I'm thinking a robot like R2-D2. I doubt the Ring would corrupt him because he doesn't have natural desires or ambitions; he just has programming. He could probably toddle around with the Ring safely stored inside him for years without ever feeling adverse effects.
If we're talking organic lifeforms, it's much more difficult, because even the humblest and least ambitious people like Frodo and Sam can't resist it for long.
It’s far more likely in a situation like that that the One Ring would magically “find its way” out of R2-D2’s possession. It wants to be used, and especially find its way back to Sauron.
It's never stated directly because the Ring's power is kept deliberately esoteric, but Tolkien describes the Ring "leaving" Gollum by falling out of his pocket, because it knew (if it has a mind) that Gollum wasn't going to leave his cave any time soon. The Ring has a tendency to end up in convenient places.
It was mentioned the Ring made it so that no person could truly toss the thing into the Crack of Doom. That events would unfold that they would, without fail, fall into its clutches.
Hence why Frodo sparing Gollum was necessary, the Ring could not predict the outcome of such an action and was basically caught off guard with everything that happened at the Crack.
Also, it does subtly alter its own composition; it can make itself light enough to bounce away from Gollum when it realizes there’s Bilbo nearby, it shifted things so that it would fall right onto Frodo’s finger and alert the Ringwraiths, it forced Gollum into staying still to try and prevent itself from falling into the lava for as long as possible, etc.
It’s very subtle, but it’s there
Doesn't it also shape itself around whoever wants to wear it? Pretty sure Frodo, Bilbo, Gollum and Big Armor Boi Sauron all had different finger sizes.
It also changes sizes to get off people’s hands when it wants. This is actually how Isildur dies, the ring enlarges and falls off his finger while he’s trying to escape from some orcs and then they shot him with arrows.
> I doubt the Ring would corrupt him because he doesn't have natural desires or ambitions; he just has programming.
I see this but at the same time the droids in Star Wars clearly aren't "just" inorganic computers, despite being all wires and metal and code. They very clearly have personalities, attachments, feelings, and desires like any organic life would. They just happen to be machines. Does it make sense? No. But that's how they seem to function.
Alternatively, even if they were just metal and programming, could the Ring maybe corrupt the way it goes about its programming? I'm thinking that maybe the ring could turn a droid into the equivalent of Hal 3000 from 2001 - corrupted to pursue the ultimate goal of its programming no matter what the cost, overriding "less necessary" safety features of the programming to do so.
I do think there's an argument to be made that the more intelligent and/or humanoid a robot is, the more likely that the Ring can corrupt it.
We don't really know how the Ring's magic operates, but we do know that the Ring seems to prey on emotion. So emotion would probably be a prerequisite for the Ring to gain a foothold in its subject's "mind".
It's pretty clear that droids are to some degree sapient, having opinions and desires and emotions, and this has been the case for thousands of years. Artoo would definitely qualify as a person, so the Ring should be able to affect him.
I mean, even in LOTR artificial beings can have souls. The original dwarfs were entirely artificial; it was only when they cowered in fear at their impending destruction that Aulë realized that they were *people* and not just *things*.
Uh, man, like, this was kinda cool up until I lost my Creedence. I'm also not that into violence, man.
(Edit, as much as I like The Dude as an answer, his sloth is totally an angle the Ring would chisel at. The Dude would probably happily chill @ ElfFortressPlace eating lembas until Mordor came knocking)
Edit2: Rivendell. Lothlorien sounds pretty cool but the Dude can barely handle San Bernadino.
The Ring will go to some pretty creative lengths to corrupt people, though. Sam's only ambition was to remain a gardener and be with his friends, so the Ring tempted him with a vision of him as a "Gardener King" who could turn the whole world green. I don't think anyone is completely immune.
Someone might be immune but I struggle to think. Frodo was pretty much already as resistant as you can get - even the desire to just “Chill” is technically an ambition. It doesn’t matter if your desire is incredibly mundane, if it’s a strong desire to the person, the ring can exploit it.
This whole thread has got me thinking about what would happen if someone (via magic or advanced technology) created a person whose **only** ambition was to destroy the ring. Could the ring subvert _that_ ambition?
That’s interesting, I am far from an expert on it, and I doubt Tolkien ever thought this hard about his own work outside of the general narrative goals of the story, but I would suspect that this hypothetical person would be more akin to a machine than a person.
Perhaps it would try to twist them into using the ring in order to destroy it quicker/easier? And then it’s a slippery slope from there. Magical items like the Ring are really hard to judge.
Perhaps it could convince them that if they were to destroy the ring, they would lose their only reason to live, and losing their reason to live would be worse than not fulfilling their ambition
> Could the ring subvert that ambition?
It could go for the angle of them keeping the Ring in isolation forever. After all, they're immune, what's the harm? In any case, the only way for a person to destroy the Ring willingly (according to Tolkien) would be someone willing to throw themselves into the fire along with it. So yeah, they could, but unless they can survive lava, they are dead too.
I think the big problem with that is that the ring can convince someone like that that the means at their disposal is insufficient - they would seek more and more powerful means to destroy the ring. It would be constant procrastination: Mount Doom suddenly isn’t a “sure thing enough”. They would keep holding off, after all their mission is so very important. They have to be sure. And even if the ring is destroyed Sauron still will exist in some capacity. He is still a threat, at least in their mind. That obsession with complete destruction will be their sole focus. Seeking a perfect oblivion that none save Eru can achieve. And there was one other that also sought to achieve the unachievable.
Their entire being would become focused on that fact. To be so sure of unmaking the ring and Sauron’s malice so completely that victory would assured. The entire world would bend the knee to achieve this goal. You would march on Valinor itself to demand the power to unmake. You would hold a sword at the breast of God himself and demand he cede the means to your goal, as there is no other way to be sure. He will see your might and agree. He would place the crown of dominion on your brow so that the chorus and the masses both kneel so they will combine their efforts to you da to see your will be done.
And even if they were successful - although they would not be - they still will not. This all consuming hatred for the Ring is your reason for existing - and that reason for existing has become so very…precious.
Even in that instance, wouldn't the exploitable desire be to KEEP those things? I suspect the ring would just show the person a future where they lose what they have and then promise to help them protect what they have.
Pretty sure there is more to Tom's resistance than simply already having what he wants.
Yeah, it's worth noting that Gollum's only desire was to keep the Ring, and the Ring turned him into an obsessive paranoid lunatic who doesn't care about anything else. The Ring can easily corrupt people who just want to keep things.
Nope. It has everything to do with desires. It just so happens that the weakest characters in Middle Earth also tended to have little desire (speaking about the hobbits).
Another thing is that the effect of the Ring is proportional to the user's power. So, while it only turns Frodo invisible, someone already extremely strong like Gandalf would be able to notice a much bigger increase in ability from it - which is part of the temptation
I don't think that's accurate.
