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| “ | Are you a traitor? | „ |
| ~ Loki realizes that Buddha is secretly helping Humanity with the Völundr. |
| “ | That was a real shock... I mean... to think you could say something so cold... Even though... I've always... always... been so utterly... in love with you... | „ |
| ~ Loki, combing a doll resembling Brunhilde, admits that he loves Brunhilde very much. |
Loki is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Beelzebub) of the manga/anime series Record of Ragnarok.
Loki is the God of Mischief belonging to the Norse Pantheon, as well as a God madly in love with Brunhilde and willing to do anything to save her life while at the same time wanting the extermination of Humanity, though his desire to have Brunhilde all to himself led Loki to frame Siegfried for the murder of the Fire Dragon Fafnir, setting off all the events that led to the Ragnarok Tournament. He is also the Gods' representative of the Gods Fighters during the Eleventh Round, where he faces Simo Häyhä as the Humans' representative of the Einherjar.
He is voiced by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, who has also voiced N in Pokémon Evolutions, Äs Nödt in Bleach, Freed Sellzen in High School DxD, Ren Amaki in The Rising of the Shield Hero, Wang in Darwin's Game, Emile in Dragalia Lost, Majima in Lycoris Recoil and Yukiya Naruse in Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, in the Japanese dubbed version of the anime adaptation. He is voiced by Ryan Colt Levy in the English dub.
Appearance[]
Loki has the appearance of a muscular young man. He wears a long-sleeved cape, fingerless gloves and a set of ear piercings on each of his ears. He has green hair that hangs down to his neck and a mane to the left of his face. Loki's pupils are oblique like a goat's and if he wants he can transform into other Gods.
When he was younger, Loki had a clothing and hairstyle that was very reminiscent of a gangster, as he wore a sleeveless jacket and was bare-chested.
Personality[]
Loki is a playful, sadistic, aloof and sometimes insane individual who craves carnage, finding it highly entertaining. He initially viewed Ragnarok as a joke, and for the first three Rounds he just sat back and watched the show unfold. However, after Poseidon was killed by Kojiro Sasaki in the Third Round, Loki began to worry that mere Humans actually had the potential to kill Gods. Because of this, Loki has started taking the event much more seriously. Despite his typical arrogance, Loki knows how to be cautious in battle if he finds himself facing an opponent capable of holding his own.
He is quite confident in his own power, as he did not hesitate to attack Buddha, a very powerful God, and was able to intimidate other Gods such as the Seven Lucky Gods with extreme ease. Loki also likes to provoke his opponents and recall their past traumas, even pushing them to fight in places where they have previously experienced something. In battle, Loki is calculating and enjoys psychologically torturing his opponent, but if he finds himself in difficulty he panics and tries to use his intellect to devise a winning strategy. Loki almost always floats in mid-air, and when he doesn't, he crouches in a chair or sits on the floor. He takes great pride in being a God and shows tremendous euphoria when he sees other Gods fight, then becomes enraged whenever they lose to Humans. He seems to hate Demigods.
Loki does not advocate the survival of Mankind and intends to exterminate them, nevertheless he has shown interest in Adam's fight, deceit and manipulation of Jack the Ripper towards Heracles and has shown excited by Kojiro Sasaki's strength, though changing his mind after seeing him beat Poseidon. Loki is madly in love with Brunhilde, to the point of having built a doll in her image and likeness, treating her as if she were the real Brunhilde, wanting to negotiate with Odin the Valkyrie's salvation if the Gods win the Ragnarok Tournament and decide to agree to her request to fight in the Eleventh Round despite knowing that Brunhilde wants to kill him.
Loki's obsession with Brunhilde, however, stems from the fact that the Valkyrie was the first to smile at him when everyone avoided him because of his reputation, and from that moment on Loki did everything he could to keep that smile alive. However, when he discovered that Brunhilde was engaged, Loki's selfish side took over and he wanted Brunhilde all for himself, which pushed him to frame Siegfried for the murder of the Fire Dragon Fafnir, irremediably triggering all the events that led to the Ragnarok Tournament. Shortly before being killed by Simo Häyhä, Loki mentally admits that he loves Brunhilde.
