Odalia Blight

Odalia Blight is a major antagonist from the 2020 Disney Channel series mh:besttvshows:The Owl House, developed by Dana Terrace. She is the abusive and forceful mother of Amity Blight, Luz Noceda's love interest. She is voiced by Seth MacFarlane's sister, Rachel MacFarlane, who also voiced Mindy and Eris from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, along with Hayley Smith from American Dad!.

Why She's Intentionally a Mean Old Witch

 * 1) She acts like an arrogant, mean-spirited parent and person in general to her daughter Amity and her friends.
 * 2) She's nothing but a grade A Karen character, much like Kyle Broflovski's mother Sheila from mh:besttvshows:South Park and Weiss Schnee's father Jacques from RWBY.
 * 3) She is misanthropic, and disapproves of Amity in a relationship with a human like Luz Noceda.
 * 4) She is pretty much the reason why Amity Blight used to act arrogant and superior and looked down at witches not as great as her, because she raised her to be as perfect as she wants her against her daughter's wishes. In other words, she's a toxic mother who forces high expectations upon her daughter.
 * 5) She has no character development.
 * 6) She alongside Alador, Amity's father, even forced her to break up with her best friend Willow, even when they were so close back then.
 * 7) When Odalia discovered Amity had gotten back together with Willow, and made new friends with Luz and Gus, she forced Principal Bump to expel Amity's friends from Hexside for no reason. Odalia simply forbidden Amity to be around them thinking they're not as skilled as her, and even points out their past mistakes.
 * 8) When Luz Noceda begged Odalia to change her mind about getting them expelled, Odalia said she would consider, but only if Luz is the guinea pig to her Abomination product presentation at Blight Industries.
 * 9) * And the worst part was that it starts to look like Odalia is trying to kill Luz with her abominations attacking her, and they won't stop until she's defeated. Long story short, Odalia almost murdered her daughter's true love.
 * 10) In a later episode, "Clouds in the Horizon", Odalia unfairly grounded all of her children for spying on her business while she was preparing from the Day of Unity.
 * 11) * Later, when Luz and her friends set Amity and her siblings free and convinced Odalia about Belos' evil intentions of using the draining spell to eliminate the coven witches during The Day of Unity, Odalia confessed that she knew the truth the whole time explaining that she doesn't care at all about the lives that'll be lost during the Day of Unity, and only cares about Belos granting the Blight family royalty and power in the human realm.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) She does get some comeuppance for her behavior.
 * 2) * In "Escaping Expulsion", when she was about to report Luz to the authorities, her husband Alador reminded her that she can't betray the deal she made of promising to have Amity’s friends unexpelled if the abomination presentation was a success.
 * 3) * In "Clouds in the Horizon", while fighting against Odalia, Amity vows that she’ll never speak to her mother again, and Alador calls it quits from his wife’s business and even wrecks her factory. In fact, even Alador's a better parent than Odalia because he realized Amity has been improving with magic since she bonded with Luz, Willow and Gus.
 * 4) * In “For the Future”, the Collector, while bonding with King, makes Odalia his servant, and forces her to make him pizza bagels and take the people he made into puppet dolls to his play room.
 * 5) * In “Watching and Dreaming”, Odalia was seen being left out scowling behind Amity and Alador reuniting and hugging.  And as revealed by Dana Terrace, Alador divorced her.
 * 6) Her design does look cool. Some fans even find her just as attractive as Eda Clawthorne.
 * 7) Her voice actress, Rachael MacFarlane, does a good job voicing her. Some might say Odalia sounds a lot like Eris, a recurring antagonist in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy who Rachel also voiced.
 * 8) At least she still approves of Amity's lesbian sexuality, yet she still disapproves her relationship with a human like Luz Noceda saying she'll find her "a new girlfriend that doesn't have wanted posters everywhere."