—TVA mottoFor all time. Always.
The Time Variance Authority, or TVA, is an infinitely vast bureaucracy created in the far future that exists outside of time and reality in the Null-Time Zone. It governed a sizeable number of the infinite realities in the ever-growing multiverse,[15] overseeing, adjusting and balancing timelines while pruning unwanted ones. The organization has dedicated itself to keeping tabs on every reality that exists for all time, always. It is an organization of faceless bureaucrats,[5] as all managers and other employees were believed to be born and bred specifically to complete their functions in a lifetime employment, cloned from the same genetic stalk to reduce disputes and improve efficiency, though the TVA also had a practice of recruiting freelance agents from various timelines.[16][15]
It should be noted that because the TVA exists outside the regular flow of time and can access almost any time period in a chosen reality on a whim, its exact chronological history is impossible to determine. Encounters with TVA are described below roughly in the order they were experienced by outsiders.
History
Formation[]

T.V.A. Territory on the map of the Realm of Known Time
In the very distant future, the Time Variance Authority was formed with the thankless task overseeing, adjusting, and ultimately balancing of countless realities throughout the Multiverse. This included monitoring all of the Nexus Beings of each individual reality.[2]
Chronomonitors would each monitor, chart, and record individual timelines assigned to them. Minutemen were the time police, intervening on the individual timelines directly. The TVA kept a standing force at all times, but also expanded during the times of crisis, recruiting freelance agents from across various timelines, though never into the management. Repatriated refugees were being returned to their original timelines, while certain universes were discontinued entirely, their remains ejected into the nothingness beyond the Null-Time Zone.[16] Despite being cloned for the job and having no life outside the TVA, the managerial class enjoyed perks such as salary and vacations.[15][2]
Although the TVA claimed responsibility and authority over the entire omniverse, they had continued territorial disputes with Kang the Conqueror and his Kang Dynasty, Alioth, Revelation, Congress of Realities, and the Delubric Consortium.[5][17][15] The TVA controlled a temporal dominion which was approximately two or three times as large as Kang's temporal empire.[17]
Saving Brooklynopolis[]
In the future of Earth-869371, the entire civilization of Brooklynopolis was threatened by a massive Zaniac outbreak occurred during World War VII. After being informed that Zaniac was an immortal being known by many names, including Jack the Ripper, the TVA recruited Justice Peace and allowed him to travel back in time and eliminate Zaniac. With the aid of Thor of Earth-616, Justice Peace successfully terminated Zaniac and saved his future.[1]
Time Bubble[]
Investigating the Bubble at the Heart of Time in reality-8810, the TVA had inadvertently exacerbated the problem.[1] They hired Death's Head to investigate why the Bubble did not self-destruct as it should have.[18]
When Galactus of Earth-616 activated the Ultimate Nullifier to use against Korvac, the TVA became highly frustrated by the amount of impending paperwork, as the Ultimate Nullifier destroyed its victims across the entire timestream, as if they had never existed. Though they possessed the authority to stop Galactus from using it, nobody was willing to personally go and tell him that.[19]
The Fantastic Four[]
After the numerous cross-time adventures of the Fantastic Four attracted the attention of the TVA, Mr. Mobius M. Mobius reported that they have been remanded to the custody of their local timeline pending a personal appearance before the TVA board, that regional temporal disruptions have been repaired, and that all powers have been restored at the local level. One of the Chronomonitors pointed out that none of those events would have happened if Mobius' department had been paying attention.[4]

Chronomonitors at work
When the Fantastic Four became involved in a battle across time against Kristoff Vernard posing as Doctor Doom, TVA Minutemen appeared and ordered everyone to surrender. When "Doom" balked at this demand, one of the Minutemen blasted him. The Fantastic Four were brought before Justice Peace, who explained that they were being arrested for crimes against synchronicity and teleported them away to Null-Time Zone for processing.[20] Justice Peace brought the Fantastic Four before the Sub-Committee of Time Lapses and Synchronicity to be questioned. When they noted that there were only five individuals and not six in custody, Peace explained that he was forced to terminate who he thought was Doctor Doom. The head of the committee was thankful because it required less paperwork.[16]
When Reed Richards asked the chairman what was going on, it was explained that the board was to determine the full scope of the group's chronal infractions and initiate procedural alterations. They also intended to prevent further meddling in their futures as well as review their timeline for any damages to continuity. One Council member advised the chair that the Fantastic Four were responsible for the destruction of the Time Bubble; this was not received well at all. When Reed asked how long this trial would take, the chairman said him that it could take at least five years. The chairman called the meeting adjourned and had the Fantastic Four remanded into custody. The group suddenly found themselves in a locked room which was just an endless void.[16]

The Hall of Chronometry
Reed was able to contact one of the senior administrators of the Time Variance Authority and convinced him to allow them on a tour of the TVA's operations, since they were prisoners of the organization. Mr. Mobius took them on a tour before placing them back into their void prison cell. Sue Storm turned invisible in order to trick the Minutemen into thinking that she had managed to escape. They opened the cell, and the Fantastic Four escaped before Justice Peace could arrive. They caused havoc across the TVA offices until Mobius and the Minutemen caught up to them.[16] Mobius ordered his Minutemen to destroy the Thing and Human Torch.[21]
Using this distraction, Reed and Sue accessed a TVA work station and inserted a virus into the TVA's mainframe which began splitting the timeline of the TVA itself. They fled the scene of the battle and ran into a massive garage filled what appears to be locomotives. Reed and Sue had brokered a ride aboard a Cross-Time Central Express Railroad by offering Casey their Unstable Molecules Fantastic Four Uniforms as contraband. Justice Peace and his Minutemen gave them chase, and Justice Peace managed to board the train. With a massive white void racing toward them, and Reed informed others that his computer virus was erasing all reference to their reality from the TVA's databanks. With this erasure, Justice Peace stopped attacking the Fantastic Four, as they have now done no wrong, and let them returning to their timeline.[21]
Timequake[]

