Miss Minutes quickly became a hit with fans when she was introduced during Loki's first season, though it soon became clear there was more to the Time Variance Authority's mascot than initially met the eye.
Those suspicions were confirmed in the finale when she confronted Loki and Sylvie at the Citadel of the End of Time, and she's since accompanied Ravonna Renslayer on a mission He Who Remains tasked her with before his death. However, last night's "1893" revealed that she had her own motivations for tracking down Victor Timely: she's in love with Kang.
You can learn more about the A.I.'s origin story here, but Loki executive producer Kevin Wright broke down the twist during a recent interview with Marvel.com.
"At the end of Season 1, we know she's kind of duplicitous and she's got a bigger plan going on," he teases. "But I think it was intriguing to play with, what is that plan? Why is she doing it? In Episode 3, when she speaks to Victor Timely about the past that they had, I think it's really kind of moving."
"It's weird, you get she's an artificial intelligence, but there is some kind of maybe consciousness there that she's had these experiences, and she kind of longs for this connection again."
"Is her programming [written] to make that loyalty for him? Or, as she says, she was given the free will to write her own programming?" the producer continues. "Is this a naturally growing kind of emotion that she's having? I just think that's a cool space creatively to sit in. And of course, when she's rejected, she'll go off the rails. That's fun, too, because she's vindictive."
Fans were shocked to see Miss Minutes declare her love for Victor and it was an undeniably weird moment none of us saw coming. There was also a creepy and sinister undertone to the scene which Wright admits wasn't always there.
"There's a version where it's really silly. But it was always really playing it to her real, genuine emotions. It is unsettling, but also, it's kind of heartbreaking. When you talk about it in a writers' room, it's very funny. But then going, all right, how do we actually pull this off - that was the trick."
There have been rumblings about Miss Minutes playing a role in the next two Avengers movies and it definitely feels like she's being set up as a major player in the MCU. Even if this iteration is ultimately destroyed, there must be another Kang in the Multiverse who can create another version!
Some spoiler stills from Loki's latest episode have also been released which you can check out below.