ā | I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose. | ā |
~ Loki introducing himself to Nick Fury as well as his most famous line. |
ā | Kneel before me. I said... KNEEL! Is this not simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel. | ā |
~ Loki's speech to the Earth's citizens. |
Loki Laufeyson is a major character of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is the God of Mischief, the adoptive Frost Giant son of King Odin and Queen Frigga of Asgard and the adoptive brother of Prince Thor Odinson and Hela. Upon realizing his true heritage in adulthood and desiring the throne Thor will inherit by birthright, Loki unsuccessfully engineers a plot to get rid of his brother and take over Asgard. He later joins forces with Thanos in attacking the Earth, leading to the formation of the Avengers, but ultimately realizes the errors of his ways and assists Thor in fighting against Malekith the Accursed and Thor's estranged sister Hela, gradually losing his greedy ambitions over the way.
He was portrayed by Tom Hiddleston, who also voiced Lord Nooth in Early Man.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
Background[]
- As later revealed in Loki, throughout his childhood and youth Loki did some pranks on others, earning his title of the God of Mischief:
- Took the form of a snake to trick Thor into grabbing him, and once Thor did it, Loki stabbed him apparently for no reason.
- Transformed Thor into a frog and pretended to take over the throne and the crown, leading Frog Thor to pummel him.
- Cut off a lock of Sif's hair despite her sleeping with him, leading Sif to punch and kick him, yet he expressed no remorse for it.
Thor[]
- Lets the Frost Giants enter Asgard and break into Odin's Vault, disrupting Thor's coronation ceremony, which would later lead Thor into challenging the Frost Giants at Jotunheim for a battle, leading Odin to banish Thor to Earth for his recklessness and lack of humility.
- Travels to the Earth and lies to Thor once he recovers his memories that Odin has passed away, when in reality Odin has gone into his Odinsleep, to prevent Thor from messing with his plans even claiming that Frigga had banned him from returning, leading a depressed Thor into thinking that his father died due to the stress his actions caused and deciding to stay on Earth for the rest of his days if the Asgardians preferred so.
- Offers Laufey, the leader of the Frost Giants and his biological father, the chance to invade Asgard and kill Odin during his Odinsleep.
- Sends the Destroyer to New Mexico to prevent the Warrior Three from bringing Thor back, leading the Destroyer to ravage the small town.
- Has the Destroyer kill Thor despite Thor offering his surrender, though Mjolnir revives and enables Thor to destroy the Destroyer.
- Backstabs the Frost Giants in order to make himself look like a hero to the Asgardians, killing his father Laufey (though Laufey deserved it for callously abandoning him behind to die when Loki was merely a baby).
- Tried to use the Bifrƶst to destroy Jotunheim and wipe out the entire race of Frost Giants to prove himself to Odin as true heir to the throne.
- During the confrontation with Thor, he threatened to go after Jane Foster.
The Avengers[]
- Makes a deal with Thanos, who gives him a Scepter containing the Mind Stone, to lead his Chitauri forces into attacking the Earth so Thanos could get the Tesseract as part of his crusade to wipe out half of all life in the universe to bring balance to it.
- Places Erik Selvig and Hawkeye under his control, brainwashing them into following his orders and attacking their allies.
- This act later left Selvig and Hawkeye with some psychological trauma, with Hawkeye clearly haunted by his actions while under the mind control spell and Selvig got his mind slightly unhinged to the point he later stripped himself at Stonehenge upon realizing the threat of the Dark Elves the following year.
- Gouges out the eye of a man during a party in Germany so Hawkeye could open a door and steal Iridium for Erik Selvig to build a portal for the Chitauri to invade the Earth.
- Orders all German citizens into kneeling before him and threatens to kill one defiant man (possibly a Jewish who survived the Holocaust and saw Loki as an equivalent of Adolf Hitler) for refusing to kneel before "men like him".
- Fights against Captain America.
- Taunts Black Widow with questions of her traumatic past with General Dreykov during his stay as a prisoner of S.H.I.E.L.D. aboard their Hellicarrier.
- Uses the Hulk so he can escape from his containment cell.
- Kills Phil Coulson while escaping from the Helicarrier (though Coulson was revived later on, his resurrection involved Coulson being injected Kree blood, which slowly killed him six years later).
- Drops Thor inside his containment cell off the Helicarrier, to see if he would get killed by the crash.
- Opens a wormhole in the skies of New York City, allowing the Chitauri to enter into the Earth and resulting in the Battle of New York, which led to hundreds of deaths.
- Not only that, but the aftermath of the Battle of New York led some of the Earth's population to turn against superheroes, such as Ellen Nadeer, Adrian Toomes and Eleanor Bishop. Years later, this battle would serve as a motivation for the Sokovia accords, which were later dictated after the destructive actions of Ultron and Crossbones.
- His actions also indirectly caused Iron Man into suffering from PTSD for some time, like when he faced Aldrich Killian and his Extremist soldiers. The damage Loki caused would also help Wilson Fisk rise to power. Additionally, Hammer industries would eventually get their hands on Chitauri metal, which got fashioned into the Judas bullets that are able to harm Luke Cage.
