

So it’s kind of a fusion of who they are in the comics and perhaps who they are in our world.” The Timekeepers have a lot of lore there, and we were able to pull from that and take what was exciting about their mythology and everything, and then I was able to build kind of our own crazy ideas that fit within the world of our own show. “The Timekeepers, that was a case of a really cool thing in the comics. Everything about this first episode of Loki appears to be explaining the status quo while hinting that the MCU to come may be reverting back to the days of the so-called “multiversal war.”ĭuring an interview with Collider, Waldron explained that he and the writers pulled from the comics but also made changes to the lore of the Timekeepers: TO make sure that doesn’t happen, the Time-Keepers created the TVA.”Ī curious choice of words in this part seems to be hinting at what’s to come - the words “madness” and “multiverse” appear close together, and of course, the Doctor Strange sequel (written by Loki head writer Michael Waldron) is called Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Stepping off your path created a Nexus Event, which left unchecked could branch off into madness, leading to another multiversal war. But sometimes people like you veer off the path the Time-Keepers created.

“Now the Time-Keepers protect and preserve the proper flow of time for everyone and everything. Miss Minutes goes on to explain that now, the Timekeepers protect this “proper” flow of time by pruning variants along the way: But then the all-knowing Time-Keepers emerged, bringing peace by reorganizing the multiverse into a single timeline, the ‘sacred timeline’.” Countless unique timelines battled each other for supremacy, nearly resulting in the total destruction of, well, everything. “Long ago, there was a vast multiversal war. Statues of the three figures are basically everywhere you look, and their faces hang over Judge Ravonna Renslayer ( Gugu Mbatha-Raw) as she attempts to sentence Loki - before Mobius steps in with his idea to use Loki instead of disintegrating him.īut their origin within the MCU is explained by the adorable cartoon character Miss Minutes, who reveals that before the Timekeepers came along, a multiverse existed: The Time-Keepers are introduced in the first episode of Loki, looming over every aspect of the TVA without actually being revealed. And in the comics, they often use a pawn who goes by the name Immortus to do their bidding, although Immortus sometimes listens and sometimes betrays the Timekeepers, so Immortus has been both friend and foe to the Avengers. In fact, their first interaction with the main Marvel timeline found them trying to break up the Avengers before Earth’s Mightiest Heroes could threaten their authority. He Who Remains created and put the Timekeepers in place just as the universe was about to end, in an attempt to course-correct the time-flow of the universe.īut the Timekeepers have not necessarily been viewed as “the good guys” through their time in the comics. The origin of these three beings is tied to the origin of the TVA, as in the comics the Timekeepers were actually created by a character named He Who Remains, the very last director of the Time Variance Authority from the last reality. Many still hope that the Dreamfinder will one day return to the land of the Giant Golfball.In Marvel Comics lore, the Timekeepers as characters first appeared in an issue of Thor way back in 1979. In 2002 the ride was then re-themed to Journey Into Imagination With Figment that addresses some of the issues guests had, but not all was resolved. The re-theme was met with heavy criticism as many didn’t want the update.

Guests now went on a journey through the different senses such as sound, sight and smell with Dr.

In 1999 Journey Into YOUR Imagination opened in its place. However in 1998 things changed when the ride was closed for a re-theming. Guests visited a wide world of different experiences that broadened the horizons of imagination and creativity. The ride took guests on a journey with the Dreamfinder and his little purple dragon friend named Figment. Perhaps one of the most well known “extinct” attractions, Journey Into Imagination opened in 1983 and was one of the more popular rides at EPCOT.
