Mobius M. Mobius

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). 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 M. Mobius
Mobius as depicted in She-Hulk (vol. 2) #3 (December 2005). Art by Don Simpson (penciller/inker) and David Kemper (colorist).
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	As Mobius M. Mobius:     Fantastic Four #346 (November 1990) As Mr. Tesseract:     Fantastic Four Annual #27 (1994) As Mr. Ouroboros:     She-Hulk #3 (February 2006) As Mr. Paradox:     She-Hulk #3 (May 2006)
Created by	Walter Simonson
In-story information
Alter ego	Mobius Mobius Mobius
Team affiliations	Time Variance Authority
Notable aliases	Moby Mr. Mobius Mr. Tesseract Mr. Ouroboros Mr. Paradox

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. Ke Huy Quan plays a TVA engineer named Ouroboros "O.B." in Loki season 2 (2023), and Matthew Macfadyen plays a TVA agent named Mr. Paradox in the film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Following Loki season 2, the MCU's TVA and its characters appear to supersede Marvel comics' older TVA portrayals as the main comics continuity's TVA, beginning with Web of Spider-Man (2024),^[2][3] and featuring in the TVA comic series.^[4][5]

Publication history

Mobius M. Mobius first appeared in Fantastic Four #346, cover date November 1990, created by writer/artist Walter Simonson.^[6][7] Cloned managers for the Time Variance Authority that resemble Mark Gruenwald^[8] — and, later, Tom DeFalco^{[citation needed]} — both longtime Marvel Comics writers. The most frequent recurring manager is Mobius M. Mobius, a Gruenwald clone.^[9]

Fictional character biography

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]}

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.^[10]

In Venom War, Mobius (appearing to be the MCU character as portrayed by Owen Wilson) and the TVA arrive on Earth-616 to arrest Jimmy Hudson, a character that had been displaced to Earth-616 from another universe.^[11]

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.^[10]

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.^[12]

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.^[12]

In other media

(L–R): Owen Wilson, Ke Huy Quan, and Matthew Macfadyen have played different separate characters based on Mobius and his clones

Iterations of Mobius M. Mobius and his counterparts appear 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

Main article: Mobius (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

• Mobius appears in the television series Loki (2021–2023), portrayed by Owen Wilson.^{[13][14][15][16][17]} 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,^[18] in a scene taken from the then-unreleased episode "1893".

O.B.

Main article: O.B. (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

• Ouroboros "O.B." appears in the second season of Loki (2023), portrayed by Ke Huy Quan.^[19][20] O.B. is the Time Variance Authority'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 Caltech in 1994.

Mr. Paradox

Main article: Mr. Paradox (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

• Mr. Paradox appears in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), portrayed by Matthew Macfadyen. An agent of the TVA seeking to become its leader^[21][22] to revert the organization back to its old ways, who has been assigned to oversee the slowly disintegrating Earth-10005, due to the death of its "anchor being", Wolverine. 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 Deadpool to offer him a place on Earth-616 but Deadpool refuses and steals his TemPad to travel the multiverse 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 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. After Deadpool and Wolverine destroy the Time Ripper, which also kills Nova, Paradox is arrested by his superior Hunter B-15.