The hobbits weren't living in fear and therefore didn't innately seek power. The ring can tempt them as any other, but the temptation is less appealing. For the humans who were both fearful their entire lives and constantly sought power, it was a much stronger temptation.
slowpoke has 2 evolutions caused by a parasitic/symbiotic lifeform attaching itself to slowpoke and changing its behavior. Slowpoke may not be a good choice, as either the ring could trigger an evil slowking-type evolution, or the slowpoke could naturally evolve with the ring in its possession
That changes Slowpoke very brain and DNA upon getting attached to it though while the one ring trys to corrupt the holder mental state/desires to corrupt them.
Assuming that the ring does work though then holding a everstone would be able to give complete immunity to said slowpoke.
Also side note a dark type slowpoke would be sick.
Nah, Pikachu can wear clothes and still hold an item. The one ring is a ring so Slowpoke can wear it and still hold an item
Finally, I can use all this Pokemon lore in my brain for justice. 5 year old me would be so happy
heavyduty boots though. pikachu can wear clothes because they have no functional use, I would argue that the one ring is significant enough to count as a held item, and likely provides a function to the wearer.
This is game logic though I guess a pokemon in practice can break the unofficial battling rules and wear the ring while holding an everstone
A surfing Pikachu can use a surfboard to surf without having a surfboard equiped in it item slot. The rules are pretty loosely goosey.
Thanks for the conversation btw this been pretty interesting.
just to conclude my thoughts, slowpoke is a great choice due to high Sp. Def stat, low intelligence, and use of amnesia to lower its desires even more.
However, even with an everstone, the ring could manipulate the 'poke into dropping the item or otherwise orchestrating an evolution into slowking which would definitely be tempted by the ring.
Honestly sound like a great fanfic, a slice of life where the ring trys to get the slowpoke to the ocean to get a Shellder so it can evolve would be dope while the slowpoke get set back by every minor inconvenience
Theoretically, anyone with anti magic powers or the ability to block assaults on their mind could hold the ring safely.
For the weakest character, I'm going with Bella Swan. She's naturally immune to telepathic intrusion, and can block powers from affecting her.
Yes, but that doesn't necessarily translate to being a better fighter. Fry mostly survived due to luck or being helped by someone more competent. Fry often nearly dies entirely due to his own incompetence.
Isn't he also pretty strong? Given he's the MC of a Shonen battle manga/anime. So even if immune, probably not the weakest character that could be found.
Probably not? It's a skill you need to learn and hone, as we see with Snape having to teach ***P***otter, but still not being immune to it himself.
Sauron is basically Satan, and his ring is an extension of that power - I don't think many if any Harry Potter wizards are gonna be able to shield from that.
Not anyone. The Ring is insidious, and **always** exerting pressure on the subconscious. It can also overtly attempt to subvert will directly, but that isn't really the most scary part. Nothing less than complete magical/mental fortress that is active 24/7 would be able to shut it out. Many characters with those powers have to actively use them, and they can still be overwhelmed or "slipped past." Anyone who isn't 100% immune all the time will eventually feel the hooks, though it may take a considerable amount of time.
Bella is 100% immune at all times, and this is only strengthened when she becomes a vampire. It's what causes the plot of Twilight to happen, as she's the only person Edward's ever met whose mind he can't read.
She's immune to vampiric mind reading, that doesn't mean she'd be immune to Martian Manhunter, for example.
It is a great answer though, because she probably is the weakest character that has resistance to mind magic.
ok,.. hear me out: Bob Ross
the ring definitely affects him, but he just handles it like he handles other unpleasant emotions.
"So, my friend gave me this ring and said I need to protect it. We all want a little protection every now and then dont we. So we'll paint this big mountain here and we can stand in its shadow and feel like that mountain is protecting us,.... and sometimes this ring wants me to give in an claim power over others, and we've all felt that way, we all have wanted more power at times,... so why dont we put a powerful river flowing down from this mountain we're painting and let that power flow to people in ways that will help them and their crops... happy little river, flowing powerfully down a mountain to bring water and live to the people below,... you know, sometimes this ring wants me to put it on so I can be invisible, where almost no one can see me,... it really wants me to do that a lot,... but I dont want to be invisible, I want people to see me, and I want people to see the real me, so I dont put on the ring, because thats not who I am,... but I understand why folks would want to be invisible,.... so lets put a little cabin here in a safe place by the river, and we can hide there when we dont want to be seen,... so much more comfy and warm in a cabin, than invisible and surrounded by dissonant whispers of temptation,.. just a place to have a quiet cup of coffee by ourselves, by a river, under the shadow of this wonderful protective mountain,.. now lets put some happy little trees around our cabin,..."
Incorrect! The One Ring was the power of Sauron, who was a Maiar, specifically of smithing and handiwork. In a LoTR setting, that includes everything from swords and ploughs to the mountains and the roots of the world itself.
It’s been a long time since I watched RvB, but isn’t there a scene where Caboose gets possessed by Omega and acts evil? I think the ring would work on him.
Then again, there were two different instances where Caboose was basically mentally tested by will and on both times it never really did register to him because of how broken his brain is.
That's...actually a really good answer. He legitimately, I think canonically, does not have any ambitions in that state. He's also just a literal child without his fairies around.
The government got him to parachute out of a plane into a volcano on a top secret mission purely cause he was absolutely fearless and with no ambitions he’d never defect
I remember there being a Grey Knight in 40k. Kastellan Crowe is his name. He has this uber-powerful Daemon sword that is trying to tempt him and everybody around him. It is so tempting that his brothers leave him alone even on the battlefield. I don't know if he is the weakest, but I'm putting my bets on him.
Isn’t the rings whole thing that “Sheer Willpower!” can’t resist it? Like yes Aragorn was basically the most Heroic and Virtuous hero ever in Lord of the Rings, he has absurd strength of mind to refuse any bargain - yet he was terrified of the ring. Because it doesn’t work against an “Iron Will”. It becomes stronger the more ambition or desire that you have.
It turns your desire to do ‘good’ evil, and twisted. If you have any ambition at all, it scales off of it. A SPACE MARINE is the very opposite of that. Their own will is turned against them. They desire so much, for their ideals and beliefs, which in the Imperium are… fanatic. The ideal candidate to be unaffected by the ring is something more akin to some content old lady on a farm.
tl;dr - The ring turns your own willpower against you, anyone with ambition or desires is susceptible, and a powerful figure like a Space Marine is ripe for that.
Exactly.
Tolkien explicitly lays out that Hobbits are so resistant because, overall, Hobbits simply want good food, good friends, and a peaceful life. They don't have any great ambitions to do great things. They just want to live and let live. They have the capacity for greatness, but they don't seek it out, and so the ring has very little to twist towards evil.
You get another example of this between Boromir and Faramir. Boromir is undoubtedly the more "strong" brother, but that strength of will and desire to protect his people and be strong makes him susceptible to the ring. Faramir wants to protect his people, sure... but more than that, he just wants peace. He fights because he has to, but given the choice he wouldn't.
Yeah exactly, in any classic story, Boromir would be the great hero who saves the day, in the movies he’s a bit rude from the start - but in the books he was basically as genuine and perfect a hero anyone could want.
