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** [[Submissive Badass|Berias']] attitude towards [[Magnificent Bastard|King Saralegui]] seems to qualify as well.
* In ''[[Claymore]]'', Jean would go to literally suicidal lengths for Clare, as a result of [[I Owe You My Life]] sentiment. Also, [[The Captain|Miria]] tends to inspire this in most people she meets, especially fellow Claymores.
* Because they effectively [[Street Urchin|picked him off the streets]] and brought him up as one of their own, Firo from ''[[Baccano!]]'' is unquestionably loyal to [[The Mafia|the Martillo camorra family]] to the point that he'd kill or give up his own life on their order.
* Loyalty is a big deal in the ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' anime and games, given the subject matter, but Kojuuro and the rest of the Date clan really stand out in their loyalty to Date Masamune. In the anime's second season, Masamune's followers pile onto him bodily to protect him from Toyotomi Hideyoshi; a flashback in the following episode shows Kojuuro preparing to commit [[Seppuku]] because he blamed himself for Masamune's arm being wounded in battle.
** Yukimura's loyalty to his master Shingen is completely unfathomable. He can't even imagine a world where the latter doesn't exist for him to serve.
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== Toys ==
* In ''[[Transformers]]'', Megatron usually has at least one Decepticon like this. Soundwave gets a gold star for consistency; '''GLORIOUS'''[[Transformers Animated|Lugnut]] for effort.
** And Starscream. {{spoiler|In the [[Transformers: Shattered Glass|Shattered Glass]] universe, at least...}}
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* Youmu from ''[[Touhou|Touhou Project]]'' is intensely loyal to her mistress, Yuyuko. In the fighting game, ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', Youmu briefly questions Yuyuko's actions but just as promptly castigates herself harshly for it.
** The same can also be said of Sakuya and her mistress Remilia. ''[[Koumajou Densetsu]] II'', one of the franchise's fangames, has her going on a [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue]] for her ''ojou-sama'''s sake.
* Possibly the [[Trope Codifier]] for Video Game examples would have to be The Boss from [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]. "Loyalty To The End." is her [[Badass Creed]] and her primary motivation to the exclusion of all else. The sheer scale of the sacrifices she makes in the name of that creed [[Beyond the Impossible|border on ridiculousness]]. {{spoiler|In short (No easy task), she killed her own lover and father to her child under orders, was irradiated during nuclear testing, shot in the head, horrifically injured while being a top secret participant in the Mercury Project, betrayed all of her friends to their deaths and ultimately murdered by her most beloved pupil after a lifetime of painful sacrifices without solace or reward, and condemned to be remembered as a traitorous war criminal. All in the name of the United States government, which she had known since childhood to be corrupt from within by a dying conspiracy, and purely so that conspiracy could steal a huge amount of money from Russia. And yet, "Loyalty To The End." The Revelation in [[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]] that she was suffering from brain damage may undermine all this an iota however.}}
** Her and the Sorrow's [[Generation Xerox|counterparts,]] Snake and Otacon. Even when the entire world is against them, [[Heterosexual Life Partners|they will]] [[Ho Yay|absolutely NEVER]] abandon each other. {{spoiler|Even at the very end of the series--the very end of Snake's life--[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Otacon outright refuses to leave Snake's side.]] Snake's ''last word'' in the series is Otacon's name.}}
*** Gray Fox is another great example in this series. Raised as a child soldier in Africa during the Mozambique Civil War during the 1960s where he was nicknamed Frank Jaegar by his enemies for his "frank" appearance as a boy which he tricked them with until he killed them as a fierce "hunter" (Jaegar is German for hunter). Big Boss defeated the young Frank when he attacked him on patrol one day and rescued him from the war and brought him back to a U.S friendly safe zone but unfortunately the Philosophers experiment on him and turn him into a mind-controlled super soldier and years later Big Boss rescues him from this fate as well. Frank joins Big Boss's FOXHOUND Unit and from the 1970s until the 1990s serves under Big Boss's command in conflicts all around the world and earns their highest title of Fox, but despite his prowess as a warrior Fox tells Snake of how once again Big Boss came to his rescue when he had been captured by the enemy and they tortured him. In Gray Fox's eyes Big Boss is a father figure and the man that he owes his life to, this undying loyalty to the man is so extreme that he betrays America and joins Big Boss's Outer Heaven cause even going so far as to fight his friend Solid Snake in a battle to the death. Fox's loyalty wasn't to a country or an ideal but to a man, Big Boss.
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** Glorious Lugnut from glorious ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' Gloriously showed gloriously fanatical loyalty to glorious Megatron.
** Inferno and Scorponok from ''[[Beast Wars]]''.
** In the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass|Shattered Glass]]'' continuity, where the Autobots are the villains and the Decepticons the heroes, Starscream is this to Megatron.
** [[Silent Antagonist|Sound]][[Evil Genius|wave]] in ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' is undyingly loyal to Megatron, to the point where his presence is probably the only thing that stops Starscream from pulling the plug on the [[Big Bad]]. This is pretty typical for Soundwave across multiple continuities, actually. [[Villain of the Week]] Skyquake displayed similar loyalty (and in fact took it to [[Lawful Stupid]] levels), refusing to work for Starscream because only Megatron could give him orders, and following the last set of orders Megatron gave him to the letter.
** ''[[Beware the Quiet Ones|Never]]'' [[Beware the Quiet Ones|attempt to kill or leave behind Megatron. Soundwave]] ''[[Beware the Quiet Ones|will not]]'' [[Curb Stomp Battle|tolerate it.]]
* Fry's dog Seymour in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Jurassic Bark."
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Rainbow Dash]] represents this as her Element of Harmony, best demonstrated by the trial Nightmare Moon put her through in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** Brutally deconstructed by Discord in the second season premiere through a [[Sadistic Choice]] and [[Conflicting Loyalty]] {{spoiler|what's more important -- your friends, or your hometown?}}, with brainwashing thrown in for good measure.
* Khan to ''[[Mulan]]''. Seriously, he was prepared to go into the middle of a raging avalanche to go save her.
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