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12->''"There might be people who shun you for being a spy, but I would never. You chose to stand up against your own people to help ours. Making that choice makes you stronger than anyone else here."''
13-->-- '''Virion Eralith''', ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd''
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15A subtrope of TokenNonhuman and TokenEnemyMinority. This trope is to Token Enemy Minority as Token Nonhuman is to TokenMinority. It's about a member of the Villain or {{Mook|s}} race who joins the main cast and their good (mostly human or TheFederation) organization.
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17There are many shades of this trope which may appear:
18* DefectorFromDecadence: He can't abide the evil ways of his people. Often the result of KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect.
19* [[MookFaceTurn Mook Rebel]]: Sometimes, if his race are SlaveMooks for the BigBad, he may have rebelled and joined the opposition to fight his former evil master and free his people.
20* OrcRaisedByElves: The heroes are closer to him than to the rest of his race.
21* HeelRaceTurn: His race used to be the enemy, but has now become neutral or friendly with humans, so having him join the heroes' crew shows that things have changed, and the two races are getting along now.
22* [[DefeatMeansFriendship Defeated enemy]]: His race stops being villainous because they lost. At best now his nation is a VestigialEmpire; at worst he's the LastOfHisKind.
23* EnemyMine: He shares a common enemy with the heroes, in some cases a rival faction of his own race.
24* MyMasterRightOrWrong: He's personally loyal to his (human or otherwise not of the mook-race) master who goes through a HeelFaceTurn.
25* [[TheVirus Assimilation]] victims: Someone who was assimilated but later saved, now has free will again but doesn't get restored to his original form.[[note]]Discounting dissembling disassimilation or similar disingenuous designs.[[/note]]
26* RogueDrone: He's a member of an evil HiveMind who developed an independent personality that happened not to be evil.
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28See also MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch, MonsterAllies, PetMonstrosity, and TokenGoodTeammate.
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31!!Examples Subpages:
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33* TokenHeroicOrc/VideoGames
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38[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
39* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Hollows are entirely comprised of soul-eating monsters who are a danger to everyone around them, and Arrancars, Hollows that have jumped over the BishounenLine and lost much of their HorrorHunger, are generally not much better. The biggest exception to this, though, is Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, who, even when she was working for the villains, was portrayed as honorable, kind, and disdaining combat to borderline BadassPacifist levels. At the time she shows up, she isn't even doing that anymore, and her most evil traits are being kind of bratty and annoying (though spending most of her time as an amnesiac child didn't exactly push her any further down the path of evil). Her two caretakers/henchmen, Pesche and Dondochakka, are pn about the same level, actively jumping at the opportunity to not have to see their mistress fight anymore.
40* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'':
41** Denji's demonic PetMonstrosity Pochita, a.k.a. the Chainsaw [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Devil]], is shown to be one of the only Devils with no [[KillAllHumans inherent malice towards humanity]] whatsoever. [[spoiler:In fact, he deliberately used his RetGone powers on aspects of the world that were massive threats to humanity's safety.]]
42** The Angel Devil was a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who on the surface appeared indifferent to humans at best, but proves himself to be capable of caring for people after all.
43* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
44** Most members of [[BloodKnight the Saiyan race]] introduced in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' are vicious monsters. Some exceptions include Goku (who lost his memories of being a Saiyan), his and Vegeta's offspring (although they are part human), Vegeta's younger brother Tarble, and Goku's mother Gine. Vegeta starts off as a villain, but becomes an AntiHero through character development. Bardock, Goku's father, also starts off as a villain, but ends up pulling a full HeelFaceTurn in a spin-off manga. In ''Minus'', he becomes more mellow after meeting Gine, although he's still a mass-murderer.
45*** Going back even further, the ancient Saiyan Yamoshi is stated to have been a right-hearted Saiyan in an era where those were not common.
46** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Frost, Frieza's counterpart from Universe 6, is the only member of Frieza's race not to be evil. Justified, as we didn't see other members. [[spoiler:Eventually it's revealed he is just as evil as Frieza, but he's a lot more clever about it. [[AdaptationalHeroism This isn't the case]] in [[Manga/DragonBallSuper the manga,]] where he's more of an AntiHero.]]
47* [[AntiVillain Greed]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is a homunculus like most of the main villains, but rather than blindly obeying his creator, his greedy nature got the better of him, and he'll do whatever it takes to get what he wants. He's AffablyEvil and treats his gang of human followers well, rather than as pawns to be sacrificed. [[spoiler: After Father kills him and uses his essence to [[DemonicPossession turn Ling into a new Greed]], the combination of getting his old memories back and Ling continually FightingFromTheInside eventually leads him to join the heroes.]]
48* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' has played with it with Soldat J [[spoiler:alien cyborg created on Red Planet to fight Primevals and their [[TheVirus mechanization virus]]]]. He was turned into Zonderian Pizza [[spoiler:after Red Planet was conquered]] and participated in the invasion on Earth. Later, [[spoiler: after his HeelFaceTurn HeroicSacrifice]] he was restored by [[spoiler:Arma]] to his original form. While fighting Primevals along the heroes, he has to tell them more than a few times that he is no longer Pizza, and Gai correcting himself after calling him "Pizza" has almost become a RunningGag.
49* Discussed in ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'': The titular protagonist is specifically asked if there are any good goblins. He concedes that you probably would find some good-hearted ones if you looked hard enough, but considers it a moot point; the only goblins that interact with humans (i.e., the ones Goblin Slayer considers worth his attention) are of the AlwaysChaoticEvil RapePillageAndBurn variety. Any good goblins simply don’t figure into the story, since they’re just minding their own business.
50* ''Anime/{{Macross}}'':
51** Millia, Konda, Warera and Loli all eventually qualify as Token Heroic [[OurGiantsAreDifferent Zentraedi]] in ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''. Before Space War One is over, they are joined by Exsedol and Britai; in fact, heroic Zentraedi become fairly commonplace in later ''Macross'' series, as large numbers of them have successfully integrated into human society, to the point where several characters (such as Guld from ''Anime/MacrossPlus'' are of mixed human-Zentraedi origin.
52** In ''Anime/MacrossDelta'', Freyja Wion is the Token Heroic [[HumanAliens Windermerian]].
53* The Harmony Dragons in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' are commonly shown to have just as much FantasticRacism towards humans as Chaos Dragons, and often engage in HumanSacrifice and other KnightTemplar actions for their self-proclaimed desire for "order and peace". Elma, the first introduced and most prominent among them, completely lacks those problems. In the beginning she still had hints of being a NobleBigot with an emphasis on "noble", but from the start she's been neutral to friendly with humans and actually practices what she preaches about the Harmony faction's ideals, genuinely trying to bring peace and coexistence between the dragon factions and humanity, along with utterly refusing to engage in HumanSacrifice when [[ObsessedWithFood being fed human-cooked food is much more worthwhile to her]].
54* ''Manga/RoosterFighter'': While there are demons that instinctively help their community instead of attacking everyone, Morio stands out by being completely sentient, and turned out this way because his host got a call that his cancer diagnosis was mistaken right after giving to despair.
55* In ''Manga/SoulEater'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: Kim Diehl]] is a Token Heroic [[MageSpecies Witch]], who lacks their normal affinity (and love of) destruction because her magic's healing based. [[spoiler: Her partner being able to transform into a broomstick is just a coincidence.]]
56* Grasshop of ''Anime/SpiderRiders'', once he stops faking his HeelFaceTurn.
57* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' had Viral, who's a Beastman, [[spoiler:caught and imprisoned after the TimeSkip. When Simon is put in the next cell, the two are initially on bad terms... until Yoko busts them out and Simon asks Viral to pilot Gurren (the mecha of Viral's ex-{{Foil}}, [[MemeticBadass Kamina]]) on the grounds that if they fail, the Beastmen will be destroyed as well, not just the humans. He accepts and permanently becomes the Gurren Lagann's co-pilot despite the fact that as a Beastman, he can't use Spiral Power [[BeyondTheImpossible (though the penultimate episode suggests otherwise)]].]]
58** Downplayed in that post-TimeSkip, crowd scenes show various types of beastmen living and working peacefully alongside humans.
59* ''Manga/UncleFromAnotherWorld'' parodies this concept: when Uncle got isekai'd, his gaunt and homely appearance caused the otherworld's peoples to mistake him for an orc. As far as anyone there knew, this one lone orc was trying to be a hero.
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63* ''ComicBook/{{Birthright}}'': Rook is a literal Token Heroic Orc. Most of his people fight in [[EvilOverlord God-King Lore's]] army, but Rook not only leads one of the resistance cells opposing Lore, he summoned and trained the ChosenOne prophesied to defeat him. [[spoiler:Though, [[{{Deconstruction}} given the nature of the series,]] the results weren't entirely what he was hoping for.]]
