Undying Loyalty: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. I will go where you go and live where you live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God."''|'''Ruth''', ''[[The Bible]]''}}

 

** Guilford is the same towards Cornelia. He's just ''much'' quieter about it.

* Patrick Colousaur embodies this for his superior officer, Kati Mannequin in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Gundam 00]]''. The reason is love. The undying loyalty is his cockroach like tendency to survive any dangerous [[No One Could Survive That]] situation, especially on her orders. Eventually, it pays off big time {{spoiler|with him [[The Power of Love|winning her hand in marriage.]]}}

* Kabuto Yakushi from ''[[Naruto]]''.

** Also Zetsu and Kisame to {{spoiler|Madara}}

* 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.

* Several instances in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'':

** The Mustang unit, particularly [[Ship Tease|Hawkeye]], to their commanding officer and also to one another. It goes both ways; Mustang will do anything to protect his subordinates (again, particularly Hawkeye).

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'''s [[Sissy Villain|M'Quve]] is loyal unto death to his [[Lady and Knight|lady]], [[Lady of War|Kycilia Zabi]]. He carries out every order she gives him to the letter, lives to serve her, and uses his [[Famous Last Words]] to will her his prized possession. Many suspect that [[Subordinate Excuse]] is in full effect here.

* [[Lupin III|Inspector Zenigata]], former trope namer of [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]], has the ability to inspire this into cops from all over the world. His subordinates in the Japanese police have ignored orders from the Interpol to follow Zenigata, and in the special ''Voyage To Danger'' the Italian police, after trapping Lupin in an unescapable trap (Lupin himself was desperate), packed and let him go when they learned that Zenigata had been pulled from the case because ''if they got him in that occasion it would have meant that Zenigata hadn't been the one who arrested him''.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [http://9gag.com/gag/2478950 This] one panel strip.

* In ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'', when [[Loyal Animal Companion]] Snowy thinks that Tintin is dead, he resigns himself to spending the rest of his life at his grave.

 

== Film ==

 

== Literature ==

** {{spoiler|Sirius Black}} has put himself through a ''lot'' out of loyalty to Harry and his father.

** Possibly the best example in the series of this trope is {{spoiler|Severus Snape}}; we don't learn the circumstances until the end of the last book, though it has defined him the whole time.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** Effectively he [[Heroic Spirit|takes on]] the traditional jobs of [[Big Brother Instinct|Brother]], [[Daddy's Girl|Father]], [[Doting Parent|Mother]], [[The Medic|Doctor]], [[The Caretaker|Therapist]], and [[Papa Wolf|Bodyguard]], [[Determinator|all at once, probably for the rest of his life]], all the while [[Noble Fugitive|fleeing from the law]]. All [[Heroic Sacrifice|for Mei-Mei]].

{{quote|"Mei Mei, all I have is right here."}}

{{quote|''"No. You take care of me Simon. You've always taken care of me. [[You Shall Not Pass|My turn.]]"''}}

* [[The A-Team]]. So very much. Their loyalty to one another is so strong that in the beginning of Season 5, {{spoiler|Hannibal, Face, and B.A. are willing to face the firing squad so Murdock won't have to. Don't worry. They all make it out just fine.}} And in the second season episode, ''Curtain Call'', Face makes it quite clear that he is willing to risk capture/being sent to prison in order to get the proper medical supplies to save Murdock's life.

** And those are just two examples. The whole show is filled with moments like those.

* Al Bundy from ''[[Married... with Children]]'' is this toward his wife Peggy, even if he hates the marriage with a passion and wish for it to be undone, as since anytime another woman offer herself to him, he'll (grudgingly) reject the offer in respect to his wife. Sure, he'll cry afterward but you've to give him credit for the loyalty he shows to something he always says he hates with every fiber in his body.

* John Watson from ''[[Sherlock]]''. He refused to believe that his best friend was a fraud, even when ''Sherlock himself'' was telling him so before jumping off a rooftop to his [[Faking the Dead|'death']].

 

== Music ==

* In [[GURPS]] this is called "Sense of Duty".

* [[Legend of the Five Rings]] gives us the story of the [[Magnificent Bastard|Scorpion Clan Champion]] Bayushi Ujiro and his bodyguard Shunsen. Ujiro issued a challenge to the other Clan champions to determine which clan best understood the concept of loyalty. The challenge involved all the champions and their bodyguards performing an action to be set by Ujiro. If the bodyguards do not follow through with the command, that clan is disqualified. So, Ujiro gives Shunsen the command, [[What the Hell, Hero?|"Kill me."]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|He did, then commited suicide.]] The gathered Clan champions and bodyguards, shocked, conceded defeat. And then the Crane go and adapt the event for [[The Movie|Winter,]] because that's just how the Crane are!

 

== Toys ==

** 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.

* Lyon from ''[[Suikoden V]]'' is very devoted to the Prince, to whom she also develops [[Bodyguard Crush]] to.

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' demonstrates both the good and bad sides of this trope:

** They answer

{{quote|''I will.''}}

** [[Hachiko]].

* During the filming of ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', things looked so hopeless during filming do to inclement weather and other issues that Doug, Rob, and Mike Michaud were all fully prepared to scrap the whole thing and simply film everyone hanging out in Chicago as the special. Holly told them everyone wanted to get the film done, so they tried to have a vote. [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] stood up to say the voting was pointless, because they already knew everyone would say yes. He then went into a speech saying that Doug is the reason that every one of them has a job on the site, and they're going to finish this thing for him no matter what. Doug thanked them profusely and left, newly energized to figure out the best way to finish the film.

* Many people are this way toward [[Thicker Than Water|their family]].

* Some species of animal will remain faithful to their breeding partner for all its life. For example, the [[wikipedia:Tiliqua rugosa|Shingleback]] has been known to even stay by the side of their partner if they die for days on end.

 

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