Token Good Teammate / Other Media

Asian Animation

• Situ from Happy Heroes. He wanted to do justice like Happy S., but he was rejected, and instead ended up joining Losu/Dark Demon's team. He befriends Happy S. and is a good friend of him until he is killed in season 14 episode 32.
• Mechamato: One of the Cone Konchos is friendlier than the rest, acting as the translator to others for his Pokémon Speak brethren, being in awe of the hero's feats and appearing the most eager to apologise on behalf of the others.

Films — Animation

• Phoebus is this in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He is a professional soldier who however has moral standards that contrast with the orders he is supposed to follow. Especially when after freeing himself, he takes leadership of the people he was ordered to oppress, and turns them on Frollo's soldiers.
• There is a deleted scene that was cut from the Disney movie Mulan where a soft-hearted Hun tries to rescue a canary only for them both to end up dead soon after.
• Though Sonata Dusk in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks gleefully goes along with the other two siren's plans to Take Over the World via Mind-Control Music Hate Plague, she's shown to have enough virtues that suggest she's at least a nice person when left to her own devices like making punch for everyone, being a friendly (if Innocently Insensitive) enemy to Sunset Shimmer, and actually enjoying Snips and Snails' cringeworthy rap.
• Bronze Tiger from Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay. He has a rule against harming innocents, doesn't share his teammates' selfish natures, and draws his conflicted morality from his religious faith. The movie is about Amanda Waller and several supervillains fighting over the fabled "Get Out Of Hell Free" Card, which allows one person to go straight to Heaven when they die, bypassing divine judgement. Ultimately Bronze Tiger was the one given the card after being mortally wounded by Zoom. Ironically, he was the one character who probably would have gone to Heaven anyway.
• Joy from Inside Out is this to the emotions... she thinks. Her primary function is letting Riley feel happy, and since happiness is the only "positive" emotion, that naturally means she should be in charge all the time, for Riley's sake, right? She does understand that Fear, Anger, and Disgust have their place (mostly in regards to keeping Riley safe), but views them as Necessary Evil, and avoids letting them make memories or stand at the control panel whenever possible. She can't fathom what Sadness is there for, other than to make Riley upset, and does everything she can to prevent her from even doing her job... which leads to a lot of problems, and the main plot. Joy's Character Development is having her realize she's not the Token Good Teammate, and, in fact, none of the emotions are inherently good or bad—they just are, and Riley needs to be able to feel all of them in order to be a truly healthy, functional human being.
• Dumbo: One of the clowns does seem to show genuine concern for Dumbo's well-being, admonishing the others that their ideas for future performances might harm him.

Music

• The Megas give this characterisation to Hard Man (an old boxer whose town clearly reveres him, even after his death) and Clash Man (who's programmed to kill but spends his entire song Fighting from the Inside).