The Timequake Crisis
He Who Remains, the very last director of the Time Variance Authority just prior to the heat death of that universe, sought to create the Time-Keepers who would survive the end of time and teach the next Multiversal Cycle. His first attempt resulted in the creation of the Time-Twisters, who were flawed and went backwards in time, destroying numerous realities. Due to the intervention of Thor, this reality was split into two: Earth-761243 where the Twisters lived and Earth-794282 where they were destroyed. In the reality in which they were destroyed, He Who Remains successfully created the Time-Keepers to protect time.[22][2]
Immortus used the Time-Twisters to target Nexus Beings of four different realities and managed to kill one, Vision of Earth-90110. Having siphoned Nexus Power from the four timelines, Immortus transformed into a quantum temporal wave and began spreading his influence across the Multiverse. With their own existence in jeopardy, the Time Variance Authority agreed to meet with the Watcher to find a solution to the problem. With the Timezone Manager being on vacation, the Deputy Secretary invited Uatu to the meeting of Assistant Deputy Secretaries. First they sent the former pawns of Immortus—Doctor Doom-772, Wolverine-9250, Thor-9260, and Irondroid-90110—to Limbo to try and stop him there but found that Immortus could reset events there to ensure his own victory.[2]

The TVA holds a meeting to discuss dealing with Immortus crisis.
The Watcher then suggested they use a means to prevent Immortus from being able to collect the Nexus energy he needed to become this powerful. This prompted the TVA to send agents into Immortus' past just as he first discovered his ancestors time machine and inject him with the Saturnyne Symbiont. First they sent the Fantastic Four of Earth-7712, however their super-powered forms made the young Nathaniel Richards suspicious and he used his ancestor's weapons to slay them. The Watcher then suggested they use Reed Richards' Rocket Group of Earth-8212, and their non-powered nature convinced Nathaniel to allow himself to be injected with the Symbiont. This resulted in Immortus' seeming destruction reversing the deaths of all those who perished in the Timequake incident and restoring the Time-Keepers to existence while devolving the Time-Twisters into the eggs they were born from, ending their threat.[2] Immortus would at some point unleash Alioth onto the TVA, throwing them in turmoil.[5]
The Missing File[]

The Hall of Chronometry
The file deleted by Reed Richards-616 was eventually noted to be missing during a quality scan. Mr. Alternity ordered the Senior Executive Middle Manager Mobius to find and replace it under a threat of demotion. Accompanied by Justice Love, Mobius went and abducted the Fantastic Four, who now included Scott Lang as Richards was missing and presumed dead. Mobius and Love failed to notice that Ant-Man had shrunk down and has hitched a ride on Justice Love. Johnny, Sue and Ben found themselves in a null-void cell, and Sue is pulled out of the room and brought into the office of Mobius who demanded the missing data. With her husband is missing, she asked for Mobius' help in finding him in order to recover the data. Mobius was unable help because he could not track Reed Richards because of the erased the data, and Sue managed to ambush him and escape his office. Mobius summoned Justice to find her. Justices Might, Truth, and Liberty responded, while Mobius teleported down to the holding cell to interrogate Ben and Johnny.[15]
With the help of Ant-Man, Sue knocked out the the three Justices, and stole two of their uniforms so she and Scott could travel unheeded. As Mobius continued his interrogation, Sue and Scott returned to the cell, pretending that they captured an "invisible Sue Richards" in order to get the drop on Mobius. Holding their captor at gun point, learned of Mobius' plight and convinced him to try and find a better paying job at a rival time authority. Never realizing that this was an option, Mobius decides to give a try and took them on a Cross-Time Train to Chronopolis. At a private audience with Kang, Mobius received a generous job offer. Growing bored, Kang then teleported the Fantastic Four back to Central Park in their own era. Mobius went to Mister Alternity and informed him that the Kang Dynasty had made him a better offer. He suggested to Alternity that if he wanted Mobius to say he should promote him, meet Kang's benefits package, and remove him from the job of finding the missing data. Alternity has no choice but to accept, and soon Mr. Tesseract was given the job previous held by Mr. Mobius.[15]

Paperwork from the Beyonder and Molecule Man rematch
Later, a manager at the TVA was ordered to gather documents relating to the recent scuffle between the Beyonder and the Molecule Man only to find that there was a massive warehouse of paperwork that needs to be filed.[15] Mobius and others were tracking Access on his trip across the Multiverse but had lost him.[23]
Timestream[]
Having already captured Timestream of Earth-7484 once, Godwulf was tasked by the TVA to do so again, in addition to bringing in Deathlok the Demolisher whom Timestream took from their timeline. Granted full immunity to time-jump in order to achieve this, Godwulf recruited Deathlok (Michael Collins), and Siege of Earth-616 to stop Timestream.[24] After the three of them failed, TVA sent Justice Peace to bring in Godwulf for his failure to apprehend Timestream. Peace and a squadron of TVA agent appeared before Godwulf, Deathlok, and Siege to arrest them. The prisoners were about to be terminated, but managed to escape. Godwulf convinced Peace to give them twenty-four hours to find Timestream. Peace revealed that Timestream's alteration of the timelines was an excuse for the TVA to permanently delete those realities. Peace wanted to help but was afraid his own timeline would be deleted. They defeated Timestream, and Justice Peace told them that their mission was a success and personally escorted them back to their native timelines.[6]
Mobius called Reed Richards of Earth-616 directly to explain to him that due to the missing eight minutes of time, time anomalies were popping up all over the globe. Mobius asked the Fantastic Four to help, but they have stumbled into the plans of Ramades, son of Kang.[25] He trapped them in the past and conquered the Earth. Eventually, Ramades was struck by Franklin Richards with a ball of missing time, allowing the Time Variance Authority to trap him in an infinite loop of those eight minutes. With Ramades defeated, Mr. Mobius and Mr. Alternity were able to reset the time-stream of Earth-616 so that the invasion of Ramades never happened and instead diverged into Earth-50415.[26]
Time Trial of She-Hulk[]

When the millionaire Charles Czarkowski was put on trial for attempted murder, he claimed it was in self-defense due to the victim being a time-traveller that a message from the future warned him about. Charles sought representation from Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway, the law firm where She-Hulk's alter-ego, Jen Walters, worked. Since the case was widely covered by the media and it was near-impossible to find an unbiased jury, GLK&H's head Artie Zix arranged to have the TVA Justice Peace and Justice Love bring people from the near past who were dead in the present at the time of the trial. One of the time-displaced jurors was Clint Barton, the hero known as Hawkeye and a close friend of Walters.[27]
Throughout the trial, Jen attempted to warn Barton about his impending death to no avail. The trial was interrupted when Czarkowski summoned a robot as a distraction to escape. Returning to his workshop, he disguised his appearance and sent his past self a warning. Realizing that he had become the person the message warned him about, Czarkowski attempted to send his past self a second message. He was stopped by Justice Peace, who forced Czarkowski into his time machine on behalf of the TVA so he would be shot by his past self, closing the paradox.

