—The VariantThis isn't about you.
Appearances
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Sylvie Laufeydottir (Variant L0852) (First full appearance) (Unnamed)
Other Characters:
- Time Variance Authority
- Miss Minutes
- Casey
- Hunter D-90 (First appearance)
- Minutemen
- Numerous others
- Loki (Variant L1247) (As a hologram)
- Loki (Variant L6792) (As a hologram)
- Loki (Variant L8914) (As a hologram)
- Loki (Variant L7803) (As a hologram)
- Time-Keepers (Statues)
- Roxxcart (First appearance)
- Hank
- Randy
- Suzanne Bogg (Named only)
- Tracy Wilson (Named only)
- Chad Westland (Named only)
- Revengers (Named only)
- Hulk (Dr. Bruce Banner) (Mentioned)
- Surtur (Mentioned)
- Laufey (Mentioned)
- Odin (Mentioned)
- Thor (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- TVA Headquarters
- Multiverse
- 1985 branching timeline
- The Sacred Timeline
- Earth
- Roman Empire
- United States of America
- Alabama
- Haven Hills
- Roxxcart Mall
- Haven Hills
- Alabama
- Earth
- Asgard (Mentioned)
- Rainbow Bridge (Mentioned)
- Jotunheim (Mentioned)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Nidavellir (Named only)
- Morag (Named only)
- 0259-S (Named only)
- Sakaar (Named only), Tayo (Named only)
- Lisbon (Named only), Portugal (Named only)
- Niffleheim (Named only)
- Dartford (Named only), England (Named only)
- Phong Nga (Named only), Vietnam (Named only)
- Vormir (Named only)
- Thorton (Named only), USA
- Cookerville (Named only), USA
- Rome (Named only), Italy (Named only)
- Barichara (Named only), Colombia (Named only)
- Porvoo (Named only), Finland (Named only)
- Ego (Named only)
- Titan (Named only)
- New York (Named only), USA
- Tokyo (Named only), Japan (Named only)
- Hala (Named only)
- Kingsport (Named only), USA
- Xandar (Named only)
- Beijing (Named only), China (Named only)
- Madrid (Named only), Spain (Named only)
- Portland (Named only), Oregon (Named only)
- Atlanta (Named only), Georgia (Named only)
- Godthab Omega (Named only)
Items:
- TemPads
- Reset Charges
- Time Sticks
- Time Collar
- Tesseract (Named only)
Events:
Synopsis
Mobius puts Loki to work, but not everyone at TVA is thrilled about the God of Mischief's presence. Loki joins a TVA mission to the site of an attack by "The Variant" in 1985 Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he stalls and attempts to bargain his way into meeting the Time-Keepers, who created the TVA and the Sacred Timeline. Renslayer objects to Loki's further involvement, but Mobius convinces her to give him another chance. Loki researches TVA files and theorizes that the Variant is hiding near apocalyptic events where their actions do not affect the timeline. Loki and Mobius confirm this possibility by visiting Pompeii in 79 AD, before deducing that the Variant is hiding during a hurricane in 2050 Alabama. There, they are ambushed by the Variant, who possesses the bodies of several locals and TVA agent Hunter B-15. The Variant reveals herself to be a female version of Loki and rejects his offer to overthrow the Time-Keepers together. She sends the stolen reset charges to various points along the Sacred Timeline, which activate and create numerous branched timelines that throw the TVA into disarray. She teleports away and Loki follows her.