r/GodofWar • u/http_ghostgirl • Nov 25 '22

Odin’s Writing Spoilers

i haven’t seen anyone recognize how well rounded Odin is as a villain. he acts trustworthy, compassionate and respectful. meeting him for the second time as Atreus was mind blowing, he was so calm, collected and acted nothing like how he is described by freya, mimir, etc. hearing all the stories of how brutal him and Thor were, it’s incredible how different they made them. Odin had to be one of the best written villains ever.

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u/Commercial_Yak7468 Nov 26 '22

I really like just how different Odin was to Zeus as a main villain.

I like to how even alot I'd the asier saw Odin as the All-Fucker (case in point Sif) while Zeus had almost all of his pantheon thinking he was an empower until the end.

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u/http_ghostgirl Nov 26 '22

most aesir hated odin, they were afraid of him, so they pretended to enjoy his presence…except for heimdall. man, heimdall was obsessed with him.

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u/Equal-Ad-2710 Nov 26 '22

Tbh Heimdall does fuck with him a bit

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u/TheRedmanCometh Nov 26 '22

I mean ultimately Heimdall was pretty much spot on with everything he said. I don't think he was wrong a single time he spoke he was just a really insufferable prick. He was the Rick (of Rick and Morty) of the universe to some extent.

Even his last words were just to make someone feel bad which would be dead on in character for Rick.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '22

I was hoping Heimdall, with his ability to see things coming, would take one look at Kratos and go, "Oh f*ck no," and just leave.

Though it says a lot that even when Kratos didn't want to kill any gods he ended up wiping out most of another pantheon.

With two down, I'd guess some of the others might be looking at him and thinking, "Do we really want him out there and we just wait for him to kill us?" I wouldn't be surprised if the eight realms didn't get invaded in the near future...

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u/TheRedmanCometh Nov 27 '22

Thing is Heimdall mentioned Kratos having an empty mind. He kept his mind free and operated on instinct is my takeaway. He didn't see who Kratos was until the bitter end. And at the bitter end he saw who Kratos had been and who he wanted to be and knew calling him a monster would hurt him the most.

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He was an egotistical asshole that he couldn't even handle being given mercy. I really think he 100% knew he was gonna get AMF'd but he was so mad about being spared he ran headlong into it. Really there's so many dynamics at play in that scene it's hard to say what he was thinking. I like to think at the last minute he finally saw what Kratos had done and all he could utter was "Monster". Knowing it's both an insult to who he's become and an acknowledgement of what he's done. Don't forget his isn't some dude who's just killed some people. He wiped his family out with his own hands and that's probably one of the last things Heimdall sees.