Odium/Tropes

These are all the Tropes for Odium.

Character Tropes

 * 0% Approval Rating: Downplayed. After his actions towards both the main heroes and the ones he accidentally hurt during his journey, Odium is hated and distrusted by both the citizens of Equestria, the people he tried to help, and even himself. The only ones who seem to tolerate him are the Mane Six and their friends themselves. This is more of a great reason why he has to work hard enough to make up for what he did.


 * Adorkable: When he’s not acting hostile, arrogant, or serious, he can be a very cute, shy, and at times dorky sweetheart who’s very earnest, but has self-deprecating humor and usually not-so-good social skills.


 * All for Nothing: Despite Odium's good deeds and good intentions of trying to help others for the greater good, he still lost everything he had during his journey against the Mane Six and their friends, causing him to think that he's an unforgivable monster who doesn't deserve anything good happening to him, because of his own injustices, after his first realization.


 * Animal Eyes: In contrast to his rounder, more normal, more innocent, and younger design and personality, Odium has slitted, cat-like eyes in order to show his pointier, more hostile, and more antagonistic design and personality.


 * Anti-Hero: After his redemption, Odium became much more friendly, helpful, earnest, and willing to give others the benefit of the doubt when needed. However, he’s usually still an introverted and serious loner, he still has his dark and troubled past haunt him with nightmares and other symptoms, and he can still be very hostile and untrusting at times, usually due to an outside force influencing him, helping against actually bad enemies, or to teach someone a lesson. He also still feels a lot of guilt and self-hatred for his injustices.


 * Anti-Villain: Prior to his redemption, Odium was the central antagonist of the fanfiction and the central source of conflict for the Mane Six and their friends. However, unlike most major villains in the series, his motivations for his actions are more heroic, noble, and misguided than malicious or villainous.


 * The Atoner: Downplayed. While Odium wasn’t evil to begin with, he still caused a lot of trouble by attacking the Mane Six and their friends twice and accidentally ruining the lives of some of the people he tried to help/stop. So much that he develops extreme self-hatred and guilt and wants to either be punished or work hard enough to make everything better again.


 * Base-Breaking Character: Odium has been very divisive for at least some of the fans and critics of the fanfic. Some think that he’s a well-written and relatable antagonist with a great and actually justified backstory and motivation for his actions. Some think that he’s an unnecessary and unlikable character with a backstory that’s way too edgy and isn’t enough to justify trying to hurt the Mane Six and their friends. Others think that he’s an average character who just isn’t worth paying attention to due to how much he’s been advertised.


 * Berserk Button:
 * Injustices of any kind. It isn't shown why he's this way yet until after he shows the Mane Six his backstory.
 * When his targets don't know or don't care about what they did wrong, to a lesser extent and for identical reasons. This even applies to himself after realizing how wrong he was and wanted to be punished for his actions.


 * Beyond Redemption: This is what he thinks of himself after everything he’s tried to do to the Mane Six and friends. Due to revolving his entire life and self-worth around extreme morality and integrity ever since his birth, he feels that after everything he’s done, he can never go back no matter what and that he’s not just not good anymore, but wasn’t good to begin with because of his actions, hatred, and injustices. It only takes him talking down to himself about this to give him the self-realization he needed.


 * Big Bad: Odium is the central antagonist of the fanfiction. He after the Mane Six and their friends and went through a long journey to go after them, although not without reason...


 * Butt-Monkey: Justified (to a degree). Due to Odium’s hateful actions and behavior, he’s been given a lot of physical, verbal, and emotional pain and abuse to the point of being the only character to actually bleed in the series. The "to a degree" part is for his good intentions and motivations.


 * Byronic Hero: Odium became this, along with Discord, Sid, and Tempest Shadow. After living in a disreputable town with his loving and honorable yet flawed and justice-obsessed family and being tricked and later traumatized by a random seer for years, Odium gained a strong hatred for injustice of any kind and had to face it on his own for the sake of others. Though he can be arrogant, single-minded, and morally hostile and distrustful at times, he does have a genuine care for others and has been dwelling on his own injustices after his realization.


 * Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Unlike other villains in the series, Odium's goals are driven by justice and integrity for everything that he thought the Mane Six and their friends did to others rather than power, dominance, etc. and will do whatever it takes to pursue it.
 * He's also the first villain, and character in general, in the series to think of the Mane Six as evil and are just using their so-called "compassionate" instincts for manipulative, evil, and selfish purposes.
 * Unlike other villains who think that they deserve better than what happened to them, Odium thinks that he deserves the opposite, not because of what happened to him or what he did in his past, but for his current actions towards the Mane Six and others and how he went about it. He's also the first antagonist who wants to be severely punished for his crimes out of extreme remorse and self-hatred of how wrong and hypocritical he was.


 * Easily Forgiven: Subverted. While Odium had good intentions and was tricked and traumatized for years into going about his violent and hateful actions, that still doesn’t excuse them and he still has to pay for them. So much that even he realizes that and is filled with so much remorse and self-hatred that he begs to be thrown in Tartarus for eternity because he thinks that he’s gone too far to deserve forgiveness or redemption and that being punished is way better than getting off scot-free for his injustices that he was supposed to stop. While not actually going to Tartarus, he does instead get his well-deserved punishment by fixing up the rest of the castle under very close scrutiny.


 * Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: This is one of Odium's biggest flaws, along with distrust, arrogance, and extreme views of morality and justice. He doesn't understand why, after everything he's done to them, the Mane Six still want him around. What's more, he didn't understand at first that they were actually genuine with their good-natured tendencies throughout the fanfiction.


 * Evil Costume Switch: Odium's older design and clothing is pointier, darker, and more intimidating compared to his younger design, showing his more antagonistic and hostile personality and goal in the story.


 * Evil Is Bigger: Odium's younger self seems to be just as short as, if not slightly shorter than, The Mane Six. While his older self is much taller than the Mane Six yet shorter than Discord.


 * Evil Virtues:
 * Determination - Once Odium sets his goals onto something, he'll get it done with extreme focus and composure, unless he lets his single-mindedness, hatred, rage, overthinking, and arrogance get the best of him.
 * Equality - Despite his arrogance and hatred of injustice, Odium doesn’t partake in social darwinism and only attacks those that are based on morality rather than strength, though he doesn’t attack the innocent, kids, etc.
 * Honor - This is his main virtue. He wants to do whatever it takes for true integrity and honor, even if it means fighting till his last breath.
 * Passion -
 * Resourcefulness - Odium is able to plan and use whatever he has to his advantage.
 * Responsibility - After his realization, he decides that he wants to be sent to Tartarus for who knows how long, since he believes that he's not worthy of forgiveness or anything good due to his own injustices.
 * Selflessness - Odium isn't doing what he's doing for any personal gain, he thinks he's doing it for others and for the greater good, even if it means getting himself hurt or killed in the process.
 * Valor - Odium has a lot of courage when it comes to facing others, especially those that he's targeting.


 * Family Honor: This is Odium's second motive that ties directly into his main motive. Because of how his caring yet flawed family's legacy and values derives from honor and justice of any kind, Odium feels as though he must follow those values in order to live up to and preserve their reputation for honorable behavior and integrity.


