Odin (Marvel Comics)

## Summary

**Odin Borson** is the former All-Father and King of Asgard. He is the father of Thor, son of Bor Burison and brother of Vili, Ve and Cul Borson. He is known for sacrificing his eye to the Well of Mimir in order to gain the knowledge and wisdom of the Runes. When Cul became the All-Father and God of Fear, Odin defeated and imprisoned him, thus becoming the new All-Father. During a journey to the realm of Muspelheim, Vili and Ve were slain by Surtur, and their lifeforce combined with his, forming the Odinforce. He became one of the most powerful gods and beings in all existence.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** **Varies**, up to **High 1-B**

**Name:** Odin Borson, the All-Father (formerly)

**Origin:** Marvel Comics

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** Billions of years old

**Classification:** Asgardian Skyfather, God of War, King of Asgard (formerly)

**Powers and Abilities:**

* Powers and Abilities
* Resistances
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Immortality (Type 1), Regeneration (Low-Mid), Magic, Self-Sustenance ( Type 1, 2), Enhanced Senses (Detected the presence of a Vanna. Heard conversations happening far away from himself. Gods and their offspring can perceive invisible beings), Clairvoyance (Can witness events happening on Earth while remaining in Asgard. Seidring with Odin's powers could locate and watch Thor. Able to watch Thor's struggles while battling Infinity), Retrocognition (Can project and watch visions of events that happened in the past), Energy Manipulation and Projection (His powers can control ethereal force, allowing him to trap others in blocks of ethereal force or restrain them with energy bands. Can project beams and waves of energy), Matter Manipulation (Softened the seabed to sink Skagg. Instantly fixed Baldur's broken sword. Restored numerous broken buildings. Can affect atoms. Thor with Odin's powers fixed the Moon on a molecular level), Heat Manipulation (Generated celestial force that melted Loki's mystical frost), Technology Manipulation (Forced a spaceship to depart and guided it across the universe through his own power), Magnetism Manipulation & Gravity Manipulation (Could gather and control all the electo-magnetic particles in the universe and cause the Earth's rotation around the Sun), Power Bestowal (Can grant powers to others, including his own Odin-Force), Statistics Amplification (Increased the strength of an Asgardian to let them restrain Loki), Telekinesis (Sent Loki and Absorbing Man hurtling across the universe. Hurled the remnants of dead planets at Surtur), Extrasensory Perception (Sensed Thor's power coming from Beta Ray Bill. Possesses mystic senses that allowed him to detect the Infinity Watch coming to Asgard. Sensed Freyja being stabbed), Healing (Healed Baldur's injuries. Blasted Thor with cosmic power to bring him back from unconsciousness), Resurrection (Revived Hulk), Shapeshifting, Size Manipulation (Can take the form of a normal looking human. Can transform into a hound if he wanted to. Can greatly increase his size to match beings like Surtur and Galactus. Shrunk his royal vizier), Necromancy (Forced the spirit Volla to raise from death), Aura (Asgardians emit an aura of free-flowing electrons), Flight (Flew across the universe while fighting Forsung), Paralysis Inducement (Seidring with Odin's powers completely immobilized Baldur and several other Asgardians. Freezed Mangog's body, leaving him unable to move), Telepathy (Can telepathically speak to others and read minds), Body Puppetry (Infinity, a portion of Odin's own power, could control the bodies of his victims), Power Nullification & Statistics Reduction (Can nullify the enchantments placed on Mjolnir. Can reduce Thor's strength by half despite him being resistant to such an ability. Nullified magic-based shapeshifting. Can remove all of Thor's powers including his immense stamina and tolerance to pain. Completely removed Loki's godhood and rendered him no different than the average homeless man. Drained the strength from Hela), Absorption (Can absorb energy. Able to absorb Infinity. Absorbed Surtur), Teleportation (Can teleport himself and others), Invisibility (He and Dormammu made themselves invisible to most Asgardians. Even Thor who is able to see invisible beings wouldn't of been able to see them if it wasn't for Umar), Elemental Manipulation (Fire Manipulation - Can generate fire/ Trapped Skagg within a circle of flame. Able to create and hurl massive fireballs. Thor with Odin's powers could summon and unleash all the fires of hell; Water Manipulation - Seidring with Odin's powers could summon and control a vortex of liquefied wolfbane; Air Manipulation - Can create cyclones, Infinity, a portion of Odin's own power, can create mists and fog; Earth Manipulation - Opened up and resealed the Earth to imprison Surtur; Lightning Manipulation - Can generate lightning and unleash massive beams of electricity; & Weather Manipulation - Able to create storms. Due to gaining the powers of his brothers, he should be able to summon an arctic storm of sleet), Animal Manipulation (Commanded a hawk to save Baldur), Plant Manipulation (Summoned and controlled plants to save Baldur), Cloth Manipulation (Changed Jane Foster's outfit. Gave Thor and Sif new