These are two cosplays based on the 2016 Vote Loki miniseries, which later inspired the look of President Loki, who appeared briefly in the far future in the MCU.
I will be playing with the idea of Variants–an MCU Loki concept–with these cosplays, adding to and changing them over time. I call these two looks “Suit Loki” and “Western Loki.” They are technically just different clothes for the same Loki as opposed to truly different Variants. Loki has a kind of complicated history in the last 10 or 15 years in the comics. There was standard Evil Loki, who died so he could be reborn and forgiven as Kid Loki, who sacrificed himself as well. Then we got teen Loki (born from a raven named Ikol who was actually the old Loki, sort of) in Young Avengers and Agent of Asgard, who became the God of Stories (and increasingly embraced gender fluidity). They then took a trip out of the timeline into the “present.” In-between then and the God of Stories’ recent reappearance, we got Vote Loki, a more adult version of Loki, who then continued on in other appearances (including a stint as Sorcerer Supreme). Currently, even more Variance has been happening with Loki in Defenders and Immortal Thor, with changes coming quickly enough that it’s not worth recapping at the moment except to say that they embrace recent evolutions and create even more.
In addition to standard Suit Loki, we also have “Old Man” Loki (with grey hair) and Alligator Loki from the MCU. Old Man Loki is my imagined version of Suit Loki but from the far future, along the lines of the comics version of King Loki (whose hair we never see out of his cowl) or perhaps from the Old Man Logan timeline. This version of Alligator Loki is from the MCU, where he bit off the hand of MCU President Loki. However, my Suit Loki is the comics version from Vote Loki, not the MCU President Loki, so one must imagine that Alligator Loki wants to bite the hand that feeds him regardless of comics/MCU provenance.
All of which is to say that these Loki costumes will include a lot of Variants over time.
This is my first cosplay with prescription colored contacts, and I was somewhat shocked how clearly I could see with them. Western Loki’s “ice cream plus” cone is one of my favorite things I have ever made (“By the Gods! What is this work of art?”).
Suit Loki only appeared on one comic page and Western Loki on three, with the SuperCone in a single panel (all from Vote Loki). Alligator Loki appears in Loki season 1, episodes 4 and 5.
Chris Wildrick 