Following the resolution of this case, the TVA arrested Walters for her attempts to warn Hawkeye.[7] She was brought to a trial presided by Mr. Mobius, Mr. Paradox, and Mr. Orobourous to decide if she was to be erased from existence. She-Hulk saw herself demoralized by a glimpse into a future conflict called the Reckoning War had sparked because of her, and pleaded guilty. However, the supervillain Clockwise then hijacked the trial and went on a rampage blasting the Retroactive Cannon which erased Orobourous and Paradox from existence. After She-Hulk stopped Clockwise, Mobius reconsidered the heroine's guilty plea, and subsequently ruled in her favor after the numerous testimonies of the people that She-Hulk helped beyond superheroics convinced him that removing her from the timeline would endanger the entire continuum. However, since She-Hulk was still guilty of tampering with time, Mobius decided to have one of the TVA's prisoners remanded into her custody as punishment, and she chose Two-Gun Kid.[8]
Renegade Chronomonitor[]
A renegade from the Time Variance Authority, Chronomonitor#616 was stripped off his power for interfering with history for personal gain too many times. He escaped imprisonment and traveled into the ancient Egypt on Earth-20051, where he impersonated the Pharaoh Rama-Tut. He eventually came into conflict with Fantastic Four from Earth-20051's future, and the conflict caused the TVA to notice the temporal disturbance. The arriving TVA operatives placed Chronomonitor #616 into an endless temporal loop while the Fantastic Four were returned to their own time with all memories of the incident removed.[28]
At some point in the history of Earth-13729, the X-Men administered Space Station X, a Sentinel head turned into a monitoring station, possessing aboard it a vault containing time-travel technology, kept untouched under an agreement with the Time Variance Authority, among other organizations. Those organizations were the only ones allowed to authorize entry to the vault. In order to protect the vault, Worthington Industries's Archangel Bots were posted there.[29]
Time Diamonds[]
While trying to rob a bank, Orb was defeated by Spider-Man and Wolverine before Time Diamonds scattered the three of them across the timeline.[30] Orb experienced an alternate life where he was a muscle bound gun toting monster before being pulled back by the Minutemen who were after the reckless Time Diamond users.[31] They had grabbed Mojo, Czar, and Big Murder and erased their memories before returning them to their proper time, but had missed Spider-Man, Wolverine and Sara Bailey who got pulled along with them. The Minutemen later took Sara and returned her home as well. The remaining Time Diamond transported Logan and Peter back the bank heist where everything started with their memories still intact.[32]

The TVA became aware that, on Earth-13617, Bentley-23 of the Future Foundation created a device that ripped a hole in space-time, rupturing the entire timeline. Mr. Oburos was informed and hired Death's Head to deal with the resistance inside the Baxter Building on Earth-616 before Oburos and a squad of Minutemen arrived there in person. Oburos saw that the Future Foundation children were being looked after by Spider-Man, who in this point in time was not Peter Parker, but rather Otto Octavius. Realizing that his secret was known, Otto webbed Oburos's mouther and beheaded Death's Head. Oburos summoned another version of the bounty hunter from earlier in his timeline, whom Spider-Man kicked through the window. Oburos explained what the nature of the danger to the timeline was, and Octavius solved it by talking to Bentley-23 and convincing him not to build the device. Satisfied, Oburos left but warned Superior Spider-Man that he would be watching him.[33]
Deadpool & Cable[]
A group of Minutemen led by Officer Salcido showed up to arrest Cable, confusing him for Stryfe. Deadpool, who was trying to kill Cable as part of his deal with Stryfe, took Cable's arm discarded by the TVA and followed them.[34] Instead of taking Cable to Null-Time Zone, he was put in a regular cell in an underwater TVA precinct in an unspecified timeline. Meanwhile, having access to a time machine but no knowledge where exactly Cable was, Deadpool used a clone of Avengers database he had secretly made to read up on known TVA encounters. He attacked Justice Peace in the past right after his encounter with Thor to learn about the secret precinct and stormed it, slaughtering all Minutemen within. Salcido was smart enough to let Cable out of his cell and give him his gun, but still became one of Deadpool's many victims.[12]

