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Loki has proven himself to be one of the most complex characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and one of the most popular with fans. Even before the Loki TV series, he was a character who flipped between heroic and antagonistic across all three Thor films and the first Avengers movie. His eventual redemption and subsequent death in Avengers: Infinity War set the tone for the one of Marvel’s darkest films.
However, before his redemption, Loki’s time as a villain— and even before— saw him commit spiteful and cruel acts to many characters for a wide variety of reasons. While he would eventually go on to heroism, first he did some truly wicked things.
10 Cutting Sif’s Hair As A Spiteful Prank
Something that occurred hundreds of years before the MCU during the events of Loki, the TVA put Loki in a cell that trapped him in a time loop of one of his worst memories. In that memory, Sif comes across him and physically and verbally assaults him for cutting her hair while she slept.
It is implied the two were close before this event, and Loki did it solely as an expression of his narcissistic nature, humiliating Sif purely so he would get attention for it and feel less alone. Sif never forgives him for this, as shown by the contempt she has for him in both Thor and Thor: The Dark World.
9 Causing Erik Selvig’s Mental Breakdown With The Mind Stone
Thor’s friend Dr. Erik Selvig is one of the many SHIELD scientists who Loki uses the Mind Stone on to gain control of in The Avengers, forcing him to help use the Tesseract to open a portal for the Chitauri to invade Earth. Unlike Clint Barton, who is freed shortly before the film, Selvig isn’t given control of himself back until the climax.
In Thor: The Dark World, the long-term effects of this are shown, with Selvig undergoing a mental breakdown and being confined to a hospital. An innocent man’s mental health is shattered as a mere side-effect of one of Loki’s schemes.
8 Leaving Thor To Fight In The Arena
In Thor: Ragnarok, Loki and Thor arrive on Sakaar weeks apart, in which time Loki has managed to ingratiate himself with the leader of the planet: The Grandmaster. By contrast, Thor is quickly captured and presented to the Grandmaster as a warrior for the gladiator arena.
Despite knowing the Grandmaster has a champion who kills all he faces, Loki leaves Thor to his fate once Thor rejects a plan to eventually kill the Grandmaster and for the two of them take control themselves— instead of even trying to use his influence to save Thor. While there are hints that Loki knows Thor’s true power better than he himself does, it is still a cold act towards the brother who has always loved him.
7 Setting The Hulk On The Avengers
The second act of The Avengers has Loki captured aboard the SHIELD helicarrier, while the Avengers fight amongst themselves over revelations about SHIELD and what to do with Loki. When Natasha Romanoff interrogates him, it is revealed that Loki’s plan was to gather them together, and then cause Bruce Banner to become the Hulk— who could then kill them all.
Loki nearly succeeds, and it is only the intervention of Thor and a SHIELD pilot that stops the Hulk’s rampage. Had he succeeded, the Avengers would have died, and Bruce Banner would have been left with the guilt of having killed them and allowing Loki to win.
6 Faking His Death & Leaving Thor To Grieve
Thor: The Dark World sees Thor break Loki out of prison so they can take the fight to Malekith and defeat him without risking Asgard in the process. When they battle the Dark Elves on Svartalfheim, Loki appears to die protecting Thor from the Dark Elf Kurse, leaving Thor in mourning.
Except Loki was only faking his death as another scheme to replace Odin and gain power in Asgard. Loki leaves Thor with his grief and guilt for four years without revealing to his brother that he is alive, and Thor is furious when he finds out.
5 Sending The Destroyer To Kill Thor
In Thor, Sif and the Warriors Three defy Loki’s rule of Asgard and head to Earth to bring Thor back to challenge him, despite his exile. In response, Loki sends the robot known as The Destroyer after them, who levels a small town and defeats Thor’s friends.
Thor offers himself to the Destroyer to spare the others, and Loki prepares to kill him. Despite the bonds of love that eventually become clear between the two, Loki barely hesitates to fire on Thor, and it is only Mjolnir that saves him.
4 Stabbing Thor During Their Conversation On Stark Tower
At the climax of The Avengers, once the Chitauri have been unleashed upon New York, Thor eventually gets close enough to Loki to confront him about the situation. Thor begs Loki to take back what he’s done, and help them stop the Chitauri and Thanos. He appears to get through to Loki, who expresses some remorse, saying it is “too late” to stop as he looks at the carnage.
However, as Thor pleads, Loki uses this distraction to stab Thor with a dagger, dismissing the attempts to save him as “sentiment.” Thor is left wounded and furious by Loki’s cruel and underhanded trick.
3 Threatening To Have Clint Barton Kill Natasha Romanoff
When Natasha interrogates Loki during The Avengers, he mentions his eventual plans should she continue to stand in her way— to send her closest friend Clint Barton to kill her. More than that, he threatens to use Barton’s knowledge of her to have Barton do everything she is afraid of to her first, and then he’ll give Barton his lucidity back for just long enough to realize what he’s done before killing him too.
It is a threat to intimidate Romanoff, but it is ambiguous how much of it Loki intended to carry out. The threat itself is enough to leave Natasha shaken, however, despite ultimately getting what she wants out of the conversation.
2 Conquering The Earth Just To Hurt Thor
As pointed out in Loki, the God of Mischief’s desire to conquer Earth to impose order on it isn’t entirely compatible with his usual philosophy in life. The only part of it that is fully consistent with him is that he has chosen Earth solely because of Thor’s attachment to it following his exile.
Due to his insecurities and his rejection at the end of Thor, Loki is willing to oppress and enslave six billion people just to twist the knife deeper for the brother who loves him.
1 Trying To Wipe Out Jotunheim
As a part of Loki’s complicated plot in Thor, he baits Laufey and the Jotun of Jotunheim to attack Asgard while Odin is sleeping and attempt to kill him, all so he has a valid cause to use the Bifrost to destroy Jotunheim.
Regardless of the motivations for his plan— to end Asgard’s conflict with Jotunhim and prove himself a worthy heir to Odin— Loki was prepared to commit genocide on a planet entirely within Asgard’s sphere of influence, just to prove himself. Thor and Odin have to stop him together, ultimately protecting their old adversaries from the horrific fate Loki has in store for them.
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