For a couple of episodes there, Sylvie Lushton, a variant who doesn't actually refer to herself as Lady Loki, appeared to be the primary villain of the now-concluded Disney Plus streaming series Loki.

That turned out to be something of a misdirect in a series about deceit and fake facades and variant iಞdentities. 

But the events of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Loki season one finale could lend themselves to questioning what her ult✤imate role in Loki really was. 

Hero? Anti-hero? Villain? Love interest? The real star of the show..? Or all of the above? ꧂;

Spoilers ahead for Loki episode 6.

Either which way, Sophia Di Martino's Sylvie is, in the end, a full-fledged Loki - the goddess of mischief and an encha𒐪ntress - so we maybe shouldn't have expected to fit her into a box. 

Taken from her reality's Asgard by the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Time Variance Authority (and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ravonna Renslayer specifically) as a little girl as she was playing with action figures, Sylvie was already Loki enough to escape Ravonna and make off wi🧜th a Timepad only minutes after her abduction.

She then raised herself, growing up oꦕn the run by hiding in time periods𒊎 right before cataclysmic events (which made her invisible to the TVA) while developing her Asgardian magical abilities on her own. 

But as we🤡 now know her life was hard and it produce💃d scars and led her on a quest to discover the truth about who or whatever the TVA really was so she could have her revenge. 

More of a mash-up of a couple of different Marvel Comics characters than one faithfully adapted one, the MCU Sylvie seems to incorporate aspects of Sylvie Lushton, the second character from Thor comic books that went by the name Enchantress, and Lady Loki, who wasn't so much a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:variant of Loki but more of Loki in an alternate form. 

Given her MCU future is now wide, wide open, understanding Sylvie's comic book past may give us clues about what 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Studios may choose to do with this well-received new chara⭕cter. 

So if you let uꦅs, we'll break it all down for you. 

Who is Sylvie Lushton?

There have been seveꦛral characters known as the Enchantress in Marvel Comics history. The original, Amora, is an Asgardian sorceress who was also one of the Avengers' earliest enemies. Amora possesses powers of mesmerism and illusion, even once impersonating Brunnhilde, Marvel's ▨original Valkyrie, in one of her attempts to take on the team.

Amora's sister, Lorelei, has her own relationship witꦑh Loki that began when Loki e🦄nlisted her to seduce Thor - though this scheme evolved into Loki and Lorelei becoming on-again-off-again lovers while attempting to manipulate each other. Lorelei later became an ally to Loki again while he was working as an Agent of Asgard, which also involved some lies on his part.

Lorelei was a one-off character in season 1 of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, which 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:may or may not be o𝓀fficial MCU canon.

The version of the character who appears in Loki 𒈔takes the name (although not much else) of Sylvie Lushton, a more recent incarnation of the Enchantress. Sylvie was a human girl who was granted Asgardian power by Loki as one of his schemes - or who may even have been created by Loki whole cloth.

Following one of Asgard's cyclical Ragnarok events in which the realm and its denizens die and are reborn throughout time, Thor finds himself as the only Asgardian to return. Discovering his fellow Asgardians are trapped in human form, he rescues as many as he can - including Loki, who is reboﷺrn as a woman.

Using their combined might, the Asgardians summon Asgardia, the capital city of their home realm, to Earth, where it floats high above the plains of the small towꦬn of Broxton, Oklahoma - putting the Asgardians in closer contact with humanity than ever before.

Naturally, Loki exploits the situation to rope the people of Broxton into his schemes to conquer Asgard - part of which i✤ncludes teaming up with the villainous Norman Osborn, then the leader of the sanctioned security force kn🎉own as HAMMER, a kind of authoritarian replacement for SHIELD.

Loki and Osborn's plans are spearheaded by the creation of the Dark Avengers, ♈a team of ersatz heroes comprised of villains impersonating known heroes such as Spider-Man and Hawkeye - though working solely in the interests of Osborn and HAMMER.

Here's where Sylvie comes in.

Before Asgard appeared over Broxton, Sylvie was a normal teen girl, living an average life, until the day she woke up with inexplicable magic powers which she sensed were connected to Asgard in ways she couldn't understand. Inspired by the Asgardian Enchantress, Sylvie takes the name for herself and moves to New York to use heಌr newfound Asgardian sorcery to be a hero.

But there's a twist in her journey.

Sylvie Lushton in the Marvel Universe

Along with a team of D꧃ark Avengers, Osborn helps organize , a team of teen heroes whose identities are inspired by the original Avengers (many of whom have now appeared in th♋eir civilian guises in the MCU). 