64* ''ComicBook/{{Blade}}'': Blade is a half vampire who hunts vampires, his ally Hannibal King is a friendly vampire who steals blood from blood banks in lieu of killing humans.
65* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'':
66** Bartleby is a young rat creature who runs away because he doesn't like the harsh life of his fellow rat creatures. Fone and Smiley Bone help Bartleby rejoin his kind, but he likes the Bones better and eventually runs away again to permanently join them.
67** The two [[RunningGag stupid, stupid rat creatures]] that the Bones keep encountering. They are quick to surrender to human forces during a fight, are even quicker to avoid a fight in the first place, and in the end work out a tentative truce with the villagers that allows them to live in the woods on the condition that they don't eat anyone [[TalkingAnimal with a name]].
68* ''ComicBook/TheEternals'': Karkas is a friendly but monstrous-looking Deviant who hangs out with his people's traditional enemies, the Eternals.
69* Franchise/MarvelUniverse has several members of the villainous Skrull race who for different reasons ally with various Earth's heroes.
70** Lyja from ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', who posed as Alicia Masters and hooked up with Johnny for seven real-life years (which was explained via {{Retcon}} so as to not destroy the real Alicia's relationship with Ben). But while she did genuinely fall in love with him and has helped the FF on occasion, she sometimes finds herself stuck in the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor when she's not [[PutOnABus riding the bus]].
71** Hulkling from ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'', bonus points from being half-Skrull, half-Kree, Kree being another race Earth has bad history with.
72** Xavin from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' is a heroic Skrull.
73** John the Skrull and Skrull Beatles from Creator/PaulCornell's ''ComicBook/{{Wisdom}}'' and ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13''
74** ComicBook/SheHulk's ally Jazinda, daughter of the Super-Skrull.
75** Crusader, from ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative''
76** In a divergent timeline where he was the last remaining Olympian, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] wound up with an elderly Skrull named Skyppi as his sidekick.
77** Even Kl'rt the Super-Skrull, the most iconic of Skrull villains is more willing to team up and work together with humans after he and Skrulls as whole were forced to pull on an EnemyMine with other races and few human cosmic heroes during ''ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}''.
78* ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'': Purity Brown is a prominent member of the pro-Nemesis faction on Termight, and one of Nemesis' closest confidants; due to being a human, she is often mistrusted by the Cabal. Notably, when Nemesis flies into a rage after hearing that [[spoiler:his wife and son have been murdered]], she along with Hammerstein calls out Nemesis on his intention to kill every human, citing herself as an example of a human who isn't evil.
79* ''ComicBook/NewGods'': Orion, son of ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, raised by the New Gods of New Genesis. Also Big Barda, a former fury of Granny Goodness who helped Scott Free escape and eventually married him.
80* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': No-Name in ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' is member of the Brood, a race of evil bug aliens and [[{{Franchise/Alien}} Xenomorph]] {{Exp|y}}ies that fight against the ComicBook/XMen on regular basis. No-Name on the other hand is a RogueDrone that fights alongside the Hulk as a Warbound member. She proves to be an exceptional individual unlike the rest of her race (who are by large sadistic and evil) during ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' when she shields civilians from the impacts of Hulk's blows against Sentry, stating that they only came to make the people responsible for their home's destruction would pay, not to destroy another world.
81* ''ComicBook/RatQueens'': The two orc main characters, Braga and Orc Dave, are heroic but have different origins:
82** Braga was originally next in line to be her tribe's chief, but left after [[spoiler:her brother killed her boyfriend and tried to kill her to seize power]] and she realized she would never be able to reform them from their warlike ways. [[spoiler:We don't know for sure, but she may have also feared they wouldn't accept her being UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}}.]]
83** Orc Dave is a GentleGiant FriendToAllLivingThings who was raised alone in the woods by his father, separate from any orc tribe.
84* Several years before [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Worf]], Creator/DCComics' [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture movie-era]] ''Star Trek'' spinoff comic series introduced Konom, a Klingon defector who joins Kirk's crew.
85* ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'' subverts this with Volfe Karkko, an Anzati Jedi Master. The Anzati are, essentially, a race of Force-sensitive, brain-eating vampires who view other sentient beings as prey. Karkko went centuries without indulging in his people's vampiric ways, but eventually his curiosity got the better of him, and he decided that eating a brain just once couldn't hurt. This one taste got him hooked, and he promptly fell to the dark side, devouring the brains of his fellow Jedi until the Council defeated and imprisoned him.
86* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In ''ComicBook/SupermanUnchained'', [[MilitarySuperhero Wraith]] is an alien that was raised by the U.S. military and has helped protect Earth since 1938. He serves as a HeroAntagonist to Superman due to their ideological differences. [[spoiler:In the finale, Wraith sacrifices his life to save Earth from his own people.]]
87* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'':
88** Miss Martian, through she is a White Martian hiding as a Green Martian who suppressed her nature and turned it into a SuperpoweredEvilSide.
89** ComicBook/{{Raven}} is the daughter of the demon Trigon but has long been an ally of the Titans, not counting the occasional FaceHeelTurn.
90* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
91** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Count Dendum seems to be the only Saturnian who honestly feels bad about the empire's history of kidnapping and slavery and doesn't want to return to the system or start a war with earth.
92** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Wondy's NinetiesAntiHero substitute ComicBook/{{Artemis}} was one, hailing from the violent, man-hating, arms-dealing Bana-Mighdall Amazons, who split from the main tribe in antiquity. It should be noted that the Bana-Mighdall Amazons in general were treated as more of a persecuted race after Creator/GeorgePerez left the book, but Artemis remains the WhiteSheep of the tribe... comparatively speaking. Akila, their champion, is also more decent than the average, preferring scholarship to war.
93* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Creator/JossWhedon's ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' includes a notable [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstruction]] of this trope, where we learn that the character who's set up as the Token Heroic Orc is actually the arc's true BigBad. It turns out that the prophecy that kick-started the story's events (that one of the X-Men would [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy the home planet of that story's "Orcs"]]) was actually planted by said character, who ''wanted'' [[OmnicidalManiac it to come true]] because she thought that living under her [[EvilOverlord Emperor]]'s barbaric rule was a FateWorseThanDeath. The story points out that, even in an alien culture that seems evil to us, a person willing to completely reject every underlying value of their species' culture probably wouldn't be a paragon of mental health.
94** Broo, a member of the Brood born with a mutation that gave him intelligent thought. He became a student at Xavier's academy and an ally to the X-Men.
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98* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': In the story's last chapter and in the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline by the author, [[spoiler:[[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures Camazotz]]]] is an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. Whereas the other awakened [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] have submitted to Godzilla and are genuinely loyal to the maintenance of Earth's natural balance so long as Godzilla remains the dominant Alpha, [[spoiler:Camazotz]] disappeared from the surface after Godzilla ended King Ghidorah's control of the Earthborn Titans in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', and he re-emerges solely seeking to [[spoiler:take over Skull Island for himself, and he risks destroying all life on the island in the process]].
99** RecursiveFanfiction ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38446570/ Abraxas: The Clash of Silver]]'': Among the [[HalfHumanHybrid Zmeyevich]] created by Ghidorah in the main fic; the ones featured are either evil or their morality is ambiguous, ''except'' for Aleksandra, who was raised in Monarch custody by a human caretaker. Despite the Zmeyevich's origins and monstrous appearance, Aleksandra is ultimately a sweet girl who just wants to play games and have a relationship with her father, [[spoiler:and she placates Kiryu and pilots him to fight Abaddon and Megiddo's Mechagodzilla]].
100*** Hrodvitnon, the author of the original ''Abraxas'', incorporated this recursive fic's take on Aleksandra into [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/721293093764251648/ this]] non-canon ''Abraxas'' snippet.
101* ''Fanfic/MyAbominableMonsterClassmatesCantBeThisCute'': Out of all the Grimm {{Artificial Hybrid}}s at Salem's AcademyOfEvil, Ruby retains more of her humanity than the others due to her Silver Eyes' magic. Even ''before'' unlocking her aura enables her to access more of her lost humanity, Ruby both generated and sought a staggering amount of positive emotion (which is usually discouraged and considered repulsive among the hybrids), she dueled a Grimmified Cardin for rights to a live dog that Cardin was going to eat and she then kept the dog as a pet instead of hurting it, and she latches onto Jaune when he's the first person besides Yang to show her real compassion. Make no mistake though, while Ruby isn't sadistic like most of her classmates, she's just as much of a killer Grimm as any of them.
102* ''Fanfic/TheUnseenHunt'': Blake and Adam in this ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' AU fic are actually sentient Grimm who are on the heroes' side, unlike the majority of Grimm who are wild, man-eating predators, and unlike Leviathan, Cinder and the Lord of the Skies whom are all malevolent Elder Grimm. [[spoiler:Same with Ruby, although her motives for siding with humanity are more altruistic than Blake and Adam's]].
