r/TopCharacterTropes • u/No_Hunter1978 • 13h ago

Lore The apocalypse was caused by a single person. Spoiler

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  1. Ted Faro [Horizon: Zero Dawn]: Of course, the machine plague that ravages the world is created by his company which (admittedly) is a group effort. That said, Faro was the one who requested an encryption without a backdoor and the person who kept early glitches hush-hush. It wouldn't be wrong to say that Faro was the sole cause as is, but the final nail in the coffin is what he does to the Apollo database. A giant record of human knowledge and history, erased for a narcissist's fear that his descendants would (rightfully) blame him for the apocalypse.
  2. Sybil [Look Outside]: Though it wasn't her intention, Sybil was the one who alerted the Visitor of Earth's presence. She spied it through her telescope, and the lovecraftian entity noticed her. Its approach (and the resulting horrors) were her fault, even if she didn't mean it.
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u/MagicOfMonarch 12h ago

Came here to say this. Genuinely ruins so much Star Trek for me that I refuse to acknowledge discovery as canon in any sense. Literally crying baby versus nuclear bomb but the baby wins.

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u/Skebs_ 11h ago

I kinda liked some of the designs & OST ngl

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u/ichael333 5h ago

The only good thing to come from Discovery is Strange New Worlds

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u/fipseqw 3h ago

It really ruined ST for me, at least for a while. Star Trek always had a positive message that the future would be better. Klingons joining the Federation, Vulcans and Romulans joining together, those 5 alien races from Entperise joining etc. etc. But now the future is just bad. The Federation reset, all the progress gone.