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| “ | You will come outside and present yourselves to me at once! Refuse, and we will treat you as any other pests and smoke you out of your burrow! | „ |
| ~ O. Dio's threat to the people of Success inside the saloon. |
| “ | It is you, then. You who educated Pike and his brothers so deftly in the ways of war. I owe you a debt for the generosity you showed my disciples. We are the men of violence, yes, but we are nevertheless men. And so I will repay you in our common currency... in blood and lead and death! | „ |
| ~ O. Dio challenging the Sundown Kid and Mad Dog. |
O. Dio is the main antagonist of the Wild West chapter of Live A Live for the SNES and its remake for the Nintendo Switch. He is the leader of the Crazy Bunch, a group of bandits and outlaws who terrorize Success, a small town in the American desert, on a regular basis.
In truth, he is one of the many incarnations of Odio, the Lord of Dark, whose hatred brought many villains over the span of history into existence, with O. Dio being his Wild West incarnation.
He was voiced by Hidekatsu Shibata in Japanese and Ben Balmaceda in English.
Biography[]
The Wanderer[]
Driven by his misanthropic rage, Odio used the statues left by his predecessor to create the many incarnations of himself throughout the history to punish humanity for their perceived sins. O. Dio was the incarnation born in America during the Wild West times, the last survivor of Custer's 7th who, driven to madness by the slaughter, ended up becoming an outlaw, forming the Crazy Bunch with many other bandits. Together, they raided many places, with the small town of Success being their favorite target due to their defenselessness.
This would change, however, when the Sundown Kid and Mad Dog arrive into the town. Witnessing Pike, a member of the Crazy Bunch, terrorize the civilians, the Sundown Kid fights and scares him off, and then he and Mad Dog interrupt their duel to get rid of two more thugs from the Crazy Bunch. Afterwards, the two rivals put aside their differences and team up with the people of Success to set as many traps as possible to get rid of the Crazy Bunch before they'll arrive at the sunrise.
As the sun rose, the Crazy Bunch rushed into the city. Depending on how many traps were set, many, if not all, members of the Crazy Bunch would fall before they'll get to reach the town's saloon. O. Dio joins soon after, accompanied by whatever Crazy Bunch members that survived the ambush (provided there were survivors). O. Dio demands the group to come out of the saloon, threatening to destroy it if they won't oblige, and so the Sundown Kid and Mad Dog answer the challenge.
As the two cowboys went outside to face him, O. Dio told them that he heard about how they dealt with Pike and his brothers and gets ready to kill the duo. However, he (along with his surviving forces) gets outpowered by Sundown and Mad Dog. Defeated, he laid unconscious and turned back into his true form, which is revealed to be a horse, the true survivor of Custer's 7th that was turned into a human by vengeful ghosts of the soldiers who perished in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Without their hateful influence, the now-innocent horse O. Dio gallops away.
Should the Sundown Kid spare Mad Dog, they'll meet again in the post-credits epilogue, where it would be revealed that Mad Dog managed to tame O. Dio's horse form, calling him a "wild bastard", untamable at heart, not unlike himself, and noting how similar they are to each other, which is how they were able to bond. Afterwards, Mad Dog and the Sundown Kid duel again, only for Mad Dog to face defeat once again. Afterwards, right as Mad Dog and O. Dio were about to leave, Sundown shoots at O. Dio's direction, making him panic, drop Mad Dog from his saddle and gallop away, the same trick he pulled off with Mad Dog's previous horse, and left, leaving Mad Dog to give chase after his new horse.
The Final Chapter[]
Having sensed defeats of his incarnations, Odio decided to take matters into his own hands. In the sad ending route, he takes direct control of O. Dio and helps him kill the Sundown Kid and Mad Dog as a way to prove that humanity is beyond redemption and to give O. Dio his recourse. In the true ending, however, Odio brings the Sundown Kid with many other heroes into the now-empty kingdom of Lucrece to teach them a lesson on humanity's evil. However, he gets defeated, and as a last-ditch attempt, Odio forces the heroes to fight his incarnations once more, with the Sundown Kid having to refight O. Dio. Despite this second assault, the outlaw, along with other Odio incarnations, falls once again, thus proving Odio's world view wrong.
