Nice Guy / Literature

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• Simona Ahrnstedt has a few examples.
  • Sofia and Johan Överenskommelser are so close to being flawless and perfect, that they can never cause any drama on their own. But still, they remain close friends/beta couple to the more complex alpha couple Beatrice and Seth.
  • Ossian Bergman in "De skandalösa" is a Dork Knight and a Gentleman and a Scholar, who seems to be a genuinely nice person. And yet, he's a close friend to the much more complex male protagonist Gabriel Gripklo. And in the same novel, the sweet-natured Proper Lady Venus Dag och Natt is a female example of this trope.
• The protagonist of Along The Winding Road. While Charlotte is necessarily a tough girl after living through the Zombie Apocalypse, she's managed to retain her optimism and does her best to be kind to even the questionable travelers she comes across.
• In Ascendance of a Bookworm, Myne is generally very sweet and caring, though she does have a habit of not realizing when she's causing problems for other people. This actually bothers an attendant she gets later on because she interacts with him on a largely equal basis rather than behaving as his superior. To him, this reads as not fulfilling her role to behave with dignity, which reflects badly on him for serving an undignified master. Apart from that, her general good nature often leaves her unable to see when others might try to exploit her.
• The Asterisk War:
  • Ayato is a polite young man who believes there is goodness in everyone.
  • Same with Kirin Toudou, who's sweet, kind, and polite despite her shyness.
• From the Jane Austen universe, Colonel Brandon and Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility and Charles Bingley and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.
• Despite being a moron, and sustaining physical abuse from his friends, Akihisa from Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts is generally a nice guy, and even HELPS the same friends who hurt him on a daily basis when they are in need.
• Bazil Broketail:
  • Though he can be sarcastic and teases Bazil at times, Relkin is fundamentally a good, kind young man. In his very first scene, he helps out Lagdalen with her duty and convinces Bazil too as well, despite it having nothing to do with him.
  • Barring situations where he acts like an a jerk towards Relkin, Bazil is very personable and polite — if not always well-mannered — to all the people he meets. Even his jerkiness to Relkin's mostly in jest.
  • Lessis is a highly compassionate and kind woman at heart.
  • Lagdalen is driven to help others and a very pleasant young woman most of the time.
  • Evander is a down-to-earth and compassionate person, eager to help those in need.
  • Nesessitas is definitely one of the nicest and most kind-hearted of all dragons appearing in the series. It's best evidenced with her behaviour when Bazil goes missing. She basically takes care of Relkin in his absence, comes to his defence when he picks a fight with Jorse the cavalryman (who enraged Relkin by spouting lewd lies about Lagdalen) and nearly gets killed by him, even comforts him when he has trouble sleeping and starts sobbing out of worry about his own dragon. Later she keeps Bazil's spirit up when they're both imprisoned in Tummuz Orgmeen. This makes it all the more heartbreaking when she is killed.
• Black Bullet:
  • Enju Aihara is a 10-year-old cursed child and Initiator who (like many of the cursed children) is treated as trash in society, yet she has a kind, polite, friendly personality and a sweet young girl at heart. So nice that you want to take her home as a little sister.
  • Seitenshi is a 16-year-old girl and a Reasonable Authority Figure ruler of Tokyo who happens to serve as a caring and compassionate motherly figure to many of the characters in the series. Heck, she's even pushing for civil rights for the cursed children.
  • Tina Sprout was ordered by Ayn Rand to assassinate Seitenshi. Despite being an assassin ordered around by Ayn Rand, Tina happens to be a very friendly girl at heart who happen to befriend Rentaro when she first met him. In fact, her kind-hearted nature of her personality and her hesitation to kill someone makes Rentaro realize that Tina isn't an evil person at heart and isn't the kind of person who is willing to kill someone out of free will.
• Blanche, The Blue-Nosed Witch, is very nice and polite for a young witch, being kind to Tagalong Kid Butch and the rest of the children and very well behaved the whole night. The most mischief she gets up to is when Child Hater Old Man Skinner is nasty to her and the others, and then she returns the favor of a trick back to him.
• Cat Chaser: Moran is friendly, laid-back, and tolerates quite a lot from Tyner and Rafi. He's no pushover, however, and won't tolerate threats.