Disgraced Professor Gamble
While working at the TVA, Professor Justin Alphonse Gamble served as a training instructor for new agent. He became obsessed with female agent Ali Ciad, claiming that he loved her. When Gamble constantly harassed her and wouldn't take no for an answer, Ciad filed an official complaint with the TVA, but they didn't do anything even though Gamble had a history of such behavior. Finally, Ali Ciad left the TVA and began time traveling to get away from him but Gamble, who also parted ways with TVA, was always able to find her. Gamble became embittered by her continued rejection and came to want to make her pay for breaking his heart. Gamble began recruiting goons from throughout time to serve as a makeshift army, including Deadpool-616, to track Ali down. Deadpool traveled to 1979 where he found the woman but Cable showed up because someone had been tearing apart the timestream. When Incinerators showed up, all three of them fled through time and ended up at a TVA Chrono-station in the Western frontier.[35]
Ciad identified herself and explained the situation with Gamble. After realizing that Gamble had been tracking Ciad through her time travel device embedded in her artificial eye, Cable gave her the Chrono-Temporal-Gateway-Opener and sent her to the TVA with a message from him while he and Deadpool took the eye and used it to lure Gamble into following them instead. Gamble and his crew of time-displaced warriors had Cable and Deadpool at their mercy when Ciad arrived with new firepower that the TVA had given her in response to Cable's message. They were still outmatched until Deadpool's future self ("Futurepool") arrived and turned the tables. Once his goons were defeated, Ciad punched out Gamble, then Cable took him to the TVA to make him pay for his misdeeds.[35]
Reckoning War[]
Rama-Tut, Scarlet Centurion, Kang, and Immortus have organized a contest amongst themselves. The four of them, joined by Scion attacked the Fantastic Four throughout different periods of their history. The TVA became aware of this simultaneous temporal murder spree, but was unable to travel into the continuity cascade without their time ships being torn apart. Centurion, Rama-Tut, and Kang each succeeded in killing all but one of the Fantastic Four. The others were saved by Scion, who was in fact Reed Richards himself in disguise. He brought the survivors to Neverspace where together they defeated Kang and his Variants. Justice Love and Justice Peace finally arrived to witness a scene one paradox away from folding unto itself. They took away Kang and others while resetting the affected timeline in such way that the history of Earth-616 remained unchanged in the present.[36]
When the Reckoning War began, Justice Love and Justice Peace showed up to observe the Fantastic Four and She-Hulk after the Moon was destroyed. There were invisible to all except Walters, who had previously was shown that very same moment by TVA itself. Love and Peace told She-Hulk that Reckoning War was always inevitable and always her fault, and that until it was over the entirety of TVA was being shifted into Null Space.[37][38] After the conclusion of the war, the two appeared again and informed She-Hulk that her actions had doomed the planet Raj-Lek but also led to eight quadrillion new worlds, confirming that this was the best possible timeline.[37]
Megasonic Endless Godhead[]
Negasonic Teenage Warhead of Earth-616 had a vision of her future put on a trial by the Time Variance Authority for knowingly risking the existence of the universe while entire reality was breaking apart around them. It was happening because she rejected her reality warping power; without it the chain of events of her life was changed, she had not met Yuki Ohara with whom she was supposed to fell in love and had a kiss on an alien moon. The kiss was a fixed point in time, it was supposed to happen, by circumventing it Ellie created an irresolvable anomaly. The only way to avoid that future was for her to within an hour met a woman she had not know and kiss her on that alien moon.[13] Knowing only the name of this woman, Negasonic telepathically contacted Emma Frost and others for hep.[39]
TVA Minutemen arrived and tried to arrest Negasonic for what she would do, but she managed to escape. Moondragon informed her that they found Yuki, on the moon under attack by Megasonic Endless Godhead.[40] Ellie teleported to the moon, and learned that Megasonic Endless Godhead was her variant from the future where reality was destroyed, but she survived and became the equivalent of Galactus.[41] Scarlet Witch helped Ellie meet Yuki, but the TVA agents attacked them soon after.[42] They decided to erase both Ellie and Yuki, this infuriated Ellie who teleported Deadpool, Emma Frost, Moondragon, Scarlet Witch and everyone else who was helping her. While all of them were fighting with the TVA, Ellie slowed down time and asked Yuki on a date. They spent a day together and kissed just one second before the universe ended. The TVA agents left them alone, but promised that they would monitor Ellie's life and would return if she would become a threat again.[43]
Multiversal War[]

The massive statue of He Who Remains looms over the new TVA.
The Time Variance Authority underwent a major change under circumstances not fully known and made more complicated by few available sources of information proven not to be entirely trustworthy. The fates of everyone who worked for the prior incarnation of TVA remain unrevealed. Allegedly, multiversal counterparts of Kang the Conqueror (who were Variants of a man named Victor Timely as opposed to Nathaniel Richards) fought each other in a Multiversal War that threatened to destroy all of existence. One of their number, who later called himself He Who Remains (not to be confused with the last Director of TVA) discovered Alioth, believed to have been created within the spacetime rifts caused by the war. He Who Remains weaponized Alioth and used it to defeat his alternate selves and put an end to the Multiversal War,[44] with the help of a woman called Ravonna Renslayer.[45]

The new look at the TVA office
To prevent another Multiversal War, He Who Remains isolated the reality the history of which led to him from the greater Multiverse, creating what became known as the "Sacred Timeline". He also either took over the Time Variance Authority, or recreated it followings its destruction, to manage the Sacred Timeline and prevent any divergent realities from branching off that would result in more of his Variants to challenge him again. Still based in the Null-Time Zone,[46] the TVA was put in charge of pruning any new realities created either via time travel or decisions made by individuals on of the Sacred Timeline itself.[44]
For the Sacred Timeline[]

The venerated Time-Keepers
Though similar in some regards, this new version of TVA was staffed by Variants taken from branched timelines that were subsequently pruned.[47] For some time, it operated with the knowledge of He Who Remains being out in the open,[48] before he decided to erase every trace of his existence and erased the memories of everyone in the TVA.[45] He created animatronic android versions of Time-Keepers to act as his mouthpieces as to be the highest visible authority in TVA.[49] The propaganda claimed that it was the Time-Keepers who ended the Multiversal War and isolated the Sacred Timeline,[50] and the mind-wiped TVA personnel believed themselves to have been created by the Time-Keepers.[49] While their exact relation to the real Time-Keepers created by another who called himself He Who Remains is unknown, due to the atemporal nature of the TVA it is possible that one of them served as the inspiration for the other.
The mind-wiped Variants working for the TVA were stripped of their former names and were known only by their rank and serial number. In addition to the Minutemen and Agents, the TVA now also employed Hunters, Analysts, and Judges. Promotion within ranks was possible, and those who rose through the ranks to became Agents or Judges received new individual names in lieu of the numbers assigned to Hunters and Minutemen.[51] The only one to remember the truth was Miss Minutes, the Artificial Intelligence creation of He Who Remains who acted as the mascot for the TVA while in fact performing critical functions for its true purpose, unknown to anyone else.[44]

