50 Fun Facts About Loki

In Norse myth, Loki turned himself into a mare and gave birth to which eight-legged horse?

He was chased down and impregnated by the stallion Svaðilfari while distracting it from building Asgard's wall; the foal became Odin's steed.

By the jötunn Angrboða, Loki fathered three monstrous children: Hel, the wolf Fenrir and which serpent?

The world serpent encircles Midgard, and it turns out to be the 'cat' Thor once failed to lift in Útgarða-Loki's hall.

After Loki is bound by the gods, his wife catches the dripping serpent venom in a bowl. What is her name?

Whenever she leaves to empty the bowl the venom hits Loki's face and he writhes in agony.

According to the myths, what natural phenomenon is caused by Loki writhing in pain under the venom?

He was bound with the entrails of his own son Nari after the gods caught him hiding at a waterfall.

Which beloved god's death does Loki engineer in Norse mythology?

Frigg had made every object on earth swear not to hurt her son, except the mistletoe she thought too harmless to ask.

Which god is Loki foretold to kill, and be killed by, at Ragnarök?

Loki breaks free of his bonds and fights alongside the jötnar, while his son Fenrir swallows Odin.

To hide from the gods after insulting them all at Ægir's feast, Loki turned himself into which animal?

He lurked in the waterfall of Franangrsfors, and one tradition credits him with inventing the fishing net that caught him.

Which Poetic Edda poem consists almost entirely of Loki trading insults with the gods at a feast?

Its title means 'Loki's Flyting'; he accuses nearly every goddess of infidelity and reminds Frigg he caused her son's death.

In Þrymskviða, Thor's hammer is stolen and Loki flies off to find it wearing what?

He learns the giant Þrymr wants Freyja as a bride in exchange, so Thor ends up dressed as the bride with Loki as his maid.

In the Prose Edda, Loki once cut off the hair of Thor's wife. Who was she?

Thor forced him to have dwarves make a golden replacement, a commission that also produced five other treasures for the gods.

What did the gods lose when Loki let a jötunn eagle abduct Iðunn from Asgard?

Þjazi carried her off with her apples, the gods began to grow old and grey, and Loki was forced to fetch her back as a falcon.

In Útgarða-Loki's hall, Loki lost an eating contest to a being named Logi, who turned out to be what?

Every contest was an illusion: Thor's drinking horn reached the sea and lowered its level, creating tides.

Loki is the son of Laufey and which jötunn?

He is 'son of Laufey' in the poems, and Marvel later borrowed the mother's name for his father, Laufey the Frost Giant king.

What feature of a soapstone hearth stone found in Denmark in 1950 suggests it depicts Loki?

The Snaptun Stone recalls a tale in Skáldskaparmál where the sons of Ivaldi sew Loki's mouth shut.

Which 13th-century Icelandic writer compiled the Prose Edda, one of the main sources for Loki's myths?

He also wrote Heimskringla, and the Poetic Edda was compiled around the same century from older oral sources.

Loki's byname Loptr is generally taken to link him with what?

Attempts to tie his name to logi, 'flame', have no sound linguistic basis; scholars now favour a root meaning loops, knots and tangles.

During his flyting at Ægir's feast, Loki taunts Týr that Loki's son did what to him?

Fenrir bit off Týr's hand when the gods bound the wolf, and Týr shoots back that Loki has lost his wolf.

Which team of comic creators introduced Marvel's modern Loki as Thor's nemesis in 1962?

He debuted in Journey into Mystery #85, just two issues after Thor himself.

A version of Loki first appeared in a 1949 Timely Comics title named after which goddess?

That Loki was bizarrely a member of the Olympian gods, sent back to the Underworld after Venus foiled him.

In Marvel Comics, Loki's schemes on Earth inadvertently lead to the formation of which team?

He also created the villain Absorbing Man by transforming the criminal Carl Creel.

After being killed in the Siege storyline, Loki was resurrected in Journey into Mystery in what form?

Kieron Gillen's 'Kid Loki' later joined a team of young heroes, then manipulated Wiccan into restoring him to a teenaged body.

In the 2016 miniseries Vote Loki, what does Loki run for?

He seemingly loses when the media expose his tricks, but is later revealed to have thrown the race deliberately.

Which actor plays Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

He was invited to audition by Thor director Kenneth Branagh, with whom he had worked on Ivanov and Wallander, and was first considered for the lead role.

Which two actors were reportedly considered for the MCU's Loki before the role was cast in 2009?

Guillermo del Toro was also nearly the director; he loved Loki but wanted 'a really dingy Valhalla, with Vikings and mud' and left to make The Hobbit.

In the MCU, Loki was born a member of which race before Odin adopted him?

