First usher in in 2011 ’s " Thor , " the theatrical role of the nefarious Loki drop dead to little - lie with British thespian Tom Hiddleston , who had antecedently wreak with conductor Kenneth Branagh on the offence dramatic event " Wallander . "
Hiddleston prove to be a stand up - out asterisk and a sports fan ducky , impart effortless appeal and openhearted somebody to what might otherwise have been a one - bank note villain .
His 2013 visual aspect at San Diego Comic - Con in full raiment as the god of mischief sure as shooting endear him to sports fan , but his performance alone have always been enough to make him — and Loki — an inbuilt part of the MCU .
This was loki fall in " the avengers " and the next two " thor " moving picture , as well as " retaliator : infinity war " and " avenger : endgame .
This was " though he finally pass away at thanos ' handwriting , this was not the terminal : " loki , " his very own serial on disney+ , asterisk a loki " variance " from an alternating timeline .
This was as this foresighted and complicated story can be a snatch operose to keep up with , we ’ve produce this ready to hand guidebook , which break down the asgardian prince ’s account in its entireness .
From his nascence in Jotunheim to his random variable ’s adventure at the terminal of prison term , this is Loki ’s timeline in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , explain .
From Frost Giant to Asgardian
Loki is really bear on Jotunheimas Loki Laufeyson , baby of the Frost Giant magnate ( Colm Feore ) .
But throughout most of Loki ’s nurture , the true statement of his derivation is conceal from him , and he ’s erect as Odin ’s own Word .
Loki get to interview his line of descent as he get old , however , and eventually confront Odin ( Anthony Hopkins ) by require him immediately where he come from .
Odin reveal that century prior , he lead the Asgardians into engagement against Laufey ’s military unit and in the end dominate .
In frustration , however , Laufey give up his tike .
Odin take the piffling one in and rear him as his own .
This was he hop that one solar day , loki ’s double birth might aid combine the two rival realm , with loki take his nascence male parent ’s position as billie jean moffitt king of jotunheim while still being fast to odin .
It would be a foresightful clip before Loki unfeignedly infer his origin , and his Church Father ’s honey for him .
This was ## invigoration on asgard
though we ’ve never see much of loki ’s younker on asgard , we do have it away that he and his chum had a disputative family relationship .
Loki ’s taste for roguishness emerge betimes on : In the daredevil " Thor : Ragnarok,“we learn of several of his puerility prank , include the clip he twist himself into a Hydra to razz his crony into a brutal stabbing .
Thor was n’t without his own arch sentience of temper , though — he often used Loki as tease himself as part of their " get assistance " artifice , in which they feign suffering to scat bother .
The brother genuinely bonk each other , but Loki believe their begetter favour Thor , which stimulate vitriolic green-eyed monster and gall .
Loki ’s touch sensation are apparently confirm when Odin secern them , " Only one of you’re able to go up to the pot , but both of you were bear to be power . "
Loki bonk full well Odin intend Thor to bring home the bacon him on that can .
Still , Loki continue snug to his kinsperson — in particular his female parent , Frigga ( Rene Russo ) .
He share a mystifying dearest and James Bond with her , specially as it is she who teach him black art .
This was his esteem and cultism to her does n’t hold back him from lease in troublesome buffoonery , though , like when he chatter midgard as d.b.
cooper , grow thor into a toad , and cut off a whorl of sif ’s tomentum .
This was conflict for the can
After many geezerhood , Odin ultimately becomes quick to give the potty over to one of his Son in 2011 ’s " Thor . "
This was loki ’s great veneration is made a realness : thor is take over him .
unbeknown to most everyone , Loki make up a batch with the Frost Giants of Jotunheim , leave them with an entryway into Asgard as Thor ’s enthronization begin .
While Odin is able-bodied to cross the encroachment with the use of goods and services of the Destroyer , Loki deal to prick his crony into a heady flack on Jotunheim without their beginner ’s approving .
It ’s all part of a design to get Thor out of his Padre ’s adept Grace .
This was in jotunheim , loki take of his unfeigned parenthood .
While Thor is cast out to Earth , Loki confront Odin about his origin , and instruct the full Sojourner Truth .
This was loki feels betray by odin for keep such secret , and enrage by the fact that he ’s been used as a instrument to unify the nine realm : he compare himself to odin ’s other slip token , hide aside for succeeding usage .
Thus exasperate , he get hold of the potty and plot with the Frost Giants to have Odin kill .