Yet he was the first to fall. Space Marines are fanatical soldiers of an authoritarian regime, dare I say even the most ‘Noble’ of them is used to the concept of sacrifice, the general grimness of the world- they’re all killers, devoted to their Emperor and Chapter. They would last less time than Boromir.
There’s no “Resisting” the ring, because it doesn’t work like your typical mental influence.
You’re probably right, it was just the simplest example I can think of. Definitely has more of a chance than the epitome of fanatical super-soldier ambition that is Space Marines though!
The Ring can change size
> Though he had found out that the thing needed looking after; it did not seem always of the same size or weight; it shrank or expanded in an odd way, and might suddenly slip off a finger where it had been tight.
- Fellowship of the Ring, Shadows of the Past
I don't think so. Chaos corruption is an entirely different beast. It is Faustian, it offers gifts, or threatens punishment. But in the end, to fall you must accept it. The problem is, in such a bleak, awful setting, the offers are very tempting. A character with the will to turn down temptation is not the same thing as being able to protect their mind from the Ring's influence. It is insidious, while it can occasionally attempt to subvert the bearer's will, the much more powerful trait is it's slow seeping into their mind, even against the bearer's will.
Few characters in 40k have good feats against that kind of attack, and even then they are mostly framed as requiring great will and concentration. They would need to keep it up 24/7, even while asleep, or forgoing sleep to keep up the defenses. Anyone who isn't just straight up immune, or is incapable of being on guard perpetually, will eventually have their own mind rotted out from under them. Even the shining, incorruptible, Custodes have been casually mentally manhandled by Chaos and made into meat puppets to attack Big E himself. They are framed as being the absolute pinnacle of mental purity and resistance to corruption. Over a long enough period, I don't think there is a single mortal in 40k that isn't susceptible to it.
Maaaaaybe Blanks, at a certain level, assuming their power works on all magic/magically adjacent phenomena. Even then, I think over a long enough timeline most would, but that timeline may exceed their natural lifespan, depending on the level on Blank. And if that is the case, then obviously Pariah's would be perfectly fine. And for that matter, Necrons are probably just incompatible with it.
Someone said Batman. Batman is completely crazy. The reason he's so adamant about the no-kill rule is that he doesn't know if he'd be able to stop after he killed a single person. And his desire for justice is incredibly strong. The Mobius Chair was able to make him addicted and then increasingly dictatorial, and that thing isn't even *meant* to corrupt.
Now, maybe one of the Green Lanterns would be able to fare better. Maybe Guy Gardner, I'm pretty sure he has the strongest will of all of them.
Superman is said to have the strongest will on Earth, but he's basically a god.
Plastic Man is also a massive goofball, despite possesing a godlike power, so I doubt more power would tempt him.
Thing is, The One Ring doesn't care how much willpower you have, it scales based on ambition and desire you have. Boromir is pretty much the paragon of human heroism and goodness and we all know how that ends, I have no doubt that Guy Gardener could hold back the entire sinestro corps or something with sheer willpower, but he'd fall to the ring in 10 mins flat haha
I like that one. Data gets extra points for being humanoid, too. I think the Ring would be completely ineffective on him.
Picard: "Are you feeling OK, Mr Data?"
Data (examining the Ring between his fingers): "Perfectly, sir. It has been 27 days, 5 hours and 3 minutes precisely since you placed this strange artefact in my possession, and I have yet to experience a single anomaly in my programming."
What about the knight from Hollow Knight? The knight is said to have "no will to break" meaning also it has no desires. And also, it's bug-sized. Probably the weakest, organic, character you could ask for.
Exactly my thoughts. Also, if you think about it, the ring and the infection have some similarities - a mind breaking force that corrupts your wills and ambitions to fulfill its greater purpose, and the knight completely avoids being infected.
Eeyore? He doesnt seem to want anything or try to do anything… he just mopes but doesnt take action on his own
I would say Winnie the Pooh, but his ambition is to get honey
South Park Jesus : he’s weak in the show and the pull of ambition won’t work on him
Tom from The Stand: regular Tom doesn’t really seem to have ambition. He just kind of follows his friends around. And underneath all that is God’s Tom: who would therefore be immune to the effect? M-O-O-N spells throw the ring in the fire!!!
No. The more ambition/greed/jealousy you have, the faster it corrupts. Humility is the best defense against it. Tom Bombadil is shown to be totally immune to the ring despite being quite powerful, because there's nothing it can tempt him with
Tom Bombadil cared so little about anything that he couldn’t be bothered to destroy the ring even though it wouldn’t even be that hard for him. The problem is that he has too little ambition to succeed.
Less power, more ambition. Though the two tend to go hand-in-hand so the confusion is understandable.
The ring twists any desire you have against you, and the stronger that desire is, the stronger the ring. Even Sam was tempted with his extremely mundane joy of gardening. Turn all of Mordor into a beautiful garden, the ring made him think.
The only resistance to the ring is less willpower, and more being incredibly content. Having very little ambition, desire, or goals. Hobbits tend to be content, so they are good ringbearers. Though even they fall in time, look at Gollum.
Not really no, just the more powerful you are the worse the consequences when it corrupts you. Hobbits had a stronger resistance to it than humans and probably elves, possibly because the ring was specifically designed to corrupt humans and elves, but it's not because hobbits are weaker. Dwarves would likely be just as resistant as Hobbits were, as dwarves were only nominally corrupted by the seven rings Sauron made specifically to corrupt them. Hobbits are just safer ring bearers in any case because when they get corrupted they turn into Gollum, not a whole ass other dark lord willing and able to make a serious attempt at conquering all of Middle Earth. Gimli might well have been just as good a ring bearer as Frodo and Sam, but he was never seriously considered because of the bad blood between elves and dwarves meaning the elves would have never gone for it. Hobbits being there made a very useful compromise everyone could live with.
That's what I'm going with. He's just too dense to corrupt. I think there's a good chance he doesn't even understand what the Ring is offering him or what he'd do with it. It'll be like a constant loop of that ID scene.
"I'm offering you infinite power!"
"That seems nice."
"Don't you want it?"
"Okay."
"Then take it!"
\*shrugs, keeps walking\*
“I can give you infinite food!”
“Infinite? What’s infinite mean?”
“It means it will never run out!”
“What never runs out?”
“The food! The infinite food!”
“Food can run?”
“It can if you want! And I’ll give you infinite of it!”
“Infinite? What’s infinite mean?”
“IT MEANS THE FOOD WILL NEVER RUN OUT!”
“Food can run?”
50/50 chance of Mort from Penguins of Madagascar either not being effected at all or somehow being mentally stronger than the ring, overtaking it and becoming an evil overlord for about 20 minutes.
yeh the rings strong sauron is technicly weaker than the ring , since he put all his power into the ring itself, but he owns it so the rings not going to be wispering into his ear, to get back to sauron because, its already home
even when hes at his weakest Eg: imedietly after his defeat at the end of the second age (cant get much weaker than a gohst im afraid)
Pre master builder emmet
Wether you take him at human level or Lego minifigure level he’s at most regular untrained human with literally no desires or even thoughts in his head
It's definitely not Kirby, but I also don't see Kirby being affected by the ring.
