History BlueAndOrangeMorality / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'': [[WildCard Aeon]] and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Trevor]] take their opposing ideologies to such extremes that they're very difficult to judge by realistic standards, and thus their conflict falls squarely into this. [[MindScrew C'mon, can anyone honestly say they knew what the show was actually about?]].
-->'''Trevor''': The dream to awaken our world.\\
'''Aeon''': ''You're'' out of control.\\
'''Trevor''': I ''take'' control... Whose side are you on?\\
'''Aeon''': I take no sides.\\
'''Trevor''': You're skating the edge.\\
'''Aeon''': I ''am'' the edge.\\
'''Trevor''': What you truly want, only ''I'' can give.\\
'''Aeon''': You can't give it, can't even buy it, and you just don't get it.

-->'''Terry:''' Do you feel like maybe ''we're'' the bad people in all of this?\\

** While the family show that they do have a conscience, they don’t have much of a problem with [[spoiler:the Pupa eventually reaching its final form, destroying and rebuilding the planet, which... [[{{Understatement}} would be just a little step above the shitstorms they usually cause.]]]]

* It's a possible trait of inhabitants of the Spirit World in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Avatar Yangchen, the previous Air Nomadic Avatar, mentions to Aang that many Air Nomads have detached themselves from all worldly concerns and achieved spiritual enlightenment, but the Avatar can never do it because it's the Avatar's job to be the bridge between the physical world and the spiritual world, which requires them to be a part of the world they're protecting. It's likely the Avatar was created so that a powerful spiritual being could comprehend humanity and the concerns of the physical world, and thus not have blue and orange morality as a result of their detachment. From what we see of the other spirits - most of whom are capricious, whimsical, offhandedly cruel, violently attached to one single concept or another, or just plain alien - it was a necessary step.

** The Changelings might be this, depending on whether they merely [[EmotionEater feed on love]] as a food source or if they exploit ThePowerOfLove to make themselves more powerful. If the former, their treatment of the ponies to them would be equivalent to cultivating livestock. Though in the season 6 finale [[spoiler: it's discovered that the Changelings can sustain themselves by sharing love between them and other beings without sucking it out. [[MoralEventHorizon Queen Chrysalis was simply lying to her subjects that they were only able suck love out in order to fuel her reign of terror]]]].

* Marceline the Vampire Queen in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' openly acknowledges this, stating in her first appearance that "I'm not mean, I'm [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a thousand years old]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GXrwi3GLVU I just lost track of my moral code".]] It mostly explains how she can be an example of DarkIsNotEvil while still being really terrifying at times.

* [[MadGod Discord]] of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is certainly a [[Main/Troll]], but he seems to view [[WorldOfChaos eternal chaos]] as an end rather than a means, describing [[RealityIsOutToLunch the new Ponyville]] as "beautiful" and seeing little difference between making it rain ([[MadeOfExplodium explosive]]) chocolate milk or driving a pony over the DespairEventHorizon. Further complicating the matter is it being unknown whether he's an AnthropomorphicPersonification or "merely" a very powerful RealityWarper (he refers to himself as the "spirit of chaos and disharmony", but that could be just a title).

* [[MadGod Discord]] of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is certainly a Troll, but he seems to view [[WorldOfChaos eternal chaos]] as an end rather than a means, describing [[RealityIsOutToLunch the new Ponyville]] as "beautiful" and seeing little difference between making it rain ([[MadeOfExplodium explosive]]) chocolate milk or driving a pony over the DespairEventHorizon. Further complicating the matter is it being unknown whether he's an AnthropomorphicPersonification or "merely" a very powerful RealityWarper (he refers to himself as the "spirit of chaos and disharmony", but that could be just a title).

