Even Evil Has Standards / American Dad!

While not really evil per se, Stan and Hayley from American Dad! are both fanatical in their political views. They are either self-righteous fanatics at best and hypocrites at their worst, but they have their moments:

• In one episode, Stan is appalled when it's revealed that Francine's biological parents left her at the airport because their flight didn't allow children and Hayley herself was shocked when the group of environmentalists she joined were planning to blow up a mall (with Hayley backing out because she doesn't want to kill innocent people just to further her cause).
  Klaus: Stan, these people are monsters. You know what my country's done and even I find this appalling.
• Stan also got another one with Jeff's father. While Stan despises Jeff through and through for being a lazy stoner, even he is shocked to learn that Jeff's own father not only openly mocks him all the time but also plans to frame him for drug smuggling, and get the reward money from him.
• In "Vacation Goo", Becky is crushed by a rockfall in a cave, trapping the Smiths inside. Francine says they could try eating Becky's corpse as they have nothing else to eat. Everyone else is appalled that Francine would even suggest such a thing. Francine herself is as disgusted as they are, but the family will starve to death otherwise and she can't bear to see the others die. Stan is the most opposed to the suggestion (calling Hayley and Steve out when they eventually come around to the idea), only changing his mind when he finds out Becky was an organ donor. Then it turns out the whole ordeal was a game intended to welcome guests to the island they are at, meaning Becky died and was eaten for nothing. The whole family is horrified when they find out (Hayley bursts into tears and she and Steve hug on the ground with Steve having a Thousand-Yard Stare) with Francine deciding Let Us Never Speak of This Again.
• Parodied in one episode, when Hayley and Roger got into a battle of making up new personae. Roger claims to be a hitman for the Armenian Mafia and kills Hayley's character; she responds by pretending to be the Armenian matriarch, who coldly informs him that their group doesn't kill women and throws him out.
• In one episode, Roger's persona split in two just of because how bad he become. (This case was more because Roger's persona cared about somebody other than himself saving a girl from being fired, which he almost caused ironically... which contradicted against the base beliefs and personality of Roger himself, causing the split.)
• A mild example, but one episode shows Jeff and Hayley being mugged on a street, with Jeff bailing out on Hayley, then said mugger looking surprised.
• When Roger was pretending to be Greg and Terry's adopted Russian son, to keep Stan away, he claimed Stan reminded him of someone who molested him back in Russia. Terry initially seems shocked, but then scolds him for using his accent (which he had been previously instructed to lose). Even Roger is horrified.
• Stan's lifelong dream has been to be the best man at someone's wedding, and came close to doing so when he hooked up Principal Lewis with the school superintendent. However, despite how badly Stan wanted this, when he learned Lewis' life was the basis for Diff'rent Strokes, including the infamous episode where Arnold and Dudley hang out with the bike shop owner who turned out to be a pedophile, even he was horrified that Principal Lewis left his friend, Dudley, there to get molested (and Principal Lewis, who isn't a saint either, also feels bad that he did that):
  Stan: You just LEFT Dudley there!
  Principal Lewis: I did. He's real messed up now.
  • In the same episode, even though Stan wanted to be a best man more than anything and tried to break up Principal Lewis and his prison wife, even he was shocked when he learned that Superintendent Riggs only wanted to marry Principal Lewis to further her political career.
• In "Rapture's Delight," Stan and Francine are both left on Earth during the Rapture. While Francine is happy the two can at least survive the Apocalypse together, Stan tries to convince a poser pretending to be Jesus that he doesn't deserve to be dragged down with Francine and begs to be sent to Heaven. Francine is appalled Stan thinks he has the moral high ground over her when they've both done awful stuff, and is especially not thrilled when Stan shamelessly tries to get back with her after it turned out "Jesus" was a phony.
• When Stan learns White-Dwarf Starlet June Rosewood murdered her husband Leonard Zane and his lover Gloria Delmar decades ago, Stan angrily demands to know why no one had June arrested if they all knew she did it. His concerns are brushed off with the explanation all actors back in Hollywood's Golden Age have killed someone and gotten away with it and is even told Cary Grant used to kill at least four Hollywood starlets a week.
