The Reset Charge is a device used by the Time Variance Authority to prune branched timelines.
History[]
- "Reset the timeline."
- ―Hunter B-15[src]
The Time Variance Authority use reset charges to prune alternate timelines in which Nexus events occurred in and sent its contents to the Void at the end of time.
Among the many timelines pruned by the TVA were occupied by various Loki variants. When Sylvie Laufeydottir was taken into custody by a TVA unit, her timeline was pruned by a reset charge.[1] Additionally, when Loki was taken into custody by a TVA unit, his alternate 2012 timeline was subsequently pruned by a reset charge.[2]
Sylvie went throughout the alternate timelines, ambushing Minutemen on their missions, and stealing their reset charges. She collected several reset charges and placed them throughout Roxxcart Mall in Haven Hills, Alabama in the year 2050. When Sylvie was found by Loki, she used a TemPad to send the reset charges through Timedoors to several alternate timelines, in order to disrupt the Sacred Timeline.[3]
Dox and her Loyalists traveled through Timedoors and used reset charges to prune the thousands of branching timelines during their attack. Loki, Sylvie, and Mobius arrived at Dox's location and fought the Loyalists, destroying most of the reset charges while the Loyalists fled. Loki and Sylvie then joined hands and unleashed a massive blast of magic, incapacitating Dox and her men and closing all of the remaining Timedoors.[4]
Numerous reset charges were utilized in the creation of the Time Ripper under the authorization of rogue TVA agent Paradox. The power of the numerous reset charges allowed for the Time Ripper to destroy an entire timeline in an instant, however, the charges as well as the machine were destroyed by Deadpool and Wolverine.[5]
Capabilities[]
- "When we prune a branched reality, it's impossible to destroy all of its matter. So we move it to a place on the timeline where it won't continue growing. Basically, the branched timeline isn't reset. It's transferred."
- ―Ravonna Renslayer[src]
As it is impossible to truly destroy all of the matter in an alternate reality, reset charges instead transfer these "pruned branches" of the timeline to a Void at the end of time.
Appearances[]
In chronological order:
- Loki
- Season One
- The Nexus Event (flashback; alternate timeline)
- Glorious Purpose (alternate 1549)
- Glorious Purpose (alternate 1858)
- Season Two
- Season One
- The Variant (alternate 1985)
- Glorious Purpose (alternate 2012)
- The Variant (alternate 2050)
- Journey Into Mystery (mentioned; Void)
- For All Time. Always. (footage)
- Season Two
- Breaking Brad (mentioned)
- Season One
