@@XxhoundBitexX or even better he knows about consequences before acting and is aware his actions are probably going to backfire but is nevertheless undeterred.
@jumpmaster the frog it’s such an inconvenience, I mean the cleanup alone takes up my entire afternoon! And on top of that the casualties are always tallied in the billions! The catastrophic mess never gets any better!
Loki in modern media: "Muahahaha! Now that I've imprisoned all my enemies, I'm free to do as I please! The world will bow to me!" Loki in the majority of Norse tales: "Whose day am I going to ruin today?" ... "Ah, so the answer was 'My own.' Weird how often that happens."
Can you imagine Loki having a jar full of names where he picks who day he’s going to ruin but ultimately he always picks himself Loki:Who is it today * Picks a name he doesn’t think is his own but it really is * Loki:Okay I have mischief to make Later Loki:Why is it always me
Disclaimer: Although the video shows Sif with short hair after Loki’s prank, it actually resulted in her being entirely bald because Loki removed it from the roots. Worse yet, it couldn’t grow back for that same reason.
In the version I know it wasn't explicitly stated that Loki stole her hair. Thor just saw her hair was gone and instantly accused Loki, not that it wasn't a fair assumption
I wonder if the ancient Norse people truly realized that one would have to pull out their hair by the roots *Many upon Many of times* for it to *Not Grow Back* … coming from someone who still has pluck her eyebrows at the age of 23 after having started at the age of 12.
Loki is the chaos that is required for forward momentun. Otherwise every day is the same day. Every love is the same love. His jealousy took his chaos too far, and he and his wife suffer eternally for that.
Greek Myhtology: So one day, as usual, Zeus was horny and decided to stalk some innocent being that had a womb Norse Mythology: So one day, as usual, Loki was bored and decided to go bother some innocent bystander for his amusement
@@johnmcauliffe8824 References? If nothing else because this is something not usually brought up and I'd certainly like to know what Zeus has been up to.
So one day, as usual, Loki and Zeus were going about their business when they ran into each other. Loki was a lady that day. So begins the great war of Loki v Hera.
Seriously. First time I read this myth, I was like 9 years old and instantly spotted the loophole, which made me wonder why I was apparently smarter than a couple of magical super-blacksmiths. It took me a bit longer to realize what ELSE it said about me, though.
Thor: that's awesome sweetie, but have you seen my hammer! Her smiling and internally thinking: "don't make a dick joke, don't make a dick joke, don't make a...
@@cameoshadowness7757 The rest of Asgard internally: "wait was that a dick joke!?" Immediately internally followed by "THAT WAS A DICK JOKE!!!" Loki stillbeing held by Thor: "small chuckle"
I love the way Neil Gaiman wrote these stories in his tellings of Norse Mythology, and one of the best quotes is of Thor, on the morning he sees sif's hair is gone, he immediately stomps off. 'where are you going?' 'To beat the shit out of loki' 'how do you know it was him?' 'whenever something goes wrong I assume it's loki, saves me a lot of time'
I forget if it's a Gaiman addition or just only in some translations but in Gaiman's telling Thor threatens to break every bone in Loki's body EVERY DAY and, in an unusually deep moment of thought for him ponders how fast he'll be able to do it once he's had some practice.
Greek Mythology is “Zeus, why can’t you just bag it up?!” or the gods getting fussy about some random mortal being better than they are for one reason or another.
Asgard: "Eventually we got sick of his shenanigans cause they were really annoying and got way out of hand so we tied him to a rock using his son's innards and set up a snake to drip corrosive venom into his face until the end of the nine realms."
So basically Thor got THE legendary hammer-boomerang because Wile E. Coyote (Wile E. CoyLoki?) was bored and pranked his wife for shits and giggles. .... NEAT.
That's how a surprising amount of Norse Mythology boils down. Loki is both the one to blame and the one to thank in most situations. Loki can best be categorized as "too smart for his own good". When things go wrong, he is almost always the one to blame, but when the rest of the Aesir have a problem they can't solve, Loki is the one they turn to.
@@NeostormXLMAX Wukong is what you get when you take the impulsiveness of Loki and put it in someone OP enough to make Thor seem like he's just an average guy.
When Tors hammer was stolen he first went to Loke because there was a pretty good chance he was behind its theft and if he wasn't behind it he was Tors best hope to get the hammer back
He tried to pull a bugs bunny by transforming himself into a filly to distract the stallion (Svadilfari “Unlucky Traveler”) from hauling the stones the giant who had contracted to build the walls of Asgard required. The work was completed late and the giant had to forfeit his price. Loki however did not count on the stallion catching up to him. Sleipnir, Odin's eight legged horse was the result. Imagine Loki cringing from the memory of his violation. Loki also had at least 4 other children, a son named "Nari or Narfi" by his wife Sigyn, and three with the female jötunn Angrboða. They were the wolf Fenrir, the world serpent Jörmungandrt, and Hel queen the dishonorable dead.
There's also his tug of war with a goat to entertain a grieving giant (can't remember the story full story who it was) If it sounds normal, read the story, it isn't
In the version of the Myth that I'm familiar with, Mjolnir was ruled the greatest artefact purely on the basis of it's short handle (the sum total effect of Loki's meddling) making it easily concealable. So had Loki just let the Dwarves work, it would have been a tie. Instead, he cheated himself into a loss. Looney Tunes indeed,
Loki(After losing the bet): OOOOOHHHH, WHAT'S THE USE!?!?! (Pulls out mirror, yells at reflection.) SUCKER!!! SUCKER!!! SUCKER!!! SUCKER!!! (REPEAT AD INFINITUM)
"Loki, Loki, Loki. When will you learn that your actions have consequences?" Well, the consequences were getting some of the greatest treasures ever for the gods for free.
If I remember correctly, dwarves in Norse myrhology were closer to elves than Tolkien’s dwarves. I even remember reading that “dwarf” comes from “dark elf”, implying they’re actually non-evil drow.
@@trevorweisberg8470 well, you're not incorrect, but you're not technically correct either. First of all, literal translation of "dwarf" to Norse is "dvergr". Which is not at alll the word that's used to describe "dwarves" in Edda. Instead, we have dökkálfar ("dark elves") and svartálfar ("swarthy elves"). In this particular story, Brokkr and Sindri are svartálfar. Drow are likely "inspred" by dökkálfar, but we don't actually have much concrete information about dökkálfar except that those are black-skinned elves that live underground. Svartálfar probably "inspired" D&D's svirfneblin, i.e. deep gnomes. That said, svartálfar might just be a synonym for dökkálfar, so we're free to think that dwarves in Norse mythology are basically hot dark-skinned elves. And bear in mind that "elves" basically is closer to "spirits" or "fairies" in this context, so yeah, not really close to Tolkien's "elves are people, but better" concept either.
Funny how over thousands of years despite all the changes to other aspects of who Loki is, his propensity for stirring up shit has remained firmly in place
I liked Neil Gaiman's version of this one where Thor wakes up to a crying Sif, sees what's wrong and goes to find Loki. When asked why he says that whenever anything goes wrong he always goes to find Loki. It saves time.
The best Gaiman story on Norse mythology comes from Sandman: Loki: Many years ago, I convinced Thor of the Aesir that the reason for his impotence was that he was pregnant (he's not very bright). And I told him to lie face down and naked on his sleeping furs until I came and delivered him of child. I was disguised as a wandering physician. So I fed him a gallon of castor oil, painted his arse blue and shoved a cork in his bum-hole. I told him it was the cure for his condition. Then I went off to sleep with his wife. Loki: So Thor is lying face down with a cork up his fundament for a week and a day, while his insides continue to rumble their course. And now he's got a pain in his gut like you wouldn't believe, as the pressure continues to build. I'd told him he might experience some pain. That it was common in pregnancy. Loki: Suddenly, into the room, through an open window, bounds Ratatosk, the squirrel who lives in the branches of the world tree. Ratatosk is curious as any little squirrel. And he climbs on top of Thor's squirming, straining buttocks, and he-pulls out the cork. THRRRRRPPPPP! It's an explosion-eight days' worth of oiled shit thunders forth from the fundament of the Lord of Storms. Loki: And the mighty Thor sits up, and looks around, and sees Ratatosk on the ground, stunned, gassed, and befouled. And slowly, with hands as big as ham hocks, he picks up the little animal, and stares at it. And then, with one ponderous motion, he clasps it to his bosom. Loki: “You're ugly", he says, "you're hairy, and you're covered in shit. But you're mine, and I love you!"
I like to imagine it made an airbag noise. Have you seen that video of a guy's airbags going off, filling his entire truck with airbags and shooting his hat out the side window? I imagine that, but with a boat. They enter their room, hit the button or something, then BOOM helmet goes flying out the window, a ship's mast sticks out the door, and a waggling arm is sticking out another window.
