Loki Laufeyson

Loki Laufeyson is the son of Queen Farbauti and King Laufey, the ruler of the Frost Giants of Jotunheim. Shortly after his birth, Loki was abandoned and left to die. Found by the Asgardian King Odin, he was taken to Asgard and raised by Odin and his wife Frigga as an Asgardian prince, along with their biological son Thor. When he grew up, he became known as the "God of Mischief".

Early Life
Loki Laufeyson is the son of Queen Farbauti and King Laufey, leader of the Giants of Jotunheim. He was born small and was an embarrassment to his parents, and was segregated from other Giants.

Adopted by Odin
Loki was born on Jotunheim as the son of the Frost Giant King, Laufey. Small and weak for a Frost Giant, Loki was abandoned by his father in a temple where he was expected to die. In 965 A.D, not long after the war between the Giants and the Asgardians, Loki was found by King Odin. Adopting Loki and using sorcery to alter his appearance and make him appear to be an Asgardian, Odin raised Loki and his biological son, Thor, with his wife Frigga. As they grew up, Loki always felt like he was living in Thor's shadow, envious to the fact that Thor was meant to be king instead of him.

Using magics, the future Loki came to Jotunheim's past, tricked Bor and turned him in snow. As Bor withered, he asked Odin to help him, but his son ignored him. Loki then haunted Odin in the guise of Bor's ghost.

Years passed and eventually, he asked Odin to adopt the son of a fallen king he would have killed, and that would pay his dept. Meanwhile, he went to the present Loki, explaining to him to become a god by tricking Odin and Laufey.

Loki went to Laufey, giving him information about where Odin would be positioned in the following battle and taunting him to attack him. As he hinted Laufey was a coward, his father struck him but decided to slain the All-Father.

Odin confronted Laufey and left him for dead. Loki rushed into the battlefield, faking grief and anger, only to make Odin to recognize his strength and to press him to adopt him.

Out of a combination of honor, pity, and obligation, Odin adopted the boy, raising him alongside his own biological son, Thor, while future Loki came to punish Laufey for his past brutalities.

Resentment
Throughout their childhood and into adolescence, Loki became resentful of how differently he and Thor were treated by the general Asgardian citizenry. Valuing great strength, tenacity, and battle-bravery above all, the Asgardians clearly favored Thor. Loki's gifts, however, lay in other areas, most notably sorcery. Possessing a natural affinity for commanding great magical forces, he schemed to use his power to destroy Thor and become the most powerful in all of Asgard.

Snake Tricks
Once, when Loki and Thor were young, Loki took advantage of Thor's love of snakes and cast an illusion to become a snake. When Thor picked up the snake to look at it, Loki dispelled the illusion and stabbed Thor. To Loki's annoyance, Thor survived.

Odin's Lessons
Lacking interest in Asgardian warrior arts, Loki took an interest with sorcery. Frigga, who was a lot closer to Loki than Odin was, taught Loki everything she knew about sorcery, and he eventually became an expert in Asgardian magic.[3] Loki's jealousy of Thor and eagerness to win Odin's appreciation slowly altered Loki's personality for the worse. Where he was once aloof and carefree, Loki slowly became ambitious, going to great lengths to achieve greatness without any thought or care on the consequences.

God of Mischief
Growing to adulthood, his devious proclivities manifested in earnest, Loki dubbed himself the "God of Mischief". However, instead of playing harmless pranks on others, his deeds grew steadily more malicious as his lust for power and revenge became all-too-apparent. In time, his purview extended from being a playful and mischievous trickster to the "God of Evil".

Ages of Thunder
Asgard was under attack by the Frost Giants. All the gods were at battle as if it was soon to be the end of Asgard. In the end, it was Thor standing strong with his lightning winning the battle for Asgard. Thor brought down a mighty giant who fell and destroyed a giant wall of Asgard which stood as long as anyone could remember. The wall was ruined but it was spring once again. Yggdrasill grew golden apples once again for the Asgardians to feast on. It was only the Enchantress who had the power to pick the apples from the great tree.

All of the gods gained wisdom and youth from eating the apples in all their meals. All that is, except for the mighty Thor. Heimdallthen spotted a man walking towards Asgard. The man was a mason who offered Odin to fix his great wall which had been destroyed in their war against the Frost Giants. The mason said he'd be able to fix the wall in a year if you could have one thing.

He wanted neither riches or power, only the Enchantress herself. Loki talked to Odin and they decided to accept his offer to rebuild their wall. However, they told him that he'd have six months and not a year to do so. They all agreed as the gods deemed it an impossible task for the man. However, the man was building at an alarming rate which would eventually make him finish the wall in less than six months.

This greatly angered Odin and he told Loki to fix their problem or else he'd bind him to stone forever. Loki then shape-shifted into a mare in order to distract the man's steed. All night, Loki distracted the steed and in the morning, the man wasn't able to finish the wall. Odin told the man that he couldn't complete the task but the man knew that it was Loki who was distracting his steed and who made him fail in his task.

The man began to say that he'd kill them all and then the man showed his true form. He was actually a shapeshifting Frost Giant who was ready to damn the Asgardians. As he fought Loki and Odin, Thor returned from his recent journey and killed the Giant by throwing Mjolnir at him. He then ordered Loki to clean up his mess. He walked through Asgard, carrying with him the heads of several Frost Giants.

Loki was later banished from Asgard for yet another attempt of trickery. Loki wandered through Asgard with no food or direction. It seemed as if he'd been traveling in the snow for thousands of years. One day, an eagle came up to him and asked him questions. The eagle laughed at Loki, seeing how weak and desperate he was. The eagle offered Loki a deal. He'd give him food if he could bring him his desire, the Enchantress. Loki then talked to Enchantress and fooled her after saying he found golden apples which she could pick. They climbed to the top of the snowy mountain where a Frost Giant, who was actually the eagle, was waiting for them. The Giant then took the Enchantress with him to be her queen. The Asgardians then began to starve as there was nobody who could pick the golden apples from the tree. Odin then found out that it was all Loki's fault and he forced Loki to go and save the Enchantress from the Frost Giant. Loki then went back to the lair of the Frost Giant. He found Enchantress laying there tied up while the Frost Giant was sleeping. He sneaked her out but the Frost Giant woke up and discovered that she was missing. The Frost Giant eventually caught up to the two Asgardians and he took hold of them. There was nobody to rescue the two from the hands of the Frost Giant. But Thor came flying from the sky and he flew straight through and killed the Frost Giant. Enchantress was then returned to Asgard and the gods could all feast once again.

20th Century
At some point, Loki had earned the wrath of Olympian ruler Zeus who then banished Loki to Hades, replacing Pluto as its ruler. During this time, Loki apparently spawned a child he dubbed the Son of Satan, as during this time Loki had begun referring to himself as Satan from time to time.

Loki soon became obsessed with the Olympian love goddess Aphrodite who in 1949 was active on Earth as Venus. With Venus active on Earth, Loki used this loophole to escape his exile and spread his evil across the planet. To do this, he appeared at a Mardi Gras parade that Venus was attending as part of her job at Beauty Magazine. This was a ploy to get Venus to travel to Hades where Loki had her captured. Loki then possessed the body of Venus' employer and mortal lover Whitney Hammond to spread his evil across the globe. Venus eventually freed herself and tracked down Loki, promising to be his queen in Hades if he left the Earth. Loki agreed, but before he could bind Venus to her vow, Zeus (then calling himself Jupiter) appeared and commended Venus for her sacrifice, banishing Loki back to Hades and allowing Venus to return to Earth.

Soon after this defeat, Loki plotted an invasion of Olympus while the gods were busy participating in a trial against Venus. The trial was instigated by Jupiter's daughter Joya who believed that Venus was shirking her godly duties. When Loki and his invasion force arrived on Olympus, Joya realized the error of her ways and posed as Venus and promised to return to Hades with Loki if he stopped his invasion. Loki agreed and withdrew his forces. Loki must have eventually seen through this plot as he returned to menace Venus in the future; what befell of Joya is unknown.

