Lady Loki Comic Origins Explained | Loki

now before we begin today's video i am very aware that a number of people believe that the character shown in this episode is actually marvel's the enchantress if that is the case and it very well may be considering she is literally shown enchanting people i will make a video on the comic book origins of enchantress however in order to avoid a mafesto-like situation i am going to assume that the character that we see in the show is a female variant of loki until i am told otherwise thanks and enjoy the video loki revealed to many viewers this week the existence of multiple variants of himself within the mcu shown briefly the tva has tangled with many many versions of the god of mischief however by the end of the episode the most superior version of loki is finally revealed and for lack of a better term we're gonna call her female loki today's video is going to outline the comic book origins of loki as a female but before we begin one awesome tool that we've been using to collect and 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with his death thor had become the all-father albeit unable to control the odin force after seeking the mold that created mjolnir loki was able to make a number of similarly powered hammers and weapons for various other villains fenris the wolf and elect the rock troll are chief among loki's forces loki used the ship nagelfar to travel to asgard and overpower both thor and the forces of asgard including the warriors iii and sif many asgardians died in the first attack including the enchantress and sif loses an arm thor was left at the end of this first conflict with a broken hammer and he's blasted into the sea using some of what little power remained in mjolnir he was able to travel to midgard and called out to the avengers thor was able to travel back to asgard with captain america and iron man who helped him repel another attack by fenris and ulic but after the battle thor sent them home wishing to continue the fight without them and he urged them to prepare for his loss and the invasion by loki thor learns of other asgardians dying such as his brother balder curse and frigga his mother thor wages battle against loki's forces across the nine realms and slowly amasses an army of warriors capable of fighting back they continue the war in vanaheim and again fenris and durock the demolisher attack until they are assisted by beta ray bill after beta ray bill helps turn the tide of the battle thor decides to take an exodus to gain wisdom and hopefully understand ragnarok and what he must do to save his people thor leaves beta ray bill in charge and in kind travels to halfstad the seat of knowing where odin would often come to think and observe the nine realms there he is confronted by a manifestation of the odin force thor realizes that the reason he is unable to use the odin force is because he's not gone through a journey of self-realization the power cannot be controlled by somebody who has not undergone a journey of knowing and sacrifice thor goes to the well of amir a place where his father once plucked out his eye and tossed it into the well in exchange for waters to reveal the wisdom within him thor attempts the same by plucking his eye out but finds it doesn't work thor realizes his sacrifice must be greater so he plucks out his other eye now sightless the well waters fill up and reveal to thor the wisdom of the past thor sees that ragnarok is not a one-time event but a cycle that completes over and over again dooming his people each time if he is to stop it he needs the power of rune magic the most powerful form of magic in asgard able to only be used by the one who wields the odin force odin had once hung himself from the branches of the world's tree and that sacrifice from himself to himself is what gave odin the rune magic thor attempts the same but must go even farther thor hangs himself from the branches of the world tree for an unspecified amount of time but the process does work thor is able to see past present and future he's also able to see the molecular structure of both animals and minerals quantum structure and cosmic energy essentially he kind of becomes all-knowing however seeing all of this at once terrifies thor as he learns the true purpose of what he must do he rejects this and he's sent to hell and hella whom he's only able to escape by using runic magic to call on odin's spirit odin transports him to a shadowy chamber and he awakens in the presence of those who sit above in shadow old guards of asgard celestial beings who feed off of the energies created by the cyclical nature of ragnarok thor argues with the incredibly powerful beings but ultimately accepts the odin force and leaves their realm back to halfstad now insanely overpowered thor smashes through loki's forces and faces loki once more however this time he's able to easily defeat loki and separate his head from his body thor reveals that all that is left for him to do is to complete ragnarok himself by his own hand thor allows certain to invade and destroy asgard and those that live there ragnarok completes and thor travels to the world tree and the fates who control the loom that weaves all of history past present and future thor destroys the loom and with it the possibility for the celestial beings known as those who sit above in shadow to feed ending the cycle once and for all destroying the loom also destroys the world tree and the lives of everyone in the nine realms who's not on midgard or earth the only thing that remains of asgard is thor's consciousness as part of the odin force now i know we haven't discussed loki a lot here but we are building to that and it's very important to understand everything that came before it so that you can understand how loki's reborn when the next series begins thor is adrift in nothingness he converses with a being resembling his former alter ego dr donald blake within this nothingness and he's informed that if he does not return to the living then midgar is in grave danger thor is able to self-resurrect using his newfound power now returned to the living he chooses to once again go by the name dr donald blake thor travels to oklahoma and using his newfound powers is able to recreate a portion of asgard on earth thor then begins the process of searching for asgardians who may have survived ragbrock but who may be trapped in the hearts and consciousnesses of human hosts during a brief encounter in new orleans with iron man thor is able to summon and draw out heimdall who is living in the body of a homeless man named ezra thor next travels to africa as dr donald blake to assist in a medical crisis and meets three soldiers of fortune ralph mueller leo kinkade and trevor newelly after a brief battle with a local militia thor identifies and is able to free the warriors three living within the soldiers he's met back in asgard heimdall informs thor that he's able to normally sense asgardian's presences but they are vanishing now and in their place is a growing darkness located in a desert between nevada and new mexico thor travels to the site and finds an old bunker with dozens of people trapped below including a woman in a wedding dress claiming to know thor however before thor can free these people he comes face to face with the destroyer thor is able to determine that the destroyer's goal is to make sure that no new asgardians are reborn thor attempts to use mjolnir to free multiple asgardians trying to bring in reinforcements but it's revealed that balder the brave was actually occupying the destroyer armor having stopped the destroyer by freeing balder thor returns to the bunker expecting to find a bunch of new ass guardians but they've all fled the only one that remained was the woman who claimed to know thor whom thor himself believed was sif his lover it is revealed however that the woman is actually loki who did not come back in a form similar to the one that he had died in due to not being an asgardian at all loki explains that her purpose before was to bring about ragnarok but now that the cycle has ended at thor's hand they have the opportunity for a fresh start loki asks for a chance to prove her trustworthiness she claims that her rebirth has removed any plans and schemes she's had and she only wishes to live and be happy and thor agrees and allows her to live now for a period of time loki does appear to be trustworthy in the comics but she never stops her scheming she is constantly in a state of working with other villains like dr doom and norman osborne loki does continue to conspire and it is later revealed that the reason that loki is inhabiting a female body is because the original intended host for this body was sif however the host body was sick and dying and when sif called out to the host it was unable to hear her calls when thor attempted to mass create asgardians sif's host body was made but loki's soul was placed inside of it rather than sif loki is eventually able to free himself of the body he's inhabiting and he returns to his male form and that is about it for the comic book origins of loki as a female and i know that this video had a lot more to do with thor and the events of ragnarok more so than loki actually being a female but it was very important for you guys to understand that stuff so that you can understand where she came from thank you guys for watching this video this has been nick from key issues remember to like and subscribe and feel free to check out our link for key collector comics down in the description below thanks again for watching and remember the motto loki over everything [Music] [Music]

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Id: T3B2xpVES7A

Length: 11min 15sec (675 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 16 2021