Loki (Shin Megami Tensei)

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==Summary==
:Origin: Scandinavia. A beautiful blond giant with blue eyes. He fathered Fenrir, Hel, and Jormungandr with the giant Angrboda. His cleverness along with his beauty was the cause of a great deal of trouble. He later grew evil enough to have Odin's son Baldr killed. Without Baldr's light, the world began to progress steadily toward Ragnarok. There, he will lead the giants against the gods. He and Heimdall will kill each other.
:—Shin Megami Tensei A-Mode DDS Dictionary
:The blond-haired, blue-eyed trickster god of Norse mythology. He was born of the race of giants, but was accepted as one of the Aesir by Odin. He is strikingly handsome, but has a cunning streak that makes him a frequent nuisance to others. His murder of Baldr, Odin's son and the god of light, robbed the world of light and signaled the beginning of Ragnarok, the end times.
:With the giantess Angrboda he sired three children: the giants wolf Fenrir, the world serpent Jormungandr, and the goddess of the underworld, Hel. At Ragnarok, Loki will lead the giants in their battle against the gods. There, he will fight the light god Heimdall, who had taken back the necklace Brísingamen after Loki stole it from the goddess Freya, and the two will slay each other.
:—Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE Compendium
Among the large array of mythological figures featured in Megami Tensei, Loki also holds the distinction of being, in fact, the first demon to ever appear in the franchise, long before it was readapted into a video game series, during the events of the Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei light novel. In it, Loki is portrayed as a malevolent demon lord with his sights set on manifesting within the material world, summoned by Akemi Nakajima in a fit of revenge in order to brainwash and brutally kill all of the latter's classmates. Although Nakajima manages to keep Loki satiated for a time, he soon finds himself outmatched, as the demon god manages to find a way to gain material form and wreck havoc in the human world, proving himself to be a far greater threat than Nakajima could possibly be.
==Powers and Stats==
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Key: Demon | Archetype
Name: Loki
Origin: Megami Tensei
Gender: Male.
Age: Inapplicable. Exists beyond time.
Classification: Demon, Norse Deity, Trickster God, Jötunn.
Powers and Abilities:
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Attack Potency: Low Complex Multiverse level (Casually defeated the Heavenly Kings who sustained the barrier that kept the Human World and the Demon World separated, even going as far as describing the act as a way of "killing time") | Outerverse level (Exists as an archetype, a shapeless, fundamental unit of the collective unconscious inhabiting the realm of Atziluth, beyond the concept of dimensions entirely, and yet to be shaped into a lower state by the thoughts and emotions of humanity)
Speed: Immeasurable | Omnipresent (Those who inhabit the unconscious, archetypal world are untied from space and time and diffused throughout all of existence, experiencing "all dimensions and possibilities")
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable | Immeasurable
Striking Strength: Low Complex Multiverse level | Outerverse level
Durability: Low Complex Multiverse level | Outerverse level
Stamina: Infinite.
Range: Low Complex Multiversal | Outerversal.
Standard Equipment: None Notable.
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Stated to have an intellect "beyond anything a human could hope to have," even in relation to the likes of Akemi Nakajima, and his very existence is itself fundamentally tied to the concepts of trickery and deceit, having constantly manipulated the Aesir in the far past and caused Balder's death in both mythic and modern times)
Weaknesses: None Notable.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
More detailed information on this character's skill list can be found in the Megami Tensei wiki
Buffs and Debuffs: A set of skills that, as the name implies, allows the caster to greatly amplify their own physical attributes and reduce that of their foes, thus allowing one to stand up to much stronger opponents by closing or even reversing the gap in power between them. Outside of gameplay limitations, they can be stacked indefinitely, and sufficient usages of buffs allow the caster to survive attacks that would otherwise obliterate them with only minor injuries and amplify their speed to the point of completely outspeeding opponents that could previously predict all of their movements, while debuffs have a directly proportional effect on the enemy's statistics.
* Mind Charge: Triples the offensive power of all his magical attacks.
* Trick Step: Increases his own speed by one rank, represented in gameplay terms by his rate of evasion being boosted.
* Taunt: Decreases an enemy's defenses by two ranks, but increases their attack power by the same degree.
* Tarunda: Decreases an enemy's offensive power.
* Dekunda: Removes all debuffs from himself and all allies.
Almighty Attacks: The highest class of spells in the Megami Tensei franchise, consisting largely of powerful non-elemental attacks that have the special property of completely bypassing any resistances or immunities that a target may possess, be them innate or magically enforced, the latter of which including anything from reflective barriers to items that distort the very laws of the universe in order to protect the user from all forms of damage, and they are likewise unable to blocked, drained or generally defended against.
* Megidolaon: Unleashes a wave of destructive energy which deals heavy damage to all foes, tapping into the pale light of divinity that reigns over destruction itself and engulfing them in "the complete annihilation beyond death."
* Magic Seal: Inflicts the "mute" ailment on a foe, sealing away their magical abilities.
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
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