#loki: agent of asgard

[thenightling]

Why is Loki Called Skywalker? Answer: No, it is NOT a Star Wars reference! You have it backward!

Answer for Why is Loki called "Skywalker" in The Sandman: Season of Mists?

I've seen this questioned a lot lately.

"Why is Loki called Skywalker?" "Is it because he's dressed like a cross between Hon Solo and Luke? Lol! Love it!"

Eh... No. (though I admit he does look like that in that artwork, doesn't he?)

Loki actually had the title before Luke. George Lucas was the one making a reference to Loki, not Loki making reference to George Lucas.

Darth Vader was from the Dutch to mean Dark Father. And Anikin meant a type of giant. Get it? Giant Dark Father. Father of Loki... I mean Luke. It was George Lucas who made the reference. Loki had the name first.

It's a bit like when younger people get weirded out to find out "Canon" originally was used to mean "What is considered true within the Catholic religion." The Catholic church used it first before the word Canon was applied to "Is it true within this work of fiction." In fact canonization is the term used to mean officially acknowledging someone is a saint.

Now... To answer the question of why is Loki called Skywalker?

Well, he is the trickster God.

Skywalker (sometimes translated as Sky-treader) means Loki could travel fast and easily between realms. (Yes, without need of the Bifrost.)

One explanation for this power was given later with the concept of the Seven-League Boots.

A popular trope in European folktales are a magical pair of boots known as The Seven-league boots (roughly twenty one miles as a league is three miles). The boots could let you travel twenty one miles with a single step and could allow the wearer to walk on anything including shadows, mist, and moonbeams.

You could pass from one world to another such as the realm of Faerie with a mere thought.

One of my favorite mentions of the Seven-League boots is in Goethe's Faust Part 1.

In Marvel's Loki: Agent of Asgard, Loki has the Seven-league boots and this is cleverly tied to the Faust depiction of them becuase Loki stole them from Mephisto (who is also the demon from Faust, besides being an antagonist in Marvel comics).

Some more contemporary variations of the Loki myths suggest he's always had seven-league boots, which accounted for his unique ability to travel easier than the other Norse Gods.

#Loki #Luke SKywalker #Loki Skywalker #Loki Laufeyson #Norse Mythology #Asatru #Norse Myths #Neil Gaiman #Heathen #Heatenry #George Lucas #Star Wars #The Sandman #Sandman #Marvel #Loki: Agent of Asgard #DC Comics #DC

[towritecomicsonherarms]

Loki: Agent of Asgard #11

#Loki: Agent of Asgard #loki #odin #comics #marvel

[mischief-lies-and-stories]

Oh My God What Theory # Is This, I Don't Care

Spoilers for Loki and Loki: Agent of Asgard okay let's crack into it because it's late when I'm writing this and my brain is breaking.

Theory: Loki the series has been an adaptation of Loki: Agent of Asgard this whole time.

I've been complaining about this since season one, namely because Ewing does an amazing job with genderfluid Loki, and the Loki writers, well, you know. But actually story-wise, I think they actually did do their research. Let's break this down.

In the book, Loki takes on a job with the All-Mother to work for Asgard to do missions in exchange for expunging past sins.

In the show, to prevent himself from getting pruned, he takes on a job to work for the TVA to help with their missions.

In the book, he inadvertently hunts down and captures a future version of himself. In the show, he's been hired on specifically to help hunt down and capture an alternate version of himself.

Both selves (unwittingly) serve to provide him with the tools he needs to become a better version of himself and reach his true potential, outside of what the narrative (Asgard/Marvel comics and the TVA/He Who Remans/MCU) says he needs to be.

An unlikely ally (Verity in the comics, Mobius in the show) gives him the compassion and trust that he needs to believe in himself and his capacity for becoming whoever he wants to be.

Loki transitions into the void in the book in flames. In the show, he's pruned.

In the void, he meets his others: Kid Loki and Old Loki (not the future Old Loki, but the Loki he was) and a magpie. In the show, he also meets his others in the void: Kid Loki and Classic Loki (both of whom are similar in name and/or appearance to their counterparts in the comic scene), among others (not a magpie but a crocodile).

