![]() Ambition Is Evil: Everything he does is for knowledge and control.After she finally left him for his cruel and power-mad ways, he cursed her to never harm another living creature, even in self-defense, and hid away her Valkyrie wings, robbing her of her warrior's spirit. Freya, too, was the Queen of the Valkyries and a warrior at heart, but though he sincerely loved her, their marriage was one of convenience to broker peace between Asgard and Vanaheim, and he sought her Vanir magic for his own ends. Skaði, the best archer and huntress among the giants, has been among the many women that have caught his eye however, Mimir attributes his courtship to Odin's belief that "she would bear him strong sons". He gets Atreus to find the pieces, but reveals himself evil enough for Atreus to break the mask and seal the void off at the end rather than let him have it. Aside from defying fate, his biggest life's work has been trying to gather the pieces of a mask that would allow him to look into a green void that's supposed to house the infinite knowledge of the universe.If he had listened to Mimir and Týr then he could have had prevented Ragnarök or had more allies on his side by the time of the event. His attempts to stop Ragnarök gave a reason for the other realms to rally against him.All for Nothing: Two variants revolve around his attempts to analyze and defy fate.Sadly Mythtaken is at play by flipping his closest relationships around to ones of abuse and manipulation - for example, whereas in the myths Odin rode to Helheim to reanimate a seeress for her to tell him Baldr's bane after his son had terrible dreams, and laid the ring Draupnir upon Baldr's pyre during his funeral, in the games he is more interested in Baldur for his value to him, giving more attention to his usefullness as his best tracker than anything else after his death. While Odin in myths was very often deceitful, treacherous and sometimes even cruel, he didn't do most of the despicable actions God of War's Odin committed, such as killing Gróa, tricking Skadi into killing her own father, ruling the Dwarves with an iron fist or abusing his family. Adaptational Villainy: Probably the single biggest recipient of this treatment in the series, which is saying something given what was foisted on the Olympians during God of War III (and without the excuse of the evils of Pandora’s Box infecting him).Per Mimir, Odin would even beat Thor in his youth. Odin insults the thunder god's dead sons to his face, talks to him exclusively through derision, and tries to get him to break his hard-earned sobriety. ![]() Ragnarök shows that Odin's relationship with his son Thor is purely abusive.He manipulated Baldur into doing his bidding by saying the cure to his invulnerability rested in Jotunheim. ![]()
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