Can somebody explain to me why they were pulling out Variants?

Like I get the whole Variants were the workers of the TVA reason, but what's the logical purpose of pulling out Variants into TVA and pruning them separately when the reset charges just destroy the timeline.

They could have just left the Variant there, and put the reset charges letting the Variant die with the timeline

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Void_Warden2025-12-15 08:24

Two reasons:

1. For the same reason some dictatorships hold false trials for political opponents: ceremonial pomp and a pretense of legitimacy.

2. Because He Who Remains needed the Loki variants to be "judged" for his master plan to work out. But he couldn't remove Lokis specifically or even the TVA brainwashed might think something's not adding up

a_o2025-12-15 11:29

An infinite amount of people, kidnapped from branches of the timeline and brainwashed to become the workforce that delivers HWR an heir. Like panning sand for gold.

beardiac2025-12-15 14:52

While I think part of it is recruiting for their own ranks (the TVA is way bigger than the corner of it the show interacts with, so it'd be easy to take a recruit and ship them off to some other corner of the TVA and keep most people unaware of the fact that they are all mind-wiped variants), I think another aspect is "He Who Remains"'s ulterior motive of finding the variants needed to succeed him (Loki & Sylvie). If they just wiped out all variants with the reset charges, they'd have no way of setting the stage for the pair of Loki variants to find their way to the void at the end of time and his secret stronghold.

repalec2025-12-15 20:03

Plus, if a variant is dangerous enough to justify pruning a timeline for, who's to say they wouldn't be able to find some way to survive or otherwise escape the pruning? Ensuring they have the variant in custody first means no chance of escape.

Remarkable_Tiger98162025-12-17 03:02

Loki was in a different country than the original reset point as well. Although, one would think they'd have more guards since Silva escaped.

nypinta2025-12-15 15:24

Where else would he get employees from?

CommunityDragon1842025-12-15 15:28

Free workers

Romnonaldao2025-12-15 19:42

Its all theatre for the TVA agents. It makes them feel like what they are doing is important by forcing the variant to go through a "trial" for everyone to see.

morphballganon2025-12-15 23:29

In Loki's case, he had the Tesseract, so he could have escaped the pruning by teleporting.

In addition to the hiring point others have made, the TVA also needed to take in the people creating alternate timelines to interrogate them. What if someone was onto HWR's plan? The TVA was given procedures to identify and stifle that.

el_palmera2025-12-15 23:55

Maybe to feed Alioth

Far_Combination76392025-12-16 00:31

I agree it doesn’t make much sense. I mean is there any judicial process in the court? Judge Renslayer just asked Loki how he pled, then found him guilty and sentenced him to be pruned. That’s… pretty dumb

Affectionate-Bus9272025-12-18 03:53

but he who remains needed one special loki variant to get pruned so that this loki then would meet him, he who remains explains this in a ~30 minute monologue

Iamjaykrishnan2025-12-17 13:37

And why is it only humans