The show differs here, taking Loki out of the void but not yet concluding his arc of ego death. Because Loki in the show is still learning to believe in himself, to identify what he cares about, to become a hero and what that means. He's still too wrapped up in Sylvie--in himself--and also in being incapable of separating the fact that she is his variant but that she is also her own person with her own opinions and feelings and needs that differ from his. She wants to be free of the TVA's influence, but she also doesn't really want anything to do with him. Loki is still, at this point, at the equivalent in his personal growth to Kid Loki in Journey into Mystery, with the magpie version of himself, Ikol, as his companion (Kid Loki doesn't always listen to his advice, but he chooses to keep him around for guidance and company anyway). MCU Loki is fascinated by Sylvie, to put it kindly, and wants to keep her close to him as he figures out what she means to him and for his personal development. So ego death does not end when he leaves the void in the show, as it does in the comic.

Because in ego death, this happens:

Loki is focusing on his reasons to grow and change, rather than remain in the void or possibly actually die, or even say fuck it all, and become the person Old Loki (pretends he) wants him to become. His brother, his friend (Verity), and his capacity for change, his determination for change.

This feels very much like his conversation with Sylvie in episode five, and his ultimate realization at the end of the episode. "I want my friends back. I don't want to be alone." And even what he tells Don/Mobius about their relationship: "You saw something in me that I couldn't see in myself." They are his why, his reasons to finally finish the cycle of ego death and become the person he is meant to be, the person so many people have been speculating he's moving towards in this season's arc: The God of Stories.

Which is who they are in the comic when they emerge from the chrysalis of ego death and return to reality (and Verity).

In addition to grappling with his why and discovering it's a who (which I initially thought was himself, but in recalling that panel from AoA when he's in the void, I think it refers to himself AND those he cares about), in addition to finally admitting to himself and out loud that he cares about his friends and is afraid of being alone (WHICH LOKI BASICALLY ALSO SAYS IN THE COMIC)

We come to discover that the original ally, the original first friend, the one who in the source material gives Loki the courage and confidence to undergo ego death at last (the magpie has been heralding this event's approach throughout the comic), has been with him from the very start of his journey in the show as well.

We discover that B-15's true name is VERITY WILLIS.

In the comic, after he returns from ego death, he saves Verity by learning and collecting her STORY. In episode 5, he collects each of his friends and discovers each of their life stories on the timeline. (I worry this similarity to the comics may not yet be concluded in the show, but I'll get to that later.)

So there is something Loki does after ego death in the comics, in addition to being christened God of Stories

This is not the first time she has physically shifted gender in this comic, nor is it the first time she explains that this shape is also her. This does, however, mark a change in how characters in Ewing comics refer to Loki. In Defenders Beyond and The Immortal Thor (and I think Loki: The Liar? But that isn't a Ewing comic), Loki shifts to using they/them pronouns instead of he/him pronouns. This is very very subtle, and we have been badly burned by Marvel lying about canonizing Loki's genderfluidity in the MCU just last season. However,

this moment ultimately serves as a coming-out moment to Verity, since it's the first time she sees Loki presenting as a gender other than a man. So explicitly in the text, it is possible that we will get a similar moment in the finale or the next time we see Loki after the episode (either in a potential season 3 or another movie/series), since so much has to happen in this episode to wrap up the season/series.

The comic concludes with Loki rescuing Verity and their family by collecting their stories and stepping outside of the narrative until the world restarts again. I'm afraid Loki will not be able to save the multiverse before the end of the episode, and the only way forward will be to collect the life stories of his friends in order to save them and walk out of the narrative. Alternatively, this may not happen until a potential season 3. The reason I think this is because in the comic, they save their loved ones from an incursion. At the end of Doctor Strange 2, we watched the beginning of the incursion. We haven't heard anything about it since. The movies in the phase may need to establish this situation before Loki can do anything about it, and he's going to need to figure out how to save his friends and literally walk out of reality. (Please can we get Cloud in the MCU in a couple phases??? That's the natural progression of things, if we ignore everything that happens to Loki's character between AoA and DB, and frankly, we should.)

And finally, as I've been demanding since before season two aired, upon realizing that this show has been AoA Loki's arc all along, merely reimagined to fit the moment in the MCU's arc we are at right now, I am once again asking Marvel

WHERE IS THE COAT GIVE ME THE COAT IF I DON'T SEE THE COAT ON THURSDAY I AM GOING TO RIOT THIS WAS ALL FOR THE COAT GIVE ME THE FUCKING COAT YOU COWARDS

#loki #loki tv show #loki theories #loki season 2 #loki season 2 spoilers #marvel comics #loki comics #loki: agent of asgard spoilers #loki: agent of asgard #verity willis

[treacheroustrickster]

the moon queen n magic theater 

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[avengerscompound]

