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merpiko · 5 months

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tva tumblr dashboard simulator (limbo of after s1 but before the big events of s2)

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Can L1130 stop throwing infinity stones at me while I review his mission report

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I told him I was gonna snitch to Mobius and he stopped

#X-5 was right #he literally deflated the moment I told him how much power does Mobius hold over this guy

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just learned theres a department called repairs & advancements and its run by just one guy?? so thats how my tempad gets fixed

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hello! (-‿◦☀)

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wait. ouroboros? did you write the tva official handbook

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yes :D

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OH MY GOD I'M A HUGE FAN CAN YOU SIGN MINE

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sure! just come down to r&a ^_^

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do you ever think about your l̵̝̦̝̻̹̹̿̌̔̓͒̎̃̇͠ͅi̷̙̿̋̃̕f̸̬̘̙̀ͅe̷̦͍͎̮̎̔͑̐̀̿̾̓̎̋ ̵̢̭̺̹̈ó̵̘̫̣̹͖̜̞̫͍͘ǹ̴̠̩̼̩͔̈́̇̀͒̈́̓̽͝ ̶̛͇̒̅͋͛̉̓̄t̶̡̼͎̟̀͌̿͒̕h̴̛͓̣͍̓̊̈́̈́͑e̶̟̩͑̈ ̸̫̱̥̉̅̓̓̚t̷̗̲̲̞̺̞̣͍̮̐̾͊̀̎̚̚i̷̻͑̉̐̊̆̾̽̽̃̚ḿ̷͉̻̩̝̗̉ḛ̴̡̘̣̖͖̮́l̴̡̞͓̪̹̦͚̟̑̂̉̅̏̍͐í̵̘̪́̽̿̿̈́ͅn̴̯̬̫̭̮͉̝͐̒̂̒̽͆͜͝ȩ̶̤͈̪͓̠̝̮̳̔͘

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DEACTIVATED?? THIS WAS POSTED 5 SECONDS AGO

#fishy #i thought it wasn't possible for weird fonts besides the tva standard ones #it is now! #MISS MINUTES???

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did i just see renslayer open the sims 4 on her tempad

#so much for the rule of not jailbreaking them

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blonde woman stepped through a time door and is currently making me type this as she holds a dagger to my throat, so does anyone know where mobius and the variant are

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probably making out

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They're in the auto-mat.

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thanks you guys suck -syl

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@alligatorwithacrown-inmourning i was across from op and her, she looked hella pissed when she saw your rb

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they would make a good couple tho

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Our job is to manage the timeline, not speculate on relationships.

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do you think her and the variant were exes

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do you ever shut up

#annoying cubicle neighbors

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GO BACK TO WORK

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im pretty sure that the blonde woman was the variant's ex

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I'm going to gut you like a fish!

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WHAT WAS THAT FOR

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The variant taught me that one! And go back to work, Emilia is going to start lashing out on me if you keep posting :)

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damn right casey

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can someone prune the variant (aka loki (of many), aka L1130, aka mobius's pet) hes going to destroy the tva if he keeps teaching casey these things

#i miss when fish didnt exist yet

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do you think anyone has ever gotten freaky with this

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op what the hell is wrong with you

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i sit at a desk for eons

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miss minutes please do your job and delete this post

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Why is there a poll discussing my relationship with the variant?

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@alligatorwithacrown-inmourning

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FUCK

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keep up the great work people

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He took my TemPad, sorry.

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loki we need to talk the next time you come over

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wait weren't you the girl that almost killed my coworker

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i can come over now is it an emergency

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not for me but for you

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im not coming over

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SHE ALMOST KILLED ME

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#loki series #loki #time variance authority #tva #loki laufeyson #mobius m mobius #sylvie laufeydottir #miss minutes #fake tumblr post #fake tumblr dash #most of this is self indulgent tbh

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p-0287 · 7 months

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I need Marvel sells TVA official handbook. I'd love to buy it.

#TVA #Marvel Studios #Loki

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omniversalobservations · 2 years

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Mobius craves a jet ski in Loki because his inspiration, the late Marvel editor Mark Gruenwald, loved them. Gruenwald had so much fun with jet skis that he used to insist the Marvel attendees join in the “fun” in the early days of Comic-Con in San Diego.

