Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin from Once Upon a Time is the ultimate trickster. He fulfills the archetypes outlined by Hynes because he:

1. has an ambiguous and anomalous personality.
   1. no behavior is out of the ordinary for him
   2. he is neither good nor evil
   3. there are multiple reasons why he is the way he is. (son, belle)
2. is deceptive
   1. he uses the fact that he is often the only one that can help the people of Storybrooke and the enchanted forest to his favor
   2. will do pretty much anything at a price.
   3. the price for his services is often much higher than what you get.
3. is a shape shifter
   1. he kills the previous dark one to take his power because his son was being drafted.
   2. has a lot of anger. changes when he falls in love with Belle but not completely.

Hyde explains that all tricksters have an extreme hunger for something.

Rumpelstiltskin’s hunger is for power. All that he wants is to show it to Regina, the evil queen. He has lost a lot in his life and to him the only way to make up for that is by gaining ultimate power.

I think that Loki and Rumpelstiltskin are quite similar characters. They both have the tendency to be cowards and they have the same grungy bad guy feeling.