It’s hard to imagine stealing a scene from Tom Hiddleston when he’s at his charismatic best as Loki, but Miss Minutes has done just that in the first two episodes of Loki. According to Loki director Kate Herron, we could be seeing Miss Minutes in her own story arc.

Introduced in the series premiere, Miss Minutes is the animated clock who fills Loki in on the Time Variance Authority and his status as a Variant. She makes a brief appearance in the second episode to quiz an annoyed Loki on the TVA information he is supposed to study. For the second episode she appeared as a living cartoon off the screen before jumping into a computer, indicating that she can exist in the real world and digitally.

Herron recently spoke to the Los Angeles Times about the quirky character and how she came to be. Miss Minutes is based on characters like Felix the Cat with Roger Rabbit’s ability to interact with live-action characters. Herron described how they filmed the live-action interactions with a stand-in prop.

“It was basically like a lamp that we stuck little cardboard eyes on,” Herron said. “She was this little lamp on suitcase wheels that we’d spin around … She’s a light because she lights the scene because the character is illuminated. Then you replace the terrifying lamp with a lovely cartoon.”

Herron suggested that the character would have an “interesting” journey. This could mean a full story arc or more time spent assisting and annoying Loki. Miss Minutes is voiced by Tara Strong, a voice acting mainstay whose extensive body of work includes voicing Batgirl/Barbara Gordon for multiple shows from The New Batman Adventures to DC Super Hero Girls, Harley Quinn in DC Super Hero Girls, Bubbles in The Powerpuff Girls, Timmy in The Fairly OddParents, and Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony.

Given Strong’s résumé it would seem that Miss Minutes is in for more than just a few brief scenes.