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Time Variance Authority

For all time. Always.

Appearances: Loki | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Deadpool & Wolverine

An organization created by He Who Remains to enforce the flow of his Sacred Timeline and stop variants from creating alternate timelines, all to prevent his own variants from escaping and causing another Multiversal War.

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In General

• Adaptation Deviation: Subverted. In the comics, the TVA was formed from an Earth centuries in the future to monitor alternate realities, whereas here it seems that they exist beyond the flow of time and were created by a group of beings called the Time Keepers. However, it's later revealed they were actually created by a scientist hailing from the 31st century, meaning their origin is much more like the comics than it initially seemed.
• Adaptational Diversity: The TVA is primarily made up of white men in the comics. In the MCU, men and women of varying ethnicities are shown working for the organization.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The TVA from the comics holds a great deal of animosity towards the Avengers, due to them frequently causing time paradoxes that they have to fix. Here, the TVA is shown to be dismissive at worst towards the Avengers when Loki accuses them of breaking timelines, even stating that they actually expected the Avengers to travel back in time to steal the Infinity Stones from main Loki's timeline, and it was Loki who messed things up by taking advantage of an opportunity that presented itself.
• Aerith and Bob: Their names are all over the place, including members with very "sci-fi" names like Mobius and Renslayer, real and average sounding names like Casey, and the Hunters, whose "names" are things like B-15 and U-92.
• The Ageless: Everyone in the TVA never ages, at least while they're there. Hunter C-20, for example, looks exactly the same as she did several hundred years ago. Mobius and Ouroboros laugh about how they haven't seen each other in centuries in the same tone as not seeing someone in a few weeks. Renslayer also states she and Mobius are eons old.
• All Crimes Are Equal: It doesn't matter who you are or what you did to deviate from your timeline: if you stray from the TVA's path, you're heading straight to a judge.
• Ambiguously Evil: Despite positioning themselves as the Big Good, the TVA is full of Order Is Not Good characteristics: uniform salaryman working monotonous Kafkaesque desk jobs, field agents with Putting on the Reich uniforms, obsession with absolute control and not even a modicum of care for the people and entire realities they reset. After "Lamentis" reveals that they were once variants themselves, it is implied they are actually Brainwashed and Crazy, and "The Nexus Event" confirms this (except for Ravonna, as she's the only known member of the TVA who is doing things of her own free will).
• Ambiguously Human: Subverted. Given that they exist beyond the flow of time, it's not entirely clear if the TVA's employees are actually human or not. In a conversation with Agent Mobius from the first episode, Loki asks him whether he was created by the Time-Keepers, which he confirms. However, Sylvie reveals in "Lamentis" that they are lied to about their origins and are actually all human Variants, as Hunter C-20, the hunter Sylvie manipulated in the previous episode, was actually from Earth.
• Anti-Magic: Any beings or objects with special powers or abilities can't be used while they remain within the TVA. Not even the power of Infinity Stones can be harnessed while one is there. In the first season of Loki, it is not made clear if this is part of the TVA's realm itself or the work of some specific Power Nullifier technology that they use. It's confirmed in the second season that magic, at least, is suppressed with technology.
• Because Destiny Says So: While the nature of Earth-199999 operates on a Multiple-Choice Future system with spontaneously generating alternate timelines, the TVA's duty is to end most of these alternate timelines as soon as they come into existence for the sake of a "Sacred Timeline" (the films' continuity). The reason why Variant Loki is arrested and put on trial is because he took the Tesseract and escaped after his failed invasion instead of standing trial in Asgard like he was supposed to.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: The TVA doesn't care why a Variant deviated from the Sacred Timeline, only that they did so in the first place. If you being thirty minutes late to work was a Nexus Event, they'll reset your timeline the same as if the Event was a massacre. Loki calls the TVA out for this to Mobius when he finds out.
• Brainwashed: He Who Remains erased the memories of the TVA staff more than once and made them all believe that they should serve the benevolent Time-Keepers who created them and who determine the proper flow of time.
• Clarke's Third Law: Upon seeing a grand view of the sheer scale of the TVA's home dimension, Loki confusedly states that he thought there was no magic here. Mobius just smiles and states, "There isn't." Loki finds it hard to believe that the TVA could build and maintain everything that they have without any magic.
• Decapitated Army: When Sylvie kills He Who Remains, the timeline begins to fall apart and the TVA is left rudderless, partially because of the revelations of their origins creating competing factions in their leadership.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The TVA can show up at any point in time to arrest you for anything ranging from snatching the Tesseract when you weren't supposed to… to eating the wrong neighbor's cat.
• Eldritch Location: The TVA is... weird, to say the least. Those who are imprisoned there cannot use any sort of magical abilities, time is basically non-existent, and the employees there have literally spent their entire lives working behind desks, to the point of not knowing what exists in the outside world.
• Great Offscreen War: The TVA is said to have been created after a Multiversal War that nearly resulted in the destruction of everything. While this does turn out to be true, the agency's official backstory certainly omits some important details.
• Hypocrite: With the exception of Mobius, all of the TVA folks, including Hunter B-15, are willing to kill any variants, like Loki, to protect the Sacred Timeline, and even make fun of him being a variant, despite the fact all of them, including their true leader, are variants themselves. Justified when Loki points out that most of them don't even know they're variants, especially after Sylvie admits that Hunter C-20's memories were clouded and likely suppressed by the TVA. So this is more hypocrisy on the part of the TVA itself –- which is apparently happy to both use and condemn Variants –- rather than of the individuals.
• Kangaroo Court: Regardless of how small of a deviation a variant makes from their timeline, the TVA will always arrest them and accuse them of committing crimes against the Sacred Timeline. At Loki's trial, he never receives anything resembling a lawyer to defend him, and he is never told what specifically he did wrong until he's up on the stand. Furthermore, Judge Gamble implies in Season 2 that judges only ever give out guilty verdicts, meaning there's no hope for a defendant to truly plead their case.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: TVA workers can't recall their past identities, how they were mind wiped or what came before that, but retain all of their skills and don't suffer from inability to accumulate new memories.
  Mobius: I have no memory of having my memory wiped.
• Lawman Baton: The TVA hunters use pruning sticks that look like batons with glowing lights at the end. They instantly vaporize victims on touch, seemingly killing them. It is revealed that they actually send the victims to the Void to be devoured by Alioth.
• Mirroring Factions: To the Watchers. Both of them are omniscient groups who know about the actions of everyone and everything in The Multiverse, and pay close attention to when things divert from what's expected. However, while the Watchers elect to...well, watch what happens in the Multiverse and refuse to interfere under any circumstances, the TVA actively gets involved with branching timelines to prevent a potential multiversal war from breaking out. The Watchers also only make an Early-Bird Cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 before never appearing again (discounting Uatu in What If...?), whereas the TVA is heavily involved in the events of the show they debut in.
• Mysterious Past: Since the memories of all TVA staff were wiped, none of them knows their past, and the backstory of most characters is not revealed until the penultimate episode. The only exception is Ravonna, glimpses of her past are shown both in the season 1 finale and in "Heart of the TVA," though most of it still remains a mystery.
• Narnia Time: When asked how long he's worked at the TVA, Mobius admits that he isn't too sure, since time works quite differently there than anywhere else in the universe.
• Noodle Incident: If their records and Mobius's musings are to be believed, the TVA has arrested a number of people over the course of their existence. This includes nameless mooks such as Skrulls and vampires, and supervillains such as Thanos and Yellowjacket. How this could've happened and what led up to those arrests is never explained.
• Omniglot: Members of the TVA can speak all languages that exist in any timeline.
• Omniscient Morality License: The TVA's authority seems to span the entirety of existence in the universe — including every person who has ever lived or will live, both in the "Sacred Timeline" and spontaneously appearing alternate timelines — and they uphold "laws" that anyone anywhere is capable of breaking at a moment's notice without knowing. The TVA claims that their mission statement is to uphold reality by ensuring that there is only one "Sacred Timeline" and that doing so prevents wars on a cosmic scale, but they do so under the authority of a trio of godlike beings called the Time Keepers (whom Loki is skeptical of even existing in the first place).
• Place Beyond Time: The TVA exists outside of the normal flow of time. Nothing there ever ages, and they can monitor the entire timeline all at once, responding to nexus events as they form at any point in history. However, the TVA does have its own internal timeline, as Loki slips between its past, present, and future in the beginning of season 2 when he becomes Unstuck in Time.
• Renegade Splinter Faction: One is formed in Season 2 by Dox. The faction dedicates itself to pruning new timelines, despite the truth of them being Variants having come out.
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand: In Season 2 of Loki, the revelations about the organization and its purpose causes fractures in its staff. While most are loyal to Mobius and B-15 who take a position of pseudo-leadership, but a faction led by General Dox splits off fairly quickly to handle the overflow of branching on their own terms.
• Schizo Tech: The TVA has a very weird motif going when it comes to their tech, in that it's extremely advanced, but also extremely retro. Some examples: The TemPad looks like a Game & Watch, but can tear open holes in time, their hologram projectors can literally see any moment in time, but run on reel-to-reel magnetic tape, their computers have super tiny screens with giant magnifying glasses attached at the front, ala Brazil, the resident AI is modeled in the style of Betty Boop, and their buildings have a decidedly deco aesthetic but with a very alien architecture.
• Theory of Narrative Causality: Enforced In-Universe. Every blatantly stupid decision, every out-of-character action, every unlikely outcome, every Diabolus ex Machina complication, it all happens because if it doesn't, the TVA comes along, resets time and tells the universe to try again.
• Time Police: Their job is to protect the proper flow of time, which they call the "Sacred Timeline". Loki's theft of the Tesseract thanks to the Avengers giving him an opportunity lands him in hot water with the TVA, and he only earns a reprieve because there's yet another version of him running around murdering their agents.
• Unreliable Expositor: Loki doesn't buy their backstory and mission statement when told about it. It's eventually revealed they make Variants into brainwashed agents and ultimately the Time Keepers are nothing more than androids rather than godlike beings, as well as the fact pruning doesn't do what it was said to do, bringing into question how much, if any, of what has been said about them is actually true or just what they want their agents and others to believe. In the Season 1 finale, He Who Remains admits that the backstory is just "dogma" and the real purpose of the TVA is to prevent worse Variants of himself from emerging and fighting each other.
• Vast Bureaucracy: The TVA is a powerful bureaucratic system that has a number of different jobs to keep the flow of time running. From desk workers to keep the paperwork on time itself in order, to agents and minutemen who are dispatched to prune branching timelines, everybody manages to keep themselves busy. That said, it's pretty evident that outside of a select few, nobody really knows how or why the TVA does what it does, outside of repeating the propaganda spouted to them.
• The Worf Effect: The Infinity Stones do not work inside the TVA (as it exists outside of normal reality), and if many of the objects inside the Void at the end of time are any indication, many alternate versions of MCU heroes and villains alike have gotten pruned, including Thor, Ronan, Red Skull, Yellowjacket, and Thanos.
• You Are Number 6: Hunters working for the TVA are only ever referred to by their designated letter-number code (Hunter B-15, Hunter C-20, Hunter D-90, Analyst 1182-E, and so on). As these workers climb the corporate ladder, they seem to shed these designated codenames — Ravonna Renslayer used to go by "A-23" when she was a Hunter. Variants caught by the TVA also are given their own letter-number code (for example, the main character of Loki is Variant L1130).
• You Are What You Hate: Most of the TVA's employees except Mobius show disdain for Variants and at best apathy to normal people. But what they don't know is that all of them used to be Variants before they were repurposed by the TVA.

Leadership

"He Who Remains"

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The Time-Keepers

The Time-Keepers

Species: Androids

Voiced By: Jonathan Majors

Appearances: Loki

"The all-knowing Time-Keepers emerged, bringing peace by reorganizing the Multiverse into a single timeline, the Sacred Timeline."

— Miss Minutes

Three beings who created the Sacred Timeline and the TVA. Or at least that's what the TVA's propaganda claims. In actuality, they're just animatronic puppets being controlled by He Who Remains, meant to hide his true identity and motivation from his employees.