outfits), Explosion Manipulation (Can cause explosions), Sound Manipulation (Projected his voice through his ravens), Light Manipulation (Seidring with Odin's powers could project a bolt of light. Can generate flashes of light), Astral Projection (Can project his spirit), Non-Physical Interaction (Magical attacks and spells can affect and completely destroy spirits and astral forms. Physically fought Thor's soul), Fusionism (Could fuse elements of fire and lightning. Could fuse with his brothers), Creation (Created the Rainbow Bridge, Loki created a pair sentient hands via the Odin-Ring. Thor with Odin's powers created a feast for starving people), Portal Creation (Created a portal), Forcefield Creation (Created a protective shield to defend New York from Skagg. Seidring with Odin's powers created a barrier to protect himself), Illusion Creation (Created illusions of Thor to deceive Hela, said illusions being able to have tangible effects on the world despite not being real. Created illusions of many Asgardians), Multilocation (Can be in several places at once), Time Travel (Can access any time or place in creation, even different timelines, which he used to bring Frank Castle from a dead timeline and send him to a period where Thanos was still an infant), Dimensional Travel & BFR (Can freely move himself and others between Asgard and Earth. Can banish Thor to Earth despite him normally being resistant to such an ability. Can banish others to Limbo, Mephisto's realm and Nightmare's realm. Can access any place and time in creation), Sealing (Can imprison the entire population of a planet within a single being, Sealed Beta Ray Bill within a block of ethereal force. Sealed the God Tempest within a nugget of Uru. Tore an entire universe from Yggdrasil and sealed it away. Heimdall with Odin's powers imprisoned Thor within Eric Masterson's subconscious), Power Absorption (Can absorb power from the land itself. Absorbed his stolen powers back from Zelia. Can absorb power from others to empower himself), Deconstruction (Dissipated Zelia), Transmutation (Infinity, a portion of Odin's power, can enchant a weapon with the power to turn blood to water. Fired a transmutation beam to turn rhinegold ring-halves into the Odinsword. Turned Mimir's severed head into fire. Turned the Scarlet Centurion into an hourglass), Mind Manipulation (Can put the entire population of Earth into a catatonic state. Infinity, a portion of Odin's power, can instantly enslave the entire population of a planet/ Entered Thor's mind and had to restrain himself to avoid damaging it. Telepathic powers are potent enough to affect and match Galactus in a mental battle), Empathic Manipulation (Could calm down Thor. Removed the madness from Korgon), Perception Manipulation (Can create visons of himself and choose who can see and hear them. Forced Tony Stark to perceive infinity), Memory Manipulation (Erased the memories of all mortals to make them forget the disasters Infinity wrought across the universe), Biological Manipulation (Removed Thor's mouth. His ring allowed Loki to change Baldur's appearance. reversed the effects of Ego-Primes mutations), Life & Death Manipulation (His ring can imbue life into others. Suspended Baldur between life and death. States that he is a god of life before giving new life to dead flowers, Created and breathed life into humanity. Infinity, a portion of Odin's power, is able to cause instant death), Soul Manipulation (His enchantment on Mjolnir forced Thor's and Loki's souls to return to their respective bodies. pulled Thor's soul out of the Destroyer. Released Thor's spirit from the body of Donald Blake. Can transfer souls into his scepter. Prevented Mephisto from claiming a soul Could've torn Thor's soul asunder), Time Manipulation (Can stop time. After sealing off Asgard, he locked it into an eternal night, causing time to become stagnant and eons to pass without meaning), Spatial Manipulation (Seidring with Odin's powers could distort the fabric of space to deflect Thor's attacks. Twisted the space of a city when confronting Hela. Created and fixed a rent in space. Tore apart the fabric of space to retrieve Frank Castle), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Created a pocket realm at the bottom of Yggdrasil to store Donald Blake), Blood Manipulation / Quantum Manipulation (Created an Asgardian blood legion using quantum foam), Limited Law Manipulation via Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1 - He and Dormammu warped reality to the point of affecting Lord Chaos and Master Order in a game of chess, but the match ended inconclusive, so the changes in reality disappeared. Odin explained that both he and Dormammu have to be evenly matched to not cause a cosmic imbalance at the end of the game), Reality Warping (Warped and reversed all damage Infinity had done. He and Dormammu were warping and disrupting the cosmic balance of the cosmos during a chess game. Warped the space between realms), and Existence Erasure (Erased the human race. Thor with Odin's powers attempted to erase Desak from existence, and when tapping into more of the Odin-Force, would've have successfully erased him despite him previously resisting, only failing due to the Spirit of the Jewel saving Desak. Could have erased the trolls from existence with a single blink)

