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[Marvel] How smart is Odin ?

Being a god of wisdom and being extermly old, Odin should be very smart.

I imagine warping reality on such a massive scale requiers an immense knolwdge of cosmos and it's laws.

Now he may not be technology smart but i think he could learn to use it very easily.
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In a lot of ways, too damn smart for his own good. But there comes a point where wisdom fails, and even Odin could see so far.

Odin understood that the Asgardians were trapped in a cycle of Ragnaroks - he saw that there would come threats that he could not face on his own. He saw that there would come a time when his approach to things, the obsession with secrets and authority, of keeping Asgard apart from the universe...just wouldn't work. He saw that he wasn't capable of killing his brother, Cul.

He saw the need for Thor, and for Loki.

Because Odin knew he wasn't immortal - and maybe wasn't interested in *being* immortal. He knew that the story of Asgardians was always a generational one. That's why he tried so hard to shape Thor into being someone worthy of carrying on when he was gone, because he knew he *would* be gone. Sooner or later, Odin knew he would die. And Thor would have to replace him, to do the things Odin wouldn't be around to do anymore.

More than that, though, Odin knew that his way of doing things wasn't necessarily the right one. He liked to keep secrets. That was a part of his power. Often it can be argued it was for the greater good, but how many of Asgard's foes - the Dark Gods, the Tenth Realm, the World-Eaters, the Enchanters, Those Who Sit Above In Shadow, the Serpent & the Worthy, etc. - could the Asgardians have better prepared themselves to face if only they knew about it? How many foes were "locked away" and forgotten instead of being dealt with, pro-actively? How much of that crap was Odin putting off for Thor to handle?

And how much of it was he setting up Loki to take? Because if Thor is everything honorable and noble in Odin, then Loki is everything secretive and clever. Not necessarily evil, in every incarnation, but definitely the master of magic and the walker in shadowy paths, the plans-within-plans scheming which Thor is terrible at but at which Loki and Odin excel. Odin saw both parts of himself, and he raised his sons to handle things when he was gone.