How Fast Is Loki? Compared To Thor, Captain Marvel, Kang, & Hulk

As a Frost Giant, Loki has been blessed with many superhuman features, and due to him growing up among Asgardians, he had plenty of opportunity to train in some powerful and devastating magics. We know that Loki is inhumanly strong and durable, also incredibly long-lived. But while Loki is perfectly capable when it comes to holding his ground in a fight, how fast is he? We analyzed plenty of aspects of Loki’s character, but we’re mostly focused on his raw strength and powers. Today, we’re going to analyze how fast Loki can move and compare him to other fast characters in Marvel Comics.

Loki has superhuman speed, meaning he can move up to 700 miles per hour. If the situation calls for it, Loki can utilize teleportation to move instantly. Speaking of his combat speeds, Loki proved on several occasions that he has godlike reflexes and reaction times that can be measured with Thor’s own speeds. Overall, Loki is extremely fast, although he doesn’t always rely on physical combat. If he needs to, he is more than fast to hand his opponents. 

Now that we’ve covered how fast Loki is, it’s time to analyze why and compare him to other conventionally fast characters. If you’re interested in more, stay with us and keep reading!

Loki has superhuman speed due to dense tissues 

Loki was raised as an Asgardian, but he is Frost Giant as far as his physiology goes. His biological father, Laufey, and also the King of Frost Giants, rejected him because he was smaller than the rest of his Frost Giant kin, which indicated that he would be weaker than the rest of his race when he grew up. This didn’t turn out to be true, even though Loki is, as far as his stature and height go, more similar to Asgardians and humans than Frost Giants. 

Nevertheless, Loki still inherited some characteristics of Frost Giants. Namely, he has denser tissues, three times denser than those of regular humans, meaning that his muscles are strong enough to allow him super speed, super strength, and superhuman durability. Loki can run at speeds up to 700 miles per hour, and as far as his magic goes, Loki can teleport, meaning that instantaneous travel is not out of the picture for him. 

Loki also inherited superhuman reaction times and reflexes. He also has remarkable agility and is quite capable of acrobat when the situation calls for it. Loki is also capable of casting spells at the speed of thought, as well as reacting fast enough to dodge Mjolnir and catch a speeding Silver Surfer. In the MCU, we saw Loki catching one of Hawkeye’s arrows without even looking at it, reacting almost instantaneously.

Due to Loki’s shapeshifting abilities, he also has access to flying or incredibly fast running, depending on which form he takes on. However, he cannot shapeshift the powers of sentient creatures he decides to shapeshift into. 

Now that we have analyzed how fast Loki is and why he is so fast, it’s time to compare him to other superhumanly fast characters in Marvel. 

Is Loki faster than Thor? 

Just like Frost Giants, Asgardians likewise have dense tissues that provide them with a plethora of superhuman attributes, and speed is one of them. Thor can move at speeds that go to at least mach32, which is 87,738,945 miles per hour.

Thor’s fastest recorded speed at this point is three times the speed of light while flying with Mjolnir. Even if you don’t consider Thor’s speed with Mjolnir fair, Thor’s based speed is highly superior to that of Loki. This isn’t surprising considering that Thor was always both stronger and more powerful than his adopted brother, which was often a point of contempt between them.

How fast is Loki compared to Captain Marvel? 

Captain Marvel is no Frost Giant; she is something far more powerful. She is a human-Kree hybrid, meaning that her physiology and powers are insane. Captain Marvel’s top speed is unknown, but she can go at least as fast as 17,000 mph.

Not only are her flying speeds insane, but she is also devastatingly fast in combat, and one of her signature moves is speed-blitzing her opponents and blindsiding them with her powerful energy blasts. It makes perfect sense to grant her such speeds since she does need to traverse space often. Captain Marvel is even faster in her binary form, and in her regular form, she is much faster than Loki. 

Is Loki faster than Kang? 

Kang the Conqueror is set to be the next great MCU villain, and it is inevitable that he and Kang will clash in one way or another. Luckily, at least when it comes to speed, Loki has the upper hand. Kang was born as a regular human and, as such, has normal combat and movement speeds. 

Kang has 40th-century armor at his disposal made from neurokinetic alloy that reacts to his thoughts and feelings, and while it does provide a boost to his speed and reflexes, it’s still not enough to match superhumans. This was never the armor’s main forte; time traveling is. In any case, Loki is faster than Kang. 

How fast is Loki compared to Hulk? 

This comparison will be interesting because at Hulk’s base speed, which is 300 miles per hour, he is much slower than Loki. With Hulk, everything scales with his anger, and the same goes for his speed, meaning that his speed doesn’t have an upper limit. In any case, Loki should be faster than Hulk at the beginning of the fight, but the longer the fight lasts and the angrier Hulk gets, he will outrun him. 

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