It was many of the fascinating stories told about Gruenwald at the New York Comic Con panel: “What Gru Knew (And You Should Too).”

[...]

A quick biography: Gruewald started writing with his own fanzine as a teen. He was hired at Marvel Comics in 1978, became a full editor in 1982, and became a Marvel executive editor in 1987, a tenure that included some of the most tumultuous years at Marvel, as the company faced bankruptcy, but also some of the most creative. He edited numerous Marvel comics, his writing credits include over 20 series, including Quasar, Captain America, Spider-Woman, and D.P. 7.

As for what part of Gru particularly inspired Mobius other than the jet skis? That had to be his landmark work on the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #1-15. Gru was well-known in the comics industry as the repository of all that could be known about the Marvel Universe. When Walt Simonson and Sal Buscema created the Time Variance Authority (which is at the heart of the Loki television show), all the TVA agents were originally clones of Gruenwald.

Sadly, Gruenwald died in 1996 due to a heart attack caused by a previously undiagnosed congenital heart defect. His ashes were famously mixed with the ink of the first edition of his Magnus Opus, Squadron Supreme.

While you can still pick up most of Gruenwald’s creative work (sadly, used, as much of it is out of print), the NYCC panel focused on contributions less well-known to the general public, namely his work as an editor at a time when Marvel faced an uncertain future.

The panelists included Catherine Schuller-Gruenwald (his widow), Carl Potts, Dan Tandarich, Daniel Hort, Jason Olson, Lysa Hawkins, and Nikki Mannes. It was a free-ranging discussion. Some of the highlights:

* Gru created a written, codified year-long assistant editor program designed to teach all new assistant editors all aspects of the job, rather than relying on what individual editors would teach their assistants. “It was a curriculum that went through all the aspects of comics and nothing like that had been done before,” Potts said. * Gru believed that fun was related to creativity. Hort said, “There was a sense that Marvel would close, as hard as it might be now for some people to imagine that.” The emphasis on fun was to keep everyone invested in their work at a time when things could have been grim. That, for Gru, included his famous reliance on practical jokes, a tendency that spread throughout the Marvel bullpen at the time. * The Marvel offices at that time had little separation between their personal and professional lives, including Gruenwald, to the point, Potts said, that a group locked themselves in their offices at night to finish work. (They had to lock themselves into a specific office all night so as not to set off the night alarms.) But Potts said it was nights like that which created a bond between the creatives. * Lysa Hawkins, who is now a senior editor at Valiant, talked of how encouraging Gruenwald was to her aspirations to become an editor, crediting him with encouraging her to apply for an open editorial position. She spoke of how often she uses his advice. “If the reader can predict an ending,” Hawksins said, “Gruenwald said that was a crime. But if a reader can predict a better ending, that’s a sin.” * Manes talked about the impact of the Mark Gruenwald Foundation for the Arts, which offers two scholarships a year to aspiring creators. * Schuller-Gruenwald offered the story of how she met her husband. She came from the world of fashion and showed up as part of a casting call for models at a comic con. They were looking for plus-sized models for She-Hulk. Her future husband told her she’d be much better as the Enchantress, then asked her out. She replied she never dated anyone she worked for and he responded with “well, you don’t have the job yet.” She did eventually fall in love with the comic business as much as her husband. She even brought part of his ashes with her to the NYCC panel.

It’s clear that the comic world lost Gruenwald too early. Kevin Feige is credited as the guy who shepherded the Marvel Cinematic Universe into becoming what it is by overseeing an increasingly connected universe yet still keeping room for different types of stories.

Gru did that for comics, a couple of decades previously. (Incidentally, my autocorrect changes “Gru” to “God,” which seems entirely appropriate given the subject matter.)

I hope Mobius gets his jet ski in the next season of Loki. And, Marvel, please, let’s have an omnibus collection of the full 61 issues of the Quasar run.

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otterskin · 3 years

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Inverted Mobius, Mr. Tesseract and The Avatar of Truth

The mystery of the weird collar has deepened, thanks to @nebulousfishgills - by which I mean they totally solved it.