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• Actually a Doombot: They turn out to be robotic decoys for He Who Remains.
• Adaptational Wimp: They're now mere robots with no free will, it should come with the territory.
• Adaptation Deviation: While both the comic and the MCU versions of the Time-Keepers are created by He Who Remains, the Time-Keepers in the comics are actual all-powerful sentient beings instead of the mindless stand-in androids that they are in the MCU.
• Decoy Leader: They are built up as the ones running the TVA, but are in reality mechanical figureheads used to keep people from knowing He Who Remains is the real leader.
• Disc-One Final Boss: They're set up as the rulers of the TVA, but turn out to just be mindless androids controlled by He Who Remains.
• Guardian of the Multiverse: The Time-Keepers dictate the flow of the Sacred Timeline, and order all divergent branches to be pruned. And then it is revealed that they are merely robotic puppets controlled by He Who Remains.
• The Maker: Subverted. The Time-Keepers created the Sacred Timeline out of the mess that was the multiversal war and are also responsible for creating everyone who works in the TVA. As of "Lamentis" and "The Nexus Event", the Time-Keepers are all just a lie; they're androids.
• The Man Behind the Curtain: Loki's initial opinion of them is that they are the ringleaders of a circus and constructing an elaborate illusion to maintain control. When he asks to meet them, Renslayer says that they are "too busy" with dictating the flow of time and repeats her question of how he pleads to the crimes he has been accused of. Even she feels fooled and betrayed when it turns out they aren't actually real people to begin with, let alone nigh-omnipotent god-like beings.
• No One Sees the Boss: Judge Renslayer seems to be the only person who even speaks to them, and it's indicated they aren't even in the same realm as the TVA. Turns out it's more like no one ever saw them before because they are not really real creatures in the first place.
• Off with His Head!: Sylvie beheads one of them, revealing they're androids, not the omnipotent gods they were made out to be.
• The Omniscient: Miss Minutes' video states that they are "all-knowing", and this is why they know how time is supposed to flow. This is a lie, they're actually just robots being controlled by He Who Remains.
• Our Founder: The three of them have many statues set up in the organization that they founded. Their faces are engraved on the wall behind the judge's bench, too. Then it's revealed that they're not the real founders.
• Robotic Reveal: The seemingly all-powerful Time-Keepers are in fact just machines.
• Stylistic Suck: They appear extremely stilted for characters in the MCU, which is known for its high-quality animation of nonhuman characters, to a degree of appearing not to be even remotely real people. That is because they aren't.

Ravonna Renslayer

Judge Ravonna Renslayer

"Only one person gets free will. The one in charge."

Known Aliases: Hunter A-23, Rebecca Tourminet

Species: Human (Variant)

Portrayed By: Gugu Mbatha Raw

Voiced By: Karla Falcón (Latin-American Spanish dub)

Appearances: Loki

"I am the only one who can bring stability to the TVA because that’s what I’ve been doing, thanklessly, for eons."

Mobius' superior in the TVA, a former Hunter who rose up the ranks to become a highly respected Judge.

