Flev, it sounds like - despite all odds - Hercules - the Legendary Adventures came closer to a "true" Loki than any version elsewhere! And I thought they'd overplayed his evil; I know he's not the "benevolent" trickster common in American Indian myths (Manebozho, Coyote, etc.), but I didn't think he was as bad as the Efrits of Middle Eastern mythology (IIRC, Efrit/Efreeti/Afrit were the evil fire spirits that perverted wishes, Djinni were the neutral air spirits that "merely" granted them).