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== Anime and Manga ==

** {{spoiler|Shou. Effing. Tucker.}} He was willing to {{spoiler|experiment on his own wife, daughter and even himself in the anime and turns them into mutated chimeras}} if it meant furthering his research.

** Scar, at least in the first anime. {{spoiler|He will stop at nothing to find a means to destroy the empire of blue-eyed devils who killed his people. And in a way, he actually succeeds.}}

* [[Ender's Game|Ender Wiggin]]. At school a gang of bullies, all older and stronger, decide to beat Ender up. Ender immediately decides that he not only wants to win this fight, but all the fights afterward, and goes straight for the [[Groin Attack|groin.]] Ender proceeds to knock the kid to the ground and break the boy's nose by ''kicking him in the face'', {{spoiler|killing him}}. He wants to intimidate all present into leaving him alone, and they are convinced by his sheer brutality. ''[[Tyke Bomb|Ender is six years old.]]'' He cries about what he's done as soon as he's out of sight, but he does it again and again whenever he's threatened for the rest of the book. As the description says, Ender takes the fight to a level where his opponents won't follow and destroys them so that there won't be a second fight. At the end of the book, Ender ends up {{spoiler|destroying an entire planet and almost commits genocide}} by following his methods to their logical conclusion (and is even more Unfettered in that fight than usual because {{spoiler|he thinks it's a wargame simulation}}). Overall, Ender is a rare example of an unfettered being who may have morals, but when he has to fight, he fights to win. See the [[The Unfettered/Quotes|quotes page]].

** Which places him squarely in characterization 4 - while he has emotions, and even comes right out and says to his sister, Valentine, that "...in that very moment when I love them... I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again."

** And from ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' we have Fëanor and his sons, who swear an oath to get back the Silmarils and kill anyone who "takes or steals or finding keeps a Silmaril." In pursuit of the Silmarils, they repeatedly, manipulate, betray, and/or kill anyone in their way. (And a number of people ''not'' in their way.) Some of the sons are worse than others.

* The Dunyain from the ''[[Prince of Nothing]]'' trilogy. They have one goal, to produce a "self-moving soul" i.e. an entity with true free-will whose actions are unaffected by circumstances. In achieving this goal, all actions are equal. Kellhus, a main character, spends the books manipulating, killing and betraying the people around him without ever once feeling anything for them. After all, they are merely slaves to their environment and would continue to be so were Kellhus part of their environment or not.

** Victor Cachat whenever he enters his Fanatic mode. He's an interesting example in that he apparently can turn it on and off at will, and he's usually pretty picky about just what situation requires it to be on. This allows him to be The Unfettered while maintaining a strong and ''heartfelt'' moral code.

** The titular character's no slouch either. When she has a goal or obligation in mind, that goal ''will'' be achieved, to hell with the odds or anyone that stands in her way.

** I disagree. I say Vimes. For him there is the Law. And don't forget Carrot: "Personal is not the same as important."

** Only Carcer really qualifies. He does whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Vimes and Carrot, on the other hand, are both bound strictly by their moral code, and stick to it. Neither Vimes nor Carrot, remember, has a specific goal, just principles that they hold dearly, making them more [[The Fettered]] than The Unfettered.

 

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[[Category:Characters As Device]]

[[Category:The Trickster]]

[[Category:Dishonor Tropes]]

[[Category:The Jerk Index]]

[[Category:The Only Righteous Index of Fanatics]]

[[Category:Character Flaw Index]]