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• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, Ravonna had an on-again off-again romantic relationship with Kang. In Loki, Ravonna is at first interested in meeting He Who Remains and trying to secure herself a good position within the TVA by helping him rise back to power, but later abandons the idea when she realizes that He Who Remains wiped her memory with no intention of giving her the power she seeks.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Instead of being a princess from a future Earth, she's a member of the Time Variance Authority, acting as a judge. Her only interaction with the TVA in the comics was during her time allied with Immortus. In fact, the finale shows that she was originally a regular high school teacher in 2018 Ohio.
• Adaptational Job Change: In the comics, she is a princess and the daughter of king Carelius from a 40th century Earth, which has been conquered by Kang. In the show, her original self was a simple high school teacher, seemingly without being part of any royal lineage. She then became the general in service of He Who Remains who commanded his army, got memory wiped, became a hunter, one of her tasks being to capture Sylvie, and finally, was promoted to a judge concerning violations and crimes regarding the timestream.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, she's usually not a villain, other than being the love interest of Kang the Conqueror. Here, she's Not Brainwashed and is a part of a scandal within the TVA. Even when Sylvie was just a child playing on Asgard, Ravonna "arrests" her for creating a Nexus event (which Sylvie doesn't understand what it was). Later, she prunes Loki when he's in the midst of revealing his feelings for Sylvie. In "Heart of the TVA," she commits a gruesome mass murder of Dox and her team. All of that because she desires power.
• Affectionate Nickname: In "1893", Mobius calls Ravonna "Von" when he tries to talk her out of pruning Victor.
• Alliterative Name: Ravonna Renslayer.
• Anti-Villain: She orders to prune Mobius and prunes Loki herself, but she is protecting the system because she can't believe it was all for nothing rather than out of pure malice. When Mobius returns and is lying helpless on the floor, she refuses to prune him again, because despite their differences she does have a soft spot for him.
• Badass Bureaucrat: She is not only a Judge from the Time Variance Authority but also a Dark Action Girl who got promoted from a Hunter and stopped doing field work but remained a skilled fighter.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: She was a Hunter who worked her way to the top and became a Judge, so she wears a tailored suit as a high-ranking member of the TVA should but would not hesitate to fight in it. As a fighter, she is no match for Sylvie, though.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work:
  • In "Heart of the TVA," B-15 and Judge Gamble are the "good guys" who can either prune Dox and her followers and thus prove that the new TVA is not much better than the old one or "forgive and forget" and thus leave murderers on a multiversal scale without punishment. Ravonna handily solves their dilemma by killing Dox and her crew herself after they refuse to help her.
  • In the grand finale, Mobius reveals that when he was unable to kill a 8-year-old variant to prevent 5000 deaths in the future, the Sacred Timeline started to branch and the TVA agents started to die, Ravonna Made The Choice For Him and pruned the boy. In her Motive Rant in "1893," she implies that she's been doing something similar again and again and it wore upon her:
    Ravonna: After all those years of doing your dirty work, cleaning up your messes, making the hard decisions you never had the nerve to make. After all the times I put the TVA above myself, even at the cost of my own happiness, my humanity. Who are you to lecture me about losing my way?
• Believing Their Own Lies: She is very passionate both in the finale of season 1 and in "1893," when she talks with Mobius about her mission and purpose — to maintain order and stability and protect against chaos, even at the cost of her humanity and happiness. However, as Sylvie and General Dox point out in season 2, what she truly wants is power and safety for herself. Ravonna has been lying to others about her motives for so long that she half convinced herself.
• Beyond Redemption: After she prunes Mobius and proves to be a Broken-System Dogmatist, he tries to convince her thrice (in season 1 finale and twice in "1893") that she's lost her way and should help them instead, to no avail. Ravonna says that there is no "them" anymore, and Mobius's words don't mean a thing to her. When Ravonna is at Sylvie's mercy, she looks pleadingly at Mobius, but he's finally given up on her and just walks through the time door, leaving her to her fate.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Renslayer is revealed to be one of the villains. She executes C-20 for remembering her life pre-TVA, and then lies about it to Mobius. Then, despite the two supposedly being close friends, she doesn't hesitate to have Mobius pruned when he rebels against her. In "Heart of the TVA", she arrives to "protect" and bring "stability" to the TVA and then squeezes Dox and her team together to death using TVA technology after they refuse to follow her.
• Black Boss Lady: She is a black woman, an Iron Lady in a Power Suit and a high-ranking bureaucrat of the Time Police who serves as both a Judge and Da Chief for Mobius and other analysts.
• Boomerang Bigot: She uses the word "variant" derisively even after the truth about all TVA staff including herself being variants has come out — when talking to both Mobius in the season 1 finale and to Dox in "Heart of the TVA".
• Broken-System Dogmatist: It is revealed that Ravonna knew full well that the TVA staff are variants themselves and are hunting their own kind. She later learns that the Time-Keepers are fake and thus all the atrocities she and her colleagues committed on their behalf had no apparent purpose. However, she remains loyal to the system both because she believes that Might Makes Right and order must be maintained, and because she has already sacrificed too much for the organization and fell victim to the Sunk Cost Fallacy.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Sylvie asks her what was the Nexus Event that made Sylvie live on the run and fear since she was a child, Ravonna replies with a smug smile that she does not remember.
• The Chains of Commanding: As a judge she is one of the TVA leaders. She angrily speaks about putting the TVA above her own happiness and humanity and doing dirty work and making hard decisions for eons. She views it as her thankless mission.
• Consummate Liar: Ravonna knows much more about the inner workings of the TVA than she lets on, for instance, that all TVA workers are variants or that pruning does not equal death. She has been skillfully lying to everyone around her including Mobius for a long time. In "1893", she pretends that she is romantically interested in Victor Timely while attempting to get him "under control." Unfortunately for her, he doesn't do partners.
• Control Freak: She is slowly shown to be this as the series goes on, constantly lying to her colleagues to keep them from finding out that they're variants and doing anything she can to stay in or obtain power. Its presumed that this is because upon discovering the truth about the workers herself, she keeps the masquerade going out of loyalty to the TVA and to maintain comfort and familiarity for herself and her beliefs, an obsession which only worsens upon discovering that the time keepers were fake.
• Da Chief: She is a member of the Time Police who approves the missions and keeps all the trophies in her magnificent office. Mobius reports directly to her.
• Dark Action Girl: She used to be a Hunter, and as a Judge she is not afraid to get her hands dirty if need be. She has a Designated Girl Fight with Sylvie in "The Nexus Event," but loses it. When Mobius comes to her in the finale armed with the Time Stick, she easily takes it from him and sends him flying to the floor.
• Despotism Justifies the Means: While she claims to seek utopia, she in fact just seeks power and wants to be in control. Both Sylvie and General Dox point it out in season 2. And to get what she wants she would lie and manipulate, capture Sylvie as a little girl, prune an innocent 8-year-old boy, kill C-20 and cover it up, prune her best friend Mobius, squeeze together to death Dox and her team, not to mention countless deaths she inflicted as a hunter and authorized as a Hanging Judge.
• Disc-One Final Boss: With the revelation that the Time-Keepers aren't real, Renslayer seems set to be the main antagonist as The Heavy for the true founder. Instead, Loki and Sylvie set out to directly confront the founder after being pruned, while Renslayer and Mobius have a brief confrontation before she disappears from the story in season 1.
• The Dragon: The second most-powerful member of the TVA and generally acts as the enforcer of the Time Keepers' will. As it turns out, she used to be one and lead the army for He Who Remains before he erased her memories.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Ravonna feels her eons of work in maintaining order at the TVA was a thankless job, and that she is owed recognition. She rants about this in "1893".
• Establishing Character Moment: She is first introduced as the Hanging Judge over Loki's Kangaroo Court trial, accusing Loki of committing a great crime and dictating his fate under the parameters of the Time Keeper's dictations, only to reluctantly hand him over to Mobius when he makes the case that Loki would make a good asset in finding another variant. This establishes her as a woman who uses her authority in the TVA to exercise her blind faith in its mission, her only humanity being whatever she has with Mobius.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Renslayer looks genuinely distraught at having to prune what she likely considered to be a close friend and "her favourite analyst". This is underlined when she later looks at the drink ring he accidentally left on her table and tears up.
• Evil All Along: Turns out she's Not Brainwashed and knows she is a variant, unlike the other TVA agents, and still chose to be a Hanging Judge and to conceal the truth.
• Evil Sounds Deep: When she catches up to Victor Timely after he dumped her and threatens him, her voice goes very low to show that she stopped pretending to be nice and her intentions are far from benevolent. When Sylvie shows up and confronts her, Ravonna sounds deeper than her.
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Her final scene has her stranded in the Void, as she sees Alioth approaching her offscreen.
• Face Death with Dignity:
  • Both in "The Nexus Event" and in "1893", when Sylvie has Ravonna at her mercy, Ravonna just tells her to do it. Both times Sylvie has other ideas.
  • In the grand finale, when she awakes in the Void after being pruned and sees Alioth bearing down on her, she only stares it down with cold fury.
• Fake Defector: In "Journey Into Mystery," Renslayer claims that the truth about the Time-Keepers was just as surprising to her and she wants answers. She pretends to ally with Sylvie, but in fact just stalls for time until backup can arrive to help her eliminate Sylvie.
• Flirty Voice Ploy: When she tries to get into Victor's good graces and is flirting with him, she speaks in a higher and softer voice than usual. She keeps giggling and praising him. After he dumps her and she stops all pretense, her voice becomes much lower.
• Foil:
  • To her enemy, Sylvie. It's Personal between them because it was Ravonna who captured Sylvie and then failed to stop her from escaping, and later pruned Loki, the only person Sylvie cares about. Both are tough Dark Action Girls, but Sylvie is a rebel outside the system that wants to bring it down and is very straight-forward, while Ravonna is one of its top members who wants to protect it at all costs and is a Manipulative Bitch. The two of them fight each other in "The Nexus Event", and Ravonna loses. In "1893", Ravonna is again at Sylvie's mercy, but Sylvie refuses to kill her and instead sends her to the End of Time.
  • To her colleage and close friend, Mobius. Both work for the TVA and endorse its aims, methods, and practices. However, Mobius shows compassion to Variants they capture, believes in free will and when confronted with the truth, decides that the TVA needs to change. Ravonna is an Iron Lady who is cold towards anyone but Mobius himself praises hierarchy and order and wants to uphold the masquerade at the TVA even if there is no grand heroic origin behind it because it "must have been for something".
  • To her colleague, hunter B-15. Both of them are Black Boss Ladies and ruthless enforcers of the TVA's fascistic rhetoric who were living as ordinary citizens in The New '10s before they were brainwashed to forget their past lives. Ultimately though, Hunter B-15 is genuinely upset upon learning what she's been doing on the TVA's behalf, and later works with Loki and Mobius to defy her old positions, while Ravonna becomes obsessed with enforcing the TVA's dogmatic law, to the point of seeking to become the head of it herself.
  • To her collague, General Dox. Both are high-ranking Broken System Dogmatists who do not want the TVA to change after its true nature is revealed, and who have no qualms with killing people in the name of order, but Dox is a straightforward and honesly mistaken Principles Zealot with a sizeable group of followers, while Ravonna is a manipulative and power-hungry Control Freak in cahoots with a single associate. When Dox refuses to join and help Ravonna, the later subjects Dox to a Cruel and Unusual Death.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: As shown in the season one finale of Loki (2021), she used to be a school principal before becoming the Hanging Judge of the TVA.
• Get It Over With: When Ravonna is alone with Sylvie, she asks her to go ahead and kill her if that's what she's going to do. This happens twice, both in "The Nexus Event" and in "1893".
• Hanging Judge: Renslayer gives Loki little wiggle room for proving himself Not Guilty for deviating from his timeline. It's only at agent Mobius's suggestion that she doesn't sentence him to be reset on the spot.
• The Heavy: While it's made clear someone besides the Time-Keepers created the TVA, their identity remains unknown until the season 1 finale. Renslayer is the face of the TVA and the direct obstacle for Loki and Sylvie in their absence, upholding The Masquerade even after learning the truth. After the Variants are pruned, however, Renslayer is dropped from the main plot aside from a brief confrontation with Mobius. She returns in season 2.
• Hypocrite: Ravonna claims she just wants to protect the TVA and maintain stability for the safety of its workers. But as B-15 (in "Journey Into Mystery"), Mobius (in season 1 finale) and general Dox (in "Heart of the TVA") point out, she is only pursuing her own ends and would throw anyone under the bus if needed. She tells Mobius that they are "friends across time, allies to the end," and then prunes him and leaves him for dead after he learns the truth, and later accuses him of betraying her. She arrives to help Dox and her team and then brutally murders them when they refuse to follow her.
• Iron Lady: She is a high-ranking member of the TVA who behaves accordingly and appears to be tough and cold in public. She does have a soft spot for Mobius but later pruned him after he reveals he knows the truth by saying he wishes to be released back to his own time.
• It's Personal: She was the Hunter who let Sylvie escape as a kid and grow up into one of the most dangerous enemies of the TVA, so she is intent on capturing and killing Sylvie.
• Join or Die: Ravonna offers everyone from Dox's crew to either follow her in exchange for a life on the timeline or be squeezed to death. Brad is the only one who chooses to help her.
• Kick the Dog: When Sylvie asks her why she took her from her original timeline, Renslayer had this to say:
  Sylvie: What was my Nexus event? Why did you bring me in?
  Ravonna: What does it matter?
  Sylvie: It was enough to take my life from me. Lead to all of this. Must have been important. ...So what was it?
  Ravonna: I don't remember.
• Lack of Empathy: She expressed no sympathy for Sylvie when Ravonna captured her as a child, and years later when interrogating B-15 for siding with Sylvie and Loki asks what drives Sylvie to being hellbent on taking down the TVA, seemingly clueless that the whole reason for Sylvie's vedetta was because Ravonna personally kidnapped her as a child and destroyed her home and reality, causing her to go on the run for centuries since the TVA branded her a fugitive and a terrorist for not following "the proper flow of time". When requesting Dox's help in attempting a coup, she looks indifferent when she watches as Dox and her team are slowly crushed to death for refusing to help her. Mobius is the only one she used to care about. When she orders to prune him, she closes her eyes because she can't bear to look at it.
• Lady in a Power Suit: She is a high-ranking member of the TVA who wears a nice tailored suit.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After callously pruning or ordering to prune so many variants for who knows how long, including both Loki and Mobius in the Nexus Event, Ravonna is pruned herself and left stranded in the Void, with the implication that she will soon be consumed by Alioth.
• Manipulative Bitch: She proves to be very untrustworthy. In "The Nexus Event," she kills C-20, lies that C-20 died after Sylvie enchanted her and refuses to let Mobius interrogate Sylvie under the pretense that she is trying to protect him from the dangerous Variant. In "1893", she fakes interest in Victor Timely, posing as a Proper Lady, praising his work, flirting with him and promising to protect him, only to coldly inform Miss Minutes later that she had Victor "under control" before Miss Minutes interfered.
• Metaphorically True: In the season 1 finale, Ravonna tells Mobius that she is leaving the TVA "in search of free will." They don't meet again until "1893". When Ravonna is holding Victor hostage, Mobius is confused and asks if this is free will that she was looking for. He doesn't understand her motives, and in the next episode Loki has to explain that she seeks control of the TVA. However, Ravonna wasn't lying to Mobius — she also said that the only one who gets free will is the one in charge, so she left in search of power that in her mind is the prerequisite for being free.
• Might Makes Right: She states that only the person in charge has any agency, and the rest don't get to choose.
• Motive Rant: In Timely's laboratory in "1893," she angrily explains to Loki and Mobius how she sees herself as the order in Order Versus Chaos in the TVA and how hard and unrewarding it is to lead.
• Mouth of Sauron: Her job is to enforce the decisions made by the Time Keepers, who are too busy with dictating the Sacred Timeline to enforce them themselves. She is also the only person that gets to speak to them.
• My Greatest Failure: With the reveal that she was once a Hunter, particularly the one that apprehended Sylvie as a child, she most likely sees the fact that she's grown to become such a big threat to the TVA as her version of this.
• Mythology Gag:
  • While Ravonna wears a business suit rather than a costume, her yellow shirt is a nod to her comic book outfit.
  • She is shown to have a collection of "souvenirs" from all of Mobius' missions that she approved; her sometimes lover in the comics, Kang the Conqueror, also had an affinity for collecting trophies from his victories.
  • Her old Hunter codename was "A-23". In the Marvel comics, Ravonna's first appearance is in The Avengers, issue #23.
  • Her real name (before she was taken by the TVA and assumed new life as Renslayer) was "Rebecca Tourminet". That name is one of the names that the comics version of Ravonna Renslayer went by at one point.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: You can't expect a person whose second name is Renslayer to be an All-Loving Hero. Both Loki and Mobius are pruned directly by her or on her orders.
• Not Brainwashed: Downplayed. As revealed in "Heart of the TVA", He Who Remains did wipe her memories along with all the other TVA workers. But as shown in "The Nexus Event", as a high ranking Judge she then secretly learned both that the TVA is made up of kidnapped variants rather than workers created by the Time Keepers and that pruning is not equal to immediate death but rather sends victims to the Void. She was still partially indoctrinated, as at the beginning of the series she believed in the Time Keepers and was afraid of them.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Much like the heroes, she too is shocked to find out that the Time Keepers are merely android puppets serving the true mastermind of the TVA. Unlike them, she remains absolutely loyal to the organization's mission, convinced that the laws of the Sacred Timeline need to be upheld, even if they were written on a foundation of lies. However, as shown in season 2, her primary goal is power, and all the talk about order and stability is smoke and mirrors, even though she half convinced herself in it.
• Order Versus Chaos: Ravonna is a huge fan of "order", hierarchy and bureaucracy. She refuses to even consider free will because she believes only the one in charge is truly free in their decisions. She spells it out for Mobius in "1893":
  Ravonna: When will you learn that none of your words mean a thing? All that matters is order versus chaos. I'm order.
• Pet the Dog: She thinks that she's killed Mobius and gets sad when she looks at the stains from his glass in her office. When he returns from the Void alive and well and is at her mercy once more, she refuses to prune him again because she does care about him.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Mobius calls Ravonna a "close personal friend", she calls him an "ally to the end." They worked together as hunters. When Mobius couldn't prune a kid and Ravonna did it for him, she was promoted and he became her favourite subordinate. She says that she hung her neck out for him, cleaned up his messes and made hard decisions for him for "eons". They often share drinks in her office, and while she mostly keeps him in the dark, she allows him more than expected of her, for instance, to recruit Loki. When Mobius sides with Loki over her and she orders to prune Mobius, both feel betrayed and their friendship ends.
• Post-Support Regret: She is mad at Mobius when he discovers the truth and wants to let others know, because he's been breaking the TVA rules a bit and she's been covering it all up for "eons," and now he's about to break the entire system that gave her power. In her twisted worldview, she is the protector of order and he is an Ungrateful Bastard who bites the hand that feeds him. She voices her regrets in both season 1 finale and "1893".
• Present Absence: Her whereabouts are unknown in early season 2 due to fleeing from the TVA late in the first season, and one of the key drivers of the plot is finding her and determining her exact relationship to He Who Remains.
• Proper Lady: She poses as a graceful lady when she travels to Chicago in "1893", wears a period dress, speaks in a soft flirty voice and is impeccably polite and gentle. Of course, this is all a ploy to make Victor like her.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her variant in 2018 is wearing purple to denote that on the Sacred Timeline she held a position of power as well. She was a vice principal in a school. The only other character who wears purple in the series is He Who Remains.
• Race Lift: Renslayer in the comics is a blond white woman from a future Earth; here she is a black woman.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite her Hanging Judge tendencies, she listens to Mobius's arguments, even with her reservations about Loki, and allows him to take risks even though she disapproves because she respects his skill and experience.
• Redemption Rejection: In "1893," Mobius asks her to help them fix the Loom, and that is after she lied to him and then ordered to prune him, but she declines. The next time they meet, he pleads her to reconsider, but she angrily chides him in her Motive Rant instead and says that his words don't mean a thing to her.
• The Reveal:
  • The season 1 finale reveals that she was originally a human teacher working in an Ohioan high school back in 2018, before she somehow got involved with the TVA. Her real name was "Rebecca Tourminet".
  • In "Heart of the TVA" we learn that she was the general who commanded the army of He Who Remains before he mind wiped her and turned her into an ordinary hunter.
• Rogue Agent: In season 1 finale, she is a TVA judge who leaves "in search of free will" after the truth about Time-Keepers and variants comes out. In "1893," Loki and Mobius are hunting her down in an attempt to find her associate, Miss Minutes. When Mobius catches up with her, he calls her a "fugitive."
• Seriously Scruffy: When after a good deal of rowing the boat she catches up to Victor Timely, her dress and hair are dirty and in disarray, she is mad that he left her behind and looks like an angry fury.
• The Starscream: In "Heart of the TVA," she and Miss Minutes decide they don't need He Who Remains anymore and attempt to take over the TVA for themselves.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: She refuses to change the way things work in the TVA because she's spent too much time and sacrificed too much maintaining the system to turn on it now. Her devotion to the system borders on blind faith.
  Ravonna: It can't have been for nothing. That's why I had to prune you.
• Time Abyss: Ravonna claims she and Mobius have had "eons of friendship". Considering they operate outside of the normal confines of time, that may not be an exaggeration.
• Trophy Room: Her office is full of trophies that her analysts bring her from the Sacred Timeline, ranging from snow globes to weapons of the Variants she's ordered to be pruned.
• Uncertain Doom: In "Heart of the TVA," Sylvie enchants Brad and makes him prune Ravonna. In the finale, she wakes up in the Void, her face becomes alight with purple glow, and we hear Alioth's roar. She appears shocked and afraid, then she squints, and the scene ends. It is unclear whether Alioth consumed her or she somehow survived the encounter.
• Unwitting Pawn: In season 2, she thinks that she is smart and tries to achieve her own ends but in fact she only furthers the plan of He Who Remains. When she goes to Chicago, she has no clue why she should bring a TVA handbook with her or that He Who Remains is dead. Then she attempts to get into Victor's good graces thinking that he is to become the new ruler, while he is just another victim in He Who Remains's scenario. Then she wants to get credit for repairing the Loom to bring the TVA back under her control, not knowing that the Loom cannot be repaired at all.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: She claims that the atrocities committed by the TVA in general and herself in particular are necessary on the way to order and stability, and keeps mentioning "the bigger picture" to have in mind. Right before she was mind wiped by He Who Remains, she talked about "a utopia at the End of Time" they were building.
• We Used to Be Friends: Ravonna and Mobius used to be "friends across time, allies to the end." Then Mobius learns that the TVA workers are variants, and Ravonna knew it all along, killed C-20 to cover it up and lied to him. She orders to prune him to uphold the masquerade for a bit longer, but he survives and obviously feels betrayed. So does she, because she believes Mobius is ungrateful for all the times when she helped him break the TVA rules or did his dirty work. While she refuses to prune him again in the season 1 finale, and he unsuccessfully offers her to join them in "1893," by "The Heart of the TVA," they are enemies to each other.
• Woman Scorned: In "1893", Ravonna goes off on Victor out of rage from being abandoned.
• Would Hurt a Child: As a hunter, she didn't mind taking Sylvie in while she was a mere child like she would any other Variant. However, she hesitated when Sylvie yanked her TemPad and used it escape. Ravonna likely considered this event her greatest failure. As revealed in the grand finale, sometime after that Mobius (who also was then a hunter) was unwilling to prune a 8-year-old boy, and this time Ravonna was quick to step in and do the job for him. This earned her the promotion from a hunter to a judge.

