Marvel's Siege

[crookeddy]

So I just went back to read Marvel's crossover event "Siege" and just couldn't figure out what Lokii was trying to achieve by getting Osborn to attack Asgard. How would getting Asgard destroyed help him become king?

 

[Turtletrekker]

Ah, you assume that Loki wanted to rule. His actions in Siege were about chaos, mischief... and new beginings.

In the Seige: Loki one-shot, we see a Loki who is disgusted with himself for growing predictable. The then brokers a deal between Hela and Mephisto and gets himself written out of the books of the dead. He then allows himself to be killed knowing that he wont actually die.

Thor, after discovering this, seeks Loki out and finds him as a young boy with no memory of his previous life.

In Journey into Mystery 622, Little Loki follows a set of clues left behind by his previous self, and finds an "echo" of his previous self...

Loki Echo: I am Loki, whose whim brought Asgard crashing down. I am Loki, whose tounge was an anvil where the sharpest lies were forged. I am Loki. And I have things to say that you must know. I am Loki, who you must not trust.

Little Loki: What are the chances? I'm Loki, too. We should be the very best of friends.

Loki then asks his echo why...?

Loki: Then speak it, elder-self. I solved your riddles. I demand amusement. Explain what puzzles all of Asgard so.
You brought down your hammer of hate on Asgard. Then sacrificed yourself to save it.

Echo: Is that right?

Loki: No, it's not. If you wanted to live, you would have hid yourself beneath the rug of the universe before the final blow was struck. You chose to die. That means that you wanted to die. That means that you needed to die. There is only "why"?

Echo: (gesturing toward Little Loki) There is only one who Loki would sacrifice himself for.

Loki: You sacrificed yourself for... yourself?

Echo: Aye. I was a creature of spite and will. I was the God of Chaos. But, in my capriciousness, I was totally predictable...
No God of Chaos worthy of the name could stand such a thing.

I wrote myself out of the books of death. I slipped predestinations noose. All I had to do was escape my personalities...

After a glorious death, I would be found or find my way back. A new Loki: a fresh page with fresh ink to write a free future.

Loki: You went into oblivion with nothing but the hope but the hope that there was something out there. Or that someone would show the path home?

Echo: The people of Midgard have a saying: "change or die". I would rather die than not change. I would rather be nothing. Thankfully, it did not come to that...

Loki still keeps the "echo" around in the form of his familiar, Ikol, the magpie.

However, given that the first thing then echo said was not to trust him, it's safe to say that he was holding something back.

In fact, the solicit for JiM 624, the final issue, reads, "Why did Loki do it? Nobody knows-- until now!" So, I'd say the final answer to your question will be revealed then. Stay tuned.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Loki also repents and begs Odin for forgiveness regarding his actions near the end of the assault, this happens after Norman snaps and reveals that he'd been keeping the Void at bay. It's also possible that Loki didn't intend for the amount of destruction that actually occurred at the time as well. It also kind of sets up the Fear Itself event.

 

[Hound of UIster]

So I just went back to read Marvel's crossover event "Siege" and just couldn't figure out what Lokii was trying to achieve by getting Osborn to attack Asgard. How would getting Asgard destroyed help him become king?

Bendis didn't read any of the JMS issues.

Instead he decided by himself to make Loki chaotic neutral who was only screwing with Norman for fun.

If you read the JMS issues it's pretty clear Loki really doesn't care for Odin and Thor and had set up his own adoption by Odin and the sacrifice of his real family as just a stepping stone to ultimate power.

Bendis ignored all of that.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Bendis ignored all of that.

Thankfully, so did Kieron Gillen.