TVA Hunters, Minutemen, and Agent
The TVA monitored the "Sacred Timeline" for any deviations, no matter how minor, at which point a team of Hunters and Minutemen would be dispatched to the newly created branch. There, they would apprehend the Variants responsible for the divergence and use Reset Charges to "prune" the timeline branch[50] by moving all affected matter into the Void at the End of Time where the branch could no longer grow.[52] The Variants themselves would be brought inside the TVA headquarters, processed and put on trial before the Judges. When found guilty, Time Sticks would do to the individuals what Reset Charges did for entire timelines.[50] When they reached the Void, Alioth would finish the job by destroying the leftovers. Certain resourceful individuals however have managed to evade Alioth and survive in the Void for a prolonged period of tine.[52][14]
In more complicated cases, the Variants could evade capture and thus Analysts and Agents were employed to track them down via more sophisticated detective methods. TVA had access to sophisticated technology that gave them a large degree of control over time, allowing them to make affected Variants move slower, loop them back into a starting position, restrict their powers with Time Collar[50] and trap them inside Time Cells. This enabled the TVA staffed entirely by non-powered Humans to capture such dangerous Variants as Titans, Vampires,[49] and Asgardians.[50]
Loki[]

Judge Renslayer receives Loki in the Time Theater in front of the Time-Keepers statues
The Time Heist initiated by the Avengers of Earth-199999 created a timeline divergence in 2012 which led Loki to escape with the Tesseract into the Gobi Desert. A Time Variance Authority unit led by Hunter B-15 arrived and detained Loki for disrupting the Sacred Timeline before using Reset Charges to prune the divergent branch. Loki was taken by the TVA and brought into the courtroom before Judge Ravonna Renslayer. Renslayer ordered Loki to be reset, but he was intercepted by Agent Mobius, who persuaded her of Loki's potential value to the TVA.[50] Mobius recruited Loki, dubbed Variant L1130, to help locate another rogue version of him, Variant L1190, who has been ambushing TVA across the timeline.[51]

Loki joins the TVA as its first outside agent.
A group of Minutemen led by Hunter C-20 was attacked by the fugitive Varian in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1985. C-20 was enchanted by the Variant, causing her to attack her fellow Minutemen. After all Minutemen were dead, C-20 passed out and the Variant, Sylvie, took her captive to 2050.[51] She used her enchantment powers to put C-20 into a suppressed memory of her past on Earth, where she posed as her friend in order to get C-20 to divulge information about the Time-Keepers.[47] Sylvie was eventually successful and left C-20 to be found by her fellow TVA agents, sill babbling about how it all felt real. Mobius' hunch proved correct, as Loki deduced that their target was hiding within apocalyptic events. Loki, Mobius, Hunter B-15, and additional Minutemen were deployed to Haven Hills, Alabama in 2050, where Loki met the Variant, Sylvie, but failed to stop her from sending numerous Reset Charges through the Timedoors across the Sacred Timeline. The TVA stabilized the Sacred Timeline by pruning the emergent branches.[51]
The Truth Revealed[]

Sylvie is recaptured by the TVA.
C-20 was taken back to the TVA headquarters and interrogated by Judge Renslayer. She kept insisting that her past life on Earth was real and that, just like everyone else in the TVA, she was a Variant.[49] Meanwhile, with the TVA distracted, Sylvie used her stolen TemPad to venture there with the goal of stealing technology. Loki followed her, and when the two were spotted by Judge Renslayer, used Sylvie's TemPad to escape to Lamentis-1.[47] However, their growing feelings for one another caused a massive Nexus event, enabling the TVA to locate and apprehend them. Previously enchanted by Sylvie, Hunter B-15 took her back to 2050 and asked to do it again, this time being able to remember her past life just like C-20 did. Mobius went to see Renslayer, who told him that Hunter C-20 expired from the degradation of her mental faculties.[49]

Mobius speaks to Renslayer.
Feeling that something was amiss, Mobius switched his TemPad with Ravonna's. Watching from a secluded place, he saw the interrogation video of C-20 confirming that she was still lucid and healthy, but also validating Loki's claims that the TVA staff were mind-wiped Variants. Mobius freed Loki from the Time Cell, but they were cornered by Ravonna, who had Mobius pruned on spot. When Renslayer brought the two Loki Variants before the Time-Keepers to be pruned, Hunter B-15 intervened and helped the prisoners break free. Sylvie decapitated one of the Time-Keepers, revealing that they were in fact mere animatronics, shocking everyone present. Ravonna managed to prune the Loki Variant, but was overpowered by Sylvie who took Ravonna captive. Stalling for time, Ravonna revealed that pruned matter was not destroyed instantly, but rather transported into the Void which meant that Loki was still alive. When the Minutemen arrived, Sylvie took Ravonna's TemPad and Time Stick and pruned herself to follow Loki.[49]
Ravonna requested from Miss Minutes information pertaining to the creation of the TVA.[52] The truth about TVA personnel being Variants continued to spread, as B-15 was able to demonstrate it to Hunter D-90. Mobius returned from the Void with Sylvie's TemPad and confronted Ravonna who overpowered him, but was unable to prune her old friend herself. Mobius tried to reason that since the TVA's origins were a lie, so was its purpose. However, Ravonna still believed that there had to be a reason and remained committed to it. Ravonna then departed the TVA in search of the free will.[44]
Leaderless[]

He Who Remains, the mastermind behind this version of TVA
In the Void, Loki and Sylvie found Loki and Sylvie enchanted Alioth[49] and managed to pass through it to the Citadel at the End of Time. There, they met by Miss Minutes who gave them one last offer to be reinserted into their preferred timeline should they agree to stop pursuing the truth behind the TVA. Both rejected the offer and were met by He Who Remains, who explained the origins of himself, the Multiversal War, and the TVA and presented them a choice: to take over the TVA and continue his mission in a more benevolent way or to kill him and let the branching timelines plunge the Multiverse into a new chaos. Loki cautious and wanted to at least think it through, but Sylvie was determined to have her revenge. After a brief fight, she pushed Loki out back into the TVA and killed He Who Remains by stabbing him through the chest.[44]

