Loki

Loki is depicted as the most dangerous prankster of the divine realm, a playful yet deeply twisted god whose mischief can topple lives and even shape the fate of Ragnarok.

He is known for his shapeshifting, his ability to copy gods and weapons, and a personality that hides obsession and jealousy beneath a joking facade.

He hails from the Norse pantheon and is labeled an "evil god" and "trickster" within the series.

Despite his lighthearted mannerisms, he is feared by other gods and is described by Zeus as possessing a fundamentally abnormal kind of strength.

Name: Loki

Pantheon: Norse mythology

Affiliation: Gods’ side in Record of Ragnarok

Role in Ragnarok: Eleventh-round fighter, opponent of Simo Häyhä

Nickname / Catchphrase: "Most vicious prankster of the divine realm" (Trickster)

Weapon: Andvaranaut – the multiplying ring

Divine Authority: Shapeshifting; ability to copy beings and objects

Voice Actor (Anime): Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Loki usually appears as a young man with a boyish, flippant vibe and a sly, easygoing smile.

His bangs are lightly colored and he has dark green hair, which complements his trickster image.

On the surface he is cheerful, playful, and constantly pulling pranks on other gods.

He uses his shapeshifting to tease them, for example impersonating Thor just to mess with Odin.

Beneath this clownish exterior, Loki is a battle maniac who yearns for high-level combat.

He envies Adam for being able to fight Zeus at full power and clearly admires the thrill of that level of clash.

He has a sharp, suspicious mind and is quick to question others’ motives, especially when something breaks the rules of the divine order.

This side of him appears when he starts doubting Buddha after seeing the sheer power of Valkyrie-made divine weapons that can even kill gods.

Loki can also be extremely emotional and unstable.

When Buddha finally declares he will fight on the human side in the sixth round, Loki’s usual carefree attitude vanishes and he erupts in furious rage, even biting his nails in agitation.

He hides deep loneliness and self-loathing under his jokes.

Heracles is able to see through him, noting how Loki’s insistence that “being good doesn’t get you what you want” comes from a very sad place inside.

Loki appears as one of the key gods observing and interfering around the Ragnarok matches.

He spends much of the early conflicts watching, mocking, and probing both gods and humans to satisfy his curiosity and malice.

After the fourth match, he summons Buddha to confront him about the Valkyries’ “Divine Weapon Creation” ability, which allows humans to fight and even kill gods.

Suspicious that such a system requires the technique called “Shared Fate,” which exists in the Buddhist realm, he accuses Buddha directly and asks if he is a traitor.

Before he can press him further, Zeus and Odin intervene, forcing Loki to withdraw from the confrontation.

This seeds Loki’s simmering distrust and sets up his later fury when his suspicions are proven right.

During the sixth match, when Buddha openly switches sides and joins humanity, Loki is more enraged than any other god present.

His anger is both ideological—betrayal of the gods—and personal, as it confirms his worst suspicions and makes him feel played.

Later, Loki is chosen as the gods’ fighter for the eleventh round of Ragnarok.

He enters the arena to fight Simo Häyhä, bringing with him his terrifying arsenal of copying abilities and his multiplying ring Andvaranaut.

Loki has a versatile and highly deceptive fighting style that exploits his shapeshifting and copying powers.

He prefers trickery, misdirection, and swarm tactics rather than straightforward combat.

Shapeshifting

Loki can transform into various beings, including other gods.

He often uses this casually for pranks, such as taking Thor’s form to troll Odin.

In the past, he used his shapeshifting in far darker ways, impersonating people to frame them for crimes.

This destructive potential makes his trickster nature genuinely dangerous, not just comedic.

Hand-based Abilities

Loki’s true power lies in his hands, which host separate but related abilities.

He uses these to copy and reproduce almost anything he touches.

Finger Ability: "The Sealer"

By touching something with his fingers, Loki can record and “input” it.

This includes objects, weapons, and even living beings such as humans and gods.

Once something is recorded, its data is stored and can later be reproduced by his palm ability.

This turns a casual handshake or tap into a lethal setup for future battles.

Palm Ability: "Seed of Deception"

Using his palm, Loki can “output” what he has stored with his fingers.

He can perfectly recreate anything he has touched: objects, weapons, humans, or even gods.

This combined system is collectively known as Jester’s Ring (Heimskringla) – the authority to copy all things.

The copies are functional entities that can fight, making Loki a one-god army.

By default, he can maintain up to five copies simultaneously.

In the eleventh round, he uses this to recreate Odin, Thor, and Heracles as combat units.

