He Who Remains / Victor Timely

He Who Remains is the enigmatic figure who sits at the Citadel at the End of Time, the architect and sole guardian of the Sacred Timeline. A variant of Kang the Conqueror who won a multiversal war against his own variants, He Who Remains isolated a single timeline — the Sacred Timeline — and created the TVA to prune any branches that might produce new versions of himself. By the time Loki and Sylvie reach him, he is weary, eccentric, and almost relieved at the prospect of being replaced or destroyed. His presentation is deliberately disarming — playful, rambling, eating an apple — but beneath the quirky exterior lies a being of immense power who has controlled reality itself for eons.

In Season 2, the character appears in a different form as Victor Timely, a 19th-century inventor variant who holds the key to fixing the Temporal Loom. Timely is timid and uncertain, a stark contrast to He Who Remains' confidence, illustrating how the same person can become vastly different depending on circumstances. Jonathan Majors brought a magnetic, unpredictable energy to both versions of the character, creating a villain who is simultaneously charming and terrifying in his implications for the multiverse.