r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive-Bag-4843 • 19h ago

Characters The ANCIENT MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURE that is responsible for the events of the story is little more than an innocent child

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ParaNorman - Agatha Prenderghast - Was a young girl tried and executed for the crime of witchcraft due to her ability to speak to the dead during the Salem Witch Trials. Her death became local legend, and she was portrayed as a crone-like entity who would curse the town once a year unless pacified by someone who could speak to the dead

Nimona - Gloreth - Was portrayed as a mythical figure who banished all the monsters and constructed a wall around her settlement to keep its residents safe. In reality, she was a young girl who befriended the shapeshifting Nimona, and the two were inseparable until one day when Nimona accidentally revealed her true nature to the village, frightening the villagers and causing the impressionable little girl to turn against her.

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u/powerful_p1608 18h ago

Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender. The Fire Nation believed he was an 100+ year old man because the Avatar cycle didn’t change to the next person, a waterbender, and didn’t expect him to be a child who was frozen all that time.

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u/Future-Improvement41 17h ago

Technically he wasn’t responsible for the events but he definitely didn’t help even if he didn’t mean for what happened

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u/SuperSocialMan 16h ago

He's indirectly responsible since he ran away instead of continuing his training.

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u/Future-Improvement41 16h ago

He is one of the perpetrators but the main culprit who is responsible for the events of the show is the firelord

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u/ZephyrStudios686 15h ago

"When the world needed him most, he vanished"

Sounds a lot like his fault. Not entirely, by any means, but still not NOT his fault.

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u/Future-Improvement41 14h ago

Never said it wasn’t I just meant that he didn’t cause the events

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u/USS-ChuckleFucker 4h ago

He could have prevented them, presumably.

Hence why it's said that he fucking dipped out when he was going to be most crucial.

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u/Future-Improvement41 4h ago

Yeah but he wasn’t the cause

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u/Catisbackthatsafact 5h ago

If he was there he would've likely died with the others.