Myths and Religion

• Greek Mythology:
  • Out of all the pantheon, the only male gods in Greek Mythology who aren't Jerkass Gods are Hermes, Dionysus, Hephaestus, and, ironically, Hades. All of whom you should never piss off, however, as they are still gods. Dionysus in particular can drive men and women into frenzies that make them lose all touch with reality and sic them onto people as shown in the tragedy The Bacchae.
  • Then there is Hestia, who is the nicest goddess of them all. So nice in fact that if you do do something to insult, hurt, or anger her it won't be her that does the Greek God overboard rage thing. It will be every other Olympian God as furious as if you insulted them specifically. Don't be mean to Hestia.
  • While most of the Protogenoi are really weird and scary, Phanes was actually rather nice, being the god of life and light.
  • Among the human and demi-god heroes of the myths, there's Perseus. Most of the heroes are shown as deeply flawed and end up falling due to their own arrogance, but Perseus is the only one who's consistently shown as a Nice Guy and never committed any major sins.
• In a pantheon full of astoundingly creative ways to demand Human Sacrifice, Quetzalcoatl was the only Aztec god who didn't require any. Though it's a misconception, since A) Quetzalcoatl did receive "huge amounts of Human Sacrifice" in his Ehecatl aspect, and B) no Aztec god can really be considered evil, just weird.
• Iktomi to the Wakan Sica. Despite being in opposition to the Wakan Tanka, he is responsible for the advancement of humanity, and spreads wisdom even when it's indirect.
• The Bible:
  • Lot's family are the only people deemed worthy of living in the city of Sodom.
  • Likewise, Noah and his family were deemed worthy to live out of the entire world.
  • Among Joseph's brothers (excluding Benjamin), Judah comes off as the most benevolent. He suggests selling him as a slave to prevent his eviler brothers from killing Joseph. Reuben comes close as he wanted to release Joseph from the well.
  • Rahab and her family are the only Canaanites in Jericho who survive their assault by the Israelites, because they sheltered the latter when they came knocking.
• Hindu Mythology:
  • In both Mahabharata and Ramayana, there is a single person in the villainous side who is unambiguously good (Yuyutsu among the Kauravas of Mahabharata, and Vibhisana among the Rakshasas of Ramayana) and decide to defect to the heroes' side, therefore becoming the only survivor among their brothers. There is also another person who is portrayed as good (Vikarna in Mahabharata, Kumbhakarna in Ramayana), but their dharma necessitates them to stay loyal to their evil family, and end up dying, albeit tragically.
  • Duhsala, the only female Kaurava, doesn't participate in the Kurukshetra War and thus survives the war. She has no crimes attributed to her, other than receiving the unfortunate luck of being born on the wrong side of the conflict, and having to witness her brothers, husband, and son being killed. Contrast this with Shurpanakha of Ramayana, who tries to sway Rama to cheat on Sita with her, and, upon being humiliated, reports this back to her Rakshasa brothers, causing Ravana to kidnap Sita and triggering the rest of the book's story.
  • In the Javanese version of Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Kauravas and Rakshasas are advised by the sagely Togog, much like how the Pandavas and Rama are advised by the sagely Semar (who happens to be Togog's younger brother). Togog is just as moral and wise as Semar, and tries to advise his charges to change their evil ways, but they always brush him off.
• Islam: According to his biographies, The Prophet Muhammad never managed to convert his beloved uncle Abu Talib, who remained a polytheist until his death. Abu Talib still protected Muhammad from the jeers and attacks of Mecca's polytheist community, however, to the point that the year he died was known as the "Year of the Great Sorrow".

Podcasts

• In the Firefly game of Cool Kids Table, Caleb is the only member of the Zelda's crew who's not an outright criminal, and is generally opposed to throwing people into space when he doesn't like them.

Pro Wrestling

• Michinoku Pro Wrestling's power stable, Los Salseros Japoneses, Banana Senga stood out for being a mostly non malicious funny man the fans loved.
• When the World Wrestling Federation was invaded by WCW and ECW, Gregory Helms joined WCW's ranks as a standard villain. He soon became the comical superhero character The Hurricane, who was polite to his opponents and eschewed typical heel tactics. After the WCW/ECW Alliance folded, he became a beloved good guy nearly instantly.
• Rob Van Dam is another example from the WWF's "Invasion" angle. Since he was such an over Face, it was teased that he was going to join the WWE with the rest of the Faces, but he never did.
• Samoa Joe in Christopher Daniels's Prophecy and later, Kurt Angle's Main Event Mafia in TNA after Sting was ousted from the group. Joe was actually worse before his nominal Face–Heel Turn. Other than the betrayal itself, which was more stupid than evil, he hardly did anything wrong since joining and in both groups he was only motivated by money.
• Ring of Honor rookie Bobby Dempsey in Larry Sweeney's Sweet N' Sour Inc, which incidentally also made him the group's Butt-Monkey.
• John Cena filled this role when he was forced to join The Nexus.
• Kaval in WWE when he was being "mentored" by LayCool, or more accurately, was the "property" of Laycool.
• Kevin Steen became the token good teammate in S.C.U.M. as after El Generico and Jim Cornette were out of the picture, he suddenly had no more desire to destroy Ring of Honor, but Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs still very much did, as did Matt Hardy, with the rest of the group being some form of Psycho for Hire.
• Lucky 13 in CZW's Nation Of Intoxication. Devon Moore and Danny Havoc are basically Nineties Antiheroes who are capable of nice things but cause most of their own problems through excessive violence and drunken behavior. Lucky's the nicest babyface of the three and as such is frequently the Ricky Morton.
• AJ Styles, and to a lesser extent The Young Bucks in Bullet Club when the group stopped through Ring of Honor. When most of them kept to their rude, cheating, disrespectful ways, Styles was just happy to be back for the most part and utterly disgusted with then World Champion Adam Cole, who was on a quest to ruin the life of Michael Elgin. For that matter, the group's first leader, Prince Devitt, eventually became more noble while the rest of the group...didn't. Styles and the Bucks joined latter, rather than Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson or Tama Tonga getting nicer.
• Donovan Dijak in during The House Of Truth's second run through Ring Of Honor, to the point he slowly managed to turn every other member of the group, except Taeler Hedrix, into a baby face after they inevitably got into fights with him.