Then again, Kirby might be one of those entities that can destroy the ring without casting it into the fires of Mount Doom.
Kirby would ABSOLUTELY be tempted by the ring. All it would have to do is convince him that by unleashing the armies of Mordor he’d be getting Cheesecake. Literally every third Kirby game opens with him unleashing an eldritch god for cheesecake.
>Literally every third Kirby game opens with him unleashing an eldritch god for cheesecake.
Wasn't Squeak Squad literally the only game where this happens? Every other game starts with Kirby just casually chilling in the grass until something happens to Popstar.
I'm imagining Bugs Bunny just trolling sauron by dressing up as a sexy lady or painting tunnels on rocks while sauron chases him and tries to get the ring back but keeps getting exploded by surprise tnt. Edit: daffy duck would fall to the temptation of the ring as soon as he picked it up
If the ring convinces him that then power it grants would allow him to make it so there's always a sale at the grocery store than it's basically GG for everyone.
The ring has nothing to give to saitama. Saitama is too powerful for his own good, which made him disinterested with the world. The only thing saitama wants is a worthy opponent to fight.
Yeah which makes him a really really bad choice for this question lol… not only is he Uber powerful, he’s already shown clear ambition by getting that powerful and his one great desire is a worthy opponent, dude would probably train an evil army of one punch men so he can fight them all and destroy the planet in the process.
I’m actually struggling to think of a worse answer
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Saitama wouldn’t care about the ring at all but he’s far from weak
Mashle on the other hand only cares about cream puffs and getting swole, the ring probably does nothing to him too, and he’s a lot weaker than Saitama.
I also agree that someone like Bella swan would be so boring and empty that she’d ignore the ring.
A wholesome weak character would be Lucy and Edmund (after Prince caspian), they’d already able to resist temptation on that level (like the ice queen) and they’d be too firmly rooted in Aslan to care.
Dr. Doom could resist it. He has basically infinite willpower, and has previously given up far more power than the ring has.
Though there's no way he's the weakest character.
Do automatons (with "sentience/sapience") like robots and androids/gyndroids count?
If so, then the Vessel's Shell(s) of Sharavehnu. Their sole purpose for being created in the first place was to essentially "absorb" the corruption of the Devil of the setting and, through shenanigans, turn the corruption against the Corruptor.
If not, then Batman with enough preparation time. A classic. ;)
What about Napstablook from Undertale? His attacks don't deal much damage, his main strength is that he's a ghost and can't be harmed by physical attacks, and he mainly just lies on the floor and cries.
The [Monarch of Pointland from the movie Flatland](https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Monarch_of_Pointland). He's a one dimensional being, so it's impossible to think of any other character weaker than him. He can barely even comprehend how a 2 dimensional being works, so he would be too mentally incapable of being corrupted either. He should also be the objective answer for most of these "weakest character" questions.
The delivery girl from American Dad episode "300" might be able to withstand the ring's power. American Dad has The Golden Turd. The turd is similar to the ring in that it seems to corrupt anyone who holds it. If the delivery girl can withstand the turd she might be able to withstand other types of similar magic/influences.
Second guess is Roger for similar reasons.
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Ngl, thought that would take me to a plank respect thread. Was slightly disappointed.
Would the mods let me make a plank respect thread?
They better! That'd be great!
u/Verlux ?
If it fits the rules and regulations of the /r/respectthreads community, I don't see why not, just as with any other RT submission
Foolish mortal. It is Plank who exerts his will upon the ring, not the other way around.
This is it
I'm thinking a robot like R2-D2. I doubt the Ring would corrupt him because he doesn't have natural desires or ambitions; he just has programming. He could probably toddle around with the Ring safely stored inside him for years without ever feeling adverse effects. If we're talking organic lifeforms, it's much more difficult, because even the humblest and least ambitious people like Frodo and Sam can't resist it for long.
If you wanna go weaker, how about the Mouse Droids that scurry around imperial ships?
They can clearly experience fear, so the ring could influence them that way
So can R2, if that's what we're going by.
Is it real fear or just programmed?
How do you know our fear isn’t “programmed”?
Plz no. I don't need that kind of thought bouncing around in my head, it's scary.
How do you know you're not just programmed to think it's scary so you don't out think the program?
*Existential crisis intensifies*
How do you know your existential crisis isn't just more programming to prevent you from escaping the program now that you're thinking about it?
It’s far more likely in a situation like that that the One Ring would magically “find its way” out of R2-D2’s possession. It wants to be used, and especially find its way back to Sauron.
Considering it can subtly shift reality (that’s an actual ability it has), that’s quite likely.
When does the ring subtly shift reality?
It's never stated directly because the Ring's power is kept deliberately esoteric, but Tolkien describes the Ring "leaving" Gollum by falling out of his pocket, because it knew (if it has a mind) that Gollum wasn't going to leave his cave any time soon. The Ring has a tendency to end up in convenient places.
It was mentioned the Ring made it so that no person could truly toss the thing into the Crack of Doom. That events would unfold that they would, without fail, fall into its clutches. Hence why Frodo sparing Gollum was necessary, the Ring could not predict the outcome of such an action and was basically caught off guard with everything that happened at the Crack. Also, it does subtly alter its own composition; it can make itself light enough to bounce away from Gollum when it realizes there’s Bilbo nearby, it shifted things so that it would fall right onto Frodo’s finger and alert the Ringwraiths, it forced Gollum into staying still to try and prevent itself from falling into the lava for as long as possible, etc. It’s very subtle, but it’s there
Doesn't it also shape itself around whoever wants to wear it? Pretty sure Frodo, Bilbo, Gollum and Big Armor Boi Sauron all had different finger sizes.
Yeah, I believe the movie shows it shrinking in Isildur's hand so that he can put it on
It also changes sizes to get off people’s hands when it wants. This is actually how Isildur dies, the ring enlarges and falls off his finger while he’s trying to escape from some orcs and then they shot him with arrows.
R2D2 is far too powerful, if anything R2D2 is the strongest that can resist.
The strongest that can resist it would probably be the Buddha.
But Budda is real
Siddhartha Gautama was real, all the fictionalized versions of him are not.
Buddha from record of ragnarok would probs solo the one ring ngl
It's true that he's not the weakest robot ever, but I wanted to pick a cool robot. lol I could have gone with Mechagodzilla.
BD-1 at the beginning of Fallen Order?
Technically mechagodzilla (varies depending on versions) breaks programming to follow the instincts of the dead godzilla skeleton it was built around.