103* Monti Iwatani from ''Fanfic/FamilyOfTheShield'' was initially just a Chimera hatched from an egg Naofumi had cut from the belly of the Chimera Wave Boss, because of the kind upbringing he was given by both Naofumi and Raphtalia along with gaining three more siblings in the form of Filo, [[PlantPerson Teal]], and [[WereDragon Leon]]; he identifies more as a part of the Iwatani Family and as a resident of Raphtalias' World than as a Wave Monster. He even uses his CannibalismSuperpower to grow stronger still [[HunterOfHisOwnKind by hunting and devouring other Wave Monsters and Wave Bosses]]. [[spoiler:By the time Monti Class Upgrades, he becomes a '''[Wave Boss]''' himself, and can generate his own Wave of Catastrophe that he can control the Wave Monsters of, or use that same power to usurp control of a natural Wave from its' own Wave Bosses in order to immediately close it to cut off additional Wave Monsters from showing up: provided that the Wave Bosses in-question have lower health and stats compared to Monti.]]
104* Played with in ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' as part of the ALighterShadeOfGrey theme. Ami's [[InsistentTerminology employees]] are predominantly amoral, evil, sadistic, stupid, or some combination thereof. However, Ami herself, as an unquestionably heroic heroine, enforces laws in her domain that generally discourage the aforementioned tendencies in her minions. As such, her goblins begin to show pride in their work -- even in work that includes mopping floors and being clean. The [[TooKinkyToTorture dark mistresses]] show restraint (after one insists on [[GuileHero Ami]] torturing her). And the youma have shown signs of genuine loyalty to Ami, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe their first decent employer in centuries]].
105* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheBlack'': While Gumm-gumms are thought of as AlwaysChaoticEvil, feared and reviled by the rest of troll-kind for their warmongering, Jatar turned against them and fled. He does not hold the same taste for blood as the rest of his kin and has no problem with humans or other trolls, even if he feels like he no one would accept him. While reluctant, he agrees to act as the trollhunter until he can figure out how to dismantle the enchantments on the amulet, mainly so that he can protect Barbara and Toby from being hurt.
106* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K]]'': Trandoshans are a race of vicious LizardFolk who are infamous for [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting Wookiees for sport on their homeworld]], and the ones seen in both ''Franchise/StarWars'' canon and ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' are usually either criminals or bounty hunters. One of the major heroes of Season 1 is a Trandoshan Jedi Knight named Renphi, who is no less noble or selfless than any other Jedi in his order. Throughout his appearances, he is unwavering in his commitment to establishing a peaceful relationship between the Galactic Republic and the Imperium of Man, even when {{first contact}} is sabotaged by the Sith and war seems inevitable.
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110* An example of DefectorFromDecadence is Tiger in Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', a cat that can’t stand the evil ways of his people and choose not to hunt mice again, helping the protagonists against other cats.
111* ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback'': Downplayed. Norine is not only the only child to not be afraid of the protagonists upon seeing them, but the ''only'' human in the entire film they encounter who realizes at first glance that they aren’t actually doing anything to try and hurt anyone, and as a result decides to try and help them escape so they can find their way to the outback.
112* Friendly baby ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' Chomper in the ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' sequels seems to be there to show that the Sharptooth are not just mindless flesh-eating beasts. This leads to the obvious FridgeLogic of what's going to happen when he gets too big to subsist on bugs anymore... Though this will probably never be explored because they never age the characters.
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116* ''[[Film/{{Critters}} Critters Attack]]'' has the heroes encounter and befriend a female Crite who they name Bianca, who actually helps them in wiping out the rest of her kind.
117* ''Film/Evolution2015'': [[spoiler:Stella, the SeaMonster assigned to look after Nicolas during his first pregnancy, comes to regret her role in his fate and ultimately smuggles him back to human civilization after he survives being surgically delivered of his twin daughters.]]
118* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
119** ''Film/InvasionOfAstroMonster'': Amongst [[Characters/{{Godzilla}} the Xiliens]] invading Earth, Namikawa was sent to Earth as a spy but came to sincerely care for her human lover, to the point that she betrays the invasion force by revealing the Xiliens' secret weakness.
120** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': The [[Characters/MonsterVerseMUTO Queen MUTO]] is the ''only'' member of her species thus far who's demonstrated that she's capable of coexisting peacefully with Godzilla. The MUTO pair from [[Film/Godzilla2014 the previous movie]] and the "MUTO Prime" from the spin-off graphic novel ''Godzilla: Aftershock'' sought to kill Godzilla and flood the world with a new generation of MUTO spawn at any cost -- the Queen MUTO however, [[spoiler:though initially serving King Ghidorah alongside the other Titans in creating global destruction, bows to Godzilla as her new Alpha without a fight following Ghidorah's death at the end of the global apocalypse]].
121* ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'': [[Characters/GremlinsMogwaiAndGremlins Gizmo]], one of the main characters of the series, is seemingly the ''only'' one of his kind whom is truly benevolent. Gizmo's personality is just as cute as his appearance, and he outright acts in heroism against the gremlins in both movies; whereas the Mogwai that spawn from Gizmo in both movies are mischievous or even outright vicious from birth, and are actively interested in metamorphosing into their even-more-dangerous gremlin forms as quickly as possible.
122* In ''Film/{{Society}}'', [[spoiler:Clarissa and her mother]] turn out to be Token Heroic Shunters, even helping the human heroes escape in the end.
123* ''Film/StakeLand'': A couple of the vampirized characters.
124** The morning after the attack where he was bitten, Officer Harley retains both his sentience and his humanity as he talks to the main characters about how his town will rebuild and advises them on a safe manner of travel.
125** Lady in the sequel seems to have a little more control over herself than the rest of the vampires, to the point where she knowingly forces Mister to kill her.
126* Nova (from the Apes' perspective) is this in ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'' as she's a good human, as for them [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humans are orcs.]]
127* ''Film/TheWitches1990'' introduced one such witch as a plot device to [[spoiler:turn the hero back into a boy in the end]]. In Creator/RoaldDahl's original book, [[CanonForeigner no such character existed]], and [[spoiler:the hero was doomed to permanently remain a mouse (which also meant that he probably wouldn't live very long)]]. Dahl did ''[[DisownedAdaptation not]]'' take kindly to the changes, reportedly going so far as to stand outside his local cinema with a megaphone urging moviegoers not to see ''The Witches'' ([[http://www.mayonews.ie/comment-opinion/45-cmere/6417-the-season-of-the-witch]], [[http://www.universityobserver.ie/otwo/top-10-films-with-questionable-endings/]], [[https://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/friday-1127/Content?oid=1298906]], [[http://whatculture.com/books/9-times-authors-disavowed-adaptations-of-their-work]]). Mind you, this was mere months before the man died; ''that's'' how pissed off he was.
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131* Most of the pigs in ''Literature/AnimalFarm'', especially their leader Napoleon, end up [[FullCircleRevolution just as tyrannical as the human farmers they overthrew]]. But it's worth remembering that the original revolution arose from the idealism of a prize boar named Old Major, though he didn't live to see the revolution itself.
132* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': {{Inverted}}. While dragons are good guys in this setting, Smilgax is the only one who is unambiguously an antagonist.
133* ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'':
134** A rare ''human'' example with [[spoiler:Director Cynthia Goodsky, who is revealed to be the Token Heroic Alacryan (the inhabitants of the other continent who have fallen under the sway of the Vritra), having turned against her own kind. Even though she is genuinely on the side of Dicathen, once her true nature is revealed several people refuse to believe she is anything but TheMole. This even briefly included the Council, who while under the sway of the Vritra almost used her as TheScapegoat for the attack on Xyrus Academy (the very school she founded) before its corrupted members were disposed of]]. [[spoiler:However, during the events of Volumes 8 and 9 (in which Arthur finds himself living incognito among the Alacryans in the aftermath of the war), he comes to learn that the Alacryans aren't completely evil and are as much victims of the war between the Asuras as the Dicathians are. Indeed, in Volume 10 a full-scale revolt against the Vritra occurs in Alacrya staged by the Alacryans who were close to Arthur during his time there and who were inspired by his recent feats in undermining the authority of the Vritra]].
135** Among the Scythes, [[spoiler:Seris Vritra becomes sort of an enigmatic ally of sorts to Arthur, having taken an interest in him since she first met him during the war. Not only does she help cover up for him during his time in Alacrya as an AnonymousBenefactor, but she is also responsible for masterminding the revolt against the Vritra in the first place]].