Tabletop Games

• Dungeons & Dragons: In the module Prince of Lankhmar, Sabbon Draman is this for the Legions of Doom. In a group of overpowered murderous psychopaths, he is a psychopath who attempts to fairly judge his prisoners, sentencing the 'guilty' to death and letting the "innocents" go (though his colleagues routinely murder most of the 'innocents' behind his back anyway).
• In Nomine: Downplayed — probably "token neutral" is closer — but Lilith is easily the most reasonable and least malevolent Demon Prince (admittedly not exactly a position with stiff competition, but still...). She lacks the casual cruelty of her peers, can usually be trusted to keep her end of any bargains and is just as happy to promote the positive aspects of her Word as violent bloody anarchy. Those angels invested in redeeming Hell rather then destroying it see her as their best "in". In no small part, this is due to her being a Word-bound human rather than an actual demon.
• Magic: The Gathering:
  • In the Scars of Mirrodin block, we see the colors slowly become remade into Phyrexia. (Think the Borg meets the Zerg, with enough Body Horror to go around.) Black is completely Phyrexian in the last set, but red is the last one to be Phyrexianized, because red, being the color of individuality and emotion, is the least Phyrexian. Not surprisingly, red's praetor, Urabrask the Hidden, is the only one of the five that can feel anything akin to compassion. So we get flavor text like Priest of Urabrask and, perhaps hinting at the far future, Urabrask himself.
  • Chromium Rhuell was pretty much the only Elder Dragon to not be entirely shitty, starting off as arrogant but ultimately becoming wise and friendly up to his death. By contrast, the others range from complete psychopaths (Nicol Bolas, Palladia-Mors, Vaevictis Asmodi) to a former benevolent leader turned paranoid tyrant (Arcades Sabboth) to a holier-than-thou detached type (Ugin) to someone without a personality (Piru).
• Pathfinder: The archdevil Dispater's ascended mortal wife Erecura is this for Hell's nobility. Despite having been banished to Hell for stealing secrets from the gods themselves, her canonical alignment is Lawful Neutral (not Lawful Evil like everyone else in Hell), her portfolio doesn't contain any overtly villainous elements, and she's generally non-malicious. In the second edition, where what kind of person gods grant powers is specific to the god rather than the previous "within one step on the alignment chart," she'll bestow divine power on people who are Lawful Good, but not people who are evil.
• Scarred Lands: Denev and Golthain are the only Titans who aren't sociopathic assholes.
• Splicers: One of the split personalities that make up N.E.X.U.S. is Eve, who is secretly on the side of the human race and tries to help them out behind the backs of her "sisters". To a lesser extent there's Gaea, who will viciously fight anyone who despoils and exploits nature, whether it be humans or robots.
• Warhammer 40,000:
  • The Ultramarines, Space Wolves, Raven Guard and Salamanders Space Marine Chapters are pretty much the only space marines who actively seek to protect civilians and the Imperial Guard, making them this to the vast forces of the Imperium. In fact, the Space Wolves have a history of subverting Imperial doctrine and openly warring with the more brutal Space Marine chapters and the Inquisition.
  • Primarch Sanguinius of the Blood Angels was the only Primarch who was a genuinely good guy, not by Warhammer 40000 standards, but a good guy by anyone's standards. There's a reason why he is the second most venerated person in the whole Imperium besides the Emperor Himself.^note Aside from this whole "sacrificed his life to give the Emperor and the Imperium a fighting chance" thing.
  • Nurgle is notably the only Chaos god who shows any serious consideration for his followers. He also expresses genuine love and concern for the Eldar goddess, Isha. Of course, his ways of showing said consideration and affection are... insanely twisted.

Theatre

• The Hunyak from Chicago is the only woman in the Cook County Jail not guilty of the murder she's accused of. She's the one who ends up executed.

