He is a divergent version of the time traveller Nathaniel Richards, a descendant of the scientist of the same name, whose alternate selves include Pharaoh Rama-Tut, Scarlet Centurion, Kang the Conqueror, Iron Lad / Kid Immortus, Doctor Doom, Mister Gryphon and Victorex Prime.
Subsequently, Timely uses his town to establish the time-crossroads of Chronopolis, which he intends to serve as city-state headquarters for all future versions of himself.
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.
creation of TVA founder He Who Remains (a variant of him who had won the previous Multiversal War) give Victor a book about the TVA as a child, leading to him building a Time loom as an adult, both travelling forward in time to find him, only to find Loki, Mobius, and Sylvie (He Who Remains' killer) looking for him too.
[18] In the Loki series finale, Nasri Thompson briefly portrays another young variant of Victor Timely who doesn't receive the TVA handbook, leading him to a different path in life.
Victor Timely appears as a variant skin for Kang as a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 (2017),[19] voiced by Peter Serafinowicz.