 * Fatal Flaw:
 * Arrogance: This is one of Odium's main flaws. He thinks that he's the only one who can go up against the Mane Six and their friends, even if it means fighting till his last breath. However, he does know when he's outnumbered or overpowered and relents when needed. He also thinks of himself as a morally noble person who has the right to correct or judge his targets' morality and that it's his personal job to keep others morally in line when needed, including himself.
 * Constant remembering of one's misdeeds: After his two realizations in the story, Odium thinks of himself as unworthy of forgiveness, redemption, or anything good happening to him because of his own injustices towards the Mane Six and their friends when he's supposed to be helping others. This is due to him defining his life's purpose and self-worth to morality and integrity in general.
 * Curiosity: Along with his gullibility, Odium does have a very curious mindset at times.
 * Distrust: Odium is very distrustful towards those who are in the wrong.
 * Extreme views of morality: Odium usually thinks in a clear black and white mindset when it comes to morality, mainly that those who need help or seem innocent are good and those who've done something extremely wrong are evil and deserve punishment. This even extends to himself after he realizes for himself that he's still doing the wrong thing. This is also one of the reasons why he can be so gullible and curious.
 * Extreme views of justice: Downplayed. Even though Odium realizes that trying to hurt others, let alone the Mane Six and their friends, is wrong, he feels as though he needs to go through with it for the greater good and to enact justice for their perceived misdeeds throughout the series. This is mainly the reason for his own moral dilemmas and realizations during the fanfiction.
 * Gullibility: This is another one of Odium's main flaws
 * Honor: While this is Odium's greatest virtue, it's also his biggest flaw when it comes to rationality.
 * Obsessiveness in general:
 * Refusing to forgive:
 * Wrath:


 * For Great Justice: A more antagonistic and deconstructed version. This is Odium's main motive. He wants justice to prevail and for injustice to be punished for the greater good of others by any means, even if it means fighting till his last breath.


 * From Nobody To Nightmare: Downplayed. Odium was once a normal grey wolf pup who wanted to make life better for others in the name of his honorable and caring family's moral code. While still had that code and motivation, he became bitter and hateful of any injustice that went against that. After being old enough to move on his own and meeting a mysterious seer who trained him into being a vigilante who wanted him to go after the Mane Six and their friends for their misdeeds, especially Starlight and Discord, before dying of old age and traumatizing him, he became the villain that he didn't know he was until after his two realizations.


 * Heel-Face Turn: After his full redemption, Odium blames himself for his actions rather than his moral code and decides to face punishment for what he put the Mane Six through since he thinks he doesn't deserve forgiveness or redemption from them.


 * Hero Antagonist: Odium is arguably the first antagonist who’s more heroic and noble than villainous. His main motive is the same as the main heroes, except he does it in a more aggressive and antagonistic manner.


 * He Who Fights Monsters : Odium is trying to stop injustice by any means necessary, but ultimately does said injustice by trying to hurt the Mane Six for their past screw-ups.


 * Heel Realization: After realizing for himself how evil and hateful he's become, that the Mane Six and their friends were good beings instead of evil all along, and how his actions towards them contradict his desire to help others and make life better for them, he tearfully becomes ashamed of himself and full of self-hatred for trying to hurt, and later kill, them and wants to be punished for his actions out of extreme remorse, thinking that he's unworthy of redemption or forgiveness at all.


 * Hidden Depth:
 * Odium has lied a few times when he was younger. One of them was where he accidentally broke something and lied about it to his parents by pointing it to his imaginary friend. He did get in a lot of trouble for those lies, which cemented one of his beliefs that lying only leads to trouble.
 * When he was younger, he tried to save someone from a burning building, but failed due to fear of the flames. This scarred him for life and he never forgave himself for that ever since.
 * Odium believes in the afterlife, particularly both Heaven and Hell.
 * Aside from wanting to help others and punish those who are in the wrong, he also dreamed of being a part of the Model UN and passing Philosophy. The former of which he failed at while the other he passed at.
 * He loves dogs, blue and brown, most music (especially ballad), traveling, and fruit salads.
 * He hates snakes, artichokes, art, rap music, and puns.
 * Odium is a very bad cook.
 * Odium has a self-deprecating sense of humor.
 * He's a very talented story-writer.


 * Honor Before Reason: Odium's hatred of injustice of any kind has made him into an unforgiving vigilante who decides to take matters into his own hands for the sake of others by any means, even if it means using violence.


