Loki Laufeyson/ Avengers Assassinated

**Loki Laufeyson** is a supporting antagonist of the first season of the *What If* series, appearing as the secondary antagonist of "What If the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes" and a minor antagonist of "What If The Watcher Broke His Oath".

He is portrayed by Tom Hiddleston like his original version.

He was the adopted son of Odin and prince of Asagrd who sent his adopted brother Thor to Earth in order to usurp Asgard's throne, and later led the Asgardian army to Earth when he was killed. He formed a brief alliance with Nick Fury and SHIELD and caught Thor's killer, who had also killed candidates of Fury's Avengers Initiative, but then launched an invasion to control the planet. During a battle with SHIELD, Loki was defeated by the interference of a cosmic being known as The Watcher and an alternate version of Black Widow.

## Biography

### Forming an Alliance with SHIELD

Loki Laufeyson was the son of Frost Giant king Laufey, who abandoned him outside his palace. His arch-nemesis Odin Borson, King of Asgard, took Loki as his own son and raised him as his own. Loki seeked to become the ruler of Asgard and formed an alliance with the Frost Giants, making them attack Thor's coronation before manipulating Thor into attacking Jotunheim, home to the Frost Giants. For his actions, Odin deemed Thor unworthy of his hammer Mjolnir, stripped him of his powers and exiled him to Earth. When Thor was killed during his time on Earth, Loki led the Asgardian army to Earth to the place where Thor died with the Casket of Ancient Winters. He was confronted by Nick Fury, Director of SHIELD, and announced his intentions of avenging his brother before freezing many SHIELD cars with the Casket. He was eventually stopped by Sif, who encouraged him to listen to Fury. Fury revealed that the person who killed Thor killed two of Fury's men and proposed an alliance to stop him. Loki agreed and gave him until next sunrise to locate Thor's killer.

### Apprehending Yellowjacket

Loki created an ice fortress with the Casket, guarded by the Destroyer. Fury arrived, informing Loki that the killer was Yellowjacket, who was killing the candidates of Fury's Avengers Initiative as he blamed him for the death of his daughter Hope van Dyne. They form a plan to defeat him, and Loki disguises himself as Nick Fury and visits the grave of Hope where he meets Yellowjacket, who admits assassinating the Avengers apart from Thor, who he says he killed because he though Fury might recruit him as well, shocking Loki. Yellowjacket attempts to kill Loki but he effortlessly blocks his blows before teleporting around him. He then begins duplicating himself, much to Yellowjacket's confusion, before he reveals himself as Loki as the real Nick Fury arrives. Loki summons his Einherjar guards, who arrest Yellowjacket, before Loki betrays Fury and reveals he plans to stay on Earth.

### Conquest of Earth and Defeat

By the next day, Loki and his army ended racial and inequality matters, but revealed his evil motives at the United Nations where he revealed in his speech that he plans to take control of Earth. Nick Fury gathered SHIELD and the new Avengers: Captain America and Captain Marvel, and protested against Loki's rule. Loki led the Asgardian army and attacked the Helicarrier, SHIELD's base, leading to a battle. A cosmic being known as The Watcher teleported Black Widow from Earth-TRN906 to that universe following the decimation of her own. Loki used the weapon known as the Scepter(with the Mind Stone inside it) to pin Nick Fury on the floor and prepared to kill him when the alternate Black Widow kicked Loki in the face, causing him to fall over. Loki was confused, as the Black Widow of his universe had died, allowing the alternate Black Widow to use the Scepter on him, defeating him.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Frost Giant Physiology**: Due to being a Frost Giant, Loki possesses all the attributes of a Frost Giant.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Loki has great superhuman strength, surpassing the likes of regular humans.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Loki's body can heal from tremendous amounts of force with ease.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Loki can run at speeds faster than any human.
	+ **Superhuman Agility**: Loki has high levels of agility, able to avoid the blows of his opponents.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: Loki can function at his maximum capacity for an extremely long period of time before tiring.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes**: Loki has superhuman reflexes faster than humans.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Loki has a regenerative healing factor that causes him to heal to wounds that would kill normal humans at high speeds.
	+ **Longevity**: Loki is a very long-lived being and has allowed him to live for thousands of years, aging slowly.
	+ **Cold Immunity**: Due to being a Frost Giant, Loki is immune to coldness.
* **Master Sorcerer**: Loki is highly skilled in sorcery, and is among the greatest sorcerers to ever live.
	+ **Illusion Manipulation**: Loki has the power to create extremely convincing illusions.
	+ **Duplication Casting**: Loki can duplicate himself, as shown when he duplicated himself around Yellowjacket.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: Loki can shapeshift himself into the form of others, as shown when he disguised himself as Nick Fury.
	+ **Presence Concealment**: Loki can render himself invisible to hide himself from the awareness of others.
	+ **Mental Manipulation**: Loki can influence the mind of others to do his bidding.
	+ **Conjuration**: Loki can conjure items to appear and disappear.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Loki can move and levitate objects at will.

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Loki has a genius-level intellect, possessing immense knowledge of Asgardian magic.
* **Master Tactician**: Loki is a master strategist, able to outsmart his adoptive brother Thor and cause the events that sent him to Earth and tricked Nick Fury into forming an alliance before turning on him and seize control of Earth.
* **Expert Combatant**: Loki is an expert combatant, able to effortlessly overpower and nearly kill Nick Fury, a highly skilled combatant, as well as swarms of SHIELD agents.
* **Spear Mastery**: Loki was skilled at using spears in combat.
* **Expert Marksman**: Loki was able to fire various weapons with high accuracy.
* **Pilot**: Loki is a skilled pilot.
* **Multilingualism**: Loki can fluently speak Asgardian, English, Norwegian and Latin.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Gungir**: Loki took his father's spear Gungir and brought it with him during his invasion of Earth.
* **Casket of Ancient Winters**: Loki used the Casket of Ancient Winters to create an ice fortress for himself on Earth.
* **Scepter**: Loki obtained the Scepter, which contained the Mind Stone, through unknown means, and used it during his battle against SHIELD. Eventually, the Scepter would be used by an alternate Black Widow to defeat him.
* **Asgardian Armour**: Loki wore an Asgardian Armour.
* **Horned Helmet**: Loki wore a horned helmet on his head.

.