In 1950, Apollo made a deal with the demon Zoroba to allow the creature to possess his body while his spirit sought to win the love of Venus on Earth. Zoroba, in Apollo's body, used the opportunity to try and pressure Jupiter to allow Loki to leave his exile and reside on Olympus. Jupiter allowed Loki a brief audience while he considered it, but Venus eventually foiled the plot and Loki and Zoroba found themselves banished back to Hades. Briefly calling himself Satan, Loki then allowed his now adult son, the so-called Son of Satan to go to Earth and try to force Venus to love him. Unfortunately for Loki's scion, Venus defeated him and left him in an endless orbit around the Earth.

By 1951, Loki had cast a spell over the far eastern nation of Cassarobiapreventing any gods from using their powers in the region. His full motivation, other than inconveniencing the gods, are unknown. However, shortly thereafter Venus found herself a prisoner of Cassarobia's ruling sultan who sought to make her his new wife. Jupiter used Loki's lust over Venus to convince him to lower the spell when Venus' life was at risk. Loki then joined his half-brother Thor in holding back the sultan's forces until Venus and Cassarobian people successfully overthrew him.

Through unexplained means, Loki was released from his exile in Hades, and he returned to Asgard.

At some unknown point Odin, long-tolerant of Loki's attempts sent Thor to catch Loki and magically imprisoned him within a tree in Asgard. Odin proclaimed he could only be freed when someone shed a tear for him.

Modern Age
n the modern era, Loki was eventually freed when he exerted his will on the tree and a leaf fell into the eye of Heimdall, causing him to cry. His first thought once freed was to find Thor and sensed his presence on Earth. Travelling down to Earth in a human disguise, Loki found his search fruitless so cast an illusion on civilians in an attempt to lure Thor out. After the illusion was broken, Loki revealed himself and challenged Thor to battle in the air. In doing so Loki was able to hypnotize Thor and attempted to obtained Mjolnir, eventually getting Thor to put the hammer down. While distracted by people trying to lift the hammer, Thor turns back into Don Blake and breaks the trance he'd been under. Regaining his hammer, Thor chases Loki through the city until he attempts to escape via a winged horse but Thor is able to stop Loki's escape and return him to Asgard.

Odin attempted to ban Loki from ever leaving Asgard again, but after Loki discovered the truth about Thor turning into Don Blake without Mjolnir and sneaked past Heimdall disguised as a snake. Back on Earth he hypnotized Jane Foster and then challenged Thor to a battle in Central Park. During the battle Jane turned up just as Loki predicted and turned a tree into a tiger and made Thor choose between his hammer and saving her. Thor chose to save her and Loki trapped the hammer behind a magical force field, preventing Don Blake from turning back in Thor. Loki went all over America, using his magic for trickery and decent, until Thor challenged him to battle so he returned to the hammer. Finding Thor there waiting he removed the force field, allowing Don Blake to appear behind the dummy and grabbing the hammer before Loki could stop him and Loki was captured and again returned to Asgard.

Unable to leave Asgard, Loki used a carnival mind reader named Sandu and boosted Sandu's natural mind reading ability, granting him additional powers of telepathy, telekinesis and teleportation. Sandu used this power to rob banks, until he made an ultimatum for world leaders to make him ruler of the Earth. When Thor confronted him, Sandu dropped the United Nations Building on Thor trapping him beneath. Odin then sent down the Valkyrie to arm Thor with Megingjord, the so-called Belt of Strength. Thor clashed with Sandu again, but when the mind reader tried to use his power to handle Mjolnir, he shorted out his powers and was quickly captured.

Loki was again imprisoned by Odin and chained to a rock with unbreakable Uru chains. He eventually freed himself by enchanting the chains to attract Mjolnir to break them, since they were made out of the same material. Freed he set about destroying Thor, who at the same time was brought to Asgard by Odin to search for his missing hammer. During the search Loki kept trying to destroy Thor, but Thor kept avoiding death by making replacement hammer's out of wood and stone. One of these was accidentally made out of Uru and thus was also attracted to the chains. Finding his hammer and the broken chains, Thor realized the truth and Loki was captured by the Asgardians.

Imprisoned again by Odin, Loki was chained again with Uru chains to a cliff and was this time was freed by Thor who he tricked into turning against humanity, an event that also has two different accounts. In the original account, Loki used magic to distract Thor upon Mjolnir's return to him, striking himself in the head, which somehow caused him to turn evil. Thor then teamed up with Loki and attacked various landmarks across the world. Odin and a number of Asgardian gods then posed as members of the United Nations and tricked Thor and Loki into going to the UN Building in New York to accept the world's surrender. There Odin had Thor struck in the head again, restoring his personality. Thor then defeated Loki and turned him over to his father. In this account, Odin used his magic to restore all the damage done by Thor and erase everyone's memories of his rampage. In the other account, Loki confronted Donald Blake in his office and used his magic to suppress Blake's mind when he transformed into Thor. Loki then appealed to the arrogant and unhindered Thor, convincing him that the planet Earth needed to face the wraith of the gods. Thor then declared war against the entire planet. After Thor and Loki decimated many of Earth's landmarks, they returned to New York City where Thor and Loki slew the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. Inside Thor's mind, the persona of Donald Blake tried to fight himself free, but to no avail. It was not until Jane Foster confronted Thor and was aged by Loki that Don finally overcame the years of judgement by his "father". Upon this realization, Odin appeared to him and revealed that Blake was merely an extension of Thor. Realizing that he was worthy of being Thor, Blake and Thor's persona became one. With his sense of humanity finally restored, Thor then turned on Loki and defeated him in battle, banishing him to Asgard. When Thor petitioned Odin to fix the damage done, Thor offered to sacrifice his godhood to repair everything. Odin was so impressed that he restored all the damage, resurrected those killed, and erased all knowledge of Thor's war against humanity. Thor was also not only allowed to keep his power, but was finally allowed back into the halls of Asgard.

Loki's schemes eventually drew together some of Earth's superhuman heroes. Manipulating the Hulk into wreaking havoc as his latest mortal catspaw against Thor, Loki's plot accidentally led to the formation of the Avengers.

While being trapped on Asgard, Loki, drew the Lava Man to the surface and tricked him into attacking Thor and the surface world, but the Lava Man was defeated and returned to Subterranea.

Odin halved Thor's powers and barred him from entering Asgard when he insisted on marrying Jane Foster. Seeking to take advantage of this opportunity, Loki restored the memory of Zarrko the Tomorrow Man, who promptly traveled back in time to battle Thor, who was defeated and surrendered and agreed to return with him to the 23rd Century as his slave. Thor assisted Zarrko in conquering the 23rd Century, but eventually freed himself and returned to his own century.

Seeking to leverage Odin's disapproval of Thor's romance with human Jane Foster, Loki used her in several plots and willingly assisted in attempts to break their relationship. One instance saw Loki persuading the Enchantress to travel to Earth to seduce Thor. As Odin followed to end the contrived romance personally, Loki used the opportunity to seize the throne, setting the giant Skagg and the demon Surtur loose on Earth, hoping they would defeat the Asgardians. Failing, Loki was sent to serve the Trolls as punishment.

Among the "fruits" of Loki's other Earthbound-schemes against Thor was the human criminal Carl "Crusher" Creel, transformed by sorcery into the superhuman Absorbing Man, one of the Thunder God's most-enduring mortal adversaries. Around this time, Loki also became responsible for the reawakening of the Destroyer. He even went so far as to turn Odin against Thor in an attempt to steal the enchanted hammer, Mjolnir.

Returning to Asgard, Loki again faced exile and punishment. However, despite his loathing of Thor and Odin, he helped defend Asgard from Surtur and his Fire Demons - for selfish ends, as he wished to rule what Surtur would destroy.

