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<blockquote data-quote="mr.pink" data-source="post: 4631602" data-attributes="member: 81579"><p><strong>Chaotic Evil</strong></p><p></p><p> Chaotic evil is referred to as the "Destroyer" or "Demonic" alignment. Characters of this alignment tend to have little respect for rules, other peoples' lives, or anything but their own selfish desires. They typically only behave themselves out of fear of punishment.</p><p> According to the <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Scoundrel" target="_blank">Complete Scoundrel</a></em> sourcebook, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Denham" target="_blank">Carl Denham</a> from <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_%28film%29" target="_blank">King Kong</a></em> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddick" target="_blank">Riddick</a> from <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_Black_%28film%29" target="_blank">Pitch Black</a></em> are chaotic evil.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29#cite_note-CompleteScoundrel-5" target="_blank">[6]</a> The exemplars of chaotic evil are the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_%28Dungeons_%26_Dragons%29" target="_blank">Tanar'ri</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Chaotic Neutral</strong></p><p></p><p> Chaotic neutral is called the "Anarchist" or "Free Spirit" alignment. A character of this alignment is an individualist who follows his or her own heart, shirks rules and traditions. They typically act out of self-interest, but do not specifically enjoy seeing others suffer. Many adventurers are of this alignment.</p><p> An unusual subset of chaotic neutral is "strongly chaotic neutral", describing a character who behaves chaotically to the point of appearing insane. Characters of this type may regularly change their appearance and attitudes for the sake of change, and intentionally disrupt organizations for the sole reason of disrupting a lawful construct. Characters of this type include the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xaositects" target="_blank">Xaositects</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planescape" target="_blank">Planescape</a> setting, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hennet&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">Hennet</a> from the third edition <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player%27s_Handbook" target="_blank">Player's Handbook</a>. In <em>Advanced Dungeons & Dragons</em>, chaotic neutral was frequently assumed to refer to this subset.</p><p> Captain <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sparrow" target="_blank">Jack Sparrow</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Swearengen" target="_blank">Al Swearengen</a> from the TV series <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood_%28TV_series%29" target="_blank">Deadwood</a></em>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Plissken" target="_blank">Snake Plissken</a> from <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York" target="_blank">Escape from New York</a></em> are verifiably chaotic neutral characters.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29#cite_note-CompleteScoundrel-5" target="_blank">[6]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaad" target="_blank">Slaadi</a> represent pure chaos.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The Comedian is CN, not CE over the course of his life he had two major lapses of judgement, couple this with the fact that he spends his time saving hostages and controlling mobs for the goverment and you begin to see that he is a CN hero. The Comedian is "strongly" chaotic neutral because he is unpredictable but his unpredictability often causes people to perceive him as evil. However i would like to remind you he died trying to stop Ozymadias from using his phycic bomb to kill half of newyork.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mr.pink, post: 4631602, member: 81579"] [B]Chaotic Evil[/B] Chaotic evil is referred to as the "Destroyer" or "Demonic" alignment. Characters of this alignment tend to have little respect for rules, other peoples' lives, or anything but their own selfish desires. They typically only behave themselves out of fear of punishment. According to the [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Scoundrel"]Complete Scoundrel[/URL][/I] sourcebook, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Denham"]Carl Denham[/URL] from [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_%28film%29"]King Kong[/URL][/I] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddick"]Riddick[/URL] from [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_Black_%28film%29"]Pitch Black[/URL][/I] are chaotic evil.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29#cite_note-CompleteScoundrel-5"][6][/URL] The exemplars of chaotic evil are the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_%28Dungeons_%26_Dragons%29"]Tanar'ri[/URL]. [B]Chaotic Neutral[/B] Chaotic neutral is called the "Anarchist" or "Free Spirit" alignment. A character of this alignment is an individualist who follows his or her own heart, shirks rules and traditions. They typically act out of self-interest, but do not specifically enjoy seeing others suffer. Many adventurers are of this alignment. An unusual subset of chaotic neutral is "strongly chaotic neutral", describing a character who behaves chaotically to the point of appearing insane. Characters of this type may regularly change their appearance and attitudes for the sake of change, and intentionally disrupt organizations for the sole reason of disrupting a lawful construct. Characters of this type include the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xaositects"]Xaositects[/URL] from the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planescape"]Planescape[/URL] setting, and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hennet&action=edit&redlink=1"]Hennet[/URL] from the third edition [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player%27s_Handbook"]Player's Handbook[/URL]. In [I]Advanced Dungeons & Dragons[/I], chaotic neutral was frequently assumed to refer to this subset. Captain [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sparrow"]Jack Sparrow[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Swearengen"]Al Swearengen[/URL] from the TV series [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood_%28TV_series%29"]Deadwood[/URL][/I], and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Plissken"]Snake Plissken[/URL] from [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York"]Escape from New York[/URL][/I] are verifiably chaotic neutral characters.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29#cite_note-CompleteScoundrel-5"][6][/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaad"]Slaadi[/URL] represent pure chaos. The Comedian is CN, not CE over the course of his life he had two major lapses of judgement, couple this with the fact that he spends his time saving hostages and controlling mobs for the goverment and you begin to see that he is a CN hero. The Comedian is "strongly" chaotic neutral because he is unpredictable but his unpredictability often causes people to perceive him as evil. However i would like to remind you he died trying to stop Ozymadias from using his phycic bomb to kill half of newyork. [/QUOTE]
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