136** After it is revealed that [[spoiler:[[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks the Indrath are no better than the Vritra]] when it comes to their treatment of mortals and are responsible for committing a genocide in the distant past (of which the Vritra's attempts to expose the truth led to the main conflict in the story), Sylvie and her late mother Sylvia can be seen as the Token Heroic Indrath, with the former being a RaisedByHumans example as she was entirely raised by Arthur as his bond and the latter not only genuinely caring for Arthur unlike the rest of her kind who only treated him as an ally with begrudging reluctance, but also being the one to inform him of the truth behind the war in the first place. [[WhiteSheep Sylvie]] is even a [[WarringNatures double example]] as she is also the Token Heroic Vritra, given that she is [[LukeIAmYourFather revealed to be the daughter of]] [[YinYangBomb both Sylvia and Agrona]], the latter being the leader of the Vritra Clan and the BigBad of the novel]].
137** As for the rest of [[spoiler:the Asuras, Aldir ends up becoming a DefectorFromDecadence example after he becomes disillusioned with Kezess and the Indrath [[GodzillaThreshold for ordering him to use]] [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique the World Eater technique]] on Elenoir. He disobeys his liege's orders to kill off the remaining Lances by instead sending them to the sanctuary of the Dicathian resistance, where Kezess has sent another Asura to finish them off for going against his plans. Afterwards, he departs Kezess's service for Dicathen (though not without consequence, as Kezess sends some of Aldir's former disciples to hunt him down, and in the process of defending himself Aldir ends up discrediting himself in the eyes of the other Asuras). There is also Wren, who was never loyal to Kezess and harbors similar opinions to Aldir over how Kezess's leadership has been leading the Asuras astray]]. The novel later introduces [[spoiler: [[ThePhoenix Mordain]], a former Asuran prince and friend to Kezess who was exiled and UnPerson[=ed=] from Epheotus after he stood up against the Indrath for committing genocide. After being cast out, he established the Hearth, [[HiddenElfVillage a hidden enclave within the Beast Glades]] that became a haven for Asuras who opposed both Kezess and Agrona, [[GenocideSurvivor Djinn who survived the genocide]], and the SemiDivine hybrid offspring of both. Aldir and Wren later find refuge in the Hearth after they leave Epheotus]].
138** {{Downplayed}} with Mica Earthborn. During the war between Dicathen and Alacrya, it becomes clear that the dwarven kingdom of Darv has been the most compromised by the manipulations of the enemy, with much of its ruling elite including its own King and Queen having become pawns of the Vritra. In spite of how divided her people are over their allegiances, Mica remains loyal to the Dicathian cause. Naturally, she plays a key role in helping the dwarves realign themselves with the rest of Dicathen [[spoiler:once Arthur returns from Alacrya and helps the resistance retake Darv]].
139* ''Literature/TheBFG'', or Big Friendly Giant, is the only friendly member of his species, the rest of whom are AlwaysChaoticEvil brutes who [[ToServeMan prey on humans]].
140* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', Mr. Nutt, a non-human RaisedByHumans (and vampires) discovers that he actually is an orc. He takes it upon himself, as the first and possibly only orc people will meet, to ''become'' a Token Heroic Orc and show everyone what his species is capable of. (Turns out that while they ''are'' incredible fighting machines, they're also great at learning and teamwork ''off'' the battlefield, including on the football field.)
141* The titular novella of ''Literature/TheDreamEatersAndOtherStories'' by Louise Searl is about a war between dragons and wyverns. It's from the dragons' point of view and portrays them as the heroes - but there is one sympathetic wyvern, Theeg.
142* In ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'', Hekkle is a [[FeatheredFiend shryke]], a member of a usually antagonistic race. He actively serves as a respected, trusted, and resourceful spy for the heroes. Another, female, shryke, Mother Bluegizzard, is also benevolent and kindly, in contrast to the other female shrykes met in the series, who are for the most part bloodthirsty warriors and slave-traders. Even Mother Horsefeather, although a greedy {{Jerkass}}, is nowhere near as vile as the shrykes encountered later in the series, and has a friendly relationship with Cloud Wolf if nothing else. Sister Bloodfeather is another example, being the only shryke ever to captain a sky pirate ship and close personal friends with at least one other captain -- and shrykes in general are not on good terms with the sky pirates.
143* ''Literature/HarryPotter''
144** [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolves]] aren't inherently evil, but they ''are'' dangerous when their condition isn't properly managed, leading to [[FantasticRacism widespread prejudice]]. At the time that the series takes place, this discrimination has driven them into the arms of [[BigBad Voldemort]], who promised them better treatment. It doesn't help that the sadistic Fenrir Greyback, a werewolf supremacist who attacks people even when not transformed and who takes a creepy interest in infecting kids to recruit them, sided with Voldemort and enforces the party line among other werewolves. This makes Remus Lupin, the one werewolf we encounter who ''didn't'' join Voldemort, a Token Heroic Werewolf who serves as the good guys' spy among his kind.
145** Most of the [[OurGiantsAreBigger giants]] likewise sided with Voldemort because he promised them better treatment than they were getting under the current regime. Nonetheless, a few giants do side with the heroes, including the [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] Rubeus Hagrid and Olympe Maxime along with Hagrid's fully giant half-brother Grawp.
146** The only [[GiantSpider Acromantula]] who behaves in an at least somewhat civilized manner is Aragog, who refuses to eat human flesh because Hagrid raised him from an egg (though he won't prevent his offspring from eating humans other than Hagrid, who's not even fully human himself).
147** Though not exactly ''evil'', [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]] are standoffish and sometimes outright hostile toward humans--except Firenze, who even briefly stands in for Sybill Trelawney as Hogwarts's Divination professor. This leads the other centaurs to shun him as a CategoryTraitor. The character of Firenze may be a ShoutOut to the Greek centaur Chiron (mentioned below under Mythology).
148* Adam from ''Literature/IAmNumberFour'' is a heroic [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Mogadorian.]]
149* ''Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt'':
150** Drizzt Do'Urden, a ChaoticGood drow, started out as this before he inspired a FountainOfExpies and [[OverusedCopycatCharacter quickly lost his uniqueness.]]
151** From ''The Thousand Orcs'' into ''The Orc King'', King Obould Many-Arrows starts out as a homicidal warlord bent on dominating everything like most other orc warlords, but after becoming the avatar of the orc god Gruumsh, One-Eye he calms down considerably, becoming able to see things in a far broader perspective than any orc before him, which has already led to speculation as to a pending change in orcish society under his leadership. In the prologue of ''The Orc King'', a hundred years have passed, and the kingdom which Obould created, the Kingdom of Many Arrows, has survived the years, establishing trade agreements and treaties with the surrounding cities of the "goodly races", and with a descendant of Obould, Obould VI, in control but being contested fiercely by shamans of Gruumsh who believe in the old ways of being self-dependent and not being peaceful with the good races. The situation being as it is in ''The Orc King'' furthers the growing desire for peace within Obould I. This, of course, is only strengthened by the story of the prologue, which obviously shows Obould's vision of the future as an inevitability.
152* Implied in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. Tolkien, a devout Catholic, struggled deeply with the idea of a race that was purely evil, even taking into account the fact that the orcs and trolls were corrupted rather than created. At the Council of Elrond, it is mentioned that ALL races (save the Elves) were found on both sides of the conflict, meaning that there must have been at least some orcs and trolls fighting against Sauron.
153* ''Literature/PiilomaanPikkuAasi'': Most of the villain's lackeys are foxes, and all of of them are evil when first seen. The evil fox witch Kuva Kuva eventually changes sides, and she's the only fox not banished in the end.
154* Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs' ''Literature/APrincessOfMars'', Tars Tarkas starts out this way, as a DefectorFromDecadence among the ProudWarriorRace of Green Martians, in contrast to the civilized and more [[HumanAliens human-like]] Red Martians. As the story goes on, however, we learn that [[spoiler: not all of the Red Martians are [[DecadentCourt as benign and noble as we had first assumed]], and when Tars Tarkas gets a KlingonPromotion to become the chief of a major Green nation, it's the Green hordes who ride to TheHero's aid to sack a Red Martian city.]]
155** In the later book ''The Chessmen of Mars'', we meet a group of bizarre PuppeteerParasite aliens called Kaldanes, who pride themselves on their [[StrawVulcan absolute logic]] and fealty to an evil HiveMind. When one of the Kaldanes, Ghek, hears the heroine sing and realizes the value of beauty and emotion, he has a crisis of faith, eventually undergoing a HeelFaceTurn and helping her escape. He remains an [[CreepyGood unsettling]] presence throughout the story.
156* Vampire Lucilla working for the vampire-hunter private agency known as the Raven Corporation in ''Literature/{{Ravencraft}}'' series.
157* ''Literature/{{Semiosis}}'': Stevland is a sapient bamboo-like {{Plant Alien|s}} who chooses to live in a mutualistic relationship with human colonists. Late in the book, his narration reveals that most bamboo are brutal warmongers and he made a deliberate choice to break from that mold.
158* ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'': Slanter the gnome in ''[[Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy The Wishsong of Shannara.]]'' He befriends Jair Ohmsford and helps him on his quest to destroy the Ildatch. He is the only heroic gnome in the entire series. Otherwise, the gnomes are almost always faceless cannon fodder for the BigBad.
159* ''[[Literature/TheShipWho The Ship Avenged]]'' has the return of the [[HumanSubspecies Kolnari]] from ''The City Who Fought''. During the events of ''City'', a nasty SyntheticPlague was unleashed on the Kolnari. [[BigBad Belazhir]] escaped at the end of the book and in the intervening ten years spread the disease to all his people for [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist reasons]], with ''disastrous'' results. So few Kolnari survived, and repopulation has been so tenuous despite their rapid breeding, that children who would normally be killed for being insufficiently dominant and warlike have been allowed to live - like Belazhir's eldest surviving son Karak, tauntingly called 'Poet' by his fellows. Karak's first contact with any non-Kolnari is with a DefiantCaptive who he [[MinionWithAnFInEvil completely fails to establish dominance over]] and who actually manages to befriend him. Soamosa regards him so differently and thinks in such unfamiliar ways that he's completely taken with her and finds himself DefectingForLove, escaping with her and being entirely willing to take her lead in all things.
160** In ''The Ship Who Won'', the mages of Ozran are intensely competitive and disloyal. Almost anyone who ''becomes'' a mage does so by killing a mage and taking their items of power, which they have to guard jealously. Plennafrey, who became a mage by defending herself from her father as he [[OffingTheOffspring tried to kill her]] and accidentally becoming a SelfMadeOrphan, is gentler and less aggressive than her fellows - when the offworlder Keff is [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine captured and tormented at a dinner]] with a host of mages, Plenna intervenes and rescues him. He decides to repay her with RescueSex, and she's so taken with him as a kinder person than any mage she's met that she really wants a full, enduring romance.
161* In 'Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire', we get a nasty take with Craster. The Wildlings north of the Wall are seen by the Night's Watch as bordering ontologically evil, but they ally with Craster, a Wildling who gives them lodging and information. This makes him their token Wildling ally. However, out of all the Wildlings, he's one of the most evil, depraved, and [[EvilIsPetty downright unlikable]]; while most of the actual enemy Wildlings [[GreyAndGreyMorality aren't as inherently evil as the the Southerners believe]].
162* In ''Literature/SpaceCaptainSmith'', Suruk the Slayer is one of these, and as the series is "The British Empire RecycledInSpace", he has some inspiration from examples like the Kipling one below. Suruk is a Morlock (which in this case seems to be a Space Orc), and is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy who loves a chance to use his ancestral weapons.
163* ''Literature/{{Starsight}}'': Deconstructed. Brade is from an aggressive, warlike species who have been quarantined to protect the rest of the galaxy. She was raised by a more peaceful species, but she is still angry, violent, and refuses to work with anyone else. Everyone is constantly suspicious of her, which she believes is only justified--she understands how dangerous she is, and repeatedly calls herself a monster. The deconstruction is that she is in fact ''human''. Spensa, who is also human (but in disguise) is horrified that the aliens have convinced Brade that she should be ''thankful'' for being kidnapped from her family at age seven, and it's clear that most of Brade's problems arise from being told her entire life that she's a monster. Note that Spensa is considered an eye-rolling BloodKnight by her ProudWarriorRace, but even she is far less aggressive and violent than Brade.
164* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
165** Yuuzhan Vong warrior Vua Rapuung takes this role in the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' book ''Conquest''. He's ''almost'' (but not quite) a DefectorFromDecadence — he has a very specific bone to pick with his people, and he's more than willing to help the Jedi to get his revenge, though he doesn't object to their ways on the whole. He does soften up some across the book, [[spoiler:and finally gets RedemptionEqualsDeath.]]
166** Thousands of years before Vua was Blotus, a Hutt Supreme Chancellor. Hutts are infamous for being crime lords, but Blotus was a benevolent ruler whose economic reforms and actions led to prosperity and had a term of over two hundred years and even thousands of years later is known as one of the greatest to hold the office.
167* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
168** Rlain was the only Parshendi to defect to the side of the humans, and is quite possibly the only one left who hasn't evolved into a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Voidbringer]].
169** As is typical with Brandon Sanderson, it gets more nuanced than that. By the end of ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', [[spoiler: Venli]] has chosen to be a hero and become a Knight Radiant [[FightingFromTheInside despite being a prominent member of Odium's army]], Moash, once Kaladin's brightest protégé, has joined the Fused, and [[spoiler:the Skybreakers, an entire order of Knights Radiant,]] have decided the [[LawfulStupid legally required thing to do]] is to fight on the side of the Parshmen/Voidbringers.
170* ''Literature/TheWarGods'': Subverted in that the ''hradani'' -- an ogre-like sub-race of humanity known for being enslaved by evil wizards a thousand years ago as their shock troops in the cataclysmic war that toppled civilization -- aren't so much AlwaysChaoticEvil as they are barbarians with TheBerserker (a magical curse inflicted on them by their wizard overlords) as their racial hat. However, they are so feared and loathed by the rest of humanity that when one of them is selected as a champion of the God of War, Truth and Justice for the first time in a thousand years, he winds up getting treated this way almost everywhere he goes at first.
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174* The titular heroes of ''Series/Akumaizer3'' are a trio of demons from the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Akuma Clan]] who rebelled when their Clan began a war against humankind, mostly because their leader is a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human half demon]] and the other two are demons who swore loyalty to him after he saved their lives. As the series goes on however, the three gradually gain more allies in likeminded demons, until eventually [[spoiler:they're able to reform the Akuma Clan and make peace with humanity, which ironically leaves {{Big Bad}}s Mezalord and Geberu as the Token ''[[InvertedTrope Evil]]'' Orcs.]]
175* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'':
176** The show has two in one cast; Rev Bem (Reverend Behemiel Fartraveler), a member of a HordeOfAlienLocusts converted by peaceful religion, and Tyr Anasazi, a member of the Nietzschean race of genetically-enhanced humans who are screwing the galaxy (Pride wiped out by the dominant Drago-Kazov Pride), but he never claimed to be on the Hunt side.
177** In the later seasons Tyr switches sides and is replaced on the crew by Telemachus Rhade, another Nietzschean who is somewhat ashamed of his species.
178** In a one-episode alternate timeline that may or may not have been the original one, another Nietzschean, Gaheris Rhade, was part (actually leading) the crew, and unlike Tyr and Telemachus he was ''firmly'' committed to the goal of restoring the Commonwealth... as he had had a hand in helping it fall, and was ''really'' angry with what the Nietzscheans had become instead of what he'd dreamt of. So firmly committed, in fact, that once genuinely convinced that it would be better if the protagonist of the rest of the series was the one to survive in the past and end up leading the effort he barely even hesitates to go back in time, take his old self's place and ensure that's precisely what happens, despite knowing it'll ensure he'll forever be remembered only as a traitor to his captain and to the Commonwealth.
179* While the spin-off ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has Lorne, a friendly demon working for Angel Investigations, an agency of demon hunters for most of the seasons. Although Lorne is far from token, since demons are shown to be [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters no more evil or violent than humans]]. Angel's first sidekick Doyle is a half-demon, and he dies in the process of them saving a group of demons. Indeed, Angel spends nearly as much time helping innocent demons as he does humans.
180* Hawk in ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' is a variation of this. He is the LastOfHisKind because his people were persecuted by Evil humans. However he sides with the heroes because they are Good humans.
181* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Angel and then Spike both act as the token vampires on the show, only serving this role at the same time in the series finale. In Angel's case this is due to soul curse, in Spike's because of a control chip that stops him hurting people. And then because of getting a soul.
182* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
183** Considering the general moral bankruptcy of Time Lord society, heroic Time Lords like the Doctor, Susan Foreman, K'anpo Rimpoche, Romana, and Jenny could count.
184** Strax belongs to a hostile {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} called the Sontarans but nonetheless appears as an ally in several episodes.
185** One episode features a Dalek who makes psychic contact with the Doctor and becomes a HunterOfHisOwnKind (although the Doctor doesn't view this as a HeelFaceTurn so much as a redirection of the Dalek's inherent drive to kill).
186* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' Aeryn Sun is a Rebel Mook (former Peacekeeper, the main villains) although later characters like Crais and Scorpius have similar roles.
187* In ''Seires/FirstWave'', Joshua believes that his people, the Gua, are making a huge mistake planning an AlienInvasion of Earth. In his mind, if even 1 in 117 humans have the same TheDeterminator qualities as [[ChosenOne Cade Foster]], then the invasion is doomed to fail, or, at best, will be a PyrrhicVictory. However, Joshua doesn't technically join Cade. Their interests merely align most of the time.