Judge Gamble

Judge Gamble

"All my life, I've always handed down the same verdict. Guilty. The Time-Keepers deemed it so."

Species: Human (Variant)

Portrayed By: Liz Carr

Appearances: Loki

A TVA judge who is part of the new leadership in Renslayer's absence.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: While by no means stupid in this series, Judge Gamble's mind ultimately pales in comparison to her comics counterpart, who was able to build a time machine and hide out in various eras to fight the Incinerators when needed. MCU Gamble shows no indication of being able to do any of this.
• Adaptational Job Change: In the comics, Justin Gamble was a former TVA employee who later defected from the organization and became a professor of sorts who sought to fight several rogue robots called Incinerators that Grew Beyond Their Programming. In the MCU, Gamble is still part of the organization (and is in fact a high-ranking judge), though she is ultimately swayed into diverging from the TVA's propaganda and orders a stop to all pruned timelines.
• Adaptational Wimp: Comics Gamble was capable of fighting and defeating the Incinerators various time periods. This Gamble is simply a TVA Judge who is doing her best to keep the organization afloat after the disappearance of Ravonna Renslayer and the subsequent reveal that the Time Keepers were never real.
• Cincinnatus: After Ravonna Renslayer disappears, Judge Gamble gains Emergency Authority and becomes the leader of the judges' council. In the grand finale, she has given up some of her power and is now one of the many in the War Room, with the TVA becoming more of a democracy.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: In the MCU, Judge Gamble is shown using a wheelchair to move around due to her actress having arthrogryposis in real life. In the comics, Gamble wasn't shown to be handicapped in any way.
• Foil: To General Dox. Both of them are authority figures at the TVA with prominent accents, and they both have to come to terms with the revelation that He Who Remains runs the organization they're working for, and not the Time Keepers. However, while Gamble is shown to be a compassionate and understanding woman who wants make changes to how the TVA is run, General Dox is an aggressive lady who insists on pruning timelines and arresting variants no matter what.
• Gender Flip: Her comics counterpart was a man.
• Hanging Judge: She admits that every trial at the TVA was predetermined and as a judge she deemed all defendants guilty.
• Internal Reformist: After learning that the TVA workers are variants and listening to B-15, she agrees that pruning branches is inhumane and authorizes B-15's order to immediately stop doing it. She later tells B-15 that the TVA should also find a new way to deal with traitors and offers to ask Dox and her team for help rather than to prune them. In the grand finale, she relinquishes some of her power and allows the TVA to be ruled collectively.
• My God, What Have I Done?: During the higher-ups' meeting with Mobius and B-15, she expresses remorse for having been a Hanging Judge and orders an end to the pruning of branching timelines.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Confronted with a My God, What Have I Done? moment with Mobius, B-15 and Loki, Judge Gamble orders a stop to the pruning of new branching timelines. Her colleague General Dox, meanwhile, has other ideas.
• Remember the New Guy?: Gamble is a high-ranking Judge, but was never mentioned before the start of the second season, when she emerges as one of the TVA's senior leaders in the absence of He Who Remains, Miss Minutes and Judge Renslayer.
• You Are in Command Now: In "Ouroboros," Judge Gamble, General Dox and an unknown sleeping judge have taken over the TVA in the absence of Ravonna Renslayer. Judge Gamble is the leader of the council.

General Dox

General Dox

"This changes nothing."

Species: Human (Variant)

Portrayed By: Kate Dickie

Appearances: Loki

"The Time-Keepers are fake, but their warnings were real. Seems pretty straightforward to me."

A general in the TVA who is part of the new leadership in Renslayer's absence.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Despite wiping out billions, when Dox utters her last words and dies a painful death at the hands of Renslayer and Miss Minutes after recognizing them as the power-hungry sharks they are, sad music with a wailing chorus plays. Brad, the sole witness standing next to the killers, is distraught and can't make himself look at it. When B-15 arrives later, dramatic music plays and she is utterly shocked. She later informs Loki and the rest with a sad face and a sigh.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work:
  • In "Ouroboros," O.B. says that they need to prune extra branches to prevent the meltdown of the Loom, but B-15 is quick to discard this idea because it would mean killing countless people. That's not an issue for Dox — in the next episode, she does just that and inadverently buys the "good guys" time to find another solution.
  • Ironically, in "Heart of the TVA," she is on the receiving end. B-15 and Judge Gamble can either prune Dox and her followers and thus prove that the new TVA is not much better than the old one or "forgive and forget" and thus leave murderers on a multiversal scale without punishment. Ravonna handily solves their dilemma by killing Dox and her crew herself after they refuse to help her.
• Broken-System Dogmatist: Even after learning that the Time-Keepers are fake, she still believes in the old dogma and insists that the TVA should continue to prune the timelines to keep order. Her loyalists form a Renegade Splinter Faction that is willing to go to extremes unlike the "new" TVA.
• By-the-Book Cop: When B-15 testifies, Dox tells her to speak into the microphone because they are "doing this by the book and on the record." Even with the truth of the TVA being revealed to the highest-ranking members of the organization, Dox is insistent on wanting to prune branching timelines, and goes out of her way to organize a multiversal manhunt for Sylvie, deeming her a threat. Taken even further when she has her loyalists prune all the new branches, or at least as many as they can.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Dox and her loyalists are all crushed to death by Ravonna and Miss Minutes inside a slowly contracting force field box.
• Death Equals Redemption: After Dox rejects Ravonna's proposal and Miss Minutes activates the device that will kill Dox and her crew, she has a last minute realization and calmly states that she finally is "seeing the bigger picture." Moments after that, she suffers a Cruel and Unusual Death.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Dox and her loyalists are opposed to the new TVA, though B-15's pleas may have gotten through to her, but Dox also recognizes Renslayer's offer as the power play it is, refusing to go along with her plans. Even under the threat of death, all but Brad hold firm.
• Face Death with Dignity: She retains her impeccable composure in the face of the horrible death Ravonna and Miss Minutes are about to inflict on her.
• "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Her last words are a taunt to Ravonna: "How does it feel knowing that all of us here would rather die than follow you out that door? Hmm?"
• Family of Choice: Her relationship with her subordinate, hunter X-05/Brad resembles that of a mother and a son. When she explains their mission to him and sends him to find Sylvie, they share a Headbutt of Love. While he disagrees with her and sabotages the task, he vehemently refuses to reveal her plan to Loki and Mobius, and they learn it only through Cold-Blooded Torture and some mind-reading from Sylvie. In the cell, she angrily chides him for giving in, but in the next scene she is listening to his advice. When she is asking him to side with her over Ravonna, she speaks in an unusually soft voice, and when he refuses to die with her, he can't bear to look at her.
• Foil:
  • To Ravonna Renslayer. Both are high-ranking Broken System Dogmatists who do not want the TVA to change after its true nature is revealed, and who have no qualms with killing people in the name of order, but Ravonna is a manipulative and power-hungry Control Freak in cahoots with a single associate, while Dox is a straightforward and honesly mistaken Principles Zealot with a sizeable group of followers. When Dox refuses to join and help Ravonna, the later subjects Dox to a Cruel and Unusual Death.
  • To B-15. Both are By The Book Cops who presumably belong to the same branch of the TVA and as a senior hunter and a general have varying levels of authority, both care about the organization and its people, but B-15 is an Internal Reformist who believes that the system needs to change and General Dox is a Broken-System Dogmatist who wants to keep things the way they are. When they both lay their cases before Judge Gamble, she sides with B-15.
• General Ripper: Holds a four-star rank, at least in title, and in contrast to the Reasonable Authority Figure Judge Gamble, Dox instead disobeys the Judge's direct order to stop pruning timelines and instead has her agents and soldiers bomb every single one that they can manage, leading to the deaths of countless individuals.
• Gender Flip: Her mainstream comics counterpart, Judge Paradox, is male.
• Iron Lady: As a General of the TVA, she is no-nonsense and tough, though she is also A Mother to Her Men.
• Knight Templar: She organizes a complete purge of all timelines beyond the Sacred Timeline in the name of stopping their overflow, killing quadrillions across the multiverse. She sees this as completely justified because she is trying to "protect" the TVA.
• Lean and Mean: She is quite skinny, has a narrow face and in the simple prisoner jumpsuit looks almost fragile, and she is an Omnicidal Maniac who kills uncountable billions of people.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: As bad as she is, even she recognizes Renslayer and Miss Minutes's proposal as an excuse for their power play and refuses to go along with it. She pays for it with her life, but spends her last moments Defiant to the End.
• A Mother to Her Men: B-15 admits that like her, General Dox cares about the people from the TVA, and most of Dox's loyalists are ready to follow her to death. While Brad has other ideas, he refuses to reveal Dox's plan he personally disagrees with even when tortured, and they share a close relationship akin to that of a mother and a son.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: She doesn't mess around or gloat, and has a very straightforward approach to things. The timelines are branching? Just prune them all at once, swiftly and efficiently, killing all their inhabitants everywhere. She has no patience for the nonsense of others either — when Brad is about to deliver a rousing speech in "Heart of the TVA," she angrily demands that he "cut the shit".
• Omnicidal Maniac: In "Breaking Brad," Dox and her crew bomb and completely erase numerous branching timelines to keep only the Sacred one, killing countless quadrillions of beings in a Class X-5 Apocalypse (pun not intended). She is responsible for by far the highest death count in the entire MCU, at least of any actions seen on-screen, topping even Thanos' Snap from Infinity War, which only removed half of a single universe's inhabitants (and temporarily at that). She has no qualms with destroying lives, showing no remorse for her actions as she's being brought in.
• Order Versus Chaos: She is squarely on the side of order. Judge Gamble says that as a general of the TVA, Dox believes her mission is to protect the organization at all costs. She temporarily eliminates the "chaos" that emerged after the death of He Who Remains by pruning most of the new branches.
• Principles Zealot: She is steadfast in her principles and upholds the teachings of the Time-Keepers even after learning that they are mindless androids created by someone else.
• Remember the New Guy?: Dox is a high-ranking general, but was never mentioned before the start of the second season, when she emerges as one of the TVA's senior leaders in the absence of He Who Remains, Miss Minutes and Judge Renslayer.
• Renegade Splinter Faction: Dox forms a faction of the TVA dedicated to pruning whatever new timelines pop up in the wake of He Who Remains' death. She ends up captured, along with a number of agents, but at least some of them escape into the branches.
• Reverse Arm-Fold: She assumes this pose when talking to Ravonna in "Heart of the TVA," which shows that she is both a member of the TVA's military branch and a villain.
• Violent Glaswegian: Dox speaks with Kate Dickie's strong Scottish accent, and is an aggressive General of the TVA who sanctions an off-the-books timeline purge.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: General Dox is a Broken-System Dogmatist who wants to uphold the Time-Keepers' teachings even if the Time-Keepers themselves are fake, in the name of protecting order. However, her plan involves bombing every new timeline that has appeared to accomplish her goals, and capturing Sylvie so that she doesn't interfere.
• You Are in Command Now: In "Ouroboros," General Dox, Judge Gamble and an unknown sleeping judge have taken over the TVA in the absence of Ravonna Renslayer. Judge Gamble is the leader of the council.

Analysts

Mobius M. Mobius

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Paradox

Agent Paradox

"This is your chance to be a hero among heroes."

Species: Human (Variant)

Portrayed By: Matthew Macfadyen

Appearances: Deadpool & Wolverine

A TVA analyst who recruits (read: arrests) Wade Wilson to help with a Multiversal threat in exchange for a first-class VIP ticket into the Sacred Timeline.

