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Loki

IdentityConfirmed

Real nameLoki Laufeyson

CodenameLoki, God of Stories (comics)

ContinentMore confirmed

In DoomsdayTom Hiddleston (on Marvel's cast list; role not yet named)¹

First seenJourney Into Mystery #85, October 1962²

Created byStan Lee, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby²

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WhoThor's adopted brother, a Frost Giant's son raised in Asgard: once the god of mischief and Thor's scheming rival, he rewrote his own story to become the God of Stories in the comics.³

AbilitiesSorcery, illusions and shapeshifting, plus a talent for scheming.³

In DoomsdayMarvel lists Tom Hiddleston in the cast but has not named his role; his most recent released role was Loki.¹

Last seenAvengers: Endgame (Encore re-release) (2026), as Loki: He knocks at Peggy Carter's door offering help, and Steve Rogers steps out to face him.¹³

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Level 2 // Surveillance recordOn screen · 10 sightings, 10 in the MCU

Every live-action sighting of Loki, and everything Marvel has confirmed.

2011
Thor MCU
Tom Hiddleston (Ted Allpress as young Loki) Jealous of Thor, Loki secretly lets Frost Giants into Asgard to spoil his brother's coronation, which leads to Thor's banishment, and then learns he was born a Frost Giant himself. With Odin in the Odinsleep he rules as acting king, sends the Destroyer to kill Thor on Earth and kills Laufey to pass himself off as Odin's saviour. Beaten on the Rainbow Bridge, he lets go and falls into the void, and a post-credits scene shows him secretly influencing Erik Selvig.¹²
2012
The Avengers MCU
Tom Hiddleston Given the Scepter and a Chitauri army by Thanos's servant the Other, Loki steals the Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D. and enslaves Clint Barton and Erik Selvig. Captured in Germany and caged aboard the Helicarrier, he stokes the arguments between the Avengers while his agents attack the ship, and kills Phil Coulson as he escapes. He opens a portal over Stark Tower for the Chitauri invasion of New York, but the Hulk pounds him into the floor and Thor takes him home in chains.³²
2013
Thor: The Dark World MCU
Tom Hiddleston Sentenced by Odin to life in the Asgardian dungeons, Loki is let out by Thor after the Dark Elves kill their mother Frigga, because he knows a secret way off Asgard. On Svartalfheim he stages a fake betrayal to trick Malekith, then appears to die saving Thor from Kurse. In the last scene he is revealed sitting on Asgard's throne disguised as Odin. The MCU Wiki credits Chris Evans for the moment Loki shape-shifts into Captain America.⁴²
2017
Thor: Ragnarok MCU
Tom Hiddleston Thor exposes Loki's reign in disguise, and the brothers find the real Odin on Earth just before he dies, which frees their older sister Hela. Knocked off the Bifrost, Loki lands on Sakaar and wins the Grandmaster's favour, betrays Thor once more and is left twitching on the floor by one of Thor's tricks. He comes back leading the freed gladiators to rescue Asgard's people, wakes Surtur to destroy Asgard and, in a mid-credits scene, sails with Thor toward Earth.⁵²
2018
Avengers: Infinity War MCUCameo
Tom Hiddleston Appears only in the opening sequence aboard the Asgardian refugee ship. To stop Thanos torturing Thor he gives up the Tesseract, which he had taken from Odin's vault before Asgard fell. He then pledges false loyalty to Thanos as a ruse, but Thanos sees through it and breaks his neck in front of his brother.⁶²
2019
Avengers: Endgame MCUCameo
Tom Hiddleston Brief appearance during the 2012 Time Heist. After the Battle of New York, a captive 2012 Loki watches the time-travelling Avengers fumble the Tesseract in Stark Tower; it slides to his feet and he vanishes with it, splitting off a new branch of time. This is the Loki variant who leads the Disney+ series.⁷⁸
2021
Loki (season 1) MCU
Tom Hiddleston Arrested by the Time Variance Authority for escaping with the Tesseract, Loki is shown his own future and recruited by agent Mobius M. Mobius to hunt a rogue variant who turns out to be Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino). Pruned into the Void at the end of time, he meets other versions of himself, among them Classic Loki (Richard E. Grant), Kid Loki (Jack Veal) and Boastful Loki (DeObia Oparei). He and Sylvie reach He Who Remains, the TVA's founder, and after Sylvie kills him and sends Loki away, he finds a TVA where nobody knows him.⁹¹⁰⁸
2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania MCUCameo
Tom Hiddleston Cameo in the post-credits scene. In the late nineteenth century Loki and Mobius sit in the audience of a talk on time given by Victor Timely. Mobius is relaxed, but Loki is terrified because he recognises Timely as a version of He Who Remains.¹¹⁸
2023
Loki (season 2) MCU
Tom Hiddleston Loki finds himself slipping uncontrollably through time while the TVA's Temporal Loom fails under the strain of a branching multiverse. Working with Mobius, Ouroboros and Sylvie, he brings in Victor Timely to save the Loom, and after it explodes he learns to control his time-slipping and relives the disaster again and again, even spending centuries learning how the machine works. Finally he destroys the Loom himself, gathers the dying timelines in his hands and takes a throne at the end of time, holding the multiverse together alone.⁹¹²⁸
2026
Avengers: Endgame (Encore re-release) MCUCameo
Tom Hiddleston Cameo in the extended ending of the September 2026 re-release. As Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter share their dance, someone knocks at the door; when Peggy answers, Loki tells her he can help them both, and Steve steps out from hiding to face him. The MCU Wiki identifies this visitor as the Loki of the Disney+ series.⁷⁸¹³