To those just joining me, I noticed this in my previous breakdown of the Loki trailer here.

Mr. Mobius, played by Owen Wilson, has an ‘inverted suit’. His collar is an indentation in his suit, rather than going on top of it.

So, first, a scene from Endgame that I seriously did think of when we learned there was a character called ‘Mobius M. Mobius’ in Loki (played by Owen Wilson). And yet I didn’t put this together. Thanks again to nebulousfish for making me realize that these things might not be coincidences.

When Mr. Stark is inventing time travel, he asks his AI to create a depiction of a Mobius Strip, inverted.

Which gets him this:

Anyway, what is a Mobius Strip, and who is Mobius M. Mobius? (Not to be confused with Morbius the Living Vampire, though wouldn’t it be funny if he was mistaken for Mobius M. if this show gets big first?)

I am not a quantum theorist or comic book aficionado by trade, so let’s do a Wikipedia-Fu on it.

In mathematics, a Möbius strip, band, or loop (US: /ˈmoʊbiəs, ˈmeɪ-/ MOH-bee-əs, MAY-, UK: /ˈmɜːbiəs/;[1]German: [ˈmøːbi̯ʊs]), also spelled Mobius or Moebius, is a surface with only one side (when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space) and only one boundary curve. The Möbius strip is the simplest non-orientable surface.

An example of a Möbius strip can be created by taking a strip of paper and giving one end a half-twist, then joining the ends to form a loop; its boundary is a simple closed curve which can be traced by a single unknotted string. Any topological space homeomorphic to this example is also called a Möbius strip, allowing for a very wide variety of geometric realizations as surfaces with a definite size and shape. For example, any rectangle can be glued left-edge to right-edge with a reversal of orientation. Some, but not all, of these can be smoothly modeled as surfaces in Euclidean space. A closely related, but not homeomorphic, surface is the complete open Möbius band, a boundaryless surface in which the width of the strip is extended infinitely to become a Euclidean line.A half-twist clockwise gives an embedding of the Möbius strip which cannot be moved or stretched to give the half-twist counterclockwise; thus, a Möbius strip embedded in Euclidean space is a chiral object with right- or left-handedness. The Möbius strip can also be embedded by twisting the strip any odd number of times, or by knotting and twisting the strip before joining its ends.

A Möbius strip does not self-intersect but its projection in 2 dimensions does.

Uh....right. Well, that clears everything up, doesn’t it?

Let’s crib off someone else’s work. Thanks to Thomas Wong on Medium, I was able to understand this a little better.

A Möbius strip is just a strip of paper, turned and taped together. It it only has one side, so an ant walking along the strip eventually returns to where he started. If we metaphorically interpret the ant, not as returning to a point in space, but a point in time, then it alludes to time travel.

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As previously discussed, after a measurement, the quantum mixture (half born and half never born) becomes a definite state (born or never born). Finding the “spectral decomposition” is to find all the possible energies (eigenvalues) and states. Using these, one can determine how a quantum object evolves with time.

Combining this with the metaphoric interpretation of the Möbius strip, it could be that Stark found how to make quantum objects evolve such that they revisit a point in time, hence time travel.

Okay, that’s a little easier to understand. So how does this relate to the character Mobius M. Mobius, aside from him being named after the strip and the (apparently antiquated) ideas about time travel?

Well, he was based on Marvel Comics Legend Mark Gruenwald, a guy known for his passion for the lore of the comics, which he knew in innate detail. He even wrote the Official Handbooks and whatnot. Likewise, Mr. Mobius is a stickler for detail and one of the few members of the TVA even allowed a face - although it is off the rack, as he’s one an infinite number of clones (god I love the TVA so much already, it’s heaven for a Douglas Addams fan like me).

Despite being a clone, he rose through the ranks and is nearly the top guy, serving only underneath Mr. Alternity (and I am not familiar with these comics so feel free to correct me). Mr. Alternity has almost no comics history, but is based on editor Tom Brevoort.

There are several other misters, all of them near-identical to ‘Moby’. Mr. Orobourous, Mr. Paradox, Mr. Tesseract (!) and Mr. Oburos. They are also minor characters, but let’s look at all these names.

