and straight into the hands of Marvel’s fictional bureaucracy, the Time Variance Authority (TVA). A force in the Marvel comics since 1986, the TVA is charged with monitoring every existent event across multiple worlds and universes. They exist in a—space? world? domain? who knows—somehow outside of time itself. They are run by specially created beings who are born to push papers and file reports. They are the gods among gods. The TVA’s introduction into the MCU, however, isn’t without potential complications, and in a franchise that has flirted with a multiverse, it may also have big consequences.