In disguise, Loki manipulated a group of master villains into engineering the "Acts of Vengeance". With these prime movers, he set in motion a plot against the Avengers and other heroes. He sent the Juggernaut against Thor, and cast a spell that caused temporary bouts of weakness in Thor. He battled the combined forces of the West Coast and East Coast Avengers. His identity was ultimately revealed, and he was defeated by the Avengers. Loki was killed by Thor, however, manipulation of the timestream brought him back.

Morwen, a powerful agent of chaos, was released and took Tessa Black, a child of Loki, as a host. With Doctor Strange unavailable, Loki and Spider-Man worked together to free her. Loki proclaimed he owes an as yet unpaid debt to his temporary ally.

Ragnarök
It was prophesied that Loki would lead Asgard's enemies into the "Eternal Realm" and aid them in destroying it in a final conflict known as Ragnarok, or sometimes referred to as "The Twilight of Gods".

Loki fulfilled the prophecy of leading the enemies of Asgard against the Asgardians. This battle consumed all who participated in it and it was revealed that the cycle of the birth, lives, and death of the Asgardians was a continuing cycle presided over by beings known only as "Those Who Sit Above in Shadow". Thor was able to put an end to this continuing cycle. All Asgardians perished in this last Ragnarok except for Thor who disappeared into a deep sleep. But this time "Those Who Sit Above in Shadow" followed them in death and were unable to revive them.

As a woman
After Thor returned, he started a quest to find the other Asgardians. After finding Heimdall and the Warriors Three he stepped up the search. Heimdall guided him to the southwest where dozens of humans were being jailed by the Destroyer. Loki had collected all of his former Asgardian allies, and Thor fell for the trap, restoring them all to their full power. Loki himself had been reborn as a female. She claimed to have no more plans now that Ragnarok was over. Time would tell if her schemes to rule had been truly set aside.

Having told Balder that she would never lie again, Loki proceeded to win the Asgardians' trust by revealing that he, like Thor, was a son of Odin. Balder didn't believe, but once he was told it was true by Thor himself, he had come to think of Loki as a trustworthy confidant. During the Skrull invasion, he managed to goad a mob of Asgardians into thinking that Beta Ray Bill was a Skrull impostor.

Dark Reign
Loki joined Norman Osborn's Cabal.

He traveled to the past to ensure Bor, father of Odin and first king of Asgard, "perished" in battle against the Frost Giants, and to ensure his own destiny.

In the present day Loki revived Bor in New York City, but placed a spell on him to mistake everyone around him as an enemy, therefore attacking everyone in sight. Further aggrieved by the belief his son's failure to resurrect him could only mean he was killed in battle. When Thor arrived on the scene, Loki's enchantment caused Bor to see Thor as a monster. Sensing Odin's power inside what he saw as a demon, Bor attacked Thor, attempting to avenge his son. While Thor and Bor fought, Loki made Balder aware of Bor's identity and the two rushed to New York to stop Thor from killing him (Thor never met Bor until now and is unaware of his identity). They arrived too late, as Thor was forced to kill Bor for fear of the entire planet being destroyed in the wake of their battle. In the aftermath of the battle, Loki reminded Balder that the resurrected Bor was technically the king of Asgard when Thor killed him, and the punishment for killing the king was banishment from Asgard. Balder was forced to agree. After Thor's banishment, Loki spoke to some disgruntled Asgardians and made arrangements to have all Asgardians, but not Asgard itself, moved to Latveria at the invitation of Doctor Doom.

Loki attended a dinner hosted by Doctor Doom along with Balder to secure a new home for the Asgardians in Latveria. She was caught off guard by Balder's insistence that since they were leaving Asgard, Thor should have been allowed to rejoin them. Loki was able to calm Balder before he offended Doom too much. She later appeared before Blake and Thor to tell them that she would be returning to her male form shortly and that he had "just now" come to the realization that his body was meant for Sif. Loki explained that, after Ragnarok, when the Asgardians were being placed into human hosts, Sif's soul was placed into a dying human. When Thor sent out the call for the Asgardians to return, Sif's host was too weak to hear the call. When Thor mass-summoned the Asgardians, Sif's body was created but her soul could not be placed into it, so the body went looking for a soul with no body and found Loki. Loki claimed the transfer from his female form to his male form would probably kill Sif's host and she urged Blake and Thor to find Sif and say goodbye.

Following the Hood's depowering at the hands of Doctor Strange, Brother Voodoo, and the Son of Satan, Loki offered the Hood a second chance. She presented to him the Norn Stones, Asgardian artifacts she had previously used, to grant him back his powers.

Mighty Avengers
Loki took on the form of the Scarlet Witch in her astral form and recruited a team of Avengers to face the Elder God Chthon. The Avengers, unaware of Loki's trick, followed this "false Wanda's" instructions. Her goal in using these Avengers was to throw Norman Osborn off balance. Loki intended to put "cracks in Osborn's armor" and gradually "widen" these cracks through the Mighty Avengers. Pietro Maximoff, though desiring to see and converse with his sister, joined the Mighty Avengers after he raced around the world searching for her.

Loki soon had enough of Cassie when she tricked the Young Avengers into summoning the "Scarlet Witch" to the Infinite Avengers Mansion, using Wiccan's magic, which caused Loki's disguise to emerge. However, Clint Barton also did a sneak attack, and by kissing Loki, he could tell that she was not Wanda. Wiccan then chanted a spell to reveal Loki's deception, forcing her to erect wards to prevent them from summoning her again, thus canceling out the spell on Cassie.

Death
Loki manipulated Norman Osborn into leading his Avengers and H.A.M.M.E.R.into attacking Asgard, intent on having it returned to its proper place in the Nine Realms. However, he underestimated the destructive power of the Sentry, who had given into the whispers of his Void persona. When Steve Rogers led the true Avengers in defense of Asgard, Osborn had the Void unleash his power in full and Asgard was destroyed. Seeing that his plans had gone farther than he had intended, Loki prayed to Odin for help and used the Norn Stones to help the Avengers against the Void and was killed by it in front of a shocked Thor. "I'm sorry, brother" were his last words.

Before dying, Loki laid schemes to break free fom the chains of destiny, and be reborn as a completely new Kid Loki. However, when he met his end at the hands of the Void, he died forever, and any new Loki would never be the original Loki.

Rebirth
Loki manipulated Norman Osborninto leading his Dark Avengersand H.A.M.M.E.R. into attacking Asgard, intent on having it returned to its proper place in the Nine Realms. However, he underestimated the destructive power of the Sentry, who had given into the whispers of his Void persona. When Steve Rogerslead the true Avengers in defense of Asgard, Osborn had the Void unleash his power in full and Asgard was destroyed. Seeing that his plans had gone farther than he had intended, he used the Norn Stones to help the Avengers fight against the Void and was killed by it in front of a shocked Thor. "I'm sorry, brother" were his last words.

His death was far from permanent. Before the Siege of AsgardLoki had manipulated Hela into taking his name out of the Book of Hel, allowing himself to be reborn instead of truly dying. Thor, missing his little brother despite all his villany, found him reborn as a much younger Loki in Paris under the name of "Serrure" (Lockin French), without any memories of his acts as an adult. After a short chase, Thor caught the boy and told him who he really is. Although initially thinking that the Thunder God was just a crazy man, Loki started to believe him, although he had no memories of his past or even his real name. The boy also told Thor about his dreams in which he had done horrible things and tearfully asked him why. When Thor offered his help, Loki was hesitant, fearing that his nightmares were his memories and that he was everything he feared but ultimately accepted.

Thor restored part of his identity (though he remained in the form of a child and lost almost all his memories and powers) and brought him back to Asgard. However, he was still despised by the other Asgardians, suffering continuous bullying. Upon seeing the de-aged Loki after his own revival, Odin yelled at the boy, insulting him and blaming him for Asgard's fall. Terrified, Loki ran away, much to Thor's chagrin. Thor yelled at his father for his cruelty towards the amnesiac child. Loki was then found by Iron Man who tried to attack him, but he was saved by Thor. Thor told Stark that he had indeed brought the trickster back and that was all there was to say about his little brother.

