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Odeodeo... Come unto us, O great one. We the faithful. We the blessed... Heed our prayers. We beseech you! Haha! Yes. Yes... His advent is nigh! Look now to the statue of Inko! Rejoice! Our savior is come! Rejoice! Odeo is come!
~ Priest Unryu calling forth the arrival of Odeo.

Lord Odeo is the main antagonist of the Near Future chapter of Live A Live for the SNES and its remake for the Nintendo Switch. He is the deity that lays dormant in the Odeo Temple, to be awakened when fed with hatred of many humans. His followers, the conspirators among the Japanese government made up of General Yamazaki, Doctor Livingstill and Priest Unryu, seek to awaken him, kidnapping and liquifying two thousand humans to offer to Odeo as a sacrifice, allowing him to awaken through the statue of the Great Inko (the Great Inko Buddha Statue in the Aeon Genesis translation).

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 Odeo being his Near Future incarnation.

Biography[]

The Outsider[]

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. Odeo was the incarnation that manifested in the near future era of Japan, a dormant deity that will be awakened by the hatred of the many men. His existence led to the formation of religion, with Priest Unryu seeking to awaken him by sacrificing him two thousand humans. Doctor Livingstill assisted him in sacrifices by kidnapping and liquifying humans to make it easier for Odeo to absorb them, while General Yamazaki provided them with military protection. Once Matsu Kenichi defected from the Crusaders after killing Akira Tadakoro's father, the government recruited the gang and had them kidnap people to be made into the liquid.

Their kidnappings and human sacrifices would eventually bring attention of Akira Tadakoro once the Crusaders try to kidnap Kazu from the orphanage where Akira grew up and lived in. Breaking into the laboratory with Matsu (also known as the Lawless), they discover the government conspirators' plot to liquify the humans and use them to awaken Odeo with their rage and hatred, with Akira discovering that they even kidnapped and liquefacted Watanabe's father to make into a combat machine, they were determined to end the conspiracy and foil their plans at any cost. Once Matsu awakened Doc Tobei's machine, the Steel Titan, by overdozing on matango, Akira took up the controls and stormed into the Odeo Temple, where the conspirators poured all liquefacted humans into the so-called "lake of unity" near the Great Inko's statue.

The statue absorbed the liquefacted humans, thus allowing Odeo to rise, fueled by the hatred of two thousand humans who were enraged by loss of their lives and being trapped in their horrible fates, and using the Great Inko's statue as a physical body. However, Akira and Matsu's consciousness, both controlling the Steel Titan, gave fight to Odeo and destroyed the awakened deity. With the statue destroyed, the lake of liquefacted humans drowned the conspirators into itself, but also tried to drag Akira and the Steel Titan into itself as well, so the teen used his psychic powers to teleport away into the city park at the last minute, as the lake presumably dried away soon.

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 the Great Inko's statue and helps it destroy the Steel Titan, killing Akira, as a way to prove that humanity is beyond redemption and to give Odeo his recourse. In the true ending, however, Odio brings Akira 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 Akira having to refight the Odeo-controlled Great Inko's statue while piloting the Steel Titan. Despite this second assault, the statue of a deity, along with other Odio incarnations, gets destroyed once again, thus proving Odio's world view wrong.

Trivia[]

  • Odeo, along with Odo and OD-10, are the only incarnations of Odio that never took a human form. Odeo resembles a cross between a Buddha statue and a bird, while Odo is a Tyrannosaurus rex, and OD-10 resembles a holographic demon skull in its cyberspace manifestation in Captain Square.
  • Odeo and Odo are the only incarnations of Odio that are worshiped as gods.
    • Coincidentally, neither of them displays any signs of distinct personality.
  • It is unknown whether Odeo is a real deity or is he merely a mythical figure that was made real by the wrathful liquefacted humans being absorbed into the statue. Both theories seen to be plausible, as Odeo is an incarnation of the Lord of Dark, meaning that a portion of his power would be able to bring a supernatural being that would be comparable to a deity into existence, and some of his attacks as the Great Inko (such as Divine Glory) are supernatural in nature, but it was also stated that humans can have their psychic energy within themselves greatly amplified when liquified (which is how the Steel Titan was theorized to be able to operate), and Odeo was awakened with the power of two thousand humans, which would allow them to use their collective newly-awakened psychic energy to perform the supernatural powers.

Navigation[]

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All Chapters
Odio

The First
Odo | Kuu Tribe (Kuu Chief, Zaki)

The Successor
Indomitable Fist (Ou Di Wan Lee, Sun Tzu Wang)

The Infiltrator
Ode Iou | Yodogimi | Puppetmaster Gennai | Amakusa Shiro | Miyamoto Musashi | Lord Iwama

The Wanderer
Crazy Bunch (O. Dio) | Mad Dog

The Strongest
Odie O'Bright | The Great Aja

The Outsider
Odeo | Conspirators | Crusaders

Mechanical Heart
OD-10 | Behemoth

The Lord of Dark
Oersted | Streibough | The Lord of Dark

Dominion of Hate
Odio (Odo, Ou Di Wan Lee, Ode Iou, O. Dio, Odie O'Bright, Odeo, OD-10) | Death Prophet | Jaggedy Jack | Headhunter

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