Clearly they are named after quantum theories of some-sort or another.

Mr. Mobius: Mobius Strip Theory - the idea that, essentially, is about the shape of time itself and the theory of traveling along that shape.

Mr. Alternity : Alternative universes

Mr. Ouroboros: A divine figure representing the beginning and the end of time in an endless cycle of death and rebirth.

Mr. Oburos - I’m not sure, but I think this is a variant of Ouroboros.

Mr. Paradox - Temporal paradox, causal loops - ex. The Grandfather Paradox

Mr. Tesseract - An object that exists in 4 dimensions. Time is often called the fourth dimension.

Obviously that last one is interesting, considering how the Tesseract will be the start of our adventure. The Cosmic Cube was renamed for the MCU, and in the comics has no relation to this minor character.

But what if it now does?

What if Tony has caused a change in the very appearance of Mr. Mobius when he inverted the Mobius Strip - literally inverting his clothing because he changed the shape of the Mobius - does that mean that these seemingly human-looking misters are in fact some sort of avatars for aspects of time itself? And if Mr. Tesseract is representative of how space and time intersect in the fourth dimension, wouldn’t a rogue god twisting space and time with the device that shares his name cause him some affect? Perhaps why the TVA noticed something was amiss to begin with.

This would be a departure from the comics, but the characters have almost no history there. They are ripe for new ideas.

Or, then again, since Loki will be working for the TVA - perhaps he’s the one who becomes ‘Mr. Tesseract’?

But continuing with that ‘Avatar of Aspects’ idea, let’s get away from this sausagefest for a second and visit my next newest favourite character -

I’m guessing she’s one of the Justices of the TVA. What gives it away? The imperious look, the giant oaken table, or the fact that I’m suddenly self-conscious when she looks at me? It’s the last one, of course. She’s a natural judge.

Of the named TVA judges, there’s :

Justice Goodwill, Justice Hope, Justice Liberty, Justice Love, Justice Might, Justice Mills, Justice Peace and Justice Truth.

Could they also possibly be avatars of their respective aspects?

If I had to guess, I’d say this is Justice Truth, as pairing up Loki with an avatar of Truth seems like it’d be a smashing good time, similar to how he was paired with Verity Willis in the comics. She might even be a composite character with Verity.

Verity’s power is detecting and seeing through all lies and illusions. I think this powerset will be given to Justice Truth, except instead of deriving it from a magic ring that she swallowed, she’d simply be the actual ‘Embodiment of Truth’ - and let’s get real here, when I said ‘Avatars of Aspects’, I was using that clunky phrase because the more obvious one - God of - is already ‘taken’. So Justice Truth may well be the ‘God of Truth’, as it were.

I think she’ll end up in something of a buddy-comedy with Loki, giving him someone to bounce off against who literally cuts through his carefully crafted veneer.

I’m reminded of a great quote from Taika Waititi when he was talking about what he wanted to do with Loki in Ragnarok:

“(He’s) someone who tries so hard to embody this idea of the tortured artist, this tortured, gothy orphan...It’s too tiring trying to be like that,” he says. “And, most humans, we get over ourselves, we get to that point where we’re like, ‘man, being a tortured artist is actually, like, a lot of work. Maybe I should just be real and present, and just be me, and I don’t have to be a tortured artist to be interesting, I can just be a f*cking weird New Zealander and that’s enough.”

...I think Taika is a living Loki, tbh, ha ha. No wonder he gets it.

Waititi, Yost, Pearson and Kyle did great work to cut through Loki’s illusions, both with dialogue and the visual allegory of his projections being dispelled by handy thrown objects, culminating in the very sweet ‘I’m here,’ scene at the end of the film. Loki seems to be much more open and expressive at the end of that film, and it seems like a weight has lifted off his shoulders.

