Blue and Orange Morality: Difference between revisions

* Mercurians in ''[[Gunnm]]'' are the descendants of the [[Nano Machine]] plague left on the planet by a terrorist half a millennium ago. They've since developed into the civilization so utterly alien to the humanity's way of thinking that their ''ambassador'' (or at least the entity supposed to contact the Solar System at large) turned out to be a 20 meter tall killing machine with a phallic-shaped [[Wave Motion Gun]] in the right place. Fortunately there ''[[World of Badass|were]]'' places where such "[[Ass in Ambassador|Ambassadors]]" could be dealt with.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Gundam 00]]'' has the Extraterrestrial Liquid-metal Shapeshifters (ELS) from [[The Movie]]. These are intelligent metal-based life forms that evolved on a gas giant. They communicate telepathically, or by combining their physical forms together to form a unified being. Naturally there is some amount of extreme confusion between the two species when they meet humanity. The mutual misunderstandings lead to a war between the two before a clear means of communication is found.

* While there are plenty of fans that would love to simply write him off as evil, Mayuri Kurotsuchi of ''[[Bleach]]'' appears to operate on this standard. Mayuri is the ultimate scientist of the series, lacking his [[Good Counterpart]] Urahara's morality and his [[Evil Counterpart]] Szayel or Aizen's god complex; all that matters to Mayuri are results, and as such he doesn't seem to see any sort of hypocrisy in torturing Quincies to death as a form of study and then healing the last remaining one years later to show his new medicine works perfectly. He abuses his daughter, but from his own perspective this is because he knows for a fact his creation can handle it and people protesting how he treats Nemu are questioning the quality of her design. Szayel raping and nearly killing Nemu to save himself from death doesn't appear to bother Mayuri very much (of course, he can just "fix" her later), but he expresses utter contempt for him once he hears Szayel proclaiming himself a perfect being; perfection would be the death of scientific innovation, after all, and no man of science should view that as desirable.

* Kimblee in the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga and second anime has an odd code which seems to consider holding true to your role or principles the most important thing, irrespective of their conventional morality. He criticizes soldiers for being reluctant to massacre defenseless people, but expresses admiration for the Rockbells for their determination to save lives (of the ''same people'' the soldiers were killing) as doctors. He sides with the homunculi because they give him freedom to practice his [[Stuff Blowing Up|alchemy]] without restriction, but claims to be primarily interested in who'll win the conflict between them and humans. In the end he {{spoiler|saves Ed from a [[Grand Theft Me]] by Pride because he's repelled by Pride abandoning his claims of superiority as a homunculus to merge with a human to save himself.}}