• A Court of Thorns and Roses:
  • Beneath the roughness, Cassian is probably one of the genuinely nicest people in the series.
  • Mor is one of the other kindest characters in the series, immediately welcoming Feyre to the Night Court and telling her that if she needs anything at all, she can come to her. She doesn't even care that she doesn't know Feyre or that Feyre is rather rude and distant at the time.
  • Elain is by far the sweetest character in the entire series. Feyre mentions that Elain once used all her money buying gifts for her sisters once, not for herself, and while she's spooked by the Fae, she treats them with nothing but polite kindness.
• Cradle Series:
  • Lindon is shockingly kind and compassionate considering his upbringing, constantly worried about slaves and workers who are getting hurt by the titanic events he's involved in. His entire reason for becoming stronger is so that he can save Sacred Valley from a coming cataclysm, despite the fact that no one in the Valley except maybe his family cares for him in the slightest.
  • Eithan dislikes the constant dog-eat-dog nature of the world, where the strong bully the weak and everyone tries to fight everyone else. He has repeatedly forgiven major slights to his honor that he could have used as excuses to execute his enemies, and often uses his omniscience to make minor corrections to make people happier (such as moving a ladder half an inch so that it won't fall).
• Jinto from Crest of the Stars, almost to the point of self-effacement. He's also Iron Woobie and The Quisling at the same time and thus makes an interesting protagonist despite having a less flashy personality than some of the other characters.
• The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids:
  • Marksmanship-522 is all-around friendly, heroic, and humble character, to the point of having a minor identity crisis at one point about whether he is perhaps a boring person due to his lack of any particular quirks other than niceness.
  • The Prince of the House in Marksmanship-526 and the Secret Society Stratagem is acknowledged by the Three as "a nice chap" even though they are clearly unsettled by his unwitting abilities.
• Date A Live has two prominent examples: Shido, who risks life and limb to protect the Spirits and give them the opportunity to have normal lives, and Yoshino, who would rather run away from a fight instead of harming another living creature.
• Daughter of the Sun: Orsina is a kind, earnest young woman who as a paladin really wants to help others.
• Johnny Smith from The Dead Zone is extremely nice, concerned about others, excited about teaching, and so obviously well-meaning that it's impossible to hold a grudge against him. Even after it becomes obvious to him that the only way to be sure of averting nuclear holocaust is to kill Greg Stillson, he procrastinates and delays as long as possible because murder is wrong.
• Demon King Daimao: Despite his damning status as the future Demon King, Akuto Sai is probably one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet and only wants to help make the world a better place. Will anyone listen to him? NO!!!
• Discworld's A Hat Full of Sky has Petulia Gristle as its resident Nice Girl. Aside from being sweet and gentle to everything that breathes, here are some of her qualifications:
  • After Tiffany gets humiliated, she flies her all the way back to her house, even if she didn't have to.
  • She goes all the way back there the next day, just to see how Tiff was doing after that evening.
    • Unfortunately Tiff, possessed by a creature created at the beginning of time who locks away the consciences of its hosts, insults her, and Petulia runs away in tears.
  • When she learns what happened, she goes back again, fully ready to fight an eldritch abomination for her friend, even if said friend belittled her to her face just yesterday and Petulia had nothing that could even generously qualify as a weapon or defense against the abomination.
• In Divergent, Al was the most sensitive of the Dauntless initiates, and therefore one of the kindest. Unfortunately, this is what led to his demise.
• Ishmael and Bill from Don't Call Me Ishmael!. Ishmael is friendly to everyone and in the first book of the series he tries to stand up to the bullies making his life hell for a younger boy. Bill is The Quiet One and has a very gentle personality.
• Joshua from Dora Wilk Series is the nicest guy in any given group. He can't stand violence, he works in a school for psychically troubled children, he lets people cry on his shoulder and he's always there for his friends, hiding his own problems from them because he doesn't want to trouble them. On the other hand, Beware the Nice Ones, because when he Manifests, nothing can stop him.
• The Dresden Files: Despite being a holy warrior sworn fight all that will oppress humanity, Michael Carpenter still manages to ooze niceness. He's catholic, but respects other people's choice of religion. He has a large family, every member of which he loves unconditionally.