Frey is the god of fertility. If you take a seed, like an acorn, it's so small you can keep it in your pocket. But if you plant it in the ground, it can grow, with the help of Frey, to an enormous tree you can build a ship from.
The version I remember of "why Loki made the wager in the first place" is because the dwarves wanted a ton of money for just the golden hair, but in order to not pay the bill and make apology gifts for the other gods for shaving off Sif's hair he set up the competition between two families of dwarves to get 6 gifts for the other gods for free.
Some Aesir who wasn’t around for Loki’s mouth being sewed shut: Why is it so quiet Odin: Loki got his mouth sewed shut Aesir: ... Odin: he lost a bet, he got what he deserves
@Ishmam Masud - Cuz I Can Left out the part where they turned his other son into a wolf and drove the wolf mad so it was the thing that killed the son whose entrails were used for the bindings.
@@crocuslament9680 I didn't know Loki turned Fenrir onto a wolf! I thought he was born that way like Sleipnir! Wow! That's terrible! Did the other son really die or did he regenerate later like Prometheus with his liver?
"He's not some glamorous Prince of Darkness, he's a Looney Tunes antagonist"... A big THANK YOU from Scandinavia! And Honestly... The Gambler by Kenny Rogers...! (You're a genius!)
Y'know...I honestly love that the reactions of Thor and Sif to her hair being cut off is Sif looking mildly inconvenienced and upset by it....and then there's Thor
Honestly who doesn’t love short hair? Sure it looks like a fishin’ mess given the amount of rough-cut but then again I don’t wanna be debating with Thor on it.
"Loki mostly just causes problems on purpose and gets comically walloped by the consequences". The only thing Norse Loki has in common with Marvel Loki.
That and his love/hate relationship with thor. In the mcu they fight s lot, but still have a brotherly love. In norse mythology loki loves to mess with Thor, but they also go in some adventures together
Just realised something. All Loki managed was to keep his head attached to his body, it still became the possession of Brok, which meant he could do whatever he wanted to it. So sewing his lips shut not only acted as a thematic punishment for what came out of Lokis mouth, but as a display of ownership.
loki: *tries to create problems on purpose* loki: *accidentally eggs some dwarves on enough to the point where they make the single most iconic item from norse mythology*
Also, probably the weapon that slew the Midgard Serpent, one of Loki's offspring. Yes, through roundabout fashion, Loki's pranks killed his son. (Not even mentioning all the snake venom dripped on his own eyes).
@@Bluecho4 To be fair, Loki's son Fenrir ate Loki's other son Sleipnir... though Sleipnir was the odd one out in his family since Loki was the mother rather than the father to him.
Im going to assume that since Vikings spent a lot of time on ships, they ended up with a lot of time on their hands for one of their comrades to go hey I'm bored like get up a ridiculous hjink which will probably put everyone in dsnger
I love how the dwarves had a presentation ready to go to explain why they did not make the ring’s copies make copies. The shear panic and horror was priceless.
"Know when to hold' em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run" is such a fantastic theme for Loki, especially since he never listens to that advice
Loki is really good at knowing when to run... he is just really hated so he is allways caught. also Loki invented the fishing net by accident because he was so nervous after a certain prank.
The best part about this is that it starts with Loki not actually knowing WHY he decided to cut off Sif's hair... he just kind of did it. So there's this moment when Thor and Sif are just sort of angrily glaring at him, and he's just like "I don't know why I do the things I do"
@@AK-Drakoin yes, but it makes for a fun character to role-play. Although, personally, I like screwing around with the other alignments. A Lawful Evil priest, for example. "I am a priest devoted to the ONLY god worth worshipping. Myself."
Let's all admit it. Loki is your rogue friend that invited them selves to your DnD campaigns and then manages to get you all caught up paying back a whole town with all the gold you just looted from the dungeon, which everybody almost died in because the rogue rolled a nat 1-3 for stealth and managed to trigger most or all of the traps and piss off every single monster in the dungeon.
Edda: and then Thor disguised himself as a beautiful woman and Loki did some murder with some mistletoe AND THERE SHALL BE ONE GOD ABOVE ALL WHO SHALL COME IN JUDGEMENT AND RULE THE EARTH and then they all got drunk and partied Researchers: ...methinks some Christianity has gotten into my perfectly good Norse mythology
it's a little more obnoxious than that. If it was all just obvious out of context Yahweh praising it would be easy enough to separate it from the legit Norse myth. The problem is that some sources have things even like the deity status of the Norse gods even being called into question and them instead being considered supposedly 'mortal heroes'. There's the possibility that some of the myths we've lost in their entirety and only know about because of weird snippets mentioned here and there in the text are gone because some overly pious jackass in the 11th century or something decided it was heretical and burned it.
Hey, if you don't fuck a stallion (and subsequently birth its child) then you are neither a proper man nor a properly norse loki. And whatever he boned to get a wolf child, a snake child and so on. Out of interest for all the kids he made I tried finding family-charts for norse mythology... but why do none of them mention sleipnir?!
I just love that Thor's dialog consists of enraged SCREAMING in that first encounter. I like to imagine that Sif caught Loki mid-haircut, got a message to Thor, and then the two of them wait. And slowly but inexorably, starting at quite a distance, you start to hear from across the valley and over the hills, the faintest hint of Thor's angry SCREAMING as he marches home.
Sif waking up to see her hair gone and Loki standing there Loki sweating nervously with scissors in hand:So I have a perfect explanation... Sif:Thor honey?! *Thunder and stomping heard a mile away* Loki:Oh shit
My compromise would Loki would be that I wouldn't take the WHOLE head then, he can keep the part of his head attached to the neck, I get everything above the chin and ears if the head is totally tilted backward.
That is kinda 1/3rd of Loki. He is really good with words. The other 2/3rds are Pranks which has a 50/50 chance of going wrong one way or another and shapeshifting/disguises
I got really confused when you started telling the story I thought “wait red already told this one” and then I remembered I learned it elsewhere and my brain just assumes any Norse mythology I’ve learned is exclusively from this channel
Maybe you learned it from the Marvel comics? They put their own twist on this legend where Loki refuses to pay for the new hair for Sif so the dwarves make the new hair but make it out of "nothing" since they were paid nothing. So they basically make her hair out of the blackness of space and that's supposed to be the explanation for why comic book Sif has black hair when every other native Asgardian appears to be blonde or red haired.
I remember hearing this one at a summer camp around 15 years ago or so. And until this video I was never sure if it was real or if either my mind/the counselor made it up.
This is me but a ton of myths because I’ve read most of Rick Riordan’s gods of whatever books and almost every encounter there is basically just a slightly modernised spin on some Greek, Roman, Egyptian or Norse myth depending on what series you’re on. Made me think that we should do more of that, but tbh I’ve seen some German productions where people _tried_ doing that with German myths and it was awful to watch.
I love how a fair amount of Norse Myths involve Loki getting bored, doing something to piss someone off and then having Thor show up to fix everything, typically by killing something.
Calling it, Loki is the god of adhd. He is 100% out patron god. Why? Because he would totally enchant any person with adhd to have that tiny voice in the back of our brains constantly distracting us or egging us on to do something incredibly stupid
@@rubydancer4241 The problem is he never plans for when the prank inevitably backfires. He just goes "ooh this'd be funny!" And then when he faces the consequences he's absolutely flabbergasted his genius plan of "make powerful entity/entities mad" somehow went south.
Notes that are relevant to the plot: -He cut the hair at the root so it wouldn't grow back (bald = punishment for infidelity) -He was very drunk when he did it -He covers up his scheme as a contest presented by the other dwarven family (basically his exact words to each set of brothers) Notes that are not relevant to the plot, but are funny: -Thor threatened to break every bone in his body each and everyday (because Thor be like that)
He should have just said he didn't say anything about his body not being attached. Then again there are a lot of things Loki _should_ have done and didn't
@@kindoflame Really, apart from the whole Ragnarok thing, he's at worst CN and at best CG. He really only causes problems and fixes them, causes minor problems and let everybody sort them out, or fixes problems that he's not responsible for. On top of that, the solutions to the problems he causes tend to make the gods better off than they were before.
I think it’d be funny if Loki just meant it as a compliment of how cool the artifacts they made are, and when they took it the wrong way he just goes “one time I try to be nice and this is how it goes I’m never doing this again”
3:04 Dwarf: “And I present to you your gift Freyr.” Freyr: “What am I looking at?” Dwarf: “A pocket-size boat.....” Freyr: “Uh....great? Tha-“ *boing* Dwarf: “......that also unpacks into a large boat for sailing the high seas!”
@@professorbutters Yeah, that bit was hilarious. And I love the Floor 19 crew's initial deadpan reaction and Magnus wailing, "I don't know! I don't know why it's yellow!"
"Hot dwarves could very well be canon and you can't stop me." I mean, pretty sure given the 'elves' name they probably are... and like, why would we WANT to stop you?
