Timebroker

The Timebroker
The Timebroker
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Exiles #1 (August 2001)
Created by	Judd Winick; Mike McKone

The Timebroker is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Judd Winick for the comic book Exiles; a psychic construct created by the Timebreakers, a race of alien bug-people who accidentally damaged a large number of alternate universes.

Fictional character biography

The Timebroker first appeared in Exiles #1, when he invited the

Blink to join a group of dimension-lost superheroes whom he named "The Exiles", whose mission would be to repair the damaged realities, and hopefully, to return home safely. A team member whose home reality is repaired is immediately sent home, and replaced with someone new.^{[volume & issue needed}

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To repair each damaged reality, the Exiles must complete a mission given to them by the Timebroker through a communications device called, "The

Sabretooth. These missions are usually humanitarian or super-heroic in nature, but sometimes involve assassination.^{[volume & issue needed}

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The Timebroker also created a separate team of lost heroes, called

Weapon X, whose job is mainly wetwork. When they grew out of control, the Timebroker ordered the Exiles and Weapon X to battle each other until only 6 remained alive.^{[volume & issue needed}

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In #53, the Exiles received a warning: "Beware the Timebreaker. He is not what he seems." Almost immediately after, the Timebroker acted irrationally, giving orders to murder the

Mimic. He also did not pop in when Tanaraq and Holocaust attempted to rebel and get their old lives back. The Exiles learned later the true nature of the Timebroker during a raid on Panoptichron, namely that "he" is an illusion created by bug-men.^{[volume & issue needed}

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Later, Mimic used him to convince Blink and the others to cast the infiltrating

Heather, treat the Timebroker as the Timebreakers' predecessor instead of interface.^{[volume & issue needed}

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References

External links

Timebroker at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)