• Durarara!!: There's Tom Tanaka, who's primary character trait appears to be that he is the lone normal, untraumatized, nice guy in a city of absolute nutters. Bizarrely, it's this very trait that let him befriend the most unstable character in the series, Shizuo Heiwajima.
• The Empirium Trilogy: Audric is a gentle and loving soul, willing to give second chances and hear others out even when it doesn't seem in his best interests to.
• The Enchanted Files: In Diary of a Mad Brownie / Cursed, while Angus is out in the yard one day, he nearly gets beaned by a soccer ball, and has to zig and zag to avoid getting hit by it, finally diving into a rabbit hole. The rabbit is startled, but quite understanding when Angus explains and invites him to stay inside until it's safe.
• Evillious Chronicles:
  • Rajih Assad is loyal, chivalrous, and deeply concerned for the well-being of his friends.
  • Lukana Octo is very nice and helpful, even to complete strangers, and often acts as a mediator to settle disputes.
  • Ayn is deeply loyal to his friends and one of the only people in Yatski to treat Clarith well. He even ends up giving his life to get Michaela and Clarith away from the Lucifenian soldiers.
  • Michaela is very friendly, kind, and curious, and especially protective of those close to her like Clarith, Gumillia, and Elluka. She does develop a somewhat more snarky personality after becoming the new Millenium Tree.
  • Ayn Anchor is an honest and trustworthy policeman who wishes to live up to his namesake and protect those in danger.
  • Nyoze Octo is very kind-hearted and has a strong sense of justice. One of the last things he does is write a letter to his brother Gammon, asking him not to seek revenge against Nemesis should she kill him, knowing she'd only do it because she was forced to.
• Family Skeleton Mysteries: Sid, both before and after he died.
• Art of Flawed , though a bit cowardly at times, proves himself to be a truly good person who cares about Celestine, even after they have an argument.
• Robin from The Girl from the Miracles District is kind, polite, provides a shoulder to cry on, knows when to keep secrets and just beams with niceness, to the point that Nikita spends large chunk of the book suspecting that it's all a very amateur and transparent act.
• The Giver:
  • Jonas is intuitive, understanding, sensitive, kind, well-meaning, polite, and wanting to do what's best for the Community.
  • Fiona is caring and considerate, which makes her a good fit for the job of caring for old people. Although her job of "releasing" old people is not so nice, although she doesn't understand the implications of such an act.
• One of the most Lampshaded qualities about Mary Terrafino and Edilio Escobar from the GONE series is that, out of a town with children 400 strong, these two are the only people who aren't complete douches at least half the time, or worse. That includes the hero, the love interest, the sympathetic villains, the goofy best friend, the supporting token minorities and even the extras. Even the extras in this series have a jerkass mode. By default. It's often mentioned that Edilio and Mary are the only real kind-hearted, selfless people there, even though they often have the most to be selfish about...
• Harry Potter:
  • Harry is decent and honorable and good, a friend to werewolves and Muggle-borns.
  • Remus Lupin. He's spent his entire life being shunned and ostracized due to his lycanthropy, but he's never turned against to the dark like so many of his fellow werewolves. Instead, he is one of the kindest, most fair-minded, good-natured people you could hope to meet. He tries to leave his wife, Tonks, and his unborn child to protect them from the Fantastic Racism they would suffer as the family of a werewolf. He realises the error of his decision after a What the Hell, Hero? from Harry, returning to his family, and is ecstatic with happiness when his son is born.
  • Neville Longbottom doesn't have jerkassery as one of his flaws.
  • Albus Dumbledore. He is calm in nearly all circumstances and is polite to every person he meets, including his enemies.
  • Arthur Weasley is a loving husband and father, and a perfectly pleasant person all around and extroverted. He also doesn't share the bigoted attitude towards Muggles and Muggle-borns that's common among purebloods.
  • Cedric Diggory. He's in Hufflepuff House, which seems to be the house for ordinary nice guys (and girls). Modest, accomplished, fair minded, chivalrous; Harry finds it hard to dislike him even though Cedric beats him out in dating Cho Chang.
• The eponymous Haruka from Haruka Nogizaka's Secret is a really, really nice moe girl and also, an otaku.
