History SelfDemonstrating / Loki

A series of films tells the tales of [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor and me]], as well as [[Film/TheAvengers2012 his allies]]. The lofty task of portraying my glorious likeness was given to one Creator/TomHiddleston. One cannot imagine how delighted I was to see that he performed his role masterfully. The fact that he has also [[DracoInLeatherPants caught the desires of many a mortal woman]] as myself is an especially delicious triumph over my half-brother. And if not for [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk that green beast of few words, the outcome of the second film would have been far more enjoyable...]] At any rate, I also appear [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld in the sequel]], where I'm up to my old tricks again which has a most satisfying ending where I now sit on the throne of Asgard. And such an ''handsome'' man he is too -- so much that I modeled [[http://media.tumblr.com/0ed5b9ca9df753f8420b259990abd168/tumblr_inline_mxel5kDsaL1rn7obi.png my new face]] on his portrayal. Life imitating art and whatnot. (Or is it [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall art imitating art]])? I would presume that the majority of you newer fans are reading my page in his alluring voice at this very moment. (Or the voice that belongs to [[Creator/GrahamMcTavish Graham [=McTavish=]]], for those of you who are more animation-inclined and familiar with me as well as my exploits. Or Creator/JoseGilbertoVilchis, who masterfully translated Hiddleston's performance into the Latin Spanish dialect.) Anyways, I am looking forward to Hiddleston's series depicting on Creator/DisneyPlus online streaming, although it is delayed by Midgard's current time of covid-19 pestilence.

* [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]] in Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: I've become one in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, I make a turn every film I am in. I spent years in Asgard as Thor's ally before I ruined his big day and got him banished to Earth, then began my plot to wipe out the Frost Giants and win Odin's favor. When Thor beat me, I ended up meeting Thanos and cut a deal with him where I would bring him the Tesseract, which happened to hold on of the six Infinity Stones, and he would lend me an army to that allow me conquer Earth and rule over your mortals, as I have right to. After my defeat I will stuck in a prison on Asgard, and Thor broke me out in hopes I will help him against Malekith. As the dark elf killed our mother, I did help him, but I also took the chance to fake my own death and leave Odin on Earth, allowing me to rule Asgard disguised as him. It was fun, especially the part where [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade I set myself up as Asgard's savior]], until Thor saw through it and coerced me into helping him look for Odin. Turns out he had gone missing from where I had left him, then he died allowing Hela to return. When Thor and I got stuck on Sakaar fleeing from her, I worked my way into the Grandmaster's good graces and to keep it that way, I pretended to help Thor's break out with the intent of eventually capturing me. Unfortunately my brother had gotten wise to my tricks by this point and anticipated my treachery, and left me with some words about how predictable I was. When the rest of the slave broke out, I actually took Thor's words to heart and decided to be Asgard's savior for real and helped out people escape. As to whether or not this sticks, well you'll have to wait and find out.

* BiTheWay: As revealed to Prodigy, Asgardians don't really have sexualities, so much as a variety of sex acts, many that I'm somehow responsible or connected to, so with the likes of me, everything goes. Fortunately avoided being a DepravedBisexual, as I never expressed any of this until my current incarnation turned good~ish.

A series of films tells the tales of [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor and me]], as well as [[Film/TheAvengers2012 his allies]]. The lofty task of portraying my glorious likeness was given to one Creator/TomHiddleston. One cannot imagine how delighted I was to see that he performed his role masterfully. The fact that he has also [[DracoInLeatherPants caught the desires of many a mortal woman]] as myself is an especially delicious triumph over my half-brother. And if not for [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk that green beast of few words, the outcome of the second film would have been far more enjoyable...]] At any rate, I also appear [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld in the sequel]], where I'm up to my old tricks again which has a most satisfying ending where I now sit on the throne of Asgard. And such an ''handsome'' man he is too -- so much that I modeled [[http://media.tumblr.com/0ed5b9ca9df753f8420b259990abd168/tumblr_inline_mxel5kDsaL1rn7obi.png my new face]] on his portrayal. Life imitating art and whatnot. (Or is it [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall art imitating art]])? I would presume that the majority of you newer fans are reading my page in his alluring voice at this very moment. (Or the voice that belongs to [[Creator/GrahamMcTavish Graham [=McTavish=]]], for those of you who are more animation-inclined and familiar with me as well as my exploits. Or Creator/JoseGilbertoVilchis, who masterfully translated Hiddleston's performance into the Latin Spanish dialect.)

* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Born as son of the Frost Giant chieftain, but adopted and raised by Asgardian royal family I can truly say I'm. Not that I ever really belonged to either society as both equally loath me, albeit for different reasons. Loki is Loki. Unmatched in my own uniqueness.

* CoolSword: I was, for a time, owner of Gram, sword of Sigurd (the Ever-Glorious), a sword that forces all injured by it to face the truth. Time-travel plays no [[TimeyWimeyBall small part in its' complicated origins]]. Alas, my brother, in a typical moment of brainlessness and rage, destroyed it.

* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: My younger self [[spoiler:and also our later God(dess) of Stories incarnate]] would change gender for no reason other that we could (and we only could because we were thanks to some limitations placed on our shapeshifting those days), and would also identify accordingly. Yes. That's ''Goddess'', or ''Mistress'' or generally ''she'' when we were a woman. Thank you very much.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: I've become one in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, I make a turn every film I am in. I spent years in Asgard as Thor's ally before I ruined his big day and got him banished to Earth, then began my plot to wipe out the Frost Giants and win Odin's favor. When Thor beat me, I ended up meeting Thanos and cut a deal with him where I would bring him the Tesseract, which happened to hold on of the six Infinity Stones, and he would lend me an army to that allow me conquer Earth and rule over your mortals, as I have right to. After my defeat I will stuck in a prison on Asgard, and Thor broke me out in hopes I will help him against Malekith. As the dark elf killed our mother, I did help him, but I also took the chance to fake my own death and leave Odin on Earth, allowing me to rule Asgard disguised as him. It was fun, especially the part where [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade I set myself up as Asgard's savoir]], until Thor saw through it and coerced me into helping him look for Odin. Turns out he had gone missing from where I had left him, then he died allowing Hela to return. When Thor and I got stuck on Sakaar fleeing from her, I worked my way into the Grandmaster's good graces and to keep it that way, I pretended to help Thor's break out with the intent of eventually capturing me. Unfortunately my brother had gotten wise to my tricks by this point and anticipated my treachery, and left me with some words about how predictable I was. When the rest of the slave broke out, I actually took Thor's words to heart and decided to be Asgard's savior for real and helped out people escape. As to whether or not this sticks, well you'll have to wait and find out.

A series of films tells the tales of [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor and me]], as well as [[Film/TheAvengers2012 his allies]]. The lofty task of portraying my glorious likeness was given to one Creator/TomHiddleston. One cannot imagine how delighted I was to see that he performed his role masterfully. The fact that he has also [[DracoInLeatherPants caught the desires of many a mortal woman]] as myself is an especially delicious triumph over my half-brother. And if not for [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk that green beast of few words, the outcome of the second film would have been far more enjoyable...]] At any rate, I also appear [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld in the sequel]], where I'm up to my old tricks again which has a most satisfying ending where I now sit on the throne of Asgard. And such an ''handsome'' man he is too -- so much that I modeled [[http://media.tumblr.com/0ed5b9ca9df753f8420b259990abd168/tumblr_inline_mxel5kDsaL1rn7obi.png my new face]] on his portrayal. Life imitating art and whatnot. (Or is it [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall art imitating art]])? I would presume that the majority of you newer fans are reading my page in his alluring voice at this very moment. (Or the voice that belongs to [[Creator/GrahamMcTavish Graham [=McTavish=]]], for those of you who are more animation-inclined and familiar with me as well as my exploits.)

