Timebroker
title: "Timebroker" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["comics-characters-introduced-in-2001", "characters-created-by-judd-winick"] topic_path: "general/comics-characters-introduced-in-2001" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timebroker" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| character_name | The Timebroker |
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| caption | The Timebroker |
| publisher | Marvel Comics |
| debut | Exiles #1 (August 2001) |
| creators | Judd Winick |
| Mike McKone | |
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| subcat | Marvel Comics |
| sortkey | Timebroker |
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| character_name = The Timebroker | image = | converted = y | imagesize = | caption = The Timebroker | publisher = Marvel Comics | debut = Exiles #1 (August 2001) | creators = Judd Winick Mike McKone | alter_ego = | full_name = | species = | homeworld = | alliances = | partners = | supports = | aliases = | powers = | cat = | subcat = Marvel Comics | hero = | villain = | sortkey = Timebroker 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, an insectoid species who accidentally damaged a large number of alternate universes.
Fictional character biography
The Timebroker first appears in Exiles #1, when he invites the Age of Apocalypse version of Blink to join a group of dimension-lost superheroes whom he named "The Exiles", whose mission would be to repair damaged realities. A team member whose home reality is repaired is immediately sent home, and replaced with someone new.
To repair each damaged reality, the Exiles must complete a mission given to them by the Timebroker through a communications device called the Tallus, worn by the leader of the group. These missions are usually humanitarian or super-heroic in nature, but sometimes involve assassination.
The Timebroker also creates a separate team of lost heroes, called Weapon X, whose job is mainly wetwork. When they grow out of control, the Timebroker orders the Exiles and Weapon X to battle each other until only six remain.
In Exiles #53, the Exiles receive a warning: "Beware the Timebreaker. He is not what he seems." Almost immediately after, the Timebroker acts irrationally, giving orders to murder the Age of Apocalypse X-Men as well as the Exiles' Mimic. The Exiles later learn that the Timebroker is an illusory entity created by the Timebreakers to trick the Exiles and Weapon X into fixing the realities that they had damaged.
References
References
- ''[[Exiles (comic book). Exiles]]'' #63 (June 2005)
- ''Exiles'' #64 (July 2005)
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