- Fights against Thor and the Hulk before the latter easily defeats him.
Thor: The Dark World[]
- Tries to excuse his war-mongering actions during his trial, much to Odin's fury.
- When Malekith the Accursed sends Kurse and his Dark Elves to invade Asgard to get the Aether from Jane Foster, Loki tells them from his cell how to get to Jane, thinking that Kruse would confront Thor, but this ends up causing the death of his adoptive mother Frigga instead.
- Fakes his death in Svartalfheim after seemingly sacrificing himself to save Thor.
- Secretly brainwashes Odin, exiles him to the Earth and takes over Asgard while disguising himself as Odin.
Thor: Ragnarok[]
- Despite ruling Asgard decently for four years since exiling Odin to the Earth and allowing Thor to stay there, Loki ignores the chaos in the Nine Realms, builds monuments of himself and even makes a play dramatizing his plays, demonstrating that he mostly rules and gives orders for the sake of stroking his own ego.
- Quickly gets on the Grandmaster's good graces and lets Thor be humiliated and enslaved just to gain the Grandmaster's favor.
- He offers Thor help to escape the cell before the fight against the Grandmaster's champion, but quickly gives up out of disappointment when Thor refuses to get any help from him.
- Pretends to assist Thor into escaping from Sakaar but in reality planned to turn him over to the Grandmaster in exchange of a reward, only for Thor to reveal that he anticipated his deception and incapacitating him.
- Leaves all Asgardians to die under Hela's rule until he has a change of heart and goes to rescue them with the Statesman just in time from Surtur unleashing the Ragnarƶk over there.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- Although his actions especially during the Battle of New York pass the baseline, he fails the massive heinous standards of the MCU to many villains such as Hela (who wanted to kickstart a bloody conquest onto the Nine Realms), Ronan the Accuser (who tried to destroy the planet Xander), Ultron (who nearly destroyed Sokovia in an attempt at wiping out humanity), Thanos (who massacred multiple planets and wanted to wipe out half the universe), Odin (who, prior to his redemption, massacred multiple planets accross the Nine Realms), Supreme Intelligence (who tried to expand its empire across the universe and lead a genocidal crusade against the Skrulls and Xandarians), and Malekith (who sacrifice swarm of his men and tried to destroy the Nine Realms all with similar resources).
- It doesn't help that Loki attempting to destroy Jotunheim was shared by his brother Thor (before he redeemed himself and became a hero).
- He also fails the individual capability as he had an entire alien army, was the ruler of Asgard at one point, and had the Tesseract, yet only endangered hundreds when he could easily endanger more people.
- He has many comedic moments, such as repeatedly getting smashed into the ground by him faking his death, him having a few comedic moments in his prison scenes, and him faking his illness so that Thor could throw him in front of a bunch Sakaaran soldiers. Also, when Hulk repeatedly smashes him onto the ground and calls him a puny God, he gets hurt in such a slapstick way, proving that he's not only a complete joke, but he's also a scapegoat.
- He is genuinely tragic: he was abandoned to die when he was just a Frost Giant baby by his father nonetheless, was taught to hate his own species (leading him to feel like Odin just adopted him for his own ends and not out of compassion) and was treated as an outsider among the Asgardians.
- He loves his family despite never admitting it, especially Frigga, who always stood up for him. While he did cause her death, it wasn't his intention and was shown to feel immense remorse when he heard that she died because of his actions. This remorse led him to accept to help Thor, the Warriors Three and Jane into saving the universe from Malekith's threat, because he wanted to avenge his mother's death. He also exiled Odin to the Earth instead of simply killing him and ultimately accepted Thor as his brother and sacrificed himself for him.
- He ultimately redeems himself when he goes on his own volition to save the Asgardians with the Statesman from Hela, as they would have all died had he not come to rescue them. In the end, he gives up his life in an attempt to kill Thanos to save Thor and stop the Snap from happening, and despite failing in killing Thanos, Loki manages to save his brother's life.
Trivia[]
- For a long time he used to be considered Inconsistently Heinous but was moved here when other villains have outranked him in heinousness.
- While this version of Loki and many others are Villainous Benchmark, his version in the Avengers Assassinated universe qualifies as Inconsistently Heinous for killing two hundred S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and attempting to turn Earth into ice and dust, with the heinous standard being much lower in his universe and only Yellowjacket to compete with. Not to mention, that version became more evil once he began to rule over Earth considering he no longer seemed to be effected by any of his tragic past and overall he is much more competent, but couldnāt be ranked higher due to his On & Off status and comedic moments. However, his page has been removed due to false information on his proposal.
External Links[]
- Loki Laufeyson on the Marvel Wiki
- Loki Laufeyson on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
- Loki Laufeyson on the Villains Wiki
- Loki Laufeyson on the Heroes Wiki
- Loki Laufeyson on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
- Loki Laufeyson on the Marvel Movies Wiki
- Loki Laufeyson on the Disney Wiki
- Loki Laufeyson on the VS Battles Wiki
- Loki Laufeyson on the Wikipedia
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