Loki

LOKI

First Modern appearance: Journey into Mystery [Thor] V1 #85 (Oct 1962).

First Avengers appearance: Avengers V1 #1 (Sept 1963)

Other appearances of note: Avengers V1 #115-118 and Defenders V1 #8-11, Avengers # 311-313 (Dec 1989-Jan 1990) / Avengers West Coast # 53-55 (Dec 1989-Feb 1990), Siege (2010)

A being from the other dimensional world of Asgard, Loki is the foster son of Odin the ruler of Asgard and half-brother to Odin’s true son Thor. Known as the god of mischief, lies and evil, Loki's powers include sorcery and control of great magical forces. He has been a recurring antagonist of Thor in the thunder god’s own titles and it was Loki’s efforts to use the Hulk in his plans to destroy Thor that led to the formation of The Avengers.

Loki harbours great animosity for his half-brother’s comrades and has menaced The Avengers on several occasions. Loki allied himself with Dormammu in an adventure referred to as “The Avengers / Defenders War”. Later in “Acts of Vengeance” Loki orchestrated a series of attacks by a collection of super-villains before confronting the combined forces of the Avengers and the Avengers West Coast himself. Loki was also the architect behind the Domination Factor mini-series’ involving both The Avengers and the Fantastic Four. Universal boundaries are no barriers the Loki’s wrath.  When Loki obtained the six Infinity Gems he and the Grandmaster played the Avengers against Ultraforce in a crossover with the Malibu Ultraverse. In volume 2 Loki was the behind the scenes protagonist while they were trapped in the Heroes Reborn pocket-verse and in the M2 alternative-future universe series Loki was behind “Last Hero Standing” involving the Avengers. 

Most recently Loki has plagued The Avengers in the industry wide cross-over arcs Dark Reign and Siege.