This is only my second favorite story where Thor and Loki were involved, right behind Loki continuously critting on his deception checks to make people believe that this buff guy in a dress is Freya and definitely not Thor, who's hammer is sitting on that table in the corner.
Freya is one of three Norse War Gods, and she ones one of the Warrior Afterlives. It's entirely possible that Freya is a very butch woman, because God of War, and Thor is a very pretty man.
They animated that if you didn't know! It's in their Poetic Edda video. I'm fond of when Thor drank a lake or something on accident after being tricked by an illusionist when he was at his home.
no they didn't miss it, his earlier comic appearances were kinda loony-toons, like when he turned a street and all the buildings and objects in it into candy, the car was made of ice cream
Tecnically his intervention was having on of his sons morphed into a wolf and disebowling the other son and the intrails being Loki's bindings while a snake dripped venom into his eyes till raganarok started
I feel like a lot of people are missing out on the ACTUAL MATH that went into figuring out how long it would take the world to be covered in gold rings Red is truly a Renaissance woman
But I’m pretty sure it makes the assumption that each copy copies itself, which I don’t think is true. I think only the original dreipnir makes the copies
Honestly, this is one of stories I've heard of the most. I'm Swedish, and I remember this being told as a story to kids to teach them that you reap what you sow. I remember it also being taught in class, together with the story of how the Wall of Asgard was built(and also Loki's "horsing around" as one might put it). And then for a third time as a series of educational tv episodes together with how Thor almost fished up Jörmungandr. It's honestly very fun to again hear of the story years later on this channel.
Ishmam Masud - Cuz I Can I remember that show myself, they left out the whole “got screwed by a horse” part, but they did show Loki returning to Asgard with Sleipnir afterwards so it was sort of implied.
i live in the uk but i remember getting told the myth about loki getting tied up in a cave with a snake on his face (i don't remember why or if there was a moral or what, i just remember learning it)
Loki: I'm bored, guess I'll cut the hair of the wife of the most violent, overpowered god in all existence. I'm sure I'll be fine. Morgan Freeman: Turns out, he wasn't going to be fine...
"Okay, Loki, why did you steal Sif's hair, knowing how much she loves it and how much making Sif upset would make Thor, the Giant Killer, of which you are one, pissed?" "I bring mischief to everyone... including myself." If I was insistent on having Loki's head, I would have chopped it off just above the neck and told Loki "Keep the change." Oh my God.. the Dwarfs are running Capsule Corps...
Loki in the MCU: I CUT YOUR HAIR BECAUSE I'M A PIECE OF SHIT WHO DOESN'T DESERVE LOVE! Loki in canon: I cut it because I was bored and there was no trouble, so I made it mself
Comic Loki is actually much closer to his "real" depictions. Sure, he's literally the reason the Avengers were formed... But Loki's changed in every single way over the years. And, Marvel Comic spoilers (this won't ever be in the MCU) Loki's literally the Norse God who survived "Ragnarök" (Avengers/New Avengers/Last Days of Loki,) and he is actually a problem solver now, albeit he's never trusted. More spoilers below, this is recent. Except to Thor, who has taken Odin's throne. Loki straight up asked him "Would you trust me even as your enemy," and Thor says yes. And then Loki transforms into... some other Loki...
The version i heard makes a little more sense, so i thought i'll present it here, for anyone curious. So the main diffrence is, that there are two groups od dwarves in this version. One are foremantioned Brok and Sindri (I have no idea how to write it, so forgive me in advance) and the second are the unnamed sons of Divaldi (I really don't know if it's written that way). Loki, after doing his mischief realises that the only guyes around who could make some hair for Thor's wife are the dwarves, but also knows that he can't just go there and ask for them. Probebly because no one likes all that much. So he devides to make "competition" out od it. First he goes to Divaldis Sons and tells them, that he heard that the greatest craftsman of all, are they're rivals - Brok and Sindri. Dwarves are obviously pissed, so Loki presents the challenge. Each group gotta forge three great artifacts for the gods, and they will decide who is better. The rest of the myth goes down in a similar fashion. Brok senses that Loki tries to play them to his advantege, so he demands his head, if he and his brother were to win. Divaldis Sons make first three artifacts, and Brok and Sindri the latter ones. Meow Meow wins as the best artifact, and Loki gets his mouth sewed. Have a nice day.
Yeah, I think this is the version I've always heard too. Red calls them "sons of Invaldi" here so maybe the original is phrased in a way with multiple interpretations?
2:56 Looks actually a really thoughtful God, imo. He's like a kid and plays stupid pranks, but when he goes to get the hair he's just like, “Oh, Odin would like a spear while you're at it.” It's kinda like when someone goes to the grocery store and brings back stuff you wanted without actually being told.
Loki: *causes chaos* *consequences occur for chaos* Loki: *suprised muffled Pikachu face* Edit: I have long been anticipating this episode after watching the streams and seeing some of Red's tweets with some of the images: I loved every second of it 😁👌
Loki: *looks in a mirror*
Loki: I'm about to ruin this man's whole career.
This is the best.
"I'm about to run this man's whole career... again."
Trust no-one. Not even yourself.
Loki in a nutshell😂
Also Loki: (To the mirror) Congratulations, You played yourself.
"The risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at math"
-Loki probably
Loki definitely
Loki
Man, oh, man do I love that saying.
@Demeter Goddess Of Agriculture why tho? Did you do something you regret,Demeter?
@Melani Potvin how though?
Loki's all "Oh no! CONSEQUENCES! my only weakness!"
I dont thinkhe knows what consequences are...
Relatable.
Better version
Loki: I fear no man, but that thing... It scares me
Thing: consequences
Loki: I fear no man.
Loki: But that thing,
*consequences*
Loki: It scares me
@@XxhoundBitexX or even better he knows about consequences before acting and is aware his actions are probably going to backfire but is nevertheless undeterred.
Honestly Loki’s literally just a cat that pushes things off of counter tops and gets the spray bottle by their owner.
Until one day the change the spray from water to acid cause he overdid
@jumpmaster the frog it’s such an inconvenience, I mean the cleanup alone takes up my entire afternoon!
And on top of that the casualties are always tallied in the billions! The catastrophic mess never gets any better!
That's hilarious
way too many times and likes it
Loki is the cat that knocks the spray bottle off the counter, only for it to somehow spray him on impact.
I can't get over how Loki is the father of a giant snake, a giant wolf, and a mother to an eight legged horse.
That's what's missing from the MCU
And they only got attacked because Odin got antsy
Actually he’s the *mother* of the eight legged horse😂
My question is was he drunk at the time or fully sober?
mother...?
Loki in modern media: "Muahahaha! Now that I've imprisoned all my enemies, I'm free to do as I please! The world will bow to me!"
Loki in the majority of Norse tales: "Whose day am I going to ruin today?" ... "Ah, so the answer was 'My own.' Weird how often that happens."
Can you imagine Loki having a jar full of names where he picks who day he’s going to ruin but ultimately he always picks himself
Loki:Who is it today
* Picks a name he doesn’t think is his own but it really is *
Loki:Okay I have mischief to make
Later
Loki:Why is it always me
Apparently norsemen had a great taste of joke and storywriting
Well, je is the mother of odind horse
@@Single_Copper_Person More like a wheel he spins and half the slices have his own name on them.
Loki is the definition of "Oh no! The consequences of my actions!"
Loki: Hey guys could i get an uhhh wig?
Dwarves: POCKET. BOAT.
SPEAR.
UNPRONOUNCEABLE HAMMER
@@daphnelexinerosenfeldreali7596 do you mean unpronounceable boat? Because I'm pretty sure everybody and their mother can pronounce mjölnir
Erik Gardner yeah well I pronounced it ml-jorn for a long time so I'm just an idiot
GLOW IN THE DARK BOOOOOOOOAAAAR
Disclaimer: Although the video shows Sif with short hair after Loki’s prank, it actually resulted in her being entirely bald because Loki removed it from the roots. Worse yet, it couldn’t grow back for that same reason.
So less a scissors situation and more a "nair in her shampoo" dealio.
Aww but I really like that short hair style. But mythos gotta mythos, I guess.
@@notesmaker204even tho in this case its less short hair style and more no hair style.
In the version I know it wasn't explicitly stated that Loki stole her hair. Thor just saw her hair was gone and instantly accused Loki, not that it wasn't a fair assumption
I wonder if the ancient Norse people truly realized that one would have to pull out their hair by the roots *Many upon Many of times* for it to *Not Grow Back* … coming from someone who still has pluck her eyebrows at the age of 23 after having started at the age of 12.
"LOKI!"
"Why is it that anytime anything bad happens everyone always suspects me first?"
"Did you do it?"
"Well yes, but that's besides the point."
I think this might have been an actual quote from Neil Gaiman's adaptation of the Norse myths.
Arcanine-Espeon
Sounds like it.
@@ArcanineEspeon I could see it
...after all, the Neil Gaiman book did contain the quote:
"'Shut up, Thor,' said Loki.
