Everyone Has Standards / Anime & Manga

Characters with standards in Anime & Manga.

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• Aggretsuko:
  • In one OVA, Ton accuses Retsuko of planning to quit when she gets married and Anai comes to her defense...by saying she's undateable, has no man in her life and can stick around for another ten years. Ton tells him he's being too harsh.
  • In the Netflix series, when Retsuko pleads with Ton not to tell anyone about her relationship with Tadano, Ton tells her he doesn't fight that dirty.
• In Angel Beats!, Yurippe, leader of the SSS, often gets annoyed with her comrades' eccentricities and assigns them punishments when they fail at their assigned tasks(which happens often). For example, when Yurippe plans on switching Angel's test sheets with fakes so that Angel will get in trouble for flunking her tests and lose her Student Council President job, she has one of the SSS members try to distract Angel, and sends that person rocketing into the ceiling when they fail, which provides the necessary distraction. However, when Ooyama tries to get Angel's attention with a Love Confession and ends up being rejected, Yuripppe decides Ooyama has suffered enough and sends Hinata flying instead.
• Assassination Classroom: The three hired assassins during the Island Arc. Normally they would act the part of the cold professional, but when they see that their client is a psychopath trying to murder a class of middle schoolers for having humiliated him once, they all agree he's a monster and they should sabotage him, even if their reputations will take a hit. The big one being that their client wanted them to poison the students with a nigh-incurable artificial disease, but they just give the students food poisoning instead. Unpleasant, yes, but not lethal and it'll wear off on its own after a day of rest.
• Bakuman。
  • Eiji Niizuma follows his rivals' work so regularly that his refusal to read Tanto is treated as an O.O.C. Is Serious Business moment that indicates that he thinks they're not living up to their potential.
  • A Show Within a Show case becomes a plot point in and out of that universe. Mashiro and Takagi's Perfect Crime Party, a group of elementary school students who do harmless pranks called "perfect crimes", don't do anything that could cause trouble for others; they suggest that if they broke into a bank vault and left behind a note without stealing anything, the security company's reputation would suffer. In response to someone imitating PCP by breaking into a bank vault and leaving a note behind, Takagi writes a story in which Akechi, The Rival to PCP, tells some copycats that he knew it wasn't PCP because they wouldn't do anything like that, and ends with PCP themselves commenting about how not everyone can do things the way they do.
  • In the vote to serialize PCP, there are two stipulations for the votes — a "yes" vote can only be done if the voter believes PCP can compete with Nizuma's work, and if the work fails to get serialized, Mashiro and Takagi will be unable to write for Jump again. The work is about to fail 4-3, when three of the editors change their votes from "no" to "yes" — one of the more hesitant "no" voters doesn't agree with the idea of just letting Mashiro and Takagi go, and another believes that it doesn't make sense to let them go with only a 4-3 majority.
• Carole & Tuesday:
  • In the final episode, as the police barge into the concert hall, guns drawn, to shut down the "Miraculous 7 Minutes" concert, Gus asks them to just stop and listen to the song for a minute. They oblige.
  • Valerie Simmon pursues an increasingly xenophobic anti-immigrant platform throughout the presidential election campaign, not because she actually believes it, but because her crooked advisor has persuaded her it will help her win. When she discovers (again in the final episode) that said advisor orchestrated a False Flag Operation to sabotage Alba City's climate control system and blame it on Terran immigrants, she's so disgusted that she not only fires him on the spot but drops out of the presidential race entirely.
• Chainsaw Man: Himeno is surprised when she learns that Denji and Aki, both of whom she flirted with intensely, are minors, and immediately backs off with her sexually-charged teasing accordingly.
• In Death Note, L and Near are not paragons of justice, and only take on cases that they're interested in. However, they both disapprove of what Kira is doing and the mindset behind it, with Near having an especially strong hatred of Kira's followers.
• In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, even early on in the series, before Zenitsu showed more shades to his developing character, there were standards he already lived by:
  • Zenitsu is honestly a loyal guy, who really wanted to fit in among friends, now as a Demon Slayer he begins his journey as a screaming mess of guy who says he doesn't want to do any of demon slaying, but Zenitsu just can't bring himself to truly abandon that path; his master Jigoro, his new friend Tanjiro, sincerely believed he can grow into a commendable slayer so Zenitsu pushes himself forward, even if complaining along the way, out of gratitude for those who believed in him.
  • Zenitsu really likes to openly express his fondness for girls in general, shamelessly proclaiming his love for their sweet smell and nice curves, being desperate to find a girlfriend and immediately make her his wife. That said, Zenitsu is actually only mildly perverted, the guy lacks many traits of the usual perv character in Shounen manga/anime, he doesn't peep, he doesn't strongly harass, and is actually focused on finding real love rather than just looking for casual flings. More importantly, Zenitsu's sense of justice is certifiably above his attraction for girls, case in point: he never makes a single comment on Daki's beauty despite her great looks being a stated fact by the series itself, her demonic nature and abuse towards others immediately sets him off against her.