Odin found the abandoned infant during an invasion of Jotunheim and used magic to make him look Asgardian.

According to the MCU, under what alias did Loki once pull off a famous heist on Earth?

The Loki series revealed the 1971 skyjacker was Loki collecting on a bet with Thor.

In the 2012 team-up film, Loki opens a wormhole above Stark Tower to let in which alien army?

Their leader, the Other, promised him the army in exchange for the glowing cube; the Hulk ended the invasion by beating Loki into the floor.

In which German city does Loki cause a distraction while Barton steals iridium in the 2012 film?

He orders a crowd to kneel before him, is confronted by Captain America, Iron Man and Black Widow, and lets himself be captured.

Which S.H.I.E.L.D. agent does Loki kill aboard the Helicarrier?

Fury used the death to rally the team, and the agent was later revived for the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series.

At the end of Thor: The Dark World, Loki is revealed to be sitting on Asgard's throne disguised as whom?

He kept the real Odin under a spell on Earth, and Thor did not discover the ruse until Ragnarok, four years later.

In Thor: Ragnarok, Loki lands on the planet Sakaar and ingratiates himself with which ruler?

He is later left behind on Sakaar after another betrayal but returns with Korg and Miek aboard the stolen ship Statesman.

What does Loki steal from Odin's vault as Asgard is destroyed, drawing Thanos to the refugees' ship?

Thanos took the Space Stone from it and then snapped Loki's neck after a failed last stab at his throat.

How does Thanos kill Loki at the start of Infinity War?

the actor noted that Loki calling himself an Odinson just before dying 'closes the whole journey' of the character.

Loki's actor filmed scenes for which 2015 film, only for them to be cut from the theatrical release?

Joss Whedon dropped them because he did not want the movie to feel 'overstuffed'.

Kenneth Branagh told Loki's actor to study which star in The Lion in Winter and Lawrence of Arabia?

Branagh also wanted Loki to have 'a lean and hungry look, like Cassius in Julius Caesar', so the actor dieted before filming.

The Disney+ series follows a Loki variant who slipped away with a stolen artifact during which film?

He is Variant L1130, snatched from 2012 New York after the heroes' time heist went wrong, and so has never lived through his later redemption.

What do the letters TVA stand for in the Loki series?

Its animated mascot Miss Minutes was designed to evoke Felix the Cat, and its Southern-accented voice was a nod to head writer Michael Waldron's roots.

Which actor plays TVA agent Mobius M. Mobius?

He compared the character to Nick Nolte's Jack Cates in 48 Hrs., and Kevin Feige noted Mobius is as unfazed by the MCU as the actor himself.

What is the name of the female Loki variant, played by Sophia Di Martino, whom Loki hunts?

She refuses to call herself a Loki, and Di Martino kept her regional accent so the character would not sound 'too posh'.

Which veteran British actor played Classic Loki, the old variant who faked his death to escape Thanos?

Classic Loki sacrifices himself in the Void by conjuring a life-sized illusion of Asgard to distract Alioth.

Which of these animal Loki variants was stranded in the Void in the series' first season?

He was joined by Boastful Loki, Classic Loki, Kid Loki and a rival gang led by a Loki in a campaign suit, and they all promptly betrayed each other.

Jonathan Majors played He Who Remains and which stuttering 1893 inventor in the Loki series?

Both are variants of Kang the Conqueror; Timely sells his faulty inventions at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

Which Oscar-winning actor joined season two as O.B., the TVA's quirky repair guy?

Ouroboros either designed every piece of TVA technology or knows how to fix it, and ends the series co-writing a new TVA Handbook.

How does the Loki series end for its title character?

He destroys the Temporal Loom and rearranges the timelines into a tree, an image many fans read as Yggdrasil.

Where was the first season of Loki filmed?

Season two moved production to the United Kingdom, with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead directing most episodes.

Head writer Michael Waldron compared Loki to which tech founder, since both were adopted and love control?

The TVA file also lists Loki's sex as 'fluid', a nod to the character's genderfluidity in the comics.

In Reginsmál, Loki nets the dwarf Andvari, who is swimming in a waterfall in the form of what?

Loki strips him of his gold, including the cursed ring Andvaranaut.

Modern Scandinavian forms of Loki's name point to a Germanic root *luk- denoting what?

Hence Swedish 'lockespindlar' for certain spiders and Faroese 'lokkanet' for a cobweb.

In Lokasenna, which goddess fastens the venomous snake over the bound Loki's face?

It is revenge for Loki's part in killing her father Þjazi.

Loki taunts Odin in Lokasenna for practising seiðr, a type of sorcery, on which island?

The island is modern Samsø in Denmark; Odin retorts that Loki spent eight winters underground as a milkmaid.