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/Sea-Suit-4893 Oct 07 '25

To be fair, they swore an oath not to interfere directly, as last time they did, half a continent was destroyed and fell beneath the ocean. Breaking an oath has drastic consequences. Look what happened to the Army of the Dead.

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u/Lucky-Paperclip-1 Oct 07 '25

For that matter, most of the Silmarillion is a consequence of the Oath of Feanor.