Loki Episode 1 Breakdown - Infinite Infinity Stones & Evil Variant Loki

5. What Is The TVA?

The Time Variance Authority (TVA) is basically a huge bureaucratic organisation that keeps tabs on as many realities as possible in the multiverse, attempting to keep things in check by destroying rogue timelines (caused by what they call Nexus events) when they vary from the set path.

It’s staffed by bland, non-confrontational employees who are literally born to work an office job their whole life. When they do the ‘bit’ where Casey reveals he doesn’t know what a fish is, it really reminds us that these employees have barely seen past the four walls of the TVA - and that they probably have no interest in doing so as they are born and bred to be compliant office drones.

Aside from the desk-jockeys we have the all-knowing Time-Keepers. Three Time-Keepers have determined what is the ‘proper’ timeline, AKA the sacred timeline and any deviance from that must be eliminated. The Sacred Timeline at this point can be assumed to be the specific timeline that governs the MCU, the one that allowed for Thanos to be defeated in Endgame when the Avengers went all mad-lad on chronology.

In fairness you can see why they would want to defend that, because with all the intricacies that writers had to account for when assembling the iconic rise and fall of Thanos and the heart-breaking and repairing storylines of Infinity War and Endgame, the last thing we need is for one rogue God to mess it all up.

That leads us onto the next bit we need to touch on: Loki’s death.