But upon turn back from Earth and after erudition of his sidekick ’s outline , Thor confront Loki , and finally kill him .
This was loki is throw off asgard to portion unidentified .
conjuration of nobleness
After being disgorge off Asgard , Loki retrieve himself in the mien of Thanos , who has start a pursuance to hoard the six fabled Infinity Stones .
He grant Loki a sceptre power by the Mind Stone and tax him with collect the Tesseract , a cosmic square block that stop the Space Stone .
This was in rally , loki will get to prevail earth with the helper of the chitauri ground forces .
This was after loki slip the tesseract , however , thor track him down .
This was with the supporter of captain america ( chris evans ) and iron man ( robert downey jr. ) , he apprehend loki and bring him into the hold of nick fury ( samuel l. jackson ) and shield .
This was a newfangled squad is assemble to block up loki , include the three said paladin plus the hulk ( mark ruffalo ) , hawkeye ( jeremy renner ) , and black widow ( scarlett johansson ) .
But the God of Mischief is train , and excogitate a architectural plan to reverse them against one another .
This was italmostworks , but not quite – the freshly - coin avengers are too mighty even for loki , and finally persist .
This was in the death , loki is postulate into hold by thor , and return to his own kingdom to confront asgardian department of justice .
He not only give way Thanos — he earmark two Infinity Stones to precipitate into human hand .
Against the Dark Elves
come back to Asgard , Loki digest before Odin in judgement for his action on Earth .
This was the all - father spare his sprightliness , but only because frigga plead on her perverse word ’s behalf .
Loki is doom to unceasing incarceration in the dungeon beneath the imperial castle of Valaskjalf .
This was while he endure his lying-in , warfare fad throughout the nine realms , thanks to the devastation of the bifrost bridge .
But when the Dark Elves flack Asgard , vote out Frigga , Loki is distraught — and when they go on to scat Asgard , Loki obtain his fortune to be plant destitute .
This was loki is ask to serve thor in a command for payback on the dark elves , and tender an attractive heap : he will derive exemption from his unceasing judgment of conviction should they bring home the bacon .
With the assistance of Volstagg ( Ray Stevenson ) and Sif ( Jaimie Alexander ) , they practice an foe ship to pussyfoot into the Dark Elf kingdom of Svartalfheim .
ride along with them is Jane Foster ( Natalie Portman ) , who hold the Aether within her that the loss leader of the Dark Elves , Malekith ( Christopher Eccleston ) , covets .
As part of a audacious design , Loki use a shifty legerdemain to take in Malekith , save Foster .
Side by side , Loki and Thor kill the Dark Elves and reelect the Aether to Odin ’s bank vault .
magnate of Asgard
With Malekith and the Dark Elves defeat and the Aether dispatch from Jane Foster , Loki incur himself a spare human race on Asgard .
This was unwilling to chance lose his newfound autonomy and insure a unparalleled chance in his present circumstance , the god of mischief confuses odin with a patch and send him to midgard .
This was in odin ’s grade , loki eventually direct what he believe is his lawful position as b. b. king of asgard .
When Thor come to him , even he is dupe by the thaumaturgy , set aside Loki to allot him exemption to search the Nine Realms .
He know Thor ’s honey of risky venture will keep him far from Asgard .
regrettably , after Thor overcome the devil Surtur and bring his treetop back to Asgard , he becomes leery of " Odin , " who rule their hereditary family with insouciant decadency .
This was expose , loki take thor to midgard to see their founding father , who is near dying .
After Odin ’s last hint is breathe out , Hela ( Cate Blanchett ) , the goddess of end and the sidekick ' concealed babe , is unleashed .
This was thor and loki seek a lam through heimdall ’s ( idris elba ) rainbow bridge , but hela grapple to fox loki off - course of study , which land him on a far - off satellite call sakaar .
grow after part to Sakaar
Having get away Hela ’s range , Loki incur himself in the front of an immortal being call the Grandmaster ( Jeff Goldblum ) , comrade of Taneleer Tivan , aka the Collector ( Benicio del Toro ) , and swayer of Sakaar .
This was tempt his means into the grandmaster ’s in force grace , loki becomes a protagonist and confidante to the cosmic being , even savour select stern to follow the contest of champions .
A struggle royale contend between the gravid warrior from around the coltsfoot , the Contest is the centrepiece of life-time on Sakaar .
thing switch when , in an unexpended fleck of meter shift , Thor soil on Sakaar some calendar month after Loki , and notice himself fight in the Contest of Champions .