Loki: Agent of Asgard

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[daffodil--lament]

in agent of asgard when andvari cannot be killed by any weapon he can conceive of but Old Loki exists outside of the bounds of space and time so he pulls out a rocket launcher and blasts the fish to high hell. lives were changed

#SO GOOD #thinking abt that one again #for no particular reason #<- lie but i cant elaborate without sounding insane #daffodil lamenting #loki: agent of asgard

[princelune]

lokilokilokilokilokilokiloki

[ID: two versions of a digital bust-up drawing of kid loki from the marvel comics. he is smiling with his tongue out and winking, furrowing his eyebrows and looking upwards. he is holding his right hand up to his forehead in an "l" shape. there is a green outline around him, and the background is black. the first image has the word "LOKI" is written in white in all caps over his head, lining up with the l of his hand. the second image does not have the word. the artist's signature is near the bottom left corner. end ID]

#queueing for the morning u kno #marvel comics #loki #loki laufeyson #journey into mystery #marvel #kid loki #repetition #princelune art #loki: agent of asgard #young avengers #speaks

[dawn-appears]

Loki... where is the AO3 link?

#Loki: Agent of Asgard #a most terrible slash you say #loki #comics

[webshootersandwingdings]

This is how it feels to watch my husband play games.

Loki: Agent of Asgard, Vol. 1

#marvel comics #comic book art #hawkeye #clint barton #natasha romanoff #natasha romanov #marvel #comics #comic book #comic books #loki: agent of asgard #comic edit

[midostree-art]

Sketch for @ratsona Thank you very much!! ✨

#Commission #sketch commission #Loki #sigurd #loki: agent of asgard #sketch #open commissions

[evilkitten3]

y'know, comic book characters die a lot, but i think the most brutal was when freyja killed odin in agent of asgard

now you might be thinking "hang on that didn't happen" but fortunately i came prepared, with evidence:

#marvel comics #loki: agent of asgard #agent of asgard #now shut up and help me kill our grandson

[merrygejelh]

Well, I’m Back On My Bullshit

+ a Verity

#loki #loki: agent of asgard #agent of asgard #marvel loki #aromantic

[towritecomicsonherarms]

Loki: Agent of Asgard #11

#Loki: Agent of Asgard #loki #comics #marvel

[mischief-lies-and-stories]

7 Questions I have about Loki comics/tv show/MCU

(Because landmark numbers are fake, I'm an elementary teacher so I have to deal with base ten all week so I'm rebelling, and I spent an hour coming up with these seven and it's already 9pm, so I'm not going another hour trying to find three more.)

Spoilers for everything, as usual.

Is the Loki that shows up in the Scarlet Witch issue on Wednesday (September 6) the Loki from the miniseries, the Loki from Al Ewing continuity (currently appearing in The Immortal Thor), or a surprise third Loki?

Is the sword Kid Loki gives main Loki (I've been calling him Loki Prime myself; can I go with that?) in the series before he meets He Who Remains supposed to be Gram from the comics?

Why did Loki say "The sun will shine on us again" if he wasn't about to fake his death again?

Why does Loki's outfit in the trailer during the World's Fair scene look so much like the cover of Where Mischief Lies? (This isn't that serious of a question; I know how easter eggs work, and the book and the scenes are very similar time periods, I'm just going very feral about it and I want a SHARP Society easter egg so bad.)

Why hasn't Verity Willis shown up in any Loki comics (and quite frankly any MCU movie or show) since like half a panel at the very beginning of Defenders Beyond (and I know that just came out last year, but I think only Ewing comics have included her)?

(This might have been clearly shown, but I've watched the show three times and missed it all three times.) How exactly did Loki cut his upper arm in the Void? It might've been during the fight in the TVA right before he was pruned, but I don't think he was injured in that episode.

Why hasn't MCU Loki discovered black nail polish yet?

#loki #loki theories #loki comics #loki tv show #loki season 1 spoilers #al ewing #loki season 2 #loki: agent of asgard spoilers #loki tv show spoilers #loki: agent of asgard #mcu loki #loki questions

[treacheroustrickster]

agent of asgard is so cool... i wish trans ppl were real

#anyway #fox girl loki #loki marvel comics #loki agent of asgard #loki marvel comics fanart #loki: agent of asgard #agent of asgard #agent of asgard fanart #loki aoa #loki aoa fanart #thor comics #marvel comics fanart #loki laufeysdottir

[avengerscompound]

Loki: Agents of Asgard

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