Erik Hellstrom

Erik Hellstrom is one of the villains in Atlantis: Milo's Return, and a member of the Circle of the Blot. A long time ago in the early 1900's, Hellstrom was a business rival of Preston Whitmore who owned a private collection of ships, and even a private castle in Norway, leading many people to say that he was "the Modern Odin". However, after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Hellstrom was left nearly bankrupt, and went mad, believing that what people had told about him earlier to be true: that he was the real Odin. Looking up a passage in a book of Norse Myths, he read the myth of Ragnarok, which supposedly claimed that Odin was to destroy the world in a blaze of fire and ice by using the Gungnir spear. Setting out on his mission, Hellstrom, now "Odin", stole the Atlantian Spear of Destiny, then enchanted his castle to fly, becoming a literal "Asgard". When Milo and his friends tried to stop him, Hellstrom thought they were all Norse Gods, especially Milo, who Odin selectively picked to be "Loki", and Kida, who was picked to be "Brunhilde". Odin then tried to kill the heroes with his newfound magic powers and minions. Later on, Odin was able to use Gungir to summon a Jotuun and a Fire Demon to serve as his agents of mass destruction. Thankfully, Milo was able to thwart Odin/Hellstrom's plans for world destruction by having Vinnie blow up the monsters and the castle, and having Kida steal the spear back from Hellstrom. Hellstrom was thus sent to an insane asylum for trying to destroying the world.

However, that was not the end of Erik Hellstrom, not by a long shot. As it turns out, the passage in Hellstrom's Norse Mythology book about Ragnarok had been tampered with by the real Loki's magic, who had hoped to use Hellstrom as a tool to destroy the world of Atlantis. But when "Odin" was defeated, Loki abandoned him to the Wasteland, seeing as Odin had now come from a forgotten story and was now useless to the Organization's plans. However, Hellstrom was then found by the Mad Doctor, who recruited him to the Circle of the Blot in exchange for seeking his vengeance on Milo and Kida. Now renamed Dark Odin and sporting a dark version of Avengers EMH Odin's outfit, Hellstrom will stop at nothing until Team Atlantis, Loki, and Enchantress Amora are all dead by his spear.