• Karal from the Mage Storms trilogy of the Heralds of Valdemar. He's so nice, in fact, that he's terribly ill-suited for the web of political intrigue he's thrust into by the death of his mentor, Ulrich, Karsite ambassador to Valdemar. However, as a priest (and an honest one, even), this very attribute turns out to be his greatest asset in making friends with the Heralds.
• Esmeralda in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a kind-hearted and innocent girl beloved by the citizens of Paris for her nature. Best shown when she offers water to Quasimodo as he is being flogged. Even though he was there because he tried to kidnap her, she was the only person present who showed any sympathy for him.
• Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games. Averted a bit in Mockingjay when he is hijacked (completely brainwashed) by the Capitol. He eventually overcomes it, though.
  • Also, Finnick Odair. Easily one of the most genuinely friendly people in this series.
• Inkmistress: Asra is a kind and compassionate girl who doesn't want to hurt anyone, though she will very reluctantly in defense or herself or others. She's trained as a healer, appropriately enough, and much prefers caring for people.
• Jeeves and Wooster: Bertie Wooster is a sweet Upper-Class Twit who constantly finds himself in trouble because of his niceness and his inability to say "no" to anyone. Of course, everyone constantly takes advantage of him, but he's never bitter in the least. (Or, if he is, he's very quickly talked out of even that.)
• In Johannes Cabal the Necromancer: Its part of the Black Comedy tone of the book and how close to being a villain the titular character that his brother, a vampire is by far the nicer guy-he and Frank Barrow (a retired policeman who serves as an antagonist to Cabal in the last few chapters) are the only truly nice guys in the book. In Horst's ideal world, he'd drift from easy job to easy job sleeping with an endless stream of women (later book goes in-depth to explore that Horst is a wholesome womanizer and contrasts him to a more villainous type) and not go out of his way to bother or hurt anybody. Frank likewise would make a traditional Hero in any sort of crime story.
• John Segundus of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is such a nice guy it hurts. He writes an article praising Norrell even after the man destroyed his livelihood because he thinks it's for the benefit of English magic, he's willing to defend Lady Pole with his life and ends up being the first person to realise she's under an enchantment, and as a result he's the only magician that Lady Pole can actually stand. The Narrator lays it on thick at times, but he really is just that nice, and it's demonstrated so clearly through his actions as well as descriptions that it can be easily forgiven.
  Narrator: For who can remain angry with Mr Segundus? I dare say there are people in the world who are able to resent goodness and amiability, whose spirits are irritated by gentleness - but I am glad to say that Jonathan Strange was not of their number.
• Journey to Chaos:
  • Eric acts nice to everyone because he doesn't want to provoke conflict. In the first book it's because he's a doormat, and afterward because it's a hassle.
  • Nolien does his best to be a gentleman, but he's also kinda snobby.
  • Ax Arsenal calls Tiza a "Nice girl whose a little rough around the edges". Then his son chimes up and says "and everywhere else".
• Knaves on Waves has Captain Trigger, a true gentleman who abhors swearing, treats everyone he meets with kindness and respect, and goes out of his way to help others in need.
• In The Land of Green Ginger, Prince Abu Ali is handsome, amiable, considerate, optimistic, industrious, and even-tempered. Nobody in his father's court knows what to do with him.
• Isaac Asimov's "Light Verse":
  • The narrative emphasizes that John Semper Travis is the last person anyone would expect to be murdered because he was quiet and introverted, successful and with an artistic hobby; light-sculptures.
  • The narrative emphasizes that Avis Lardner is the last person anyone would expect to commit murder because, in addition to being an Idle Rich, she is also "the gentlest and kindest human being one could imagine".
• The Man Who Carried Trouble has Bill, an overly nice guy who is having a horrible week.
• Mercy Watson: Mrs. Watson dotes on Mercy, offers refreshments to everyone, and even insists on bringing inside a thief and feeding him before he gets arrested, solely because she thinks he looks a little small.
• The Mortal Instruments
  • In City of Glass, Clary describes Sebastian Verlac as someone she thinks is easy to have fun with. Only applies to the real Sebastian, who by now is a Posthumous Character.
