The version of the character who appears in Loki takes 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.
She isn't an alternate version, one that has escaped the main timeline. She is the Loki we all know and love. You have to remember, Marvel based their God of Mischief on Norse mythology in which the trickster god is genderfluid and often appears as a man or woman.
Again, Marvel is simply reflecting an aspect of Loki that's existed in Norse mythology for centuries. Loki is a trickster who can adopt many different forms, male, female and otherwise. Far from needing to steal another Asgardian's body, Loki can change his physical form at will.
In the comics, Loki is reborn as a woman, known simply as Lady Loki, after the events of Ragnarok in Asgard, but even that wasn't too innocent: When Thor and his fellow Asgardians are to be reborn in new bodies on Earth, Loki actually stole the body intended to be for Sif.
Marvel made it canon in the first episode upon his arrival at the Time Variance Authority that Loki, always a shape-shifter, is gender fluid. Lady Loki in the Marvel Comics is Loki—just in female form.
Yes, Lady Loki is obviously a woman, and she takes the name Sylvie to distance herself from being a Loki, but it's more than that. She's got a certain je ne sais quoi, and other Loki variants don't.
“Seeing as Lady Loki is just Loki, her personality and traits are the same as the god of mischief,” according to Nerdist. “She can vary from heroism to villainy, manipulation to altruism, and is, of course, incredibly stylish.
In Norse mythology, Loki was seen as a fluid entity who had the magical ability to shift shape and gender. Because of this power, he can be considered to be genderfluid, a term that refers to a person whose gender identity and/or expression is not fixed, but fluctuates and goes beyond male and female.
The two trekked to a nearby town, and the two argued on the way, especially how Sylvie was a Variant but did not like to be called one, and also did not like to be called Loki. She then told him her name was Sylvie, and Loki told her that having an alias was not Loki-like.
Lady Loki - known better in the series as Sylvie - has a skillset that appears closest to the "main" Loki', although it seems her magic may be slightly more potent, as she has cast magic in Time Variance Authority offices, which was prior to that supposedly impossible.
In Norse mythology Loki is a cunning trickster who has the ability to change his shape and sex. Although his father is the giant Fárbauti, he is included among the Aesir (a tribe of gods). Loki is represented as the companion of the great gods Odin and Thor.
Are Lady Loki and Loki the same person? - Quora. No. In the comics yes, he posed as a girl to trick Thor. In the MCU there are AU Loki variants but they are not the Loki who stars in the series.
As neither a god nor a giant in Norse myth, Loki is outside the normative structure; as a figure with female attributes, but referred to with male pronouns, Loki is uniquely positioned as a character through which to view gender constructs in the sagas and folklore.
Sylvie is not based on any specific character from Norse mythology. Norse mythology does not have a direct equivalent or character named Sylvie. Sylvie is likely a fictional character created in a different context or story.
The villain variant is "Lady Loki," a female version of the character played by Sophia Di Martino. In the comics, Lady Loki is a reborn version of the Loki we know and love. She has the same personality and powers – shapeshifting, creating illusions, other sorcery and magic – as the male version of the character.
Loki is a shapeshifter and, as noted on his paperwork with the TVA, the character's sex is fluid. This is an aspect that has been well established in Marvel comics — which takes inspiration from Loki's Norse mythology — and the character has appeared and been referred to as Thor's brother and sister in various stories.
After he's captured by the TVA, Loki's tasked with helping it track down a variant of himself — Sylvie, a female Loki hellbent on revenge against the Authority. After facing down an apocalypse together, the two fall in love, which has reality-shattering implications.
But Loki supports the idea, saying that this would be the only way to get the hammer back. He argues that without that hammer, the giants could invade Asgard. The gods then dress Thor as a bride, Loki disguises himself as a woman to accompany him as a helper, and the two then set off for Jotunheim.
Though the show did not state it outright, an arrest sheet for Loki confirmed the God of Mischief is gender fluid though he uses he/him pronouns, but left it unclear where Sylvie stood.
Although they are commonly represented as brothers in modern literature and representations, traditionally they were not considered brothers. Loki became blood brothers with Odin, Thor's father, after they participated in a blood-sharing ritual. Loki is thus Thor's adopted uncle, not his adopted brother.
Her unique form of the classic Loki magic is a product of her life on the run where she was forced to figure out her powers on her own rather than being tutored by Frigga. Her fiercely independent streak comes from her desire for the one thing she was constantly denied: a chance to live her own life.
The MCU has already made Loki's genderfluidity canon, which supports the idea that the variant simply chose to present differently (and either could change their gendered appearance at will).