Once an ordinary Hunter, B-15 began taking initiative in the new and uncertain times.
Upon his death, numerous timelines branches began spreading, triggering triggered power disruptions throughout the TVA.[44] Loki was thrown into the past and began time-slipping uncontrollably, meeting TVA people out of order. Hunter X-05 informed B-15 and Mobius that the newly formed Judges' Council requested their presence. Judge Gamble demanded transparency while General Dox insisted on adhering to protocols. B-15 managed to convinced Gamble to immediately cease all pruning operations. Loki materialized in the War Room and used Time Stick to expose that the Time-Keepers mural concealed the visage of He Who Remains. Loki explained that he was the actual TVA founder and proclaimed his imminent return.[48]

Looking out at the Temporal Loom
As Loki continued time-slipping, Mobius took him to Ouroboros, who was initially skeptic until Loki slipped back in time and talked to Ouroboros, or O.B., in the past. O.B. explained that Mobius needed to use a Temporal Aura Extractor to extract Loki from the Temporal Loom while Loki self-pruned. Loki's condition was stabilized, but TVA experienced power fluctuations, and O.B. realized that the multiversal branches were overwhelming the Temporal Loom. When B-15 rejected the option of pruning the branches, Ouroboros indicated that the only alternative was sealing the blast doors leading to the Temporal Loom while he developed modifications for it to accommodate the branches.[48]
Dissent[]

General Dox became the leader of those who refused to accept the change at the TVA.
General Dox ordered Hunter X-05 to find Sylvie,[48] but he abandoned his mission in favor of settling to have a life on a branched timeline.[53] General Dox led a raid on the armory and dispatched her loyalists to deploy Reset Charges throughout the branching timelines.[48] Dox and her followers launched an attack on the branches, successfully pruning many. However, Loki had managed to find Sylvie and together with Mobius intervened and began destroying their equipment. Recognizing the mission's failure, Dox commanded her loyalists to prune as many timelines as possible. A burst of magic from Loki and Sylvie incapacitated Dox and her remaining followers, who were transported back to the TVA.[53] B-15 approached Dox and her loyalists in their cell and tried to convince them to help protect the reform the TVA, to no avail.[45]

Renslayer reveals to Victor Timely his destiny.
Meanwhile, Renslayer was contacted by Miss Minutes who directed her to 1868 with the Time Variance Authority Official Handbook, which she was instructed to slip through a window to young Victor Timely. They then proceeded to 1893 on the same branch and went to see Timely's demonstration. Ravonna approached Timely after the presentation with a partnership offer, but he was forced to flee by his previous business partners. They were located by Loki and Mobius, but Miss Minutes created a distraction that allowed Renslayer to escape with Timely. She tried to explain to Victor his connection to He Who Remains and stated that her goal was to stabilize the Temporal Loom. They boarded a ship bound for Timely's laboratory where they appeared to bond, only for Victor to abandon Ravonna in favor of Miss Minutes. She reached Timely's laboratory only to find Mobius, Loki, and Sylvie already there.[54]

Saving the Temporal Loom
They were successful in taking Timely with them to TVA, while Ravonna was send by Sylvie to the Citadel at the End of Time. She reactivated Miss Minutes, who had likewise been abandoned by Timely,[54] and the two decided to operate independently. They made an offer to Dox and her loyalists, which everyone except X-05 had rejected. Miss Minutes then activated a Gizmo that crushed all who refused to join them to death. Renslayer sent Hunter X-05 to find Timely, who was taken to O.B. and put to work on the Throughput Multiplier to scale the capacity of the Temporal Loom. When Victor took a break, he was kidnapped by X-05 who also pruned D-90. Loki and Sylvie rushed to his rescue, and O.B. initiated a reboot which deactivated Miss Minutes and deactivated power dampeners inside the TVA. This enabled Sylvie to enchant X-05 and to get him to prune Renslayer.[45]
Falling Apart[]

The Temporal Loom explodes.
Despite O.B.'s efforts, the Temporal Loom overloaded and the entire Time Variance Authority was ordered to be evacuated. Running out of time, Loki volunteered himself to launch the Throughput Multiplier, but Timely insisted on taking the risk. The temporal radiation in the Loom chamber had risen dramatically, and the moment the airlock blast doors opened and Timely stepped outside, Victor was spaghettified into non-existence shortly before the Loom exploded.[45] Thrown across time once again, Loki ultimately mastered his Time Slipping[55] and set upon using it to try and complete and install the Throughput Multiplier faster. After a string of failings and resetting the time loop, Loki rationalized that he needed to complete it himself without relying on Timely.[56]

Loki holding it all together
Loki spend the next several centuries obtaining and memorizing the necessary knowledge within the time loop. Finally, he was able to complete the Throughput Multiplier in record time and guide Victor into installing it without incident. However, this victory still proved futile as expanding the rings of the Temporal Loom to increased capacity could not scale to infinite timeline branching. He then decided to travel back to the Citadel at the End of Time and stop Sylvie from killing He Who Remains. After several failed attempts, Loki managed to freeze Sylvie in time and have private chat with He Who Remains, who explained that the Temporal Loom could not be scaled for infinite and acted as a failsafe, cutting all branches except the Sacred Timeline. Deciding to break the cycle, Loki time-slipped back to the TVA and gave a tearful goodbye to his friends. Loki then used his Asgardian magic to breach the blast doors and destroy the Temporal Loom. The timeline branches began to die, but Loki used his powers to gather them during his ascension. Finally, Loki sat on the remains of a throne at the Citadel at the End of Time, integrating and watching over the infinite branches of the Multiverse.[56]
A New Purpose[]
The TVA redirected its efforts towards protecting the new Multiverse and hunting the Variants of He Who Remains. B-15 assumed a senior leadership position, while O.B. had reprogrammed and reactivates Miss Minutes to be more helpful and less murder-prone. Mobius left the TVA to discover his true identity and shared a moment with Sylvie who asked him what he was going to do next.[56]

