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** This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoJV4NLxqg End Credit song of the film Spider Man 2] gives out such a point well.
* [[DC Comics]]' Hans von Hammer, the ''[[Enemy Ace]]'', retains his "Knights of the Sky" view of air combat (refusing to, for example, shoot down an opponent who is out of ammunition) despite how much [[War Is Hell|the realities of war]] challenge his ideals.
* Spider Jerusalem from ''[[Transmetropolitan]]''. Cynical or not, and crazy though he might be, he's a journalist because he cares about the truth, and a savage beating from people who don't appreciate it won't make him see otherwise.
* Rorschach from
* Matt Murdock in ''[[Daredevil]]'' definitely counts. He's put through through the emotional ringer a dozen times over and his life always seems to get worse when You think it can't possibly decline further. Its so bad the poor guy can barely muster the energy to brood. Despite this, he struggles on and serves as a true hero of New York.
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{{quote|'''Leonardo:''' "You're one of us now, Breech, and we're a family full of good people."
'''Breech:''' "You don't pay much attention when I fight, do you?" }}
* The only thing the protagonist of ''[[Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns]]'' lacks is the attitude, but everything else fits in with the trope. He knows full well, and always did, that the world is full of liars and backstabbers, but he is determined to keep trying to make it a better place as long as worthwhile things (like the potential of the younger generation) continue to exist. Of course, he's trying to make sure the world itself keep existing at the moment.
* In each of his works, [http://www.fanfiction.net/~mrevil Mr. Evil] has used his [[Original Character]] Fredi Heat. He shows absolutely no care for people in general, and many of his own teammates appear to even be scared of him. But he always does what's right, despite his dislike for doing so.
* From the ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]/[[Naruto]]'' crossover fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7441275/1/Broken_Faith Broken Faith]'' by
{{quote|'''Gandolfini:''' "Naruto-sama doesn't know it, not many dare to call him that to his face but his actions on missions has earned him the moniker ''[[The Dreaded|Black Paladin]]'' among the wider mage population because of his actions. He always fights what for what is right regardless of the rules and protocol, hence the ''[[Paladin]]'', but his methods and results are rather... [[Mind Rape|disturbing]] and he usually dresses completely in dark colours, hence the ''[[Black Knight|Black]]''."}}
== Film
* Ezylryb {{spoiler|(Lyze of Kiel)}} of ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]'' may be a legendary warrior, but he takes no pleasure in it whatsoever, as he demonstrates by displaying his slashed face and blind eye.
{{quote|'''Ezylryb:''' [[Every Scar Has a Story|This is what it actually looks like when you've fought in battle.]] It's not glorious, it's not beautiful, it's not even heroic. It's merely doing what's right and doing it again and again, even if someday you look like this.}}
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* [[The Hero|Woody]] becomes this in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)||Toy Story 3]]'', in that {{spoiler|he knows full well that going back to the daycare is suicide, not to mention the difficulty in helping his friends escape ''and'' making it back home before Andy leaves for college. The logical thing to do would be to try and go home alone. No points for guessing what he decides to do.}}
** [[The Old Convict|Chatter Telephone]] and [[Sad Clown|Chuckles the Clown]]; {{spoiler|the former had been stuck at Sunnyside for years but used his knowledge of the place to (try to) help the other toys escape, and the latter saw some of Lotso's [[Kick the Dog|rather despicable]] actions firsthand, and told Woody about this to warn him of Lotso's true nature.}}
* Jöns from ''[[The Seventh Seal]]''. You won't find anyone fitting to the trope more closely than him. His being a squire, not a knight, is pretty much the only difference.
* [[Humphrey Bogart]] as Rick Blaine in ''[[Casablanca]]'', as archetypal [[Film Noir]] [[Private Detective]] [[Philip Marlowe]] in ''[[The Big Sleep (film)|The Big Sleep]]'', and as [[Dashiell Hammett|Sam Spade]] in ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''.
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* Six from ''[[Generator Rex]]''. Despite looking and sounding like a unemotional [[The Men in Black]] agent, he has principles he won't compromise; Rex is in fact alive thanks to him, and he has admitted that he stopped being a mercenary [[Morality Pet|*because* of Rex]].
* In ''[[Moral Orel]]'', Reverend Rod Putty eventually becomes this, being one of the few characters not utterly blinded by hypocrisy and actually caring about the well-being of the main character.
* Zodac from the 2002 reboot of ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' wasn't always like this: he was once a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] type, but after King Hsss killed his brother in the original war with the Snake-Men centuries ago, he became colder and harsher in his ways. In the present-day storyline, he barely avoids crossing the line into [[Knight Templar]] territory when Hsss returns.
== Real Life ==
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** Worth spelling out that Swift was the Dean of Dublin Cathedral, and thus a high official in the Episcopalian church
* The official philosopher of this view must be Joseph de Maistre, who wrote in his ''St. Petersburg Dialogues'':
{{quote|The philosopher can even discover how permanent carnage is provided for and ordained in the grand scheme of things. But will this law stop at man? Undoubtedly not. Yet who will kill him who kills everything else? Man! It is man himself who is charged with slaughtering man.
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