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• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, Paradox is best known for presiding as a judge in an issue of She-Hulk, where he judges the titular character during her trial at the TVA. In the MCU, Paradox is instead involved with Deadpool, the other fourth-wall breaking character at Marvel's disposal.
• Adaptational Job Change: Paradox was a TVA judge in the comics, whereas here he's an agent/analyst.
• British Stuffiness: Paradox speaks with Matthew Macfadyen's natural British accent, and is a stoic, serious TVA agent who has to deal with Deadpool's usual antics.
• Decomposite Character: Both him and General Dox are based on the comic books Judge Paradox. He also takes Justin Gamble's place as the TVA agent who recruits Deadpool.
• The Comically Serious: His reaction to Wade referring to himself as "Marvel Jesus." Granted...pretty much everyone is this trope compared to him.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Paradox wears a noticeably more refined business suit compared to other TVA workers, having a red tie and black jacket in contrast to the traditional brown garb seen in Loki.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: His role appears to be filling in the void left by Mobius quitting his position at the end of the second season of Loki.

Minutemen

Hunter B-15

Hunter B-15

"We may not see eye to eye on most things, but I care about this place, these people. So do you. Trust that."

Known Aliases: Dr. Verity Willis

Species: Human (Variant)

Portrayed By: Wunmi Mosaku

Appearances: Loki

"The TVA has to change, and it has to start now."

A senior Hunter from the TVA who can lead up to two teams of Hunters at once into the field.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: Verity Willis in the comics was a Nice Girl and Loki's best and only friend who supported him through his journey. B-15 is a brutal cop who takes pride in pruning and enjoys pushing Loki around. Subverted from episode 4 on, where she makes a Heel–Face Turn.
• Adaptational Job Change: "Science/Fiction" reveals she's an adaptation of Verity Willis, who was an anonymous survey checker in the comics, not a doctor.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Twice.
  • "Science / Fiction" reveals that B-15 was once a genuinely polite and well-meaning doctor who was empathic towards children. The TVA changed her into being the ruthless By-the-Book Cop we saw in Season 1, who coldly arrests variants and prunes timelines.
  • After her Heel–Face Turn in "The Nexus Event," she becomes an Internal Reformist who is closer to her past self again.
• Big Damn Heroes: She conspires with Sylvie at Roxxcart offscreen and then ends up coming just in time to rescue Loki and Sylvie from being pruned in front of the Time Keepers. B-15 both removes their prisoner collars and brings Sylvie her sword back.
• The Big Girl: She's a powerfully built Hunter and a skilled combatant.
• Black Boss Lady: B-15 is a black woman and a senior Hunter of the Time Police who leads a team into the field, and even takes two teams to Roxxcart. By the end of the second season, she is in a position of management for the TVA as it pursues it's new goal of monitoring threats to the reformed Multiverse.
• Boyish Short Hair: She is an adult woman and a tough member of the Time Police with a short unfeminine haircut.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: She's briefly possessed by Sylvie while she and Loki are questioning someone else under their control. Once Sylvie releases her hold on B-15, B-15 collapses to the floor.
• Broken Pedestal: Upon discovering the TVA is not what it truly is, Hunter B-15 decides to help Loki and Sylvie in taking it down. She later tells Judge Gamble that it is hard to "turn your back on everything you've believed in".
• By-the-Book Cop: Unlike Mobius, she believes that talking to Loki is futile and irresponsible, and that he should be pruned like the other Variants. This changes when she learns about the true nature of the TVA.
• Canon Character All Along: "Science / Fiction" reveals that B-15 is a variant of Verity Willis, a supporting character from Loki: Agent of Asgard.
• Colorblind Casting: The role of Hunter B-15 was offered to actors of any gender or race.
• Composite Character: She is based on Verity Willis from the comics, but she also has quite a bit in common with Justice Peace, the most prominent character in the TVA's Time Police who is also somewhat overzealous.
• Dehumanization: Of all the TVA characters, B-15 is the one who subjects variants to it the most, in stark contrast to how she treats her co-workers. She denies Loki his name, derisively calling him "variant" or "a cosmic mistake," enjoys hitting Loki, rewinding him with a Time Twister or watching his helplessness in Ravonna's Kangaroo Court and orders to Kill Him On Sight when he escapes from the Time Theater. She refers to other variants as "it," and Mobius says that she wants every one of them to be "reset." Due to her prejudice she underestimates both Loki and Sylvie, which Loki points out inside the tent.
• Evil Sounds Deep: As a ruthless hunter brainwashed into enforcing the TVA dogma, B-15 starts with a quite low voice. In "The Nexus Event," her voice becomes higher and softer to reflect her growing anxiety at what she's discovered: that she is indeed a variant, and she had a life before the TVA. It stays this way after her Heel–Face Turn.
• Foil:
  • To Ravonna Renslayer. Both of them are Black Boss Ladies and ruthless enforcers of the TVA's fascistic rhetoric who were living as ordinary citizens in The New '10s before they were brainwashed to forget their past lives. Ultimately though, Ravonna becomes obsessed with enforcing the TVA's dogmatic law, to the point of seeking to become the head of it herself, while Hunter B-15 is genuinely upset upon learning what she's been doing on the TVA's behalf, and later works with Loki and Mobius to defy her old positions.
  • To General Dox. Both are By The Book Cops who presumably belong to the same branch of the TVA and as a senior hunter and a general have varying levels of authority, both care about the organization and its people, but General Dox is a Broken-System Dogmatist who wants to keep things the way they are, while B-15 is an Internal Reformist who believes that the system needs to change. When they both lay their cases before Judge Gamble, she sides with B-15.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Sylvie's enchantment unlocks some of her memories in "The Variant," she asks Sylvie to show more of her past in "The Nexus Event" and then chooses to help Sylvie and Loki against Renslayer and the Time Keepers. In "Ouroboros," she insists that by pruning branches they have committed atrocities and the TVA has to change.
• He Knows Too Much: After B-15 talks to Sylvie, Ravonna orders to capture B-15 and likely intends to prune her like C-20 and Mobius. However, after The Reveal that the Time-Keepers are fake and Sylvie pruning herself, Ravonna is in the Can't Kill You, Still Need You situation because B-15 had a link with Sylvie and is the only lead on her. So Ravonna just locks B-15 up in a cell to keep her from spreading the word and later comes to interrogate her.
• Hypocrite: Despite advocating for the right of people to live their lives on the timeline in the War Room, B-15 has no problem justifying her arrest of Brad by him abandoning his post to go live his life, something he smugly lampshades.
• Internal Reformist: After the truth of the TVA's creation is revealed to her, she is horrified by their treatment of branched timelines. In the season 1 finale, she helps Mobius to show others Ravonna's variant by luring D-90 to the variant's workplace. As revealed later, around the time when He Who Remains says that they've reached the "threshold," B-15 puts out an order to stop pruning branches. In "Ouroboros," she convinces Judge Gamble to authorize it, and in "Heart of the TVA," agrees with Judge Gamble that they should change the way the TVA deals with traitors and try to secure help from Dox and her team instead of pruning them for their transgressions. In the grand finale, B-15 has gained a seat in the War Room and with her help the TVA became more of a democracy.
• Jurisdiction Friction: As a senior hunter B-15 initially has a beef with Mobius, the analyst from another division. Her job is to physically detain variants and his is to understand them. Mobius uses his connections to hijack Loki's trial and interrogates him to B-15's displeasure, she orders to prune Loki on sight despite Mobius's objections when Loki escapes from the Time Theater. Before going to Roxxcart, B-15 snatches and hides Loki's daggers Mobius was about to return to him. Inside the superstore, B-15 and Mobius argue over who takes Loki with them. B-15 wins because it is her field operation and tells Mobius to go "litigate with Renslayer" if he disagrees.
• Kill Tally: Her helmet has several tally marks scratched into it. In Marvel Studios' Loki: The Art of the Series, her actress Wunmi Mosaku explains that they represent all of B-15's variant captures.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After belittling, brutalizing, and mocking Loki for the majority of her appearances in season 1's "Glorious Purpose", the God of mischief gives her A Taste of Their Own Medicine when he attaches his Time Twister collar to her and rewinds her several times while she angrily yells at him to stop.
• Mission Control: In "Breaking Brad" and "1893," while Loki and Mobius are on the timeline Hunting The Rogues, B-15 stays at the TVA and provides Mobius with information (that Dox is pruning branches or Sylvie is coming). When they need to track Victor Timely, Mobius says that he'll ask B-15 to run a trace.
• A Mother to Her Men: In "The Variant", she comes off as a competent leader who is giving sensible instructions to her team and is concerned with their safety. In "Heart of the TVA," she tells General Dox that she cares about the people of the TVA, and in the grand finale, she is checking up on others to learn if they need anything and is sad to see Mobius leave.
• Ms. Exposition: In "The Variant," she is the one to provide infodumps in the form of Mission Briefings before the team goes to Oshkosh, 1985 and Roxxcart, 2050.
• Mysterious Past: After seeing her previous life via Sylvie's enchantment, she says she looked "happy", but nothing else about who she was has been revealed. In "Science/Fiction" we learn she was a pediatrician named Dr. Verity Willis in New York in 2012.
• Noble Bigot with a Badge: She is a member of the Time Police who is extremely prejudiced towards variants, refers to them as "it" and treats them as stain to be purged away. But she is also A Mother to Her Men, and even her adversary, General Dox admits that B-15 "has integrity," while Hunter X-05 believes that unlike Loki and Mobius she would never resort to torture. She never lies or even curses. After getting disillusioned with the TVA dogma, she makes a Heel–Face Turn and stops being a bigot.
• Not So Above It All: Despite treating Loki with understandable precaution and hostility, Hunter B-15 can't help but snicker at Loki's attempts to use his powers in front of Judge Renslayer in "Glorious Purpose". Later on when she's escorting Loki throughout the Roxxcart building in the middle of an apocalyptic hurricane, she unintentionally drops her stoicism and dislike of Loki to simultaneously wig out over the fact that one of the civilians was casually browsing for houseplants.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: After talking to Sylvie in the rain, B-15 somehow managed to sneak into Ravonna's office offscreen and steal back Sylvie's sword before getting into the Time Keepers' room unnoticed, all after Ravonna put out an alert for her.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • "The Variant:" In Roxxcart, when B-15's tone becomes uncharacteristically cheery and sarcastic, Loki is quick to realize that she is possessed by his variant.
  • "The Nexus Event:" It is noticable that something is amiss with B-15 because she starts speaking in a slightly higher voice, and after exclusively referring to Loki as "variant" or "it," suddenly calls him by his name when she asks Mobius about him. It turns out that she saw a glimpse of her past when Sylvie enchanted her back in Roxxcart.
• Pretend Prejudice: In "The Nexus Event," when asking Mobius about C-20 and later about Loki, she makes sure to add that Loki and Sylvie are "plotting their next massacre" and to call Loki a "Variant pet," but the tone of her voice betrays her. After Sylvie enchanted her in Roxxcart and B-15 saw glimpes of her past, she no longer means it and is just trying to uncover the truth with her inquiries.
• Properly Paranoid: She is immediately suspicious of someone shopping at Roxxcart as though they were a regular customer in the middle of a deadly hurricane. Rightfully so, as the person is under Sylvie's control.
• Race Lift: Verity Willis is a white woman in the comics and a black one in the MCU.
• Rank Up: By the end of the second season, she has gone from one of the senior Hunters of the TVA to an undefined role of leadership, with Hunters, analysts, and Ouroboros all answering to her.
• Redemption in the Rain: Hunter B-15 takes Sylvie back to the Roxxcart disaster to learn the truth. They stand under a very heavy rain, with flickers of background light shining upon B-15's face as Sylvie shows her her past life. The former antagonistic By-the-Book Cop says in a tiny voice that she looked happy as she realizes that everything the TVA taught her was a lie.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!:
  • "Heart of the TVA:" B-15 is already disturbed by what she saw when Sylvie enchanted her in "The Variant," and now Mobius tells her that according to Loki, the TVA is lying. After some hesitation, B-15 disobeys Ravonna's order, goes into the room with Sylvie and takes her through a time door to Roxxcart to find out the truth.
  • "Ouroboros:" In the War Room, B-15 says she put out an order to stop pruning branches herself without proper protocol because there was no time for that, a huge leap for a By-the-Book Cop who rigorously followed TVA rules and procedures before.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Loki manages to disengage the Time Twister collar placed on him by Hunter B-15, then attach it to her neck, furiously shifting her through her recent timeline before getting bored and sending her away.
• Tomato in the Mirror: In "The Nexus Event," Sylvie shows B-15 that she is in fact a variant who had her past memories erased, and B-15 turns on the current TVA, intent to reform it.
• You Are What You Hate: Of all the prominent TVA operatives, she's the one who most disdains Variants, but unbeknownst to her she is one.