Thor shut up."
Change Loki to James or Sirius and the person talking is Remus/Minerva/Albus
What people think loki is: The absolute worst evil to ever plague the earth
What loki actually is: Chaotic neutral with boredom issues
Chaotic neutral with severe ADHD
To be fair; he could cross into chaotic evil after the Baldr incident
Loki is the chaos that is required for forward momentun. Otherwise every day is the same day. Every love is the same love. His jealousy took his chaos too far, and he and his wife suffer eternally for that.
What chaotic DnD players think they are like vs what they are actually like.
Kender! Loki is part Kender! In Dragonlance terms
Greek Myhtology:
So one day, as usual, Zeus was horny and decided to stalk some innocent being that had a womb
Norse Mythology:
So one day, as usual, Loki was bored and decided to go bother some innocent bystander for his amusement
He wasn’t picky about wombs
Zeus would bang dudes too
lol very accurate
@@johnmcauliffe8824 References? If nothing else because this is something not usually brought up and I'd certainly like to know what Zeus has been up to.
So one day, as usual, Loki and Zeus were going about their business when they ran into each other. Loki was a lady that day. So begins the great war of Loki v Hera.
Loki: ...…..I'm bored.
Odin, on the other side of the nine realms: Why do I feel the sudden urge to punch my brother?
Also Odin: Better safe than sorry. *Throws Gungnir*
@@arontuske9348 you mean Thor?
@cookie kingdom Oh I misread Gungnir as Mjolnir somehow, thats my bad
They adopted eachother as brothers
Loki: shit
Odin: Ah well I guess that was amusing this time...
Loki: Hey!!! im the one who's balls are tied to a goat!
Alternative title: That time Loki annoyed the dwarves so much they sewed his mouth shut.
And gave Thor his iconic hammer.
Pornhub adaption: Loki gives dwarves some head
@@jacobdunkin1180 *pornhub intro starts*
tbh sounds like a marvel joke
😂
Loki: " I never said anything about my neck!"
Everyone else: [Cuts Loki´s head from the jaw line]
Seriously. First time I read this myth, I was like 9 years old and instantly spotted the loophole, which made me wonder why I was apparently smarter than a couple of magical super-blacksmiths. It took me a bit longer to realize what ELSE it said about me, though.
Also reminiscent of the loophole in Merchant of Venice.
I think the actual bet was that they had to take all of Loki's head, so cutting it off at the jaw wasn't an option.
I saw that loophole too!
Hehehe, ancient gods are easily fooled apparently.
THAT'S WHAT I ALWAYS THOUGHT!
“Thor, honey, look! My beautiful hair is back!” “Yeah, yeah, that’s great honey, you’re saying this thing comes back EVERY time I throw it?”
Thor: that's awesome sweetie, but have you seen my hammer!
Her smiling and internally thinking: "don't make a dick joke, don't make a dick joke, don't make a...
@@timothyzappa2828
"Yes darling! It's handle is too short for my tastes though!"
Internally: Dammit!
@@char1194
Thor: don't worry I'll make it work!
Internally: Wait was that a dick joke?
@@cameoshadowness7757 The rest of Asgard internally: "wait was that a dick joke!?" Immediately internally followed by "THAT WAS A DICK JOKE!!!"
Loki stillbeing held by Thor: "small chuckle"
Best comment section ever! I want to add to it, but this too good! XD
Have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day!
Thor: *goes towards Loki*
Thor: *picks him up* WHEN WILL YOU LEARN
Thor: THAT
Thor: *yeets Loki* THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
underrated comment
@@kaycelee6066 yep
Loki: WHEN IT STOPS BEING FUN! _is Yeeted_
And, fading into the distance, we hear "NEVEEEeeeerrrr..."
Loki: *lands in midgard's ocean*
Jourmungand: Dad?
Loki: son
Jourmungand: piss off my cousin again?
Loki: maaaybe?
Odin: Thor have you seen Loki?
Thor: Nope.
Odin: Ah shit.
Thor: Ah &$^*, here we go again!
Odin: What shenanigans is my idiot brother up to today, and how am I going to run damcon.
@@midnightgear2616 Isn't Loki Thor's brother?
@Victor Jr no he isn't in norse mythology, that's just what Marvel made him for some reason.
Hey Wrath. Love your work.
I love the way Neil Gaiman wrote these stories in his tellings of Norse Mythology, and one of the best quotes is of Thor, on the morning he sees sif's hair is gone, he immediately stomps off. 'where are you going?'
'To beat the shit out of loki'
'how do you know it was him?'
'whenever something goes wrong I assume it's loki, saves me a lot of time'
That had me laughing so loud! XD
thesalanian
And just like that i got the audiobook
I forget if it's a Gaiman addition or just only in some translations but in Gaiman's telling Thor threatens to break every bone in Loki's body EVERY DAY and, in an unusually deep moment of thought for him ponders how fast he'll be able to do it once he's had some practice.
Guess I know what I'll be reading next... :D
And then pretty sure there's a call back to that later when his hammer goes missing and he assumes it's Loki again
Norse Mythology seems to be a sequence of “God dammit Loki, what’d you do now?”
"Damnit Loki did you sell out Idunn just so you wouldn't get carried off by a giant eagle?"
"~Maybe?"
there are other things, like 'god dammit Odin what the fuck?' or Thor going questing and such
Red is just focusing in on Mr Tom Hiddleston
literally so fucking accurate i cant even
Greek Mythology is “Zeus, why can’t you just bag it up?!” or the gods getting fussy about some random mortal being better than they are for one reason or another.
@@vincent6371 Usually the mortal is better *because* Zeus couldn't keep it in his pants, but yes.
Loki should never meet Sun Wu Kong. Their combined chaotic energy would be terrifying
Loki to Sun Wukong: Hey wanna cause some trouble?
Sun Wukong: Oh yeah!
The whole world: *chuckles* I'm in danger
I would pay good money to see that as a Death Battle.
@@prastarkeepers
Would probably end up like the Pinkie Pie vs Deadpool battle.
Loki on a cloud with kong :let's do this!
Odin and jade empiror: oh no no no
Wu Kong: Prepare for trouble!
Loki: And make it double!
"Well, Loki's bored."
Asgard: *"FUUUUUUUU*
Honestly I feel like Loki wouldve started Ragnarok out of sheer boredom if you left him alone long enough
Now is that a worried "FUUUUUUUUU" or an annoyed "FUUUUUUU"
@James Hewitt it’s an “oh no,we’re all gonna die” “FUUU”
Worse than a bored Kender. :P
Asgard: "Eventually we got sick of his shenanigans cause they were really annoying and got way out of hand so we tied him to a rock using his son's innards and set up a snake to drip corrosive venom into his face until the end of the nine realms."
“In short, hot dwarves could very well be canon and you can’t stop me”
...Plausible. I’ll take it.
Deffinitely cannon!!! *plugs ears lalalalala
Oh that is super canon and you can’t tell me otherwise.
wait what? timestamp pls
@@picgmr1575 4:03 Its in Red's bonus sass in the credits. ^^
On of the things I like about Dragon Prince is that they have Hot Elves that might as well be dwarves.
So basically Thor got THE legendary hammer-boomerang because Wile E. Coyote (Wile E. CoyLoki?) was bored and pranked his wife for shits and giggles.
.... NEAT.
Lok E. Coyote
@@petermarsella6537 That is hilarious
That's how a surprising amount of Norse Mythology boils down. Loki is both the one to blame and the one to thank in most situations. Loki can best be categorized as "too smart for his own good". When things go wrong, he is almost always the one to blame, but when the rest of the Aesir have a problem they can't solve, Loki is the one they turn to.
Is it a Loki variant ?
WILE E COYLOKI ☠☠
Loki is pretty much the embodiment of that meme: "Well well well. If it isn't the consequences of my own actions!"
Deadpool Consequence
video plays.
Loki's characterization is basically one long series of "See, kids, this is why you need to learn IMPULSE CONTROL."
Actually, I can actually see that as the reason why those stories exist.
Given people keep comparing him to zeus, you could not be more right
he has parallels to wukong in many ways
@@NeostormXLMAX Wukong is what you get when you take the impulsiveness of Loki and put it in someone OP enough to make Thor seem like he's just an average guy.
@@thehulkster9434 You're saying that as if Loki was a pushover.
Norse mythology:
Something breaks in the distance.
Every god ever: Loki!!
Loki: Wasn't me!!
*Loki from the same distance: Wasn't me!!
FTFY
Greek Mythology:
Someone gets pregnant and boom crazy monster
Every god ever: God damn it Zeus
Zeus: It wasn't me I swear... Ok it was me.
When Tors hammer was stolen he first went to Loke because there was a pretty good chance he was behind its theft and if he wasn't behind it he was Tors best hope to get the hammer back
@@wolftitanreading5308 yes.
