Plucked from the timeline after slipping away with the Tesseract, the mischievous Asgardian trickster Loki is hauled before the Time Variance Authority, a drab cosmic bureaucracy that prunes deviations from the sanctioned flow of history. Faced with erasure, he instead agrees to help hunt a dangerous fugitive variant, a chase that forces the god of mischief to confront alternate versions of himself and the nature of free will. What starts as a buddy-cop caper across time expands into a mind-bending inquiry into fate, identity and who really controls the story. Witty and philosophically playful, it's Marvel by way of retro-futurist sci-fi.