• Dragon Ball:
  • While Beerus has a Hair-Trigger Temper and is prone to destroying planets for absolutely silly reasons, there are several lines he won't cross:
    • Even he can't stand Frieza; in fact, when he first wakes up from his long sleep in Battle of Gods, he was contemplating going after him and killing him before finding out that Frieza was long dead.
    • The reason he imprisoned the Old Kai in the Z-Sword over a petty argument was because it would be improper of him to destroy the Supreme Kais' World. Also, since the Kais' lives are linked to his, killing one Supreme Kai increased the chances of him dying.
    • In a similar way, he destroyed King Kai's planet over a petty argument but made sure not to kill him because it would have meant killing another god-and differently than with the Supreme Kais, his life isn't linked to his.
    • In Dragon Ball Super, Beerus is just as disgusted by Frost as everyone else after learning he was Evil All Along. When he hears that Frost is a planet broker who buys planets he ruins cheaply and then sells them for a high price after he fixes them, he sneers that's exactly what Frieza used to do.
    • In the Super manga, he doesn't like Whis comparing his job to Goku Black attempting mortal genocide in Future Trunks' time. Beerus destroys planets for the sake of universal balance, while he considers Goku Black little more than a lunatic who kills according to his own whims. The sentiment is much the same in the anime, calling Black evil and considers killing Zamasu on the spot just in case he turns into Black. And did so with Present!Zamasu, when the latter was going to kill Gowasu.
  • For as much of a complete Jerkass that Ro, Supreme Kai of Universe 9 is, he flat-out refuses Frieza's offer to join the Universe 9 team during the Tournament of Power in exchange for being resurrected on the grounds of Frieza being, in Ro's own words, "a complete psychopath who doesn't care if his own universe gets erased."
  • Goku is a major Big Eater who'll happily stuff his face with anything on hand, but during the King Piccolo Saga, even he is disgusted when Yajirobe cooks and eats the corpse of Cymbal, a fully sentient being, after defeating him, and makes it clear he wouldn't eat any of his meat even if Yajirobe did share it. In a filler scene in the original Dragon Ball anime, he's also furious when Annin tries to offer him food while the Ox King's castle is burning.
  • During the Namek Saga, Piccolo, Krillin, and Gohan, despite absolutely hating Vegeta, are nonetheless horrified at the sight of Frieza mercilessly beating him to death. Similarly, in the Buu Saga, Krillin and Piccolo are mournful when they witness Vegeta sacrifice himself against Majin Buu, with Krillin even screaming Vegeta's name.
  • While Zeno is willing to stretch the rules of the Tournament of Power to allow things he finds cool, he has his limits that he will not allow to be crossed. When Frost tries to blast Frieza after being eliminated, a clear act of cheating, Zen’o erases him on the spot and declares no attacking from outside the ring and threatens to erase all of Universe 6 if it happens again.
  • In the Saiyan Saga Raditz reveals that his two partners, Vegeta and Nappa are actually much, much stronger than him. Piccolo asks Goku if that fact makes him excited and to the shock of everyone, Goku replies that he's terrified. As much as our Saiyan hero enjoys fighting, the idea of multiple opponents who not only eclipse his strength but who want nothing more than to destroy the Earth and kill or enslave all his friends is where he draws the line.
• In the infamous Drugs Are Bad Hentai manga Emergence:
  • As much of corrupting and toxic prick Saki's boyfriend is, he's outright furious and kicks her out of his apartment when he discovers that she's been spending his money on drugs, accusing her of "just wanting to get high" and calling her a "fucking junkie".
  • Eventually, even Saki's new drug dealer pushes her away due to her poor hygiene and terrible smell resulting from her prolonged homelessness. He practically throws the drugs at Saki just so she can get lost.
• Fairy Tail:
  • Fairy Tail is infamous for causing collateral damage, but they have rules that govern them. A major one is that wizards shouldn't take S-Class missions without explicit permission from Makarov Dreyar(which usually means that only one of the guild's S-Class wizards can do so).
  • Lucy Heartfilia's a nice girl who is willing to befriend and forgive anyone, up to and including former antagonists, regardless of morality. However, she draws the line when she realizes that her father Jude requested that Phantom Lord retrieve her unharmed to help the family business, only for them to start a guild war with Fairy Tail and nearly get her friends killed without his knowledge. Fortunately, they reconcile shortly after he loses his family business.
  • Natsu Dragneel is always looking for a good fight, regardless of the age or gender of his opponent. That doesn't mean he enjoys senseless murder and slaughter. He likes the chance to test his skills and to see which is the bigger badass.
  • While willing to fight and treat female enemies just as hard as male opponents, as soon as he remembers Levy McGarden is pregnant, he quickly stops his attack, clearly horrified at the idea of making her miscarry her unborn child, despite his tense relationship with Gajeel Redfox.
  • Although he tends to be a trash talker towards his friends, Gray Fullbuster won't tolerate anyone being abrasive and overly strict with the guild's rules, as demonstrated when he calls out Erza Scarlet for trying to take Natsu and their friends to Fairy Tail without any concern for the situation on Galuna Island. Gray had originally been tasked with bringing Natsu, Lucy and Happy back but decided to help out on the mission, partly due to realizing that his Rival Turned Evil Lyon was planning on awakening an evil demon.