During his stay in Asgard, Odin treated Loki with distrust and anger, calling him a "whelp" that Thor "insists on treating like blood". Later, during a conversation with Heimdall, Odin refused to kill Loki as a precautionary measure or send him back to Midgard, not only because Thor would bring him right back but also because he still thinks of Loki as a son. He said that he would not abandon any son of his, especially one who had returned to him from the abyss of nonbeing.

Despite being hated and distrusted, Loki still tried to help Asgard and his brother. During the Galactus invasion, Loki hid the Worldheart not only to save Asgard and Midgard but also Thor. However, Thor became mad with Loki's trickery and, in his anger, grabbed the boy by the neck, insulting him and threatening to kill him. In horror, Loki burst into tears and told Thor that he only did it to save him. As Thor let go of him, Loki tearfully screamed that he was just like the rest, no matter what he did. Afterwards, at Sif's urging, Thor apologized to his brother, recognizing that his anger had got the best of him and reassured Loki that he loved him, although he still did not trust him.

After deciphering a riddle, Loki was sent to a hidden chamber where he found a pale echo of his elder self. The spirit revealed that his death and rebirth were part of an elaborate plan set down by Loki himself before his death. In order to return, he first had to die. The spirit delivered young Loki a message: in his previous incarnation, Loki ensured that the threat of evil would endure eternally, even in his absence, and that this echo had come to help the boy through those hard times "because a trickster is naught without a playground." However, Loki wanted no part of this, dismissing his elder self and reducing it into the form of a magpie. He condemned the bird to a lifetime as Ikol (Loki backwards), his minion and opposite.

Fear Itself
When Skadi freed the Serpent from imprisonment, Odin, whom Thor had brought back to life to deal with the World Eaters, led the Asgardians from Midgard into a new Asgard, which he made into a world of war intending to raze Midgard to stop the Serpent. Loki, along with Ikol, attempted to free Thor, whom Odin had imprisoned. Loki later rode a Hel Wolf into the realm of Mephisto, where he conspired to bring him and Hela together to oppose the Serpent.

With the help of Tyr, Loki approached the Serpent's Tongue, a messenger from the Serpent, to get some information about his plans. After Tyr killed the messenger, Loki convinced Mephisto and Hela to fight together in order to defend their realms and received four Dísir to assist him. In order to talk to Surtur, the Dísir killed the Hel Wolf and Loki rode him into Limbo. Realizing that he was dead, the Hel Wolf decided to kill Loki but he was eaten by Surtur instead. The young trickster cut a deal with the fire demon in order to get a sliver of the twilight Surtur’s sword cast. After that, Loki and Ikol returned to Asgard and released the Destroyerand went back to New York where Tyr and the Dísir witnessed the rise of the Serpent's Citadel. Riding the Destroyer, Loki told them that they were going to destroy it. Once inside Dark Asgard, Loki used a pen out of the Twilight Sword to rewrite the Serpent's history, giving him a good moment in his past, and a moment of weakness when the Serpent later battled Thor, giving his brother a chance to kill him but also resulting in Thor's death.

The Terrorism Myth
Sometime after Thor's death, Loki invited Leah to drink a milkshake with him. At the diner, Loki was bullied by a human, but Leah protected him by throwing the bully through a window. Shortly after that, Loki had a nightmare where he killed Thor, reflecting his guilt over his brother's death, and was taken by the Dísir. Fortunately, he was awoken by Ikol who explained that he was under attack in his dreams. The two went to the Serpent's Ruins looking for answers. Loki was attacked by Daimon Hellstrom who believed that he was still a villain. Despite Loki's claims that he could no longer perform magic, Daimon called him a liar and continued to attack him until Leah arrived and protected Loki with her sorcery. While the two youths bickered, Daimon stopped, realizing that they were truly children, and explained to them that people were dying in their sleep all around the world and the dark power led him to Loki.

Since Loki was also attacked during his dream, Daimon decided to enter the young godling's mind. During Loki's dream, the two were immediately separated and Loki faced an illusion of a zombie Thor, blaming him for his death and claiming that bringing Loki back was a mistake because he would always be evil. Loki tried to deny this but when the zombie tried to kill him, he merely told him "make it quick, brother." Loki was saved by an illusion of the dead Hel-Wolf who took him to the Dísir who, in turn, taunted him about how they had trusted him and he had betrayed them to Mephisto. Loki was about to succumb to his guilt when Leah saved him and they found a huge core of the Serpent's fear. Suspecting something was amiss, Loki tricked Leah into calling him her "best friend," which made Loki confirm that she was an impostor. He ripped her head off, claiming that the real Leah would never be so nice to him. Using the impostor's head, Loki discovered that it was Nightmare, the one who was harvesting the Serpent's fear from people's minds in order to build a crown of Fear which would make him invincible as a Fear Lord. Since Loki had the most powerful fear, Nightmare decided to take his.

When Loki woke up, he Daimon and Leah his findings and they all went to free the "dreamers" from the Serpent's fear before Nightmare could kill them. However, as they saved more and more people, Loki started to grow extremely tired and weak because of his own fear and Ikol reminded him that what they were doing was "Thor's way" and that Loki, even though he was his own person, was still a trickster and should act like one. Loki asked Leah to take the Serpent's fear from his mind and he gave it to Nightmare, because his fear was powerful enough for the crown and Nightmare wouldn't need to kill anymore dreamers. Though Leah and Daimon were furious with Loki, believing he only did it to save himself from dying, they waited to see if his plan worked. As it turned out, Loki and Leah warned the other Fear Lords about Nightmare's plans and they went to fight him. Loki tricked them into fighting over the crown for all eternity. After the battle, Daimon left but not before telling Loki that if his plan failed there was a place in hell waiting for him.

Following the All-Mother's orders, Loki and Leah went to the diner to apologize to the bully. Leah threw herself through the window to make up for what she did, much to Loki's dismay, who had thought she was only going to buy the bully a milkshake and now he needed to pay for another window.

The Mighty Tanarus
After Thor's corpse was burned, a new god of Thunder, named Tanarus, appeared, and everyone had their memories of Thor replaced, forgetting that Thor ever existed. Loki, on the other hand, believed Tanarus was an impostor and angrily claimed that he was not his older brother. Unfortunately, no one believed him and he felt frustrated that he couldn't remember his real brother's name.

Looking for answers, Loki found Kelda in the desert, who was calling Bill's name, and he demanded to know what kind of sorcery she performed to make everyone forget his real brother. Kelda attacked Loki and left with the Weird Sisters. Her attack, however, made Loki remember his brother's name, Thor. The boy went to Blakeand asked him if he remembered Thor, but when the doctor could only think of Tanarus, Loki called him useless and stole his cane. He then met with the Silver Surfer in the desert. Radd took the cane, claiming that it was of "two spaces," and it transformed into Mjolnir. The Surfer tried to move the hammer but was unsuccessful. Then Loki and the Surfer attempted to lift up the hammer together. Loki slipped and fell to the ground but the Surfer refused to give up. At the same time, Loki yelled for Thor not to give up either and the hammer started glowing and blasted off into the sky. Loki saved the Silver Surfer from getting struck by Mjolnir as it left the ground, and the latter followed it into a rift in space, where it disappeared.

Later, Loki told the Surfer details about Thor but still could not remember him. However, when Loki mentioned that once Thor hit the Surfer's head with his own so hard that it dented the Surfer's skull, this triggered something and the Silver Surfer immediately jumped on his board with Loki. They went to look for the Weird Sisters and Kelda. When they found them, the old Crone had killed Kelda and was fighting her other sister. As Radd threatened to use his powers, Loki asked where she had hidden Thor and to whom she was speaking. In response, the Crone told them it was too late for him, for Thor and for Asgard as Karnillaleft the Crone's body through her mouth, horrifying the boy as Radd protectively told Loki to stay behind him.

During Asgardia's invasion, Loki was seen fighting alongside Radd and the other warriors until Thor's reappearance, which broke Karnilla's spell and caused everyone to remember him once again. After the battle, Loki told the story to a group of children. When a young girl tearfully claimed she felt sorry for Kelda, Loki reassured her by revealing that Kelda met her beloved Bill in Valhalla.

