Paris

EoW - S1 - E2 - Legends and Lies

Paris is not a warrior in any meaningful sense here, and the story does not pretend otherwise. He is the man whose decision to pursue Helen set the entire war in motion, and by the time the Greeks are inside the city walls, all of that has caught up with him. When B'kai reaches the royal palace and confronts Helen directly, Paris is there beside her, and the contrast is immediate. Helen carries herself with composure while Paris cuts a considerably less impressive figure, talked down to and largely sidelined even in his own crisis.

B'kai takes the vibranium pendant and, having no interest in the war itself or its political stakes, simply lets them both go. Paris walks out of Troy alive not because of anything he does, but because he was never the point. He is a man who started a decade-long catastrophe and ends up being dismissed as an afterthought by the one person who could have used him as leverage. The war burns around him and he escapes it, which is more than most get, and considerably more than he deserves.