Odin

“	You have been chosen. A force of Ultimate Evil has resurrected itself on thy world.	”
—Odin to The Emperor

Odin
Information
Gender	Male ♂
Species	God
Allies	Ra Rama
Enemies	The Black Mass Aku
Voiced Actor	Richard McGonagle (Season 3) Aaron LaPlante (Season 5)

Odin is a god in Norse mythology.

Character Outline

Odin, or Woden, first appeared in Episode X: Jack and the Lava Monster, and was portrayed as the powerful Norse god of war, wisdom, and battle. He is the leader of the Norse gods known as Aesir, and ruler of Asgard and Valhalla.

Appearance

Odin's appearance was similar to a Viking: he has a blond beard, an empty right eye socket, and dresses in a tunic of white and gold, with a large winged helmet. He has an air of benevolence and wisdom as well as respect and awe for the power he wields. As an immortal deity, his entire being shone with a divine yet serene light, just like how Ra and Rama. During the battle against the dark entity in space, Odin was shown to ride on Sleipnir, his eight-legged horse.

In his first appearance, Episode X: Jack and the Lava Monster, Odin had a predominantly blue color scheme.

History

Millions or billions of years before Jack was even born, Odin, along with his fellow gods, Ra and Vishnu, were battling a great evil entity somewhere in the vastness of outer space. Their divine weapons injured and burnt the great evil in the same way that Jack's katana did, but given the self-regeneration powers the entity possessed, it could not be defeated in a few blows, since its substance was difficult to destroy even through the use of their collaborative attacks. In the battle, Odin cut off a part of the entity with Gungnir, but its divine power did not burn away the severed part completely, allowing it to drift away from the scene, seemingly unnoticed by them.

For countless eons, the fragment floated in space until it crashed into the prehistoric Earth, causing Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. The fragment then became a pool of black tar-like substance and a black forest soon appeared around it.

For untold numbers of periods, the black forest devour any living creatures by drowning them into the tar or impaling them from the ground. The forest grew at an alarming rate that it started to destroy settlements and its people. The Emperor of Japan, Jack's father decided to destroy the evil at its source. With a magical elixir given by a Buddhist monk, the Emperor and his cavalry charged into the forest, only to have his entire army slain by trees that suddenly sprang out from the ground and impaled them. Continuing his journey to the black pool, he recited a chant, dip his arrow into the elixir and then fired it towards the sun to ignite it. When the arrow plunged into the pool, it seemed that the elixir worked when the trees that grow from the pool, only to give it a humanoid form. Thus, Aku came into existence, and declared that he is the new master.

The Emperor attempted to slay Aku with arrows and katana, only to find them useless. Aku then have the Emperor tied to a gargantuan tree from the pool and proceeded to destroy his kingdom, much to his horror. The gods then send Sleipnir to rescue the Emperor and brought him to a temple on a mountaintop. From the purity of his spirit, they crafted a katana for him to destroy Aku. After he successfully defeated Aku, the Emperor sealed the demon into the earth. An evil-looking tree then emerged from the ground. Knowing that Aku will return one day, the Emperor then told his wife that he will have a plan to prepare for this.

In Episode XCVIII, Odin made his return along with Ra and Rama to help Jack be reunited with his katana after he had passed the test by vanquishing the angry consciousness inside.

Powers and Equipment

As one of the most eminent gods of the Norse pantheon, Odin wields a tremendous amount of divine power, enough to destroy a supernatural being as powerful as the Black Mass; something only fellow gods could accomplish.

• Gungnir Blasts: Odin wields a powerful spear called Gungnir, which he could use to fire blue meteor-like blasts that are capable of damaging even evil entities with self-regenerating abilities, like Aku.
• Omniscience: Odin was able to sense Aku's rise to power on Earth. Along with Ra and Vishnu, he greeted the Emperor during their first meeting while assuming the form of a Buddhist monk, and later forged the Emperor's essence of virtue into a katana. These demonstrate Odin's knowledge of Buddhism and Japanese culture, as well as his respect for them.
• Shape Shifting: As a deity, Odin is able to change his physical form at will, as seen by how he first appeared to the Emperor as a Buddhist monk.
• Eye beams: Odin, along with Ra and Vishnu use this ability to extract the strength and purity of the Emperor's spirit to forge his katana. They also extracted purity and strength of Jack's own spirit and then infused it to his katana, making it more powerful than before.
• Astral Projection: During the forging of the katana, Odin was shown to be capable of projecting his spirit out from his body - he projected his spirit in the form of a Buddhist monk to forge the katana, while his main body remained behind, glowing in blue.
• Transmutation: Odin and his fellow deities transmute the Emperor's virtues into a steel katana.
• Immortality: As a deity, Odin is immortal.
• Precognition: As a god, it is likely that he possesses this power that allows him to see future events.

Quotes

• "You have been chosen. A force of ultimate evil has resurrected itself on thy world."
• "This blade was forged from the righteous energy within thee."
• "Like your father, you have been chosen."

Trivia

• Odin is the first of the three gods Jack has interacted with, albeit indirectly, by assisting the Warrior to pass on to Valhalla.
• He is the only god that have one eye, and the spot in which his right eye used to be is an empty socket. In mythology, Odin gave his right eye to Mímir so that he may drink from Mímisbrunnr, a well that its water gives any drinker immeasurable wisdom.

Odin and Sleipnir

Odin (far right) in his first in-show appearance alongside the Warrior, Thor and other Norse Gods and Goddesses.