loki's unnecessarily inglorious purpose.
During my current re-watch of Loki S1E1, the Mobius interviewing Loki scene raises the question beyond the MCU of Loki as a mechanism within the Norse Lore: Mobius: You weren't born to be king, Loki. You were born to cause pain and suffering and death. That's how it is, that's how it was, that's how it will be. [shows the Avengers one final time] Mobius: All so that others can achieve the best versions of themselves. Outside of this nice bit of character study breakdown, this not-so-glorious incidental purpose doesn't justify Loki's decisions or actions within the Norse Lore . It's been argued that if one removes Loki from the myths, then you really have no foil or proactive instigator that causes the stories to happen at all, but let's NorsePlay this to disprove that unjustified fallacy by actually pruning him from the Eddaic timeline. Odin co-designs the whole Níuverse, wars then negotiates a peace with the Vanir to gain wonderfully advantageous host