  • While she's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Erza Scarlet won't stand being tortured, which isn't surprising considering the fact she suffered the exact fate when she was a slave at the Tower of Heaven for eight years.
  • In the anime, several Phantom Lord members are disturbed by Gajeel continuing to beat up Lucy and try getting him to stop.
  • For obvious reasons, Juvia Lockser is the only one in the Fairy Tail guild who doesn't seem to mind Gray's stripping habit. That said, even she has had to remind him to put his clothes on, usually whenever the guild has visitors. Also, during the second Time Skip when the two lived together, Juvia had grown tired of having to constantly pick up Gray's clothes whenever he stripped during training.
  • Ur's not above anyone stripping nearly naked when it comes to training, even if children are involved. Stripping in public, however, is a whole other can of worms.
  • Oh sure she wants to prove Lamia Scale's superiority, but when Sherria Blendy starts charging up her Finishing Move in the fight with an already-battered Wendy Marvell, Ohba Babasaama shockingly demands to know if she's trying to kill her opponent with that move.
  • In the Grand Magic Games, Sting Eucliffe grows disgusted by Ziemma Orland showing no compassion towards his guild mates at Saber Tooth. When Ziemma obliterates Lector, he decides enough is enough and takes his place as guild master after blasting him through the chest.
• In Fly Me to the Moon, Tsukasa's adoptive younger sister Chitose hates the fact that her sister married Nasa, and tries to break them up. However, when Nasa and Tsukasa go on a trip to a hot springs in Chapter 69, Chitose stays home, declaring that she's "not enough of a goon to crash a married couple's private trip." She had crashed their trip to Nara, but the distinction in that case may have been that it was a visit to the in-laws, rather than a honeymoon.
• Fruits Basket:
  • Shigure Sohma may be a sly, selfish Manipulative Bastard and proud of it, but he still has lines he won't cross:
    • He has never outright physically attacked, harmed or killed anyone. This may be one of his redeeming traits. He steps in to save Yuki from Akito's abuse when Haru states it's become physical and later on finally confronts Rin to stop her from endangering herself any further. He is visibly angered when Akito states Tohru fell from a cliff, believing she pushed her off, and despite hating Kureno for years due to his relationship with her, is immediately concerned upon finding out Akito stabbed him.
    • He makes it clear he looks down on his previous sleeping with Ren just to spite Akito. While it doesn't stop him from using that against Akito, he uses it in a way that makes it clear even Shigure himself considers that one act to be foolish. As flirty as he is, he refuses to sleep with any girl just to satisfy himself afterwards, refusing Rin's offer for sex and never using Mayu for sexual purposes.
  • The Sohma head maid may not be a good person, being a Yes-Man who lets Akito do whatever she wants, no matter how violent or immoral, to the extent of giving Kureno a completely unjustified What the Hell, Hero? speech for saving Rin from solitary confinement and near-starvation on the grounds that he "betrayed" Akito by doing so, but for all of her faults, even she can't stand Ren Sohma for not only being a mere maid who won Akira's heart, but for being an Abusive Parent to Akito. On at least one occasion, she's openly stated that it would be for the best if Akito simply banished Ren from the Sohma estate completely.
• In Full Moon, Madoka Wakamatsu is willing to go to some lengths to beat her rival, the titular idol Full Moon, although Full Moon herself doesn't seem to realize this and just wants to be Madoka's friend. However, Madoka also has a strong sense of pride and refuses to cheat in order to win. During a commercial contest, she unwittingly uses lyrics that Mitsuki wrote to win, and when she finds out, she's horrified and immediately forfeits the contest because she doesn't want to profit off lyrics her competition wrote.
  • In the anime adaptation, Madoka averts the trope instead, and is more than willing to cheat if it means she comes out ahead of Full Moon. She also basically steals Full Moon's producer out from under her.
• In Gakuen Babysitters, Chairman Morinomiya, who usually demands for Ryuuichi to work hard and to keep a punctual schedule, states this about herself when posed with the option of waking him up while he's sick.
• In Girls und Panzer, Shiho looks down on those who follow other tankery ideologies and initially dismisses Oarai's victories as flukes. However, in the movie, after Oarai defeats Shiho's alma mater Kuromorimine's tankery team, led by Shiho's elder daughter and heiress, only for Tsuji Kota to renege on his promise and order that Oarai be shut down anyway, Shiho angrily insists that there's no luck in tankery and helps arrange for a match between Oarai and the University All-Stars.
• Hello! Sandybell: Charlie is the resident asshole and prankster of his small corner in Scotland alongside his Gang of Bullies. When one of his pranks brings Sandybell to tears, he looks crestfallen and feels horrible for his actions. Charles assumes his prank caused Sandybell to cry, but she was actually crying because of the stress of watching her father succumb to his illness and finding out she's adopted. Charles spends his next few appearances trying to show he's sorry for Sandybell.
• Highschool of the Dead: While Saya's parents suffer from Honor Before Reason, offering shelter and protection to even the civilians that actively oppose their efforts to keep Them under control, Shidou and his followers are just too evil for them to tolerate. As soon as Soichirou learns from Rei what a scumbag Shidou really is and how he flunked Rei on his Corrupt Politician father's orders, he gives Rei free reign to take revenge on him, and when Rei decides he's not worth it, he forces Shidou and his students to leave.
