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In Norse mythology, Loki or Loptr is a god or jötunn (or both). Loki is the son of Fárbauti and Laufey, and the brother of Helblindi and Býleistr. By the jötunn Angrboða, Loki is the father of Hel, the wolf Fenrir, and the world serpent Jörmungandr. By his wife Sigyn, Loki is the father of Nari or Narfi. And by the stallion Svaðilfari, Loki is the mother—giving birth in the form of a mare—to the eight-legged horse Sleipnir. In addition, Loki is referred to as the father of Váli in the Prose Edda.
Loki's relation with the gods varies by source. Loki sometimes assists the gods and sometimes causes problems for them. Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon, mare, seal, a fly, and possibly an elderly woman. Loki's positive relations with the gods end with his role in engineering the death of the god Baldr. Loki is eventually bound by the gods with the entrails of one of his sons.
In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, the goddess Skaði is responsible for placing a serpent above him while he is bound. The serpent drips venom from above him that Sigyn collects into a bowl; however, she must empty the bowl when it is full, and the venom that drips in the mean time causes Loki to writhe in pain, thereby causing earthquakes. With the onset of Ragnarök, Loki is foretold to slip free from his bonds and to fight against the gods among the forces of the jötnar, at which time he will encounter the god Heimdallr and the two will slay each other.
PHASE 2 (aka Lonny Wood) is one of the most influential and well known New York City aerosol artists. Mostly active in the 1970s, Phase 2 is generally credited with originating the "bubble letter" style of aerosol writing, also known as "softies". He was also influential in the early hip-hop scene.
Phase 2 is from The Bronx, and attended DeWitt Clinton High School along with a number of other early graffiti artists. Many famous graffiti writers of the early 1970s would meet at a doughnut shop across from the school called the Coffee Shop before heading down to the subway station at 149th Street and Grand Concourse to watch tagged trains on the IRT line pass by. Phase 2 was mentored in graffiti by his friend and neighbor Thomas Lee aka Lee 163d!, one of the pioneers of graf writing in The Bronx.
He began writing in late 1971 under the name Phase 2, a moniker which had a rather mundane provenance. As Phase 2 would later recall, "the previous year we'd given this party. We were getting ready to give another one and I said, 'We'll call this one Phase Two.' I don't know why, but I was stuck on the name. It had meaning for me. I started writing 'Phase 2.'"
Thomas William "Tom" Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an English film, television, radio, and stage actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), and he rose to prominence through a number of TV roles and more recently major film roles. He played Loki in the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor, Captain Nicholls in Steven Spielberg's World War I film War Horse (2011), and also Freddie Page in the British drama The Deep Blue Sea, alongside Rachel Weisz. He played author F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris (2011). He returned to his role as Loki in The Avengers (2012) and is set to reprise the character again for Thor 2 (2013).
Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to parents Diana Patricia (née Servaes), a former stage manager and arts administrator, and James Norman Hiddleston, a scientist in physical chemistry who was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. His father is from Greenock, Scotland and his mother from Suffolk, England. He is the middle child with two sisters, Sarah (oldest), a journalist in India, and Emma (youngest), is also an actor. He was raised in Wimbledon, in his early years, and later in Oxford. When Hiddleston was 13, he boarded at Eton College, at the same time that his parents were going through a divorce. "I think I started acting because I found being away at school while my parents were divorcing really distressing." He went on to act at The Dragon School in Oxford, then continued on to the University of Cambridge, where he earned a double first. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2005.
Actors: Stan Lee (producer), Grey DeLisle (actress), Fred Tatasciore (actor), Dee Bradley Baker (actor), Laura Bailey (actress), Robin Atkin Downes (actor), Drake Bell (actor), Tom Kenny (actor), Stan Lee (actor), Steve Blum (actor), Dee Bradley Baker (actor), Adrian Pasdar (actor), Adrian Pasdar (actor), J.K. Simmons (actor), Jeph Loeb (producer),
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Plot: This five episode animation special combines adventure and comedy as the mischievous Loki has challenged the Marvel Super Heroes before, but this time he's putting the "super" in super villain by amassing an army to conquer the Earth! "LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload" assembles Iron Man, Thor, Iron Fist, Captain America, Nick Fury, Black Widow, Falcon, Wolverine and many more Heroes against Venom, Doc Ock, Mandarin, and the Red Skull in this ultimate battle. Experience the greatest assembly of Marvel Super Heroes and super villains ever seen as one of their most epic stories ever comes together brick by brick. And what Marvel feature would be complete without a very special Marvel guest, Stan Lee!
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Plot: Being teased for his color, Johnny the white koala joins a traveling carnival with Hamish, a Tasmanian devil, and Higgens, a photographer monkey as talent agents. On the way through the Australian outback desert, the trailer they are in comes loose and crashes. Johnny must live up to the hero status Hamish presents him as while the outback locals try to rescue a kidnapped koala from Bog, a giant crocodile and his dingo lackeys.
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Family,Actors: AleXander S. Pawlak (director), Snuf Leamon (writer), Emma Grove (actress), Melissa Arnaud (actress), Katie Cordova (actress), Ryan Amstutz (actor), David Wing (producer), Krissy Kapp (actress), Jamaal Alexander (actor), Art Lohman (actor), Robyn Cummings (actress), Desirée Meise (actress), Kris Bies (producer), Jennifer Fredericksen (producer), Alexandria Joyce (actress),
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Genres: Drama,Actors: Michelle Yeoh (actress), Clive Noakes (miscellaneous crew), Kate Ogborn (miscellaneous crew), Jo Cameron Brown (miscellaneous crew), Anders Lexne (miscellaneous crew), Steve Joberns (miscellaneous crew), Matt Curtis (miscellaneous crew), Tessa Ross (producer), Sean Bean (actor), Dario Marianelli (composer), Petter J. Borgli (producer), Michelle Krusiec (actress), Bertrand Faivre (producer), Hengameh Panahi (producer), Neil Calder (miscellaneous crew),
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