Exiled
After the Dísir escaped, Mephisto appeared before Loki and blackmailed him into getting them back or else he would tell everyone that it was Loki who summoned them in the first place to get his deal with Hela. Loki informed Leah, who delivered the terrible news to Hela, Tyr, Thor, and the Warriors Three that the Dísir were on the loose. Loki tried to get Thori to track them through their scent, but the vicious pup bit Loki's arm instead. Thor asked him why he named the dog after him, and Loki answered with a pout that he named him after "another Thor", the one who didn't leave and die, leaving Loki alone with the "barbarians". As Thori wouldn't obey him, Ikol informed Loki that he knew where the Dísir were and they left to visit 1128 Mission Street, San Francisco, where the New Mutants lived. They were battling the Dísir along with Hela, Tyr and Leah. Suddenly, Sigurd, the Ever-Glorious reappeared and, after he read a scroll, all the Asgardians and the Dísir mysteriously disappeared.

A young foster kid named Luke (who bore a striking resemblance to Loki) was reading when his foster mother, Helen (Hela), a one-handed woman, entered his room to tell him to go to sleep. The next day, Luke was playing a board game with his toys when his foster sister Leigh (Leah) appeared and taunted him for being childish and for never growing up. The boy told his toy magpie, Ikol, that he hated her. After Helen and Leigh left the house, Luke ran from home, pretending to be on a "quest." He walked by Helen, who was picking up recyclables from a barber (Hogun), and went inside a bakery. The baker (Volstagg) informed him that the glazed doughnuts were sold out. When a woman entered the shop, Luke left again to face his "enemy", a vicious stray dog (Thori), only to run away by jumping a fence. Tiffany (Sif), a self-defence teacher, saw him and told Luke that if he went to her classes he wouldn't feel so nervous around the dog. He answered that, although he would no longer be nervous around the dog, he would become nervous around Tif, a situation which he considered to be "just as bad." A one-handed war veteran (Tyr) told Tif to give up because the boy was just trouble.

As Luke went off again, he walked by the New Mutants who told him to stop. Though the boy excitedly rambled about how cool mutants were and if they would let him join them because everybody hated him, Dani interrupted him. She told him that he was Loki, but he did not believe her. When Cypher used his powers, told Luke that he was "the Trickster of Asgard" and asked him if any spell could hold him, Luke suddenly fainted. When the boy woke up, it appeared that his real memories had returned and Loki told the New Mutants to go to Sigurd's house to look for clues.

When they got there, the house was empty and partly destroyed. As the Mutants asked themselves where Loki went, he arrived wearing an oversized X-Men uniform, much to their dismay, claiming that if he was going to team-up with the Mutants he should "look the part." Sigurd arrived from having partied all night and told them that he used the spell because he thought Asgard had found him when he saw that Dani was a Valkyrie. The Dísir had a grudge against him, so he used a spell to get rid of them but it also turned any other Asgardians nearby into normal mortals. Dani asked Sigurd how he could be so selfish then demanded that he reverse the spell. Sigurd said that he could not undo the spell because he was not a magician and that he bought the scroll from the adult Loki. After receiving an angry glare from the Mutants, Loki looked at the toy Ikol and told them that he needed to consult with his sources to work out a counter-spell.

Later, Loki told the New Mutants what he needed for the counter-spell and they all went to get a hammer from Arthur (Thor), a sandwich from the baker, hair from Andy (Fandral), blood from the barber, trash from Helen, an oath from the homeless war veteran, and sweat from Tif. As Loki mixed all the ingredients, the spell began to grow weaker and the Asgardians started to behave like themselves again. Suddenly, a cry was heard and the Dísir reverted to their former selves and started to attack San Francisco. When Dani and Loki went outside and saw the chaos, Loki revealed that he thought that everyone was playing pretend, which meant that he had lied when he said that he remembered who he really was. As the Mutants went to fight the zombies, the boy was left with a shocked Sigurd and yelled at the Mutants not to leave him alone with him.

As the Dísir continue to attack the city, Luke ran away to an alley confused by what the New Mutants had told him about being really Loki, when he thought it was a game all along, and felt guilty that his actions brought all that chaos. Then, the stray dog from the alley attacked him and bit his arm. As Luke cried out for the dog to let him go, he recalled that his name is Thori, thus turning Luke back into Loki, along with Thori and Ikol. Loki asked Ikol if it was true that he sold that spell to Sigurd and the bird confirms the story. When Loki asked him why he didn't say anything before, Ikol simply answered that he is evil and that Loki should not have expected any less.

Loki, Thori and Ikol met with Dani, who was luring the Dísir away from the civilians, and told her that while he could not break the spell, Hela can. After luring the Dísir to Helen and Leigh's house, he placed both himself and Leigh before the handmaidens, triggering Helen's defenses and causing the two to revert to Hela and Leah. Leah screamed that she would hate him forever. Hela gave Dani her Valkyrie armor and harpoons and nets to catch the Dísir. Brün managed to find Sigurd and was about to kill him when Dani and Loki caught her. Then, Brün revealed the true story behind their curse: the handmaidens of Bor had gotten involved with Sigurd's men and Brün with Sigurd, but when Bor found out he ruthlessly killed the men. Brün saved Sigurd by helping him escape. Furious, Bor cursed the Dísir into becoming cannibal monsters for all eternity until they either killed Sigurd or married him. After hearing the story, Dani went to Hel and after she found Bor she told him that Sigurd is going to marry, to which the old god answers: "finally".

During the Dísir wedding, Bor proclaimed the handmaidens' servitude to Sigurd, which sickens Dani and she interrupts the old God calling him a chauvinist. Angered, Bor attacked Dani. Both the New Mutants and the Dísir came to her aid, while Sigurd took the chance to run away. Dani told Loki that he had to do something since he was the one who started all this. Since his first plan was ruined, Loki asked Hela to take him to Hel and they disappear. Because Dani injured Bor and he bled, the Dísir went berserk and Bor retreated back to Hel, followed by Dani and his former handmaidens. To Bor's dismay, Hel's gates were closed; Loki told his foster grandfather that Hela entrusted him to watch the gates and he decided to "shut up shop for the day". As the Dísir and Dani approach them, Dani asked Loki what he was doing, to which he answered that this was Plan B. Loki told his grandfather that the only way he could save himself now would be to lift the Dísir's soul-hunger curse. After cursing Loki, Bor angrily complied and the Dísir were turned back into normal. However, Hela told them that they are centuries away from their mortal state and that they should choose their fate: go to eternal rest or become her Valkyries. Brün and the others freely decided to serve Hela. She ordered them that their first task would be to take Bor back to Hel, where she would deal with him later, much to his exasperation.

When Loki and Dani return to Midgard, they realize that the spell was broken and all the Asgardians turned back to normal. While Thor thanks Dani and the New Mutants, Volstagg playfully grabs Loki and ruffles his hair, telling him that they owe him their thanks as well, even if it pains him to say so. While the mutants and the Asgardians help rebuild the damages made by the battle, Mephisto appears before Loki and tells him how angry he is since he lost both the Dísir and his chances with Amara. Before Loki can say anything, Mephisto tells him that he made an enemy of him and that he'll have his revenge. When Dani asks him to whom he was talking, the boy lies and tells her "no one".

Manchester Gods
When Avalon is threatened by mysterious mechanical cities rising out of the ground, taking over land and people, a delegate is sent to Asgardia seeking help against the mysterious "Silent Ones." While the All-Mothers decline, to Thor's exasperation, they decide to send Loki with his particular "skills" to ensure the "Otherworld" is in peace.

Loki and Leah arrive in England which causes Loki to immediately ask everyone he meets if they know “the Queen”. After meeting with Captain Britain and his allies, Hela sends a message through Leah that she wants Loki to find the Holy Grail, so that she can heal her lost hand during her battle with the Dísir. After witnessing a horrible battle against the mechanical cities, Loki decides to search for a smarter way to win the war and avoid more deaths.

