
When He Who Remains creates the actual Time-Keepers after getting a visit from himself and Thor that shows him what the Time-Twisters will become, the Time-Twisters are shunted into an alternate timeline where they are never replaced by the Time-Keepers and continue harassing and disrupting the timestream. Still, that was not the end of the Time-Twisters, whose villainy eventually ropes in characters such as Kang and Scarlet Witch, who have important MCU roles coming up. Incidentally, the term "Time-Twister" has appeared in Loki already, referring to the security devices the TVA uses to manipulate their captives' position in time and space, though no reference to "Time-Twisters" as beings has been made yet.Īs for the comic book Time-Twisters, He Who Remains manages to enlist the help of Thor (though Loki isn't really in the picture at all) to defeat the Time-Twisters, and successfully create a new version of the Time-Keepers, who take the form of three somewhat lizard-like beings called Ast, Vorth, and Zanth, and who begin their duty as the guardians of the end of time, working somewhat in concert with the TVA - though their connections aren't quite the same as in the MCU.

However, his experiment goes totally awry, and instead of creating the Time-Keepers, He Who Remains inadvertently creates the Time-Twisters, a trio of beings who, rather than maintaining order in the timeline, become unstuck in time and travel throughout the history of the Marvel Universe wreaking havoc. In order to maintain the order and chronological supremacy of the TVA, He Who Remains creates artificial beings meant to both channel chronal energy, and provide a record of the timeline to whatever society arises when the universe ends and restarts. Unlike the MCU, which for the first three episodes of Loki presented the Time-Keepers as "space lizards" who come from a mysterious place to right the "Sacred Timeline" and quell the unrest caused by the worlds of the multiverse going to war with each other, comic books present the Time-Keepers as artificial beings created by a mysterious entity known only as He Who Remains, the last living agent of the TVA. Oddly enough, the Time-Keepers are predated on the page themselves by their own evil duplicates, known as the Time Twisters - and it's all part of the origin of the Time-Keepers themselves. To tell the tale of the Time-Keepers, we've got to jump around in Marvel history a bit, as the Time-Keepers have been added retroactively into the context of many Marvel stories that predate their actual debut. However, in real-world terms, the Time-Keepers actually predate the TVA, having been introduced years earlier before their stories were eventually connected. In the continuity of the Marvel Universe of comic books, the Time-Keepers are actually the successors of the TVA, who exist far in the future after the TVA has all but disappeared. The company also was also responsible for working with the filmmakers in designing the cave like Timekeeper Chamber and the design and character animation of the all-CG Timekeeper characters, among other creative characters and environments that help bring the highly imaginative show to life.True to their nature as beings outside of time who exist and interact with people and events throughout Marvel history, the Time-Keepers have a somewhat unique timeline in terms of how their real-world origins line up with their comic book story. Method was also integral to designing and creating the TVA (Time Variance Authority) headquarters and the Expanse environment that needs to appear to extend off into infinity. The work includes the opening segment in which Loki falls through a wormhole into the middle of the Gobi Desert, building and compositing set extensions. Method Studios created approximately 450 shots under the supervision of Method Montreal. handled VFX work for significant portions of the six-part first season at the Montreal studio headed by Sabrina Gagnon.

Method Montreal, led by VFX supervisor Seth Hill.
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The exciting series Loki picks up with the title character (Tom Hiddleston) immediately following the final sequence in MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) feature film Avengers: Endgame. Client: Marvel Studios Director: Kate Herron
