Always Lawful Good: Difference between revisions

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"That's a nasty idea. Still - a robin, you know. They're good birds [[Genre Savvy|in all the stories I've ever read]]. I'm sure a robin wouldn't be on the wrong side."''|''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]''}}

 

** Also, Paladins are a literal example. Or at least up until the fourth edition, where they were allowed to be any alignment so long as it matched their patron god.

** The Devas, Archons and related [[Shaped Like Itself|Lawful Good]] entities in [[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]. They even ''point out'' that [[Lawful Stupid]] is the [[Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard]]. Entities such as them exist in a state of grace that is literally impossible for mortals to reach, meaning they forgive and tolerate mistakes made by Lawful Good characters - even to the point of such characters embracing Chaos in the form of being [[The Snark Knight]] or even a [[Knight in Sour Armor]] - as long as they are consistently '''trying''' to be Lawful Good.

*** Best part? This is a high quality [[Real Life]] Aesop - good people screw up. Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop trying to be as good as we can be.

* Vorlons in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' turn out to be another subversion as they are just as petty and terrorizing as their opposing species, the Shadows; while Kosh was literally [[Lawful Good]] (for certain values of Lawful; he had no qualms about encouraging [[The Chosen One]]--{{spoiler|all three parts of...him? Her? Them? Anyway, Sinclair, Delenn, and Sheridan}}--to bend the rules when necessary to maintain long-term order) the Vorlons as a whole turn out to be merely Always Lawful (Ulkesh being definitely [[Lawful Evil]]).