For a studio that fights with actors on strike over Artificial Intelligence issues, it is ironic that the terrifying Miss Minutes (Tara Strong) confirms many fans’ suspicions of being one of the main villains in the Marvel universe. Her good-natured personality in the first season was always suspicious, but her connection with Kang’s variant, Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors) proves to be more than dangerous. In a universe of villains and in a series where the villain is the good guy, it says a lot.

The third episode of Loki was supposed to introduce us to Victor and meet Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), which happens, but it’s the theories that emerged from here that interest us. Guided by Miss Minutes, Ravonna returns to 1868 and leaves the TVA guide, written by Oraboros (Ke Huy Quan) for young Victor, whom we meet again in 1893, at the Chicago World’s Fair. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson) are on the trail and in the cat-and-mouse game that ensues to “catch” Victor, we also cross paths with Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino). The period reconstruction and the adapted soundtrack are just some of the brilliant highlights. Just like in “Broken” Time, our antagonists and villains-turned-heroes have conflicting motivations regarding the variant Victor Timely, a clever and probably manipulative conman. At this point, it’s impossible to notice who is fooling who, including Loki or Kang.

It’s important to follow the tips: in 1868, we were in the Sacred Timeline, the one that He Who Remains wanted to maintain and convinced Loki too, separating him from Sylvie who wanted chaos. When we meet them again in 1893, we are already in a branch of reality. So it’s not Kang from Ant-Man 2 who is in the scene, but Victor who is probably the One Who Remains. Victor has a rudimentary prototype of the Temporal Loom that Oraboros is using and he needs the variant to “save the world”, or EVERYONE will die.

Victor’s exaggerated docility is not a mistake in Jonathan Majors‘ interpretation and leads to discussions among fans about the eventual moral destruction of a coup plotter, but not necessarily a bad man. The strange mission embedded in Loki and Mobius is to take Victor to the AVT, which Sylvie warns is one of the greatest possible dangers and wants to avoid. But long before her appearance, just to end up penalizing Victor and letting him live, the frantic and fun pace of the episode reveals another dark character, precisely the forcibly sweet Miss Minutes.

She. and Ravonna help and compete for Victor’s attention and affection, in an unlikely and frightening love triangle. I’ll say it here: the recording that Loki heard in the first episode, of a declaration of love from He Who Remains is not for Ravonna, but for Miss Minutes. Artificial Intelligence is dangerously obsessed with the creator of AVT, to the point of scaring him and us. For now, he chooses Mobius and Loki as protectors and everything seems strangely working out, which we obviously know is wrong. Victor is a professional con man and so good that he deceives the God of Mischief, both Loki and Sylvie, who believes in his right to live despite his variants. Ravonna, on the other hand, also escapes death by a mature Sylvie, but who literally kicks her to the End of Time, where the former judge and Ms. Minutes meet to plan their next steps.

The fact is that there are obviously many more antagonists than good guys in Loki, starting with Loki himself. Bulder’s quote, which he doesn’t recognize but which existed in some timeline, for fans, suggests that Mobius could be this “brother” that the variant we follow never met. Others take it for granted that Oraboros is the true villain of the story. And of course, the belief that Miss Minutes’ docility was just a facade shook social media this week.

Her fixation on Victor Timely is so strong that she has no hesitation in cheating on Ravonna, of whom she is jealous. Miss Minutes is a much more advanced AI than the first season of Loki suggested and her plan to “get a body” cannot be ignored. In his brilliance, we’ve already seen Loki fall in love with himself in Sylvie’s version, an AI in love with its creator isn’t far off. The couples are more than complex: Miss Minutes and Victor Timely, Loki and Sylvie, and He Who Remains and Ravonna Renslayer, each have to defend a timeline in order to exist. War is inevitable. And having an AI governed by emotions is even more dangerous for everyone, even more than Ultron. In other words, it’s impossible not to follow Loki with anxiety!

Anyone who knows the Marvel universe in detail knows that Ravonna is the love of Kang’s life but with a tragic destiny. So it’s not worth getting attached to it, although it will certainly reach the film. Oraboros, on the other hand, emerges as the main antagonist in disguise, with different theories of who it really could be. One argues that he is Hasbro, Zartan, a criminal who leads the Dreadnoks and a master of disguise, infiltrating inaccessible places. The strongest one on YouTube is that the villain Mr. Gryphon is secretly a mysterious figure who discovered the existence of the Multiverse, as well as its variants. There are Easter eggs that support both possibilities. In common, there is only one certainty: OB is not who he seems to be. How is Loki missing out on all this?

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