What Marvel confirmed

The film. Avengers: Doomsday opens 18 December 2026.¹⁴

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Level 3 // Deep archiveThe comics · since October 1962

Origin, the comics by era, abilities and recorded feats.

Origin

Loki was born in Jotunheim to Laufey, king of the Frost Giants, and his queen Farbauti. He was far smaller than a giant should be, and his parents were so embarrassed by him that he was kept apart from the rest of his people. When Odin led Asgard to war against Jotunheim and killed Laufey, he found the boy and, out of a mix of honour, pity and duty, took him home to be raised alongside his own son, Thor. A much later story in Thor Vol 3 #12 adds a twist: a grown Loki travelled back in time, turned Odin's father Bor to snow, haunted Odin in Bor's likeness to steer him toward adopting a beaten king's child, and goaded Laufey into the battle that killed him, arranging his own adoption.

Asgard valued strength and courage in battle above everything, and by that measure Thor outshone his brother at every turn. Loki's talent was sorcery, and as the two drifted apart his jealousy turned into a wish to destroy Thor and become the mightiest power in Asgard. The wiki's account of his early mischief has him cropping Lady Sif's golden hair, then tricking rival dwarves into forging treasures that included Mjolnir; his meddling left the hammer with a short handle, and the dwarves sewed his lips shut in payment. He later arranged Balder's death with a mistletoe spear thrown by the blind god Hoder and was the only being who would not weep for him, which earned him years chained under a serpent's dripping venom while his wife Sigyn tried to catch it in a bowl.

A Loki first turned up in Venus #6 (1949) as ruler of the Greek underworld, a Golden Age version the wiki says was later folded into the modern character. The Loki readers know arrived in Journey Into Mystery #85. Odin had sealed him inside a tree until someone shed a tear for him, so Loki made a leaf fall into Heimdall's eye and walked free. He tracked Thor to New York, hypnotised him and parted him from his hammer, not knowing that Thor turns back into Dr. Don Blake after sixty seconds without Mjolnir, which broke the trance. Thor chased him across the city and hurled him from the top of the Empire State Building back to Asgard to face Odin.¹²³⁴⁵

