Odin

**Odin**, Also known as **The Allfather**, was a God in Norse Mythology and ruler of Asgard. He, along with Ra and Rama, is one of the creators who forged a Magic Katana given to The Emperor and later Jack to destroy Aku. He was the father of Thor who died in battle against the Grimm, leaving his hammer Mjolnir to be wielded by his successor.

## Personality

Despite his seeming benevolence at the time Odin was driven to prevent the coming of Ragnarok by any means necessary, even killing his own son Tyr and attempting to curse Baldur with immortality again when it was broken by the Spiral Gem of Soul, only to fail. It is also apparent that Odin had met Sammael at one time as Sammael claimed that Odin considered him a monster and the Fallen retorted with how Odin effectively destroyed his family in fear of Ragnorak.

## Biograhy

### Original Timeline

Millions or billions of years before Samurai Jack was even born, Odin, lead his fellow gods, Ra and Rama, to battled The Black Mass somewhere in the vastness of space. Their divine weapons injured and burned the Black Mass in the same way that Jack's Katana did, but given the self-regeneration powers that 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, which allowed it to drift away from the scene and seemingly went unnoticed by them.

For countless eons, the fragment floated in space until it crashed into the prehistoric Earth and caused the 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 devoured any living creatures by drowning them into the tar or impaled them from the ground. The forest grew at an alarming rate that it started to destroy settlements and its people. The Emperor, Jack's father, decided to destroy the evil at its source. With a magical elixir that was 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, The Emperor recited a sutra, dipped 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 had worked when the trees that grew *from* the pool withdrew to the pool's depth and then re-merged, only gave it a humanoid form. Thus, Aku came into existence, and declared that he *is* the new master.

The Emperor attempted to slay Aku with his arrows and his katana, only to find them useless. Aku then had The Emperor tied to a gargantuan tree from the pool and proceeded to destroy his kingdom, much to his horror. Odin then sent 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 The Emperor to destroy Aku. After he successfully defeated Aku, The Emperor sealed him into the Earth and an evil-looking tree then emerged from the ground. After he knew that Aku would return one day, The Emperor then told his wife, The Empress, that he would have a plan to prepare for that.

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 that was inside himself, Mad Jack.

### GrimmFall Timeline

His son Thor offered him a gift forged from the heart of a dying sun by the Dwarves of Nidavellir for saving their realm over sixty five million years ago. This led to the belief that the forging of Mjolnir caused a supernova that actually wiped out the dinosaurs.

He learned that the power that Mjolnir wielded was powerful enough to contain the power of a cosmic storm created by God Tempest. It was so powerful that Odin himself was unable to control it and its power nearly devastated the Asgard realm. To prevent this from ever happening again, Odin casted an enchantment to prevent anyone from wielding it, only those that Mjolnir deemed worthy. To anyone else, Mjolnir can't be lifted from the ground. Those who are deemed worthy are able to wield Thor's powers and access to the hammer's countless mystical attributes, powers such as controlling the weather and levitation. Eventually Mjolnir would be given to Odin's son, Thor, the god of thunder and lightning when he proved himself worthy.

Odin played a role to battle against those who invaded the Nine Realms of Asgard such as Trolls, Frost Giants, and even Gems when the Diamond Authority. According to Gem legends. He lost his son who fell during the Grimm Invasion of Asgard, Odin then casted a spell that imprinted his son's essence onto Mjolnir, allowing for Thor to be reborn but only if someone was proved worthy of wielding Mjolnir when found. Sadly no one in Asgard was deemed worthy but Valhallen believed that perhaps someone worthy would one day be found in Midgard. With the blessing of Odin, Valhallen was allowed to take Mjolnir to Midgard and hopefully one day find someone worthy of gaining the power of Thor.

He had also cursed his son Baldur with immortality in an attempt to prevent Ragnarok.

Odin sensed the power of his son and at last found its successor and summoned Johnny Bravo, the reincarnation of Thor and appointed Rossweisse to be his mentor.

## Appearance

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

Odin's appearance was similar to a Viking: he had a blond beard, an empty right eye socket, and dressed in a tunic of white and gold, with a large winged helmet. He had an air of benevolence and wisdom as well as respect and awe for the power that he wielded. As a ruler of Norse gods, his entire person shone with a divine yet serene light, just like Ra and Rama. During the battle against the Black Mass in the outer space, Odin was shown to ride on Sleipnir, his eight-legged horse.

## Powers and Abilities

As one of the most eminent gods of the Norse Pantheon, Odin wielded a tremendous amount of divine power, enough to destroy a supernatural being as powerful as the Black Mass; something only his fellow Gods could accomplish. Indeed, Odin is the only God who did not need to be saved from the Black Mass and even saved Ra from it during their battle with it.

* **Gungnir Blasts:** Odin wielded a powerful spear called Gungnir, which he could use to fire blue meteor-like blasts that were 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 Rama, he greeted The Emperor during their first meeting while he assumed the form of a Buddhist Monk, and later forged The Emperor's essence of virtue into a katana. Those demonstrated Odin's knowledge of Buddhism and Japanese culture, as well as his respect for them.
* **Shape-Shifting:** As a god, Odin was 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 Rama, used that ability to extract the strength and purity of The Emperor's spirit and forged 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 and glowed in blue.
* **Transmutation:** Odin and his fellow gods transmuted the Emperor's virtues into a katana.
* **Immortality:** As a god, Odin was immortal.
* **Precognition**: As a god, it was likely that Odin possessed that power which allowed him to see future events.
* **Curse:** As a god, Odin was skilled in spells and curses as shown when he cursed his son Baldur with immortality.

## Trivia

* In the Gargoyle series, Odin was one of the Children of Oberon, this backstory was changed slightly to fit with the Samurai Jack origins as an actual god.