 * Iron Butt-Monkey: Despite his skills and durability, he still receives a large amount of physical and emotional punishment to the point where he’s the only character in the series to actually bleed.


 * I've Come Too Far: This is one of the reasons for his relapse and self-hatred. Despite getting a Heel Realization, he still thinks that his actions were too irredeemable and caused a lot of trouble to deserve forgiveness and redemption and that he deserves to be sent to Tartarus for eternity in order to pay for his crimes, regardless of if he dies in the process. As he says in his own words:


 * "Being punished for my actions for eternity is a lot better than having to live with them scot-free with nothing but guilt on my shoulders."


 * Jerkass Woobie: While he wasn't really a jerk as he did try to help a lot of helpless citizens without any recognition or reward and had good intentions for his actions, he was still the stubborn, hateful, and arrogant antagonist of the fanfiction. Still, you can't help but feel bad for him after being tricked and later traumatized for years and losing literally everything that he had after his journey against the Mane Six and their friends. Especially when he finds out for himself how monstrous and evil he's become.


 * Knight of Cerebus: The fanfiction takes place after the events of The Ending of the End, where the Mane Six and their friends are finally celebrating after seemingly defeating every last villain they’ve faced up to that point. Then Odium arrives out of nowhere and brutally takes most of them down with the intent to hurt them, cementing himself as one of the most violent, vindictive, and dangerous antagonists in the series.


 * Knight Templar: Justified (to a degree). He's lived his whole childhood filled with injustices, with the only good things being his family, and has been tricked and later traumatized for years into doing the exact injustice under the assumption that what he’s doing is right. Granted, it doesn’t excuse wanting to brutally hurt, and later kill, the Mane Six and their friends (except for Spike and Fluttershy), but it does put things into perspective.


 * Lean and Mean: While he's not actually mean or villainous as he's more antagonistic, hostile, and hateful, he does have a slim physique, giving him average physical strength and a lack of raw power. He does make for it with technique, skill, experience, and intelligence.


 * My God, What Have I Done?: After seeing how far he's fallen, and how his actions have changed him into the villain that he saw the Mane Six as, he tearfully regrets his actions and genuinely wants to be punished by being sent to Tartarus for eternity for his crimes, being unable to ever forgive himself and realizing that he’s unworthy of forgiveness or redemption after all the pain he gave the group.


 * Never Hurt An Innocent: This is basically a huge part of Odium's noble, yet misguided principles. This even applies to his targets whenever they show absolute fear or flinch in front of him. Since he only targets and curbstomps the guilty, or at least whom he thinks are guilty, except for people like children, he refuses to harm those who have nothing to do with said targets or did nothing even remotely wrong before, if at all.


 * Noble Bigot: Heroic412229 describes Odium as such with the integrity and nobility of his character juxaposed by how he went about it as being violent, unforgiving, hypocritical, and intolerant towards those who he thinks deserves it. Whereas most villains in the series know that their actions are evil, Odium thinks of himself as someone who's trying to do the right thing for others and has a goal that can be rationalized as noble, altruistic, and just despite his actions.


 * "Odium is an extremely spiteful and vindictive person. So much that he's willing to hurt and/or even kill those who he thinks are in the wrong. Those who go against his own moral values and everything that he thinks is right. I wanted to write an antagonist who's not entirely wrong in terms of reasons or motivations, but goes about things the wrong way in terms of actions. Sort of like a Magneto-type character. I also wanted to show how the road to hell is paved with good intentions and how you need to show your good intentions through your actions. Odium really wants to hurt the Mane Six and their friends and there's a reason for it – because he thinks that they deserve it and that it's the right thing to do. He's spiteful, hateful, and vindictive, not because of what happened to himself, but what happened to others."


