Disney+’s Loki has emerged as one of the weirdest, wildest, most mind-bending entries in the MCU to date. The trickster god is in trouble with the Time Variance Authority, a sort of multiversal police force that keeps an eye on the spacetime continuum and punishes people who have committed “crimes against the sacred timeline.”
Given the flagrant use of time travel throughout the MCU, there’s no way that Loki is the only character in the franchise that the TVA wants to investigate for time crimes.
10 Captain America Fighting His Past Self
When Captain America, Iron Man, Ant-Man, and the Hulk traveled back to the Battle of New York in Avengers: Endgame, Cap ended up fighting his past self. Fighting one’s own past self has to be a huge red flag at the TVA.
The other Cap thought it was Loki in disguise, so that aspect is covered. But in order to win the fight, the time-traveling Cap revealed some information the other one wasn’t supposed to find out yet: “Bucky... is... alive.”
9 The Hulk’s Failed Time Travel Experiments
Before Tony Stark developed an ironclad “Time-Space GPS” overnight, the Hulk tried and failed to invent a working time machine. Scott Lang offered to be the guinea pig, but the Hulk’s experimentation was so all over the place that he almost got lost in the 1950s.
Scott eventually came back in his original form, but he came back as a baby, a kid, and an old man before that. All that experimentation must’ve set off alarm bells at the TVA.
8 Thor Taking His Hammer From Another Timeline
When Thor returns to Asgard circa The Dark World, he bumps into his mom, who gives him the motivation he needs to escape from the clutches of his depression and become a superhero again. He reaches out his hand, Mjolnir comes to him, and he excitedly says, “I’m still worthy!”
This is a really sweet moment, and a crucial juncture in Thor’s Endgame arc, but in order to do it, he had to deprive an alternate Thor of his hammer. Now, there’s one Thor with two ultra-powerful weapons and another Thor with none. Though Mjolnir was reportedly returned at the time of it going missing, it's still messing with time.
7 All The Time Travel In Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Long before time travel became a plot point in the MCU’s big-screen output, it made up a huge chunk of the storylines in the back end of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s semi-canonical run on ABC.
Time travel played most heavily into the show’s final season, which saw the team going back in time to prevent criminals from altering the future, which the Hulk said was impossible in Endgame. The TVA could be a great way to introduce the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. characters into the wider MCU.
6 Wanda Organizing Westview’s Time Into 22-Minute Sitcom Episodes
A few episodes into WandaVision, it was revealed that Wanda’s escapist TV-inspired fantasyland is confined to a town in New Jersey called Westview. Wanda completely warped the reality of Westview, changing the people, streets, buildings, and even the color to suit which era of sitcom history she wanted to evoke.
Part of Wanda’s magical control of Westview involved organizing the flow of time into neat 22-minute episodes complete with closing credits. The TVA surely won’t like that.
5 Cap’s Rematch With Red Skull
It took place off-screen in Endgame, but Steve Rogers’ quest to return the Infinity Stones to their original timelines would make an awesome movie of its own. It would culminate with Cap returning the Soul Stone to Vormir and finding his old arch-nemesis, Red Skull, guarding the planet.
Putting the Stones back where they came from would be cool with the TVA because it saves them a job, but an unauthorized rematch with a supervillain has “variant” written all over it.
4 Whatever Kang The Conqueror Has Planned For Quantumania
Jonathan Majors has been cast to play Kang the Conqueror, one of the most iconic and powerful villains from the Marvel Comics universe, in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Kang is from the distant future, but he travels all over the timeline to fight superheroes. As one might expect, in the comics, the TVA hates Kang.
It’s unclear how Kang will play into the Ant-Man threequel, but whatever he ends up doing, it will undoubtedly attract the TVA’s attention.
3 2014 Gamora Staying In 2023
The version of Gamora that enjoyed all the character development in Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel is permanently dead following the events of Infinity War. But Endgame brought back the version from 2014 before all that development when she was still basically a villain.
After Endgame’s final battle, the 2014 Gamora decided to stay in 2023. It’s unclear where she is, but Quill likely isn’t the only person looking for her.
2 The Post-Credits Montage Of Deadpool 2
Although Deadpool 2 was technically made outside the MCU, the fact that Deadpool 3 will move Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson into the MCU could retroactively make the previous movies canon.
As soon as Deadpool arrives in the MCU, the TVA might question him about his time-traveling antics in Deadpool 2’s final scene. He saved Vanessa and Peter and killed both the version of himself from X-Men Origins: Wolverine with his mouth sewn shut and Reynolds himself when he received the script for Green Lantern.
1 Steve Rogers Living Out His Entire Life Outside His Own Timeline
When Steve Rogers goes into the Hulk’s time machine to return the Infinity Stones, he’s expected to come back a few seconds later. However, the Hulk can’t find him anywhere on the timeline. Sam and Bucky spot an elderly man sitting on a nearby bench and instantly know exactly what happened.
After returning the Stones, Steve went back to the time he was frozen in ice and made his date with Peggy. The two got married and shared a life together. The TVA will presumably be furious that Steve lived out his entire life outside his own timeline.
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July 07, 2021 at 12:00AM
