History Characters / TheOrderOfTheStickDivineBeings

* SmugSnake: As far as Xykon is concerned, being the strongest spellcasters to be sent to Hell in a world where ImmortalityImmorality is possible just means you're a chump who couldn't stay in the game (though in Xykon's case, his immortality was more due to exploiting dumb luck, though he'd likely counter-argue that power is power and how you got that power is irrelevant. Then he'd hit you with a Fireball).

* SmugSnake: As far as Xykon is concerned, being the strongest spellcasters to be sent to Hell in a world where ImmortalityImmorality is possible just means you're a chump who couldn't stay in the game (though in Xykon's case, his immortality was more due to exploiting dumb luck).

* TookALevelInJerkass: Ascension to divinity does not seem to have done favors for the Dark One's attitude. In life he was a warlord who fought a massive war with the humans, elves, and dwarves, but he was at least willing to negotiate with them to bring peace (at least according to [[UnreliableNarrator Redcloak]]). Unfortunately, he was [[AggressiveNegotiations murdered during parley]], and now that he is a god he is far more motivated by spite and vengeance.

* UngratefulBastard: Loki and Rat saved his life from Thor, and Rat filled him in about the Snarl. Upon coming up with a plan to blackmail all the gods, he repaid them by liquefying Loki's emissaries and permitting his HighPriest to conquer Azure City, wiping out a good chunk of Rat's followers. Needless to say, Rat was furious.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Uniquely among the three pantheons, the Southern Pantheon are worshipped as a group by believers of different alignments, which has effects that are poorly understood by mortals. Among other things, this causes the entire pantheon to be True Neutral on the alignment chart since worshippers of different alignments don't distinguish between the individual deities.

* TheStoner: Subtly, but his behavior in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1145.html #1145]] is similar to someone who's stoned on weed. There's a reason the strip title is "The ''[[JustForPun High]]''father."

* LoveMakesYouDumb: Is willing to end the world and kill all his worshipers just so Hel agrees to make him her consort.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: It's implied that when he was alive, he wasn't actually all that powerful: Redcloak and Right-Eye describe him as having an Elite Array statline (a preset statline meant to approximate the average results of standard character creation rolls), PC class levels, and according to some legends, a prestige class. All these things would be pretty typical for a mid-level character of any other humanoid race. However, compared to the goblins of his time, which were likely comprised of low-level characters with reduced stats and levels only in NPC classes like Warrior and Adept, he would have seemed like a SuperSoldier. It's shown that even in the modern day, goblins still lag behind other races when it comes to producing strong characters, with Redcloak being a distinct outlier.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Haerta, the one female soul splice, is noted to be "the most powerful of the three by a fair bit." In terms of on-screen casualties, her epic ''familicide'' spell also racks up the highest body count.

* BenevolentBoss: Defends the efforts of his followers to Hel and argues that they did their best and that that's all that matters. Hel disagrees, obviously, but it's a surprisingly understanding attitude for a probably evil god to take. Especially noticeable because he is trying to get in Hel's good graces because he is infatuated with her, but he still admonishes her for disrespecting his followers.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Haerta, the one female soul splice, is noted to be "the most powerful of the three by a fair bit." In terms of on-screen casualties, her epic spell also racks up the highest body count.

* BarrierWarrior: Its job is not to fight but to restrain or block monsters as Team Evil clears the dungeon.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Snarl ''is'' the standard. With the exception of The Dark One because of him being LockedOutOfTheLoop, even the Evil-aligned gods are absolutely terrified of it and want nothing to do with the Snarl.

* {{Foil}}: To Thor, [[Myth/NorseMythology fittingly enough]]. Like Thor he is on the side of the heroes, but unlike Thor he does it out of EnlightenedSelfInterest rather than love for the mortals (who he cares nothing about). Thor is TheDutifulSon to Odin while Loki is the (admittedly unwilling) ArchnemesisDad to Hel and supports in principle her bid for Odin's position. Funnily, while Thor admits he would have felt bad if he had to order Durkon to [[spoiler:leave Valhalla]] against his will (implying that he would have), Loki states that he wants to be mad at Hilgya for [[spoiler:pulling a ScrewThisImOuttaHere in the middle of a battle]] but can't because she's following [[ItsAllAboutMe his core philosophy]] (or at the very least, as [[ConsummateLiar god of tricksters]], [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve he's physically incapable of admitting it]]).

* {{Foil}}: To Thor, [[Myth/NorseMythology fittingly enough]]. Like Thor he is on the side of the heroes, but unlike Thor he does it out of EnlightenedSelfInterest rather than love for the mortals (who he cares nothing about). Thor is TheDutifulSon to Odin while Loki is the (admittedly unwilling) ArchnemesisDad to Hel and supports in principle her bid for Odin's position. Funnily, while Thor admits he would have felt bad if he had to order Durkon to [[spoiler:leave Valhalla]] against his will (implying that he would have), Loki states that he wants to be mad at Hilgya for [[spoiler:pulling a ScrewThisImOuttaHere in the middle of a battle]] but can't because she's following [[ItsAllAboutMe his core philosophy]].