Biography[]
Loki is the God of Mischief belonging to the Norse Pantheon and a direct descendant of the Jötnar. Over time, Loki has faced many fighters, even much stronger than him, but in the end Loki has always been the one to win for unknown reasons. As a young man, Loki was shunned by everyone because he was considered dangerous and capable of destroying anyone who offended him. However, one day Loki meets the Valkyries and, after a small accident with a watermelon, Brunhilde ends up laughing at his funny face, which pushes Loki to be fascinated by her smile, to the point of falling in love with her.
From that moment on, Loki becomes more cheerful and starts playing pranks on everyone, such as drawing a face on Forseti, shaving Ares' head on the side, and stealing Thor's hammer Mjölnir, all in front of Brunhilde so he can see her smile at him. Loki take part in the Gods' Council of the 2000 B.C., where the survival of Humanity is decided but still to inflict punishment. Loki and Aphrodite proposes to destroy Thebes, but are anticipated first by Shiva and then by Ares.
However, some time later, Loki discovers that Brunhilde is engaged to Siegfried and the two are about to get married, which leads Loki to decide to sabotage the wedding, killing the Fire Dragon Fafnir while in Siegfried's guise using the stolen Gram sword in order to frame him. Afterwards, Loki reports Siegfried to Odin convinced that he will kill him for that crime, but after summoning Siegfried and Brunhilde to his hall Odin discovers that the Demigod is the Primordial Vessel he has been searching for, which pushes him to imprison him in Tartarus. Loki is surprised by this, but is satisfied since Siegfried is out of the game and he has Brunhilde for himself, however the Valkyrie from that moment stops smiling and no longer laughs at Loki's jokes.
Millennia later, Loki attends the Gods' Council of the XXI Century where it is decided that Humanity will be exterminated, however Brunhilde's intervention leads the Gods to be convinced to organize the Ragnarok Tournament to give Humanity a chance of survival. This leaves Loki perplexed and he secretly follows Brunhilde, seeing her harassed by Incubus then killed by Thor before Loki could kill him in turn. Loki is chosen by Zeus as one of the Gods Fighters to represent the Gods during the competition.
Subsequently he joins Odin during the Second Round and attends the Tournament with him, explaining to Huginn & Muninn that it is only a matter of time before one of Adam and Zeus give way, which they eventually do and Zeus wins the fight. After Poseidon's defeat in the Third Round, Loki expresses doubts about having Heracles fight in the Fourth Round, thinking it will favor the Humans in as a Demigod, but Heracles specifies that while not wanting to exterminate Humanity he would have given everything to fight for the Gods. Loki attends the Fourth Round together with the Greek Gods and, at the end of the battle with the victory of Jack the Ripper, Loki is surprised that the Human has managed to deceive him too.
During the Fifth Round, Loki asks for a meeting with Buddha and here he explains to him that the Völundr, the technique with which Humans unite with the Valkyries and manage to defeat and kill the Gods, is a concept that comes from his pantheon, and threatens him of death if he were a traitor. To help Loki come the Seven Lucky Gods, while to help Buddha come Kojiro Sasaki, Soji Okita and Isami Kondo, but in the end Odin and Zeus intervene and stall the battle, prompting Loki and the others to retreat.
During the Sixth Round then Buddha takes sides to fight for Humanity, infuriating Loki, who still remains to watch the other fights of the Ragnarok Tournament. At the end of the Ninth Round Loki participates in a meeting between all the remaining Gods Fighters in which it is decided to quickly obtain the last two victories that the Gods need to win the Ragnarok Tournament. Anubis offers to fight in the Tenth Round, but is overtaken by Susano'o no Mikoto who decides to fight in the Tenth Round.
