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* Doctor Manhattan from ''[[Watchmen]]'', to the absolute screaming extreme. He's just stopped viewing life from a human perspective, and cares almost nothing for anything else than observing pretty physics. |
* Doctor Manhattan from ''[[Watchmen]]'', to the absolute screaming extreme. He's just stopped viewing life from a human perspective, and cares almost nothing for anything else than observing pretty physics. |
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* [[Marvel]]'s [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]] arc had characters that fell firmly in the number 7 group. In particular, [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Ben Grimm]] (The Thing) - who ran off [[Unfortunate Implications|to France]] rather than choose a side and end up fighting one teammate (Mr. Fantastic, Pro-Reg) or the other two (Sue and Johnny Storm, Anti-Reg). |
* [[Marvel]]'s [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]] arc had characters that fell firmly in the number 7 group. In particular, [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Ben Grimm]] (The Thing) - who ran off [[Unfortunate Implications|to France]] rather than choose a side and end up fighting one teammate (Mr. Fantastic, Pro-Reg) or the other two (Sue and Johnny Storm, Anti-Reg). |
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* [[Sub-Mariner|Namor]] of [[Marvel Comics]] doesn't ''quite'' qualify; at any given time he can fall into any of the alignments by virtue of having drastically different motives from most of the [[Marvel Universe]] and a disorder that manifests as drastic character changes due to his [[Half-Human Hybrid]] biology. He goes here because he averages out as True Neutral, and he's the only person who can effectively have a reputation as both good and evil without anyone giving him lip about it (if only because he could kick the [[Incredible Hulk |
* [[Sub-Mariner|Namor]] of [[Marvel Comics]] doesn't ''quite'' qualify; at any given time he can fall into any of the alignments by virtue of having drastically different motives from most of the [[Marvel Universe]] and a disorder that manifests as drastic character changes due to his [[Half-Human Hybrid]] biology. He goes here because he averages out as True Neutral, and he's the only person who can effectively have a reputation as both good and evil without anyone giving him lip about it (if only because he could kick the [[Incredible Hulk|Hulk]]'s ass). |
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** Just in case anyone doubts Namor's position as True Neutral, take this into account: he's a member of Professor X's Illuminati (good) and [[Norman Osborn]]'s Cabal (evil), ''at the same time''. And he's not acting as [[The Mole]] for either group, since neither knows that he's a member of the other. |
** Just in case anyone doubts Namor's position as True Neutral, take this into account: he's a member of Professor X's Illuminati (good) and [[Norman Osborn]]'s Cabal (evil), ''at the same time''. And he's not acting as [[The Mole]] for either group, since neither knows that he's a member of the other. |
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* [[The Sandman]]; Death, Desire and Despair are True Neutral. |
* [[The Sandman]]; Death, Desire and Despair are True Neutral. |
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