The trickster God.
Thor’s sinister brother.
A cunning anti-hero.
Loki has been many things over the years.
Quite literally too!
He’s taken many a form over the years, often with deceptive intentions.
So today we’re returning to our alternate versions lists and counting down the top 10
alternate versions of Loki!
The alternates on this list are from other Earths, but are also alternate identities
that Earth 616 Loki has taken on over the years.
So with that in mind, let’s jump in!
10 Unicorn Loki This is perhaps one of the strangest, craziest
transformations the trickster god has pulled off over the years in the Earth 616 continuity.
A unicorn.
A freaking unicorn.
So this went down in Loki Agents of Asgard issue 8, which was part of the Avengers & X-Men:
AXIS story event in which Red Skull harnesses Charles Xavier’s abilities and the world
gets really weird and full of hate.
At the time, Loki was trying to be an upright hero, fighting for truth justice and the Asgardian
way!
Literally, the cover had the words ‘heroic protagonist’ on it.
This was what he claimed was a fast way to travel, using the purest magic.
He would declare “by the power of Asgard” like some prince Adam He-Man motherf***er
and transform into this galloping white wonder with a rainbow mane and tail.
Because of course he would have a rainbow name and tail.
As you can imagine, the fandom was a little bit split on this.
For starters, some saw the rainbow-ness of his unicorn as being a nice shout out to the
fact that the character has a fluidly sexuality.
But the other half of the fandom decided to meme the crap out of it.
His reasoning in the comic as to why he had transformed into a unicorn of all creatures
was because it was meant to represent an animal that didn’t represent a symbol of trickery.
9 Earth 9997 Earth 9997, also known as Earth X, features
a more archaic looking Loki, who discovers that the Asgardians aren’t really gods,
but rather, long living mutants who are mind-locked by the celestials who have tricked them into
believing they are immortal.
When Loki tries to tell Odin and the other Asgardians what he’s figured out, they don’t
believe him.
To prove a point, he commits suicide and ends up in Hela’s realm of the dead, and to fight
against the celestials and their attack on Earth.
8 Earth 807128 This Loki appears in the OldMan Logan universe.
And as far as Loki alternates go, he’s the most unimpressive Loki on this list.
He’s a giant skeleton.
In the past, this Loki was giant sized, and was killed when the Baxter building was dropped
on him.
All that remains is his giant ol skeleton, but apparently he put up quite the fight.
The Baxter Building is a fictional office building in the Marvel universe that’s in
Manhattan, and is 35 stories high, with it’s five upper floors being the home of the Fantastic
Four.
His skeleton appears in Wolverine Vol 3 issue 69, part four of the Old Man Logan arc.
7 Earth 90251 This Loki is first seen in What If?
Secret Wars vol 1 issue 1.
This what if ponders what if Doctor Doom hadn’t failed in his attempt to during Secret War
and had managed to keep his newfound godhood.
What’s Loki’s deal in this?
The character takes on Doctor Doom alongside all of the other Asgardians, but is ultimately
defeated.
This issue is a neat take on the What If titles, mimicking DC’s iconic Watchmen with it’s
narrative style, specifically borrowing from Doctor Manhattan’s origin story that plays
out as the character is on Mars.
Except in this issue, the story of Doctor Doom and his godhood is told on the Moon.
Other homages to Watchmen also appear in the issue, including a television reporter announcing
“Yes.
God exists, and he’s Latverian.”
6 Earth 8107 This version of Loki is the one that appeared
in the television show Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends!
This season 1 episode 10 appearance aired back in 1981, and featured Spider-Man, alongside
Thor and his spider-friends Iceman and Firestar facing off against Loki.
The episode begins with Spidey and his crew, alongside Thor, helping the government out
with saving a sinking ocean liner in the North Pole.
During the rescue mission, they find a frozen viking ship, which contains two neat little
gems called the Twins of the Gods.
Loki gets whiff of this and decides he wants them for himself.
Upon getting them, he banishes Thor and Iceman, and traps Spidey and Firestar inside the gems
themselves.
And from there, as any good villain does, Loki decides to wreak havoc on New York City.