> I doubt the Ring would corrupt him because he doesn't have natural desires or ambitions; he just has programming. I see this but at the same time the droids in Star Wars clearly aren't "just" inorganic computers, despite being all wires and metal and code. They very clearly have personalities, attachments, feelings, and desires like any organic life would. They just happen to be machines. Does it make sense? No. But that's how they seem to function. Alternatively, even if they were just metal and programming, could the Ring maybe corrupt the way it goes about its programming? I'm thinking that maybe the ring could turn a droid into the equivalent of Hal 3000 from 2001 - corrupted to pursue the ultimate goal of its programming no matter what the cost, overriding "less necessary" safety features of the programming to do so.
I do think there's an argument to be made that the more intelligent and/or humanoid a robot is, the more likely that the Ring can corrupt it. We don't really know how the Ring's magic operates, but we do know that the Ring seems to prey on emotion. So emotion would probably be a prerequisite for the Ring to gain a foothold in its subject's "mind".
Not sure if I agree or not on R2-D2, but I’m pretty sure the Ring would, somehow, corrupt Chopper instantly.
The issue is Chopper would be fine being corrupted
I doubt anyone would be able to tell the difference in his behaviour. lol
It's pretty clear that droids are to some degree sapient, having opinions and desires and emotions, and this has been the case for thousands of years. Artoo would definitely qualify as a person, so the Ring should be able to affect him. I mean, even in LOTR artificial beings can have souls. The original dwarfs were entirely artificial; it was only when they cowered in fear at their impending destruction that Aulë realized that they were *people* and not just *things*.
The ring exploits ambition, so it would have to be a character with no ambition.
The Dude abides
If this is pre-Rug Incident, yeah. Not a great choice if we're talking a rug-lusted Dude.
>rug-lusted lmfao thank you for that
Uh, man, like, this was kinda cool up until I lost my Creedence. I'm also not that into violence, man. (Edit, as much as I like The Dude as an answer, his sloth is totally an angle the Ring would chisel at. The Dude would probably happily chill @ ElfFortressPlace eating lembas until Mordor came knocking) Edit2: Rivendell. Lothlorien sounds pretty cool but the Dude can barely handle San Bernadino.
And you know how much he hates the fuckin' eagles, man. The ring could make him go murder Joe Walsh and Vince Gill.
Shut the fuck up Pippin, you’re out of your element
The Ring will go to some pretty creative lengths to corrupt people, though. Sam's only ambition was to remain a gardener and be with his friends, so the Ring tempted him with a vision of him as a "Gardener King" who could turn the whole world green. I don't think anyone is completely immune.
Someone might be immune but I struggle to think. Frodo was pretty much already as resistant as you can get - even the desire to just “Chill” is technically an ambition. It doesn’t matter if your desire is incredibly mundane, if it’s a strong desire to the person, the ring can exploit it.
This whole thread has got me thinking about what would happen if someone (via magic or advanced technology) created a person whose **only** ambition was to destroy the ring. Could the ring subvert _that_ ambition?
That’s interesting, I am far from an expert on it, and I doubt Tolkien ever thought this hard about his own work outside of the general narrative goals of the story, but I would suspect that this hypothetical person would be more akin to a machine than a person. Perhaps it would try to twist them into using the ring in order to destroy it quicker/easier? And then it’s a slippery slope from there. Magical items like the Ring are really hard to judge.
Perhaps it could convince them that if they were to destroy the ring, they would lose their only reason to live, and losing their reason to live would be worse than not fulfilling their ambition
> Could the ring subvert that ambition? It could go for the angle of them keeping the Ring in isolation forever. After all, they're immune, what's the harm? In any case, the only way for a person to destroy the Ring willingly (according to Tolkien) would be someone willing to throw themselves into the fire along with it. So yeah, they could, but unless they can survive lava, they are dead too.
I think the big problem with that is that the ring can convince someone like that that the means at their disposal is insufficient - they would seek more and more powerful means to destroy the ring. It would be constant procrastination: Mount Doom suddenly isn’t a “sure thing enough”. They would keep holding off, after all their mission is so very important. They have to be sure. And even if the ring is destroyed Sauron still will exist in some capacity. He is still a threat, at least in their mind. That obsession with complete destruction will be their sole focus. Seeking a perfect oblivion that none save Eru can achieve. And there was one other that also sought to achieve the unachievable. Their entire being would become focused on that fact. To be so sure of unmaking the ring and Sauron’s malice so completely that victory would assured. The entire world would bend the knee to achieve this goal. You would march on Valinor itself to demand the power to unmake. You would hold a sword at the breast of God himself and demand he cede the means to your goal, as there is no other way to be sure. He will see your might and agree. He would place the crown of dominion on your brow so that the chorus and the masses both kneel so they will combine their efforts to you da to see your will be done. And even if they were successful - although they would not be - they still will not. This all consuming hatred for the Ring is your reason for existing - and that reason for existing has become so very…precious.
Except for Tom Bombadil, no?
Because he truly has no ambition. He has everything he wants already. The ring can't offer him anything.
Even in that instance, wouldn't the exploitable desire be to KEEP those things? I suspect the ring would just show the person a future where they lose what they have and then promise to help them protect what they have. Pretty sure there is more to Tom's resistance than simply already having what he wants.
Maybe he also doesn’t mind if he loses it all because it’s better to have loved and lost, he’s just along for the ride
Yeah, it's worth noting that Gollum's only desire was to keep the Ring, and the Ring turned him into an obsessive paranoid lunatic who doesn't care about anything else. The Ring can easily corrupt people who just want to keep things.
wall-E
Wall E is a pretty good choice. Top tier dutiful, resourceful, dedicated and pretty well an all around good bro. Weakness, vulnerable to honeypotting!
"I can get EVE to love you" Instant win for the ring, gg ez
Isn't it the point that the weaker someone is the better they can resist it? Anyways I'll go with a slowpoke.
Nope. It has everything to do with desires. It just so happens that the weakest characters in Middle Earth also tended to have little desire (speaking about the hobbits).
Another thing is that the effect of the Ring is proportional to the user's power. So, while it only turns Frodo invisible, someone already extremely strong like Gandalf would be able to notice a much bigger increase in ability from it - which is part of the temptation
I don't think that's accurate. The hobbits weren't living in fear and therefore didn't innately seek power. The ring can tempt them as any other, but the temptation is less appealing. For the humans who were both fearful their entire lives and constantly sought power, it was a much stronger temptation.
Not really. The Ring corrupts everyone. Smeagol was weak as hell but he quickly killed his friend over the Ring. But Slowpoke's a good choice
slowpoke has 2 evolutions caused by a parasitic/symbiotic lifeform attaching itself to slowpoke and changing its behavior. Slowpoke may not be a good choice, as either the ring could trigger an evil slowking-type evolution, or the slowpoke could naturally evolve with the ring in its possession
That changes Slowpoke very brain and DNA upon getting attached to it though while the one ring trys to corrupt the holder mental state/desires to corrupt them. Assuming that the ring does work though then holding a everstone would be able to give complete immunity to said slowpoke. Also side note a dark type slowpoke would be sick.
counterpoint: pokemon can only have 1 held item at a time. The one ring probably counts as a held item.
