Time Variance Authority
The Time Variance Authority is an organization that features in Marvel Comics.
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History
The Time Variance Authority was an organisation that operated across time and watched over the Multiverse along with the time-stream. They kept watch over the Time-Keepers initiative to eliminate the Nexus Beings where they dispatched Immortus on this mission who threatened to re-write all of reality which could lead to the TVA being dissolved. Around this time, a powerful Immortus Wave was spreading across the timeline with the organization seeking to stop it. As a result, they convened with Uatu the Watcher and were taking part in their own Anti-Immortus Campaign. (What If? v2 #39)
Despite their claims, the TVA came to be only one faction in control of the chronal realms where they competed in territorial disputes with Kang the Conqueror and his Kang Dynasty along with Alioth, Revelation, the Congress of Realities and the Delubric Consortium. (Avengers Forever v1 #9)
After an attempt at tampering with the timestream, the T.V.A. decided to bring charges against She-Hulk for being a severe threat to the timeline and one that required her erasure from history. Walters requested her defence be handled by her law firm Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway with a future version of Southpaw emerging as her defence as Sasha had become a lawyer in the years ahead. (She-Hulk v2 #3)
The Authority registered a chronal destruction event that occurred in the Baxter Building due to the creation of a device by Bentley-23. This machine was triggered deliberated where it ripped a whole through reality that would destroy all of space-time. Thus, the T.V.A. was dispatched with the time erasure of the Future Foundation for the crime and hired Death Head to eliminate the targets. However, Spider-Man managed to convince Bentley to stop building the machine thus averting the crisis and leading to the T.V.A. not proceeding forward with the erasure of the perpetrators. (Avenging Spider-Man v1 #18) Agents from the T.V.A. registered a significant chain in a time event centred around Hector Bautista who had become the host of the Time Stone Infinity Gem. They had arrived prior to the moment in order to arrest him but their confrontation was interrupted by the Chitauri Warbinger who wanted to claim the Time Stone for himself. (Wolverine: Infinity Watch v1 #4)
Overview
It was said to be a vast bureaucracy that was dedicated to the task of overseeing, adjusting and ultimately balancing the myriad timelines of an infinitely variable Multiverse. This involves the monitoring all of the Nexi who were key individuals essential to their reality's existence with one such being existing in each of those realities. (What If? v2 #39) It was regarded as the largest organization in the known Omniverse. (Fantastic Four v1 #353)
The Authority made use of managerial class cloning in order to increase efficiency and induce less friction as it enabled one to be promoted from within expeditiously. On occasion, they were noted to recruit freelancers to serve as operatives but this was not done so for managers. (Fantastic Four v1 #353)
Within the organization, there were a number of ranks that included:
- Timezone Manager : (What If? v2 #39)
- Deputy Secretary : (What If? v2 #39)
- Chronomonitors : residing in the Hall of Chronometry, each monitored and directed a timeline in the Omniverse. Any singular event was observed and its importance was calculated with those being judged significant leading to a split in time to follow the various probable consequences of that event. As a result, they witnessed all possibilities and actualities with new Chronomonitors being created for each new timeline created with their number being as ininfite as the Omniverse. (Fantastic Four v1 #353)
- Minutemen : robotic agents and enforcers of the TVA. (Fantastic Four v1 #352)
The TVA often had meetings and emergency sessions at the Timezone Board. (What If? v2 #39)
They were able to run projections and observe alternate timelines to chart the impact on history. (She-Hulk v1 #5)
One of their creations were the Incinerators that were designed originally by the T.V.A. to sweep, collect and incinerate the cosmic debris that cluttered the timelines. The machines, however, became too fixated on their mission and went rogue where they sought to incinerate the entire space-time continuum. (Avengers Annual v1 #22)
It was unusual for them to invite members of the Watchers into their facilities. (What If? v2 #39) For severe breaches in the timeline, the T.V.A. was known to erase an individual from history due to the danger they posed. (She-Hulk v2 #3)
The T.V.A. was noted to reside in a chronal pocket that was removed from all of space and time. (She-Hulk v2 #3) They operated an area in the Null-Time Zone that served as a detention area for criminals. (Fantastic Four v1 #353) The Authority maintained the Time Cells that were holding facilities for the most dangerous time-travel offenders. Inside, the detainees were kept folded in minor time-loops thus forcing them to repeat the same moment constantly. Those deemed too pivotal to history were kept in such conditions as removing them threatened to destroy continuity. (She-Hulk v2 #3) They kept a standing force ready at all time stationed at the time police barracks with the T.V.A. enlarging its ranks in times of crisis. One section within their headquarters was the Hall of Discontinued Universes where failed timelines and leftover detritus was ejected into the nothingness beyond space. Whenever a timeline was closed down, there were some unaccounted items for the final tally. The heart of the T.V.A. was the Hall of Chronometry which was where time in the Omniverse was measured, charted, recorded and judged. (Fantastic Four v1 #353)
A means of transportation was a train able to travel across time with it appearing as a Union Pacific locomotive. (Fantastic Four v1 #354)
Among its competitors included the Congress of Realities, the Alioth Domain, the Kang Dynasty and the Delubric Consortium. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #27)
Members
- Mr. Alternity :
- Mobius M. Mobius :
- Mr. Tesseract :
- Mr. Paradox :
- Mr. Orobourous :
- Mr. Oborus :
- Justin Alphonse Gamble : Professor Gamble was an employee of the T.V.A. until one day he resigned and 'borrowed' the agency's time capsule where he went on adventures across time. (Avengers Annual v1 #22)
- Justice Truth :
- Justice Peace :
- Justice Might :
- He Who Remains : a male entity who was the very last Director of the TVA at the end of time who empowered the Time-Keepers that replaced the earlier Time-Twisters. (What If? v2 #39)
Notes
- The Time Variance Authority was created by Walt Simonson and Sal Buscema where they made their first appearance on Thor v1 #372 (October, 1986).
In other media
Television
- In Loki, the Time Variance Authority appeared in the live-action television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was claimed that they were created by the all-powerful Timekeepers to oversee the Sacred Timeline and to prevent the formation of multiple variants that could bring about a Multiverse War.
Appearances
- Thor v1: (1986)
- Fantastic Four v1:
- What If? v2:
- Avengers Annual v1:
- She-Hulk v2:
- Avenging Spider-Man v1:
- Wolverine: Infinity Watch v1:
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