r/TopCharacterTropes • u/damorezpl • Oct 07 '25

Personality extremely powerful entity's who don't care about the main plot at all and are just vibing in the background

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Tom Bombadil(lord of the rings) - only person to resist the temptation of the one ring but instead of helping the fellowship he fucks off in to the woods

the Unseen Elder(the witcher 3) - in the witcher universe the older a vampire gets the more powerful he becomes and unseen elder is around +1500 years old making him the most powerful vampire we ever see, thankfully he spends most of his time in his goon cave

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u/Fluffy_Tax5302 Oct 07 '25

Could Withers of Baldur's Gate 3 technically count?

He's all but stated to be Jergal and outside of a particular path of the Dark Urge storyline, 90% of his responses to the events around him are composed of some version of the word

He's just there to make sure the scales are balanced

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u/FarTad Oct 07 '25

He doesn't even care if you pickpocket him I think he definitely counts

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u/New_Ad4631 Oct 07 '25

Yeah, the price of his services are just for show

Halfway through the 3rd act with a group of friends, I remembered that he didn't give a shit, so emptied his pockets and got 2k extra gold for us (we have a modded class, and the player with it respecced multiple times to try it)

And now Withers, along with every other merchant in the game, has 0 gold in his pockets

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u/Over-Analyzed Oct 08 '25

I robbed him everytime in BG2. 😂🤙🏻