* BladeOnAStick: Carries the mythical Gungnir, which presumably, always hits its target when thrown like the old Norse Legends.

* {{Foil}}: To Thor, [[Myth/NorseMythology fittingly enough]]. Like Thor he is on the side of the heroes, but unlike Thor he does it out of EnlightenedSelfInterest rather than love for the mortals (who he cares nothing about). Thor is TheDutifulSon to Odin while Loki is the (admittedly unwilling) ArchnemesisDad to Hel and supports in principle her bid for Odin's position. Funnily, while Thor admits he would have felt bad if he had to order Durkon to [[spoiler:leave Valhalla]] against his will (implying that he would have), Loki states that he wants to be mad at Hilgya for [[spoiler:pulling a ScrewItImOuttaHere in the middle of a battle]] but can't because she's following [[ItsAllAboutMe his core philosophy]].

* AdaptationDeviation: Of a sort. ''D&D''[='s=] pit fiends are Large-size and about 14 feet in height, while this one is clearly at least a full size category larger.

* RentAZilla: He's one of the most humongous monsters the Order has faced, dwarfing even some dragons.

* AffablyEvil: They are nothing if not polite to Vaarsuvius during their deal making. They even offer the elf an alternative solution that doesn't involve [[spoiler:leasing V's soul]].[[note]]It must be noted they ''have'' to come up with an alternate plan for V so that V has a real choice, or there would be room for them to claim that the deal was done under duress.[[/note]] They also seem to be very pleasant employers. They hire Qarr immediately for his help in preparing their deal with Vaarsuvius, and while they're understandably unhappy about Sabine breaking their very nice television [[spoiler:after Tarquin kills Nale]], one simply comments that it's coming out of her holiday bonus, and the next strip shows Sabine cleaning up the mess.

* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:Most of them have lived through several ''trillion'' iterations of the mortal world. Granted, Thor mentions that it's only fairly recently that they've been able to stretch the lifetime of each world to [[EarthIsYoung a few millennia]] instead of a few ''years'', but they're overall shown to be old on a level that is literally unfathomable]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: Defied: [[spoiler:Hel]] calls him on stopping ''her'' from cheating by pointing out it's kind of his ''thing''. Loki replies he's not taking a stand against cheating: it's just in his own personal best interests to stop her from cheating at this explicit moment. Loki's ultimate philosophy is [[ItsAllAboutMe "Do what's best for you,"]] so him stopping Hel from cheating is not any betrayal of his beliefs. He further cements his lack of hypocrisy when [[spoiler:he doesn't get mad when Hilgya ditches the battle in favor of getting her child and ''plane shifting'' out of the world should things go badly. She abandoned a divine mission he sent her on in favor of her own personal wants and needs, and despite it tipping things against his ultimate goals, Loki couldn't help but be proud of her so openly embracing his teachings despite his desire to be mad at her.]]

* DumbassHasAPoint: In a moment of lucidity, he explains that they purposefully made it so GodsHandsAreTied, since it prevents Evil and/or Neutral gods, which outnumber Good ones, from causing trouble. Given how the Fiends were involved in helping the destruction of a Gate and Hel trying to to break those rules when she is convinced no gods are looking, the rules make a lot of sense. As he put it:

* BarrierWarrior: His job is not to fight but to restrain or block monsters as Team Evil clears the dungeon.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It's a Lawful Neutral Modron, and thus good and evil don't matter to it. It only cares about order and so long as the deal it made is followed, it doesn't care about the morality of it.

* ComicallySmallBribe: Its price for searching a massive dungeon? Requiring Xykon to speak in sentences that end with an even-lettered word (Xykon negotiated it to be an odd-lettered word out of short-sighted spite). Redcloak even lampshades how cheap this is. According to the Quinton, it doesn't find the task that hard or time-consuming and it has to be Xykon because he's the most chaotic being present and him doing ''anything'' orderly increases the net amount of order in existence.

The All-Father, god of Magic and head of the Northern gods. Thor's father.

* FriendlyEnemy: Seems to have this going with Thor. The onscreen moments they have are either them fighting or making snarky comments to each other. He apparently even helped Thor keep Hel away from the Godsmoot dealings. [[spoiler:They also team on stalling Hel from attacking the heroes. However, he outright admits that if the plan to permanently defeat the Snarl were to fail, the friendly part is ''over'']]. Due to mortals' belief, Thor is also the only person Loki can be honest with, because mortals can believe Loki gloating to his brother with the truth, making him his confidant in some ways.

* CleverCrows: His pair of ravens Hugin & Munin, of course.

* CrutchCharacter: A rare non-videogame example. If he was at the top of his game, he would have been so overpowered as to lead his pantheon to defeat the Snarl once and for all or at least play some interesting shadow games. As is, his divine brain damage allows him to see [[spoiler:"worlds within worlds and yarn winding yarn" as in, he knows the Snarl made a world in its prison. However, when Durkon off-handedly mentions it, he has no idea what is being referenced, shrugging it off because his mind can't process his prophecies or he just plain forgets them.]] If he was at the top of his game, he probably would've figured out what this all meant and took decisive action on it.

* PublicDomainCharacter: Odin, from ancient myth.