Good Is Not Nice: Difference between revisions

'''Spike:''' I mean honestly, what kind of retard wears [[Broken Heel|heels]] like that in a dark alley? Take two steps and break your bloody ankle.

'''Woman in alley:''' ''[annoyed]'' I was just trying to get home.

 

He [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|never kills anyone if he can help it]], nor will he allow people to come to any sort of harm by ignoring them. He's always willing to go out of his way [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|to save the town and complete strangers]]. When the call comes, [[Resigned to the Call|he will answer it, usually with very little protest.]] He will often help people in need with little promise of reward. In almost every way, he acts like an [[Ideal Hero]].

== Literature ==

* Anna from ''[[Belisarius Series]]''. At first glance she is a [[Spoiled Sweet]] rich girl. But when she saw the horrors of military hospitals she devoted herself to reforming by the only means of keeping a hospital in those days-by [[Drill Sargent Nasty|fanatical discipline.]] More specifically she threatened to have her bodyguards beat up the lazy staff workers if they didn't earn their pay.

{{quote|''"I'm not saying she's not basically a nice person--" Magrat began.''

''"Hah! I am. You'd have to go a long day's journey to find someone basically nastier than Esme," said Nanny Ogg, "and this is ''me'' sayin' it. She knows exactly what she is. She was born to be good and she don't like it."''}}

** To a degree, many other ''[[Discworld]]'' witches. Miss Treason intentionally dresses up the evil witch appearance {{spoiler|even though most of it is Boffo novelty items}}, and can only really do her job because people fear her.

** There's also Sam "This is how you play [[Lawful Good]] you morons!" Vimes.

**** He also arranged things so when he dies, everything goes to hell. It makes sure he won't be assassinated, but all men are mortal, and Vetinari is a man.

* Micah E. F. Martin's [[The Canticle]] gives us [[Knight Templar|Jonathan Servitor]], a merciless inquisitor serving a [[Corrupt Church]] that's all humanity has standing between it and the ravenous legions of the dead. Needless to say, sometimes he gets his hands dirty.

* Flannery O'Connor [http://www.flanneryoconnor.org/ssfreaks.html spawned a quote] that often comes up to describe this trope; it is most commonly repeated through the form in which [http://www.amywelborn.com/walkerpercy/thantos.html Walker Percy paraphrased] it, when she wrote that, "''tenderness leads to the gas chamber''". It's a rather shocking way of pointing out that trying to be ''nice'' without first being ''good'' is a fast road to becoming a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|very dangerous kind of person]].

* Benson from ''[[Regular Show]]''. He may be constantly angry and constantly threatening to fire Mordecai and Rigby, but all he's really doing is his job. Plus, he's actually pretty friendly when things aren't out of hand.

* The title character of ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]''. She snarky, cheeky, and at times, rather rude while doing her job as [[The Chosen One]] who protects the mortal world from unseen monsters and demons, [[It Sucks to Be the Chosen One|and rarely makes any effort to hide how much she resents having to do it]]. Hard to blame her though, as she is still a "tween" and is the youngest of her line to be chosen as such, due to [[The Chooser of the One]] skipping a whole generation for some unknown reason.

 

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