  • Apart from her rude questions to Simon, which are probably due to naivety and Fantastic Racism then genuine malice, Aline Penhallow is fairly polite and even explains to Clary why she kissed Jace.
• My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!:
  • Catarina used to be a spoiled brat until she hit her head one day and got back the memories of her past life as a normal schoolgirl. Unable to take her noble title so seriously anymore, she became super outgoing and friendly, as well as completely blind to things like social status. And maybe she gave herself some brain damage in the process. Furthermore, since Catarina knows that her spoiled behavior was going to lead either to exile or to dying in one of several horrible ways, she keeps trying to avert her bad ends... but for the most part, her plans go nowhere, and instead she averts her bad ends just by being a nice person. For example, her adoptive brother Keith was supposed to grow up bullied by Catarina, shunned by her mother (who mistakenly believed Keith to be her husband's illegitimate child), and starved for affection to the point that he became a shameless womanizer—and he murdered Catarina in one ending. In the new timeline, Catarina's initial attempts to be nice to him backfire, but her apology endears him to her, her mother ends up discussing the situation with her father and realizing that Keith isn't his bastard, and they grow up as a happy family. In fact, she's so kindhearted that she's outright immune to the negitive emotion enhancing effects of dark magic.
  • Maria, meanwhile, remains a kind and considerate girl regardless of the timeline: in the timelines where Catarina remains an Alpha Bitch, she helps her Love Interest deal with their issues; in the main story's timeline, she brings Catarina sweets and helps her with her studying and homework; and in the timeline of the Verge of Destruction Arc spinoff, her reaction to Catarina's sudden change of personality after hitting her head is genuine worry over whether she's alright, despite the fact Catarina and her cronies had been in the middle of bullying her.
• Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!:
  • Takehiko Yoichi from wears the term "nice guy" like a glove. Being a minor character, he doesn't get much screentime, but he's cool enough to pass off Nyarko's madcap antics as merely being "energetic", and at one point remarks "My best friend has a cute girlfriend, and that makes me as happy as if it had happened to me." About the biggest thing that's happened to him so far is temporarily having his body hijacked by a time-traveling alien extremist.
  • Hasta as well. Cute, sweet, cuddly and good-hearted young boy. So much so that of all the characters in Mahiro's harem that consist of Cthulhu Mythos, he's the only person who didn't receive the wrong end of the fork from Mahiro.
• Of Fire and Stars: Dennaleia is a kind, sweet girl who just wants to help others. She does harm people in a couple cases, but it always is either while protecting herself, Mare or due to being manipulated. Dennaleia's always shocked at herself over doing so too.
• Isaac Fisher from Outsourced is kind, considerate, and unwilling to take action that could cause future harm. This turns out to be a bad move.
• Lacey from Paper Towns. She comes off as spoiled and a bit shallow, but very, very loyal to her friends and ultimately glad to be friends with Q, Ben and Radar.
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The titular character. He can be hot-headed and sarcastic, but is thoroughly compassionate, selfless and loyal to a fault.
  • Carries into The Heroes of Olympus, the Sequel Series: Percy is hand-picked to save the world (again) precisely because his trusting nature and kindness enables him to bring people together. And this is within a team of nice guys, as Jason, Frank and Leo all qualify in their own ways.
• Alice in The Poison Apples is this, choosing to put her dad's happiness before her own feelings by lying about how she feels about boarding school and generally just wanting to make him happy. She's the only one of the three main girls to make an effort with her Wicked Stepmother in the beginning. She's also easily the nicest one of the three of them, lacking Reena's Brutal Honesty and Molly's occasionally mean inner monologue. She's the most hesitant of the three to enact the revenge plans (and isn't involved in coming up with them in the first place) and it takes the most to push her over the edge into being unfriendly.
• In Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai pretty much all the main characters fit. Sakuta and Mai are very kindhearted and pleasant individuals, ready to help the ones in need and sacrifice themselves to save others, as Mai did. The other characters, such as Shoko and Sakuta's best friends Futaba and Kunimi, count as well. That said, this is is a rather idealistic series, especially compared to similar psychological novels.
• Renegades: So long as his mother's murder isn't concerned, Adrian is the world's purest cinnamon roll, always ready to listen and help out with whatever troubles his teammates. He stops by to cheer up a bunch of kids at a birthday party, helps stray urchins get food and a place to sleep, and has seemingly endless stores of empathy. No wonder Nova falls for him like a meteor.
