between all time periods without requiring the use of a time machine, accessible via a portal. When away in Chronopolis, Timely is replaced by robotic stand-ins remotely run by A.I. copies of himself, which would age and die over time, allowing him to fake his death and assume the mantle of his own "son", Victor Timely, Junior. In 1929, Timely employs Phineas Horton to develop the technology to allow him to eventually create the original Human Torch by 1939, allowing Timely a secret backdoor to take control of the android. By the 1980s (modern-day; floating timeline), now presenting as his own grandson Victor Timely III, Timely Industries' technology stretches out to include the security measures behind the Baxter Building and Avengers Tower, and the robotic limbs of every cyborg in the Marvel Universe, in particular Misty Knight and Deathlok, allowing him to control their actions and eventually supplant Kang Prime with his former name, becoming the Anachronauts, his soldiers in Chronopolis, granting Timely (now Kang Prime) control over the Sentinels in Kang Dynasty. Powers and abilities Victor Timely has no superpowers, but he does possess a genius-level intellect and amassed an extensive knowledge of 20th Century history, allowing him to dominate the mechanical industry of the time, and build a series of robotic duplicates of himself to allow him to publicly present as ageing, hiding his immortality from the public by posing as his own sons, and allow his future selves an advantage over their adversaries. Reception In 2023, Comic Book Resources included Victor Timely as their fourteenth-best characterised incarnation of Kang the Conqueror. In other media Victor Timely appears as a variant skin for Kang as a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 (2017), voiced by Peter Serafinowicz. with game's villain (another Kang) using specific locations in time and space (including Timely) to form Chronopolis, a myriad of 17 locations (consisting of a variation of Ancient Egypt, an apocalyptic Asgard, Attilan, Hala, the Hydra Empire, K'un-L'un, Knowhere, Lemuria, Man-Thing's Swamp, Manhattan, an alternate version of Medieval England, Manhattan Noir, Nueva York 2099, the Old West, Sakaar, Wakanda, and Xandar linked through time and space. Marvel Cinematic Universe In the post-credits scene of the film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), Time Variance Authority (TVA) agents Loki and Mobius M. Mobius attend a rally held by political candidate Victor Timely (portrayed by Jonathan Majors) in 1901. Majors will