The record, by era

1962-1963
The brother who would not quit Silver Age debut
Banned from leaving Asgard after his first defeat, Loki keeps finding new ways to strike at Thor. He hypnotises Jane Foster and forces Thor to choose between saving her and keeping his hammer, then traps Mjolnir behind a force field so Don Blake cannot change back. Chained by Odin with Uru links, he frees himself by enchanting the chains to pull Mjolnir to them and goes after the hammer again. Each scheme ends with Thor outwitting him and handing him back to Odin.¹²⁶⁷
Key issues: Journey Into Mystery #85 (1962) · Journey Into Mystery #88 (1963) · Journey Into Mystery #92 (1963)
1963-1965
An accidental team-up Founding the Avengers
Imprisoned on Asgard's Isle of Silence, Loki projects his mind to Earth and plants an illusion of dynamite on a railway bridge so the Hulk wrecks it, hoping to lure Thor into a fight. The heroes who answer the call band together instead, and his plot becomes the founding of the Avengers. Over the next two years he keeps feeding Thor new enemies: he urges Odin to confront Thor over Jane Foster and seizes the throne while Odin is away, turns the convict Carl Creel into the Absorbing Man, and brings the ancient Destroyer armour back to life.¹⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹
Key issues: Avengers #1 (1963) · Journey Into Mystery #104 (1964) · Journey Into Mystery #114 (1965) · Journey Into Mystery #118 (1965)
1989-1991
The hidden hand Acts of Vengeance
Working in disguise, Loki gathers Doctor Doom, Magneto, the Red Skull, the Mandarin, the Wizard and the Kingpin and talks them into swapping enemies so that villains hit heroes who have never faced them. He sends the Juggernaut after Thor and weakens him with spells, until both Avengers teams unmask and beat him. Not long after, Thor uses an ancient ritual fuelled by his own life force to kill Loki, a crime that gets Thor banished, but the time-traveller Zarrko soon pulls a living Loki out of the past.¹¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵
Key issues: Avengers #311 (1989) · Avengers #313 (1990) · Thor #432 (1991) · Thor #440 (1991)
2004
Twilight of the gods Ragnarok
Loki fulfils the old prophecy by leading Asgard's enemies against the Eternal Realm. He seizes the forge that made Mjolnir and has Surtur turn out copies of the hammer, then sails on the ship Naglfar with Ulik, the Fenris Wolf and Hyrm, wounding Thor and many others. The war ends with Thor letting Surtur burn Asgard and breaking the Loom of Fates to end the cycle of death and rebirth run by Those Who Sit Above in Shadow, and nearly every Asgardian, Loki included, perishes.¹¹⁶¹⁷
Key issues: Thor #80 (2004) · Thor #85 (2004)
2008-2009
Lady Loki and the Dark Reign Reborn
When Thor brings the Asgardians back, Loki returns in a woman's body, which she later reveals was meant for Sif, and claims her scheming days are over. She helps put Balder on Asgard's throne, revives Thor's grandfather Bor under a spell so that Thor kills him, and then argues that killing a king means Thor must be exiled, before moving the Asgardians to Latveria at Doctor Doom's invitation. In the same period Loki sits on Norman Osborn's Cabal and, disguised as the Scarlet Witch, assembles a new Mighty Avengers to chip away at Osborn's power.¹¹⁸⁴¹⁹²⁰
Key issues: Thor #5 (2008) · Thor #12 (2009) · Mighty Avengers #21 (2009) · Thor #600 (2009)
2010
A last apology Siege
Loki helps Osborn manufacture a reason for war by setting the Asgardian Volstagg up to take the blame for a stadium disaster in Chicago, and Osborn's forces lay siege to Asgard. The plan spins out of control when the Sentry's dark side, the Void, tears Asgard apart. Horrified, Loki prays to Odin for forgiveness and uses the Norn Stones to power up the Avengers against the Void, which kills him in front of Thor. His final words are an apology to his brother.¹²¹²²
Key issues: Siege #1 (2010) · Siege #4 (2010)
2011-2012
A fresh page Kid Loki
Before he died, Loki had tricked Hela into striking his name from her book, so he comes back as a boy with a clean slate. The young Loki works hard to earn Thor's trust through a run of adventures, carrying an echo of his older self around as a magpie he names Ikol. At the end of the run the boy learns that the only way to stop Mephisto using a crown made from his own fear is to let Ikol overwrite his mind. He agrees, and the old Loki lives on in the child's body, knowing he has killed the better version of himself.²³²⁴²⁵
Key issues: Journey Into Mystery #622 (2011) · Journey Into Mystery #645 (2012)
2013-2014
The worst teammate Young Avengers
Now a teenager, Loki wants control of Wiccan, a young hero destined to become a near-omnipotent sorcerer. He steers Wiccan into a spell that lets the parasite called Mother into this reality, poses as the team's helper and even borrows Wiccan's power, then runs off with it. Guilt drags him back. Loki ends up confessing that he killed his own younger self and has been manipulating everyone, which frees the powers he had lost to that guilt. He leaves the group, though he quietly pays for their New Year's party.²³²⁶²⁷
Key issues: Young Avengers #1 (2013) · Young Avengers #15 (2014)
2014-2015
God of Stories Agent of Asgard
Grown into a young adult, Loki works missions for Asgardia's All-Mothers, each success erasing one past crime, alongside a friend named Verity Willis who can see through any lie. He learns of King Loki, a villainous future self, and an inversion spell during the AXIS event briefly turns him into a cold hero who even lifts Mjolnir. When he suddenly cannot lie, Thor learns the truth about Kid Loki and beats him. Offered the choice of embracing villainy or destroying himself, Loki takes a third path, decides a lie is just a story he can rewrite, and is reborn as the God of Stories.²³²⁸²⁹
Key issues: Loki: Agent of Asgard #1 (2014) · Loki: Agent of Asgard #13 (2015)
2019-2025
King of Jotunheim and the Immortal Thor Recent years
During the War of the Realms, Loki turns on Malekith's Dark Council to protect his adoptive mother Freyja and is swallowed whole by Laufey, then carves his way out with Heimdall's sword and takes his father's throne in Jotunheim. Bored by kingship, he spends most of his time on Earth, where a deal with two young cosmic beings lets him turn untold stories into truth and he names himself the God of Outcasts. In Immortal Thor he gives up Jotunheim's crown, repairs the Bifrost and sets Thor a series of trials, and the character page says he finally strikes Thor down near the run's end.²³³⁰³¹³²³³³⁴
Key issues: War of the Realms #1 (2019) · War of the Realms #6 (2019) · Loki #1 (2019) · Immortal Thor #1 (2023) · Immortal Thor #25 (2025)

