Loki, the outsider in the Northern Germanic pantheon, confounds not only his fellow deities and chronicler Snorri Sturluson(Referring to the Prose Edda) but has caused as much quarrel among his interpreters. Hardly a paper, article, or encyclopedic entry DOESN'T begin describing Loki as a staggeringly complex, confusing, and ambivalent figure who has been the catalyst of countless unresolved scholarly controversies and has elicited more problems than solutions.

The first of the four theories is that of Folke Ström, who in 1956 concluded that Loki was another form of Odin. In 1959, Jan de Vries theorized that Loki is a typical example of a trickster figure. In 1961, by way of excluding all non-Scandinavian mythological parallels in her analysis, Anna Birgitta Rooth concluded that Loki was originally a spider god. Anne Holtsmark, writing in 1962, concluded that no conclusion could be made about Loki.

So ultimately? While Marvel DOES play fast and loose with Norse mythology, when it comes to Loki? It's kinda hard to do ANYTHING with him that would not fit the original mythological version as the original myth? Was ALL over the place. For all we know the Marvel version could the most accurate since the Viking age!