* [[MadGod Discord]] of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is certainly [[ForTheEvulz cruel and sadistic]], but he seems to view [[WorldOfChaos eternal chaos]] as an end rather than a means, describing [[RealityIsOutToLunch the new Ponyville]] as "beautiful" and seeing little difference between making it rain ([[MadeOfExplodium explosive]]) chocolate milk or driving a pony over the DespairEventHorizon. Further complicating the matter is it being unknown whether he's an AnthropomorphicPersonification or "merely" a very powerful RealityWarper (he refers to himself as the "spirit of chaos and disharmony", but that could be just a title).

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** For Meeseeks (who are actually blue and orange) their sole GoalInLife is performing a single given task and disappearing. Prolongued existence is extremely painful to them, making it understandable if they take some drastic measures to complete the task.

--->'''Finn''': I'm... into Zanoits... they're the best!\\

'''Bubblegum''': Plantoids produce mellotoxin\\

'''Finn''': So are zanoits.... good things?

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Cartman often comes off as having this whenever actually decides to do something unselfish or even heroic. In the span of a few episodes, he can go from getting revenge on a bully by indirectly killing his parents, then tricking him into eating chili made out their remains, to taking on UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden in the style of a WarTimeCartoon.

* Marceline the Vampire Queen in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' openly acknowledges this, stating in her first appearance that "I'm not mean, I'm [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a thousand years old]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GXrwi3GLVU I just lost track of my moral code".]] It mostly explains how she can be an example of DarkIsNotEvil while still being really terrifying at times.
** Blue and Orange conflict is demonstrated in a conversation between Princess Bubblegum and Finn.
--->'''Finn''': I'm... into Zanoits... they're the best!\\
'''Bubblegum''': Zanoits kill hundreds of thousands of plantoids each year.\\
'''Finn''': Oh no, not the plantoids!\\
'''Bubblegum''': Plantoids produce mellotoxin\\
'''Finn''': ...\\
'''Bubblegum''': Mellotoxin kills zanoits!\\
'''Finn''': So are zanoits.... good things?

* Roger's species from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has this, probably because they become violently ill if they aren't casually cruel. Or as Roger himself puts it, "Let out their bitchiness." They're also not above using ''live crash test dummies''.
** The crash test dummy incident may not have been Blue & Orange Morality, but a case of deliberate malice. Roger himself is discovered to have been sent on a "mission" that was actually just using him as a test dummy for vehicle safety. A later episode reveals that Roger was in a relationship with his planet's prime minister, Emperor Zing, and his 'mission' may have been a spiteful exile.
* Chaos from ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' thought in terms of "predictable" and "unpredictable", and above all, fun for him.
* The titular lovable ManChild of ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' operates on a ''very'' skewed honor code and set of morals. He's willing to do just about ''anything'' in his pursuit of revenge but when it comes to the revenge itself he won't go farther than what he feels is deserved, such as hunting a werewolf who scratched his car so he can merely key the ''werewolf's car'', or halting his vengeance against a wild west theme park that "cheated him out of $20" after he felt the things he did trying to get said vengeance (such as sticking someone up and having a QuickDraw with the corrupt sheriff) was well worth the money he spent.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Cartman often comes off as having this whenever actually decides to do something unselfish or even heroic. In the span of a few episodes, he can go from getting revenge on a bully by indirectly killing his parents, then tricking him into eating chili made out their remains, to taking on UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden in the style of a WarTimeCartoon.

* [[spoiler:Peridot]] in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is shown to view right and wrong in terms of the greater good of the Gem Empire, at one point describing an image of a hollowed-out Earth that couldn't possibly sustain life as "beautiful" because of how much it would have helped the Diamond Authority, compared to Earth's current situation of [[spoiler:having a gargantuan fusion abomination growing inside it, which wouldn't really benefit anyone]]; the only thing higher than this is her own survival. She also has trouble grasping the concept of romantic affection, creating a shipping grid for a TV show based on which pairing would gain the best tactical advantages, and puts so much stock in logic and reason that [[spoiler:she rebels upon learning that her superior is in fact motivated largely by spite]], despite not being particularly rational herself in many situations.
* The [[GeniusLoci titular train]] in ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain''. The train has good intentions, as it wants passengers to work through their emotional, behavioral, and psychological problems. But that doesn't change the fact that it still kidnapped you to do so, doesn't tell you how you're actually meant to grow as a person after dumping you in one of an infinite number of pocket universes, and completely neglects to explain what the problem it wants you to fix is. The only sign that you're doing what the train wants is a number that will sometimes go up and down depending on your actions, and for most of the train's existence, you weren't even told which direction was the ''good'' one. Even if you know exactly what the train wants, it can still take months or years to actually get the "right" to go back home, [[DeathWorld assuming you last that long]].