In the remake's true ending credits, provided Mad Dog was spared, O. Dio's horse form can be seen again, with Mad Dog as his rider again, showing that he managed to find and bring O. Dio back. Mad Dog was shown to be riding on O. Dio by the Sundown Kid's side, implying that the animosity between them is over and that Mad Dog became the Sundown Kid's new partner in his travels, with O. Dio as his steed.
Quotes[]
| “ | O. Dio: It is you, then. You who educated Pike and his brothers so deftly in the ways of war. The Sundown Kid: ...Mad Dog? O. Dio: Ahaha! I see! Abandoned by your comrade in your time of need! How cruel, fate! Sheriff: Wait! [The Sheriff comes out of the saloon.] Sheriff: I'll fight with you, Kid! Billy: (coming out of the saloon) Pa, no! Sheriff: Get back inside! Annie: Come on, Billy! [As Annie drags Billy back inside, the Sheriff stands by Sundown's side.] O. Dio: Well, well. The yellow-bellied sheriff. You are not fit to stand with these warriors. Sheriff: I'm through running, Kid. I'll fight, god help me, for as long as I can manage... Mad Dog: A lovely sentiment, to be sure... But I can do without your death on my conscience. [Mad Dog reveals himself.] Mad Dog: Besides, if they kill the Kid, then they get the bounty, never mind the glory. So these fellows have forced my hand, since the Kid can only die once... [Mad Dog comes by the Sundown Kid's side.] Mad Dog: And Mad Dog always gets his man. Go be with your boy, Sheriff. Sheriff: I...Thank you. Give 'em hell! [The Sheriff returns to the saloon.] O. Dio: Are you finished? Two or one, it makes no difference. Another dog, another bullet. And I have so, so many to spare! |
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| ~ An alternate scene before the fight with O. Dio, if the Sundown Kid displays hesitance when answering Billy's question whether he and Mad Dog will survive fighting the Crazy Bunch. |
Related Quotes[]
| “ | ...You know who leads 'em, don't you? The only survivor of Custer's 7th. A devil who by all rights should be dead and dust. O. Dio, the outlaws call him. They flock to the man, their shepherd with a heart of stone. He'll have broken camp the moment he heard what you two did. He can't let it go unanswered. | „ |
| ~ Sheriff of Success describing O. Dio. |
| “ | Mad Dog: As I live and breathe...did he just turn into a horse!? Sheriff: Lord have mercy, it's true... Until O. Dio came along, story was that the Sioux and Cheyenne had massacred Custer's 7th. Not a man survived... But a single union horse did. [The horse form of O. Dio neighs and gallops away.] Annie: They said he was death itself, and maybe they were right. Born of those fallen soldiers—something cruel and primal... Barkeep: He never slept, they said. Never slept and would never die... |
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| ~ The people of Success witness the reveal of O. Dio's true horse form and discuss the circumstances behind his transformation. |
| “ | Hmm? Horse looks familiar, does it? <chuckle> Well, it should. It's O. Dio, or what's left of him. He's a wild bastard, untamable at heart. Not unlike myself, really. I daresay we're a match made in Heaven. Or Hell. | „ |
| ~ Mad Dog revealing that he tamed O. Dio's horse form. |
Trivia[]
- O. Dio's status as the only survivor of Custer's 7th and his true form being a horse is a reference to Comanche, Captain Keong's horse who was the only confirmed survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (where Custer's 7th cavalry participated) in the real life.
- O. Dio and OD-10 are the only incarnations of Odio that had survived/been redeemed after their battles with the heroes.
- In O. Dio's case, he was transformed back into a horse and, if Mad Dog is alive, is adopted by Mad Dog.
- In OD-10's case, it was reprogramed by Cube to its original AI settings before it went rogue.
- O. Dio is the only incarnation of Odio that is fought alongside enemies (excluding OD-10 and its stabilizers), assuming that the Sundown Kid didn't set up all of the traps.
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