Loki Fact — October 31, 2026

Today's Fact

For a few pages in 2014 the hammer agreed with the one opinion Loki had waited centuries to hear from anyone.

LOKI WAS WORTHY OF MJOLNIR FOR EXACTLY ONE FIGHT — AN INVERSION SPELL MADE HIM A HERO AND THOR A VILLAIN ON THE MOON!

The Featured Fact

During the AXIS event, a spell cast over Genosha flipped the moral compass of everyone caught in it: heroes turned cruel, villains turned conscientious, and Loki woke up as the most earnest do-gooder in the fight while Thor became a swaggering brute spoiling for blood. Loki and the Enchantress lured the inverted Thor through a portal to the Moon to keep him away from the main battle.

Waiting on the lunar surface was Mjolnir itself, abandoned there since Thor had been judged unworthy during Original Sin and could no longer lift it. The inverted Loki reached down knowing the enchantment would either crown him or leave him to die at his brother's hands — and the hammer came up. Empowered as a Thor in his own right, he beat the astonished Odinson down and savoured telling him exactly who the worthy one was now.

The glory lasted only until the inversion was undone. A second spell restored everyone's true nature, Loki's borrowed worthiness evaporated with his borrowed conscience, and the hammer stayed shut to him again. Thor afterwards dismissed the whole episode as one more of Loki's lies, which suited history fine: the single afternoon Loki was genuinely worthy is an afternoon almost nobody in his own world believes happened.

Why It's Obscure

Worthiness, it turns out, can be spell-checked — and the correction deleted Loki's finest hour as efficiently as any lie he ever told.

Genosha

Morality, reversed — The inversion spell swapped the ethics of heroes and villains wholesale, handing Loki a conscience and Thor a taste for cruelty.

Original Sin

The hammer, waiting — Mjolnir sat untouched on the Moon because Thor had lost his worthiness months earlier, leaving the weapon available for the unlikeliest hand in the family.

AXIS #9

One worthy afternoon — In Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #9 (2014) the inverted Loki lifts Mjolnir on the Moon and uses its power against Thor himself.

The reversion

Erased by honesty — Once the spell broke, Loki could no longer lift the hammer, and Thor chose to remember the humiliation as a trick rather than a verdict.

Gallery

Panels of Loki wielding Mjolnir against Thor on the Moon, exactly as today's fact describes.

Loki holding Mjolnir over a fallen Thor comic panel — **More worthy than you**The AXIS panel itself: Loki stands over the fallen Thor with Mjolnir in hand while the inversion spell unravels around them.

Loki raising Mjolnir crackling with lightning over Thor on the Moon comic panel — **The Moon verdict**Lightning answers Loki's grip on the lunar surface, the enchantment's own testimony that — for that hour — he qualified.

Loki kneeling with Mjolnir comic panel — **The secret in his hands**Loki with the hammer grounded before him, reading its inscription about worthiness at the one moment it described him.

Sources

Every claim above checks out against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Loki Lifted Thor's Hammer in the Comics — CBRCBR recounts Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #9: the inversion made Thor a villain and Loki a hero, and the heroic Loki lifted Mjolnir on the Moon and beat Thor with it before the reversion ended it.
Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #9 — uncannyxmen.netThe issue summary records Loki finding Mjolnir where Thor left it on the Moon, picking it up, and fighting Odinson with the power of Thor.