Erik Hellstrom

Erik "Odin" Hellstrom is the main antagonist in the third and final adventure in Atlantis: Milo's Return.
==Background==
===Physical Appearance===
He is a tall and slender long white-haired man, with a white beard, mustache, thick bushy eyebrows. He wears a Viking helmet, an eyepatch and gray-colored armor.
==Appearances==
===Atlantis: Milo's Return ===
He was once a fierce competitor to Preston B. Whitmore, having built a large shipping empire with cruise liners. At some point, he bought the largest castle in Iceland and named it "Asgard", leading the press to dub him "The Modern Odin". He enjoyed being treated as a god and lived like one until his company was shut down following a crash in the stock market. He lost his money, power, and, to Whitmore's assessment, his mind. 
Many years later, Hellstrom had indeed become completely insane, believing himself to be the Norse god king, Odin. After unsuccessfully trying to buy from Whitmore an ancient spear called the Gungnir, revealed to be an artifact of Atlantean origin, Hellstrom stole it. When Milo, Kida, Audrey Ramirez, Vincenzo Santorini, Gaetan Moliére, and Obby track Hellstrom down in the frigid Nordic mountains, he presumes Milo to be the trickster, Loki, and Kida to be his long lost daughter, Brunhilda, and kidnaps her. Hellstrom explains to Kida that his intentions are to end the world by bringing about Ragnarök (and most likely, rebuild it in his own image). 
Using the spear, he awakens two ancient demons, Surtr, the Chaos Lord of Fire and Ymir, the Chaos Lord of Ice. Well-placed explosives used by Vinny make the two demons turn on each other, causing them to lose the spear. Kida retrieves it and uses its power to drop Asgard on the two Chaos Lords, eliminating them and stopping Ragnarök. After the castle is destroyed, Hellstrom mourns over his defeat and is presumably sent to a mental hospital.
==Trivia==
*Hellstrom's appearance is greatly based on Odin, the god of wisdom in the Norse mythology.
*Before he went insane and took on the form of Odin, his appearance is based on famous actor Vincent Price.
**Interestingly, the late William Morgan Sheppard, Hellstrom's voice actor, had also voiced the real Odin in Gargoyles. Indeed, it is unknown what would have been made of Hellstrom's storyline if the cancelled Team Atlantis TV show had indeed crossed over with Gargoyles as was planned.
*Hellstrom's crows represent Huginn and Muninn, Odin's ravens who flew around the world of mortals, Midgard, and brought information back to him. The wolf may represent Fenrir, the monstrous wolf from Norse mythology or Odin's dogs Geri and Freki.
*Contrary to what was described in Milo's Return, Brunhilda is not actually Odin's daughter. In Norse mythology, Odin has no daughters, but he is often associated with the Valkyries, who are sometimes called his daughters.
==Gallery==
Normal Hellstrom.jpg|Hellstrom before going insane
Hellstorm awakens Surtr with Gungnir Atlantis2.jpg|Hellstrom using Gungnir to summon Surtr
Atlantis Milo's Return 7.jpg|Hellstrom defeated as his castle is destroyed
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