Eventually they all return, fight Loki in New York, and Thor banishes his half-brother
to Asgard for punishment.
Good wholesome fun!
Speaking of Loki adaptations though-
5 MCU Loki Everyone ADORES the MCU Loki.
Do I really need to elaborate further?
Tom Hiddleston’s Loki has proven to be one of the most dynamic villains in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe to date.
He was the first major villain as fas as the Avengers were concerned, bringing the original
6 together in one of the biggest franchise pay offs to date.
Then, he turned good, but went back to bad, and returned to good once more, being one
of the most enjoyable parts of Thor’s third solo title movie, Ragnarok.
The MCU Loki is equal parts baddie as he is entertaining, witty and one hell of a good
time to watch.
4 Earth 6109 This Loki first appears in Marvel Ultimate
Alliance, which is also, funny enough, his last appearance on this Earth, too.
He forms a group of super villains alongside Ultron, Doctor Doom, Enchantress and Baron
Mordo called the Masters of Evil. Real creative.
They rob SHIELD, taking the super soldier serum and mutant amplifier in order to create
an army of super soldiers.
Loki decides he wants to use this army, along with some Frost giants, to conquer Asgard,
capture a bunch of Asgardians and imprison them, and make himself King.
Meanwhile, Doctor Doom decides he wants to steal the Odin force and become a god; something
that doesn’t bode well with Loki, and after the trickster god is defeated by a team of
superheroes, he ends up facing off against Doom.
The general public believes him to be dead, but really, he’s being punished alongside
Doctor Doom by Odin for his treachery.
3 Ultimates Loki (Earth 1610) In the Ultimate universe, Loki is the son
of Odin and a female giant who had procreated in an attempt to have peace between Asgard
and Jotunheim.
When he grew up, he would participate in the war against the Frost Giants alongside his
half brothers Thor and Balder, forming the Warriors Three.
After the war, he would defeat Thor in a tournament, trying to make his brother understand how
‘everything had changed’ concerning him knowing his lineage.
Loki would then go visit his mother whom Odin had now imprisoned, and she sent him out on
a quest to bring her the Norn Stones, which were sacred relics that acted as an extension
of Odin’s power.
Upon stealing them, he killed Balder, and was thus banished from Asgard.
Flash forward to 1939, this Loki was on earth, and acted under the villain alias Baron Zemo,
working with the Nazis.
He used his power to wage war on Asgard, killed Heimdall but was eventually be stopped by
Odin and banished to the room without doors.
He would later conspire to destroy the Ultimates and start World War Three, all while operating
under a different persona called Gunnar Golmen.
2 Lady Sif Loki in the comics is known for his fluid
sexuality, and gender fluidity.
Taking over the physical persona of Lady Sif, Loki became a woman, a powerful goddess who
was cunning AF.
Rather than transforming into Sif, he took over her body; something that added insult
to injury to his brother Thor, considering she’s his ex.
Meaning yes, he was inside a body that his brother was also inside, but in a very different
way.
This happened in the comics after a Ragnarok, with Loki returning in the body of Sif, and
fooled the other Asgardians into believing that she was trustworthy.
Meanwhile, Loki’s plan was to travel back in time to kill Odin’s father Bor, amongst
other manipulative acts.
A fan favourite, Loki’s time as Sif is definitely one of his most sinister, and a time in which
the character has been at his trickster prime.
1 Kid Loki Many a fan out there adore Kid Loki.
On Earth 616, after Loki’s actions led to the destruction of Asgard and he later died
fighting alongside the Avengers to make up for it.
But he also had his named removed from Hela’s Book of Her, meaning he couldn’t die, and
thus, he was reborn.
Enter Kid Loki, an innocent young boy who Thor manages to find in Paris, who has no
recollection of what the original Loki did, except horrible nightmares.
Thor restores part of his memory and brings him back to Asgard, where he suffers an onslaught
of bullying, since people remember him for the atrocities and crimes he committed.
But the trickster god ends up fighting for good.
For a while.
Turns out he develops a new hatred for Thor, and the cycle begins again.
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