• True, Inuyasha is short-tempered, violent, and overall a bit of a prick, but there are plenty of lines that even he refuses to cross:
  • He's utterly disgusted by the depravity of the Thunder Brothers, who see women as nothing but playthings and not only murdered Shippo's father, but skinned him and turned him into a belt. And this was prior to a lot of his Character Development, when he was still a borderline Villain Protagonist.
    Inuyasha: I'll be the first to admit I've racked up my share of bad karma in the past, but I'm innocent compared to you two swine!
  • In the filler "The Tragic Love Song of Destiny" anime special, he refuses to attack Kikyo for the Shikon Jewel when she's badly injured and can't fight back, explaining to her that he doesn't "play dirty"; he even personally saves Kaede from Mistress Centipede while refusing to take her hostage for the jewel as Centipede intended to do.
  • When he fights Tōkajin, the latter demands that he drink some of the failed potion made from Ninmenka's fruit before their fight; given the source of the fruit, Inuyasha is quick to turn it down.
  • When he meets Shiori, he adamantly refuses to kill a fellow half-demon, let alone a little girl.
  • When he and Sesshomaru discover that their father only intended for Sesshomaru to master the Meidō Zangetsuha technique and then give it to Inuyasha, Inuyasha agrees with Sesshomaru that that was cruel of their father.
• In Is This A Zombie?, Orito is a Casanova Wannabe who's always shamelessly hitting on girls, trying to peep on them, etc. When Ayumu gets possessed by Belphegor, he makes offensive Straw Misogynist remarks. Orito is horrified and quickly declares that he does not believe in that line of thinking.
• Isekai Quartet:
  • While Aqua will happily attack the cast of Overlord (2012), she does draw the line at mocking Albedo for still being a virgin and saving herself.
  • Much like in her home series, the depths of Darkness's masochism disturbs the people around her, only with a side of Even Evil Has Standards, as those disgusted this time are Ainz and his minions, and Tanya von Degurechaff and her unit.
  • Darkness herself thought that what Kazuma, Aqua, Grantz, Koenig and Neuman went through with detention with Kyohukou was too much.
• Is It My Fault That I Got Bullied?: Shinji Suzuki is a successful banker and is popular with his boss and coworkers because he is ruthless and handles cases where a normal banker would be sympathetic towards the client. His boss is happy that Shinji is making money for their bank despite his cruelty towards some of their clients, and his coworkers admire his ruthlessness. While one coworker admitted that he was a little uncomfortable with how ruthless Shinji can be, another defended him, stating that he viewed him as an elite person. However, in the story's final chapters, when Shinji's mistress and former victim revealed him to be a cheater and a bully to his boss and coworkers, they were all horrified and disgusted. Shinji's boss angrily called him out for embarrassing the company like that, denied him his promotion, and demoted him. Shinji's coworkers were disgusted when they learned of his past as a bully and lost all respect for him; they started to ignore him at work and refused to talk and be threatened by him. Shinji's boss and coworkers were willing to tolerate and even admire Shinji's ruthless methods when it was good for business, but they draw the line when they see what a monster he really is and cut ties with him.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Phantom Blood: Speedwagon may be the leader of a group of thugs when he is first introduced, but he only steals for his family. He immediately hates Dio for being pure evil and enjoying it.
  • Battle Tendency: Joseph, in spite of giving Wamuu a noble end earlier, is angered by Kars' dishonor when he uses underhanded methods when fighting Lisa-Lisa.
  • Stardust Crusaders: Jotaro casually admits without angst that while he doesn't see himself as a nice guy, even he has lines he won't cross such as harming the innocent.
  • Diamond is Unbreakable: In his introduction, Rohan was openly repulsed by Hazamada's actions and thoughts after reading him with Heaven's Door.
  • Golden Wind: As violent and impulsive as Narancia is, even he wouldn't risk releasing Aerosmith in search-and-destroy mode in a crowded area where it could potentially cause massive collateral damage in search of its actual target.
  • Stone Ocean: When meeting Pucci for the first time prior to discovering his identity as Whitesnake's user, Jolyne is hesitant on knocking a priest out and instead explains her request to reach the prison courtyard. She even felt guilt after blatantly lying when asked if anyone was with her.
  • Steel Ball Run: Gyro is a professional executioner with a huge pragmatic streak, but even he gets disturbed by how ruthless Johnny can be.
  • JoJolion: Despite having never met Yoshikage Kira, Josuke is visibly disturbed upon finding fake photographs of Kira engaging in misconduct.
  • The JoJoLands: Dragona may be a thief who helps traffic drugs, but they're aghast at Jodio's brutality and tell him to stop when Jodio beats the cops coming after them half to death. They also stop Paco from stealing from the customers at Iko Iko.
• Jujutsu Kaisen: Satoru is cold-blooded and capable of sacrificing others to achieve a particular objective, but he prefers keeping bloodshed to a minimum. In the Shibuya Incident, when placed in a situation where he could kill all the Disaster Curses at the cost of all civilian lives present, he is visibly horrified and ultimately decides to use his Domain to paralyze them and his enemies, and kills every Transfigured Human present in five minutes, so as to avoid killing innocents.