Divine Technique: Jester’s Ring (Heimskringla)

Jester’s Ring refers to Loki’s overarching power to duplicate everything he has recorded.

It is the core of his "copy anything" style and is one of the most broken abilities in the divine roster.

The power is limited by the number of copies he can maintain at once, but there is no restriction on what category of being he can duplicate.

This includes gods, making Loki terrifyingly versatile in a divine-versus-divine confrontation.

Andvaranaut – The Multiplying Ring

Loki’s divine weapon is the multiplying ring Andvaranaut.

When he wears it, it removes the numerical limit on how many copies he can create.

On its own, Loki can manifest up to five copies via Jester’s Ring.

With Andvaranaut, that cap disappears, allowing him to summon endless armies of clones.

In the eleventh round, he generates vast legions of copied gods, including endless Odin, Thor, and Heracles variants.

However, there is a major trade-off regarding power distribution.

As the number of copies increases, their individual strength appears to decrease.

In truth, the total power is not fixed; Loki can distribute the “parameters” of his copies however he likes.

This means he can create a massive swarm of weak clones or a small squad of elites, all depending on his own judgment and strategy.

The “dilution” of power is therefore not automatic but a deliberate gradient set by Loki himself.

Odin

In original Norse mythology, Loki and Odin have a complex kinship-like bond, often described as something like brothers-in-law.

In Record of Ragnarok, their deeper relationship is still largely unknown, but hints suggest a long, tangled history.

Loki calls Odin “Uncle,” a mix of mockery and familiarity.

He shows no hesitation in impersonating Odin’s son Thor to mess with him, underlining both his irreverence and their strangely close proximity.

Odin tolerates Loki’s antics as long as they do not interfere with his own grand schemes.

However, Loki’s meddling with figures like Siegfried intersects sharply with Odin’s plans, making their bond dangerously volatile.

Brunhilde

Brunhilde is the eldest of the thirteen Valkyrie sisters and the mastermind who proposed Ragnarok.

She selects the “13 God-Slayer Humans,” including Simo Häyhä, and leads humanity’s side against the gods.

Loki is deeply, obsessively in love with Brunhilde.

He constantly teases, provokes, and jokes around her, but this is less bullying and more a twisted form of affection.

Despite his devotion, Brunhilde’s romantic feelings belong to Siegfried, not Loki.

She does not see Loki as a romantic candidate at all, and even his warnings that “if you lose, Odin will not forgive you” fail to sway her resolve.

Loki’s love is intense and unhealthy.

He gives Brunhilde anemone flowers, whose meaning is “I love you,” and creates dolls in her likeness for his personal room, reaching near-stalker levels.

When Brunhilde personally asks Loki to fight as the eleventh-round god representative, he is shaken.

He realizes that by choosing him, she is indirectly pointing a killing intent at him, since her long-term plan includes eventually opposing Odin and those close to him.

He asks, “You’re trying to have me killed, aren’t you?” and is clearly hurt.

Even so, driven by his desire to win her and perhaps prove himself, he declares “I won’t lose” and accepts.

Brunhilde herself looks pained when she recruits him, suggesting that despite everything, there is a deep, complicated connection between them.

Yet she no longer smiles at him, and that loss devastates Loki more than he can admit.

Heracles

Heracles is a god who stands for justice and the protection of the weak.

He later fights for humanity in Ragnarok, making him an ideological foil to Loki.

Before the fourth round, Loki and Heracles have a crucial conversation.

Loki sneers that “even if you are right, even if you are a good boy, you don’t necessarily get what you want.”

Heracles responds that if Loki truly believes that, he should not look so sad.

He sees through Loki’s bravado and understands that Loki is tormented by his own choices and the consequences for Brunhilde.

This exchange exposes that Loki’s cynicism comes from regret, not from true nihilism.

Heracles is one of the few characters who directly calls out the pain behind Loki’s mask.

Other Gods and Valkyries

Loki often antagonizes gods like Ares and Thor with his pranks.

He delights in provoking them, even at the risk of getting beaten up.

Among the Valkyries, his behavior is notorious.

He has a long history with them, beginning with an incident involving Brunhilde and a watermelon that changed his life.

Loki was not always the playful trickster everyone knows.

In the past, he had a much darker, more intimidating presence, and most gods avoided him out of fear.

"How an Evil God Became a Clown for a Single Valkyrie"

Once, Loki’s appearance and aura were sharply different from the present.

He wore punk-style clothes, bore tattoos, and radiated a menacing aura that made other gods tremble when he simply walked by.

One day, he came across the Valkyrie sisters playing by tossing fruit.

As they were fooling around, one sister threw a watermelon that flew straight toward Loki’s face.