@Ethan Jaspers *Cue morgan freeman* But it was him.
dude loki seducing a horse was most hilarious hi-jinks loki ever
He tried to pull a bugs bunny by transforming himself into a filly to distract the stallion (Svadilfari “Unlucky Traveler”) from hauling the stones the giant who had contracted to build the walls of Asgard required. The work was completed late and the giant had to forfeit his price. Loki however did not count on the stallion catching up to him. Sleipnir, Odin's eight legged horse was the result. Imagine Loki cringing from the memory of his violation.
Loki also had at least 4 other children, a son named "Nari or Narfi" by his wife Sigyn, and three with the female jötunn Angrboða. They were the wolf Fenrir, the world serpent Jörmungandrt, and Hel queen the dishonorable dead.
There's also his tug of war with a goat to entertain a grieving giant (can't remember the story full story who it was)
If it sounds normal, read the story, it isn't
Bestiality
@@sirrobertwalpole1754 well no, because he was a mare at the time but ultimately yes
Well when your a gender fluid shapeshifter...
In the version of the Myth that I'm familiar with, Mjolnir was ruled the greatest artefact purely on the basis of it's short handle (the sum total effect of Loki's meddling) making it easily concealable.
So had Loki just let the Dwarves work, it would have been a tie. Instead, he cheated himself into a loss. Looney Tunes indeed,
Too smart for his own good. That's Loki.
“I was told to pick my fights and I’m picking *all of them* “
@@Butterpony Haha
Is that a reference?
@@ConnanTheCivilized think it’s a vibe referance might be Tom sanders
Loki(After losing the bet): OOOOOHHHH, WHAT'S THE USE!?!?!
(Pulls out mirror, yells at reflection.)
SUCKER!!! SUCKER!!! SUCKER!!! SUCKER!!!
(REPEAT AD INFINITUM)
Greek Mythology: ZEEUUUS!
Egyptian Mythology: SEEEEEEET!
Chinese Mythology: WUUKOOONG!
Chinses Mythology (alternate): MOONKEEEYYY!
Norse Mythology: LOOOOKIIII!
Edit...
Aztec Mythology: TEEZCATLIPOCAAA!
Japanese Mythology: SUSANOOO!
Hindu Mythology: KAAALIIII!
Now, did miss anything at all?
Aztec mythology : TEZCATLIPOCA!!!
(I'm not sure I write the name right?)
Japanese mythology: SUSANOOOO!!!
@@lightofjustice8459 Don't worry, you did. ^^
JESUS
Anansi.
"Loki, Loki, Loki. When will you learn that your actions have consequences?"
Well, the consequences were getting some of the greatest treasures ever for the gods for free.
"I'd say that was worth having my lips sewn shut!"
"...then how are you talking."
"I got better."
“New lips”
@@timothymclean "Shapeshifter".
Honestly if he's a shapeshifter, why didn't he become something like a Hydra and just... Heal it off?
hudhouse99 Because then we’d have two Loki heads and one is probably annoying to the Aesir enough
it's; loki, loki, When will you LearN-When will you LeArN that your actions have CoNSequenCes!!!
Red really went "hot take: pretty dwarves."
If I remember correctly, dwarves in Norse myrhology were closer to elves than Tolkien’s dwarves. I even remember reading that “dwarf” comes from “dark elf”, implying they’re actually non-evil drow.
@@trevorweisberg8470 That's going in the Book of Grudges!
When was this
Well, there is Blitzen in Magnus Chase for example, he is the son of Freya.
@@trevorweisberg8470 well, you're not incorrect, but you're not technically correct either. First of all, literal translation of "dwarf" to Norse is "dvergr". Which is not at alll the word that's used to describe "dwarves" in Edda. Instead, we have dökkálfar ("dark elves") and svartálfar ("swarthy elves"). In this particular story, Brokkr and Sindri are svartálfar.
Drow are likely "inspred" by dökkálfar, but we don't actually have much concrete information about dökkálfar except that those are black-skinned elves that live underground. Svartálfar probably "inspired" D&D's svirfneblin, i.e. deep gnomes. That said, svartálfar might just be a synonym for dökkálfar, so we're free to think that dwarves in Norse mythology are basically hot dark-skinned elves. And bear in mind that "elves" basically is closer to "spirits" or "fairies" in this context, so yeah, not really close to Tolkien's "elves are people, but better" concept either.
good to know the phrase "goddammit Loki!" isn't just for the MCU fans
Funny how over thousands of years despite all the changes to other aspects of who Loki is, his propensity for stirring up shit has remained firmly in place
@@Flowtail awaww
No matter what iteration of Loki you’re dealing with, you can bet “causing problems on purpose” is gonna be one of his character traits
@@Corviidei Unless of course you playing an anime jrpg. But even then its arguably still correct.
Loki has one consistent character trait and that is Bastard™ (and we all love him for it)
I liked Neil Gaiman's version of this one where Thor wakes up to a crying Sif, sees what's wrong and goes to find Loki. When asked why he says that whenever anything goes wrong he always goes to find Loki. It saves time.
Ohh, what book is this?
@@MidnightMan5001 I think this was in Sandman.. might be remembering wrong
@@MidnightMan5001 it's just called Norse Mythology
The best Gaiman story on Norse mythology comes from Sandman:
Loki: Many years ago, I convinced Thor of the Aesir that the reason for his impotence was that he was pregnant (he's not very bright). And I told him to lie face down and naked on his sleeping furs until I came and delivered him of child. I was disguised as a wandering physician. So I fed him a gallon of castor oil, painted his arse blue and shoved a cork in his bum-hole. I told him it was the cure for his condition. Then I went off to sleep with his wife.
Loki: So Thor is lying face down with a cork up his fundament for a week and a day, while his insides continue to rumble their course. And now he's got a pain in his gut like you wouldn't believe, as the pressure continues to build. I'd told him he might experience some pain. That it was common in pregnancy.
Loki: Suddenly, into the room, through an open window, bounds Ratatosk, the squirrel who lives in the branches of the world tree. Ratatosk is curious as any little squirrel. And he climbs on top of Thor's squirming, straining buttocks, and he-pulls out the cork. THRRRRRPPPPP! It's an explosion-eight days' worth of oiled shit thunders forth from the fundament of the Lord of Storms.
Loki: And the mighty Thor sits up, and looks around, and sees Ratatosk on the ground, stunned, gassed, and befouled. And slowly, with hands as big as ham hocks, he picks up the little animal, and stares at it. And then, with one ponderous motion, he clasps it to his bosom.
Loki: “You're ugly", he says, "you're hairy, and you're covered in shit. But you're mine, and I love you!"
@@Xeper616 my chest hurts from laughing at that excerpt, thank you for the laugh this evening 😂
Zeus : I'm bored. Oh look ! A beautiful mortal to plant my seeds on.
Loki : I'm bored. Oh look ! A god to prank.
Both didn't end so well in life.
Zeus did ok? Leader of the pantheon, eliminated the possibility to be dethroned...
@@Hecatonicosachoron the cause of a larger portion of greek mythology.
Nobody tell them about Loki and the horse
Frey: Oh, hey, I got a... handkerchief? What? Thor gets a freaking hammer, Odin gets a spear, and I only get a OH MY AESIR-!!
I like to imagine it made an airbag noise. Have you seen that video of a guy's airbags going off, filling his entire truck with airbags and shooting his hat out the side window? I imagine that, but with a boat.
They enter their room, hit the button or something, then BOOM helmet goes flying out the window, a ship's mast sticks out the door, and a waggling arm is sticking out another window.
Freyr is a Vanir, and the king of them, at that (if I recall correctly).
@@theoverpreparerlamenters3r436 He’s Njord’s son (also Vanir) and iirc Sif is their cousin (also Vanir)
@@MatthewSmith-sz1yq "Hey, what's this button d--"
*FOOMPH!*
Frey is the god of fertility.
If you take a seed, like an acorn, it's so small you can keep it in your pocket.
But if you plant it in the ground, it can grow, with the help of Frey, to an enormous tree you can build a ship from.
The version I remember of "why Loki made the wager in the first place" is because the dwarves wanted a ton of money for just the golden hair, but in order to not pay the bill and make apology gifts for the other gods for shaving off Sif's hair he set up the competition between two families of dwarves to get 6 gifts for the other gods for free.
Half of the cool things the AEsir own are due to Loki just being a scamp.
Same, does that version you remember also come from that awesome compilation of Norse myths and legends by Neil Gaiman? That's where I got it from
@@pedromiret9195 And quite a few monsters, including Odin's horse
In the version I heard, the bet was caused by a slip of the tongue on Loki's part
Some Aesir who wasn’t around for Loki’s mouth being sewed shut: Why is it so quiet
Odin: Loki got his mouth sewed shut
Aesir: ...
Odin: he lost a bet, he got what he deserves
Aesir: We thought as much, you didn't really need to explain why.
