Over the years, Deadpool has worked for some strange employers, and he's never been too picky about who he's worked for. But in one stunning turn of events, Wade Wilson was briefly recruited for a crucial mission by the Time Variance Authority, the organization that oversees Marvel's timeline that just made its Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Loki.

Deadpool's job with the Time Variance Authority took place during 2015's Deadpool & Cable: Split Second Infinite Comic #1-6, by Fabian Nicieza and Reilly Brown. In this mini-series, Cable went back in time to stop his vision of Deadpool killing Doctor Carl Weathers, who had plans for a Temporal Displacement Harness.

While fighting a time-traveling assassin named Split Second, who wore a future version of the Temporal Displacement Harness, Cable and Deadpool became trapped in a time loop. This loop sent them back 70 seconds in the past, only to repeat their catastrophic battle with Split Second multiple times afterward. Eventually, Deadpool managed to damage Split Second's harness, which exploded and sent Cable and Deadpool to the year 2050. Immediately upon their arrival, Cable and Deadpool were attacked by another assassin, called Loop. As a result of the previous time loop, Cable had developed a cancer lesion in his brain, which created a chronal cascade across the timestream, endangering the universe.

Interestingly enough, Loop talked just as much as Deadpool and cracked many of the same jokes. Soon, it was revealed that Loop was a future Deadpool, who was sent to kill Cable by the Time Variance Authority.

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Moreover, Loop was testing his past self, to see if Wade had what it took to work for the Time Variance Authority. Since Deadpool passed, he was officially an agent of the Time Variance Authority, on a mission to kill every variation of Cable across the timestream.

Meanwhile, Loop was sent back to the moment when he first attacked Cable and Deadpool. In this way, Loop lived up to his name, fighting his past self and sending him on his mission, before going back in time to do it all over again.

Even though Loop was gone, Deadpool was still an agent of the Time Variance Authority. It was initially thought that killing each version of Cable across various timelines would stabilize the timestream from Cable's temporal cancer. Yet Deadpool failed in this task, compulsively saving Cable's life in each temporal plane he visited. As it turned out, however, Deadpool's methods worked out for the best.

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According to the Temporal Adjudicator, each time Wade saved Cable, he invalidated the turmoil of a timeline, saving a new piece of the timestream. Even though he deviated from his original mission, Deadpool proved to be a surprisingly good agent for the Time Variance Authority. Thanks to his unorthodox methods, Deadpool saved the day with a minimum of violence, even when Cable believed that he had to go through the timestream and kill alternate versions of himself.

However, Deadpool made it into the future, preventing Cable from making this mistake. Instead, Deadpool convinced Cable to embrace his multiplicity, using the Temporal Dislocator Harness to bond with his other selves. As a result, Cable became whole again, and the timestream was saved. Impressively, Deadpool managed to break free of the pattern in which Loop found himself, traveling through time repeatedly to the same moment.

Despite his propensity for violence, Deadpool found a less violent way to solve his problems, even when the Temporal Adjudicator told him to kill Cable. In doing so, Deadpool saved his best friend and the universe as well. His efforts may have initially been unintentional, but they still worked and proved why his unique approach to problem-solving could make him such a valuable asset to the Time Variance Authority.

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