188* ''Series/Goosebumps1995'': In the episode "[[Recap/Goosebumps1995S3E8E9OneDayAtHorrorLand One Day At HorrorLand]]", one lone green-skinned horror tries to warn Lizzy and Luke that they are not safe in [=HorrorLand=] and begs them to get out while they still can. His motives turn out to be somewhat less than heroic; he's just bitter that he wasn't chosen to host the SadisticGameShow run by the horrors, although he still helps the Morris family with their escape.
189* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' Adalind is the most obvious example, as a former Hexenbeist (one of the most agressive of the Wesen).
190** To some extend also Monroe, granted, the series shows that many Blutbaden live normal lives not harming humans, but also is hinted that he, in the past, was as wild as many others.
191** In general the relationship of Nick with several Wesens (Monroe, Rosalee and Renard) is something that his mother, a more traditional Grimm, can't understand. Since Grimms are TheDreaded among Wesen for the VanHelsingHateCrimes some of them committed in the past, ''Nick'' is this to the ''entire'' Wesen community.
192* In any ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series, there's usually at least one member of the MonsterOfTheWeek species who is a supporting protagonist or at least not all that villainous. ''Faiz'' has three Orphenochs living together ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}''-style (before ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}!'') and then reveals that [[spoiler:the main Rider is also one]]. ''Kiva'' from the same series has a trio of monsters from ''other'' monster races that were all but wiped out by the series' villains, the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Fangire]], with Jiro/Garulu being the one who really holds the role in the cast. There are several non-evil Fangire, but mostly one-shot civilians - the one that's a main character is [[spoiler: again, our hero. Or at least he's ''half'' Fangire.]] ''Kabuto'' has the Native Worms, though they're [[spoiler: not on the level, in the end. However, more than one character turns out to be a Worm and is genuinely good.]] No, it isn't [[spoiler: Kabuto himself]] this time. There's the -taros quartet of Imagin in ''Den-O'' (as well as Sieg, Deneb, Teddy, and a few more), Ankh in ''OOO,'' Chase in ''Drive,'' and more. Also, most series have Rider {{Transformation Trinket}}s being refined versions of the tech that created the monsters, or at least work on the same principles, making heroes and Orcs the ''same thing.'' (See ''Fourze, Double,'' and several of the older ones.) When compared to some of other works by Creator/ShotaroIshinomori, it becomes clear that this is part of the theme he generally has, that the line between the physically human and inhuman are blurry, but humaneness is not strictly inherent to natural humans; sometimes, the most evil monsters are natural humans, while the most humane are the ones that physically aren't human.
193** In both Rider and ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' this is a fairly common MonsterOfTheWeek, normally with either a reveal that they're just faking it or the monster dying somehow. Especially notable is ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' as the Gazai Ganma [[spoiler: actually survives and becomes a regular (if background) member of the team, renamed Cubi.]]
194** In ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon,'' the Mole Beastman failed to take out the hero, and was saved from YouHaveFailedMe by him. He went on to become a main character and ally. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, he does not survive to the end.]]
195** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' has this in the form of [[spoiler:Poppy Pipopapo, a mascot character of a rhythm game who is also a Bugster. Emu and Hiiro already had it figured out long before she revealed herself though, as her human name, Asuna Karino, is an anagram of ''kari no naasu'', meaning "provisional nurse", and a human with a name that fits their profession is tad suspicious. Later on, she also gains the power to become a Kamen Rider]].
196*** Later in the same series, [[spoiler: TheRival Parado, who was one of the major villains since the start, makes a HeelFaceTurn after dying and being resurrected, giving a comprehension of death, how valuable lives are in context of it, and [[HeelRealization how awful all his actions were in light of this new understanding]].]]
197*** Also, [[spoiler: Kuroto, another major villain, manages to come BackFromTheDead as a Bugster due to his data being saved into a [[TransformationTrinket Gashat]], and it's revealed that his plan was to to make humanity immortal by saving them as data and resurrecting them this way. Kiriya, a Rider who was killed early on, was also resurrected this way, though at the end of the ''Another Ending'' trilogy, he gets his human body back.]]
198** Technically this goes all the way back to the series origins with ''Series/KamenRider''. Takeshi Hongo was scouted by Shocker to morphed into their next generation cyborg kaijin, but he managed to be rescued by a sympathetic scientist shortly before the brainwashing could be carried out. Later, Hayato Ichimonji was forcefully modified into a cyborg of an identical type to take out Takeshi; only for his predecessor to save him from his fate. This means both of the original Kamen Riders were of the same manufacturing as the Shocker Kaijin they fought and it's implied through other media they were even supposed to be scouted to be Executive class cyborgs.
199* Cara the ex Mord-Sith in ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker''. The Mord-Sith are evil in the show, she joins the heroes.
200* [[spoiler:Isaac]] in ''Series/TheOrville'' once we learn that [[spoiler:the Kaylon are actually intending to wipe out all organic life in the galaxy]].
201* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
202** Teal'c rebels against the Goa'uld and joins the SGC in the first episode, becoming a ''Shol'vah'' (Renegade) in the eyes of the other Jaffa for most of the series. His reasons for rebelling were because he realized that despite their claims, the Goa'uld are ''not'' all-powerful Gods and despite acting as their enforcers and slave-masters, the Jaffa are just as much slaves as the Humans on their worlds.
203** Master Bra'tac, Teal'c's mentor and predecessor as First Prime, who spent over a hundred years working as a NobleTopEnforcer for Apophis, before finally telling his "God" where he can shove it at the beginning of the second season. He goes onto founding the Jaffa Rebellion, which grows in strength over the course of the rest of the series and becomes a major faction responsible for ensuring the eventual downfall of the System Lords.
204* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
205** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Worf is a Klingon, the primary antagonists from ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]]'', raised by humans (''and'' belonging to a former enemy race now allied with the Federation) and the ''Enterprise'''s head of security. Captain Kirk would be shocked.[[note]]Unless, that is, you accept the non-canon DC Comics spinoffs, where a Klingon defector named Konom served aboard Kirk's ''Enterprise'' during the time frame of the original-cast movies. Although since Konom was explicitly a defector and a pacifist, there is still plenty of room to suppose Captain Kirk might be shocked at just ''[[HaveIMentionedIAmADwarfToday how]]'' [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingon]] Worf is. Though Kirk seemed to take the news in stride when meeting Worf (and temporarily becoming his superior officer) due to a time-travel mix-up in ''[[ComicBook/StarTrekTheQConflict The Q Conflict]]'' crossover comic.[[/note]]
206** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
207*** Head of security Odo, originally thought to be be the LastOfHisKind, retroactively became this trope after the second season, when his people became the BigBad.
208*** The Cardassians were the villains in ''TNG'' and remain so in this series, but ''[=DS9=]'' has a resident friendly Cardassian in the tailor Garak, although he is often suspicious and has a murky background in Intelligence.
209*** Nog, a Ferengi who joins Starfleet and serves on the ''Defiant''. To a lesser extent, his father Rom who becomes a non-Starfleet station engineer, and Quark who is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold but is on the side of the heroes when it really counts. Most Ferengi encountered in ''other'' series are SpacePirates even ''after'' the attempt to make them the new Klingons was abandoned.
210*** Julian Bashir is an unusual example. While genetic engineering is banned within the Federation due to the risks of [[TranshumanTreachery Khan-style threats]], Bashir is genetically engineered himself and is a heroic member of Starfleet.
211** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Seven of Nine was a Borg drone, and she doesn't fully become human again. Again, having a Borg on the crew would be unthinkable for Picard.
212** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Elnor is the first heroic Romulan character who's part of the main cast in the franchise, being a member of Jean-Luc Picard's motley crew and is even the latter's [[FamilyOfChoice surrogate son]]. The Romulans were the enemies of Spock's Vulcan people in ''TOS'' (and they still are enemies of the Federation in this series), so the younger Picard could not have predicted that his elderly self would embrace a Romulan as family. Elnor is the most ''un-Romulan'' Romulan in the Franchise/TrekVerse because he follows [[CulturalRebel the Way of Absolute Candor as taught to him by the Qowat Milat]].
213*** And then there are Laris and Zhaban, Picard's loyal housekeepers at his chateau, who are both ''former agents of the Tal Shiar'' (the Romulan secret service)!
214** ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': Subverted with the Klingon Dak'Rah. He claims to the Federation that he killed his subordinates and then defected because he was disgusted by the war crimes they committed. In fact, he ordered them to commit said war crimes, and when they were killed by M'Benga ran away in cowardice and defected to the Federation, meaning that both the Federation and the Klingons would view him for different reasons as a despicable bastard.
215* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', angels are [[VillainWithGoodPublicity "monsters with good publicity"]], as Dean puts it, but Castiel is a regular (if not the most reliable) ally, and counts as a DefectorFromDecadence.
216* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
217** ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' has Charcoal Grill Org who is the sole good member of the otherwise AlwaysChaoticEvil Orgs, his turn to good leads to him being harrassed and targeted by Highness Duke Org Rasetsu, who wished to force him back into evil so that Grill Org would make good food for him; when he continues refusing, Tsuetsue and Yabaiba brainwash him into going berserk but [=GaoYellow=] and [=GaoBlack=], who befriended him after learning that he was genuinely good, snap him out of it, sadly the two Duke Orgs and Rasetsu kill him on the spot and resurrect him as a giant mindless monster whom the Gaoranger have to tearfully kill. [[spoiler:The ending of his episode implies that he survived or was resurrected by [=GaoGod=], however.]]
218** ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' has Trinoid #12 Yatsudenwani who becomes a comic relief sidekick type character to Mikoto Nakadai/Abarekiller after the latter had seemingly destroyed the day he was deployed to attack. By the end of the series, he works for the Dino Curry restaurant (and later on becomes the CEO). And in that series the villains are not a species or altered humans -- he was ''created for evil'' but [[MinionWithAnFInEvil isn't particularly good at it]] and got too infatuated with Ranru to oppose her and her teammates.
219* ''Series/{{V 1983}}'' has Willie who is a Visitor, but plays on the humans' team, as does Ryan from [[Series/{{V2009}} the new series]]. It turns out, though, that there is an entire underground of Visitors who resist the leaders from within.
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223* The UrExample could very well be Chiron of Myth/ClassicalMythology, one of the few [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]] who's not a booze-swilling, [[MarsNeedsWomen sexually predatory]] brute. This could be because other centaurs were begotten in an incident of AttemptedRape.[[note]]Specifically, the TopGod Zeus created a decoy of his wife Hera out of clouds, in a sting operation to catch a mortal whom he suspected had the hots for Hera. The mortal took the bait (and was subsequently damned to [[{{Hell}} Tartarus]]). From that union, the cloud decoy gave birth either to centaurs, or to a [[TheGrotesque hunchbacked freak]] who sired the centaurs through {{bestiality|IsDepraved}} with horses.[[/note]] Meanwhile, Chiron was the son of the [[OurTitansAreDifferent Titan]] Kronos/Cronus.
224* Myth/CelticMythology: By birth, Neit [[note]]pronounced "netch"[[/note]], god of war (one of many), was a Fomorian, a race of [[EldritchAbomination primordial demons from beneath the sea and deep places of the world]] who raided and oppressed the world above, and mortal enemies of the Tuatha De Danann, the Irish gods. However Neit not only sided with the Tuatha De Danann, but married the goddesses Badb and Nemain, sisters of The Morrigan, one of the Tuatha De Danann's chief goddesses. When the final great battle against the Fomorians occurs, he fights and dies alongside his wives to ensure De Danann victory.
225* Myth/NorseMythology:
226** Several [[OurGiantsAreBigger jötnar]] join the main pantheon (the Aesir) and live in Asgard. Loki before his FaceHeelTurn is probably the most famous thanks to pop culture, but other examples include Gerd, the wife of Freyr, and Skadi, wife of Njord and goddess of hunting and skiing. Freyr and Freyja may count as well as they were Vanir, not Aesir (both lineages of gods were at war for a time, after they make peace two of each kind went to live with the other faction as peace hostages). However while Aesir and Vanir were frienemies, Aesir-Vanir and jötnar were outright opponents.
227* Literature/TheBible:
228** In the Literature/BookOfGenesis, Noah and his family are this to the corrupted antediluvian human race, hence why {{God}} spared them from TheGreatFlood.
229** In the Literature/BookOfJoshua, [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Rahab]] and her family are the only Jerichoians spared from the Israelites' takeover, because she aided their spies.
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234* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
235** Creator/GaryGygax once related a tale of his original group, when one of the players (Lord Robilar, played by Rob Kuntz) decided to try recruiting a lone orc named Quij. Fast forward a few sessions of play and some amazingly good rolls on Quij's behalf, and he got promoted to the party's full-on {{sidekick}} and started advancing in class levels, a pretty significant thing for the "monster races" at the time.
236** Needless to say, token heroic orcs are very popular concepts for player characters in all editions, fueling an oft-contentious demand for legitimate monstrous player character race options. Indeed, the Half-Orc race was initially born out of a desire to support this, and this trope is why the Drow and Tiefling races became corebook options by 5th edition.
237*** 5th Edition's ''Volo's Guide to Monsters'' gives the player options to play six different monster races: bugbears, goblins, hobgoblins, kobolds, orcs, and yuan-ti. While all of their racial traits will say that their alignments very rarely stray away from the evil variety, there is technically nothing stopping a player from making a good character from these races if they so desired. In fact, bugbears, hobgoblins, goblins, and orcs appear in ''Eberron: Rising from the Last War'' and ''Explorer's Guide to Wildemount'', with goblins also showing up in ''Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica''. Then there's the Duergar, the Dwarf counterpart to the Elves' Drow, who show up in ''Sword Coast Adventures Guide'' and ''Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes''. Other races could also go either way -- Good, Neutral, Evil, Lawful, Chaotic, or some combination.
238* One of the class options ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monster Hunters]]'' provides is the Inhuman, allowing you to play as a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], HalfHumanHybrid, FallenAngel, or [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent lycanthrope]].
239* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
240** Xantcha, from the novel ''Literature/{{Planeswalker}}'' was likely the first, and possibly ''only'' Phyrexian to go against Yawgmoth's vision and help Urza in his crusade against Phyrexia.
241** When Mirrodin was corrupted into New Phyrexia, the Red Praetor Urabrask became the second, having inherited the individualism and emotionality associated with red mana. Like all Phyrexians, he still desired the assimilation of all non-Phyrexians, but preferred consenting converts, and consciously took no action when the Mirran Resistance fled into his domain, the Quiet Furnace. Later this evolved into open rebellion when the White Praetor Elesh Norn seized power and began planning multiversal conquest. Downplayed, however, in that he only fought her because he didn't like her leadership, not for any moral reasons.
242* ''TabletopGame/MiddleEarthRolePlaying'': Utumkodur was the only dragon not to be a purely evil, destructive monster. Instead, she was distinguished by possessing a noticeably even temper for her kind, and for developing a peculiar fascination with the Men of Hildor and teaching them sorcery.
243* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'': In ''Orcbusters'', the Troubleshooters get stuck with [[spoiler: Randy the Wonder Lizard when the evil wizards abandon him]]. "Heroic" may be an overstatement, but [[spoiler: he]] does ''try'' to help ...
244* ''TabletopGame/Space1889'' Red Sands' version of the game allows you to play a High Martian who, unlike the vast majority of his race, is not brutal, filthy and bestial.
245* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'':
246** There a quite a few vampires who have heroic intentions that stand out against the rest of their kind. For example Gashnag the Black Prince is a Strigoi who is protective of the people he rules over, even going so far as to exempt his subjects from the packs of wolves that plague the forests at his behest. Similarly, the Lahmians [[Literature/{{Drachenfels}} Genevieve Dieudonne]] and [[Literature/GotrekAndFelix Ulrika Magdova]] are notably much more heroic that the rest of their kind, even being protagonists of their own works where they work alongside living humans against the undead. Even Vlad von Carstein, while an antagonistic figure responsible for instigating the Vampire Wars and wanting the Empire to either serve him in life or slave for him in death, was a NobleDemon who was genuinely beloved by his own people and [[EvenEvilHasStandards cared not just for them but his own wife Isabella]]. In ''TabletopGame/WarhammerTheEndTimes'', he is at last officially recognized as the Elector Count of Sylvania by the rest of the Elector Counts and dies defending his land against the forces of Chaos.
247** While the [[NephariousPharaoh Tomb Kings]] are a neutral force with aspirations of conquest (not helped by the fact they are all undead albeit technically [RevenantZombie), High Queen Khalida is noted for being willing to work with the forces of Order at times. She has even been likened to an undead paladin given her hatred of vampires, in particular her sister Neferata who was responsible for her death in the first place.
248* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmarSoulbound'': It's entirely possible to play members of Destruction (Orruk, Ogor, Grot, Troggoth) or Death (Vampire, Wight, Nighthaunt, Necromancer, Bonereaper) in a Binding belonging to one of the Gods Of Order; the associated faction books even give specific information on how this might come to happen, and how average people will react to you. It's generally easier for Destruction races, as they're already known to work with Order races as mercenaries; Death characters often have the obstacle that most of them lack freewill, and a tremendous amount of HeroicWillpower is required for them to even ''conceive'' of betraying the Death God Nagash and seek out one of the Order gods.
249* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': Despite his monstrous appearance, Sylvan Guardioak is quite faithful to his fellow Sylvan. Also, he doesn't have the Dark attribute.
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253* ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'':
254** As opposed to every other spirit, [[spoiler:D-Man]] is not murderous, and rather is polite and well-spoken. Even after he was turned into a spirit, he continued to assist the characters of ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMark'' with their spirit hunting.
255** In her specific Bad End, [[spoiler:Rosé]] is revealed to be some form of spirit. While spirits are usually malevolent and blood-thirsty, she has been helping the protagonist all throughout the game, and even her decision to [[spoiler:transform him into a spirit himself]] was done with good intentions at heart.
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259* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'' has Magnus the Red, a Daemon Prince of Chaos who (reluctantly) joins the Emperor. Somewhat downplayed as a Daemon Prince is a DemonOfHumanOrigin (being one of the Traitor Primarchs) and thus was on the Emperor's side before he became a daemon (with him falling to Chaos only reluctantly when the Emperor accused him of being one of the traitors and sending the Space Wolves after him).
260* ''WebAnimation/MinecraftEndventures'': Clickclack, Boom and Nobraynes are a good skeleton, creeper and zombie respectively.
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264* Hawk from ''Webcomic/CityOfReality'' may count as this: in his original society he was a low-ranking drone in a vast army; on his new team, he is considered special.
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268* ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'':
269** "Semi-fic blips" are unwritten Sues; being posted is the PointOfNoReturn after which they have to die.
270** Also, since Agents can come from any universe, quite a few of them are of traditionally AlwaysChaoticEvil species. This includes actual orcs, ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' vermin, [[Series/DoctorWho humanized Daleks]], a sentient [[VideoGame/Left4Dead Hunter]], and a [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Nobody]].
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274* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' when Flame King claims the people of the Fire kingdom are AlwaysChaoticEvil, including Finn's LoveInterest Flame Princess. He notes that it would be theoretically possible to ''make'' Flame Princess into a Token Heroic Orc by having her hang out with good guys, but warns that [[RPGMechanicsVerse she would take a penalty to her experience for acting out of alignment]]. Ultimately played with; Flame Princess ''does'' become heroic, but it's hinted the fire people were never actually "evil" to begin with, just normal people living in [[ValuesDissonance a culture that prizes deceit and cunning]]. Once [[spoiler:Flame King is overthrown and Flame Princess starts reforms]], they become noticeably more friendly and open.
275* Tara in ''WesternAnimation/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'' is a tomato working with the good guys, albeit only Chad knows she's a tomato. Same can be said about F.T. the tomato-dog. Of course, other tomatoes are shown to be not evil including a parody of the ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' and an ElvisImpersonator tomato.
276* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': [[Characters/Castlevania2017Protagonists Alucard]], the dhampir son of Dracula, is the only inhuman creature in the setting who is genuinely on humanity's side for genuinely-noble reasons without ulterior motives, and as far as we know he's rarely if ''ever'' killed anyone who didn't have it coming. All the vampires and other creatures, even the ones with plenty of sympathetic qualities such as Dracula and Lenore, only care about the fate of humans insofar that it affects their own interests, or in Dracula's case only tolerated mankind while they had a MoralityChain in place. Even all the Forgemasters introduced in the series, who seem to be more empowered humans than supernatural monsters, are anything but saints and have hundreds to thousands of humans' blood on their hands.
277* ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'': In this show's universe, Ogres have a reputation of being blood thirsty, man eating brutes. And while that's true for the majority of them, the season 2 episode "Our Bodies, Our Elves" reveals that The Ogre Queen is secretly not as blood thirsty as the other Ogres. She even helps Bean and Elfo to escape the Ogre Homeland with the Legendberries they came to collect there. She also apologizes for killing and eating Wade.
278* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'': At least several Neosapiens count as much, but none are more notable than Marsala. Still loyal to his people, he led the original rebellion against humanity (who originally created the Neos as a SlaveRace), but opposed Phaeton's because he didn't want Neosapiens to become the ones who enslave others.
279* As in the example in the film section, in the animated series ''[[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail Fievel's American Tails]]'' based on Creator/DonBluth's film, Tiger is a friendly cat that is one of Fievel's (a mouse) best friends in a town full of mean cats. This becomes even polemic at some point as Fievel's parents do not fully approve the friendship.
280* Similar to Tiger, the cat Fencer in ''WesternAnimation/{{Foofur}}'' is a cat that belong to a gang of stray dogs, and is Foofur's (the eponymous dog protagonist) best friend. Fencer's loyalty is never questioned even when most cats shown in the series are antagonistic, and even when Fencer decides to live among cats he is unable to adapt. Nevertheless the series does show that Fencer is not the only nice cat, as Cleo (Fencer's LoveInterest) seems to be too.
281* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}''. The elves are not evil, they just operate on BlueAndOrangeMorality. However, Alfur is the only elf who comes to Hilda's defense when the rest of the Little People try to evict her from the woods. Later on, he ends up joining her on her adventures.
282* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'', a spin-off of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'':
283** Jasiri is a hyena whom Kion meets and finds out she's not like any of the other hyenas, who are portrayed as AlwaysChaoticEvil. She even explains that most hyenas besides her are good.
284** Leopards throughout the show usually play the CatsAreMean trope straight, particularly Makucha. Badili, however, is the only one whom the Guard befriends and is genuinely friendly, even after being taught to be fearsome.
285** While most large predatory reptiles tend to lean to the [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent abhorrent side]] (though crocodiles have been on both sides), pythons seem to be the only exceptions to this. Even if they only appear as background animals, they have the same pleasant appearances as other "good" animals.
286* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
287** The Season 6 episode "The Times They Are a Changeling" introduces a good Changeling named Thorax, who spends the bulk of the episode trying to win over the trust of the ponies with the help of Spike. In the season finale, [[spoiler:he ends up causing a HeelRaceTurn for the rest of his kind and becomes their new leader, implying that most of their villainy was due to [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Chrysalis' influence]]]].
288** Spike the Dragon as well, with his race being greedy and self-centered jerks while he was [[RaisedByHumans Raised by Ponies]]. His friendship with Dragon Lord Ember has started to change that, however.
289** Gabby the Griffon isn't like the rest of the griffons of Griffonstone, who are penny-pinching grumps. She's bright, optimistic, and very friendly towards others with a big heart of generosity and enthusiasm.
290* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': The OriginsEpisode "Lad and Logic" reveals that Mr. Logic, the robot hairdresser who owns a shop at Lakewood Plaza Turbo, was actually created by [[EvilInc Boxmore]] to serve as an advisor. After Logic turned against him, Lord Boxman was so enraged that all his future robots were programmed to be [[BlindObedience mentally incapable]] of performing a HeelFaceTurn.
291* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': Slimer, a ghost who helps hunt other ghosts.
292* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In the latter half of the show, we meet [[spoiler:Horde Prime and his hundreds of clones, all of whom exist to serve his evil will and help him carry out his conquest of the universe. However, the previous BigBad used to ''be'' one of them, but was cast out for having free will and subsequently developed a personality and motivations of his own, showing that the clones aren't inherently evil beings, but are instead connected to a HiveMind run by an utterly evil man. Hordak, while still a villain, is much more sympathetic and nuanced than his "brothers", with plenty of PetTheDog moments. In the fifth season, our heroes accidentally disconnect a random clone from the hive to prevent him from alerting his brothers of their presence, which causes him to freak out, since he's never ''not'' been mind-controlled in his entire life. Nicknamed "Wrong Hordak", he winds up going home with the team, and joining them, revealing that when he's not being forcibly controlled by Prime, he's a sweet, curious person with the enthusiasm of a child, who only wants to be helpful to his new "brothers". Once he realizes Prime is a liar who doesn't care one ounce for his clones, Wrong Hordak becomes one of the loudest dissenters. The series ends with Prime's death, meaning that the hive mind is gone for good -- which means there's now hope for his underlings.]]
293* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': D'Vana Tendi is the first Orion series regular in the franchise and the first Orion Starfleet officer seen in the prime timeline. Her species is mostly portrayed as villainous criminals.
294* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The Citadel arc features a trio of Separatist battle droids that have been captured and [[HackYourEnemy reprogrammed]] by the Republic to serve under R2-D2's command as infiltrators for a rescue mission behind enemy lines.
295* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': Despite the Galra Empire being the main antagonists, there are a few among their race who ally with this protagonists. The most notable instance is the Blade of Marmora, a secret organization of Galra agents who have been covertly working against the empire. It turns out that one of their members, Krolia, [[spoiler:is the mother of Keith, making him the Token Heroic Galra among the Paladins]].
296%%* Garahl nar Hhallas in ''WesternAnimation/WingCommanderAcademy'', a good Kilrathi working with the humans.
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