Paradox, self-proclaimed "mercy killer"
Mr. Paradox disliked the new approach thatled the TVA to stop pruning branching realities. Wanting to advance his own career, he decided to "mercy kill" the dying timeline of Earth-10005 by using an unsanctioned Time Ripper. Before erasing the timeline entirely, he had the TVA Minutemen abduct Deadpool from that reality so that he could be spared for a greater purpose. Upon learning that his entire world was doomed to end, Deadpool stole Paradox's TemPad and went on a recruitment trip across the Multiverse to find a Wolverine that could replace the Anchor Being who died in his world. When he brought one to the TVA, Paradox dismissed him as "the worst Wolverine" and used his Time Stick to prune both of them.[14]

Deadpool and Wolverine, the unlikely TVA saviors
Paradox then reached out to his contact in the Void, Pyro, and ordered him to make sure that Alioth got both Wolverine and Deadpool. Pyro later informed Paradox that both targets managed to escape. Paradox then ordered Pyro to kill Cassandra Nova in exchange for being let out of the Void. After learning that the TVA broke the agreement they had with her, Cassandra used a Sling Ring to leave the Void and went after Paradox, who was overseeing the destruction of Earth-10005 personally. Cassandra used her powers to make him show her how to operate the Time Ripper and revealed that she intended to destroy all realities, leaving only the Void for her to rule. Wolverine and Deadpool escaped from the Void as well and tried to stop Nova, and Paradox explained to them how short-circuiting the Time Ripper could stop her plans. The two of them joined in sharing the Time Ripper's energy together, which allowed them to survive it. Cassandra Nova was disintegrated by Time Ripper's energy, and Paradox was apprehended by B-15 who confirmed that Deadpool's timeline was now stable.[14]
All-New, All-Different[]
Mobius eventually completed his sabbatical and returned to active duty at the TVA.[57] During the Venom War, Mobius' team placed Earth-1610 escapee Jimmy Hudson—a.k.a the multiversal Poison—under arrest, paying Deadpool of Earth-616 a finders' fee for tracking him down.[58]

Mobius back at his job
After Ghost-Spider (Gwen Stacy) of Earth-65 got merged with a Cosmic Cube and was targeted by a King Loki for her new powers,[59] Ouroborous began to study her and informed Mobius that he believed Gwen to be in danger. Mobius downplayed Ouroboros' study and stated that he checked himself and believed Gwen to be ".7." on the danger scale. Mobius advised Ouroboros get some cake from the break room and Ouroboros originally decided to listen, but then changed his mind and rescued Gwen from her universe.[60] O.B. presented Gwen to the TVA as a timeline refugee with no home to return to, and the fact that Gwen's home reality was still intact remained a secret between the two of them.[46]
An agreement between Gwen, O.B., and the TVA was set up in which Gwen would be sent to Earth-616 to hide her from King Loki. Under no circumstances was Gwen to use her suit or powers. Gwen reluctantly agreed to this and was given the alias of "Lisa Rogers" in order to differentiate herself from Gwen Stacy of Earth-616. O.B. would later find that Gwen did end up using her suit on Earth-616 and so lectured her about it. Gwen came up with many excuses before getting down to the real issue of not wanting to use an alias when in her civilian life on Earth-616. O.B. told her he'd see what he could do before reminding her one last time not to use her suit.[61]
The Madness[]

The new R&A field team assembles.
Inspired by what Loki had managed to achieve, Mobius and B-15 decided to offer place in the TVA to other dimensional strays. Both Gwen and Jimmy were given work for the TVA as the people who had no timeline to return to. They were joined by other new recruits such as Mobius' assistant Ingrid. Miss Minutes also got company, joined by two new autonomous holographic A.I.s: medical expert Doc Clock and heavily accented Sir Seconds in charge of security. With many new faces joining the TVA, Miss Minutes set out to film some orientation videos. Captain Carter informed the TVA of a disturbance called "the Madness" which caused people across dozens of various timelines to experience their worst fears, accompanied by the glimpses of the TVA itself. Before the team set out to investigate, B-15 brought out her latest recruit—Gambit from a reality where he had lost his Rogue.[46]

Sylvie returns to keep tabs on the TVA.
The field team of the Research and Advancement Department went out to investigate the site of the last known outbreak on Earth-93 and were attacked by their own worst nightmares—not imaginary, but capable of inflicting very real damage. Ingrid suggested to contact Daimon Hellstrom for information,[46] and the team departed for Earth-616 Hell Town. Daimon had no idea about the Madness or what was causing it, but offered the guests to peruse his personal library. While others were busy reading, Gwen and Gambit came across Sylvie who has been tailing them, making it her business to know everything that was going on in the TVA. The tome An Exhaustive Guide to Celestial Bureaucracies, saved by Daimon back in the days of He Who Remains, revealed the existence of an entire secret department located directly beneath the R&A.[57]
While they were away, Mobius was stabbed by an unknown attacker.[57] The attacker got away, but a murder weapon was recovered in Jimmy Hudson's bunk, and he was taken into custody. Mobius remained in stable condition, and it was determined that he was stabbed with a Reality Shard—a small piece of the Reality Stone. The trail of the attacker led back to the R&A department, from which the only way out was down, but B-15 strictly forbade Gwen from going there. Gwen promptly ignored the order and ventured into the secret Department of Deferment which her drams have been leading her to, even providing working access codes. Inside, Gwen discovered a Scarlet Witch in cryostasis.[62]

Gwen discovers TVA's dark secret.
Gwen immediately went back up and informed the rest of the team of her discovery. After that, Gwen, Gambit and Ingrid went to Earth-616 New Orleans where they recovered a book were attacked by minions of Nightmare. Gwen, Mobius, and others have all experienced a vision of a figure in green leading them down there, and Gwen believed that it was Loki while other adamantly denied that it could be the case. Gwen went back to the Department of Deferment and freed Scarlet Witch from her stasis, only to have Nightmare thank her[63] for having a mind so easy to break into. Nightmare offered Wanda to join forces, but she blasted him away. Ingrid rushed to help Gwen get back up, where others were quickly caught up to speed on the situation. Nightmare kept tempting Wanda, but was not interesting in joining him and only wanted to leave. But Wanda's history of many nightmares kept powering Nightmare as their fighting left a trail of destruction across the TVA.[64]

