Let's address the elephant in the room. Avengers: Infinity War recently came out. As such, there are going to be some spoilers in here regarding🌃 Loki's fate. If you haven't seen the movie and you intend to read this list, don't be surprised if you get a few "minor" plot points spoiled for you. (They're totally not minor.)

Loki, God of Mischief, was introduced to us in the first Thor movie. He was the younger brother of Thor, God of Thunder. Just looking at his dark-haired and slim build let us know Loki was different from the brawny, golden-haired Thor. He relied on cunning and wit instead of streng𒅌th, and it was nice to have a villain paired with a hero when they both 🌊did not have the exact same powers (I'm looking at you, Iron Man and Iron Monger, Hulk and Abomination).

Before Thanos came tromping along into the lives of our favorite Marvel heroes, Loki held the spot as number one villain of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. No one could even compare to Loki. Not only was Loki charismatic, he was understandable. His motives combined subtle qualities that made him feel realistic, even though he was an Asgardian god, and overblown personality aspects, that made him seem larger than life🔯. It's a contradictory combination, but it makes for a wonderful villain. You sympathize with Loki while you simultaneously regard him as the bad guy. That's not always easy to pull off. However, there are some things about Loki that just don't add up. Read on if you're curious about when and where Loki failed to make sense.

25 🌠 Chances Of Survival: Abysmal

Most movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe tend to resolve the plot by the time the credits roll. A bad guy presents a problem, the hero has to fight him, and then the problem is solved. A huge exception now is Avengers: Infinity War. (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I'm still reeling from that ending.) The first Thor movie had a solid resolution. Loki's plan to become the next ruler of Asgard was foiled, and he chose to toss himself into the abyss. As later﷽ movies in the MCU show, Loki survived𒆙 his fall, and later appeared as a servant to Thanos and the head of the Chitauri. Loki is powerful for an Asgardian, but we all thought he was a goner when he dropped into the utter blackness below the ruins of the Rainbow Bridge.

Yet somehow, he survived, and it's never explained why or how he made it.

Loki's powerful, but he's not that powerful. Maybe Thanos and his cohorts plucked Loki out from the ether, and that's how he survived. But if they did that, how exactly did they manage it? By the time Infinity War rolled around, we figured out that Thanos was pretty powerful himself. But nothing revealed about Thanos proved to us that he could have rescued Loki. I'm glad that Loki survived his fall, but that doesn't change the factꦅ that his survival makes 🀅no sense.

24 💜 A Means🔥 To An End

Loki must have proved himself useful when Thanos found him. Being resourceful, Loki convinced Thanos that he could retrieve the Tesseract for him. S.H.I.E.L.D. had the Tesseract under observation, and they were trying to figure out if they could make weapons from it. (Because that always works out so well.) Unbeknownst to S.H.I.E.L.D., the Tesseract held within it one of the Infinity Stones, the Space Stone. As we all know now, Thanos has a hankering for those Stones. He must have trusted Loki quite a bit to send 𒈔him to get the Stone. Not only that, but he gave Loki a special scepter with which to acquire the Tesseract. Within the scepter was another Stone, the Mind Stone.

I understand that having a tool as powerful as an Infinity Stone would help Loki achieve his goal, but it seems kind of counterproductive to Thanos' plan to lend him one. Thanos wants all of the Stones, and he just met Loki. Loki is quite literally the God of Mischief. You do not entrust a God of Mischief with something ꦕy🌃ou desperately want to obtain, even if it is for the purpose of obtaining a second thing that you want. Events prove that big, bad Thanos miscalculated. Loki didn't get the Tesseract, and he lost his scepter as well.

23 Guest Of Ho🧔nor

After Odin sprang the existence of a sister on Thor and Loki, he peaced out and turned into ethereal dust. Thor and Loki then had to contend with Hela, Goddess of ꦛDeath, wh꧑o only wanted to destroy everything that Thor cared about. Thor immediately picks a fight with her and loses. Loki does the smart (though not necessarily noble thing) and opts out of the fight. Thor is thrown away from Earth, travels through space, and lands on the planet of Sakaar. Sakaar is this gladiatorial planet where this snotty Grandmaster pits champions against each other in a fighting pit.