• KonoSuba: Kazuma might be a greedy pervert who just wants to live a lazy life, but he repeatedly turns down large monetary rewards for his party solving problems that they in fact caused in the first place. He's not noble enough to admit they caused the problems, but he's not going to take money for it either.
• Lady!!: Mary Waverly is a Spoiled Brat and her gramps happens to be Victor Reynolds, one of the wealthiest men in Britain. She uses his influence to halt George from getting loans that could save the Russell family from becoming Impoverished Patricians, as well as making Lynn's life miserable. When Victor finds out Mary went as far as to sabotage Vivian by injuring her and repeatedly bullied Lynn for months, he is disgusted and declares that he has no love for her anymore. Meanwhile, he sees Lynn's potential as a horse rider and offers her a small loan that could save the Marble Mansion if she wins.
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005): Sahasrahla claims that the Triforce will grant any wish desired by the one who claims it, good or evil, as proven when Ganondorf took hold of it to become the demon Ganon. When the heroes prevail, however, the Triforce actually thanks them for freeing it from Ganon.
• Lucky Star: Konata has some of the most questionable study habits out of anyone in the show, which include copying homework from Kagami. However, when Yutaka joins them and Tsukasa during a homework session, she suddenly feels awkward about doing such a thing she might respect her less for.
• In Magi: Labyrinth of Magic, Ka Koubun's attempt to make King Sinbad marry Princess Kougyoku, by making it look like Sinbad had violated her, fails, because his henchmen can't stand seeing their princess crying and so sad.
• Magical Girl Site:
  • Rina is just as disgusted by Kaname as the others, which does not seem totally hypocritical given Kaname's massive god complex while Shioi was motivated by her own self-preservation, and didn't sink anywhere near to the levels of cruelty for the sake of cruelty Kaname has.
  • Back when Alice and her brother were investigating the Mahou Shoujo Site, they conducted experiments to see what happened when a person ran out of lifespan. However, both of them refused to use innocent young girls and opted to work on condemned criminals (murderers, rapists, etc.) They only experimented on Anjou because she tried to kill them first.
• Kengo of Maken-ki! is a pervert and wears the title like a badge of honor, but the one thing he will not stand for is a girl crying for any reason, something that he bashes Takeru (both verbally and physically) over when the latter treats Inaho coldly due to her knowing his father.
• My Hero Academia:
  • Katsuki Bakugou is an over-competitive Jerkass who is more than willing to use violence to win and be considered number one. But when he's scouted/kidnapped by the League of Villains thinking that he's a potential Rival Turned Evil in the making, and offered a We Can Rule Together by Shigaraki, he rejects the idea of becoming a villain without a second thought. Bakugou may be a jerk, but at the core he's still a hero in training.
  • Bakugo's also shown to be appalled at the way Endeavor treats his children and wife.
  • Shoto Todoroki hates his father, Endeavor, for what Endeavor put him and his mother through in the name of creating a hero who could surpass All Might. Despite that, he doesn't want Endeavor dead, and is horrified when Endeavor is wounded and nearly killed in the fight with the High-End Nomu. His older brother Natsuo feels the same way, despite being even less forgiving of Endeavor than Shoto is.
  • While Kaminari wants to be a hero to pick up girls, he isn't an outright pervert like Mineta is.
• In My Monster Secret, Yuuta Shimada is a skirt-chasing horndog of the highest order (to the point where his getting arrested and carted off by the cops is one of the manga's most enduring Running Gags). So naturally, when Shiho's "charms" don't work on him, she worries that she's losing her touch and does everything she can to seduce him^note despite the fact that she was horrified when her Granddaughter from the Future told that her she married Shimada. At the end of the chapter, after all her attempts have failed, she just straight-up asks Shimada what his deal is; he explains that he knew she had recently had a Love Confession rejected, and even he's not so scummy that he'd prey on a girl who was emotionally vulnerable. Plus, he thought she was out of his league, but when he takes Shiho's attempts at charming him as a sign that he has a chance...and she promptly shoots him down, restoring the status quo.
• In Nana, when porn actress Yuri Kousaka reveals that her real name is Asami Matsumoto, she comments, "I may be a shameless woman, but even I don't make porn flicks under my real name."
• Naruto:
  • Anyone who has ever met and spoken to Uchiha Madara pretty much hates his guts, barring his brother Izuna, his former best friend Hashirama, and his protégé Tobi. Not even Kurama can stand him, and considering the shit he's probably had to put up with over the last few centuries, that says a lot. The people that can stand him? Izuna's dead, and Hashirama, despite otherwise continuing to advocate for him at the drop of a hat, became his mortal enemy the moment Madara decided to attack Konoha, the village they built together. Even his long-time accomplice Tobi, aka Obito, reveals that he doesn't care for him all that much either.
  • There's also Sasuke himself during the early episodes. Despite not liking Naruto himself, he's absolutely furious at Sakura when she mocks him for being an orphan, claiming he's such a Bratty Half-Pint because he has no parents to teach him how to behave... and seemingly forgetting that Sasuke himself is an orphan after his older brother slaughtered their parents and entire clan. Sasuke immediately tells her off for it, telling her she has no idea what she's talking about; this triggers Sakura's first Jerkass Realization.
