Loki - god of knives and lord of snakes? No, he is much more powerful and capable than shown to us in the film. Mythology will open its doors to us to show the true essence of the god of lies, cunning and mischief.
The god of lies, cunning and deceit Lodur or more familiar to us Loki in mythology
German-Scandinavian mythology gave us a lot of myths and legends, where incredible characters with a truly interesting story are hidden. One of these characters is Loki; his name sounds differently Lodur - the son of Jotun Farbauti and Lauveyi, who is mentioned in two keys - as an Asgardian and as a giant, that is, as if mythology does not know who she was. Loki is the god of cunning and deception, who, although he came from Yotun - the world of ice giants - but still remained in Asgard - the abode of the gods, thanks to his cunning and intelligence.
In the mythology, Loki is definitely not the son of Odin, but his brother, whom Odin, for a minute, put in the same place with himself. So to say that Loki is some kind of frail god who knows nothing but jokes and intrigues is nonsense.
Loki has several children. His first children from the giantess Angrboda are the terrible wolf Fernir, the giant serpent Jormungand and the goddess of the kingdom of the dead - Helheim - Hel.
Hel - but in the film everyone calls her Hela, and she's definitely not his daughter. Hel is the goddess of the realm of the dead of Helheim, where she was exiled by Odin. She ruled there for a long time, but at the beginning of Ragnarok she led an army of the dead to storm Asgard.
Fenrir - the god of horror, lived at one time in Asgard, until he became so huge and terrible that only one person could feed him. The Asgardians decided to put him in chains, but he tore each of them. Only then did they create a chain of Gleipnir from the noise of cat footsteps, a woman's beard, mountain roots, fish breath and bird saliva, which was able to hold him back. The Asgardians chained him and stuck a sword between his mouth. During the time of Ragnarok - the death of the gods - he was freed, but was killed. But in the film, everything is much different, but we will consider this a little below.
Hel - but in the film everyone calls her Hela, and she's definitely not his daughter. Hel is the goddess of the realm of the dead of Helheim, where she was exiled by Odin. She ruled there for a long time, but at the beginning of Ragnarok she led an army of the dead to storm Asgard.
Loki's third child is the giant serpent Jormungand. We know him as a sea or Midgard serpent, which Odin threw to the bottom of the World Ocean, and Jormungand girded all the land around and grabbed his tail with his teeth. He will be killed by Thor during Ragnarok, but, unfortunately, Jormungadn will take him away, poisoning him with his own poison.
His next wife is Sigyn, the goddess of Asgard. She was a faithful wife to him and gave birth to two children - Narvi and Vali. But Vali is turned into a wolf, which tears apart his brother Narvi and with his guts the gods of Asgard tie Loki to a rock, where the goddess Skadi hung a snake over Loki, dripping poison on his face. Sigyn, like a loving and faithful wife, holds the cup over his face, preventing the poison from falling on him, but when she needs to empty the vessel, the poison that falls on Loki makes him suffer from fierce pain and, according to it, this is what causes earthquakes in Midgard. All this happens due to the fact that at the feast at the giant Aegir Loki confesses that he is guilty of the death of Baldar - the god of spring and light. And it is for this that the angry Asgardians punish the trickster.
He also helped the Asgardians avoid being paid for building the walls of Asgard. The Builder Giant demands the goddess Freya as payment, the Gods agree. But when the hour of payment draws near, they force Loki to come up with a plan so as not to pay the bills. So Loki turns into a mare and seduces the builder's faithful assistant - the horse Svadilfari. From which he later carried the eight-legged stallion Sleipnir.
The story of Loki from mythology is not what people are used to seeing and reading, and it itself is a little rough and in places unpleasant, probably. However, it is important to know so as not to lose face in front of those who understand this.
Loki Lafeison in modern cinema
In the films, everything looks more gentle, and almost everyone knows the story of Thor's stepbrother, Loki.
By the way, to the question: “How old is Loki?” We can say that about 1200, plus or minus a couple of centuries. Since we know that Torah is 1500, but we also know that Loki is younger than Thor, therefore similar numbers emerge from here.
Marvel's Loki is the son of the ice giant Lafei, whom he abandoned after the battle with the Asami. One, who found Loki, took him for himself and raised him as his own son, but he tried to push something from the accounts of the heir to the throne, or vice versa.
All childhood, and later life, Loki spent lost in jealousy of his own brother, whom his father, with Loki's thoughts, loved and respected more. That is why he disrupts Thor's coronation, helping the ice giants sneak into Asgard and the vault to retrieve the Casket of Eternal Winters. In the first films, Thor was a little stupid and stubborn and therefore visited Jotunheim in a completely bad way. There, during the battle with the giants, Loki sees that his skin reacted differently to the giant's touch - this was the beginning of his doubts about the origin. Odin saves them from the lands of Jotunheim, who then sends Thor and his hammer into exile after them. After Loki learns that he is not the son of Odin, but the rightful king of Yotunheim.
During almost all films, Loki acts according to the scheme: "to get into trust - to betray" and so on on repeat. However, in the movie "Thor: Ragnarok" Thor is no longer deceived and he knows in advance about all the tricks of his stepbrother. Unfortunately, in the last movie "Avengers: Infinity War" we see how Loki dies - for the umpteenth time - but all the fans - me among them - are sure that Loki will return and it is not so easy to kill the mad Titan of the god of deception and cunning.
For this role, a wonderful, in my opinion, immodest opinion, actor was selected - Tom Hiddleston. He fits perfectly into the role of the cunning and clever god of deception. And it seems to me that his appearance is more canonical than in the description of mythology. Frankly speaking, I never imagined Loki as red-haired, as he is shown to us in mythology, but with black hair it is quite such a Loki.