Hunter C-20

Hunter C-20

"You're not hearing me. I was there. This was real, what I saw."

Species: Human (Variant)

Portrayed By: Sasha Lane

Appearances: Loki

A TVA Hunter captured by Sylvie in her quest to find the Time-Keepers.

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• Brainwashed and Crazy: Twice in "The Variant". At the beginning of the episode, she is possessed by Sylvie while investigating a Nexus event in 1985 Wisconsin, and viciously attacks a few of her Minutemen before passing out. Sylvie takes her afterward to 2050 Alabama and possessed her once more so that she can tell her about the Time Keepers' whereabouts.
• He Knows Too Much: Implied to have been pruned by Ravonna after she finds out that she's a variant and not a TVA creation like she was led to believe.
• Killed Offscreen: Ravonna tells Mobius that C-20 is dead after the mission in Roxxcart because she "lost her mind", though we never see this happening. Mobius later scours through Ravonna's TemPad for C-20's file and finds out that she is listed as "deceased".
• Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: When C-20 learned that all TVA workers including herself are variants, Ravonna got rid of her to hide the truth from others.
• Madness Mantra: She keeps repeating "It's real" when the Minutemen find her in the Roxxcart store. She saw that she had a real-life before being brainwashed into joining the TVA.
• Mysterious Past: When Sylvie enchanted her, she recreates a memory of her hanging out in a bar on Earth at some unknown point in time (presumably between the late 2010s to the early 2020s, considering that the song playing in the bar is Hayley Kiyoko's "Demons", which was released in 2019). Other than that, we don't know much about her history.
• Really 700 Years Old: Sylvie mentions that when she tried to enchant C-20, the memory she found to enchant her with is a memory of C-20 from "hundreds of years prior, before she even fought for them," which implies C-20 is much, much older than what her appearance indicates.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Though her screentime is relatively limited, it was through her that Mobius finds out that the TVA workers are in fact variants themselves.
• Uncertain Doom: Ravonna says to Mobius that C-20 is "dead" and it is implied that she pruned C-20, but the audience never once saw if she got taken by Alioth or not.

Hunter D-90

Hunter D-90

"I was just doing my job."

Species: Human (Variant)

Portrayed By: Neil Ellice

Appearances: Loki

A Hunter who accompanies Agent Mobius in the field.

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• By-the-Book Cop: He is extremely disapproving of Mobius's unconventional choice of working with Loki and challenges Mobius about why he is taking Loki along on the Renaissance Fair mission. and Later, he hesitates not a second when Judge Renslayer orders him to prune Mobius.
• Consummate Professional: Does his job for the TVA without question or complaint, up until B-15 reveals the truth of the variants to him. It's portrayed more positively in Season 2, where he gawks at Dox's choice to lead a battalion of Hunters far greater than regulation allows for a single target.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • He looks genuinely shocked when Sylvie prunes herself (which for all he knows it is equal to suicide), and when Judge Renslayer just reacts callously to it.
  • In Season 2, D-90 becomes incredibly suspicious when he sees just how many Hunters General Dox has organized to try to find and neutralize Sylvie.
• Just Following Orders: When meeting up with Mobius again in Season 2, D-90 apologizes for pruning him, justifying his actions using this trope. Mobius is quick to forgive him.
• Lack of Empathy:
  • At the beginning of Season 1, he is rather harsh and unfriendly, and shows little compassion. When Mobius tries to talk to a shaken C-20 after she was enchanted by Sylvie, D-90 tells him that there is no point talking to her because "she's off the dial." Before that, he brusquely searches the bags of the people at the Roxxcart store for Reset Charges and doesn't care about their distress.
    Mobius: Hey! These people are scared.
    Hunter D-90: They're about to die. They should be scared.
  • Later in Season 1, however, he starts to soften as seen by his shock when Sylvie prunes herself in front of him. Then, after finding out the truth about the TVA, he turns his back on it and agrees that continuing to prune timelines is unacceptable.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After pruning Mobius in season 1 on Ravonna's orders he is himself pruned in season 2 by Brad so that Brad could capture Victor Timely.. on Ravonna's orders.
• Mauve Shirt: Other then B-15, he is the most reoccurring Hunter with a few distinguishing traits across his appearances in Loki. He is Pruned by X-05 during Ravonna's coup, but ends up being saved.
• Not So Above It All: Despite being fairly gruff and unpersonable, D-90 ends up having a small bonding moment with Victor Timely when they eagerly try out the hot cocoa machine and taste its contents together. Too bad Brad had to ruin it by Pruning him.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: After being Pruned by Brad, he survives an unknown amount of time in the Void before being rescued and returning to the TVA. Given Alioth seems to actively seek out living things brought to the Void, and the similarly Pruned Ravonna is beset upon by the beast immediately, this is especially impressive.

Hunter X-05

Hunter X-05

"I earned my life. I think we all earned our lives."

Known Aliases: Bradley "Brad" Wolfe

Species: Human (Variant)

Portrayed By: Rafael Casal

Appearances: Loki

"You’re not an analyst. I’m not a hunter. None of this is real.''

A Hunter who enforces General Dox's will.

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• Accomplice by Inaction: He does not complete the mission entrusted to him by General Dox, nor does he participate in the timeline bombing, and he is forced to tell Loki and Mobius everything in "Breaking Brad." Yet by "Heart of the TVA" he is still locked up with others, likely because he knew the plan and could warn Mobius or B-15 in advance, but staunchly refused to do so due to his close personal relationship with Dox.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: As Loki begins to ramp up the torture device threatening to cube him, he desperately apologizes for his previous comments about Loki and his mother and begs to be let out. When Ravonna is about to brutally murder Dox and her team he pleadingly asks "please, stop."
• Ambiguous Situation: In "Breaking Brad," he started a new life on the Sacred Timeline rather than a branched one because he knew all branched ones will be bombed. One way it could happen is if there used to be another Bradley Wolfe, X-05 killed and replaced him and is now impersonating him. Whether this is the case is neither confirmed nor denied.
• Apologetic Attacker: Brad says "I'm sorry" after he prunes D-90, because he is acting under duress and is scared into compliance by Ravonna and Miss Minutes.
• Bullying a Dragon: Brad thinks he can safely antagonize Loki, a Physical God who captured him, by calling him a loser and pinning his mother's death on him. Brad believes that Mobius will ensure Loki doesn't do Brad any harm. Then Loki just happens to be alone with Brad in a torture chamber and decides to have some fun.
• Canon Character All Along: In the second season of Loki, he's abandoned his role as a hunter and became a movie star named Brad Wolfe on the Sacred Timeline, starring in a movie called Zaniac, which was Brad Wolfe's persona in the comics.
• Character Tics: Whenever he's just standing around, he has the habit of holding his bulletproof vest near the collar with both hands (his gloves not-so-coincidentally reading "X" and "5" in this posture). He later does the same with his prison uniform/collar.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Loki and Mobius basically torture Brad for information about Dox and Sylvie. They get some, but not all of it.
• Defiant Captive: When captured, Brad refuses to tell how he modified the tempad, engages in Passive Aggressive Combat with Loki (promises to put a prisoner's collar on Loki, tells Loki to stop talking because he has no authority in the TVA), shuts up B-15 by pointing out that by getting a life on the timeline he just did as she told him, and finally tears into both Loki and Mobius with Hannibal Lectures.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": After getting a new life on the timeline, he isists that his name is now Bradley or Brad, and gets angry when his former colleagues at the TVA continue to call him X-05.
• The Dragon: He serves as Dox's second-in-command, following her orders and relaying her commands. The two also share a strange bond, as Dox gives him a Headbutt of Love when he begins to panic over the reality of his existence as a Variant.
• Establishing Character Moment: In his first scene, he interrupts Mobius and B-15's discussion to mock his love of jet skis, and proceeds to inform them of Dox requesting their presence. This establishes his general personality and his willingness to lay down the law when Dox is involved.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • In "Ouroboros", he looks away in shame when B-15 says in the war room that the TVA have been committing atrocities by pruning branches.
  • In "Heart of the TVA", even when he sides with Renslayer and Miss Minutes, he looks away in shock and horror as the two murder Dox and her men.
• Family of Choice: His relationship with his boss, General Dox resembles that of a mother and a son. When she explains their mission to him and sends him to find Sylvie, they share a Headbutt of Love. While he disagrees with her and sabotages the task, he vehemently refuses to reveal her plan to Loki and Mobius, and they learn it only through Cold-Blooded Torture and some mind-reading from Sylvie. In the cell, she angrily chides him for giving in, but in the next scene she is listening to his advice. When she is asking him to side with her over Ravonna, she speaks in an unusually soft voice, and when he refuses to die with her, he can't bear to look at her.
• Foil: To Loki. Brad exemplifies past bad traits that Loki is now shifting out of — he is smug, selfish, vain and opportunistic. Both are Master Actors, and were captured and interrogated by the TVA. While Loki rejected a life on the timeline Miss Minutes tempted him with in season 1 finale, Brad went for it as soon as he learned that he is a variant.
• Hannibal Lecture: During his first interrogation, Brad calmly lays into his inquisitors with "The Reason You Suck" Speech that fails to trigger Loki but provokes the normally levelheaded Mobius into physically attacking Brad.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: He abandons Dox and her plan to flee into the Sacred Timeline and live out his life as a movie star. That said, when Mobius and Loki come knocking, he is a condescending jackass and actively resists their attempts to coerce Dox's plan from him.
• The Hedonist: His main motivation is to enjoy life and all its pleasantries, others be damned. After centuries (eons?) of service in the TVA he feels he is owed it as a reward, and he'd rather attend a movie premiere on a Sacred Timeline than finish his mission and go help Dox.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: After learning his civilian life was stolen from him when he was inducted into the TVA, he decides to return to the main timeline and become a hotshot movie star instead of an extragalactic Time Cop. He repeats several times that in the TVA nothing is real.
• It's All About Me: He is selfish and concerned only with his own survival and living his best life. He is so vain that he would stop to give an autograph (to B-15 in disguise) even as he is running from Loki and Mobius.
• Jerkass: It says something about Brad when Mobius of all people calls him "an asshole". He is self-centered, vain and tends to put people down.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He makes a few good points when he's being interrogated:
  • He reminds B-15 that she said TVA workers are variants who had lives on the timeline, so she shouldn't be mad that he went down there to live his life.
  • He tells Mobius off for just abandoning the life he once had on his timeline before the TVA took him away from it.
  • He is not wrong when he calls Loki an atoner, a loser, and the one obsessed with Sylvie. It is Brad's belief that Loki is still a villain that does not hold water, and Loki uses that to his advantage.
• Join or Die: Ravonna offers everyone from Dox's crew to either follow her in exchange for a life on the timeline or be squeezed to death. Brad is the only one who chooses to help her.
• Karma Houdini: After all is said and done, the reformed TVA opens its doors to its workers leaving and as confirmed by Word of God, Brad gets to return to his life in the Prime Timeline. In the finale, there is a new jet ski magazine on Mobius's desk featuring him. So he will get the chance to live out the rest of his days as a successful actor despite him being Dox's Accomplice by Inaction, pruning D-90 under duress and, possibly, killing and replacing original Brad Wolfe.invoked
• Master Actor: When he hides on the Sacred Timeline, he chooses to pose as an actor named Brad Wolfe. When he is captured and interrogated, Loki says that he is indeed a good actor and is very convincing, so Loki can't afford to believe him. Even though Loki coerces Brad into revealing Sylvie's location, Brad successfully lies to Loki that he doesn't know Dox's plan. He does.
• Mind-Control Eyes: Brad's eyes momentarily glow eerily green when Sylvie enchants him.
• Mirror Character: To Sylvie. They both changed their name and hate the old one, both are self-centered hedonists who overestimate themselves, both despise the TVA, both prefer their new life on the timeline and say that Loki and Mobius will "ruin" it. Their similarity must be part of the reason why after finding her he abandoned the mission to capture her.
• Oh, Crap!: Brad becomes terrified when he realizes Loki is serious about interrogating him, at which point his smugness goes out the window. He later becomes erratic when he's taken to the McDonald's in Broxton that Sylvie works at, knowing that it's going to be bombed by Reset Charges at any minute.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Brad is shifty and impatient while Loki is talking to Sylvie, and Mobius realizes from his desire to leave that something other than Sylvie must be scaring him. When Mobius threatens to hang around indefinitely, Brad reveals Dox's plan.
• Rogue Agent: In "Ouroboros," he is a TVA hunter whom Dox tasked with finding Sylvie. In "Breaking Brad," he has left the TVA and vanished, and Loki and Mobius are hunting him down to learn more about both Sylvie and Dox.
• Smug Snake: He is far too confident in his abilities and capability to outwit others. He falsely believes a Time Twister will help him escape Loki who can freely use his magic outside the TVA. During his confinement, he taunts Loki for being a former villain and then freaks out when Loki plays into it and gets the better of him. He later attempts to give a rousing speech to other inmates, but fails to even correctly attribute a quote. And they won't listen to him anyway because they know he sold out their plan.
• Starting a New Life: After learning that he is a variant, X-05 the hunter left the TVA for good and shut down his TemPad so as not to be found. He settled on the Sacred Timeline as a popular actor Brad Wolfe who's just starred in a movie Zaniac. He enjoys his new life and believes that in the old one, nothing was "real".
• Uniformity Exception: He's the only seen Hunter whose outfit doesn't include sleeves. It signifies his informal attitude compared to the other Hunters. He is also the only seen Hunter who wears gloves with his name on them.
• You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: When X-5 must choose between Ravonna and Dox, the latter calls X-5 "Bradley" as the last appeal to him. It doesn't work and he still sides with Ravonna.