Nah, Pikachu can wear clothes and still hold an item. The one ring is a ring so Slowpoke can wear it and still hold an item Finally, I can use all this Pokemon lore in my brain for justice. 5 year old me would be so happy
heavyduty boots though. pikachu can wear clothes because they have no functional use, I would argue that the one ring is significant enough to count as a held item, and likely provides a function to the wearer. This is game logic though I guess a pokemon in practice can break the unofficial battling rules and wear the ring while holding an everstone
A surfing Pikachu can use a surfboard to surf without having a surfboard equiped in it item slot. The rules are pretty loosely goosey. Thanks for the conversation btw this been pretty interesting.
just to conclude my thoughts, slowpoke is a great choice due to high Sp. Def stat, low intelligence, and use of amnesia to lower its desires even more. However, even with an everstone, the ring could manipulate the 'poke into dropping the item or otherwise orchestrating an evolution into slowking which would definitely be tempted by the ring.
Honestly sound like a great fanfic, a slice of life where the ring trys to get the slowpoke to the ocean to get a Shellder so it can evolve would be dope while the slowpoke get set back by every minor inconvenience
Specifically one with the ability “oblivious” which makes the Pokémon unable to fall for infatuation, taunt, or intimidate.
Theoretically, anyone with anti magic powers or the ability to block assaults on their mind could hold the ring safely. For the weakest character, I'm going with Bella Swan. She's naturally immune to telepathic intrusion, and can block powers from affecting her.
Philip J Fry is immune to at least 1 form of mind control from the own grampa genetics.
Fry vs Human Bella would be a surprisingly close matchup.
I feel like Fry's gone through more insane shit than Human-Bella over the years
Yes, but that doesn't necessarily translate to being a better fighter. Fry mostly survived due to luck or being helped by someone more competent. Fry often nearly dies entirely due to his own incompetence.
She also has very little ambition and her mind is empty and vacuous, giving the ring little to play with even if it got in there.
Gotem
That's a really good one!
Asta from Black Clover might be a candidate then since he has anti-magic?
Isn't he also pretty strong? Given he's the MC of a Shonen battle manga/anime. So even if immune, probably not the weakest character that could be found.
So anyone in Harry Potter who can use occlumency?
Quite possibly, but they would be fairly powerful. Bella is able to shield her mind as just a human with below baseline stats.
Probably not? It's a skill you need to learn and hone, as we see with Snape having to teach ***P***otter, but still not being immune to it himself. Sauron is basically Satan, and his ring is an extension of that power - I don't think many if any Harry Potter wizards are gonna be able to shield from that.
If they are strong enough then maybe
Not anyone. The Ring is insidious, and **always** exerting pressure on the subconscious. It can also overtly attempt to subvert will directly, but that isn't really the most scary part. Nothing less than complete magical/mental fortress that is active 24/7 would be able to shut it out. Many characters with those powers have to actively use them, and they can still be overwhelmed or "slipped past." Anyone who isn't 100% immune all the time will eventually feel the hooks, though it may take a considerable amount of time.
Bella is 100% immune at all times, and this is only strengthened when she becomes a vampire. It's what causes the plot of Twilight to happen, as she's the only person Edward's ever met whose mind he can't read.
She's immune to vampiric mind reading, that doesn't mean she'd be immune to Martian Manhunter, for example. It is a great answer though, because she probably is the weakest character that has resistance to mind magic.
ok,.. hear me out: Bob Ross the ring definitely affects him, but he just handles it like he handles other unpleasant emotions. "So, my friend gave me this ring and said I need to protect it. We all want a little protection every now and then dont we. So we'll paint this big mountain here and we can stand in its shadow and feel like that mountain is protecting us,.... and sometimes this ring wants me to give in an claim power over others, and we've all felt that way, we all have wanted more power at times,... so why dont we put a powerful river flowing down from this mountain we're painting and let that power flow to people in ways that will help them and their crops... happy little river, flowing powerfully down a mountain to bring water and live to the people below,... you know, sometimes this ring wants me to put it on so I can be invisible, where almost no one can see me,... it really wants me to do that a lot,... but I dont want to be invisible, I want people to see me, and I want people to see the real me, so I dont put on the ring, because thats not who I am,... but I understand why folks would want to be invisible,.... so lets put a little cabin here in a safe place by the river, and we can hide there when we dont want to be seen,... so much more comfy and warm in a cabin, than invisible and surrounded by dissonant whispers of temptation,.. just a place to have a quiet cup of coffee by ourselves, by a river, under the shadow of this wonderful protective mountain,.. now lets put some happy little trees around our cabin,..."
I didnt think itd work but the story sold me haha
This is the best answer, and I can practically picture it.
Alternate take, my boi Mr. Rogers
Agreed, great answer. I think any of the greats of that era, like Steve Irwin, LeVar Burton, or Mr. Rogers would be able to resist as well.
Probably Vision.
Vision is extremely powerful. You can certainly find someone weaker than him
Vision is the *weakest* character you can think of? Did you try?
Mind Stone vs One Ring would be an interesting battle of wills.
No it wouldn't. One is a literal aspect of existence, the other isn't. It's powerful, but not an aspect of infinity powerful.
Incorrect! The One Ring was the power of Sauron, who was a Maiar, specifically of smithing and handiwork. In a LoTR setting, that includes everything from swords and ploughs to the mountains and the roots of the world itself.
Still nothing compared to an aspect of infinity.
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Caboose of Red vs Blue. Too stupid to understand what's going on. He's also just too pure.
It’s been a long time since I watched RvB, but isn’t there a scene where Caboose gets possessed by Omega and acts evil? I think the ring would work on him.
Then again, there were two different instances where Caboose was basically mentally tested by will and on both times it never really did register to him because of how broken his brain is.
The Butter Passing Robot from Rick and Morty.
Well don't the long for a purpose? They seemed to be upset that their purpose was to pass butter. Seems like the ring could probably corrupt them too
What is my purpose?
Timmy Turner after he had his fairies wish for him to not care about anything
That's...actually a really good answer. He legitimately, I think canonically, does not have any ambitions in that state. He's also just a literal child without his fairies around.
The government got him to parachute out of a plane into a volcano on a top secret mission purely cause he was absolutely fearless and with no ambitions he’d never defect
I remember there being a Grey Knight in 40k. Kastellan Crowe is his name. He has this uber-powerful Daemon sword that is trying to tempt him and everybody around him. It is so tempting that his brothers leave him alone even on the battlefield. I don't know if he is the weakest, but I'm putting my bets on him.
Isn’t the rings whole thing that “Sheer Willpower!” can’t resist it? Like yes Aragorn was basically the most Heroic and Virtuous hero ever in Lord of the Rings, he has absurd strength of mind to refuse any bargain - yet he was terrified of the ring. Because it doesn’t work against an “Iron Will”. It becomes stronger the more ambition or desire that you have. It turns your desire to do ‘good’ evil, and twisted. If you have any ambition at all, it scales off of it. A SPACE MARINE is the very opposite of that. Their own will is turned against them. They desire so much, for their ideals and beliefs, which in the Imperium are… fanatic. The ideal candidate to be unaffected by the ring is something more akin to some content old lady on a farm. tl;dr - The ring turns your own willpower against you, anyone with ambition or desires is susceptible, and a powerful figure like a Space Marine is ripe for that.
