Loki director, Kate Herron, revealed that a fight scene with Miss Minutes was cut from the first season. The 6-episode series follows the title character (Tom Hiddleston) after the events of Avengers: Endgame. He ultimately finds himself at the Time Variance Authority (TVA), where he's now faced with the multiverse and every action he makes has the potential to have some serious consequences. Teaming up with Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), Loki seeks to uncover the secrets of the TVA.
When the trickster god is initially forced to go through the bureaucratic process of entering the TVA, he reaches a room where all variants must draw a ticket. A video plays on the television that is narrated by Miss Minutes (Tara Strong), which acts as a way to inform the variant about what the TVA is and the trial that they're about to enter. While the character makes a few more appearances for conversations or supposedly searching through files, she doesn't have a whole lot of screen time.
In an interview with Marvel, Herron dove a bit deeper into the discussion on Miss Minutes. The writers wanted to keep the character around and had to discover a way to do that. Head writer, Michael Waldron, chimed in that it would be fun to take a seemingly innocent looking character and transform that into something terrifying. Even further, Herron talked about how there was a fight scene with Miss Minutes that got the axe. See below to read Herron's full statement:
Early on in the scripts, we all were definitely united on, ‘We've got to keep Miss Minutes in the story somehow...that devil on the shoulder and trying to tempt both Loki and Sylvie. It was fun that you got a sense of there's something a bit more sinister going on here with her. We always had a version where [Loki and Sylvie] kept meeting her at the Citadel. At one point, we had a fight scene with Miss Minutes in the Citadel; we had all kinds of stuff [for her].
Throughout the majority of Loki, the TVA and most of those involved in it served as the opposition to the title character and Sylvie. However, as the series progresses, they encounter other bumps in the road, such as apocalypses and other people getting in their way. In episode 5, Alioth makes an intimidating appearance, even if being compared to essentially a guard dog. Even though Miss Minutes didn't end up making the cut to have a fight sequence, the production did use a scary-looking lamp as a stand-in for the animated character.
Miss Minutes would've provided another ounce of variety to the combat scenes. While plenty of other television series and films have played with the idea of a seemingly non-threatening character turning into something terrifying, it's fun to see how Loki pulls it off with this animated character. Strong does a phenomenal job lending her voice to bringing Miss Minutes to life, so having the character be more than a tool for exposition is a great addition. Perhaps one day audiences will hear more on the fight scene that could have been.
Source: Marvel
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