  • The Allied Shinobi Forces was a result of this. The Moon's Eye Plan incited this reaction so much that it was enough to unite the entire shinobi world, which has been in a near-constant state of war for over a century. Trying to subject free will in general seems to incite this reaction.
• Rei Ayanami of Neon Genesis Evangelion is hard wired to follow orders no matter what they might be, or sacrifice everything to accomplish her mission, even if it means her own life. Especially if it means her own life. Tell her to shoot a child, however, and she balks. Her finding out the true horrors of the Evas? She gets a glimpse and is horrified, and it's hinted that this would be unforgivable. Wipe out the human race? If verbal reasoning doesn't work. Rei takes an active hand stopping it.
  • Rei also gets a glimpse of the Body Backup Drive in Rebuild of Evangelion: a fair assessment would be similar to if she had just found a nuke.
• Odd Taxi: While Imai is still decidedly in Rui's corner, he acknowledges that if she's truly guilty he won't have issues dropping support for her.
• In One Piece, the Straw Hats, for the most part, care about their members and friends more than anyone else, even the entire rest of the world, in Robin's case. However, they're typically shown to be quite upset whenever their enemies callously harm their own minions, from Sanji and Franky's shock at Rob Lucci pulling a You Have Failed Me on Nero, to Chopper saving an Enforcer from Gedatsu's attack.
  • As greedy as Nami is, she's willing to give up treasure for the sake of her friends, such as giving some of Thriller Bark's treasure to her friend Lola as a gift, or being willing to spend all the treasure to buy Caimie and set her free (unfortunately, she gets preemptively outbid).
    • She'll gladly take and steal money, but the idea of being bought really angers her.
    • When it comes to children, especially orphans or kidnapping victims, she will fight hard to protect them and keep them safe
  • Luffy's usually a nice guy who can befriend and forgive nearly anyone, up to and including former antagonists regardless of morality. However, he drew the line upon seeing Crocodile in Impel Down, the Arch-Enemy of Luffy's Honorary True Companion Vivi, and the man responsible for plunging Vivi's homeland into civil war. He did end up releasing him, at his ally Ivankov's suggestion, but unlike all the other former enemies he meets in the arc, Luffy does not befriend or forgive him.
  • Luffy's an absolute Combat Pragmatist, taking any shot he can in a fight. But he draws the line at taking advantage of Admiral Fujitora's blindness, and calls out the targets of his own attacks to give the man a fair chance to react. Fujitora doesn't appreciate the sentiment.
  • Brook loves to make (unfunny) skeleton jokes at his own expense, but having seen how his crew died and having died and revived only to spent over fifty years adrift has given him a very strong sense for the value of life. He's rightfully pissed when Fish-man Zeo mentions the idea of throwing lives away for the sake of petty revenge.
  • Koza's willing to rebel against the kingdom of Alabasta in order to save his people from a drought, but he doesn't approve of using Child Soldiers. When a young boy begs to join the rebel army, Koza orders a subordinate to show the boy his horrific battle wounds, so as to scare the boy away.
  • In the middle of a fight, sidecharacter Sai is mistakenly believed to be flirting by his opponent, the incredibly emotionally unstable Baby 5. Smitten as a result, she asks him what she can do to make him happy; when Sai jokingly suggests that she kill herself, only for Baby 5 to immediately take him seriously and point a gun at her head, Sai is so freaked out that he orders her to stop. Ironically, this act of compassion leads to them getting married.
  • All of the Straw Hats are downright horrified and disgusted at Kaido and Orochi’s treatment of the citizens of Wano.
• Ash Ketchum of Pokémon: The Series is a Friend to All Living Things. While this usually has him dishing out punishment to criminals such as Team Rocket, he'll rarely stand for other villains using or victimising them either. He has saved Jessie and James' Pokemon from being stolen several times over, despite how poetic a punishment it would be for always trying to steal his Pikachu, and was outright repulsed when the villainous Malamar brainwashed James' Inkay to attack his own master.
• Ranma ½:
  • Nabiki, heartless enough to sell photos of Ranma's female side to hornball men as a supplement to her pocket money, and who went so far as to sorta whore him out during her stint as his fiancée, is disgusted when Genma reveals he regularly stole food from Ranma when Ranma was a little kid.
  • Akane Tendo, who has no qualms about beating her fiancé senseless when they fight, is horrified at the extents Shampoo is willing to go to in order to try and drive away her Stalker with a Crush, Mousse.
  • Genma, perhaps the one of the purest Jerkasses in the series, absolutely HATES resident Panty Thief and Lovable Sex Maniac Happosai.
  • Ranma himself, who has been known to exploit his feminine side for free food, belittle his fiancée for her lack of feminine skills, and prance around nude in his girl form, using his lack of feminine modesty to distract opponents... has stated that he believes that the lowest of the low are men who come home drunk and beat their wives. And he himself is sometimes put off by how badly Shampoo treats Mousse.
