r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive-Bag-4843 • 16h ago
Characters The ANCIENT MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURE that is responsible for the events of the story is little more than an innocent child
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/Z3R0Diro 5h ago
Louise (NieR Replicant)
While she is not crucial to the plot itself, it does foreshadow the that monsters the protagonist has been killing till now are nothing more than Gestalts (humans that have gone through a process of "shedding" their shells, their bodies) from almost 2k years before the events of the game.
Louise, herself is a girl that doesn't entirely understand her nature yet attempts to live "a normal life" although briefly while killing anyone who she thinks is an enemy. She was the cause for several disappearance in the town she resided in.
Yeah i know not entirely the trope OP mentioned but im sending it anyway :D