• Shakugan no Shana: Yuji is an interesting variation of this whose niceness actually does get him girls. Ironically, instead of stifling romantic conflict, his niceness is also his greatest flaw, actually creating romantic conflict in the first half of Season 2, where he completely fails to realize that he can't give attention to every girl who's attracted to him without hurting the feelings of someone else, thus making him an accidental Master of the Mixed Message. And his friend Hayato does call him out on that. Eventually, he becomes less so through the course of the series and averts it after merging with the Snake of the Festival.
• A Song of Ice and Fire:
  • Brienne of Tarth. She's kind, generous, honourable and loyal. Unfortunately, these traits are not useful for a woman who lives in a Crapsack World.
  • Arys Oakheart, being the most unwilling of the Kingsguard to beat Sansa (and does so as lightly as possible), and is steadfastly loyal to Myrcella, whom he is sworn to protect.
  • Garlan Tyrell is mentioned a few times as a Master Swordsman before his brief appearance at Joffrey's wedding establishes him as a surprisingly nice guy. He's one of the few people who gives Tyrion his due credit for saving the city and makes pleasant conversation with him throughout the procession. He even chastises the king for abusing Tyrion.
  • Davos Seaworth is one of the most decent-hearted and kind people in the entire series. Though he has been knighted and raised to the nobility by Stannis, being a Working-Class Hero gives him far more insight into the plight of the smallfolk and those most of the nobility consider beneath them, also showing himself to be a loving father and husband (though feels guilty about knowing other woman). Davos remains constantly kind and a Friend to All Children, even going against Stannis' orders by smuggling away Edric Storm to prevent them being burnt by Stannis.
  • Prince Baelor "Breakspear" Targaryen from "The Hedge Knight" is set up as The Wise Prince, with the potential to embody The Good King. He helps Dunk when they embarrass themselves in front of him, and later acts as one of Dunk's champions in a Trial by Seven, on the grounds Dunk protected the weak and innocent as every Knight should (Dunk attacked Baelor's sadistic nephew Aerion "Brightflame" Targaryen who was torturing a woman). Sadly Baelor dies when his brother Maekar, Aerion's father, accidentally strikes him a fatal blow to the head.
  • Most of the Stark family, be it Ned, Robb, Bran, or Ned's illegitimate son, Jon Snow — all of whom are honorable, good-hearted, and concerned with doing the right thing. Ned is shown to be greatly respected and admired by the smallfolk under his care, many of whom are still loyal to the Starks, even after many of them have been wiped out. Robb is dutiful and moral and tries his best to do right; Bran — like his father and brothers Robb and Jon — is dutiful and compassionate; Jon is definitely a Stark in all but name and is among the most compassionate and moral characters in this Crapsack World. However, you do not want to piss a Stark off.
    • Ned Stark's daughters, Sansa and Arya, likewise start out as compassionate and good-hearted albeit in very different ways, with Sansa as a gentle, idealistic proper lady and Arya a down-to-earth tomboy one of the few noble characters in the series not to care about class status, is furious at how the likes of Joffrey mistreat lowborns and risks her life several times to save innocent people. However, their struggles surviving in a Crapsack World begin to train the kindness out of them.
  • Daenerys Targaryen is likewise kind, gentle-hearted, and compassionate but will retaliate against her enemies.
  • Jon Snow's best friend, Samwell Tarly, also qualifies as he is kind, open, and compassionate.
  • Arya's best friend Gendry, despite his surliness is quick to defend the vulnerable, joins the Brotherhood Without Banners because he admires their ideals and was last seen caring for a house of children orphaned by the war.
• Dean from Tanya Huff's Summon the Keeper is so well-grounded people instinctively look for roots when they see him. He does housework, never swears, and is really handsome as well. Oh, and he's a twenty-year-old virgin.
• Spirit Animals: Along with Jhi the panda, Rumfuss the boar is one of the nicest spirit animals. So much so that when his bitter master is missing his true spirit animal and a part of himself, instead of showing resentment, Rumfuss gets to the root of the problem and helps him out.
