Alignment examples of fictional characters.

[Umbran]

What happened between Batman and Robin anyway?

Basically, Robin's puberty

The same thing that happens between any father figure and a young man growing up. But only slightly worse because Bats has obsessive tendencies and control issues.

 

[Moe Ronalds]

What happened between Batman and Robin anyway?

Robin got jealous of Alfred and went on to form the Neo-Village People.

 

[Deedlit]

My take on the Lodoss cast:

Spark, Ghim, Kashue, Greevis:Lawful Good
Deedlit, Parn, Leylia, Little Neese, Etoh, Slain, The golden greater dragon whose name I can't remember:Neutral Good
Cecil, Shiris, Leaf, Garrack, Ryna:Chaotic Good
Hobb, Ashram:Lawful Neutral
Maar, Karla:True Neutral
Pirotess:Chaotic Neutral
Duke Raster:Lawful Evil
Narse, Shooting Star, Abram:Neutral Evil
Vagnard, Kardis:Chaotic Evil

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

If I remember, the classic way of telling people about the difference between Law, Chaos, Good and Evil (at least in the UK) was to say that Doctor Who is CG and the Daleks are LE.

And I don't think Nobby Nobbs <b>has</b> an alignment...that would intimate he thought about moral issues...

 

[fusangite]

All these lists do is confirm my view that the alignment system is not useful for describing behaviour and only minimally useful for describing ideology.

 

[Umbran]

All these lists do is confirm my view that the alignment system is not useful for describing behaviour and only minimally useful for describing ideology.

*shrug*

All it really confirms is that different DMs will have slightly different views. But we knew that already - it's why we have Rule 0. Doesn't make it not useful. Just means you need to put some thought to consistency within your own game.

 

[Bob Aberton]

LG: King Arthur, Sir Tristan/Lancelot/etc.

NG: hmm...

CG: Robin Hood (duh!) & his Merry Men

LN: James Bond, any 'Dispensing Justice' type figure (Judge Dredd, anyone?)

N: Merlin, Han Solo (in the beginning of Episode 4)

CN: hmm...

LE: Saruman, Torquemada(RL), the Devil(as seen in the Bible and 'Paradise Lost' and such)

NE: Lady MacBeth (later digresses to CE as she goes crazy), Sauron, etc.

CE: Blofeld(from James Bond; the famous bald, scarred madman), the Joker, Lady MacBeth in the later parts of the play, MacBeth

 

[Aaron L]

Ryoko!

 

[Celebrim]

We seem to have expanded to include figures both fictional and historical.

My take, for what it is worth:

Lawful Good: Superman, Batman (as The Greatest Detective), King Arthur, Sam Gamgee, Faramir, Aragorn, Captain America, Alia of the Knife, Socrates, Beowulf, Decartes, St. Augustine, Spock, Jean-Luc Picard

Neutral Good: Jean Valjean, Gandalf, Frodo Baggins, Yoda, Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Budda, Jesus Christ

Chaotic Good: Bilbo Baggins, Robin Hood, Batman (as The Dark Knight), Peregrin Took, Spider Man, Qui-Gon Jin, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Joan of Arc, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Lady Jessica, James Kirk

Lawful Neutral: Javert, Judge Dredd (Note that Dredd's chaoticness is the result of upholding a code derived from a chaotic society), the Vorlons, Duke Atreides, Paul Atreides, Confucius, Aristotle, James Bond, Hari Seldon, General Lee, Erwin Rommel

Neutral: Merlin, Romeo, Juliet, Odyseus; Few heroic figures are truly 'neutral' since most works of literature are to some extent about philosophical conflict and heroes are by definition exmplararies of some belief system - even one of nonbelief. To find neutral fictional characters (in modern Western literature in particular), we probably need to turn primarily to non-heroic figures.

Chaotic Neutral: Conan the Barbarian, Hamlet, Cthulu, Camus, the Count of Monte Cristo, General Armstrong Custer

Lawful Evil: Darth Vadar, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (prior to to the murder), the Riddler, Sauron, Joseph Goebbels,

Neutral Evil: Emperor Palpatine, Morgoth, Satan, Hannibal Lecter, Vlad von Tepes, Heinrich Himmler

Chaotic Evil: Lex Luthor, Hitler, Morgan Le Fae, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (after the murder), the Shadows, the Joker, Saruman, Baron Harkonnen, Darth Maul, Herman Goring

 

[Maraxle]

Lawful Good:
Nirvana
Poison
Rocktopus

Neutral Good:
Beastie Boys
Guns N Roses
Rustic Overtones

Chaotic Good:
Alice In Chains
Soul Coughing
Weezer

Lawful Neutral:
Days of the New
Pixies
Stone Temple Pilots

Neutral:
Mighty Mighty BossToneS
Pantera
Pearl Jam

Chaotic Neutral:
Foo Fighters
Rob Zombie
Santana

Lawful Evil:
Britney Spears
Nickelback
Puddle of Mudd

Neutral Evil:
Dave Matthews
Limp Bizkit
Oasis

Chaotic Evil:
Backstreet Boys
Creed
N'Sync