Capabilities

Sorcery

Ranked equal to Karnilla, Asgard's most skilled sorceress: mystic energy blasts, durable force fields and telekinesis.¹

Illusions

Casts illusions strong enough to fool whole cities and mighty beings such as Surtur.¹

Shapeshifting

Can become almost any animal, person or object, though copying a being's look does not give him its powers.¹

Teleportation

Moves himself or others across great distances and between dimensions.¹

Psionics

Projects his thoughts telepathically, even across dimensional barriers, and has potent hypnotic powers.¹

Frost Giant physique

Can lift about 50 tons unaided; tissue roughly three times human density makes him far tougher than he looks.¹

Master schemer

A genius strategist and manipulator who works through pawns and keeps winning back trust despite his crimes.¹

Enchantment

Can bring objects to life and lend temporary superhuman powers to others, as he did for criminals like Cobra.¹

Source of power

Born a Frost Giant of Jotunheim and raised in Asgard by Odin; his race gives him great strength, dense tough tissue and a very long life.¹

Extensive training in sorcery powers his energy blasts, illusions, shapeshifting, teleportation and enchantments.¹

Recorded feats

comics Willed a leaf into Heimdall's eye to escape his tree prison, then panicked a city with a spell and hypnotised Thor into setting down Mjolnir. Journey Into Mystery Vol 1 #85 (October 1962)²
comics Projected his mind from an Asgardian prison to Earth and framed the Hulk with an illusion, a scheme that brought the Avengers together. Avengers Vol 1 #1 (September 1963)⁸
comics Seized the Norn Stones and used them to empower the Avengers enough to wound the Void, who killed him for it. Siege Vol 1 #4 (June 2010)²²
screen Killed Laufey with a single blast from Gungnir, then blasted Thor through a wall. Thor (2011)³⁵
screen Arrived through a Tesseract portal, shrugged off S.H.I.E.L.D. gunfire and took control of Hawkeye and Selvig with the Scepter. The Avengers (2012)³⁶
screen Destroyed Kurse with a black hole grenade, then faked his own death with an illusion and slipped back to Asgard in disguise. Thor: The Dark World (2013)³⁷

Notes from the archive

Before he became Thor's rival, a Loki appeared in the Golden Age series Venus, starting with Venus #6 in 1949, where he ruled the underworld and pursued the goddess of love. The wiki treats that debut as later absorbed into the character introduced in Journey Into Mystery #85.¹⁵
Loki's adoption was first shown in a Tales of Asgard back-up in Journey Into Mystery #112 (1965), which had Odin take him in as an infant; later stories describe him as a boy when Odin adopted him.¹³
Tom Hiddleston originally auditioned for the role of Thor before being cast as Loki.³⁸
Loki's death in Thor: The Dark World was first meant to be permanent, but test audiences refused to believe it, so the ending was reworked to show him alive on Asgard's throne.³⁸³⁹

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