 * Non-Standard Character Design: Odium is very different from most of the characters in the series. Unlike the Mane Six and their friends' usual rounded features, Odium is more angular and specific in his design for the most part, at least in his older design. He's also one of the few characters in the series to wear clothes entirely, both in his older and younger appearance. His younger design is more rounded and brighter than his more darker, older self. He's also one of the few main antagonists to be both bipedal and anthropomorphic. He also doesn't have or use magic and/or technology, aside from the magic-proof staff, and relies only on his physical prowess and cunning in battle.


 * Not So Above It All: Despite being serious and determined on the outside, Odium can be very dorky at times and idealistic when needed. He’s also not afraid to smile, laugh, or show off his comedic side at times, especially with self-deprecating humor.


 * Outside-Context Problem: Despite Odium not having any magical or technological prowess, he is still a powerful and effective fighter due to harboring skills, experience, and intelligence that are uncommon to the Mane Six and their friends, despite his lack of raw power. Not to mention the fact that the Mane Six have already reformed and/or defeated the rest of the other antagonists throughout the series prior to him, so having another antagonist still out there and willing to go after Equestria — heck, being willing to go after the Mane Six and their friends in general — was thought to not nearly be possible anymore, yet here he is. He's also the first redeemable antagonist with the first non-friendship problem to solve in the series.


 * Personal Horror: Odium's realizations. After Odium talks himself down about how he doesn't deserve anything good happening to him because he has no goodness at all, he comes to realize how ironically evil and hateful he's been acting and relents. He also tries to get himself sent to Tartarus due to genuinely thinking that he's unworthy of forgiveness and redemption after everything he's done.
 * Word of God has stated that there was a particularly tragic event that happened in Odium's youth before he met Gabriella. When he was younger, he tried to save someone from a burning building, but due to his fear of the flames and being burnt alive, he couldn't save them, resulting in them dying as the building collapsed and the fire was put out. This event scarred Odium for life and he never forgave himself for that ever since.


 * Please Kill Me If It Satisfies You: After everything that he has said and tried to do to the group and feeling a lot of guilt and self-hatred for it, Odium genuinely wants them to kill or severely punish him out of extreme remorse. He even becomes extremely shocked and confused when they refuse and try a different, less harsh punishment out of pity.


 * Shrinking Violet: When Odium was younger and despite helping others a lot, he usually used to be very introverted and awkward around others besides his family due to living in a disreputable town. Even with his older self, when he's not angry or determined, he will be rather shy and self-conscious about his actions towards those he's hurt or tried to hurt, as well as those who are close to the ones he's hurt or tried to hurt.


 * Skilled, but Naïve: He's this mixed with Weak, but Skilled. Odium may have a lot of hand-to-hand combat experience and techniques to make up for his lack of raw strength, making a very dangerous opponent, but due to having trouble with social situations, he can be easily manipulated.


 * Super Gullible: Despite his above-average intelligence, Odium can be very gullible and naïve towards those who need his help, contrast to his distrust towards those who he thinks are in the wrong. This is one of the reasons why he got tricked by Calypso for years before her inevitable death of old-age.


 * Strike Me Down With All Of Your Hatred: Tries to taunt Twilight into use the magic-proof staff to either knock him again or kill him in the climax of the fanfiction, presumably hoping that if she did so, then others might gain the same views of her and her friends as he has and potentially ruin the upcoming coronation for their current actions, though there's also the implication that he hates himself for his actions and injustices and wants to be severely punished for them through any means.


 * Tears of Remorse: After realizing how far he's fallen due to letting his own flawed moral code and overall distrust and gullibility get the best of him and how he hurt others, including the Mane Six, instead of helping them like he's supposed to, he begins to tearfully regret his actions and thinks that he doesn't deserve redemption or forgiveness.