• Sweet & Bitter Magic: Wren is a kind girl who has dutifully taken care of her ill father, even though it's hard on her, and always shows compassion toward the less fortunate. She's disturbed and appalled how Tamsin is callous in contrast (as she's incapable of caring due to a curse), chiding her and insisting they help the needy anyway, to Tamsin's annoyance at first.
• Most of the main cast of Sword Art Online qualify, being friendly, amiable sorts. This includes the protagonist Kirito, his girlfriend Asuna, Kirito’s sister Suguha, his best friend Klein, the Beast Tamer Silica, and his partner in the Underworld Eugeo.
• Tales of the Pack: Duane. Lexie says he's one of the kindest, gentlest men she's ever known.
• Third Time Lucky: And Other Stories of the Most Powerful Wizard in the World: Although generally lazy and indifferent to the world's affairs beyond her house, Magdelene's a kind woman overall, coming out to help others periodically.
• Rimuru Tempest from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is a very personable guy. Back when he was a human he threw himself in front of a guy's knife to save his co-worker and girlfriend's lives without hesitation, and in his slime reincarnation his excitable and kind nature have allowed him to befriend an imprisoned dragon, quell a war between goblins and wolves and make both sides become friends, and form friendships with some of the most powerful beings in the new world. It does help that he's got one of the most broken power and skill sets around, but he always tries to settle things peacefully and politely before using them, and that has earned him the respect, admiration, or love of all his subordinates. He didn't even try to form his own kingdom, it just kind of came together from all the people his attitude united. That being said, if you launch an unprovoked attack on his kingdom, you will regret it.
• Quite a few characters within Tolkien's Legendarium.
  • Beleg Strongbow from "The Children of Hurin" is a heroic and noble Elf who is Turin's best friend. When they leave Doriath he goes looking for them and joins them in fighting the Orcs. When Turin is captured by Orcs Beleg risks his life to save them. Sadly Turin mistakes him for an Orc and kills him.
  • Balin the Dwarf seems the kindliest of the Dwarves in "The Hobbit". He is the only Dwarf to enter Erebor with Bilbo, though doesn't go into Smaug the Dragon's lair, and later comes to visit Bilbo. In the Trilogy of "The Hobbit", this is emphasized further.
• Ryuuji Takasu from Toradora!. He's a tad obsessive-compulsive and has the Face of a Thug, but he's reliable, patient, supportive and hard-working.
• Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle: Lux is defined by his righteousness and benevolence, to the point he destroyed the very kingdom he was supposed to inherit, simply because his father was an evil bastard.
• Vikus from The Underland Chronicles, would much rather talk through differences than fight over them.
• Mason Ashford from Vampire Academy is friendly, pleasant, chivalrous, psychologically well-balanced, and heroic at heart.
• Warrior Cats:
  • Onestar was once this, but when he became the WindClan leader, he Took a Level in Jerkass.
  • Brackenfur too. In fact, he's one of the nicest cats in the series.
  • Billystorm, Leafstar's mate from SkyClan's Destiny.
  • Shellheart, the father of Crookedstar and Oakheart.
  • Even Blackstar himself temporarily became this. It causes Lionblaze to jokingly say "Who are you, and what have you done with Blackstar?"
• Rack of the Whateley Universe. He's a dwarf on top of being a mutant, but he has several extremely pretty female friends because he treats them well. And he makes the time to explain to Chaka why she should watch out for the dreaded Sahar.
• In the Indian novel The White Tiger: Ashok, who is frequently described by Balram as "virtuous."
• Worm:
  • The superhero Legend, leader of the Protectorate, inspires an almost universal "he's so nice!" reaction in people who meet him, and is generally considered the nicest member of the Triumvirate, with Alexandria being cold and distant and nobody liking Eidolon. As it turns out, he's also the only member of the Triumvirate that isn't aware of the horrible crimes perpetrated by Cauldron.
  • There's also a twisted inversion of this trope in the form of a villain actually named "Nice Guy." He pretty much renders everyone around him incapable of regarding him as a threat, and most people actually trust him and think of him as a friend, allowing him to calmly walk up to people and start murdering them where they stand, with their friends blithely standing by and unable to do anything about it because he's such a nice guy.

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