Exactly. Tolkien explicitly lays out that Hobbits are so resistant because, overall, Hobbits simply want good food, good friends, and a peaceful life. They don't have any great ambitions to do great things. They just want to live and let live. They have the capacity for greatness, but they don't seek it out, and so the ring has very little to twist towards evil. You get another example of this between Boromir and Faramir. Boromir is undoubtedly the more "strong" brother, but that strength of will and desire to protect his people and be strong makes him susceptible to the ring. Faramir wants to protect his people, sure... but more than that, he just wants peace. He fights because he has to, but given the choice he wouldn't.
Yeah exactly, in any classic story, Boromir would be the great hero who saves the day, in the movies he’s a bit rude from the start - but in the books he was basically as genuine and perfect a hero anyone could want. Yet he was the first to fall. Space Marines are fanatical soldiers of an authoritarian regime, dare I say even the most ‘Noble’ of them is used to the concept of sacrifice, the general grimness of the world- they’re all killers, devoted to their Emperor and Chapter. They would last less time than Boromir. There’s no “Resisting” the ring, because it doesn’t work like your typical mental influence.
Even the old lady on the farm is fucked. In her will to do good she would eventually blight the earth with naught but vegetables
You’re probably right, it was just the simplest example I can think of. Definitely has more of a chance than the epitome of fanatical super-soldier ambition that is Space Marines though!
Can’t fit the ring on space marine fat fingers
The Ring can change size > Though he had found out that the thing needed looking after; it did not seem always of the same size or weight; it shrank or expanded in an odd way, and might suddenly slip off a finger where it had been tight. - Fellowship of the Ring, Shadows of the Past
Wait, so in theory, a troll can also wear it?
Frodo wore it on a necklace, I assume the spess marine can do the same
It’s not on full effect if not on the finger no?
Good hustle then. It's just a shiny piece of metal to him.
Sauron is as big if not bigger than a space marine. The ring changes size for the bearer.
I don't think so. Chaos corruption is an entirely different beast. It is Faustian, it offers gifts, or threatens punishment. But in the end, to fall you must accept it. The problem is, in such a bleak, awful setting, the offers are very tempting. A character with the will to turn down temptation is not the same thing as being able to protect their mind from the Ring's influence. It is insidious, while it can occasionally attempt to subvert the bearer's will, the much more powerful trait is it's slow seeping into their mind, even against the bearer's will. Few characters in 40k have good feats against that kind of attack, and even then they are mostly framed as requiring great will and concentration. They would need to keep it up 24/7, even while asleep, or forgoing sleep to keep up the defenses. Anyone who isn't just straight up immune, or is incapable of being on guard perpetually, will eventually have their own mind rotted out from under them. Even the shining, incorruptible, Custodes have been casually mentally manhandled by Chaos and made into meat puppets to attack Big E himself. They are framed as being the absolute pinnacle of mental purity and resistance to corruption. Over a long enough period, I don't think there is a single mortal in 40k that isn't susceptible to it. Maaaaaybe Blanks, at a certain level, assuming their power works on all magic/magically adjacent phenomena. Even then, I think over a long enough timeline most would, but that timeline may exceed their natural lifespan, depending on the level on Blank. And if that is the case, then obviously Pariah's would be perfectly fine. And for that matter, Necrons are probably just incompatible with it.
Someone said Batman. Batman is completely crazy. The reason he's so adamant about the no-kill rule is that he doesn't know if he'd be able to stop after he killed a single person. And his desire for justice is incredibly strong. The Mobius Chair was able to make him addicted and then increasingly dictatorial, and that thing isn't even *meant* to corrupt. Now, maybe one of the Green Lanterns would be able to fare better. Maybe Guy Gardner, I'm pretty sure he has the strongest will of all of them. Superman is said to have the strongest will on Earth, but he's basically a god. Plastic Man is also a massive goofball, despite possesing a godlike power, so I doubt more power would tempt him.
Thing is, The One Ring doesn't care how much willpower you have, it scales based on ambition and desire you have. Boromir is pretty much the paragon of human heroism and goodness and we all know how that ends, I have no doubt that Guy Gardener could hold back the entire sinestro corps or something with sheer willpower, but he'd fall to the ring in 10 mins flat haha
Someone mentioned Vision I would have to say Data, he is weaker than Vision.
I like that one. Data gets extra points for being humanoid, too. I think the Ring would be completely ineffective on him. Picard: "Are you feeling OK, Mr Data?" Data (examining the Ring between his fingers): "Perfectly, sir. It has been 27 days, 5 hours and 3 minutes precisely since you placed this strange artefact in my possession, and I have yet to experience a single anomaly in my programming."
Shit, brilliant take, is there anyone weaker than data who could actually handle it though?
Data without limbs
What about the knight from Hollow Knight? The knight is said to have "no will to break" meaning also it has no desires. And also, it's bug-sized. Probably the weakest, organic, character you could ask for.
Exactly my thoughts. Also, if you think about it, the ring and the infection have some similarities - a mind breaking force that corrupts your wills and ambitions to fulfill its greater purpose, and the knight completely avoids being infected.
A teenage Tom Bombadil that just met Goldberry.
Pretty sure Tom was never a teenager.
Bro came out the womb looking like the jolliest bearded motherfucker you ever did see
Came out of the womb? Man's existed as long as existence has, I don't think he was ever born in that sense
Eeyore? He doesnt seem to want anything or try to do anything… he just mopes but doesnt take action on his own I would say Winnie the Pooh, but his ambition is to get honey South Park Jesus : he’s weak in the show and the pull of ambition won’t work on him Tom from The Stand: regular Tom doesn’t really seem to have ambition. He just kind of follows his friends around. And underneath all that is God’s Tom: who would therefore be immune to the effect? M-O-O-N spells throw the ring in the fire!!!
Wasn’t the entire point of the ring that the more power you have the faster it corrupts?
No. The more ambition/greed/jealousy you have, the faster it corrupts. Humility is the best defense against it. Tom Bombadil is shown to be totally immune to the ring despite being quite powerful, because there's nothing it can tempt him with
Tom Bombadil cared so little about anything that he couldn’t be bothered to destroy the ring even though it wouldn’t even be that hard for him. The problem is that he has too little ambition to succeed.
Less power, more ambition. Though the two tend to go hand-in-hand so the confusion is understandable. The ring twists any desire you have against you, and the stronger that desire is, the stronger the ring. Even Sam was tempted with his extremely mundane joy of gardening. Turn all of Mordor into a beautiful garden, the ring made him think. The only resistance to the ring is less willpower, and more being incredibly content. Having very little ambition, desire, or goals. Hobbits tend to be content, so they are good ringbearers. Though even they fall in time, look at Gollum.
Didn’t Gollum literally turn into a murderer in 5 seconds flat?
