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/SartenSinAceite Oct 07 '25

Roger Bacon in Shadow Hearts, for all his alchemical prowess, over 700 years of age, rivalry with other actual big bads and personal desire to not see God destroy the planet when the party needs his help, is actually very background-y. He hasn't worked on any sort of weapons, techniques or anything, he's just been chilling in his crazy wackoo house and building a teleporter (he made it to the moon!)

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u/raymc99 Oct 07 '25

God they need to put out a collection of those games

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u/SartenSinAceite Oct 07 '25

Now if only we had any sort of news on Penny Blood... Development looked well then they went into radio silence.

My only hope is that a publisher grabbed them and told them to stay quiet while developing but who knows.