Loki and Leah meet up with Daimon Hellstrom and enlist him to help find places of power for the Manchester Gods. When Hellstrom finds them, Loki uses the info to destroy a house powered by hydroelectric power. In Otherworld, it causes one of the rampaging city gods to retreat in fear. Loki tells the Otherworld residents and soldiers what he’s learned about these places of power (that operate like the certain monuments of Otherworld). Loki uses this map of these places as leverage to feed half-true info about attacks to the Manchester Gods. After meeting their leader, Master Wilson, Loki and Leah have gained the trust of the Manchester Gods, but Wilson talks to Loki about the Otherworld's stubbornness to accept change and tells the boy that he, more than anyone, should be able to understand. Troubled by Wilson's words, Loki ends up agreeing with his point of view and tells Leah they are fighting on the wrong side.

Regretful, Loki and Leah use the information about the places of power for the old gods to destroy them, weakening Otherworld enough to force them into a treaty and preventing further death and suffering. After that, Loki meets up with Daimon and tells him what he did. When Daimon asks him why he is telling him the truth, the boy explains that was because he had hidden his plans from him when they fought Nightmare and that, even though he is Loki, he can be a different person than what he was, earning Hellstom's trust.

Through a deal with Wilson, in which he distracts the Lady of the Lake with paperwork, Loki leads Hela to the Holy Grail and she recovers her severed hand. However, by repaying his debt, Leah is sacrificed and vanishes from existence, leaving Loki in tears. Hela reveals to Loki that legends claim that she is his daughter and asks him what he thinks, to which the boy angrily tells her to leave him alone. After she leaves, Ikol taunts Loki about Leah and Loki tells him how important she was to him. In Asgardia, Loki faces the All-Mothers' wrath and makes it clear that if they don’t want him to save the day then they must stop asking him to do so.

Everything Burns
When Thor returns from Broxton, he asks Loki to help him heal his burned hands, something an ordinary fire wouldn't be able to do. As Loki bandages his brother's hands, he tells him that Odin would probably know what fire that is, to which Thor angrily mutters that they didn't need him while Loki compares him to a sunset, lovely to see and be in its presence, but then gone.When the World Tree suddenly starts to burn, Thor and Loki go to investigate. Meanwhile, the Temple of Union on Vanaheim was set on aflame by Gullveig, Freyja's sister, and her warriors. Loki, Thor and several warriors go there and fight against the Vanir, however, Volstagg questions why they are fighting Vanaheim with a Vanir Queen. Though Thor tries to reason with Gullveig, she calls upon the technology of the Manchester Gods, horrifying Loki as he realizes what he had done. After the Vanaheim warriors withdraw, Loki grabs his brother and tells him that they need to talk.

While in Leah's cave, Loki tells Thor everything he had done since the war against the Serpent to his alliance with the Manchester Gods. Though Thor was angry with Loki's actions and berated him, the boy burst into tears and cried out that he was only trying to help. Touched, Thor embraced his little brother and told him they would make things right.

In England, the two brothers question Master Wilson and he admits using Sutur's fire to create their mechanical cities, but denying that he knew anything about his motives. Thor threatens Wilson in case the Nine Realms fall, but Loki stops him, saying that he was to blame too. When they return to Asgardia, the Volstagg and the other warriors have accused the All-Mothers of treason after having discoverd a Starkphone with photos and films of Loki's missions and their orders. Freyja tries to reason with them, but to no avail and the Warriors Three demand that they be arrested. Thor yells at Frandal and the two men almost fight, while Loki and Hogun try to stop them.

Volstagg tells them to wait and considering all the events that led them to that situation, he tells them that Loki should be contained as well, since his motives are suspicous and to "calm hot blood". Thor is enraged and yells that they would have to go through him to get to Loki. As Thor fights his friends and other Asgardians, he tells his little brother to run.

Later, Loki meets with Hela but she refuses to help them in their fight against Surtur. After talking to Thor, the boy steals the cell phone used to expose him and travels to Muspelheim along with Thori and Ikol. Right after they arrive, Surtur's spy attacks them and reveals herself as the Leah Loki wrote on the Serpent's story to give him a good moment in the past but no further development, making her want revenge against the trickster. Loki appears shocked before telling that it was perfect and reveals that all his past actions were evil. Loki tells Leah how Thor brought him back to life only to abandon him with people who hated him and would never trust him. In both anger and tears, Loki reveals how much he hates all of them and that he and Leah will make them pay by joining with Surtur and help him reduce them all into ashes. Convincing both Leah, Ikol and Surtur, Loki lures Thor to Muspelheim and betrays him by letting him fall into a pit of lava.

Later, Loki meets with the Warriors Three and Sif who ask him if he had seen Thor, to which he lies and says he didn't. As the Asgardian forces are defeated and being controlled by Surtur, Loki asks if they could use the Destroyer like he and Volstagg did in the past, making Frandal and Hogun turn against the new king. After Ikol congratulates the boy for undoing all the good he ever did, Loki goes to Surtur again and steals the Twilight Shadow. While Thor is getting attacked inside the lava, Loki appears to him as an astral projection and tells his brother to let it drag him down and let the darkness win. Leah complains to Surtur that Loki has lied and tricked her again, but the fire collossus tells her that he anticipated Loki's deceit and unleashes the Hel-Wolf to kill the boy.

While Loki and Ikol hide from the beast, Thori offers to trick his father by taking one of Loki's gloves at the risk of his own life. After waiting for a while in a cave, worrying about Thori's safety, Loki finally decides to come out only to be attacked by the Hel-Wolf, Sutur's warriors and Thori, who had betrayed him to his father. Loki cries with grief as the dog he saved reveals his hatred for him and how he made him kneel. Fortunately, the Trickster is saved by Garm and the Dísir, who taken him to Hela so he can travel to the past and go to the Serpent's story once more and give Leah a story, personality and freedom of choice. Back in the present, Leah senses that Loki changed the past and summons him to her and Surtur's presence. Surtur tries to kill Loki, but Leah saves him. Loki explains to her that he could have saved the Nine Realms first, but then he wouldn't be able to help her and he couldn't leave her. Deeply moved, Leah thanks Loki for what he did to her and tells him he did the best he could. Now out of plans, Loki and Leah are attacked by the enraged Surtur.

As they are about to be killed, Loki and Leah almost kiss, only to be interrupted by Thor's arrival with the warriors from the afterlife. However, Surtur's power is too great for even Thor to handle, so Loki concludes that the Manchester Gods are the conduit of Surtur's power and Leah takes them to England. After talking to Master Wilson and explaining how they were all played and used by Surtur, Wilson decides to sacrifice himself and the Manchester Gods, paying his debt to Loki. Back in the battlefield, Surtur notices the destruction of the fuses but kepts attacking. Loki asks Leah to go back to the battle and they face Thor; despite Thor's rejection of Loki, Loki gives him the sword of the Twilight Shadow, which connects with Mjolnir. However, destroying Surtur would release a huge amount of energy; grudgingly, Thor admits they need Odin's help, but, with a mischievous smile, informs Loki they will trick him. Loki and Leah disguise themselves as Freyja and convince Odin to leave his exile to help his sons. Realizing that he has been fooled, but wanting to save the universe as well, Odin contains all the energy from Surtur's demise.

Back at Asgardia, both Thor and Loki have to explain their actions to the All-Mothers, who are not pleased that they disturbed Odin, but Thor tells them that at least Asgardia still stands. Later, Loki and Leah find Daimon Hellstrom in Leah's cave, apparently injured. Daimon tells Loki that Mephisto got the Fear Crown he made before passing out, leaving the young godling to wonder if he had been betrayed and noticing Ikol's absence. Leah tells Loki to stop pretending as they both know "Ikol" only exists inside his head because he's a "parasitic little story", which was why Leah could also see him. Excusing himself, Loki tells Leah leaves her cave and tells her that he might be gone for a while.

