Loki is a character that's kind of hard to get a grasp on. This is true for Loki in the Marvel universe, and the Disney Loki — if you want to view the Loki series as its own thing. Every depiction of Loki walks the line between good and evil, and walks it so well that is hard to know whether Loki is a hero or a villain.

The thing is though... in Norse mythology, the answer is clear: Loki is evil. Loki is literally the reason why Ragnarök will consume the cosmos in its allending flames. There is not a shadow of a doubt that mythology's Loki is a bad guy, and that's what I will dive deeper into in this episode:

Episode 2 Of Keeping Up With The Norse Gods — The Agent of Chaos: Loki

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Notes:

**Baldur could be harmed by mistletoe, not laurel. I recently recorded an Apollo video and he turned someone into a laurel tree, so I had laurel on my mind during the Loki video and mixed the two up**

Mythology is a tough puzzle to piece together, because these stories are literally thousands of years old and have been retold over and over again. This is true for any mythology, including the Norse one. With every tale, there are hundreds of different versions that were told in various regions over various eras. For the sake of this video — and all my videos — I try to streamline these as much as possible and leave out some details that are tedious and would make the videos less fun.Many historians make this stuff so boring exactly because they get caught up in these details that are much less relevant than the bigger picture. I'm changing that.
So... is this accurate and well researched? Absolutely, 100%. Is this the only interpretation of Loki, the God of Mischief? No, but subjectively speaking… it’s the way I liked it the most.

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Sources:
A lot of people ask me about my sources, and… to be honest, they are a mixed bag. One major source is my lifelong interest in storytelling and mythology. Another is the beautiful endless library that is the internet, and, third, I read the occasional book from time to time, which I’m happy to recommend to you, but also… I’m planning to write my own book on mythology, so, in due time it will be…:
Source? Me. Yay.