History Main / MoralityPet

** In ''Literature/TheThebaid'', Antigone does her best to keep her brothers from committing fratricide despite their political ambitions. She nearly succeeds in getting Polynices to reconcile with his brother, but the Furies intervene and keep him on the path to damnation.

* ''/Literature/ActsOfTheApostles'': Barnabas was this to Saul/Paul when the other disciples questioned Saul's HeelFaceTurn. See Acts 9.

* Vaggie from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' appears to dislike just about everyone in the room at any given time with the exception of her girlfriend, Charlie, who she is consistently nice and pleasant too.

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* In the 2009 adaptation of ''Film/DorianGray'', Emily Wotton appears to serve as one for both Dorian and Dorian's former mentor, Lord Henry Wotton, with Dorian showing a desire to redeem his past acts while Henry refuses to allow his daughter to be with the man he sees Dorian as.

* Mass murderer Riddick managed to find a few morality pets in ''Film/PitchBlack'', Fry, Jack, and Imam. Of course, [[spoiler:Fry died at the end of Pitch Black,]] and [[spoiler:Jack (Kyra) and Imam died at the end of ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', leaving Riddick with no more morality pets, and a whole empire of necromongers at his command!]] Be afraid. Be ''very'' afraid.

* Malyuta Skuratov in ''Theatre/TheTsarsBride'' is cruel and cynical, with the blood of many people on his hands, but he has a soft spot for his [[ItMakesSenseInContext honorary goddaughter]] Lyubasha. It’s enhanced by the fact that he is the only one to be genuinely fond of her.

* HGame ''Gibo -- Stepmother's Sin'' has the main charactter, Yusuke, doing pretty much everything he can to get into his stepmother's pants. However, he also has a stepsister, Shiina. In order to get the better endings (here defined as ones where you don't turn into a total bastard), you need to treat Shiina well, making her into one of these. Even when he's being a dick, Yusuke still refers to Shiina in kind terms.

* In ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'', Vera Oberlin is a proudly greedy and ruthless crime lord in the making... and has an OddFriendship with the friendly DumbJock Scott Howl. While she does get the odd PetTheDog moment with most of the cast, she has a tendency to try to show Scott more patience than she does the others, who she isn’t above teasing or exploiting, and in Scott’s holiday route, she repeatedly goes out of her way to protect his feelings in a potentially emotionally-compromising situation, with the game’s narrator noting that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness it isn’t like her to show empathy.]] Late in the route, she tells him that “you remind me that life doesn’t need to be hell. That people don’t need to be shit”.

* Vaggie from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' appears to dislike just about everyone in the room at any given time with the exception of her girlfriend, Charlie, who she is consistently nice and pleasant too.

Parent trope of LittleBrotherIsWatching.

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Averted with Spoon towards Dave. Even though Dave spilled out his insecurites to Spoon, he has no issues with abusing him.

* In the 2009 adaptation of ''Dorian Gray'', Emily Wotton appears to serve as one for both Dorian and Dorian's former mentor, Lord Henry, with Dorian showing a desire to redeem his past acts while Henry refuses to allow his daughter to be with the man he sees Dorian as.

* Anna in [[WhatCouldHaveBeen earlier drafts]] of ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' was this to a villainous version of Elsa, who was going to freeze the country and Anna's heart on purpose, and at the end Anna changed her mind.

* In ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', Rapunzel becomes this for Flynn Rider. While he's not an evil guy, he still starts off showing very little concern for his cohorts (he abandons his previous two partners in crime to be arrested and, likely, executed). When he ends up dragging Rapunzel into dangerous situations though, he does whatever he can to take care of her, and ends up falling in love [[spoiler:and dying to set her free from Mother Gothel]].
* In ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'', Long John Silver has a literal Morality Pet called Morph, a cute bloblike alien that apparently represents his conscience. One could argue that Jim Hawkins himself is another Morality Pet for Silver.

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* The ''entire Crew'' act as this to Nights to some degree in ''Roleplay/{{AJCO}}'' -- her genuine love for them is her most redeeming feature and is what sets her apart from A_J, who really couldn't care less about her employees. Within the Crew itself, [[TokenGoodTeammate Blue]] acts as one to [[TokenEvilTeammate Krauzer]].
* At no point in his rampages has Machinima/ChristianBrutalSniper ever killed the RED Spy.

* [[LoveInterest Penny]] and [[OnlyFriend Moist]] in ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' definitely acts as morality pets.
** Moist manages to invert this in one scene, where his suggestions for evil acts are [[EvenEvilHasStandards too overboard for Dr. Horrible.]]

* In ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'':
** The relationship between Gaea and Golgotha is closer to a perpetual LickedByTheDog situation. Gaea combines DirtyCoward, ManipulativeBastard and TheScrooge, yet she and Gologotha seem to have never stopped being ChildhoodFriends and Golgotha not only actively seeks her company, but has quite a [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]] towards her.
** A straighter but downplayed example so far only revealed in the webseries storyline is [[spoiler:Judge Dead]] in regards to [[TheCracker Tenshirock]]. Tenshirock was an AntiVillain from the start, but the reveal of the relationship changes Tenshirock from some guy who has nothing better to do with his free time than messing up a MMORPG in an attempt to have people stop playing it to [[spoiler:a father trying to win back the affection of a son that had started to hate him for reasons unknown to him]].

* Danya, ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest's'' BigBad, is occasionally revealed to take time off from his commitments running the Act (including making the announcements) and going home to see his family. The obvious love and affection he has for his wife, young daughter and grown-up son serve to humanise him somewhat. Most members, however, still loathe him. They also fully ''support'' his activities, giving him even more motivation to act like a monster.

* Barnabas was this to Saul/Paul when the other disciples questioned Saul's HeelFaceTurn. See Acts 9.

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* ''Literature/TheBlindSide'': SJ for Michael.

* In ''MagicTheGathering'', Xantcha serves as Urza's anchor to morality and to sanity.

*** SCP-590 and SCP-166 for Dr. Bright and Dr. Clef respectively. Though, it’s not [[CruelToBeKind immediately obvious]] with the former.

* Wrestling/XPac was briefly Wrestling/{{Kane}}'s morality pet in the late 90s.

* In WebVideo/ThomasSanders' ''Sanders Sides'' videos, Patton is this to... everyone. At the start, he's the only person [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Virgil]] will admit to liking, Logan will try to curb his usual haughtiness for Patton's sake, and even Roman will try to be more considerate with him.

* In ''Xantcha serves /MagicTheGathering'', Xantcha serves as Urza's anchor to morality and to sanity.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': Margo, Edith and Agnes for Gru.

* [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts Jake "The Snake" Roberts]], had Damien, his favorite of the many snakes he owns. Jake was never shown as anything but kind to Damien. In 1991, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] [[{{Kayfabe}} squashed]] Damien. The feud against Quake was Jake's last as a face (he shortly thereafter had a FaceHeelTurn when he interrupted [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy "Macho Man" Savage]] and [[Characters/WWEDivas Elizabeth]]'s [[{{Kayfabe}} wedding]] at ''Wrestling/{{SummerSlam}} 91'', and sicced a cobra on him), and in a bit of FridgeBrilliance, one can look to Damien's squashing as his StartOfDarkness.

* El Generico/Wrestling/SamiZayn is Kevin Steen/Kevin Owens' in both Wrestling/{{Ring of Honor}} and Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}... until his inevitable [[FaceHeelTurn Face-Heel]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Turns]] in both promotions, of course. Since this is [[NiceGuy Sami]], Kevin is, of course, EasilyForgiven after this happens.

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