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* [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.
* [[Spider-Man]]'s enemy Dr. Octopus is an [[Evil Mentor]] to both both Carolyn Trainer (aka Lady Octopus) and Angelina Brancale (aka Stunner, also his lover) and they both show this to him; in one story, after suffering a bout of [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|Villainous Self-Deprecation]] after Angelina offers to be the [[Human Sacrifice]] in an unholy ritual that brings him back from death (she survives, but is left comatose and on life support), he questions what he ever did to deserve such loyalty from them.
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* 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!
* ''[[Planescape]]'': The modrons (little [[Clockwork Creature]]s native to Mechanus) are like this. As the living embodiments of Law, they obey the orders of their immediate superior without question, as that is part of their nature, and they cannot comprehend disobedience. Unfortunately, with some of the weaker, less intelligent ones, they cannot use their own judgment to interpret orders, and have to be told to do ''everything''. For example, if a group of monodrones (the lowest caste, who have Intelligence only marginally greater than most animals) are told to "attack", they do so until they are slain or the superior tells them to stop attacking, even if that means fighting each other when all enemies are defeated. Their description in the manual says that it is fortunate they do not have to eat, because if they did, they'd have to be ordered to do ''that.''
== Toys ==
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* 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.
* A ''motorcycle'' with Undying Loyalty for its owner has become an object of reverence and even worship in India. The [[w:Om Banna|Om Banna]] shrine, located in the Pali district of India near Jodhpur, houses a 350cc Royal Enfield Bullet RNJ 7773 whose owner died in 1988 when he lost control of the cycle. He hit a tree and died instantly; the motorcycle fell into a nearby ditch. The cycle was brought to the local police, but it disappeared from the station and was found at the site of the accident. It was taken back to the station, had its fuel drained, and locked up. It again disappeared and was found near the site of the accident. Local legend recounts that despite multiple attempts the cycle could not be kept away from the site; this was seen as a miracle by the local populace who named it the bullet bike ("Bullet Banna"). The shrine was built to house it when people from miles around began to worship it and pray to both the motorcycle and its late owner Om Singh Rathore for safe journeys.
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