• Rebuild World: Kanae, despite being a Genki Girl unprofessional Blood Knight who will provoke a fight whenever possible, takes offense at how Akira fights with the safeties off on his Powered Armor, relying on Nanomachine Healing Potion to withstand the constant muscle and bone damage sustained from fighting like that.
• Re:Monster: Rou, despite his bloodlust to use his Cannibalism Superpower, and other dubious practices like drugging people into becoming a Sex Slave, is absolutely aghast by the First Queen being a Covert Pervert who does things like lick silverware he ate with, or use magic to peep on Rou while he sleeps. Being unsettled by her helps make Rou give into her kingdom in a negotiation.
• Rent-A-Girlfriend:
  • Kazuya is a Loser Protagonist who can be rather spineless, which is part of the reason why he finds it difficult to admit to his family and friends that Chizuru is a rental girlfriend rather than his actual girlfriend. As a result of this misunderstanding, Kazuya's father thinks Kazuya is borrowing money from Chizuru (since he saw Kazuya pay Chizuru for the rental), so he punches Kazuya and offers him 200,000 yen to pay Chizuru back. Despite being strapped for cash enough to need a part-time job, Kazuya refuses the money, and tells Chizuru that he has a conscience.
  • Ruka is rather hostile toward her romantic rival Chizuru, and blackmails Kazuya into giving dating Ruka a test run in exchange for not telling everyone about Chizuru being a rental girlfriend (worth noting that Ruka is also a rental girlfriend). However, Ruka does sympathize with Chizuru's family situation, since Chizuru's grandmother doesn't have long to live, resulting in her calling a ceasefire for their rivalry and showing concern for Chizuru.
• Rosario + Vampire: When Kuyou has Tsukune scheduled for Public Execution, most of the crowd is cheering for it, but one monster states that despite his hatred of humans, he still thinks having Tsukune executed just for being human is too much.
• Rurouni Kenshin: Sanosuke admits that despite his disagreements with various antagonists and rivals (ranging from Saitou, Shishio, to Anji), they were at least people he could respect. Inui Banjin on the other hand, was merely an arrogant Blood Knight.
• Nodoka, in Saki, has repeatedly expressed that she doesn't believe in the existence of superstitions, even when her opponents make improbable draws right in front of her. In a flashback in Saki Achiga-hen, she hears her old friend Kuro telling her that because her Missing Mom told her to value the dora more, she has chosen to draw dora over completing her hand, and believes that as a result, she is more likely to draw dora tiles. Ako asks Nodoka if she's going to say her usual thing about superstitions, and Nodoka says she can't believe what Kuro is saying, but doesn't want to tell her off, either, possibly because she realizes the personal significance of it to Kuro.
• Shi ni Aruki: Tokiko Kurosu is disturbingly calm whenever talking about death, to the point of callously mocking the idea that anyone should mourn a loved one's demise. She's not at all bothered about how most of her adoptive family despises her for having such a blasé attitude about the subject, especially when people in their family start dying and she has no reaction to it, and even her best friend insists that Tokiko could stand to be less brutally honest about her (lack of) feelings on the matter. However, this doesn't mean she isn't still appalled by murder; when she learns about how Sou Aoya felt guilty about killing his adoptive little sister Ai's parents, and decided to "purify" himself by killing and consuming the blood of "pure" people over a period of two years, she's completely disgusted and concludes that the person in question is insane.
• In Sk8 the Infinity, it's well-established that the "S" racing course has an "anything goes" policy, with things like unnecessary roughness, manhandling your opponent, going off-course, taking shortcuts off of cliffs, using A.I. assistance, and throwing fireworks being totally fair game. The racers all have their tactics, some preferring to keep things clean and fair while others have no issue fighting dirty, and the spectators generally don't care as long as it's a good show. Many even admire the racers for their more daring stunts. However, when Adam straight-up beats Cherry over the head with his skateboard and sends him to the hospital, the response from the onlookers is Stunned Silence, and not in an admiring way. Everyone knows Adam is incredibly rough with his opponents and has caused injuries before, but such brutality is genuinely shocking to everyone. Later, when he attempts to pull the same trick on Reki and seems to be outright trying to kill the boy, absolutely no one is impressed. Even when Adam wins the race (by a literal second), everyone is cheering for Reki and not acknowledging or applauding Adam at all.
• Spy X Family:
  • Eden Academy frequently stages fake scenarios to test the families applying to the school, such as one student pretending to be trapped in a sewer drain. Nevertheless, Henry Henderson, who is very exacting in his standards for elegance and very demanding on the families, is horrified when a stampede of farm animals terrorizes the school grounds and demands to know whose idea it was. Turns out, no one's, it was an entirely legitimate threat caused by the animals breaking free of their pens. Even a comically strict school for the elite isn't going to actually risk the lives of their applicants.
  • Murdoch Swan is infamous for being a bitter, spiteful man who takes his frustrations over his awful home life on any families that seem happier or more stable. He gets away with it because because his name carries significant weight in the school, making it difficult to punish him. Henderson, who viewed the Forgers as very promising applicants, is furious with Swan for his misconduct and punches him so hard in the face it knocks him flat on his back. Henderson realizes that he'll get in serious trouble for this however, since assaulting your coworkers is a serious offense, but he nevertheless believes that it was Worth It, believing that those who back down in the face of the powerful have no right to call themselves educators.