* Marceline the Vampire Queen in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' openly acknowledges this, stating "I'm not mean, I'm [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a thousand years old]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GXrwi3GLVU I just lost track of my moral code".]] It mostly explains how she can be an example of DarkIsNotEvil while still being really terrifying at times.

** Unity is a parasitic entity living by assimilating other life forms into a collective HiveMind, planning to enslave the whole universe and [[AGodAmI becoming a God]]. It however seems that the assimilated species, that we see in the show, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain is better off under its control]].

* [[spoiler:Peridot]] in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is shown to view right and wrong in terms of the greater good of the Gem Empire, at one point describing an image of a hollowed-out Earth that couldn't possibly sustain life as "beautiful" because of how much it would have helped the Diamond Authority, compared to Earth's current situation of [[spoiler:having a gargantuan fusion abomination growing inside it, which wouldn't really benefit anyone]]; the only thing higher than this is her own survival. She also has trouble grasping the concept of romantic affection, creating a shipping grid for a TV show based on which pairing would gain the best tactical advantages, and puts so much stock in logic and reason that [[spoiler:she rebels upon learning that her superior is in fact motivated largely by spite]], despite not being particularly rational herself in many situations.

* [[EldritchAbomination Bill Cipher]] of the Disney series ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' shows stark evidence of being Blue and Orange. In ''[[AllThereInTheManual Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun]]'', he wrote "Nostradamus was a hack! Morality is a mental cage designed by the weak! [[ShoutOut How's]] [[Series/TwinPeaks Annie?!"]]
** In the series itself, he performs several strange actions for seemingly no reason at all. His [[EstablishingCharacterMoment very first on-screen action]] was telekenitcally ripping the teeth out of a deer, to which a character cried that he was insane. His response?
-->'''Bill''': Sure I am, what's your point?
** At one point, while [[DemonicPossession in Dipper's body]] he repeatedly causes harm to himself, proclaiming that '[[{{Sadist}} pain is]] [[TooKinkyToTorture hilarious]]!'
** Taken to the extreme when [[spoiler: in the three-part finale where he and his fellow [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] treat [[RealityIsOutToLunch taking over the universe]] as a wild college party.]]

** The Changelings might be this, depending on whether they merely [[EmotionEater feed on love]] as a food source or if they exploit ThePowerOfLove to make themselves more powerful. If the former, their treatment of the ponies to them would be equivalent to cultivating livestock. [[spoiler: It's ultimately subverted in the season 6 finale, when it's discovered that the Changelings can sustain themselves by sharing love between them and other beings without sucking it out. [[MoralEventHorizon Queen Chrysalis was simply lying to her subjects that they were only able suck love out in order to fuel her reign of terror]]]].

** In the series itself, he performs several strange actions for seemingly no reason at all, including ripping the teeth out of a deer, to which a character cried that he was insane. His response?

** The Changelings might be this, depending on whether they merely [[EmotionEater feed on love]] as a food source or if they exploit ThePowerOfLove to make themselves more powerful. If the former, their treatment of the ponies to them would be equivalent to cultivating livestock.

* [[EldritchAbomination Bill Cipher]] of the Disney series ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' shows stark evidence of being Blue and Orange. In ''[[AllThereInTheManual Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun]]'', he wrote "Nostradamus was a hack! Morality is a mental cage designed by the weak! [[ShoutOut How's]] [[TwinPeaks Annie?!"]]