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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.''

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