 * Tragic Villain: Even though Odium didn't particularly go through any major tragedy in order to become the antagonist, aside from living in a disreputable town, watching someone die right before his eyes, and losing literally everything he had afterwards, his intentions were sympathetic, but the way he went about them was still very wrong and hypocritical. So much that he thought he was too far gone to even deserve forgiveness and wanted to be sent to Tartarus because of his actions and injustices.


 * Unwitting Pawn: This is one of the main reasons why Odium was going against the Mane Six and their friends. Due to his gullibility and having his self-worth tied to making life better for others and punishing those who are in the wrong, he was tricked by a random seer for years into wanting to hurt the Mane Six and their friends for their perceived misdeeds throughout the series. He didn't take it very well when he found that out, along with losing literally everything he had along the way.


 * Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Downplayed. While Odium wasn't exactly a villain, even in his older self, he was a lot more hostile and antagonistic than his younger design due to his hatred of all injustices and being tricked by an old seer for years.


 * Villainous Breakdown: Odium, an antagonist filled with honor and integrity, but also hatred and anger, has a particularly disturbing one that kicks off the climax of the fanfiction. After realizing that he was tricked by Calypso for years to go against his moral code and the possible loss of everything, including his caring family due to their absence, his trust issues, grief, and self-loathing began to take him over until finding out that the Mane Six were going to turn him into stone if they had to and possibly even knock out, kill, or mentally break him was the final straw. Due to thinking that forgiving him is impossible due to his own injustices throughout the story, he eventually relapsed back into attacking the Mane Six and their friends, tried to goad them to use the staff on him again in order to prove a point and out of self-loathing, and, when that fails, just flat out tried to kill them. When Twilight and her friends continued to No-Sell Odium's attacks, he began to talk down to himself until he tearfully realized how far he's fallen and relents. After Odium calms down, he decides to genuinely want to be sent to Tartarus for his actions for eternity.


 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Odium is going after the Mane Six and their friends for their misdeeds and faults throughout the series while under the impression that it's for the good of others. However, what he doesn't know is that he's been tricked by a seer and that the Mane Six are actually the heroes of the land.


 * Wouldn't Hurt A Child: This is one of his moral standards, especially when it comes to going the guilty. He refuses to harm children, including those affiliated with his enemies. This is also one of the reasons why he refuses to harm Spike, even when the dragon is fighting him.


 * Would Hit A Girl: Odium is usually more than willing to hit the Mane Six if it means giving them their personally well-deserved repercussions for everything that he thought they've done. Though, he is more merciful when around others like Fluttershy and is willing to help others, including women, when needed. So it's mostly due to morality rather than gender.

Power, Skill, and Equipment Tropes

 * Anti-Magic: Odium is only capable of wielding this power using the acquired Magic-Proof Bo-Staff given to him by Gabriella. It's said to be one of, if not completely, her most powerful weapon in her arsenal and gives Odium a great advantage magically against the group as he's able to combine his own abilities with the staff, making him one of the most dangerous enemies the group has faced. Despite that, it’s neither fire-proof nor indestructible.


 * Badass Normal: Despite being a relatively normal, anthropomorphic wolf with no magic or tech compared to most of the other characters in the series, Odium is still able to use his acquired skills and strategy to take on and nearly defeat the Mane Six and their friends at least one-by-one... In their first encounter. It also helps that the magic-proof bo-staff gives him a huge advantage magically.


 * Boring, but Practical: Due to Odium not having any magical or technological abilities and/or prowess like other antagonists in the series, including flight, he has to rely on his many years of skill, experience, martial arts, and intelligence, as well as a magic-proof staff, all given to him by a seer. While these abilities aren't as flashy, they did help Odium nearly defeat the Mane Six and their friends in their first fight.


 * Charles Atlas Superpower: Odium falls into this. Despite still getting some small bits of blood, scratches, and bruises, he’s able to shrug off being launched into a hard tree from a slightly-large magic blast and then dropping through said tree from at least a few feet. Very impressive for a being with no magic or technology at hand.