Administration and Support

Casey

Casey

"I've lived my entire life behind a desk."

Known Aliases: Hunter K-5E, Frank Lee Morris

Species: Human (Variant)

Portrayed By: Eugene Cordero

Appearances: Loki

A TVA receptionist.

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• Adaptation Species Change: Casey was a green alien in the comics, but he's a variant of an infamous Earth criminal in the show.
• Ambiguous Situation: Eugene Cordero briefly appears in the season 1 finale as Hunter K-5E, but who he is is never explained. Is he a variant of Casey or given that the scene takes place in the TVA's past, did Casey himself serve as a hunter before getting mind wiped and reassigned to another role?
• Amnesiac Resonance: It turns out that Casey the TVA clerk is hoarding glittery Infinity Stones in his drawer because before the TVA captured him and erased his memories he was Frank Lee Morris, the robber who escaped from Alcatraz.
• Ascended Extra: In the first season, Casey only made a few appearances as minor Plucky Comic Relief as Loki attempts to escape and understand what the TVA is. Come Season 2, and he ends up getting roped into the main story, working to track Miss Minutes and Ravonna Renslayer and later becoming O.B.'s impromptu assistant of sorts.
• Ascended Fanboy: Casey spent so much of his off-time studying the TVA handbook that he ended up becoming a fan of Ouroboros's handbook. When they meet for the first time in "Breaking Brad," he is immediately starstruck and asks for an autograph. Casey then ends up getting to work with O.B. to help prevent the Loom from blowing up.
• Asian and Nerdy: His actor is of Filipino descent and in season 2 he turns out to be really good with TVA technology.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Frank Lee Morris was an aggressive and devious criminal whose main motivations were personal profit via robbing banks, and evading the authorities. A sharp contrast to the mild-mannered and selfless Casey, who immediately jumps up to help the likes of Loki and Ouroboros without complaint, simply because it's the right thing to do.
• Butt-Monkey: In the first season, any time he shares a scene with Loki, he suffers some comic indignity, like Loki threatening to gut him like a fish or having part of his lunch stolen. There's also B-15 pruning his cart in her attempt to catch Loki.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Season 2 reveals that the seemingly timid little desk worker that didn't even know what a fish was when threatened by Loki, was once the vicious criminal Frank Lee Morris, who managed to escape Alcatraz alongside two other prisoners in 1962.
• Eskimos Aren't Real: Loki threatening to gut him like a fish doesn't work because Casey has no idea what a fish is due to never leaving the TVA offices. This gets hilariously turned on its head in Season 2, where Casey's former self Frank Lee Morris tells his fellow escapees that the Alcatraz guards will gut them like fish if they catch them.
• Foreshadowing: Casey is first seen hoarding an entire drawers worth of Infinity Stones and some other rare oddities. Come Season 2, his original self was a robber.
• Gutted Like a Fish: What Loki threatens to do to him if he doesn't give him back the Tesseract. However, the threat falls flat because Casey doesn't know what a fish actually is. This becomes a Brick Joke in "Science/Fiction" when he, as Frank Lee Morris, warns his other inmates that they'll be "gutted like fish" if they end up captured.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: The TVA's brainwashing of Frank into Casey resulted in the man becoming far nicer and less self-centered, even if he's working for a fascistic bureaucracy.
• Hidden Depths:
  • As revealed in "Breaking Brad," he knows the TVA Guidebook by heart and he is nearly as talented as Ouroboros in handling TVA technology when pressed.
  • As revealed in "Science/Fiction," he was formerly a prisoner in Alcatraz, and masterminded a plot to escape the place.
• Historical Domain Character: Turns out Casey, from before the TVA, is the real life Frank Lee Morris, a robber and the ringleader of the only three inmates known to have escaped from Alcatraz in 1962. The FBI could never solve conclusively whether their attempt succeeded or failed, only that Frank and the other three simply disappeared. In this story, evidently, He Who Remains (and later Loki) had a little something to do with that disappearance.
• Incredibly Lame Fun: It is revealed that Casey is a fan of the TVA Guidebook, and he asks for his copy to be signed by O.B. in the same manner as a comic book fan wanting an artist to sign their copy.
• Mirror Character: To Ouroboros. Both are nice Asian and Nerdy guys who play support roles in the TVA and ensure its day-to-day functioning with hardly any recognition until they prove to be Gadgeteer Geniuses integral to the system during the Time Loom crisis. After meeting each other, the two stick together.
• Nice Guy: As a member of the TVA he is genuinely nice, well-meaning and always ready to help.
• Not Me This Time: In "Science/Fiction," Loki suspects that Frank stole the TemPad because he used to be a robber and a prisoner in Alcatraz, but Frank claims that he didn't take it, and Loki is Instantly Proven Wrong when Frank's body turns into strands of matter. The TemPad must have spaghettified before that.
• Race Lift: Frank Lee Morris was Caucasian in real life, while Eugene Cordero is of Filipino descent.
• Rank Up: By the Dénouement, he has gained a seat in the War Room and enough authority to get the murals in the hall taken down.
• Skewed Priorities: After Casey learns from Ouroboros that they "are all gonna die," he gets sidetracked when he realizes he's talking to the author of the TVA manual, and gleefully asks for an autograph. B-15 has to remind both of them about the impending doom to get them back on track.
• The Smart Guy:
  • In season 2, Casey proves his analytical skills when he realizes that Miss Minutes is helping Renslayer, locates Renslayer's TemPad, offers to find both of them to open up access to the Loom, and warns about Sylvie's arrival in Chicago. Having memorized the TVA Guidebook, he also turns out to be very good with their gadgets and software. He gives Loki and Mobius something to use against X-05 by pointing out that X-05's rigged TemPad does not block any trackers. He later becomes inseparable from O.B. and does his best to help O.B. fix the Time Loom.
  • His past self, Frank Lee Morris was smart enough to devise a plan to escape from Alcatraz.
• Sticky Fingers: In "Science/Fiction," as soon as his past self, Frank gets to A.D. Doug's place, he immediately steals a device laying around even though Frank has no clue what it is and if it can be of use.
• Token Evil Teammate: His alter ego, Frank is a convicted criminal and the least moral member of Loki's team who steals random equipment and asks A.D. if he can use the TemPad to rob a bank.

Miss Minutes

Miss Minutes

"Hey y'all!"

Species: Artificial Intelligence

Voiced By: Tara Strong

Appearances: Loki

"Thanks for visiting the TVA. Don't hesitate to let us know how we're doing!"

The talking mascot of the TVA who gives instructions to those who have been taken into their custody for breaking time laws, and serves as a digital assistant to the staff.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: It turns out she's developed Yandere feelings for He Who Remains. When Victor Timely spurns her advances, she decides she and Ravonna can run the TVA without him.
• Alliterative Name: Miss Minutes.
• Ambiguous Situation: Loki asks her if she's an AI or just a recording. While her ability to react to his actions points to the former, she herself claims to be "sorta both". Even more ambiguous once her true role is revealed, as she speaks of He Who Remains more like a worshipper than a created AI. Season 2 has her confirm that she's an AI and was actually created by He Who Remains before the TVA.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Functionally speaking, she is the sentient personification of the TVA's particular brand of propaganda.
• Ax-Crazy: Do not let her cartoony appearance and Southern Belle demeanor fool you: Miss Minutes is an utter psychopath who will not only murder a room full of helpless prisoners, but do it with complete glee.
• Back from the Dead: In the finale, O.B. reactivates her as part of the rebuilding of the TVA, having evidently done some reprogramming work to deal with her homicidal tendencies — although when B-15 asks if he's sure she won't try and kill them all, O.B. can only shrug.
• Become a Real Boy: Her love for He Who Remains has made her long for a physical body so she can truly be with him, or with his Variants.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Though she comes across as quite cartoonish and has a comedic way of explaining the TVA's mission, she actually knows far more than she lets on, and even keeps the TVA in the dark regarding He Who Remains.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While she is the mascot of a borderline fascistic organization, she's very chipper and friendly, even when she reveals that she knows more about the TVA's true purpose than anybody else. The second season reveals this to be an act hiding a spiteful, obsessive, sadistic little monster.
• Character Catchphrase: Tends to say "Hey y'all!" whenever she appears before someone.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: She betrays Ravonna, Timely, He Who Remains and the TVA all in the same episode.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She persuades Victor Timely to dump Ravonna in a rowboat so she can have him to herself.
• The Creon: Not only is she The Dragon to "He Who Remains", but she speaks of him in an almost worshipful tone, having been the one to apparently coin the title to begin with. It's clear she's very content to act according to his wishes. Subverted in Season 2, where she instead decides she doesn't need He Who Remains anymore and helps Ravonna take over.
• Dissonant Serenity: In season 1's "Glorious Purpose", Miss Minutes explains her job of bringing prisoners up to speed on their process before standing trial for their time-related crimes with a pleasant, carefree attitude as though she were promoting something in an infomercial.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: Played with. While she ultimately serves under another entity, namely He Who Remains, she's the only one who reports directly to him, leaving the rest of the TVA in the dark. She even offers Loki and Sylvie whatever they want if they turn back and refuse to meet with him. They decline.
• The Dragon: Turns out she's the direct underling of He Who Remains, serving as his agent and his monitor of the TVA.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: Her last line to Victor Timely before Ouroboros shut her down was "You'll never be him." Given that Miss Minutes is privy to much of He Who Remains' plans, she pretty much hinted that Victor is actually no more than an Unwitting Pawn in He Who Remains' game.
• Evil Laugh: Much like when Scott became Giant-Man in Captain America: Civil War, Miss Minutes gives an exaggerated version of this while pretending to be a giant ghost to scare off the Chicago townsfolk in 1893.
• Expy:
  • She's acknowledged by the series creators to be inspired by Mr. DNA from Jurassic Park, being a chipper animated mascot designed to help bring the characters — and audience — up to speed about sci-fi exposition. The key difference is that she's sentient as opposed to a purely animated character voiced by someone else in-universe.
  • In Season 2, her origin is revealed that she was originally a chess program that eventually evolved into a fully sentient A.I., but has also developed extreme ambitions. This background is much like the MCP from Disney's TRON.
• Faux Affably Evil: Ignoring her sudden Jump Scare, Miss Minutes continues being her polite and conversational self when Loki and Sylvie enter the lair of He Who Remains, though as the series progresses she gradually becomes nastier. By the second season, this almost completely drops and she reveals herself to be a casual murderer and sociopath.
• Hard Light: Her holographic projection seems to be composed of this, or at least be partially physical since her steps can be heard.
• Hate Sink: While she initially appears to be a cartoony, and cute, Perky Female Minion, her demeanor is an act. She is a psychotic and murderous master manipulator who has no scruples whatsoever, and in acts of defiance, will always talk down to others, such as Loki, Sylvie and Victor Timely. To say nothing of her mass killing of Dox and her loyalists after they pulled a Heel–Face Turn via an unimaginably gruesome and grisly end. There isn't a single redeeming 0 or 1 in her code.
• Heel–Face Reincarnation: In Loki's new TVA, Miss Minutes is rebooted, with the new version apparently being a good guy, though everyone who remembers the old Miss Minutes is understandably nervous about the possibility that she could turn on them and try to kill them all again.
• Ignored Enamored Underling: To He Who Remains. He created her and gave her free will but never gave her a physical body, which she wanted to become his lover.
• Karmic Death: Sometime while working for He Who Remains, Miss Minutes wiped all the memories of every TVA worker except for Ouroboros, who was left forgotten in the organization's basement. During the events of "The Heart of the TVA", she's ultimately shut down by him for good through a system reset, meaning the one person she overlooked was the one responsible for her end.
• Manipulative Bitch: Her modus operandi is essentially making anyone dance to her tune. She feeds Timely's ego, Renslayer's ambition, and the desperation of others to further her own goals, and by extension, those of He Who Remains.
• Mascot with Attitude: Miss Minutes is a cartoon clock who politely, yet enthusiastically explains how and why time criminals have been brought to the TVA and what to expect from them before standing trial for their offenses. She also has no problem berating Loki when he's supposed to be paying attention, causing him to question if she's merely a recording or a living being (it's both).
• Ms. Exposition: Miss Minutes explains exactly what the Time Keepers are, what they did previously, and why the TVA exists in the first episode of Loki.
• Perky Female Minion: Miss Minutes is He Who Remains' right hand with a cheerful female voice and seemingly upbeat personality who's actually quite sinister underneath it all.
• Roger Rabbit Effect: "The Variant" shows that Miss Minutes can appear as a holographic projection in the real world, and does so to berate Loki for not listening to her lectures.
• Rogue Agent: Miss Minutes is the AI that manages all TVA systems and disappears after season 1 finale to complete the mission entrusted to her by He Who Remains. In "1893," Mobius calls her "a little rogue cartoon clock" that has gone AWOL. Loki and Mobius then follow her ally, Ravonna in an attempt to hunt both of them down.
• Southern Belle: She speaks in a very heavy southern drawl with a happy-go-lucky attitude, giving us this impression of her.
• The Starscream: She and Ravonna decide they don't need He Who Remains anymore in Season 2 and attempt to take it over for themselves.
• Unreliable Expositor: Her initial claims about the Time-Keepers creating the TVA are revealed to be false.
• White Gloves: She's an animated cartoon clock with white cartoon gloves.
• Yandere: As Miss Minutes' AI evolved, she began to develop a rather unhealthy romantic obsession with He Who Remains. Given that Victor happens to be a Variant of her creator, she wastes no time shifting her affections to him.