Resistance to Poison Manipulation (Asgardian gods are unaffected by poisons), Extreme Temperatures, Radiation Manipulation (Perfectly fine while flying through space), Matter Manipulation (Unaffected by molecular disruptor. Gods possess different molecules to humans, allowing them to be unaffected by things such as molecule freezing beam), Mind Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation (Gods are unaffected by the Chaos King's mental destruction that can destroy mortals minds and cause them to go into a kind of waking sleep. With some difficulty he can break free from Galactus messing with his mind), Power Absorption, Sense Manipulation, Pain Manipulation (Only he has the power to bear the Odin-Ring with no ill effects, the ring being able to cause sudden pain, sudden blindness and taking away the wearer's power), Electricity Manipulation (Unaffected by lightning, easily catching and throwing it back at the yellow-crested titans), Fire Manipulation (Can withstand Surtur's flames without much difficulty), Age Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Unaffected by wearing the Odin Ring, which caused Loki to age and start withering away, Hela is unable to force him to die despite being able to inducr death even upon Thor, who can already resist death based abilities such as Decay's Touch which causes living things to quickly decay and die), Soul Manipulation (Hela is unable to affect his soul while he's still alive), Sealing (Easily broke free of Thanos' attempt to seal him), Dimensional BFR (Scales to Thor, who resisted being banished to Limbo due to being a god), Power Nullification (Doctor Strange is unable to nullify the Odin-Force, requiring the leaders of Earth's pantheons to do it for him), Deconstruction (While empowered by the Odin-Force, Thor is able to withstand the Destroyer's disintegration beam), Cosmic Awareness (Can hide actions from Heimdall), and Empathic Manipulation (Unaffected by Amora's seduction spell)

**Attack Potency:** **Varies** (Due to the Odinsleep factor, which causes the Odinforce to go up and down. When it is in a near-depleted state, he can enter the Odinsleep to replenish it), up to **High Hyperverse Level** (His fight against Seth tore at the fabric of the multiverse itself and sent forth shockwaves that rippled through every plane of reality, with Silver Surfer stating that the forces unleashed by them could "rock our entire continuum," thus affecting the internal contents of Eternity itself. His power is said to be comparable to Galactus's own, and the two stood evenly matched in direct confrontation Fought and won wars that made the Watchers go insane witnessing them. Considered to be on the same level as Galactus, Celestials, and Zeus. Easily one-shot Silver Surfer)

**Speed:** **Varies**, up to **Infinite** (Scaling from his son. Superior to Silver Surfer and Mjolnir. Instantly sent Thor hurling from Earth to Asgard, which are repeatedly stated to be spaced apart by an infinite distance. While empowered by the Odinforce, Seidring could launch a beam of energy that reached Earth from Asgard in an instant)

**Lifting Strength:** **Varies**, up to **Immeasurable** (Scaling from Thor. Comparable to Galactus. Tore an entire universe from Yggdrasil and sealed it away.Moved Heaven and Earth on many occasions)

**Striking Strength:** **Varies**, up to **High Hyperverse Level**

**Durability:** **Varies**, up to **High Hyperverse Level** (Traded blows with Surtur. Withstood multiple attacks from Seth. Tanked hits from Thor)

**Stamina:** Nigh-Infinite (Comparable to Thor. Fought a snow giant for several weeks straight. Fought through Cul's army for 40 days and 40 nights straight)

**Range:** Standard Melee Range. Extended Melee Range with Gungnir or Odinsword. Multiversal+ with attacks and powers

**Standard Equipment:** Gungnir, Odinsword

**Intelligence:** Genius (Devised a plan that included faking Thor's banishment to expose a traitor in Asgard. Used Ego-Prime as a way to evolve certain humans into new gods that could be presented to the Celestials. Let Thor fight Surtur unaided so that the battle would weaken Surtur before Odin began his attack. Allowed himself to be transformed into Surtur as part of a plan that would result in Thor banishing Surtur and Ymir and leaving them in suspended animation. Laid out a plan to defeat the Dark Gods, going as far as wiping his own contingency plan from his memory to ensure it works out. Called a master manipulator by Loki, who relayed Odin's plan of using Yggdrasil's weakened condition to his advantage by banishing all Asgardians to Earth and stripping them of their memories to trick Yggdrasil into thinking Ragnarok had already occurred, thus allowing the Asgardians to continue living without fear of the event, and while he had initially planned for Thor to defeat Seth and restore the memories of the Asgardians, he had a back up plan of having 3 individuals with Thor's powers to serve as his replacement should anything happen to him)

**Weaknesses:** None notable

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