Shortly before the start of the Tenth Round, Loki reaches Brunhilde posing as Odin and, after having unmasked himself and certain of the Gods' victory in the Ragnarok Tournament, offers to negotiate her safety with Odin, who intends to kill her once the competition is over, revealing also to know of her connection with Siegfried. Brunhilde, however, refuses and Loki returns to his room, where he embraces the doll created in Brunhilde's image and confesses that he loves her.
At the end of the Tenth Round, won by Soji Okita who brings the score back to a tie at 5-5, Loki meets with Brunhilde, who asks him to fight in the Eleventh Round on behalf of the Gods, so that she can make him fight against a Human capable of killing him. Loki, despite understanding that Brunhilde is doing all this for Siegfried and that she really wants to kill him, accepts her request and becomes the representative of the Gods in the Eleventh Round without consulting anyone, despite still wanting to win his match. His opponent representing the Humans is Simo Häyhä, and Loki decides to face him in a replica of the Finnish forest, Simo's home, to remind him of the traumas of the war he had to face. However, in the end, despite the strategies put into play to defeat his opponent, Loki is defeated and killed by Simo Häyhä with a bullet to the head, and before dying he mentally admits that he loves Brunhilde.
Powers and Abilities[]
Divine Physiology: As a God, Loki possesses physical abilities far beyond those of any ordinary Human and his body cannot be harmed by deadly weapons. However, he can be injured and killed by physical attacks with superhuman strength or by Divine Weapons. Also, as a God, Loki has an unlimited lifespan and will not die of old age. Loki is strong enough to have managed to destroy his room simply by touching the ground, but he has such control over his strength that he managed to spare the doll representing Brunhilde. Before his defeat at the hands of Simo Häyhä, Loki had always been capable to win fights even when facing opponents much stronger than him.
Keen Intellect and Levitation: Loki is a very intelligent individual, as he was the first to notice that the Völundr, the technique by which Humans and Valkyries unite to defeat the Gods, came from the Buddhist Pantheon, and he was also the first to understand who Jack the Ripper's Völundr was. Furthermore, during his match against Simo Häyhä, Loki was able to analyze his opponent's fighting style in a short time and quickly devise a strategy to beat him, even tricking him at the beginning with a copy of himself. Jack the Ripper himself, a skilled strategist, admitted that he would fall for Loki's traps, and the only one capable of not falling for Loki's traps is Simo Häyhä, because knowing the pain of taking a life, he knows how to distinguish copies from originals. Loki's main form of movement is floating in mid-air: only on rare occasions does Loki walk.
Matter Manipulation: Loki has shown the ability to shape matter to his liking, as he changed the appearance of two bottles of wine into the face of Adam and Zeus and built a doll using various pieces to make it look like Brunhilde. Loki is able to do this thanks to his ability called Heimskringla, which allows him to replicate anything he touches with his hands, be it an object, such as roses and gates, a Human or a God. In fact, he was able to create copies of Odin, Thor and Heracles after touching them just once. The maximum number of copies he can create is five, however by wearing his Divine Weapon, a silver ring called Andvaranaut, he is able to create an entire army of copies. The strength of the aforementioned copies created is determined by Loki, who can make them all equallstrong or distribute the strength evenly, leaving one much stronger than the others, and with whom he can share thoughts and sight. Loki is also able to create a clone of himself to which he can give his own strength.
Proficiency with Hooks, Portal Creation and Shapeshifter: Loki has excellent skill in wielding his double-chained Divine Hooks. He also has shown the ability to create portals at will to transport himself from one location to another without taking up the space in between. Loki used this ability to summon his chains, creating a small portal in the palm of each of his hands. Loki is also able to create portals in place of his clones to replace them. As the God of Mischief, Loki can change his shape and appearance at will to deceive other people or even animals, though usually for his own amusement and pranks. His shapeshifting ability is so immense that he can fool Huginn & Muninn when he takes the form of Thor.
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Trivia[]
- The Loki of Norse Mythology is often confused with Logi, fire personified, and is even fused with him into a new character named Loge in Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung.
External Links[]
- Loki on the Shuumatsu no Valkyrie Wiki