Nightmare unleashed on the TVA.
Slipping away from others, Ingrid addressed Nightmare as "father" and changed into her true form—that of his daughter Dreamqueen. Far from willing to team, she berated him for blundering into her delicate plan, mixing his dream energy with hers that threatened her exposure. Dreamqueen revealed to have created the Madness to keep the team occupied while she was going after father and have stabbed Mobius out of desperation. She then blasted the ceiling above them which led to the R&A and changed back into her Ingrid form before her co-workers could catch a glimpse of Dreamqueen. Nightmare suddenly found himself face-to-face with TVA's cat Maggie who revealed herself to be a Flerken and swallowed him whole, later spitting him out into a special cell laced with good dream energy. Gwen intended to make Wanda stay, but Sylvie forced her hand and let the Scarlet Witch depart in peace, Wanda discarded her tiara and verbally quit the Avengers as she did so. Jimmy Hudson was exonerated and everyone was happy to have the Madness dealt with, unaware of its true culprit as Dreamqueen had managed to maintain her cover as Ingrid.[64]
Major Divisions[]
Paraphernalia
Equipment
Weapons
- Reset Charges[50]
- Time Sticks[50]
- Time Rippers (formerly)[14]
Transportation
Notes
- The appearance of TVA in the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series Loki was originally contradictory to its portrayal in the comics and was considered to be a separate version. Later, much that was initially told about the TVA in the show was revealed to be a fabrication, and further comic appearances began directly referencing the events of the TV series. Most notably, the TVA comic series acts as a direct sequel to the show and states that the TVA had recently went through a major upheaval. As such, this article attempts to present all appearances of the TVA as belonging to the same evolving organization until further information becomes available.
- Web of Spider-Man (Vol. 3) #1 represents a transitional case, portraying the TVA offices as classic endless desks floating in an empty void, while changing the appearances of Mobius and Ouroborous to match their MCU portrayals. Additionally, Ouroborous is depicted as a field agent wearing a suit in Web of Spider-Man (Vol. 3) #1 and Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider before TVA reverts him to the head of R&A department wearing the uniform he wore in the show, all while his relationship with Gwen is referenced across both series.
- It is presently unrevealed what exactly happed to the Time Variance Authority during the transition between Seventh and Eighth Multiversal Cycle, as it has been stated that the TVA could not influence future cycles.[22]
Trivia
- Originally, the physical appearance of all TVA employees was based on that of Mark Gruenwald, Marvel writer and editor best known for tidying up continuity and striving for internal consistency, who also conceived the idea of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Fantastic Four Annual #24 directly acknowledges this resemblance by calling the Time Variance Authority the "Mark Gruenwalds of time continuity."[19]
- Members of the TVA have used unique profanity including "kraggit"[1] and "flarg."[15]
See Also
- 62 appearance(s) of Time Variance Authority (Null-Time Zone)
- 3 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Time Variance Authority (Null-Time Zone)
- 6 minor appearance(s) of Time Variance Authority (Null-Time Zone)
- 21 mention(s) of Time Variance Authority (Null-Time Zone)
- 3 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Time Variance Authority (Null-Time Zone)
- 56 image(s) of Time Variance Authority (Null-Time Zone)
- 44 member(s) of Time Variance Authority (Null-Time Zone)
- 10 item(s) used/owned by Time Variance Authority (Null-Time Zone)
Links and References
- Time Variance Authority on Wikipedia.org
- Time Variance Authority on Unofficial Marvel App
- Time Variance Authority (Null-Time Zone) on the
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Thor #372
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 What If...? #39
- ↑ Avengers Annual #22 ; A Gamble of Time
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fantastic Four #346
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Avengers: Forever #9
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Deathlok (Vol. 2) #33
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 She-Hulk (Vol. 2) #2
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 She-Hulk (Vol. 2) #3
- ↑ Uncanny Avengers #14
- ↑ Marvel Zombies 5 #4
- ↑ She-Hulk (Vol. 2) #4
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Despicable Deadpool #288
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #44
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Deadpool & Wolverine
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 Fantastic Four Annual #27
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 Fantastic Four #353
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Avengers: The Terminatrix Objective #3
- ↑ Fantastic Four #338
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Fantastic Four Annual #24
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Fantastic Four #352
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Fantastic Four #354
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Thor #245
- ↑ Unlimited Access #2
- ↑ Deathlok (Vol. 2) #31
- ↑ 4 #15
- ↑ 4 #18
- ↑ She-Hulk (Vol. 2) #1
- ↑ Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #23
- ↑ Wolverine & the X-Men #29
- ↑ Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine #1
- ↑ Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine #2
- ↑ Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine #6
- ↑ Avenging Spider-Man #17
- ↑ Despicable Deadpool #287
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 Cable & Deadpool Annual #1
- ↑ Fantastic Four (Vol. 6) #35
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 Fantastic Four (Vol. 6) #45
- ↑ Fantastic Four: Reckoning War Alpha #1
- ↑ Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #45
- ↑ Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #46
- ↑ Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #47
- ↑ Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #48
- ↑ Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #49
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 44.4 44.5 Loki S1E06
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 45.4 Loki S2E04
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 46.2 46.3 TVA #1
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 47.2 Loki S1E03
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 48.3 48.4 48.5 48.6 Loki S2E01
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 49.2 49.3 49.4 49.5 49.6 49.7 Loki S1E04
- ↑ 50.00 50.01 50.02 50.03 50.04 50.05 50.06 50.07 50.08 50.09 50.10 50.11 50.12 50.13 50.14 50.15 Loki S1E01
- ↑ 51.0 51.1 51.2 51.3 Loki S1E02
- ↑ 52.0 52.1 52.2 Loki S1E05
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 Loki S2E02
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 Loki S2E03
- ↑ Loki S2E05
- ↑ 56.0 56.1 56.2 Loki S2E06
- ↑ 57.0 57.1 57.2 TVA #2
- ↑ Venom War: Deadpool–3
- ↑ Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #11
- ↑ Web of Spider-Man (Vol. 3) #1
- ↑ Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #1
- ↑ TVA #3
- ↑ TVA #4
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 TVA #5