Mobius M. Mobius is a

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appearing in

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s published by

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. Created by writer/artist

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, the earliest incarnation of the character first appeared in ''

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'' #346 (November 1990). 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

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, including Mr. Tesseract, Mr. Ouroboros, and Mr. Paradox. Mobius appears in the

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(MCU) series ''

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'' (2021–2023) and in a post-credits scene cameo in the film '' Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania'' (2023), played by

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plays a TVA engineer named Ouroboros "O.B." in ''Loki'' season 2 (2023), and

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plays a TVA agent named Mr. Paradox in the film ''

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Publication history

Mobius M. Mobius first appeared in ''

'' #346, cover date November 1990, created by writer/artist

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managers for the

that resemble

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— and, later,

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— both longtime

writers. The most frequent recurring manager is Mobius M. Mobius, a Gruenwald clone.''Fantastic Four Annual'' #24 (1991).

Fictional character biography

Mobius M. Mobius is a bureaucrat and middle management for the

(TVA), who attempted to discipline the Fantastic Four for violations of the TVA's laws. 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. In ''

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'', Mobius (appearing to be the MCU character as portrayed by Owen Wilson) and the TVA arrive on

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to arrest Jimmy Hudson, a character that had been displaced to Earth-616 from

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Variants

Mr. Tesseract

Mr. Tesseract is a past version of and subordinate to Mobius. He was assigned to reconstructing the lost data from Earth-616.''Fantastic Four Annual'' #27 (May 1994). Marvel Comics.

Mr. Paradox

Mr. Paradox is a judge and a future version of Mobius. He is erased from existence when Clockwise blasts him with a Retro-Active Cannon.''She-Hulk'' vol. 2 #3 (Feb. 2006). Marvel Comics.

Mr. Ouroboros

Mr. Ouroboros is a judge and Mr. Paradox's clone. He is erased from existence when Clockwise blasts Mr. Paradox with a Retro-Active Cannon.

In other media

Iterations of Mobius M. Mobius and his counterparts appear in the

(MCU), portrayed by

, and

, depicted as separate individual "variants" instead of identical clones of the same character.

Mobius

* Mobius appears in the television series ''

'' (2021–2023), portrayed by

. In the episode " Science/Fiction", Mobius is revealed to be a temporal variant of Don, a

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and

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-of-two, who also cameos in the

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" 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, in a scene taken from the then-unreleased episode "

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O.B.

* Ouroboros "O.B." appears in the second season of ''Loki'' (2023), portrayed by

. O.B. is the

's chief engineer, who deals with the maintenance and repair of their 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

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in 1994.

Mr. Paradox

* Mr. Paradox appears in ''

'' (2024), portrayed by

. An agent of the TVA seeking to become its leader to revert the organization back to its old ways, who has been assigned to oversee the slowly disintegrating

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, due to the death of its "anchor being",

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. Growing frustrated with the process and TVA new status quo of not pruning, he created a timeline-killing device known as a "Time Ripper" to mercy-kill the timeline. He extracts

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to offer him a place on

but Deadpool refuses and steals his TemPad to travel the

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in search of a Wolverine variant to prevent his world's destruction; he eventually brings a variant to the TVA, but Paradox labels him the "worst" Wolverine in the multiverse as he let down his entire world and prunes both of them which sends them to the Void where they meet Charles Xavier's sister

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, 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. After Deadpool and Wolverine destroy the Time Ripper, which also kills Nova, Paradox is arrested by his superior Hunter B-15.

References

External links

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