Thor, being a buff and brawny-looking fellow, is slated to be a champion in the pits. He finds out that Loki has made his way onto Sakaar too, and he's been there for weeks. Does Loki help his brother escape when they meet each other? Of course not. He's Loki. He decides to sit back and watch the fight. Thor is delighted to find out he's set to fight the Hulk. Loki, not so much. Last t𒀰ime Lok🐽i saw the Hulk, it did not end so well. However, if Loki had been on Sakaar as a guest of the Grandmaster for so long, shouldn't he have known who the Grandmaster's star champion was? Hulk was a famous figure on the planet. People had posters of him in their homes. Loki should not have been shocked.

22 ♒ A Warm And Loving Family 𝔉

Loki was, for all intents and purposes, raised by Odin and Frigga, both of whom strike me as kind parents. Just look how Thor turned out. 🐽He was a spoiled brat, probably because his parents praised him so much. Loki was raised in the same environment, and yet, he turns out so differently than Thor. He ends up being a mischievous little sneak, willing to hurt his sibling and his parents in order to reach his goals. It's reasoned that Loki is the way he is because he felt that he was treated differently because he was adopted. His true heritage is that of the Frost Giants from Jotunheim.

Maybe being part Frost Giant made Loki evil, but when I look at Loki's adoptive family, they seem like nothing but kind people. Odin is the perfect kind of fat💞herly figure, full of wisdom and generosity. Thor, while a big-headed fool at times, seems like a loving brother. And Frigga, Loki's adoptive mother, seems like the nicest of all of them. She was the one who taught Loki how to use magic. So why does Loki have such a grudge against them? He seems to resent ♔them more than he loves them. It's a constant inner struggle for Loki, whether to give in and accept them or to grow bitter and fight them. I feel like this is a major nature versus nurture debate.

21 Minions

The action began immediately in the first Avengers movie. The Tesseract that S.H.I.E.🔴L.D. was holding onto becomes active and creates a portal that allows Loki to land on Earth, and the first thing Loki does is take out a room full of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents using blasts from his scepter. Once all the threats are removed from his presencඣe, he decides to create some helpers to assist him with his objective. Still using his scepter, Loki uses its power to mind control some of the humans in the room, specifically Hawkeye and Erik Selvig. Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. was also in the room, liable to becoming mind-controlled, but Loki doesn't do it. Why not? As the director, Nick Fury knows a lot of the inner workings of S.H.I.E.L.D.

He would have been a great hypnotized asset.

I mean, don't get me wrong. Just having Hawkeye under his sway allowed Loki to wreak a ton of havoc. But with Nick Fury under his control, Loki woul💜d have been a lot more dangerous. Without Nick Fury, the Avengers would not have gotten together. Loki could have won the entire fight if he had just gained control over Nick Fury. But he didn't. Why? Because then there would be no st☂ory, I guess.

20 Strange Magic 💃

Loki learned his cunning brand of magic from his adoptive mother, Frigga. It requires wit and sleight-of-hand tricks. It may not allow Loki to take out dozens of foes in a single stroke, but it allows him to beguile and mystify his opponents. And somehow, with this magic, Loki is able to trick Odin and take over as ruler of Asgard at the end of Thor: The Dark World. But the sucky thing about this 🎀isn't that it happened. It's that we didn't get to see it. We always get to see Thor show off with his thunder and his hammer. Why can't we see Loki pull a fast one on 🌠the king of Asgard? All we ever see of Loki are his knife throws and his magical parlor tricks.

We want more Loki! How could he have tricked Odin? And once that was done, how could Loki have transported him to Earth unseen, as we find out he did in Thor: Ragnarokꦗ? And what's more, how did Loki manage to keep Odin under that spell for around two years? Where is he hiding this kind of magic?! That is clearly some very powerful spell, especially if it worked on Odin ruler of Asgard. Maybe if he had performed that level of magic when he was fighting the Avengers, Loki would have won. Instead, all Loki used against the Avengers was some scepter wielding and illusions.

19 Even Th🌃e Best Of Plans

One of Loki's best schemes is seen in the first Thor. Jealous of his big brother's popularity and his bee-line towards the throne of Asgard, Loki subtly arranges it so that Thor displeases their father, Odin, and then Odin invariably casts Thor out. It was so ingeniously done. When✨ you watch the movie now, with the knowledge that Loki intends to achieve this, you can see how masterfully he manipulates Thor. There's just one teensy problem with that. Loki is notorious for having a heightened sense of self-preservation.