 * Guile Hero: Despite his arrogance, he knows how powerful the Mane Six and their friends are and relies on his wits, skills, and status as an Outside-Context Problem in order to take them on.


 * Logical Weakness: Despite his own abilities, it’s pretty obvious that the Magic-Proof Bo-Staff itself is what gives Odium a great magical advantage. This means that he, himself, is basically more vulnerable to most magical attacks without it, especially when it’s taken away from him. There are also some spells that he can’t defend from, even with the staff at hand; such as teleportation, telepathy, etc.


 * Mage Killer: The first in the series. While he doesn’t actually try to kill them until his Villainous Breakdown, he is able to combine both his skills, wits, and a simple bo-staff that negates magic in order to take on the Mane Six and their friends during their first encounter with him. This makes him one of the most skilled and dangerous opponents that the group has faced.


 * One-Man Army: Downplayed, Justified, and Deconstructed. Due to his years of martial arts training, studying, and planning with a manipulative seer on the Mane Six and their friends' strengths, weaknesses, and berserk buttons, as well as giving him her magic-proof staff before her death of old-age, Odium is able to take at least each of them down one by one (With mostly the exception of Discord, Fluttershy, and Spike), making him one of the most dangerous opponents. This is also thanks to him being an Outside-Context Problem, as his abilities and design wouldn't be out of place in an anthropomorphic, action cartoon/animation.
 * This gets turned on its head in the second battle against him, as while Odium may have years of skills, experience, and hatred on his side, he's still just one wolf and has his own limits as well as the Mane Six and their friends. During his emotional breakdown of wanting to kill the Mane Six and their friends in a fit of rage and even more hatred than before, mostly at himself and thinking that they were just trying manipulate, mentally break, or even try to kill him back, the Mane Six and their friends were able to dodge, counter, and No Sell his attacks for a few reasons:
 * Odium's magic-proof staff was destroyed, making him more vulnerable to magic-based attacks and techniques without his only trump card.
 * The Mane Six and their friends were able to adapt and learn from their near defeat in the first battle, as well as use Odium's strengths and weaknesses to their advantage in the same way he used theirs, especially for his lack of raw power and average strength.
 * Odium is affected by the Plateau Effect, making his abilities reach their peak limit and become not as effective as before.
 * Odium is going through an emotional/moral breakdown, causing his focus and composure to be clouded up by his own extreme anger and hatred.


 * Power of Hate: Aside from a lot of experience and observation with Calypso, pure hatred is what made Odium go from an innocent and naive pup into an unforgiving vigilante, acting as a second powerful motivator, after justice/integrity, that usually allows him to be capable of taking on the Mane Six and their friends at least one by one and becoming one of the most dangerous antagonists in the series, though it does lose its effectiveness in the second battle against him.


 * Simple Staff: Odium's given weapon is a long, bandaged, three-twigged, combat staff. While it may seem like just a simple-looking, old staff, it's very effective in combat for others who know how to use it and has Anti-Magic properties as well. The only problem is, just like a normal wooden staff, it's not impervious to fire, at least normal fire. It’s also not indestructible and can be destroyed with enough force.


 * Stronger Than They Look: While Odium does have a slim physique, average strength, and lack of raw power, his many years of training, skill, experience, and intelligence, along with a magic-proof staff that was given to him by a seer along with the training, do help him make up for it. He's able to fight on par with and nearly defeat the Mane Six and their friends before he was defeated and probably fled. All of these factors make him one of the most dangerous antagonists in the series.


 * Weak, But Skilled: Downplayed. While physically lacking in raw power, and has average strength, he makes up for it with many years of skill, training, experience, and intelligence that he got from a mysterious seer before her death of old-age. Since Odium has been training ever since the start of the series, he's able to fight on par with the Mane Six in terms of skill and experience and even nearly defeated them and their friends in his first fight with them before being taken down by either too much power, arrogance, intense hatred, or a strong sense of mercy in his part.