He is a powerful warrior and he relishes violence but there is another side to him, which grows stronger the more time he spends with the human named Jane Foster. In the Thor films Thor is undeniably a strong character. His motives and his path towards evil may differ but the end results are ultimately the same. In both, the Thor films and in the Norse myths Loki commits evil acts. They even helped the Dwarf capture him and watched as he “drew the leather thong through the holes and sewed up the trickster’s mouth” (Crossley-Holland, 2011: 53). The Dwarf wanted Loki’s head and “The gods… laughed to see the Trickster corned” (Crossley-Holland, 2011: 52). Despite this routine brutalization, Loki stayed faithful to the God’s until he lost a bet against a Dwarf. The other Gods were always prone to bullying Loki, for example when “Odin squeezed Loki’s flesh and sinews until the sly one… dropped to one knee” (Crossley-Holland, 2011: 13). In the Norse myths, Loki only turns against the gods after several incidents of violence. In the films, Loki turns against his family because he feels rejected by them and jealous of his brother, Thor. He was never entirely innocent but Loki’s early tricks where as simple as “blowing a raspberry at Heimdall as he passed” or cutting Sif’s hair as she slept (Crossley-Holland, 2011: 48).ĭespite the differences in their characters both versions of Loki ultimately end up turning against the Gods. His cunning and guile made him invaluable to the other Gods and Goddesses who often “could see no way to fault the Trickster’s scheme” (Crossley-Holland, 2011:10). In the earlier myths, Loki was a trickster. In the myths, Loki is not necessarily evil in the most straightforward sense of the word. In the films, Loki acts in an evil manner because of the way that the tensions between himself and his adopted family have warped his view of the world. In the Norse myths, Loki is a far more complex character than he is in the Thor films.