@Ishmam Masud - Cuz I Can Left out the part where they turned his other son into a wolf and drove the wolf mad so it was the thing that killed the son whose entrails were used for the bindings.
@DraKaleel 18 Fun fact: "Christmas" means "A Mass for Christ".
@@crocuslament9680 I didn't know Loki turned Fenrir onto a wolf! I thought he was born that way like Sleipnir!
Wow!
That's terrible!
Did the other son really die or did he regenerate later like Prometheus with his liver?
@@Ratchet4647 he didn't. The son turned to a wolf was Vali
Loki wants to cut a goddess' hair
Me "that sound pretty basic"
She is Thor's wife
Me "oh..."
"That sounds like it's going to cause far more trouble for yourself than anyone else."
"I've got a problem."
"He dead"
"He's not some glamorous Prince of Darkness, he's a Looney Tunes antagonist"...
A big THANK YOU from Scandinavia!
And Honestly... The Gambler by Kenny Rogers...!
(You're a genius!)
Y'know...I honestly love that the reactions of Thor and Sif to her hair being cut off is Sif looking mildly inconvenienced and upset by it....and then there's Thor
Sif: I don't get upset, my hubby does it for me.
Honestly who doesn’t love short hair? Sure it looks like a fishin’ mess given the amount of rough-cut but then again I don’t wanna be debating with Thor on it.
@@GenocidalSquid it was was not just short hair it was removed from the roots. No growing back
He's a calm and reasonable person
@@ceferinomontagna438 but....hair still grows even if removed
"Hot dwarves are canon and you can't stop me."
- Red, 2020, assuming literally anyone would want to stop her.
We don’t call Brok and Sindri the Huldra brothers for *nothing* you know-
Loki: first dude to win a court case on a technicality
I’ve won... but at what cost?
@@motharchenemy8549 he got barakapool-ed
Brok: you're right how rude of me
the dwarves: "Ok i won't take your head, but since it belong to me , i'm free to do whatever i want with it"
*take out threads and needles*
I... I could swear I've seen this exact same response to this exact same story somewhere in the past. Like, really intense deja vu.
Just me?
"Loki mostly just causes problems on purpose and gets comically walloped by the consequences".
The only thing Norse Loki has in common with Marvel Loki.
Is "the consequences" what we're calling the Hulk now?
That and his love/hate relationship with thor. In the mcu they fight s lot, but still have a brotherly love. In norse mythology loki loves to mess with Thor, but they also go in some adventures together
Also shapeshifter, especially in comic where he turned into a woman and a kid.
powerist More like, possessed Sifs body and de-aged.
Comic Loki seems to be much more resistant to consequences.
Just realised something. All Loki managed was to keep his head attached to his body, it still became the possession of Brok, which meant he could do whatever he wanted to it. So sewing his lips shut not only acted as a thematic punishment for what came out of Lokis mouth, but as a display of ownership.
Aaand also because Loki really pissed him off, which is par for the course for Loki.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I never got that, and I don't know if I ever would. And I feel stupid, because I should have.
"Boi! The dwarf will sew your lips shut now."
loki: *tries to create problems on purpose*
loki: *accidentally eggs some dwarves on enough to the point where they make the single most iconic item from norse mythology*
Trolling is only motivational when there's someone to hold the heckler's feet to the fire.
Also, probably the weapon that slew the Midgard Serpent, one of Loki's offspring. Yes, through roundabout fashion, Loki's pranks killed his son. (Not even mentioning all the snake venom dripped on his own eyes).
@@Bluecho4 To be fair, Loki's son Fenrir ate Loki's other son Sleipnir... though Sleipnir was the odd one out in his family since Loki was the mother rather than the father to him.
Thor: YOU CUT OFF MY WIFE'S HAIR!!! FIX IT!!!
Loki: Uh . . . I'll pay for the hair extensions?
"Loki's bored and wants to make some chaos" is an alternate title not only to this video, but to all of Norse mythology.
Loki is the Zeus of Norse mythology just less horny
@@immortalsoldier1367 Less horny, sure, but he does have a lot more specific fetishes
Im going to assume that since Vikings spent a lot of time on ships, they ended up with a lot of time on their hands for one of their comrades to go hey I'm bored like get up a ridiculous hjink which will probably put everyone in dsnger
I love how the dwarves had a presentation ready to go to explain why they did not make the ring’s copies make copies.
The shear panic and horror was priceless.
This explains a lot about how they treat Kratos...
Red really showing off her math degree
"That was probably the quietest afternoon Asgard had seen in a long time."
Loki: *MUFFLED SCREAMS OF THE DAMNED*
Loki: *exists*
Everyone: Have you ever seen somebody ruin their own life?
Thor’s poor wife
@S W
*piano music starts playing
*pointing at the Edda* Have you read thish?
Everyone: “Yes.............but continue, please.”
Alex: "was that a challenge?"
Elizabeth Schuler-Hamilton: "Alexander wHAT DID YOU DO?!"
"Know when to hold' em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run" is such a fantastic theme for Loki, especially since he never listens to that advice
Sounds like a very condensed version of Havamal.
Loki is really good at knowing when to run... he is just really hated so he is allways caught.
also Loki invented the fishing net by accident because he was so nervous after a certain prank.
The best part about this is that it starts with Loki not actually knowing WHY he decided to cut off Sif's hair... he just kind of did it.
So there's this moment when Thor and Sif are just sort of angrily glaring at him, and he's just like "I don't know why I do the things I do"
For some people, not acting on your impulses is borderline torture to them.
That's just me on a daily basis... I feel like if my ADHD had a face it would look like Loki...
Loki The God of -Mischief- _Losing to Your Intrusive Thoughts_
I feel like Loki is basically the OG “chaotic stupid” DnD player character.
Oh man, I think finally found my own character! Chaotic stupid has a nice ring to it, eh?
I use Loki as a dnd character I actually used this story as a side quest and let me say he is a fantastic villain
@Gogopuppy201
To be called chaotic stupid is not a positive thing to be at all
@@AK-Drakoin yes, but it makes for a fun character to role-play.
Although, personally, I like screwing around with the other alignments. A Lawful Evil priest, for example. "I am a priest devoted to the ONLY god worth worshipping. Myself."
Let's all admit it. Loki is your rogue friend that invited them selves to your DnD campaigns and then manages to get you all caught up paying back a whole town with all the gold you just looted from the dungeon, which everybody almost died in because the rogue rolled a nat 1-3 for stealth and managed to trigger most or all of the traps and piss off every single monster in the dungeon.
“Norse mythology is confusing. There’s hardly any written records.”
Celtic mythology: “Am I a joke to you?”
Slavic mythology: "You guys have records?"
@@vladprus4019 still cracks me up that Smites first slavic God is Chernobog
@@fatherpucci-madeinheaven362 only*
@@mladen7641 Technically, Baba Yaga is also counted as a Slavic god in the game
@@hieuoan7766 but she's a folkloric witch not a god
Edda: and then Thor disguised himself as a beautiful woman and Loki did some murder with some mistletoe AND THERE SHALL BE ONE GOD ABOVE ALL WHO SHALL COME IN JUDGEMENT AND RULE THE EARTH and then they all got drunk and partied
Researchers: ...methinks some Christianity has gotten into my perfectly good Norse mythology
This made me laugh and yeah. That's about the size of it. Best description ever.
Accurate. Made me chuckle!
it's a little more obnoxious than that. If it was all just obvious out of context Yahweh praising it would be easy enough to separate it from the legit Norse myth. The problem is that some sources have things even like the deity status of the Norse gods even being called into question and them instead being considered supposedly 'mortal heroes'. There's the possibility that some of the myths we've lost in their entirety and only know about because of weird snippets mentioned here and there in the text are gone because some overly pious jackass in the 11th century or something decided it was heretical and burned it.
Hey, if you don't fuck a stallion (and subsequently birth its child) then you are neither a proper man nor a properly norse loki.
And whatever he boned to get a wolf child, a snake child and so on. Out of interest for all the kids he made I tried finding family-charts for norse mythology... but why do none of them mention sleipnir?!
Must have been the first "I shave to baby-faced smoothness" ever recorded in history. Awkwardness ensues.
I just love that Thor's dialog consists of enraged SCREAMING in that first encounter. I like to imagine that Sif caught Loki mid-haircut, got a message to Thor, and then the two of them wait.
And slowly but inexorably, starting at quite a distance, you start to hear from across the valley and over the hills, the faintest hint of Thor's angry SCREAMING as he marches home.
Sif waking up to see her hair gone and Loki standing there
Loki sweating nervously with scissors in hand:So I have a perfect explanation...
Sif:Thor honey?! *Thunder and stomping heard a mile away*
Loki:Oh shit
Thor is Sly Marbo confirmed?
@@LordDeathwing17 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Ragnarok wouldn’t happen.