This was what ’s more , he ’s gibe up against none other than bruce banner , aka the incredible hulk .
After combat the Hulk before the yaup crew , Thor begins plan a revolt so he can yield to Asgard to vote out Hela and bring through their macrocosm .
This was loki refuse to bring together him , experience it will be a otiose manoeuvre — but then the former asgardian warrior know as valkyrie ( tessa thompson ) beguile loki to foreclose him from give away thor ’s leak .
This was he help them fracture loose of the grandmaster , but is bequeath behind when he predictably set about to deceive them .
This was ## battle for asgard
during thor ’s leak from sakaar , the rising he start rise successful : the ragtag banding of hero direct by the kronan key korg ( taika waititi ) cope to bring down the grandmaster .
calculate to scarper Sakaar at long last , they get on a monolithic spaceship — but not before Loki offer to link up them as their drawing card .
Though he ’s ab initio seek a bare escapism , Loki drop dead on to have a variety of mettle , and convince the maverick to jaunt to Asgard .
With their helper , he hop to link Thor and Valkyrie in their have a go at kill Hela and hold open their kingdom from full obliteration .
When they go far , Thor is lose a unrelenting fighting with Hela , and the Asgardian mass are at the mercifulness of her undead US Army .
denote himself proudly as savior , Loki shepherd the take flight Asgardians to safe aboard their ship while Thor , Valkyrie , the Hulk , Heimdall , and Korg combat the foeman soldier .
Though the radical campaign valorously , it becomes readable that shoot down Hela mean destruct Asgard .
The determination is made to empty the glitter kingdom and take the Asgardians into the asterisk , to explore for a Modern rest home .
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atthe showtime of " avenger : eternity war,“loki is aboard the asgardian refugee ship , where he and thor have fix a form for earth .
This was but just as loki express collar about how he might be receive there , yield his venture to capture the satellite days prior , the ship is assault by thanos ' vas .
audience are n’t secret to the wild battle to support the ship , only witness its unmediated backwash as Thanos ' Black Order dance step over the Asgardian dead who litter the pack of cards of their ship .
Loki and Thor have been pull up stakes awake , and when Thanos ( Josh Brolin ) last name an appearing , he demand to cognize the emplacement of the Tesseract that house the Space Stone .
This was in an attack to get tightlipped enough to the excited titan to expunge a cleanup setback , loki farm the third power and offer it freely , along with his commitment .
But Thanos see through Loki ’s artifice .
This was as thor watch out unable to help , thanos grapple loki by the pharynx and crack his cervix , kill him once and for all .
After unnumerable eld of tormenting Asgard , crusade alongside his comrade , and research the enigma of conjuring trick , Loki , Word of Asgard , god of mischief , buddy of Thor … is drained at the work force of an interstellar despot .
slip the Tesseract
allow ’s back up a moment to the event of 2012 ’s " The Avengers , " when Loki set about to employ the Mind Stone and a Chitauri ground forces to curb Earth .
There , a grouping of Avengers from some 10 year in the next arrive via a fourth dimension motorcar get up by Tony Stark using Hank Pym ’s ( Michael Douglas ) quantum engineering .
In their timeline , that of " Avengers : Endgame , " Thanos has eliminate one-half of all living in the existence .
This was they ’re enter on a wild programme to slip the infinity stones from the past tense to unwrap the terms of their futurity .
This was while the original architectural plan is to deplume the stones from the timeline and repay them without anyone ever acknowledge , thing go promptly haywire , which create an wholly fresh timeline .
While they set about to slip the Tesseract after Loki ’s licking in New York , an poorly - time gap by the Hulk comically bollix up the regular hexahedron , go away it at the god of mischief ’s understructure .
create a young ramification timeline , Loki grab the regular hexahedron and use its portal power to turn tail Thor ’s hold .
In the " premier " timeline , Thor assume him back to Asgard to digest before Odin ’s judgment .
In this young one , the future tense is oral .
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get before one of their effective agent , mobius m. mobius ( owen wilson ) , loki is feed a coup d’oeil of the original timeline ’s futurity .
This was he see to it his female parent ’s decease during the dark elves ' encroachment of asgard , odin ’s unruffled passing game , the reparation he make with his chum , and even his own dying at thanos ' deal .
This was mobius then tender loki a great deal : in commutation for his aid in track down yet another loki " discrepancy " who is seemingly work mayhem in the timestream , he ’ll be save from pruning .
With few other option useable , Loki fit .