But while this new Loki (Loki 2.0? Loki’s Show’s Loki? Loki II? Lokii? Lokii.) is shown a clip show of Ragnarok (one I previously theorized will be deliberately incomplete), that’s quite different from actually experiencing it, and he’ll be as performative as he was in Avengers and Thor 2. Instead of processing that ‘lack of presence’ as he did in Ragnarok, which came about as a result of Thor finally seeing through Loki’s illusions (guess he doesn’t fall for it anymore) as a result of their long history together, I suspect the band-aid will be torn off much more harshly by a total stranger who nonetheless simply sees through him.

Loki in general has a bad relationship with the truth (see the famous Vault Confrontation scene), and literally putting him on trial before the Truth Herself would certainly be enough to get him to switch from this phony expression:

To this one:

That’s not much of a facade there.

It’s not the same character arc as Ragnarok, but it does get us to a similar place, albeit in a darker and less healing way for Loki. I mean Lokii.

Anyhow. That’s what I got out of this thing.

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Owen Wilson’s Loki Character is Based on a Beloved Marvel Writer

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Among this overwhelming tidal wave of Disney project news that consumed us all Thursday night, we got to see the new trailer for Loki, which will be hitting Disney+ this coming May. As shown, this Loki isn’t the one who got choked to death in the opening moments of Avengers: Infinity War, but the Loki appearing during the Time Heist in Avengers: Endgame. After the events of the first Avengers went awry, that version of Loki was able to sneak away with the Tesseract and create a tangent universe.

And now…he’s stuck running suicide missions with the Time Variance Authority. What a way for a god to spend his days.

Getting away from Tom Hiddleston, the trailer also makes everyone realize, “Wait, is this Owen Wilson’s first time in one of these? How has it taken so long for Owen Wilson to get a role in a Marvel movie?”

Plus there’s the big question of who he’s supposed to be.

While we don’t know the full details of what’s going on, Loki is dealing with the Time Variance Authority. Due to that telltale mustache, Owen Wilson appears to be Mr. Mobius M. Mobius.

The Time Variance Authority was introduced in Thor #372, but wasn’t fully figured out as a concept until afterwards. Most notably, the group antagonized the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom in Fantastic Four #352-354. They’re meant to keep time travel under control and prevent paradoxes, but instead of being a rad setup of jacked, soldiers in colorful spandex begging for their own comic series, the TVA is essentially a bunch of boring, cosmic bureaucrats.

While the lowest level employees of the TVA are faceless goons, the middle-management folks are human-looking. In fact, they all look like the same human. More specifically, they’re made to look like Mark Gruenwald, a beloved Marvel writer/artist/editor known for his passion and endless knowledge of detailed Marvel history.

You want to make sense out of the multiverse and timeline malarky? Make a bunch of clones of the guy who can tell you what issue Luke Cage fought Mr. Fish without having to look it up. He was the guy writing the Official Marvel Handbook of the Universe and he was celebrated for being that guy.

Gruenwald was a major asset to Marvel back in the 80s and former 90s. His lengthy run on Captain America gave us US Agent, Crossbones, Diamondback, and that amazing sequence where Magneto captured Red Skull and left him to die in a bunker. He also wrote Squadron Supreme, where he put together a deconstructing take on Marvel’s Justice League knockoff team, acting as Marvel’s contribution to the Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen vibes growing in ’80s comics.

He also did a 5-year run on Quasar, notably doing a weird issue where – taking place sometime after the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths – a blonde speedster in tattered, red tights showed up in Marvel and could only remember that his name sounded something like “Buried Alien.”

Dude was awesome, is what I’m saying.

Sadly, Gruenwald died in 1996 due to a heart attack. He remains beloved in the industry and lives on whenever the weirdos in the TVA show up to try and put a cage around the chaos. They usually fail, but the effort is there.

Mr. Mobius is just another one of his in-universe clones, but one that got promoted above his genetic equals. Not that he’s the man on top. No, that’s Mr. Alternity, who’s based on editor Tom Brevoort.

The biggest eyebrow-raiser in all of this is that there’s a minor member of the TVA, also a Gruenwald clone, named…wait for it…Mr. Tesseract.

Mr. Tesseract. In the same organization that will be showing up on a TV show born out of Loki sneaking away with the MCU’s Tesseract. No way is that sleeping dog going to lie.

