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Everyone's got me all wrong. You think war drives me? Or power? Wealth? Naw. Never have. Know what drives me? What I really want? I want answers. Same as you. See, mortals have it easy. When they push up against life's big questions, they can look to us to give them meaning. Divine comfort. We both know that's a sham. But when we have questions? Why are we here? To give meaning to mortals while living without it ourselves? No. We're more than that.
~ Odin discussing his motive for all his crimes to Atreus.
I have to know what happens next. I'll never stop.
~ Odin displaying his limitless thirst for knowledge.

Odin, also known as the All-Father, is the main antagonist of the Norse Saga of the God of War franchise. He is the overarching antagonist of God of War (2018) and the main antagonist of its 2022 sequel, God of War: Ragnarök.

He is based on the Norse mythological figure of the same name. However, this version of Odin is a far more ruthless, sadistic, short-tempered figure who constantly schemes and manipulates others to gain knowledge. He is the leader of Asgard and one of the most powerful Aesir gods.

He is portrayed by Richard Schiff, who also played Harper Dearing in NCIS.

His Evil Ranking[]

What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]

Background[]

  • Killed the first Giant Ymir, his own great-grandfather, out of the belief that the Aesir gods are destined to be the supreme rulers of the Nine Realms.
    • Ymir's blood would drown nearly all of the giants, leaving only two survivors to repopulate the race.
  • Started several wars across the Nine Realms, including a war against the Vanir gods, which led to many deaths on both sides.
  • He had Thor go on rampages throughout the Nine Realms.
  • Took over Svartalfheim, forcing the dwarves to mass produce weapons, such as war machines, for the Einherjar and ensuring their mining abilities were only used by Asgard.
    • Mimir outright says that if the dwarves hadn't agreed to work for the Aesir, Odin would've killed all of them to ensure no one else could use their skills.
  • Corrupted all of the Valkyries and kept them imprisoned in physical forms as a further act of spite towards Freya.
    • With no one to guide the souls of the deceased, it would cause Midgard to be overrun with Helwalkers and for Hel to be overflowing with the souls of the dead.
  • When the Giant Skaoi refused his hand in marriage, he tricked her into killing her own father out of pettiness.
  • After Mimir imprisoned the Lyngbakr, Odin used it as a source of oil for his lamps. Even after he no longer needed the creature, he didn't even bother killing it out of mercy and left it imprisoned for several years.
  • After marrying Freya in order to broker a peace between the Vanir and Aesir, he used Freya to learn about Vanir magic.
  • After his wife Freya refused to cast a spell of invulnerability on Odin, he lost control and destroyed the room they were in. He would eventually imprison his own wife in Midgard, stripping her of her power, preventing her from defending herself, and not allowing her to travel to other realms all out of spite.
    • To keep Freya trapped in Midgard, he had roots of the World Tree imprisoning her essence in Vanaheim so that if Freya ever tried to free herself, Nidhogg would appear to attack the ones destroying the Yggdrasil roots. This forced Kratos and Freya to kill Nidhogg out of self-defense, an act which Freya ended up regretting.
  • Initially befriended the giantess Gróa and traded for her knowledge, but betrayed and killed her to steal her library after the seeress learned of Ragnarok.
  • When Mimir attempted to encourage peace with the other realms, Odin imprisoned him on a tree for 109 years, where he'd come every day to torture Mimir in different ways.
  • Treated his sons horribly, especially Thor, using a combination of verbal and physical abuse to keep them in-line and do whatever he said
    • This toxic form of parenting would be passed down by Thor, turning him into a drunkard who utilized the same parenting method against Magni and Modi, something that Thor would end up regretting.
  • Had Týr invite the Giants to a summit as a ploy to learn all the secrets of Jötunheim. When the giants realized Odin's true intentions and banished him from ever entering Jötunheim, he had Thor slaughter any Giants they could find in Midgard.
  • When Týr helped the giants cut off access to Jötunheim from the other realms, Odin had him imprisoned. It was strongly implied to he tortured Tyr, and spread rumors that he was dead.
  • Used spectral ravens known as the Eyes of Odin to keep watch of everything in the Nine Realms.
    • These ravens were originally human children sacrificed by their parents as offerings to Odin, and their souls would be transformed by the Raven Keeper into spectral ravens to be used as spies for Odin.
  • Sent Baldur to look for Faye's location after the protection staves had been unknowingly cut down by Kratos.
  • Although it was never stated, it might be possible he knew the cure of Baldur's horrible curse but probably never bothered or considered to free him because to Odin, he would have been "useless" if he lost his invulnerability.

Ragnarök[]