Taking the name the Young Avengers for themselves, Osborn's recruits are secretly the Young Masters, inspired by the Avengers' old foes the Masters of Evil - a team that included the original Enchan𓆉tress and her longtimeౠ enforcer Skurge the Executioner (played by Karl Urban in Thor: Ragnarok) in its earliest incarnation.

The Young Masters, with Sylvi𝔍e in tow as the new Enchantress alongside a new, non-Asgardian Executioner, take after the original Masters in one other key way - the original Masters of Evil, who were led by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's Baron Zemo, took on secret heroic identities to disguise their villainy as the Thunderbolts, a team Norman Osborn la🌃ter led and which inspired his Dark Avengers.

The Young Masters, calling themselves the Young Avengers, clash with their heroic namesakes, with the original Young Avenge🍬rs demanding the Young Masters either stop ♚calling themselves the 'Young Avengers,' or try out to join the actual team. 

At first, the Young Masters play along, but only two of them - Coat-Of-Arms, and Sy🔯lvie/Enchantress - are invited into the Young Avengers. Early in her time with the team Enchantress tries to strike up a magical mentorship with Wiccan (who would later come under the tutelage of Kid Loki in a subsequent Young Avengers story), but when she attempts to seduce him, her relationship with them sours. 

Spurned by the Young Avengers, t🌞he Young Masters turn coat and fall in with Osborn,🌺 trying to take out the Young Avengers once and for all just as Osborn plans to eliminate the real Avengers.

A🧔s Osborn schemes with Loki how to best use their team of Young Masters, Loki, then still in the body of a woman, reveals she is responsible for empowering Sylvie with Asgardian power, even potentially implying she created Sophie entirely out of Asgardian magic, to have a mortal pawn of her o🍨wn in play.

The Young Masters call in Osborn's Dark Avengers for back-up, resulting in a clash with the Young Avengers, who wind up winning out and escaping Osborn with the help of Sylvie, who soon becomes deathly ill with her powers fa💜ding when Loki and Osborn's scheme results in Loki's death. Sylvie winds up surviving and regaining some of her powers, though she decides to leave the Young Masters fo𝄹r good.

, attempting to fulfill her goal of being a true hero, though she only stuck around for a little while before it was revealed that she was once again being manipulated by one of the Acade📖my's foes.

Sadly,𒈔 after leaving the Avengers Academy, Sylvie fell back into a life of crime, first joining a version of the Masters of Evil proper before falling in with the Hood while she pretended to be the original Enchantress - a choice that led to, which Amora implies will be a hard place for Sylvie to survive for long unless she's truly got the power of Asgardian magic.

Unfortunately, Amora may have been correct about Sylvie's inadequacy, as she hasn't been seen since ๊being banished.

Sylvie Lushton in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Di Martino's Sylvie is indeed a Loki variant, taken from Asgard in her early childhood, explaining why her life and her knowledge of Asgard are so different from that of Loki h🦄imself.

Despite t♕he series ending (well, season 1 anyway), there are still significant mysteries surrounding Sylvie, like what was the Nexus event that led to her abduction by the TVA? And how redeemable or, by contrast, irredeemable is she?

Given her powers of enchantment and illusion, it's entirely likely there'♐s yet more to Sylvie to uncover, especially with a second season of Loki now confirmed.

𝄹Sylvie seemed genuinely drawn to Loki and seemed to teeter on the edge of a full hero turn, but the pain caused by He Who Remains - the variant of Kang the Conqueror that was responsible for the TVA - was too deep. At the end she couldn't help but take her revenge by seemingly murdering him, resulting in an eruption of multiversal chaos as countless new timelines suddenly began branching into existence.

And not for nothinꦯg, Loki seemed genuinཧely crushed by her decision. 

It's also important to consider Sylvie's comic book roots with the Enchantress, an Asgardian villain known for lies, manipulation, trickery, and deceit, all with the🍨 aid of magic. Sylvie has displayed similar powers, so could there be a level of further illusion in her story, even though she seems to definitively oppose He Who Remains and the TVA?

It looks more and more likely Sylvie is who she seems, but with a second season coming up and her unclear status at the end of time after she kills He Who Remains unknown, you can't take an🙈ything for granted. 

We almost certainly haven't seen the last of Sylvie, and considering her deep connection to the comic book concepts we detailed, the options for her return are almost endle🐓ss. 

Whatever happens, in a show with multiple universes, opposing timelines, and the potential f𓆏or multiple versions of the same character to appear, adding in the potential of the Enchantress and her specific brand of illusory magic could signal some serious twists ahead for Loki season 2 and the MCU. 

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