* DaddysLittleVillain: [[AvertedTrope If only.]] My [[SarcasmMode dear]] ComicBook/{{Hela}} is neither little -- thrice my size, in fact; apparently giantism skips a generation -- nor particularly fond of me. Our relationships are rather ... strained, at best, and though we sometimes co-operate most of the time, the ungrateful wretch wants nothing to do with me. Unfortunately, as the Goddess of the Dead she is much more powerful than me as well, and worse I may even be destined to someday end up in her custody. Apparently, the insolent fool thinks me rather ... childish, but I am the God of Mischief after all, so I do have a reputation to live up to. [[spoiler:Though the fact that she's not really my daughter at all might have something to do with it. Girls, am I right?]]

** Perhaps I might be a little ... dishonest with myself, insofar as how much I truly detest Thor, and I might begrudgingly admit there are some things I might admire about him, at least now that I have forgotten that I ever hated him in the first place. Even if [[CallingTheOldManOut daddy doesn't like it]].

I have become more ... appreciative, of Thor my brother, for at least he, alone among the Aesir, treats me with trust and love. I now put my mind towards more ... benevolent ends, and have assisted Thor and his friends in their hours of need- even if I am still more savvy about [[TheUnfettered how their principles sometimes get in the way of their own good.]] And still I work for the good of Asgard, the only true home I have ever known, and in the All-Mother's secret service. After all, sometimes it takes a little ''bad'' to do ''good''... For my misfortune [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty getting away with]]... from a past (and future) like mine proved harder than originally anticipated but I can safely say I face the ''Comicbook/{{Secret Wars|2015}}'' as a ''changed'' person.

* BeingEvilSucks: I have been plagued by a guilty conscience, taking the form of [[spoiler: the so-called "Kid Loki", whose soul I destroyed when I took over his body as part of my ploy to avoid the ignominy of predictability]]. {{Hamlet}} [[ShoutOutToShakespeare figures prominently]] [[OutDamnedSpot in his accusations]].

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: I've become one in the MarvelCinematicUniverse, I make a turn every film I am in. I spent years in Asgard as Thor's ally before I ruined his big day and got him banished to Earth, then began my plot to wipe out the Frost Giants and win Odin's favor. When Thor beat me, I ended up meeting Thanos and cut a deal with him where I would bring him the Tesseract, which happened to hold on of the six Infinity Stones, and he would lend me an army to that allow me conquer Earth and rule over your mortals, as I have right to. After my defeat I will stuck in a prison on Asgard, and Thor broke me out in hopes I will help him against Malekith. As the dark elf killed our mother, I did help him, but I also took the chance to fake my own death and leave Odin on Earth, allowing me to rule Asgard disguised as him. It was fun, especially the part where [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade I set myself up as Asgard's savoir]], until Thor saw through it and coerced me into helping him look for Odin. Turns out he had gone missing from where I had left him, then he died allowing Hela to return. When Thor and I got stuck on Sakaar fleeing from her, I worked my way into the Grandmaster's good graces and to keep it that way, I pretended to help Thor's break out with the intent of eventually capturing me. Unfortunately my brother had gotten wise to my tricks by this point and anticipated my treachery, and left me with some words about how predictable I was. When the rest of the slave broke out, I actually took Thor's words to heart and decided to be Asgard's savior for real and helped out people escape. As to whether or not this sticks, well you'll have to wait and find out.
* HornsOfVillainy: My golden circlet does nicely complement my black hair and green eyes. The horns were considerably more prominent on my earlier, villainous incarnation; my [[AntiHero delightful new incarnation]] has gone for a bit more subtlety. My MarvelCinematicUniverse incarnation has done similarly, wearing a magnificent set of horns in ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' while attempting to conquer Midgard and a much smaller one when playing a more ambiguous role in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''.

** OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: My younger self on the other hand [[spoiler:and also our later God(dess) of Stories incarnate]] would change gender for no reason other that we could (and we only could because we were thanks to some limitations placed on our shapeshifting those days), and would also identify accordingly. Yes. That's ''Goddess'', or ''Mistress'' or generally ''she'' when we were a woman. Thank you very much.

* {{Hand Blast}}s: Just in case you start thinking I'm all guile and manipulation, I can certainly take care of myself in battle.

* [[spoiler: KillAndReplace: One incarnation of me did this to another. One of my greatest regrets.]]
* [[spoiler: KillingYourAlternateSelf: Kid Loki, I am so terribly sorry.]]

* LeanAndMean: Watch out, here I come, I'm a fighting machine!

* ManOfWealthAndTaste: When I travel to the mortal realm, at least in [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the good old days]], I try to dress my best- I look [[BadassInANiceSuit good in a suit, after all]].

* OddFriendship: Spider-Man and I had a short lived one during our brief team-up. It was certainly entertaining, everyone can agree on that, given our [[DeadpanSnarker wit]]. By the end I was grateful enough that told he could get a favor from in the future, which never amounted to anything despite the number of fans wishing for him to use it to get me to undo ComicBook/OneMoreDay.

* SadlyMythtaken: Originally Laufey was my mother, and I was the blood-brother of Odin. Meaning: I'm Thor's adopted uncle, not his adopted brother. Don't tell him. He would be so disappointed.

* SorcerousOverlord: On the occasions I managed to ascend to my rightful place as King of Asgard.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: As Hall H learned the hard way at Comic Con 2013.

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: At the end of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', I not only alive, but disguised as Odin. You'll have to wait to find out how I survived as WordOfGod is I won't be appearing again for a while to avoid overexposure.]]

* TheStarscream: In '''Film/ThorRagnarok''' when I was pretending to be friends with the Grandmaster, I was naturally planning to one day kill that lunatic and rule Sakaar myself.

* TheAtoner: My younger incarnations have attempted this role. [[HeroWithAnFInGood It's surprisingly difficult]], but of course Loki is sufficiently resourceful.

** Averted with my Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse incarnation. Thor and Odin do not forgive me after my attempted invasion of Migard, and Thor only releases me since he expected me to help deal with Malekith.

* BecomingTheMask: As I said repeatedly: Loki is always Loki (and only fights for Loki), but which, can be quite the question. For example, is young me my kid version [[spoiler:, whose body he inhabits, and part he plays;]] or the old [[spoiler:, whose memories and personality he possesses, but part tries to avoid;]] or maybe somehow [[SplitPersonalityMerge in-between]]? For what it's worth I'm hoping for a solution that makes me [[ScrewDestiny less predictable]]. But I'm sad to say the [[Creator/MarvelComics house]] almost [[StatusQuoIsGod always wins]]. [[spoiler:And it won. But too late for my tastes, which prompted me, well, King!Loki me, to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight (or was it the other way around?). What happened? Let's just say sometimes I really hate {{butterfl|yOfDoom}}ies.]]

* DoNotAdjustYourSet: I pulled this once on [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Apocalypse]], appearing on one of his television monitoring screens and then having a chat with him from it, then popping out of it to have a proper conversation. It was fun until he took me prisoner with his AntiMagic tech...

* BaconAddiction: Now that I turned young again I learned to appreciate Midgardian cuisine, it's vastly more exciting than the Asgardian for one. So many different breakfast meats... especially bacon, bacon really ''is'' magic.

Welcome, Midgardian, or whichever other insignificant being you might be. (The internet's becoming quite popular, after all.)

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: I once schemed to pit Thor in a deadly battle against the Hulk, but [[IronMan some]] [[ComicBook/AntMan other]] [[TheWasp heroes]] showed up as well. My plot was soon uncovered, and - much to my later irritation - I ended up inadvertently bringing the Avengers together. Indeed, this incident is my single greatest regret in life [[spoiler:or at least ''was'' until I killed my better self]].