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Line 1: {{trope}}{{Needs Image}} {{quote\|''"A good church man is always up in everybody's shit."''\|'''[[Preacher Man\|The Deacon]]''', ''[[The Wire]]'' Season 4.}} Line 9: [[Truth in Television]], or so one would hope. {{examples~~\|Examples~~}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * Non-Kira [[Death Note ~~(Manga)~~\|Light]], in a stark reversal, serves this function for L. * Noi the lizard in [[The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer]] serves as an animal mentor and a conscience for Yuuhi. Noi is quite concerned about Yuuhi's desire to see the world destroyed. * In [[Digimon Adventure 02]], Wormmon is the conscience to Ken, the Digimon emperor who badly mistreats his loyal companion. * Puck from ''[[Berserk]]'' tries to be this for Guts, calling him out on his less-than-heroic decisions and actions. Guts being Guts, however, he doesn't much care a lot of the time. Line 22: * Jiminy Cricket is appointed [[Pinocchio]]'s conscience in the [[Walt Disney]] animation. * In the movie ''Necessary Roughness'' Scott Bakula's character (Paul Blake) abandons the team. When Jason Bateman's character joins him. {{quote\| '''Paul Blake''': You can't just walk away.~~<br />~~ '''Jarvis Edison''': You did.~~<br />~~ '''Paul Blake''': How did I end up with Jiminy Cricket? }} * In [[Ever After]], Leonardo da Vinci might count as this for Prince Henry. He consults with him on important decisions and talks philosophically, looking to Leonardo to help guide him. And Leonardo's the one to call him out for the way he's acting near the end. == [[Literature]] == * In the original book of ''[[~~Hammers~~Hammer's Slammers]]'' stories by [[David Drake]], Danny Pritchard ends up as Colonel Hammer's conscience, as Hammer's been too hardened by war to recognize when he's gone over the line. * In P.C. Hodgell's ''[[Chronicles of the Kencyrath]]'', heroine Jame, who was raised among the Big Bad's minions, doesn't trust her own judgment as to right or wrong. During the first two books, Marc is the Conscience, her solid moral center; from halfway through book 3, Brier takes over the role, in a much sterner and harder-to-please way. Both of them inspire Jame's moral development. * Bunny Manders in E.W. Hornung's 'Raffles' stories. He always ends up helping in the burglaries, but never manages to do anything alone, and often prefers that they fail. * Cassie from ''[[~~Animorphs (Literature)\|~~Animorphs]],'' though the others are not always willing to listen to her, and sometimes her ideas cause serious problems, like when she {{spoiler\|let Tom escape with the morphing cube to stop Jake from having to kill him}}. * Hermione in ''[[Harry Potter]]''. Line 38: * Shepherd Book from ''[[Firefly]]''. ** Wash too. Quite often even though Book's vocation makes one expect it more. * Cordelia in ''[[~~Angel (TV)\|~~Angel]]'' after she received the visions. She made sure Angel kept his focus on 'helping the helpless' rather then vengeance or making money. * ''[[House MD]]'''s Dr. Wilson. * Wilson from ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)\|Home Improvement]]''. * Daniel Jackson from ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' * Eli and Lt. Scott from ''[[~~Stargate Universe (TV)\|~~Stargate Universe]]'' might fit, though they are pretty ineffective. * ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)\|~~Doctor Who]]'' According to Donna this is why the Doctor needs human companions, so they can stop him. Needless to say she's right: {{spoiler\|While traveling alone the Doctor ends up risking the future of human space exploration by saving a woman destined to die in order to inspire those that make it happen. The woman in question ends up committing suicide to save the future in defiance to what the [[A God Am I\|Doctor has become]]}}. * Annie from ''[[Community]]''. * Jiminy Cricket/Dr. Hopper from [[Once Upon a Time (TV series)\|Once Upon a Time]] Line 53: == [[Video Games]] == * Bill McDonagh has been described by the developers as acting as Ryan's conscience in [[~~Bio~~BioShock ~~Shock~~(series)]]. The player arguably has Tenenbaum and Atlas who advise the player, Tenenbaum especially on issues like Little Sisters. Except they are both completely different characters. * Carth Onasi and Bastila Shan in [[Knights of the Old Republic]] are ''trying'' to be this for your [[Player Character]]. ** The [[Player Character]] is this to {{spoiler\|Bastila, if they can convince her to turn back to the light in the end}}. == [[Web Comics]] == * ''[[~~Digger (Webcomic)\|~~Digger]]'' acts as the newborn Shadowchild's conscience and helps it develop one of its own. This is very difficult since a) it's a sort of demon and b) it has absolutely no reference point for "good" or "bad" and c) they live in a world where things like [[Carnivore Confusion]] can be a ''really'' big problem. ** And it looks like recent events have shown Digger did a good job. Of course, she needs a hug, now... * ''[[~~Freefall (Webcomic)\|~~Freefall]]'': Florence tries to be Sam's conscience. Very hard and frustrating job, but slowly Sam seems to be changing a bit. * Blackwing has appointed himself as V's conscience in ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', whispering in [[Ambiguous Gender\|his/her]] ear whenever a moral decision has to be made. * Laryk serves as Hawke's preacher and conscience in ''[[Fated Feather]]'' providing the only moral compass that exists outside of the [[Protagonist -Centered Morality]]. Her success was mixed; then, nonexistent. * Carrie [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=157302 sometimes takes on this role] in ''[[Everyday Heroes]]''. == [[Western Animation]] == * In ''[[~~Gargoyles (Animation)\|~~Gargoyles]]'', there is an episode with a golem. The role of one of the characters in that episode is to guide the golem's actions and help it stay in the right. * Initially, it was Superman but it soon became The Flash in the [[DCAU]] [[Justice League]]. ** To the point where the Cadmus storyline strongly implies that if Flash dies (particularly if he dies at Lex Luthor's hands), Superman will go crazy and kill Lex with his heat vision in a a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. {{spoiler\|When the moment actually comes where Superman ''believes'' that Lex has killed Flash, he comes very close to doing it, but in the end relents and says "I'm not the man who kills Lex Luthor. Right now I wish to God that I was, but I'm not." Luckily, Flash turns out to be alive after all.}} * [[Retired Badass\|General]] [[Cool Old Guy\|Iroh]] to his nephew [[Jerk ~~With~~with a Heart of Gold\|Zuko]] in ''[[~~Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)\|~~Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Also Katara to the Gaang, although she does have the occasional lapse. * Or goes completely overboard. [[Well -Intentioned Extremist\|Remember the episode where she became an eco-terrorist?]] * Mac from ''[[~~Fosters~~Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'', though some of the other more moral characters fill this role occasionally. * Private of ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' is primarily [[The Heart]], but assumes this role whenever Skipper and/or the others end up going too far. Though usually holding the moral high ground, he also tends to be rather timid when first voicing his concerns, gradually losing his patience as [[Hilarity Ensues]]. {{reflist}} [[Category:Characters As Device]] [[Category:~~The~~Index ~~Conscience~~of Shame]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Conscience, The}} [[Category:~~Trope~~{{PAGENAME}}]]