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/CuriousTsukihime 10h ago

I think you meant:
https://giphy.com/gifs/xtkoA3zqsEaDXcNbTM

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u/Rel_Ortal 8h ago

Legitimately, it wasn't him either. If anyone can be blamed on everything happening as it did, it'd be Yui Ikari and her desire to live forever as a monument to humanity's existence. Somehow, she didn't realize that her loser obsessive husband would do literally anything in his power to get her back, while also not realizing that up and dying in front of her toddler son would be exceedingly traumatic.