Instead of getting angry, Loki casually bit into the watermelon – rind and all – then neatly spat out the seeds.

The Valkyries, realizing they had just hit the terrifying Loki, panicked and apologized profusely, fearing his wrath.

Among them, one Valkyrie could not hold back a small laugh at how absurd the situation was.

This laughing sister was Brunhilde, the eldest of the thirteen Valkyries.

She said, “Loki, you’re actually really funny.”

That single genuine smile and remark pierced through his hardened exterior.

Loki ran off at first, acting prickly and dismissive, but his heart was pounding.

He realized that he was deeply drawn to Brunhilde’s smile, and that realization began to change him.

To see that smile again, Loki deliberately softened his image and behavior.

He abandoned his purely menacing look and started acting more like a clownish prankster – the “prankster kid” of the divine realm.

He played tricks on other gods, angering them just to create funny situations.

Victims included Ares and Thor, who were often left furious, while others rolled their eyes.

Yet Brunhilde would laugh, giggle, and smile at his antics.

To Loki, that reaction made everything worth it – he was willing to be the clown of the gods just to see her smile.

Making Brunhilde laugh became his reason to live.

He took it as a form of confession, hoping that, someday, his devotion would reach her heart.

However, this fragile happiness did not last.

The turning point came when Loki discovered that Brunhilde had already given her heart to someone else.

"The Jealous Clown’s Crime"

One day, Loki was picking flowers, planning to bring them to Brunhilde to make her happy.

While doing so, he happened to see Brunhilde walking down a corridor hand in hand with Siegfried.

He watched as Siegfried gave her a hair ornament as a gift.

Brunhilde’s delighted reaction made it painfully obvious that the two were lovers.

Loki realized that, without his knowledge, Brunhilde had chosen someone else.

His world collapsed under the weight of heartbreak and jealousy.

Consumed by envy, Loki committed the worst possible act to remove his rival.

He used his copying ability and transformed into Siegfried, then fabricated a crime.

In disguise, Loki framed Siegfried for killing the dragon Fafnir.

Accused of this grave offense, Siegfried was arrested on the spot.

Odin, for his part, saw something even more important in Siegfried.

He realized that Siegfried possessed the qualities of the “Primordial Vessel,” a necessary sacrifice for Odin’s plan to revive the Primordial Four Pillars.

Because of this, Odin had Siegfried imprisoned in the abyss known as Tartarus, using the incident as a convenient justification.

Whether Siegfried was truly guilty or not did not matter to Odin; his ambition came first.

Behind this chain of events, the true culprit was Loki.

He watched Siegfried being taken away and thought, “Now the obstacle is gone,” feeling a twisted sense of victory.

Later, Loki found Brunhilde sitting sadly by a fountain, looking at a picture of herself with Siegfried.

He approached her, pretending to be gentle and supportive, offering comforting words.

However, at some point, Brunhilde saw the smirk on his face and understood.

She realized that Loki was the one who had ruined Siegfried and betrayed her trust in the worst possible way.

From that day on, Brunhilde completely stopped smiling at Loki.

No matter how much he clowned around or how outrageous his pranks became, her gaze remained cold and frozen.

Loki continued to act out, desperately trying to make her laugh again.

In his diary, he wrote things like “Why won’t she smile at me?” reflecting his mental decline and denial of his own sin.

When Brunhilde later proposed Ragnarok, effectively declaring war on the gods including Odin, Loki was shocked by her resolve.

Even though she hated him, Loki’s feelings for her did not change, and he watched her decision with a mix of fear, admiration, and love.

He cannot admit that he is the architect of his own misery.

The fact that Brunhilde no longer smiles at him is entirely his own fault, but he cannot bring himself to fully face that truth.

Loki is introduced with bombastic, ominous narration that frames him as one of the most sinister beings in the Norse realm.

He is called the most evil and cunning among the Norse gods, one who seduces, deceives, and confuses gods and mortals alike.

He is portrayed as a being who desires chaos and invites the destruction of the world.

His entrance to the stage of Ragnarok is described as the unveiling of a mysterious, ever-changing jester.

The announcer-style epithet for him in Record of Ragnarok is:

"The most vicious prankster of the divine realm – Loki!"

Within the Norse divine community, Thor is described as the “supreme warrior,” the front-line champion in raw combat.

In contrast, Loki is likened to a “faceless assassin,” a being who survives and triumphs even when facing enemies far stronger than him on paper.

Zeus himself calls Loki’s strength “abnormal,” marking him as an outlier even among gods.

He is not the strongest in direct power, but in treachery, versatility, and survivability, he may be unmatched.