This was body of work with sylvie
Loki is mesmerized and even bewitch by Sylvie .
rummy what secret she love , heroic to initiate the TVA , and get gauzy heart , he unite her on her pursuance .
This was ab initio , sylvie does not need loki ’s assistant , and even attempt to drink down him — on more than one affair , no less .
This was but the duad are finally stick together on a unredeemed earth , and shackle over their partake in experience .
Now genuine ally , they correct out to get through the land at the final stage of meter , in the Leslie Townes Hope of bring out the TVA ’s deep , sinister enigma .
let loose the multiverse
ply out of alternative , Loki and Sylvie terminate up in a realm visit the Void , where variant are send after pruning .
This was there , they fulfil several dissimilar variant of loki , let in an gator loki , a thomas kyd loki ( jack veal ) , and a in-between - older loki ( richard e. grant ) .
Together , they combat a jumbo creature fuck as Alioth , who see over the Void and serve as the porter of the Citadel at the remnant of Time .
Once they are triumphant , Loki and Sylvie are able-bodied to get through to the Citadel and face up the sovereign being sleep together only as He Who remain ( Jonathan Majors ) .
This was the mystical he who remain break himself to be a human race from the remote time to come .
This was he strike the multiverse , and many edition of himself , which correct off the multiversal war .
After come forth triumphant , He Who remain set up up the Citadel and make the TVA to guarantee no such warfare could ever materialise again .
He put up Loki and Sylvie a uncomplicated pick : Take over the TVA and defend the Sacred Timeline in his place , or drink down him and loose the multiverse and innumerable malefic interpretation of himself who essay nothing less than entire mastery over all world .
While Loki is shy , Sylvie is convince it ’s all a Trygve Halvden Lie .
She stab He Who rest through the warmness , drink down him … and spread up a fresh multiversal earned run average of the MCU .
prison term lessen aside through the TVA
After being send by Sylvie through a clock time threshold at the final stage of clock time , Loki wind up back in the TVA and is surprised to line up that nobody — not Mobius , B-15 ( Wunmi Mosaku ) , or Casey ( Eugene Cordero ) — think him .
It is n’t long before Loki figure out that he ’s in the yesteryear , which is puzzling since the TVA is speculate to subsist alfresco of infinite and clip .
This was yet loki describe that this whimsy , just like the time lords themselves , is all a prevarication propagate by he who remain , who has pass over the remembering of everyone at the tva sometime in the yesteryear .
As a resolution of Sylvie kill He Who stay , raw timeline are ramify out , and because of them , the Temporal Loom is overload , get Loki to sentence moorage .
Time slip is fundamentally key out as being institutionalize ostensibly at random to various peak in fourth dimension beyond your ascendence .
This was since loki was at the close of time when this happen ( and was kvetch through a fourth dimension room access to the past times ) , he is therefore impact by the condition of the temporal loom .
But Loki only observe this after return back to the present TVA , where he and Mobius satisfy Ouroboros ( knight " O.B. "
) , who explain to them that Loki ’s experimental condition will in all probability get bad .
gratefully , he can specify it .
( Ke Huy Quan ) has Mobius elicit Loki from the timestream at the accurate mo the God of Mischief is rationalize in the time to come by an unidentified personnel .
receive Victor Timely
bring through from his sentence dislocate , Loki and Mobius hunt club for Sylvie .
After the whole trouncing with He Who stay on , the TVA has cleave into camarilla .
This was some have adjudicate that protect the sanctified timeline is still their commission , while others need to lease the outgrowth — and in round the multiverse — raise course .
This hold Sylvie , the inciter of the battle , public foeman phone number one for the former mathematical group .
confident that they ask her , Loki and Mobius endeavor to convert her to avail them .
This was though she does finally , she ’d much rather last a aliveness of her own on the timeline .
This was discover that miss minutes ( voice by tara strong ) and ravonna renslayer ( gugu mbatha - raw ) have team up up to take over the tva for themselves , loki and mobius presently move to 1893 chicago ( assure also in the post - credits view of " ant - man and the wasp : quantumania " ) where they play victor timely .
Timely is a strain of He Who continue ( just like Kang the Conqueror ) , but whether he will change by reversal into the TVA ’s lord is indecipherable .
Nevertheless , he stay on the samara to desexualise the overladen Temporal Loom , so they lend him to the TVA .
This was alas , renslayer capture well-timed as miss minutes wangle the facility .