• Francine and Hayley had no problem with Klaus swapping bodies with Stan for a few days, since Stan deliberately put off having Klaus's mind transferred back into his old body after the CIA located it (at which point it had rotted). They both feel Stan deserves this not just for the aforementioned action, but for years of treating Klaus like shit. The two draw the line when they learn Klaus has violated Stan's body in every sense possible and intends to keep it for himself. Francine's especially horrified when Klaus freely admits he lied, but more over the idea he lied in general.
• In the first season, way back before Roger became The Sociopath, be once bonded with an elderly lady named Gertie but was horrified the moment he learned she was a racist and tried to get back to the Smiths as quickly as possible. When the two were at the Lincoln Memorial, Gertie spat at the statue and had this to say:
  Gertie: That's for freeing the slaves, you Negro-loving Yankee devil!
  Roger: And suddenly things turned ugly.
• Director Bullock is clearly an unstable cocaine addict who treats the C.I.A. like it's a daycare and once cheated on his wife, but he's drawn at least several lines in the sand.
  • "Faking Bad": He won't sleep with underage people, and at one point ordered Stan to track down who was responsible for creating a wave of phony IDs after Bullock almost slept with a teenager, voicing his displeasure at almost becoming a sex offender.
  • "American Dad After-School Special": He's disgusted when Stan collapses during his CIA obstacle course training and puts him on suspension until he can get his weight problem under control.
  • "The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith": After spending an entire episode gradually losing his mind thanks to a chip that was implanted in the back of his head as a prank, Bullock's outraged when he learns Stan let him run around acting like a maniac out of misplaced loyalty to him ("You don't work for ME you idiot! You work for your country!") He's especially appalled when Bullock realizes Stan let him hijack a nuclear sub.
• In "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever", Stan's afterlife lawyer, Michelle, seems to have no qualms playing devil's advocate, and even fabricating evidence in his favour. However even she looks visibly disgusted by the evidence against Stan (his mistreatment of Francine during her pregnancy with Hayley) and Stan's completely unapologetic reaction in present day.
  Past!Stan: *watches dully as Hayley is born in the wild* Oh hey Francine. Did you make coffee?
  Present!Stan: *smugly* In my defense, sir, she ''hadn't made coffee".
  *Michelle Death Glares at Stan*
• While Roger's gone as far as to hit on Stan while pretending to be Steve, the thought of actual Parental Incest (or as close to it as possible) does seem to disgust him on several occasions.
  • When Francine shows Roger that Stan and his mother have shared baths, including Stan singing about scrubbing his mother's ass and vagina, Roger was left gaping in mute horror and later shown visibly trembling and clearly traumatized.
    Francine: I told you it was complicated.
    Roger: No. No. No. Changing planes at O'Hare is complicated this is, th-this is just... Franny what is this?
  • While dressed as Ruby Zeldastein trying to deal with Francine's poltergasm, Roger's as disgusted as Hayley when they mistakenly believe Steve's offering to satisfy Francine (he wasn't).
  • When Francine and Steve are forced to live in the basement because Francine's still breastfeeding Steve, Roger offered to make a documentary about them to show everyone they're normal. Things got disturbing very quickly and Roger eventually quit because of how screwed up Steve and Francine were becoming. For example, Steve and Francine singing while Francine lets Steve drink from her breasts for lunch earned the exact same reaction Roger had to Stan scrubbing his mom's vagina.
• Francine's shown to have a casually prejudiced side like everyone else in the family, but when she's treated to Familyland's "Simpler Times Mountain" ride and discovers the entire thing is a barely disguised love letter to slavery in the United States, she's not impressed.
• Despite the Smiths being quite abusive to Klaus, they stand up for him when Rogu tries to kill him. Even Roger, who a) is Rogu's father and b) hates Klaus the most, sides with the fish.
  Roger: Klaus, did you really think we hate you so much we'd let you die? You need to work on your self-esteem, man.