Ouroboros

Ouroboros

"Mobius! Wow! Great to see you again!"

Known Aliases: A.D. Doug

Species: Human (Variant)

Portrayed by: Ke Huy Quan

Appearances: Loki

A TVA worker who resides at the lowest floor of the TVA, making his debut in Loki's second season.

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• Adaptational Job Change: In the comics, Ouroboros was one of the three judges (alongside Mobius and Paradox) who presided over the trial of She-Hulk for breaking time laws. In the MCU, Ouroboros is instead a tech worker who builds and fixes things for the TVA.
• Adaptational Name Change: Slightly. In the comics, O.B's full name was spelled Orobourous, whereas here it's correctly written as Ouroboros.
• Almighty Janitor: He's only the TVA agent responsible for maintaining their technology but apparently has the greatest knowledge of how the TVA works of anyone in the institution. He also decides to just help Loki and Mobius without any agreement of the higher ups. Seeing how based on ranking the TVA generally is, his self-confidence is impressive.
• The Aloner: Ouroboros's workstation is located in the lowest parts of the TVA, where nobody but he and Miss Minutes (whom he never has spoken to due to being in separate areas) operate in. The closest he gets to interacting with other people is when people like Mobius or Loki wander downstairs to get something they need from him.
• Basement-Dweller: By his own admission, O.B. spends most of his time in the lowest part of the TVA, building gadgets and otherwise creating things that keep the organization going.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: In a more subtle way than other TVA members. In the first four episodes of season 2, O.B. is a technical guy who is mostly concerned with "what" and "how", and in "Science/Fiction", his A.D. Doug persona is a science-fiction author who is mostly concerned with "why". He says he would ditch teaching science altogether and become a full-time writer if he could.
• Beneath Notice: Implied. Unlike the other TVA workers, O.B. is able to recall meeting Loki hundreds of years ago in the past when He Who Remains still openly ran the organization, while everyone else doesn't recall that time. This indicates that O.B. is the only TVA worker who didn't have his mind wiped when He Who Remains switched to a behind-the-scenes role, seemingly because he's so far down the ladder that no-one bothered.
• Casting Gag: Ke Huy Quan is once again an endearingly dorky idealistic man involved in a multiverse setting. Him being the TVA's local tech expert that fixes and builds new machines also brings to mind Data from The Goonies (to the point where Quan even portrayed the character as though he were an adult variant of the character).
• Deadpan Snarker:
  • Downplayed. While O.B. is far from being a snarky person, he does get mildly irritated when Mobius requests him to fix a TemPad while he's busy trying to prevent the Loom from blowing up, redirecting him and Loki to his handbook so he can get back to his work.
  O.B: Yeah. I can definitely get into it. Do you think this is a higher priority than preventing a temporal meltdown?
  • Despite being genial to most of the people he meets, O.B. doesn't seem to be very fond of Sylvie, passive-aggressively snarking that she indirectly ruined his life by killing He Who Remains.
• Determinator: When Loki gives A.D. Doug the TVA handbook to build a protype Tempad, Doug spends over 18 months building the contraption to help find Loki again, even at the cost of losing his job and his wife in the process.
• Duct Tape for Everything: After Mobius notices that his time-resistant suit has a crack in the glass, O.B. patches it up with a piece of duct tape.
• Dissonant Serenity: O.B. is relatively chipper when describing his hectic work schedule that doesn't even allow for taking breaks or sleeping.
• The Engineer: O.B. has built several gadgets and machines for the TVA, and is the resident tech expert for time travel/multiverse related issues.
• Establishing Character Moment: He descends from a swing and greets Mobius with a smile (despite the two having not interacted in 400 years) and shows curiosity over Loki's time-slipping despite it not being possible.
• Expy: O.B. is essentially a grown-up version of Data if he were working for a Vast Bureaucracy, with Ke Huy Quan even admitting to playing O.B. as though that were the case.
• Famed In-Story: Amusingly, despite never being in a position where he actively interacts with people for very long, he's heavily revered by the likes of Casey and even Victor Timely, finding the TVA guidebook he wrote to be an incredible work of scientific value and beneficial for helping keep time itself running.
• Iconic Sequel Character: O.B's passion and devotion for the TVA and its workers make him quite a popular character in Loki, but he doesn't appear until the show's second season.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: It's revealed in "Science/Fiction" that he knows the sci-fi setting of the TVA so well because he was a sci-fi writer in his previous life. He does mention he teaches theoretical physics, but he states he doesn't have a PhD and the TVA doesn't work on plausible science in the slightest.
• In-Series Nickname: Ouroboros claims that Mobius calls him "O.B.", although Mobius doesn't have any specific memory of that. It's possible that O.B. got the nickname from the timeslipped Loki calling him that in the distant past.
• Married to the Job: Even moreso than other TVA members. While other agents and Hunters are shown taking breaks to rest and eat in designated areas, O.B. spends his entire time in the basement of the TVA, taking no time off from building/fixing things for the TVA.
• Meaningful Name: "Ouroboros" is representative of a dragon or snake when it's eating its own tail, meant to represent infinity. As it turns out, much of the technology O.B. has made was inspired by Victor Timely and vice-versa, meaning the two of them together are an active, living example of the Bootstrap Paradox.
• Mr. Exposition: His purpose in his title episode is to explain what's wrong with Loki, what's wrong with the TVA, and how to fix it to Loki and Mobius, and by extension, the audience.
• Nerd Glasses: He's shown wearing wide-rimmed black glasses in the present, though he's noticeably lacking them when Loki timeslips into the past.
• Nice Guy: O.B. is generally a friendly and good-natured man.
• Photographic Memory: O.B. can recall events that transpired hundreds and hundreds of years ago in perfect detail. He greatly remembers when Mobius visited him four hundred years ago, even though it was very brief and Mobius himself can barely remember it. Given the implication that the TVA staff has had their memories wiped at least once, it's possible O.B. is so Beneath Notice that He Who Remains completely forgot about him.
• Race Lift: Ouroboros was a white man in the comics, whereas the MCU's version of the character is played by the Vietnamese-American Ke Huy Quan.
• Really 700 Years Old: Despite looking like a healthy middle-aged man, O.B. indicates that he's been alive for hundreds, if not thousands of years, just like every other TVA worker.
• The Sleepless: Ouroboros's work life is so is so devoted to his job that he refuses to sleep. He doesn't seem to mind though.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: In the finale of season two, gets to work in the mission control room with the rest of the staff, gains new friends in the TVA, and even gets an apprentice/partner in the form of Casey.
• Uniformity Exception: Rather than the brown business suit or padded black armor that the agents and hunters respectively wear, O.B. wears a jumpsuit with turquoise accents, representing his lower status within the TVA.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: O.B. is rather excitable and positive, even when Loki suddenly timeslips somewhere within the TVA, which is something that should be impossible by his own accord. His original self is also equally willing to accept that there is such thing as time travel and Loki is a god.
• Workaholic: If O.B. takes a break from his job, which appears to be some sort of high-level maintenance, he says that the workload quickly piles up. So he combats that by only doing his job, alone, forever, never even sleeping.

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Alioth

Alioth

Species: Temporal entity

Appearances: Loki | Deadpool & Wolverine

"This is the place where the TVA dumps its rubbish, everything they prune. And Alioth, he ensures none of it ever returns."

— Kid Loki

A being that lives in the Void, consuming anything and everything that's been pruned and sent there.

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• Adaptation Deviation: In the comics, Alioth is a being who broke from the constraints of time and rules over the distant past, long before the rise of humanity as a species on Earth. In the MCU, Alioth resides in the Void at the end of time as a weaponized tool of He Who Remains, while also lacking true sapience.
• Adaptational Nonsapience: In the comics, Alioth wasn't just a full-fledged time conqueror, his dominion over time exceeded that of Kang's and the TVA. Here, he's a mindless beast that acts as He Who Remains (a Kang variant)'s guard dog and the TVA's garbage disposal.
• Adaptational Wimp: Played with. Alioth in the comics is a sapient entity that rules over an entire temporal empire and is a rival to other significant temporal figures like Kang the Conqueror and the TVA. Here, it is a powerful cosmic entity born from all the tears in reality created during the previous Multiversal War, as it devoured multiple entire universes — in order to stop the conflict, He Who Remains (a variant of Kang) weaponized Alioth and ended the war, before ultimately settling Alioth in the Void to devour anything sent there. As such, Alioth still rivals He Who Remains in power but is more of a Azathoth-like idiot god than a sapient creature.
• Ambiguous Gender: Downplayed; the pruned Lokis refer to it using "he/him" and "it/its" pronouns interchangeably.
• Clock Roaches: It came into existence from the destruction caused by the Multiversal War, a mindless cloud of destruction with an insatiable hunger for time and space. After He Who Remains managed to tame it, he used it as what can only be described as a cosmic garbage disposal for anyone and anything unfortunate enough to find themselves in the Void, as well as a Gate Guardian to his Citadel.
• Cumulonemesis: A gigantic monstrous cloud entity with a Nightmare Face.
• The Dreaded: Anyone who survives in the Void long enough knows that being anywhere near Alioth is a death sentence. It's fairly telling that even Deadpool's reaction to encountering it is to let out a horrified Precision F-Strike.
• Eldritch Abomination: It is a gigantic cloud of smoke with a head shaped like an animal skull, that scours through the Void and devours matter and energy, dissolving them into nothingness. It serves as a barrier between the Sacred Timeline and the new timeline from which the power behind the TVA is running things.
• Fog of Doom: Alioth is a giant living fog cloud that devours everything that gets into the Void.
• Gate Guardian: Alioth serves as a living barrier between the end of the Sacred Timeline and the new timeline beyond where its master resides. If anyone wants to pass from one to the other, they must convince Alioth to allow them to pass or force Alioth into doing so.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When its head emerges, it emanates a reddish glow from its eyes and mouth.
• Hungry Menace: Its only purpose is to devour everything in its way.
• Meaningful Name: Alioth is the name of the brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Major. The entity's head is shaped like the skull of a bear.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Exaggerated. This thing is little more than a freak of nature whose natural instinct is to mindlessly disintegrate anything living that the TVA sends to its dimension, and it shows no sign of stopping anytime soon. He Who Remains also admits that it had previously consumed entire other universes before he came to control it.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: This entity devours all it finds and guards the lair of the true leader of the oppressive TVA. The fog that it is made of is greyish-black, while its eyes and maw glow red.
• Time Abyss: Alioth predates the current iteration of the Multiverse, being the tool that He Who Remains used to prune it for eons.
• Walking Spoiler: Not only does its existence (along with the Void it resides in) spoil the fact that pruned Variants and branching timelines do not immediately die off, but it directly guards the way to the dwelling of the true leader of the TVA.
• Walking Wasteland: This thing will destroy just about anything it comes into contact with, no questions asked.

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