**About to cut off Loki’s head**
Loki: I never said anything about you taking my neck
*SPEECH 100*
The Merchant of Venice solution huh.
@TheBobBrom *It's a joke*
My compromise would Loki would be that I wouldn't take the WHOLE head then, he can keep the part of his head attached to the neck, I get everything above the chin and ears if the head is totally tilted backward.
Its like in D&D when you say something really stupid in roleplay, but manage to roll a nat 20 so the DM kind of has to go along with it.
That is kinda 1/3rd of Loki. He is really good with words.
The other 2/3rds are Pranks which has a 50/50 chance of going wrong one way or another and shapeshifting/disguises
I got really confused when you started telling the story I thought “wait red already told this one” and then I remembered I learned it elsewhere and my brain just assumes any Norse mythology I’ve learned is exclusively from this channel
Ooh shit me too I thought Red told me this but it's one of Ted Ed video silly me
Maybe you learned it from the Marvel comics? They put their own twist on this legend where Loki refuses to pay for the new hair for Sif so the dwarves make the new hair but make it out of "nothing" since they were paid nothing. So they basically make her hair out of the blackness of space and that's supposed to be the explanation for why comic book Sif has black hair when every other native Asgardian appears to be blonde or red haired.
@@EdslilNeko definitely wasn’t marvel I’ve only read the Deadpool comics but that’s nutso
I remember hearing this one at a summer camp around 15 years ago or so. And until this video I was never sure if it was real or if either my mind/the counselor made it up.
This is me but a ton of myths because I’ve read most of Rick Riordan’s gods of whatever books and almost every encounter there is basically just a slightly modernised spin on some Greek, Roman, Egyptian or Norse myth depending on what series you’re on. Made me think that we should do more of that, but tbh I’ve seen some German productions where people _tried_ doing that with German myths and it was awful to watch.
I love how a fair amount of Norse Myths involve Loki getting bored, doing something to piss someone off and then having Thor show up to fix everything, typically by killing something.
Kind of like how most of greek mythology is just Zeus being lustful.
Loki: * about to get his mouth sewn up * "Yes, that's me. You're probably wondering how did I get here..."
The math in the background explaining why an exponentially multiplying ring would be chaos is giving me LIFE
That, and Freyr going 'what is this?' with his new folding boat before it explodes into boat-form and flattens him.
@@allenl5960 "is this a jojo reference"
was it mentioned that the copies would also multiply themselves? isnt just the original one?
Dwarves build. Engineering is what they DO. The Aesir have their impossible physical feats, the Vanir have magic, and the Dwarves build.
Well Red has to do SOMETHING with that math degree lol
I love how everyone is all oooh and ahhh about their gifts and then Freyr is over there in the corner being crushed by his magical folding ship
Also, Freyr is a farm god. He has no use for boats.
That genuinely caused me to pause the video just to belly laugh for about three minutes straight
I love how big and FLUFFY Thor is drawn, especially while cuddling up to his wife. He looks like he gives great hugs.
I love how Red the Math Major took the time to determine how quickly the world would be covered in gold rings if each copy also dropped eight copies.
I'd be curious to see the math for one 10g ring making the duplicates
He just has big cartoony chaotic energy. He's just chaotic. He's probably ADHD. God of mischief, I love him.
*Imagine a crossover episode where Loki meets Sun Wukong... The CHAOS that would ensue would be hilarious to watch.* ;)
@@youtubingjaguar5082 Loki and Sun Wukong:*meet*
Everything in existence: *chuckles* I'm in danger
Calling it, Loki is the god of adhd. He is 100% out patron god. Why?
Because he would totally enchant any person with adhd to have that tiny voice in the back of our brains constantly distracting us or egging us on to do something incredibly stupid
@@Butterpony Genderfluid, bisexual and neurodivergent. Truly the god I can get behind lol
@@cawareyoudoin7379
Loki is a mood lol
Loki sounds like a Chaotic Neutral character who is shocked, shocked I tell you, that his prank backfired in such a way!
He sounds more like an trickster who suffers from OCD.
Chaotic Neutral, A.K.A. Evil Lite™
@@rubydancer4241 The problem is he never plans for when the prank inevitably backfires. He just goes "ooh this'd be funny!" And then when he faces the consequences he's absolutely flabbergasted his genius plan of "make powerful entity/entities mad" somehow went south.
Loki be like: I think I will cause problems for everyone, especially myself.
Love how loki getting bored and cutting off siffs hair inadvertently led to Thor getting his iconic hammer and Odin his iconic spear
Notes that are relevant to the plot:
-He cut the hair at the root so it wouldn't grow back (bald = punishment for infidelity)
-He was very drunk when he did it
-He covers up his scheme as a contest presented by the other dwarven family (basically his exact words to each set of brothers)
Notes that are not relevant to the plot, but are funny:
-Thor threatened to break every bone in his body each and everyday (because Thor be like that)
It is his wife who was insulted. And Thor himself too.
King Viking watched the ted-Ed video about it?
@@enderpup9289 KingViking read the og mythology.
Thanks
Loki: "I said you could have my head, but not my neck!"
So... Merchant of Venice?
Its VENETZIA!
He should have just said he didn't say anything about his body not being attached. Then again there are a lot of things Loki _should_ have done and didn't
@@atotallyrealhuman8780 *Angry ice noises*
If I was Brock, I would've just taken extra precaution to cut the base of the head and leave the neck.
@@omegabet3912 Even in a norse mythology video we can't escape the JoJo fandom
Loki: the OG chaotic neutral arcane trickster. Tell me I'm wrong.
Listen, I could tell you you're wrong, BUT I just don't have the kind of Lokean energy to sit here and lie so boldly like that.
Until the alignment shift to Chaotic Evil.
You are wrong
I feel like he leans a little toward chaotic good depending on the exact characterization (see 1:20), but chaotic neutral works too.
@@kindoflame Really, apart from the whole Ragnarok thing, he's at worst CN and at best CG. He really only causes problems and fixes them, causes minor problems and let everybody sort them out, or fixes problems that he's not responsible for. On top of that, the solutions to the problems he causes tend to make the gods better off than they were before.
I think it’d be funny if Loki just meant it as a compliment of how cool the artifacts they made are, and when they took it the wrong way he just goes “one time I try to be nice and this is how it goes I’m never doing this again”
"Hot dwarves could very well be canon and you can't stop me"
Are you saying the short bearded dwarves aren't already hot?
Gimli is hot, change my mind
@@marianac9663 I mean, book Gimli is a handsome prince with the soul of a poet, so I'd say he's up there.
The short bearded Dwarves may be hot, but some people do prefer a taller drink.
**looks right, looks left**
_Blitzen_
(Short bearded?? dwarf)
Two words.
Varric Tethras.
3:04 Dwarf: “And I present to you your gift Freyr.”
Freyr: “What am I looking at?”
Dwarf: “A pocket-size boat.....”
Freyr: “Uh....great? Tha-“
*boing*
Dwarf: “......that also unpacks into a large boat for sailing the high seas!”
Fish Newt
Freyr: Now you tell me...
Basically: “But wait, there’s more!”
I have to admit that I like Rick Riordan's version of this: that the boat is such a violent color of yellow that they start calling it the Big Banana.
@@professorbutters Yeah, that bit was hilarious. And I love the Floor 19 crew's initial deadpan reaction and Magnus wailing, "I don't know! I don't know why it's yellow!"
Freyr (slightly muffled): "That's interesting. Please get it off me now..."
apparently Loki: if you're not almost dying, you're not living!
"Everything that kills me makes me feel alive..."
So basically Ragnarrok is Loki's way of saying "Thank you & goodnight you've been a great crowd!"
"Hot dwarves could very well be canon and you can't stop me." I mean, pretty sure given the 'elves' name they probably are... and like, why would we WANT to stop you?
The weird thing is, we're not sure if they were "Black elves" or not, because even Snorri couldn't keep it straight.
This is only my second favorite story where Thor and Loki were involved, right behind Loki continuously critting on his deception checks to make people believe that this buff guy in a dress is Freya and definitely not Thor, who's hammer is sitting on that table in the corner.
Freya is one of three Norse War Gods, and she ones one of the Warrior Afterlives.
It's entirely possible that Freya is a very butch woman, because God of War, and Thor is a very pretty man.
They animated that if you didn't know! It's in their Poetic Edda video. I'm fond of when Thor drank a lake or something on accident after being tricked by an illusionist when he was at his home.
Cheshire Waltz he drank quite a bit of the ocean and scared the illusionist lol
"He's a loony-toons antagonist"
Marvel really missed out on an opportunity here man
no they didn't miss it, his earlier comic appearances were kinda loony-toons, like when he turned a street and all the buildings and objects in it into candy, the car was made of ice cream
Are you sure they did?
“I have been falling for 30 minutes!”
@@IISheireenII it was a joke, you don't have to take it so seriously...