He runs from a fight if he does not think he has a likely chance of surviving it.

When Thor suggested going to Jotunheim  to seek revenge for the Jotuns' arrogance (pot meet kettle), Loki went along with him since it was all part of the plan. Jotunheim is a dangerous place; the Frost Giants who live there are no joke. Even though Loki intended to go there and he told a guard that they were going there so that they could be rescued, just being on Jotunheim put Loki's life in peril. What if Loki had perished out there on the cold and frozen wastes of Jotunheim while he was still plotting against Thor? His huge brain and big ideas would have been for nothing. I counted at least five times while watching Thor where Lo🎃ki could have met his end while fighting the Jotuns.

18 Oh My...

Loki is known, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and in Norse mythology, as the God of Mischief. This is meant in a more literal sense in the mythological stories, but it is a well-known fact that Loki in the MCU is a mischievous character. He embodies cunning and chicanery. It's widely acknowledged that Loki is of Asgard and he has the title of godhood to go with it. How is this possible though, if Loki is part Frost Giant? Loki is Laufey's son, and Laufey is king of the Frost Giants. Are the roles of the gods able to be handed out to anyone? If, let's say, Sif had been adopted by Odin and Frigga, would she have become the God♚dess of Mischief? How does one get a godhood inไ Asgard?

If a Frost Giant in disguise could rise to such a status, is being a god just like landing a really excellent job? Loki's true species is never really delved into again after the first Thor movie. Many of the MCU films just make jokes about his relation to Thor by saying Loki is the misguided adopted brother to the God of Thunder. So is getting deified all part of Asgardian adoption? I have so many questions about this, but I feel like none of them are going to be answered in any upcoming Thor movies. (I don't even know if there will be any upcoming Thor movies.)

17 Looking Hela Fine🐼

Hela, the Asgardian Goddess of Death, makes her appearance in Thor: Ragnarok. Right off the bat, you can tell she is no one you want to mess with. When she first tangles with Thor, she stops Mjolnir in mid-flight and then breaks Mjolnir into tiny pieces. No one has ever been able to do that before, not even the Hulk. It's no wonder that when Loki sa🤡w what Hela could do, he decided to make a hasty retreat. Who wants to get on the bad side of someone who can shatter mystical weapons th😼at were forged in the light of a dying star? I am surprised that Loki retreated away from her.

Usually, I feel like Loki is the kind of guy who approaches threatening figures. He pretends to be on their side all along, only to betray them at a later date. Why did he not try this with Hela? Hela's not averse to having followers. She allows a mercenary Asgardian named Skurge to become her minion. I'm fairly certain she would have allowed Loki to do the same if he had groveled at her feet. But he didn't even try. Nope, instead, Loki saves his grovelling for when he meets Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War. Let me just say that I really think he would have had a better chance joining 🦩Hela than joining Thanos again.

16 ಞ Some Allfather

Odin has many known aliases. One of his most well-known monikers is Allfather. This name stems from the idea that he is the Father to all of the other gods on Asgard. I don't know how this is possible,✤ since, as we found o♑ut earlier, Loki, the God of Mischief, is not his biological son. (Godhoods are given to people like party favors on Asgard.) Odin is the God of Wisdom, which, you would assume, means he is wise. I find some fault with that. Aside from mistakes he's admitted to making in the past, Odin is so unwise when it comes to Loki.

He fails to foresee the mischief that his God of Mischief will get up to.

He could not tell when Loki arranged to have Thor go to Jotunheim and make a mess of things. Odin could not tell𒈔 that he was the one who had sneaked Frost Giants into Asgard. And he could not prevent Loki from casting a spell on him and smuggling him away to Earth. If Odin is the Allfather he claims to be, then he should rea🐼lly claim responsibility for Loki's actions. He should have put a stop to Loki's evil machinations from the beginning, not let them run rampant. I'd like to think that Odin sees the good in Loki, and has glimpsed the future benefit of having him around Thor. Still, Loki's caused so much trouble, I bet Odin is sitting in Valhalla filled with doubt.