    • Swan's connections only take him so far however, since Henderson is only demoted from his position rather than being fired. Henderson is also a well-respected figure in Eden College and Swan's reputation is implied to be well known amongst the faculty. His threats against Henderson ultimately amount to very little in the long run.
• In Squid Girl, Sanae is a cute but slightly nutty girl with an obsessive liking to the titular protagonist, which the latter doesn't like one bit since Sanae has No Sense of Personal Space. However, for as much of a Stalker with a Crush as Sanae is, she wouldn't make a move on Squid Girl while the latter is helpless from heat stroke.
• In Sword Art Online, Akihiko Kayaba, the baddie of the first half of the first season, may have caused 4000+ people to be killed off just for his imagination, but he does have a sense of honor and keeps his own rules even if it meant losing everything. When Sugou Nobuyuki (aka Oberon) spammed his Game Master status and attempted to sexually assault Asuna in the second to last episode of Season 1, just as Kirito is about to give up, his spirit shows up to give him a Heroic Second Wind and lent his system administrator status to allow Kirito to take Oberon down.
  • In the Alicization arc, Takeru Higa, who's involved in a morally questionable research project to create Fluctlight capable of fighting in a war, is noticeably reluctant when Seijirou Kikuoka asks Higa to start up a Fluctlight version of himself, which becomes unstable and collapses in minutes after becoming aware of the real Higa, as a demonstration.
  • In Progressive, Kibaou is a hothead whose distrust for beta testers and rivalry with Lind and his faction result in the clearers being divided into the Aincrad Liberation Squad and Dragon Knight Brigade, led by Kibaou and Lind, respectively. However, when Joe, one of Kibaou's subordinates, as well as an implied agent provocateur for Laughing Coffin, insists that Kibaou walk out of a tense negotiation with the DKB over who gets to do a quest, Kibaou angrily tells Joe to shut up. This, along with how Kibaou gains a measure of grudging respect for Kirito after he helps resolve the issue, shows that Kibaou isn't entirely unreasonable.
• In That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Rimuru Tempest will often forgive people that had disrespected, attacked, or even tried to kill him and put them to work in building his settlement, often to the suprise of some like the Orcs. This is Justified because those he do forgive are remorseful of their actions, and that he views seeking revenge and continued fighting as a lose-lose situation. However, to the unrepentent trying to avoid punishment or take advantage of his kindness, he will give them a serious beating at a minimum.
• Touge Oni: The kami Hitokoto-Nushi grants wishes to those who make it to the peak of her mountain, knowing full well that many will die during the climb. When an inn is built to serve the pilgrims, she forbids the innkeeper from selling alcohol; she admires those who risk their lives for a wish, even those who die in the attempt, but sees alcohol-related accidents as poor ways to die. She also approves of the innkeeper selling canes, provided that they're sturdy.
• Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: Protagonist Leon is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who will Troll, insult, and cheat others with glee, but Leon is a strong believer in Thou Shalt Not Kill. Having to kill makes Leon Stress Vomit, and makes him a Shell-Shocked Veteran.
• In Urusei Yatsura, Ataru Moroboshi gets a chance to literally create his dream future, where he finally has the harem of all the attractive female characters. However, this harem is lacking one expected member: Lum. Eavesdropping, he learns that his counterpart drove Lum away by selling all of her worldly goods and forcing her to work like a slave to provide the money for his harem, refusing to feed her, and forcing her to sleep on the roof all alone. An enraged Ataru, literally trembling with rage as he listens to this, finally clobbers his counterpart with a Hyperspace Mallet whilst screaming at him that he deserved to lose Lum for such behavior. Ataru then destroys that future by throwing the corresponding doorknob into the void, proclaiming that a harem without Lum isn't worth it.
• World's End Harem: Not Shion Hoshino but her two unnamed friends that appear in a flashback. Shion Hoshino was the most beautiful and most popular girl at school and one of the few people who don’t bullies Shota Doi. However, while Shion wasn't actively cruel, she tended to ignore Shota and be highly indifferent to his ordeal. When Shion and two of her friends wanted to eat lunch on their school rooftop and saw Shota being stripped of his clothes and bullied, her friends became uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but to her friends' shock, Shion said she didn’t want to leave, proceeded to sit down, and eat her lunch while ignoring what’s happening to Shota. This is notable because these two unnamed girls were the only ones of Shota Doi's classmates shown to be uncomfortable with him being bullied. It implied that they left the rooftop because they could not stand seeing Shota being bullied.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Seto Kaiba
    • He's perfectly okay with endangering infants, allowing a homicidal maniac trying to kill the main characters out of revenge, and attacking innocent people, but when other people do something similar or worse, he feels compelled to stop them.
    • When Marik forces Yugi and Jonouchi into a deathmatch and rigs it so that only one of them can come out alive, Kaiba is immediately appalled and runs to help, only stopping because Mokuba is being held at knifepoint. In the manga, he's also the one to save Jonouchi from drowning after the duel by dropping his key to him.

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