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This could very much mean that we won’t just be getting Owen Wilson, but a legion of Owen Wilsons! That’s a lot of guys going, “Wow!”

Loki will premiere on Disney+ in May 2021.

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Loki: Owen Wilson’s Agent Mobius Has Deep Marvel Roots

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After an extra month of waiting, we’re finally at the fireworks factory that is Marvel’s Loki. Tom Hiddleston returns, using his time-travel cameo in Avengers: Endgame to sidestep the fact that Loki died a heroic death in Avengers: Infinity War. Despite sneaking away with the Tesseract in a revised version of the first Avengers movie, things don’t work out so well for our easily-annoyed villain.

And now…he’s stuck running suicide missions with the Time Variance Authority. What a way for a god to spend his days.

The show seems to be making its way towards a buddy cop route with the addition of Owen Wilson. It’s the kind of casting that has you saying, “Wait, is this Owen Wilson’s first time in one of these? How has it taken so long for Owen Wilson to get a role in a Marvel movie?”

Personally, I wanted him playing Booster Gold years ago, but I’ll take whatever Owen Wilson time traveling live-action comic book character I can get.

Owen Wilson plays the role of TVA agent Mr. Mobius M. Mobius, faithful to the source by keeping that telltale mustache. But Mobius is more than just a comic character.

The Time Variance Authority was introduced by Walt Simonson in Thor #372 in 1986, but wasn’t fully figured out as a concept until afterwards. Most notably, the group antagonized the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom in Fantastic Four #352-354. They’re meant to keep time travel under control and prevent paradoxes, but instead of being a rad setup of jacked, soldiers in colorful spandex begging for their own comic series, the TVA is essentially a bunch of boring, cosmic bureaucrats.

You want to make sense out of the multiverse and timeline malarky? Make a bunch of clones of the guy who can tell you what issue Luke Cage fought Mr. Fish without having to look it up. He was the guy writing The Official Marvel Handbook of the Universe and he was celebrated for being that guy.

Gruenwald was a major asset to Marvel back in the ’80s and ’90s. His lengthy run on Captain America gave us US Agent, Crossbones, Diamondback, and that amazing sequence where Magneto captured Red Skull and left him to die in a bunker. He also wrote Squadron Supreme, where he put together a deconstructing take on Marvel’s Justice League knockoff team, acting as Marvel’s contribution to the Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen vibes growing in ’80s comics.

Dude was awesome, is what I’m saying.

Mr. Mobius is just another one of his in-universe clones, but one that got promoted above his genetic equals. Not that he’s the man on top. No, that’s Mr. Alternity, who was based on editor Tom Brevoort.

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Now, as it is right now, there’s only one Mobius. We’ve seen plenty of employees at the TVA and only one of them is Owen Wilson. At least for now.

The thing is, I wouldn’t expect the TVA to be all the same once the season is over. For an organization dedicated to making sure there are no alternate timelines, it’s suspiciously getting a spotlight before we get an animated series about alternate realities, a Spider-Man movie about alternate realities, and a Dr. Strange movie about alternate realities. Not to mention we recently had another Spider-Man movie with the fakeout based around alternate realities.

The TVA comes off as rather callous and may indeed deserve what’s coming to them. Mobius, on the other hand, currently comes off as a pretty good dude. He’s kind to children and he shows compassion to Loki. Maybe, in the end, the answer is to recreate the TVA so we get nothing but Mobius.

Think of it. A full organization of Owen Wilsons. All of them saying, “Wow!” over each other. That’s a Loki trick I can get behind.

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Thor Vol. 1 No. 372 (October 1986)

The Time Variance Authority (or TVA) is a fictional organization, a group of timeline monitors appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They first appeared in Thor vol. 1 #372 (October 1986). Created by Walt Simonson and Sal Buscema, the TVA originally paid homage to long-time Marvel writer/editor, and continuity expert, Mark Gruenwald: the TVA staff were all clones of Gruenwald.

The TVA claims responsibility for monitoring the multiverse and can prune timelines if they're deemed too dangerous to exist. They also take action to prevent other beings from altering the past or future. They were first seen, allowing Justice Peace, a lawman from the future, to travel to the 20th century in order to stop the killer Zaniac. Peace is able to succeed in his mission thanks to the assistance of Thor.