Meeting with his elder self, young Loki discovers his old self asked the Teller to write his story and give the information about the Fear Crown to Mephisto so he could rule all hells; the only way to prevent this and destroy the crown is to destroy this incarnation and let Ikol take his body and good name. The boy asks Ikol if he never meant to change after all, to which the elder Trickster says that he wanted to change and not the child Loki. Thus, he tells the boy that he can have three conversations but cannot reveal anything. Loki goes to Leah's cave but doesn't talk to her, just saying that he needs to go to Hel. Leah opens a portal and follows the boy while he asks Brün if she can devour him, but the Dísir refuses because he ended their curse. Next, Loki speaks to Hela and asks her to send Leah away, much to the girls confusion who screams at Loki to talk to her and that she hates him. As Loki cries, Hela comforts him by telling him that Leah would grow up knowing how to deal with the likes of him, to his confusion. After Loki leaves, Hela continues to talk revealing that she is Leah, now grown.

Finally, Loki goes to Thor and hugs him, crying. Though Thor tries to understand what's wrong, Loki tells his brother to promise to kill him if he turned evil since they both knew how his story would end. Thor refuses and tells his little brother that he will never give up on him and that Loki should have faith in himself too. Crying and hugging Thor, Loki tells him that he's "the biggest, sweetest idiot in the whole nine realms".

When Loki finally faces Ikol, he asks what will happen when he takes over. Ikol tells the boy that the fear crown was going to disappear with his death and the future and everyone would be safe and happy. The boy tells him that he's lying and that he will never change, while the child Loki played and changed, his elder self was just being himself and so he had lost. Then, the boy picks up the magpie and eats it. As the Spirit of old Loki disappears, the young Loki says that he won and he's taken over by the copy of his elder self.

The new Loki then grabs his horned helmet and damns himself.

Young Avengers
Later, when Loki took the powers of Wiccan, his younger self appeared before him in a vision, claiming to be his guilty consciousness and berating him for taking his body, his life and reputation, only to start ruining it all.

His elder self dismisses him by telling that he isn't real and what he did wasn't really murder, since gods are created from story. He also adds that his younger self's body not only confounded his powers, but also himself and that he's glad that he killed him, only for the young boy to tell him that he isn't before disappearing. After the battle in Central Park, young Loki appears once more to tell his elder self that Miss America is onto to him.

At the final battle against Mother, this being was revealed to actually be the living embodiment of Loki's guilty conscience, and his missing power.

Ikol
When he was trying to find the motive of his past incarnation for his sacrifice at the hands of the Void, the new Kid Loki found himself transported to a hidden chamber where he encountered an echo of his elder self. The spirit revealed the elder Loki desired to have a new start, a fresh page with fresh ink to write a free future. The echo had come to help the Kid Loki guard the Nine Realms through upcoming hard times, "because a trickster is naught without a playground." Kid Loki reduced his elder self into the form of a magpie, condemned to a lifetime as "Ikol," his minion and his opposite.

Determined not to become like his past self, Kid Loki went on several adventures to gain Thor's and everyone else's trust and affection. These adventures included hiding the World's Heart so Galactus would give up his war against Asgard, helping save Midgard from the War of the Serpent, bringing Thor back from the dead by being the only person to remember him, helping Daimon Hellstrom save people from Nightmare, assisting in the war with the Manchester Gods, and helping Thor and Leah, Hela's handmaiden and his best friend, against Surtur. However, Ikol appeared displeased with his new incarnation's desire to be his own person, as well as his new personality.

During Kid Loki's adventure to help Daimon combat Nightmare, who was harvesting "fear clots" from people's mind that had been left as a residue from the War of the Seprent, the young trickster harvested his own abundant fear clot and gave it to Nightmare, so the Fear Lord would stop threatening innocent lives.[18] Nightmare proceeded to create a Fear Crown from Loki's fear clot, to empower himself over his fellow Fear Lords. However, Loki warned them, and they attacked Nightmare, ultimately leading the Fear Lords to be caught in a neverending conflict to try to take the Fear Crown from each other.

Kid Loki finally gained the trust he fought so hard to earn when he helped kill Surtur and save the entire universe from destruction, however, his victory was short-lived. During Loki's adventure to help defeat Surtur, a second scheme laid by the elder Loki had been put in action, and Mephisto was alerted of the existence of the Fear Crown. Mephisto defeated the Fear Lords, took possession of the item, and planned to use his new-found power to become the next Satan and unleash Hell on Earth. After noticing his bird's absence, the young trickser returned to the hidden chamber and confronted Ikol, who was revealed to only exist in Kid Loki's mind.

With only a few hours before Mephisto stepped in as Satan, Kid Loki was presented by Ikol with the only way at hand to destroy the Fear Crown. The fear clot that made up the crown had come from Kid Loki's mind, thus if Kid Loki's mind was destroyed, so was going to be the crown. And due to the elder Loki's past machinations, the only way for Kid Loki to die was to let Ikol overwrite his mind, take his body, and make Kid Loki's good name his own. The boy questioned Ikol for the motive of this scheme, and the echo revealed that he himself desired to change, and not for the child Loki to do so.

Before submitting to his fate, the young boy taunted Ikol, reminding the echo that he had changed, and even if Ikol wanted to change, he had already lost due to this selfish machination. As his mind was replaced with Ikol's, Kid Loki firmly stated that he had won. Ikol, now Loki, acknowledged his guilt of having killed the young Loki, and said, " Damn me. Damn you all. "

Young Avengers Assemble
 After learning of Wiccan, a young hero destined to become the omnipotent Demiurge, Loki decided he needed to control him. Loki reached out to the interdimensional parasite called Mother and made a deal with her. The God of Mischief manipulated Wiccan into bringing the Mother to this dimension through a magic spell that had the purpose of bringing back to life the adoptive mother of Wiccan's boyfriend  Hulkling.

 However, Loki betrayed Mother, and interfered with the spell, causing it to tie it Wiccan, Hulkling and himself and bring back their dead parents. Under the guise of trying to help, Loki rescued Wiccan and Hulkling from Mother. They were soon joined by other young heroes, who became infected by the link of the spell, leading to the reformation of the   Young Avengers. When they were cornered in   Central Park   by their resurrected parents and an army of mind-controlled adults only they could see, Loki convinced Wiccan to lend him his power for ten minutes to save them all with his better skill at magic than Wiccan. As soon as Loki was given Billy's powers, he teleported away, leaving the other young heroes to their deaths.

 Confronted by his guilty conscience, in the form of the deceased Kid Loki, Loki decided to come back, save his fellows, empower them to fend off Mother's army of adults. Mother faded away after the Young Avengers escaped. Loki explained they couldn't go back to any place their parents were or had died (in the case of any deceased parent brought back by Mother) or Mother would return, as her powers were distance based. The young heroes decided to stay together and travel through the universe.

 In the next three months, Loki trained Billy to prepare him to fight Mother, with the ulterior motive of gaining his trust. The Young Avengers were joined by   Prodigy, who informed them   Speed   had been kidnapped by a strange   entity  dressed as   Patriot. The Young Avengers chased the entity through the Multiverse, and were brought to   Mother's Dimension. They escaped, but accidentally left Prodigy and Hulkling behind. Using numerous evil alternate version of themselves as a distraction, the Young Avengers distracted Mother and save Hulkling and Prodigy. Back to Earth-616, Hulkling left the team.

 Using a magic hologram, Loki met up with Mother, who was holding a grudge against Loki for his interference in the spell that didn't allow her to return freely to Earth-616, and questioned her about the mysterious "Patri-not," though she had no idea. Before leaving, the God of Mischief taunted Mother, stating everything was going according to his plan. However, Loki didn't know that Mother was working with what seemed to be an older, vengeful   Leah, who had tricked Hulkling into returning to New York, allowing Mother to come back to Earth-616, and threaten to unleash all of the evil version of the Young Avengers to the world.

