and Mobius find themselves in dire need of a spare Kang to help them fix it. And as if by fate, they just happen to run into Timely while on the hunt for Judge Renslayer and Miss Minutes. Unfortunately for all parties involved, this meek swindler wants ''nothing'' to do with their multiversal shenanigans.

''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'' | ''Film/AvengersTheKangDynasty'' | ''Film/AvengersSecretWars''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'' | ''Film/AvengersTheKangDynasty'' | ''Film/AvengersSecretWars''

* AmbiguousSituation: Also RiddleForTheAges because we will large chance not see Timely again. Why is there a Kang variant in the 1800s? Kang is specifically from the 30th century. Was he time displaced? He is explicitly not an adult age Kang who was stranded in the 1800s like in the comics. Or will he eventually develop time travel and travel to the 30th century. This question is important because all variants of characters so far seem to have the same origin. What disproves the latter is that he seems to not amount to much without Renslayer giving him the handbook. What proves the latter is that he is from a branched timeline and He Who Remains ensured he wouldn’t exist.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JonathanMajors

* AllianceOfAlternates: See the Council of Kangs.