Was it? Aside from Odysseus, there's Loki, Dolos, and all mythologies have similar figures of the (male) trickster. One of Hermes pet names "Dolios" (literally: cunning or trickster) too.
Odysseus wasn’t considered a “trickster” though cunning yes. And yes, that’s the way it’s told through scholarly conventions (not making it up, take it for what you will!) that in general the masculine form is brute force and the feminine form (which obviously doesn’t mean “female only”) is subtly and deception.
* and many of your examples refer to gods, Odysseus was distinguishable as a mortal! Taking from that whatever one may…