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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3287685" data-attributes="member: 8158">One of the sections in the first chapter of Complete Scoundrel discusses the personalities of scoundrels of each alignment, and provides examples based on fiction. Check it out:Lawful Good: Batman, Indiana Jones, Dick TracyLawful Neutral: James Bond, Odysseus, Sanjuro (from Yojimbo)Lawful Evil: Boba Fett, MagnetoNeutral Good: Spider-Man, ZorroNeutral: Lara Croft, Han Solo (early on), Lucy Westerna (from Dracula)Neutral Evil: Mystique, Sawyer (from Lost)Chaotic Good: Robin Hood, Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly), Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica)Chaotic Neutral: Captain Jack Sparrow, Al Swearengen (Deadwood), Snake PlisskenChaotic Evil: Riddick, Carl Denham (King Kong)Some interesting decisions there. Many folks think of a lawful good character as upholding the law of the land, but CS assumes that a scoundrel is only beholden to his own code (if he even has that), and thus a lawful character can break the laws others set in place. So, Batman winds up as LG in their book.Some of the picks for evil are, naturally, the most interesting. Sawyer behaves like a selfish thug (particularly early in the series), but the viewer finds that he's actually hiding a lot of guilt and self-loathing, and mainly acts in ways that will bring a world of hurt onto himself, which is in direct opposition to the self-interested nature of a NE character. I think of his actions being more CN myself. Then there's Riddick, who is certainly a real nasty piece of work but still is capable of valuing others and acting in a selfless (as in the latter half of Pitch Black where he goes back for Jack and the Muslim guy).</blockquote>

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