 Since Billy was still too weak to end the spell which had brought Mother, Loki suggested that he would be able to do it if his body was older, thus making Wiccan age him into a young adult. Unfortunately, Loki's powers didn't remain. The trickster had to resort to a second plan, to turn Wiccan temporarily into the Demiurge. Prodigy called all of the teenager heroes available to fight the army of alternate Young Avengers, while the real Young Avengers took care of Mother.

 When the Young Avengers faced Mother, Leah and her own team of   Young Avengers   (a league of evil exes, including those of   Noh-Varr   and   America Chavez ), Loki was easily overpowered by Leah. To Loki's shock, he realized Leah was actually the physical manifestation of his guilt and missing powers which he subconsciously gave up due to his guilt over killing his younger self.

 Loki confessed his crimes, the murder of Kid Loki and the manipulations the Young Avengers had been victim of. His confession made Leah and the evil exes disappear, which were also manifestations of Loki's guilt, thus regaining his powers and freeing Teddy. After Billy and Teddy managed to destroy Mother, the team returned to Central Park. Loki fled unceremoniously, wracked with guilt over his actions.

 Celebrating Mother's defeat, the Young Avengers threw a New Years' party, along with many young heroes that had come to their rescue. During the party, Loki was spotted by David, who confronted him only to find out that Loki was the one who secretly paid for the party. Loki didn't want to stay with the team because they could forgive him; thus, by leaving he wouldn't give them the chance. While talking to David, Loki admitted that he was different than who he was, but he couldn't avoid being Loki, and even if he killed himself, he would eventually come back probably worse; therefore he would be the best story he could. At the end of the party, after watching the Young Avengers leave through one of America's portals, Loki searched through his phone and smiled fondly at the team photo he took.

Agent of Asgard
Loki started working for the All-Mothers of Asgardia in different missions in exchange of his Asgardian crime record to be erased, one crime for each successful mission. The All-Mothers required Loki to return to Asgardia numerous Asgardians who were roaming freely on Earth, including Lorelei and Sigurd. Even though he let Lorelei go, Loki forced Sigurd back to Asgard. However, Loki later with Thor, his new ally Verity Willis and Lorelei learnt about how Sigurd didn't commit any crime and planned to break him out of Asgardia.

After Thor distracted Heimdall by battling the Technocracy and using Willis to see which traps were real, Sigurd and Lorelei escaped together while Loki stayed to find what the All-Mother have been keeping secret. He found an older version of himself who had been influencing events in history for his bidding. He told Loki that he wasn't his past but his future, being helped by the All-Mothers to prevent Loki and Asgardia's future from changing. Displeased by the All-Mothers' desire to be bound by destiny, Loki quit working for them.

AXIS
Loki had had a scuffle with Doctor Doom, who believed Loki would one day bring about the end of Latveria due to the manipulations of the Old Loki, when Magneto arrived to Latveria to ask for help to defeat the recently-unleashed Red Onslaught. The trickster God helped a group of villains defeat the Stark Sentinels, while Doom and the Scarlet Witch cast an inversion spell to alter the moral compass of the Red Skull and defeat him. The inversion spell had a stronger effect than expected, and affected all of those in the island, including Loki, who became heroic. Loki's role of "hero" was dubious at best as he turned his back on Verity, due to feeling mortals were beneath him, and betrayed Lorelei and Sigurd, putting Asgardian law before their friendship, earning the disappointment and disapproval of Odin. He also became incapable of feeling guilt for his past misdeeds. As the inversion spell turned what was evil good, it also took what was good and made evil of it. Loki, who had been on a path of personal redemption, had lost the aspects of himself that had "grown" (as Odin put it).

Loki rejoined the (now-inverted) villains to stop the inverted X-Men from detonating a gene bomb which would've killed everyone in the planet who wasn't a mutant. Even though they failed, the arrival of the inverted Avengers (including Odinson) gave them a second wind to keep on fighting. In order to prevent him from going on a murderous rampage, Loki tricked Odinson into following him to the Moon. There, Loki found Mjolnir as it had been left after Thor became unworthy. Using Mjolnir, Loki became Thor and fought his half-brother until (back on Earth) a reinversion spell was cast, and Loki became his old self once again and when his guilt for past misdeeds returned, he became unworthy as well.

Ego Death
After returning to his apartment, Loki discovered that for unknown reasons, he was no longer able to tell a lie, no matter how little or harmless. Due to this, while having a conversation with Odinson, Loki revealed against his will the fate of his younger self, Kid Loki. Fueled by rage, Odinson brutally beat Loki up, and brought him to Asgardia for punishment.

The rest of the Asgardians turned their back on him, and Frigga exiled Loki from the Ten Realms. While wandering the space between the Ten Realms, Loki encountered Odin, who admitted his love for Loki even after knowing what he had done. The All-Father then sent Loki back to Earth, where his trial would start, and he would to become worthy of his power once again. When he returned to Manhattan, Loki encountered his evil future self in his apartment, who strapped Loki in order to tell him his story.

After revealing his motives to his younger self, King Loki set Loki on a magical fire that sent him back to the hidden chamber where Kid Loki had first met him. Loki was confronted by the ghosts of the original Loki and Kid Loki, who offered him two options, the original Loki offered him to accept his nature as a villain and the God of Lies, and Kid Loki offered him to destroy himself like he did to save the world from himself. After being motivated by Verity Willis via his phone with magic cell reception, Loki chose a third path. Loki realized that a lie was nothing more than a story, a story he could choose to rewrite, to tell a different one. On the real world, King Loki witnessed as Loki burned to the ground, seemingly dying.

Abilities
Loki is a member of the race of Frost Giants of Jotunheim, although not a giant in stature. He possesses physical attributes equal to a fit member of the race known as the Asgardian Gods, such as enhanced strength; stamina, speed, durability, (his Frost Giant metabolism grants him superhuman levels of physical stamina in practically all activities); durability enough to harmlessly withstand high-caliber bullets; and immunity to all known diseases and toxins, as well as resistance to magic.

Loki possesses genius-level intelligence and has extensive training in magic, and possesses the ability to manipulate magical forces for a variety of purposes: energy projection, creation of force fields, temporarily increasing his own physical strength, granting superhuman abilities to living beings or inanimate objects, flight,hypnosis, illusion casting, and inter-dimensional teleportation.

Loki's magical abilities have been described as equal to those of Karnilla, the most skilled sorceress of Asgard. His illusion casting can fool cities, and powerful entities such as Surtur.He has been able to break free of Celestial technology in the possession of Apocalypse.

Loki possesses extrasensory abilities and is capable of astral projection and casting his thoughts across great distances—even across dimensional barriers, like that between Asgard and Earth—even if he is unable to move. He cannot read the minds of other beings, although he can influence their actions, and once briefly hypnotized Thor, as well as controlling a flock of birds. However he could not coerce Thor to give him Mjolnir. If someone has evil thoughts, Loki can influence their actions even if he is in Asgard and the subject is on Earth, and he can influence other events to a degree, such as driving a missile from its path, or redirecting a radio signal.

Loki is an adept shapeshifter and can change into animals (examples include transmogrification to a salmon, horse, etc.) or impersonate other people, such as Thor or Captain America. However, he does not necessarily gain the abilities of whatever he turns into, although minor natural abilities such as flight in bird form tend to work. Loki may mimic the abilities of some supernatural beings if he turn into such creatures. He has also turned clouds into dragons, and animated trees to attack Thor.

Loki imbued himself with magical abilities that enable him to withstand injuries that would prove fatal to another Asgardian, such as being beheaded by Balder. He has also been shown to be immune to the Controller's control disk, the mental influence of the Voice, and the power-sapping abilities of Rogue.

Loki crafted a method of cheating death. He will be reincarnated upon any "death" of his body now that he has arranged with the incarnations of death that his name is erased from the books of Hel.

Equipment
Loki sometimes carried with him certain mystical empowered objects or substances that were used to expand his own magical powers or to make permanent mystical transformations.

Weapons
A magic sword, known in Norse mythology as Laevateinn, which means "wounding wand".