Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Is Marvel's Loki Accurate?" video.

  1. ​@Grace Carpinter I thought the Rings Of Power version was "Evil Galadriel"? 🙂
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  2. Yeah: that's what I thought! Marvel are good on Loki but bad on Hel!
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  3. Arguably Marvel's Loki redressed the balance, of a thousand years of Christian anti-Trickster god propaganda, by making their Loki actually LIKEABLE. 🙂
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  4. ​@Guillermo Which is why Snorri's uncle or someone like that was named for Loki's other name, Lopt. 🙄
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  5. ​ @cosmicdoggo9296  🙄
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  6. ​ @ivydraws3245  😄😄
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  7. It is indeed!! And Loki is Eminem... 🙂🙂😄👍
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  8. ​ @peterwelsh1932  Never heard of Kool Keith. Album recommendation??
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  9. There are some much older "Loki" place names. Read Playing With Fire by Dagulf Loptson for details.
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  10. Short(ish) answer: No but.. It's remarkable, how true Marvel get to the spirit of the myths: one might even say closer to the original pagan spirit. Whereas (re)writers like Neil Gaiman for example, seem too obsessed with the Christian teachings of the society they were brought up in; with modern "atheist" musings, and with a basic discomfort with (neo) Paganism and Heathenry in general, to get much beyond bland moralism, and "isn't Loki evil". 🙄 (Personally I think that the late Terry Pratchett might have done a lot better, writing a Norse Mythology book, but he never did.) Marvel: with their generally sympathetic attitude towards, and treatment of, villains and anti-heroes, seem to have done a much better job with Loki, from the start. Certainly in the last 20 years! Read Rob Rodi's "Loki" graphic novel. Not at all a laugh a minute; but both epic, and a psychological study of Loki. 🙂 (And it quite deliberately makes reference to something Thor actually THREATENS to do to Loki, in the old eddaic poem Lokasenna.. Well: here I believe he actually gets to do it. 😏) But things really started to move positively for Marvel's Loki, when they started the Kid Loki series, in 2012. THAT was I believe the start of Loki's trajectory, from antihero, to beloved antihero, to hero! 🙂👍 No, Marvel's versions of the gods aren't so Eddaically "accurate". But I believe they certainly are in many ways more accurate to the spirit of the gods: both in their original pre-Christian versions, and to the way in which modern worshippers feel (who, unless they are "folkish" as f***, are inevitably going to be influenced by modern humanistic and progressive ideas. Which Marvel also reflect.) So. That's why I as a Neopagan and a Lokean, am always going to defend the modern Marvel versions. Even if they are a bit "silly", like the recent movie Thor: Love And Thunder" was. Yes: it was a great romp (& I preferred the "criticism of all gods" contained therein to many a pompous atheist polemic); but also, I think, a hidden gem: with some sly satirical messages. 😏 For Heathens, too: but definitely not anti-Heathen. I shall have to write an essay on it.. 🙂
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  11. Funny: he does in the audio book of Joanne Harris' The Gospel Of Loki, as well! 🙂
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  12. ​@vynat draco Of course!! 🙂🙂 (Probably an excellent mimic, too!!)
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  13. Yes! 😏👍
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  14. Definitely not an Eddaic or an original Norse story! And the kind of trickster you seem to want is the satanic kind. 😏
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  15. (Don't think much of your "non-Marvel" thumbnail portrait of him, though! 😏)
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