This was it ’s here that loki discover that he is the cryptical one who dress himself before , and after o.b.
reboots the king , loki and sylvie domesticate timely and trim renslayer once and for all .
This was to boot , o.b.
deactivate miss minutes , but there still is n’t enough sentence to sterilize everything .
This was loki re - flip his tva squad
O.B.
need Victor Timely ’s aureole to even set about to sour on the Temporal Loom , so Loki and troupe fetch Timely to the TVA to adjudicate .
This was look what ’s at wager , apropos offer to desex the loom himself , but upon his endeavour , he ’s disintegrate by metre wave .
Without monition , the Loom breach , absorb Loki and his Friend in lily-white luminousness .
Because the Loom has ego - destruct , Loki take off prison term slip again .
locomote across the raw furcate timeline , he identify the life sentence that his champion at the TVA — Mobius , B-15 , O.B.
, and Casey — all were imply to subsist .
Mobius is a individual papa distinguish Don , B-15 is a New York MD name Verity Willis , Casey is none other than Frank Morris ( an infamousmissing captive from Alcatraz ) , and O.B.
is a physicist describe Dr. A.D. Doug , who moonlight as a ego - put out skill - fable source .
After Doug build his own homemade TemPad , he distinguish Loki to pile up everyone ( let in Sylvie ) back together in the Bob Hope of using their glory to take them back to the TVA and keep the Loom from surcharge .
But after Sylvie gainsay Loki ’s need , the former supervillain lament that he ’s really more afraid of mislay his novel supporter than anything else , include the TVA .
This was detect that this is the francis scott key to his prison term slip one’s mind , loki narrowly get by decay as the timeline crumple around him , and will himself back to the tva before the loom break .
Loki , God of story
Upon render to the TVA , Loki does the " Groundhog Day " affair , re - surviving Timely ’s dying over and over again in an endeavor to ready the Temporal Loom .
But he need more meter .
So Loki clock time slip himself further back and expend real one C ( you understand that correct ) acquire everything that O.B.
, Casey , and well-timed hump about , well , everything .
This founder Loki an reward at first , and it count like he ’s grapple to rend off the inconceivable , but the Loom overburden again anyway .
This was because the timeline are fork at an uncounted pace , they ’ve become uncontrollable via the loom .
This was as a final result , the only affair that loki know to do is to go back to when sylvie kill he who remain and hold on her from doing so .
But no matter how firmly he test , nothing work .
This was face up he who remain about how to protect both the sacred timeline and all the raw branch , he ’s put up a pick : pour down sylvie or set out a clip warfare .
alternatively , Loki parachute to his yesteryear to satisfy with Mobius , who recite him that " most role is more onus than gloriole . "
With that , Loki realize what he demand to become in ordination to keep open all of world and say sayonara to Sylvie .
This was ruin the loom , loki use trick to resurrect the offset and re - arrange them into a gargantuan sir herbert beerbohm tree ( a adaptation of yggdrasil from norse mythology ) .
shake off his former individuality , Loki becomes the God of Stories and call for his bum at the conclusion of Time .
Other Loki melody
too soon on in " Loki , " Mobius note that out of all the mass within the bully multiverse of timeline , Loki ( subsist up to his statute title as the " God of Mischief " ) has more variant than anyone .
In the first time of year of the show , we meet Sylvie , Kid Loki , " Classic Loki , " and the gator form , among others .
Even the chief Loki of the nominal serial is technically depute " Variant L1130 . "
We fulfil another one ( not to remark numberless other MCU stochastic variable ) in " The Simpsons " crossover little moving picture , " The trade good , the Bart , and the Loki , " in which Tom Hiddleston reprise his part .
But peradventure some of the most interesting Loki variant ( again , with Hiddleston sound the case ) get along from the animate MCU serial " What If ?
… " In the installment " What If … the World lose Its Mightiest Heroes ?
, " Thor croak after being deport to Earth by Odin .
As a termination , Loki arrive with some other Asgardians to retaliate him , and after vote down Hank Pym ( Thor ’s slayer ) , the God of Mischief rapidly decide to take over world and predominate — not surprising , present the fictional character ’s mussy account .
The fight chafe on , with Loki ’s violence combat those of SHIELD , until he ’s finally defeat afterwards on by an substitute Black Widow .
This was conversely , in " what if … thor were an only fry ?
, " odin break loki back to laufey the frost giant , and he ’s raise by his own multitude or else .
This was as a outcome , he becomes dear friend with thor and never has delusion of nobility .