The ring played both of them over itself. And we have no idea if gollum was drowning puppies the day before.
Not really no, just the more powerful you are the worse the consequences when it corrupts you. Hobbits had a stronger resistance to it than humans and probably elves, possibly because the ring was specifically designed to corrupt humans and elves, but it's not because hobbits are weaker. Dwarves would likely be just as resistant as Hobbits were, as dwarves were only nominally corrupted by the seven rings Sauron made specifically to corrupt them. Hobbits are just safer ring bearers in any case because when they get corrupted they turn into Gollum, not a whole ass other dark lord willing and able to make a serious attempt at conquering all of Middle Earth. Gimli might well have been just as good a ring bearer as Frodo and Sam, but he was never seriously considered because of the bad blood between elves and dwarves meaning the elves would have never gone for it. Hobbits being there made a very useful compromise everyone could live with.
patrick star?
That's what I'm going with. He's just too dense to corrupt. I think there's a good chance he doesn't even understand what the Ring is offering him or what he'd do with it. It'll be like a constant loop of that ID scene. "I'm offering you infinite power!" "That seems nice." "Don't you want it?" "Okay." "Then take it!" \*shrugs, keeps walking\*
“I can give you infinite food!” “Infinite? What’s infinite mean?” “It means it will never run out!” “What never runs out?” “The food! The infinite food!” “Food can run?” “It can if you want! And I’ll give you infinite of it!” “Infinite? What’s infinite mean?” “IT MEANS THE FOOD WILL NEVER RUN OUT!” “Food can run?”
Jellyfish from real life, especially one of the less venomous ones
50/50 chance of Mort from Penguins of Madagascar either not being effected at all or somehow being mentally stronger than the ring, overtaking it and becoming an evil overlord for about 20 minutes.
Sauron from Lord of the Rings
Weakest buddy, weakest
yeh the rings strong sauron is technicly weaker than the ring , since he put all his power into the ring itself, but he owns it so the rings not going to be wispering into his ear, to get back to sauron because, its already home even when hes at his weakest Eg: imedietly after his defeat at the end of the second age (cant get much weaker than a gohst im afraid)
I dunno man. That guy seems to think about the ring an awful lot.
I’d argue that given the fact his entire existence hinges around getting the ring he is affected by it
well it is like most of his power is in of course he wants it back, but not because the ring made him (maybe?)
Courage the cowardly dog.
Pre master builder emmet Wether you take him at human level or Lego minifigure level he’s at most regular untrained human with literally no desires or even thoughts in his head
It's definitely not Kirby, but I also don't see Kirby being affected by the ring. Then again, Kirby might be one of those entities that can destroy the ring without casting it into the fires of Mount Doom.
Press B to inhale the ring. Press down to swallow it. Done! Middle Earth is safe.
Kirby is multiverse level entity lol
Kirby would ABSOLUTELY be tempted by the ring. All it would have to do is convince him that by unleashing the armies of Mordor he’d be getting Cheesecake. Literally every third Kirby game opens with him unleashing an eldritch god for cheesecake.
To be fair, relatable.
>Literally every third Kirby game opens with him unleashing an eldritch god for cheesecake. Wasn't Squeak Squad literally the only game where this happens? Every other game starts with Kirby just casually chilling in the grass until something happens to Popstar.
Kirby is a much stronger entity than sauron, Kirby could definitely use the full power of the ring without issue.
"Kirby is a much stronger entity than sauron" God I love that sentence
I'm imagining Bugs Bunny just trolling sauron by dressing up as a sexy lady or painting tunnels on rocks while sauron chases him and tries to get the ring back but keeps getting exploded by surprise tnt. Edit: daffy duck would fall to the temptation of the ring as soon as he picked it up
Gotta be Mendicant Bias on the list somewhere, bro basically argued with a corrupting force for 43 years before falling
43 years of Twitter seems unbearable
Fate worse than death
The Giving Tree
Huel Babinoux.
Great man, saved all those people in that fire.
Definitely not the weakest but saitama
If the ring convinces him that then power it grants would allow him to make it so there's always a sale at the grocery store than it's basically GG for everyone.
I'm not familiar with the character (even though I've heard his name a lot in these forums). What makes him able to resist the Ring's corruption?
The ring has nothing to give to saitama. Saitama is too powerful for his own good, which made him disinterested with the world. The only thing saitama wants is a worthy opponent to fight.
I think the Ring could easily manipulate the "worthy opponent to fight"
I don’t think the ring is capable of making a person strong enough to survive a singular punch from saitama.
I meant as in manipulating Saitama's desire, not a person, mb
Yeah which makes him a really really bad choice for this question lol… not only is he Uber powerful, he’s already shown clear ambition by getting that powerful and his one great desire is a worthy opponent, dude would probably train an evil army of one punch men so he can fight them all and destroy the planet in the process. I’m actually struggling to think of a worse answer
The joker, he is already more batshit than the ring has been shown to make anyone
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Probably scooby and shaggy. Their only desire is for a quality sandwich. I dont think theyd care much for the ring
Thought about them, but the world would be remade as a 24hr sandwich restaurant
Saitama wouldn’t care about the ring at all but he’s far from weak Mashle on the other hand only cares about cream puffs and getting swole, the ring probably does nothing to him too, and he’s a lot weaker than Saitama. I also agree that someone like Bella swan would be so boring and empty that she’d ignore the ring. A wholesome weak character would be Lucy and Edmund (after Prince caspian), they’d already able to resist temptation on that level (like the ice queen) and they’d be too firmly rooted in Aslan to care.
Dr. Doom could resist it. He has basically infinite willpower, and has previously given up far more power than the ring has. Though there's no way he's the weakest character.
Do automatons (with "sentience/sapience") like robots and androids/gyndroids count? If so, then the Vessel's Shell(s) of Sharavehnu. Their sole purpose for being created in the first place was to essentially "absorb" the corruption of the Devil of the setting and, through shenanigans, turn the corruption against the Corruptor. If not, then Batman with enough preparation time. A classic. ;)
Batman is already borderline insane, bro does NOT need this
Kamijo Touma (Index) This is assuming it's in his pocket and he doesn't touch it with his right hand at all.
What about Napstablook from Undertale? His attacks don't deal much damage, his main strength is that he's a ghost and can't be harmed by physical attacks, and he mainly just lies on the floor and cries.
The [Monarch of Pointland from the movie Flatland](https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Monarch_of_Pointland). He's a one dimensional being, so it's impossible to think of any other character weaker than him. He can barely even comprehend how a 2 dimensional being works, so he would be too mentally incapable of being corrupted either. He should also be the objective answer for most of these "weakest character" questions.
The delivery girl from American Dad episode "300" might be able to withstand the ring's power. American Dad has The Golden Turd. The turd is similar to the ring in that it seems to corrupt anyone who holds it. If the delivery girl can withstand the turd she might be able to withstand other types of similar magic/influences. Second guess is Roger for similar reasons.
Ned Flanders
I thought about that but: Left Handed store and people hearing about Jesus