  • During his first meeting with Kratos, he showed no grief or sadness over the deaths of Magni and Modi, callously stating that they were useless in front of Thor.
    • Similarly, he only expressed anger at Baldur's death because he was Odin's best tracker. This demonstrates the way Odin primarily sees his family as merely tools to help him.
  • When Kratos refuses Odin's offer for peace, he has Thor fight him, using the opportunity to speak with Atreus and invite him to Asgard.
  • In Svartalfheim, he disguised himself as a dwarf and spit on Kratos and his companions out of pettiness.
  • Disguises himself as Týr and acts as a spy to gain the trust of Kratos and Atreus, as well as learn everything about their plans.
    • While disguised as Týr, he would often do as little as possible to help Atreus and Kratos in their fights across the realms.
      • He would also subtly manipulate Atreus and Kratos by encouraging Atreus to embrace his identity as Loki. This would culminate in Atreus angrily leaving his father's side to go see Odin.
      • It's also noticable that his portrayal of Týr is that of a complete mockery, trying to paint his son as a useless coward, with Freyr even asking "Does he ever suggest plans or crap on everyone else's?" indicating he was trying to ruin Týr's reputation.
  • While disguised as Týr after learning that Groa had lied to him about the prophecy, he kills a light elf that attacked him out of anger, pretending to feel remorseful for the light elf's death to maintain his cover.
  • When Atreus accepts Odin's offer into Asgard, he has him teleported to an extremely unsafe portion of Asgard with numerous dangerous creatures that would easily be able to kill him despite the fact Huginn could have easily led him around the danger.
  • Shows absolutely no thought or consideration of the emotional damage bringing the Giant who killed Modi and had a hand in the killing of Magni would have on the rest of his family, and even has Thor go with Atreus to look for the other pieces of the mask, the former made his disdain very clear.
  • He introduced his son Heimdall to Atreus as a tool he uses for reading minds. Showing his lack of care for him. .
  • When visiting Kratos, he uses Durlin as a hostage to ensure Kratos wouldn't fight.
  • During their conversation he would try to manipulate Kratos, mocking him over his past and the fact that he was a monster who killed without cause and who no mortals ever worshipped.
    • After Odin calls him a "monster who kills without cause" Kratos can be seen emotionally cracking, demonstrating how Odin was causing him psychological trauma.
  • Shows no care for the death of Heimdall beyond being a little annoyed he lost a useful asset.
    • Later on after stabbing Brok he does state "If he dies we are square for Heimdall", which could indicate he cared for his son. But as he showed no sadness for Heimdall's death previously it's probably more likely he wanted payback for Kratos taking away the thing that could have prevented Ragnarok.
  • When Sif confronts him over his broken promise of no more Aseir blood being spilled, bringing up how Atreus put Thrud in danger and made Thor miserable, Odin demonstrates his lack of care by claiming Thrud is old enough to make her mistakes when and Thor starting drinking by his volition.
    • What makes this worse is he is partly lying. He allowed Thrud to accompany Atreus and at various parts in encouraged Thor to go back to drinking, knowing full well he is a recovering alcoholic. Examples of this include in their first scene where he slams the mead in front of Thor, drinks it to make it look tasty and says "your no fun anymore" to his son. The other example is in a scene in Odin's study where he says to Thor that he liked him better as a drunk.
      • Another thing worthy of mention is when Sif refers to Thrud and Thor as his granddaughter and son respectively to him, Odin responds to her by calling them her daughter and husband respectively, as if he's trying to distance himself from them.
  • While disguised as Týr, he tries to trick the others into going to Asgard, intending to use them to gain the knowledge within the realm tear with the newly completed mask.
  • After Brok senses the inconsistencies in “Týr's” plan and speech pattern, Odin stabs Brok out of anger and holds Atreus at knife-point to force the others to give him the mask.
    • His stab wound would end up killing Brok, and due to Brok's soul lacking its direction, he had no way of reaching the afterlife again.
    • Odin's impulsive decision to murder Brok ended up convincing Kratos and Atreus to finally seek war against Asgard and initiate Ragnarok, which ended up destroying Asgard and killing several beings in the ensuing conflict including innocent Midgardians.
    • During this scene he taunts Kratos and Freya.
  • Put innocent Midgardians in the way against the heroes.
  • Seeing Thor stand down against Kratos, Odin arrives and demands Thor pick up his hammer and kill whoever he instructs Thor to kill, all the while demeaning Thor, saying he shouldn't think and only kill and as his son do whatever he says. When seeing Thor start to resist he says "Are you broken." Demonstrating how he always only saw his son as a tool.
  • When Thor refuses, Odin immediately murders him. While he says he didn't want to do this what this statement most likely means is either, him trying to convince Thor that his refusal to be his puppet is what led to his death and he should feel bad about it, him only being upset that he lost a valuable minion or possibly both.
  • When Thrud attempts to attack Odin to avenge Thor, he uses Mjölnir to knock her away so he would kill her next, though his defeat at hands of Kratos, Freya, and Atreus prevented this.
  • Blames Kratos and Atreus for turning his family against him and fights against both of them, even though it was something he brought upon himself.
  • He claimed to have always loved Freya, but she calls him out stating that he never really loved anyone.
  • During the fight, he again tries to manipulate Atreus and convince him to use the mask to peer into the realm tear.
  • To his anger, Atreus chooses to destroy the mask, which is then sucked up into the realm tear and is closed. In retaliation, Odin attempts to kill Kratos, Atreus, and Freya.
  • After being defeated, Odin continuously blames Atreus and the others for ruining his plans and taking everything away from him, refusing to accept that it was his own choices and constant abuse of every living thing which culminated in Odin losing everything.
  • Even when Atreus shows Odin mercy and gives him the opportunity to be better, Odin refuses to change his ways or repent for any of his crimes.
  • Overall, Odin is responsible for practically all of the tragedies and deaths that occurred within the Nine Realms.
    • He is also responsible for all the pain and trauma experienced by each of the members of his family through his toxic form of parenting and willingness to throw their lives away for the sake of his goals. As Sif said, without Odin, they could be a real family again, demonstrating how his toxic influence and hold over his family members poisoned their family ties, and it was only after his death that his remaining family members could mend their relationships.

What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]

  • He always genuinely loved his wife Fjörgyn. Odin remained heartbroken over her demise for several years, something which was even acknowledged by Mimir whom should be noted was tortured by the All-Father for a century when he said it.

Trivia[]

  • It's possible he cared about his raven Muninn, as when Freya snapped his neck he shouted no. However people have said it is just as likely he was only upset by this because it prevented him from teleporting away from Ragnarok. Supporting this he didn't get upset when Atreus shot down Huginn and immediately after Freya kills Muninn he rants about how Atreus ruined his quest for answers and says nothing about the loss of Muninn, further reinforcing how he puts his own desires above those he is meant to care about.

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