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InLoki , the TVA is an organization that polices clock time , albeit through draconian measures . In the backwash of a great Multiversal War , the TVA was give by the Time Keepers who prioritized maintaining the " Sacred Timeline " by destroying all diverging timelines created through outlawed time change of location . Unfortunately , Loki chance upon the cognitive process is nothin but a howling facade ; the Time Keepers are simple golem and the so - call Sacred Timeline is simply a timeline in which all of the TVA ’s likely enemies are quashed before they can pose a menace . All of this is orchestrated byHe Who Remains , a Kang variantwho lives in the Citadel at the closing of Time . Through the TVA , He Who remain has eliminated countless other timeline - and thus , extinguish an incalculable amount of lives .
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However , in the DC Universe , the Citadel is quite different . The fortress is known as the Vanishing Point - a place located at the literal end of time , just one attosecond before all of spacetime is consume through entropy , the eventual ( and inevitable ) oestrus death of the creation . The place is manned by the Linear Men , one of whom make their debut inThe risky venture of Superman#475while hunt for Booster Gold- the perennial time - traveling troubler - in 1991 . It is later on discover that this particular Linear Man - Travis O’Connell - went rogue , and the material Linear Men are more expansive .
The Linear Men were created by Matthew Ryder ( who will eventually become Waverider ) and Rip Hunter during an experiment that went amiss , knocking them both out of the timestream . InThe Legacy of SupermanstoryVanishing Point , Waverider uses the Vanishing Point ’s computers to find thedeath of Superman at the paw of Doomsday . enrage that a hero like Superman would die so young , Waverider travel into the past times to forbid it - but his alternate ego Ryder follow him . “Part of me need to save him too , Waverider . If anybody ever deserved our service in cheating end , it ’s Superman . “But Ryder bring up other the great unwashed as well - Albert Einstein , Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , and Albert Schweitzer - whom they ought to save as well ; where does it terminate ? Understanding his counterpart ’s point , Waverider reluctantly allows history to continue and Superman die .
While the members of the TVA " prune " timelines with the mental attitude of work a regular office job , the member of the Linear Men clearly show compassion for those whom they can not pull through for the interest of conserve the timeline . The fact that Ryder has a conversation at all rather of simply berating his fellow ( Linear ) man shows they understand that human lives are at stake . Lokishows the construct of the Time Policeat its worst , but DC shows them at their sound .
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