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![]() Mobius as depicted in She-Hulk (vol. 2) #3 (December 2005). Art by Don Simpson (penciller/inker) and David Kemper (colorist). | |
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Publisher | Marvel Comics |
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Created by | Walter Simonson |
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Alter ego | Mobius Mobius Mobius |
Team affiliations | Time Variance Authority |
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Mobius M. Mobius is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer/artist Walter Simonson, the earliest incarnation of the character first appeared in Fantastic Four #346 (November 1990). A clone of Mark Gruenwald, various versions of Mobius from different points in time (and other clones of him) make up the bureaucratic leadership and middle management of the timekeeping organization known as the Time Variance Authority, including Mr. Tesseract, Mr. Ouroboros, and Mr. Paradox.[1]
Mobius appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series Loki (2021–2023) and in a post-credits scene cameo in the film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), played by Owen Wilson, with Ke Huy Quan playing Ouroboros "O.B." in Loki season 2 (2023) and Matthew Macfadyen playing Mr. Paradox in the film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
Publication history
[edit]Mobius M. Mobius first appeared in Fantastic Four #346, cover date November 1990, created by writer/artist Walter Simonson.[2][3] Cloned managers for the Time Variance Authority that resemble Mark Gruenwald[4] — and, later, Tom DeFalco[citation needed] — both longtime Marvel Comics writers. The most frequent recurring manager is Mobius M. Mobius, a Gruenwald clone.[5]
Fictional character biography
[edit]Mobius M. Mobius is a bureaucrat and middle management for the Time Variance Authority (TVA), who attempted to discipline the Fantastic Four for violations of the TVA's laws.[volume & issue needed]
Mr. Tesseract in Junior Management is a past version of and subordinate to Mobius; he was assigned to reconstruct the lost data from Earth-616.[6] Justice Might, Justice Truth, and Justice Liberty are three officers who aided Mobius in recapturing the Fantastic Four while they were running loose inside the Null-Time Zone.[6] Mr. Paradox is a judge and a future version of Mobius, while Mr. Ouroboros is his clone; both cease to exist after the former is blasted with a Retro-Active Cannon by Clockwise.[7]
In other media
[edit]Numerous iterations of Mobius M. Mobius and his clones appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), portrayed by Owen Wilson, Ke Huy Quan, and Matthew Macfadyen, depicted as separate individual "variants" instead of identical clones of the same character.
Mobius
[edit]- Mobius appears in the television series Loki (2021–2023), portrayed by Owen Wilson.[8][9][10][11][12] In the episode "Science/Fiction", Mobius is revealed to be a temporal variant of Don, a jet ski salesman and single father-of-two, who also cameos in the series finale "Glorious Purpose".
- Mobius makes a cameo appearance in the post-credits scene of the film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), portrayed again by an uncredited Owen Wilson,[13] in a scene taken from the then-unreleased episode "1893".
O.B.
[edit]- Ouroboros "O.B." appears in the second season of Loki (2023), portrayed by Ke Huy Quan.[14][15] The chief engineer of the Time Variance Authority, who deals with the maintenance and repair of all the complex tools, including time travel devices. In the episode "Science/Fiction", O.B. is revealed to be a temporal variant of Dr. A.D. Doug, a failed science fiction author and theoretical physics teacher at Caltech in 1994 who would rather focus on his writing than on science.
Mr. Paradox
[edit]- Mr. Paradox appears in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), portrayed by Matthew Macfadyen. He is an agent of the TVA who seeks to become its leader.[16][17] He is revealed to have created a timeline-killing device known as a "Time Ripper" which he plans on using to mercy-kill Earth-10005, which has been slowly disintegrating due to the death of its "anchor being", Wolverine, although Paradox extracts Deadpool to offer him a place on Earth-616. Deadpool steals Paradox's TemPad to travel the multiverse in search of a Wolverine variant that can prevent his world's destruction; he eventually recruits a variant who let down his timeline and brings him to the TVA, but Paradox prunes both of them and sends them to the Void where they meet Charles Xavier's sister Cassandra Nova, the self-declared ruler of the Void. Paradox’s plan is eventually exposed when his sleeper agent Pyro attempts to kill Nova, who then travels to Earth-10005 to capture Paradox and takes control of the Time Ripper to destroy all timelines except for the Void. Deadpool and Wolverine use their bodies as conductors to destroy the Time Ripper, which also kills Nova. In the aftermath, Paradox is arrested by his superior Hunter B-15.
References
[edit]- ^ She-Hulk #3 (2006)
- ^ Hoskin, Michael (September 4, 2021). "Mobius M. Mobius (Time Variance Authority)". The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Archived from the original on December 20, 2021. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
- ^ Gallotte, Danielle (December 29, 2023). "Loki: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Mobius". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on January 19, 2024. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
- ^ Anderson, Jenna (June 5, 2021). "Loki: The Marvel Comics Pro Who Inspired Owen Wilson's Mobius". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ^ Fantastic Four Annual #24 (1991).
- ^ a b Fantastic Four Annual #27 (May 1994)
- ^ She-Hulk vol. 2 #3 (Feb. 2006). Marvel Comics.
- ^ "Loki Production Brief" (PDF). Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 6, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
- ^ Polo, Susana; Patches, Matt; McWhertor, Michael (December 11, 2020). "All the Easter eggs in Marvel's Loki and Falcon and the Winter Soldier trailers". Polygon. Archived from the original on December 11, 2020. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
- ^ Dumarog, Ana (April 29, 2021). "Loki Faces Deletion From Reality According To New TV Show Synopsis". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on April 29, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
- ^ Owen Wilson Says Tom Hiddleston Taught Him Everything He Needed to Know About Loki. SiriusXM. February 12, 2021. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ Whitbrook, James (April 5, 2021). "Marvel Secrets in the New Loki Trailer: The Avengers, Time-Keepers, and More". io9. Archived from the original on April 5, 2021. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
- ^ Busch, Jenna (February 16, 2023). "Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania Credits Scenes Explained". /Film. Archived from the original on February 17, 2023. Retrieved February 16, 2023.
- ^ "OUROBOROS O.B." Marvel.com. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
- ^ Kuo, Christopher (October 5, 2023). "How Will 'Loki' Handle the Multiverse? Its Writer Talks Season 2". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 5, 2023. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
... as new ones, such as O.B., a T.V.A. fix-it man played by the Oscar-winning actor Ke Huy Quan ...
- ^ Pulliam-Moore, Charles (February 11, 2024). "The first Deadpool & Wolverine trailer is one big joke about Marvel's past". The Verge. Archived from the original on February 12, 2024. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
- ^ Purslow, Matt (July 12, 2024). "Deadpool & Wolverine: 30 Spoiler-Filled Details From the First 35 Minutes". IGN. Archived from the original on July 12, 2024. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Mobius M. Mobius at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
- Mobius M. Mobius on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki