So far, we've only seen the Time Variance Authority in Loki. It's a little surprising they didn't make an appearance in movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Spider-Man: No Way Home considering Variants were at play, though the reason for their absence could be explained in Loki season 2.
The events of that series appear to be taking place before the vast majority of the Multiverse Saga's offerings, and depending on how the next batch of episodes concludes, we may learn more about why the TVA is no longer pruning troublesome timelines.
Recently, it's been rumoured that Deadpool 3 will feature a number of rogue TVA agents capturing Variants in an effort to create a new Sacred Timeline. Talking to Variety, Loki executive producer Kevin Wright shared his take on this group appearing in the wider MCU.
"I would love that," he admits. "Look, I’ve been siloed in on 'Loki' for almost five years now, by the time this show finishes, and with every filmmaker who has put their hands on the show, we’ve all had the same conversations: It feels like the TVA could really be this exciting connective tool for all of this storytelling. And we’ve only seen a fraction of it."
"We’re dealing very specifically with this one smaller department with Mobius and B-15 and Renslayer, but you look out at those vistas - this place is infinite. The exciting thing to us is there certainly are more stories to be told there. We’ve carved out our own little corner of the sandbox and built something cool. We’re hoping that other people want to come and play with it."
That sounds promising and we'd bet on the TVA playing a much bigger role in the Multiverse Saga moving forward.
As for whether Loki's creative team has considered bringing more of the MCU into the Disney+ series, Wright said they have, but explained the priority has always been to focus on the God of Mischief's story arc.
"It always felt wrong to go too far outside of the box of things that would directly contribute to Loki’s character arc in these two seasons. So that’s why we get [Jaimie Alexander as] Sif in there [in Season 1], we play with the variants in the void and various levels of Asgard-specific storytelling. But while we’ve had nearly 12 hours of storytelling, it never feels like we have enough time."
"Eventually, just handling the stories of our ensemble and not shortchanging them has always been priority number one," Wright adds. "Now, Season 1 and 2 were always built to be two chapters of the same book. The hope would be going forward, there are more books that we can tell these stories with. I certainly think that we could start doing that."
Loki season 2 premieres on Disney+ this Thursday. Be sure to check back here later for our review!