They didn't stick with that shit after Son of the Mask kinda ruined the idea
That scene the first avengers where Hulk grabs his leg and starts swinging him around like a rag doll is basically a Tom and Jerry cartoon
"In short, Hot dwarves could very well be canon and you can't stop me."
*Looks at Brok and Sindri*
Why would anyone want you to?
Dwarves in norse mythology: *are also dark elves*
well... sounds like hot Deverger are canon
Me: Short enough to be classed with dwarfism.
As long as you don't stand up and/or use Tinder, I can confirm they're canon.
I think Loki's an addict to causing problems for himself and/or others.
We gotta get him to rehab.
But then he'd just cause problems for the rehab staff.
And then the rest of the aesir would die out of sheer boredom. No, we'd better not.
Tecnically his intervention was having on of his sons morphed into a wolf and disebowling the other son and the intrails being Loki's bindings while a snake dripped venom into his eyes till raganarok started
Stardustdragon87 but what did that son do to get disemboweled? That always seemed overly harsh
Drama is easy stimulus. Gets that dopamine firing.
I feel like a lot of people are missing out on the ACTUAL MATH that went into figuring out how long it would take the world to be covered in gold rings
Red is truly a Renaissance woman
But I’m pretty sure it makes the assumption that each copy copies itself, which I don’t think is true. I think only the original dreipnir makes the copies
@@TransSappho It was in response to the hypothetical (from Odin) OF the copies also making copies.
Read the description
Well, she does have a degree in math.
Better to put it to some use than regret it.
@@laurenkirby97 red has a degree in math?
"I said you could have my head, but I didn't say you could have my neck..."
"That's okay...You have another head..."
I really hope that this isn’t referring to what I think it’s referring to
@@lordoftheducks332 I'm pretty sure it is.
Loki is gender fluid and a shapeshifter, so not always.
Loki:" you still can't have the neck"
Dwarf: "I doubt we'll find any neck to worry about"
The rest of Asgard: XDD
OW OW OW OW OW
Loki is the textbook definition of “it’s only illegal if you get caught”
Honestly, this is one of stories I've heard of the most. I'm Swedish, and I remember this being told as a story to kids to teach them that you reap what you sow. I remember it also being taught in class, together with the story of how the Wall of Asgard was built(and also Loki's "horsing around" as one might put it). And then for a third time as a series of educational tv episodes together with how Thor almost fished up Jörmungandr. It's honestly very fun to again hear of the story years later on this channel.
The same happened to me in Norway, quite a few Norse mythology stories in shcool and when you are a kid.
Ishmam Masud - Cuz I Can I remember that show myself, they left out the whole “got screwed by a horse” part, but they did show Loki returning to Asgard with Sleipnir afterwards so it was sort of implied.
i live in the uk but i remember getting told the myth about loki getting tied up in a cave with a snake on his face (i don't remember why or if there was a moral or what, i just remember learning it)
@@yaboimagnus4776 it's the balder killing
Loki is like: "Dude chill, it was just a prank"
Dwarf: "Oh I don't think so. I REALLY don't think so"
Loki: I'm bored, guess I'll cut the hair of the wife of the most violent, overpowered god in all existence. I'm sure I'll be fine.
Morgan Freeman: Turns out, he wasn't going to be fine...
"Hot dwarves can very well be cannon and you cant stop me," just fits red so well and I love it
"Okay, Loki, why did you steal Sif's hair, knowing how much she loves it and how much making Sif upset would make Thor, the Giant Killer, of which you are one, pissed?"
"I bring mischief to everyone... including myself."
If I was insistent on having Loki's head, I would have chopped it off just above the neck and told Loki "Keep the change."
Oh my God.. the Dwarfs are running Capsule Corps...
Keep the change, you filthy animal!
I could see them just chopping his head in half the mouth level and told Loki he could keep everything else
Loki didn't say they could damage his head. Just have it. It would have been rude of the dwarfs to damage something they won.
A Trickster that doesn't trick himself now and then is doing it wrong anyway.
From what I've read in the comments Loki enchanted his head to make it so his head couldn't be cut to get around that.
"Hot Dwarves are canon and you can't stop me."
Why would I want to stop you? *_This is amazing information._*
we honestly need MORE takes on dwarves that aren't short people with beards who mine
loki: “don’t look at me like that i’m not satan”
christian: “oh yeah? then why do you dress like you are”
Christans: that's something Satan would say!
Loke: *changes into a lamb
Lambe: "checkmate Charlenists"
@@silence_dais alright fine! I am satan! Are you happy now?!
Loki in cosplay: I DO WHAT I WANT
Loki: “I’m not dressed like Sat- oh gods I am! How did this happen?!
Christians hiding their pens after changing the source material: “No idea.”
Loki in the MCU: I CUT YOUR HAIR BECAUSE I'M A PIECE OF SHIT WHO DOESN'T DESERVE LOVE!
Loki in canon: I cut it because I was bored and there was no trouble, so I made it mself
Loki in Loki: I cut your hair because I thought it would be funny.
…I didn’t make that up, he said that word-for-word.
Comic Loki is actually much closer to his "real" depictions. Sure, he's literally the reason the Avengers were formed... But Loki's changed in every single way over the years. And, Marvel Comic spoilers (this won't ever be in the MCU)
Loki's literally the Norse God who survived "Ragnarök" (Avengers/New Avengers/Last Days of Loki,) and he is actually a problem solver now, albeit he's never trusted. More spoilers below, this is recent.
Except to Thor, who has taken Odin's throne. Loki straight up asked him "Would you trust me even as your enemy," and Thor says yes. And then Loki transforms into... some other Loki...
The version i heard makes a little more sense, so i thought i'll present it here, for anyone curious.
So the main diffrence is, that there are two groups od dwarves in this version. One are foremantioned Brok and Sindri (I have no idea how to write it, so forgive me in advance) and the second are the unnamed sons of Divaldi (I really don't know if it's written that way). Loki, after doing his mischief realises that the only guyes around who could make some hair for Thor's wife are the dwarves, but also knows that he can't just go there and ask for them. Probebly because no one likes all that much. So he devides to make "competition" out od it.
First he goes to Divaldis Sons and tells them, that he heard that the greatest craftsman of all, are they're rivals - Brok and Sindri. Dwarves are obviously pissed, so Loki presents the challenge. Each group gotta forge three great artifacts for the gods, and they will decide who is better. The rest of the myth goes down in a similar fashion. Brok senses that Loki tries to play them to his advantege, so he demands his head, if he and his brother were to win. Divaldis Sons make first three artifacts, and Brok and Sindri the latter ones. Meow Meow wins as the best artifact, and Loki gets his mouth sewed.
Have a nice day.
Yeah, I think this is the version I've always heard too. Red calls them "sons of Invaldi" here so maybe the original is phrased in a way with multiple interpretations?
Its a norse myth, i always just assume theres another version of it since they pass those down by mouth.
Meow Meow
Great nickname for Mjolnir
Yeah that's the version I'm familiar with
...did you just call Mjolnir "Meow Meow"? 😂
"North mythology is a little frustrating to research"
As citizen of Slavic nation, named after Slavic god I will say: try research Slavic mythology!
Celtic mythology: Allow us to introduce ourselves
*African mythology is heard faintly weeping in another room*
i would say pre colombine myths but i think albus win here
What's your name? Dazbog? Svarog?
@@sauron8838 He's Domovoi m8
2:05
I love how Sif is handling the situation more maturely than Thor.
Well to be fair Thor was known for his short temper
@@arontuske9348 YES, thor was the original "redheads have a bad temper"
@@hefas842 that's why thor has red hair??? (Red's drawing, not marvel thor)
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 Yes! Thor is very explicitly described as a redhead in the myths.
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 Why Marvel make Thor's hair blonde?
I love the gremlin aesthetic of Loki in these videos.
Gremlin is exactly the word I was looking for! It’s perfect!
2:56 Looks actually a really thoughtful God, imo. He's like a kid and plays stupid pranks, but when he goes to get the hair he's just like, “Oh, Odin would like a spear while you're at it.”
It's kinda like when someone goes to the grocery store and brings back stuff you wanted without actually being told.
More like he just really wanted to smooth out his already rocky standing with them...
Loki: *causes chaos*
*consequences occur for chaos*
Loki: *suprised muffled Pikachu face*
Edit: I have long been anticipating this episode after watching the streams and seeing some of Red's tweets with some of the images: I loved every second of it 😁👌
I think that the only Loki story people are anticipating more would be the one with the horse.
Petition to make Loki the "God of bringing good stuff together"
Because of him, Gungnir, Mjolnir, and the Avengers were made
The first two were good things. Not the third one.
@@ametsunami4070 burn
@Jacob Sheehan
The avengers deserve to burn.
@@ametsunami4070 damn, ya could've assassinated the producers from releasing avengers endgame
The first is good bc its one of the main stuff in Symphogear lore
Loki-*is bored*
Everyone-Aw shit, here we go again.