Visual Novels

• Subverted in Higurashi: When They Cry. None of the protagonists are evil on default but sometimes they become villainous due to a Hate Plague. Mion is the only protagonist, besides Sixth Ranger Hanyuu, who has never killed anyone in any arc. However, this doesn't mean she hasn't actually killed anyone. According to one of the TIPs, in an unseen world she became a Clingy Jealous Girl towards Keiichi and killed the other girls due to seeing them as "rivals" for him.
• Beatrice from Dies Irae, despite being part of the Longinus Dreizehn Orden and formerly part of the Nazi's as well, is an unfailingly good and idealistic woman. And in spite of being surrounded by madness and bloodlust on all sides and her experiences having rendered her more cold and ruthless, she never stops fighting for what she believes is the right cause and is even trying to destroy the L.D.O. from the inside to help the heroes and save her former friend and commander Eleonore.

Web Animation

• GoAnimate: In the Caillou family, Boris and Caillou are both psychotic twats, Doris is an apathetic bitch who enables her husband's bad behavior, However, Rosie is nice and doesn't try to be mean to Caillou. It can be a bit sad seeing as how Caillou bullies her even when he has no reason to.
• Grej: Out of the Anti-Realists, Communalist is the only member of the group with anything resembling a moral code, although it's a sense of morality that's more similar to a eusocial species than humans. In essence, Communalist suffers more from Good Is Dumb as it's highlighted their ideology would fall apart the fastest given the reference to hoarding in the real world.
• Helluva Boss:
  • Beelzebub (Gluttony) is this to the rest of the Seven Deadly Sins. While the others are shown to be selfish tyrants, Beelzebub is portrayed as a fun-loving party girl who does her job For Happiness and wants her subjects to have a good time. In spite of this she apparently gets along well with the other Sins, as she says she and Satan (Wrath) are Like Brother and Sister.
  • Downplayed with Moxxie for I.M.P. He is an assassin for hire, but he has higher moral standards than his co-workers and boss, only wanting to kill their actual target and preferring that said target be someone he considers deserving of death. This is best shown in the first proper episode besides the non-canon pilot, where Moxxie hesitates to kill someone in a family, while all three of the other members of I.M.P try to get him to drop this standard. Even off the job, Blitzo and Loona are considerably bigger Jerks than he is, and Millie is far more bloodlusted (though he finds this hot).
• Red vs. Blue:
  • The eternally cheerful Donut seems to be the only Blood Gulch soldier who doesn't openly despise the rest of the crew. The series' Designated Hero Church even remarks that Donut is harmless and probably wouldn't hurt a fly (this is in spite of the fact that he actually killed his [admittedly, tank-driving, out-for-blood, mercenary] girlfriend). Everyone else on either team are various mixes of apathy, misanthropy, and Comedic Sociopathy. Even the easy-going and friendly Caboose secretly harbors a huge dislike of Tucker, as well as a tendency to accidentally kill his own teammates.
  • Doc. It's especially hilarious because the other members of his team consist of: a bomb, a robot's head, and an AI that's taken control (mostly) of Doc's armor.
• RWBY:
  • Hazel of Salem's faction. His first scene as an individual sees him helping a Oscar get a train ticket, as well as offering him some sage advice, is very soft-spoken and polite, and shows a clear disdain for unnecessary violence, as seen when he berates Adam for killing Sienna Khan when they could have brought her back in line through more peaceful means.
  • Marrow Amin, the rookie member of Atlas's Ace-Ops team. While the team aren't evil, they are professionals that are bound by strict military hierarchy and will follow General Ironwood's orders even if it means doing unpleasant things. As the youngest and most inexperienced member, Marrow struggles with Just Following Orders and is the only one to try to de-escalate the confrontation with Team RWBY. He also clashes with Token Evil Teammate Harriet over whether lethal force is justified or not. He accuses her of going too far, while she yells at him for being reluctant to fight.
• Angel in No Evil seems to be allied with Charles and Amaroq, but attempts to "adopt" Kitty as Charles's mother to stop him doing bad things (admittedly by kidnapping her and taking her to Mictlan Woods, but her intentions were good, at least).
• Blaze in Wolf Song: The Movie is this for the Death Keep pack, as he doesn’t agree with the actions of his packmates and superiors. His Establishing Character Moment is him attempting to rescue a captive and wounded Alador and he later hands Kara the macguffin needed for the pure of heart. Despite this he is still in the Death Keep up until the final battle where he actually joins the heroes team and manages to actually survive. many of his newfound allies meanwhile…

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