Despite their claims, the TVA's influence over time is not absolute. The scope of their influence is bordered by Alioth in the distant past as well as Kang the Conqueror, the Delubric Consortium, and Revelation at different eras throughout the timescape. There have also been numerous incidents of time travel or reality tampering where the TVA has failed to interfere.

At the End of Time, the last Director of the TVA creates the Time Keepers, the last three beings who exist in the remaining timeline in the universe; however this process also ends up creating the Time Twisters, a trio of beings who imperiled all realities until stopped by Thor and other members of the Avengers.

The TVA are next seen utilizing the law-firm She-Hulk works for on several instances. Jurors for cases are plucked from time soon before they actually die, this is so the effects on the time-stream are minimal. This also establishes the tendencies for time-travelers to go through genetic scrambling, also to minimize the effect on the time-stream. Notably, the scrambling tends to cause similar looks among differing males who undergo the process. A defendant who is found guilty in one of these trials is executed with a weapon called the Retroactive Cannon, or Ret Can, which erases the victim, deleting their existence from the universe by undoing their birth and entire history. She-Hulk herself was handed this harsh sentence, but it was overturned as a reward when she helped defeat the villain Clockwise. (This weapon is an obvious reference to a retroactive continuity, or "retcon", a practice used by storytellers to add previously unknown material to an event in a previous story.)

Employees Lower-ranked TVA employees, called chronomonitors, are literally faceless. They are created artificially, using "quantum technology" - the moment a new reality appears, a new faceless agent is created to monitor it, along with the necessary equipment (a personal computer-like device, plus a desk and a chair) to do so.

Cloned managers resemble Mark Gruenwald — and, later, Tom DeFalco — both longtime Marvel Comics writers. The most frequent recurring managers are Mr. Alternity and Mobius M. Mobius, both Gruenwald clones.

On occasion, the TVA hires mercenaries for use in the more dangerous missions, such as Justice Peace and Death's Head. These mercenaries often lose limbs, which the TVA replaces with clunky robotic parts (it is not known why; presumably the TVA would have access to far better technology). Another example of their seemingly anachronistic technology is a time machine shaped like an old locomotive. Professor Justin Alphonse Gamble, a pastiche of Doctor Who, is a renegade from the TVA.

Source: Wikipedia

In Squadron Supreme: New World Order ... the exact quote is as follows: "Most disturbingly, Mister Alternity has passed beyond this omniverse, and our fates are now written by new hands yet to prove as worthy."

I admit that when I first read this sentence I couldn't think of any DC character that he could be representing but then it occurred to me that maybe it was referring to something else. Is it possible that Mister Alternity was meant to be the Other-Earth version of the late, great Mark Gruenwald? Everything seems to fit.

1) The death of a real person would be "more disturbing" than anything that could happen to a comic book character. 2) "Passed beyond" sounds like "passed away," an euphemism for someone having died. 3) As the writer who did the most with the Squadron Supreme, Mark Gruenwald truly controlled their fates and now that he's dead their fates are being written by new hands (ie. Len Kaminski). 4) Mark Gruenwald wrote articles for a fanzine entitled "Omniverse: The Journal of Fictional Reality" that he created and/or edited and that was published by Alternity Enterprise of New York. 5) the last-page dedication for SS:NWO reads "For Mark Gruenwald: Storyteller, trickster, teacher, friend." To me, it seems fitting that the tribute of a character inspired by Mr. Gruenwald should appear in the story which finally ends the storyline he began with the Squadron Supreme Limited Series and continued in the Graphic Novel and their appearances in QUASAR."

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Mysterium received an entry in issue 7 of 2006's All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. It does indeed confirm Joseph as Mysterium's middle name, and also makes the Gruenwald-as-Alternity reading even clearer by refering to Master Alternity as the "omniversal patron saint of marvels." In mid-2006, nearing the 10th anniversary of Gruenwald's death, Tom Brevoort began refering to the Gru as the "patron saint of Marvel" in the text pages of some Marvel comics.

Source: Marvel Unofficial Appendix

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