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If you have a difficulty deciding which alignment a good-aligned character belongs to, |
If you have a difficulty deciding which alignment a good-aligned character belongs to, then they're probably too nuanced to have an alignment at all. The main difference between [[Lawful Good]], '''Neutral Good''' and [[Chaotic Good]] is not their devotion to good, but the methods they believe are best to promote it: |
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* Even though there are some situations where they can't always use this method, [[Lawful Good]] characters believe the best way is to have a specific, strict code of conduct, whether self-imposed or codified as a law. Their first impulse when making a moral decision is to refer back to this code; those with externally imposed systems (codes of laws, hierarchies, etc.) will try to work within the system when those systems go wrong. Depending on whether they are more Lawful or more Good, they will either refuse to break the code even though it would hurt someone, or else break it only very reluctantly, and only when it would hurt someone if they kept their code. [[Lawful Good]] characters have to be very good at [[Taking a Third Option]]. |
* Even though there are some situations where they can't always use this method, [[Lawful Good]] characters believe the best way is to have a specific, strict code of conduct, whether self-imposed or codified as a law. Their first impulse when making a moral decision is to refer back to this code; those with externally imposed systems (codes of laws, hierarchies, etc.) will try to work within the system when those systems go wrong. Depending on whether they are more Lawful or more Good, they will either refuse to break the code even though it would hurt someone, or else break it only very reluctantly, and only when it would hurt someone if they kept their code. [[Lawful Good]] characters have to be very good at [[Taking a Third Option]]. |
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Others, such as the [[Ideal Hero]], [[The Messiah]], and [[Friend to All Living Things]], can vary between [[Lawful Good]], '''Neutral Good''' and [[Chaotic Good]]. |
Others, such as the [[Ideal Hero]], [[The Messiah]], and [[Friend to All Living Things]], can vary between [[Lawful Good]], '''Neutral Good''' and [[Chaotic Good]]. |
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{{noreallife|this is a trope about how characters are depicted in media. Real people are far more complex than fictional characters, and cannot be pigeonholed this way.}} |
{{noreallife|this is a trope about how characters are depicted in media. Real people are far more complex than fictional characters, and cannot be pigeonholed this way. (For that matter, many if not most fictional characters cannot be pigeonholed this way, either; see below for the standards on whether to use this trope at all.}} |
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'''When dealing with the examples of specific characters, remember that assigning an alignment to a character who doesn't come with one is |
'''When dealing with the examples of specific characters, remember that assigning an alignment to a character who doesn't come with one is [[Your Mileage May Vary|subjective]] (and, at All The Tropes, discouraged). If you have a problem with a character being listed here, it probably belongs on the discussion page. There will be no [[Real Life]] examples under any circumstances; it just invites an [[Edit War]].''' |
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'''On works pages: Character Alignment is only to be used in works where it is canonical, and only for characters who have alignments in-story. There is to be no arguing over canonical alignments, and no Real Life examples, ever.''' |
'''On works pages: Character Alignment is only to be used in works where it is canonical, ''and only for characters who have alignments in-story''. There is to be no arguing over canonical alignments, and no Real Life examples, ever.''' |
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== Anime and Manga == |
== Anime and Manga == |
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