History BlueAndOrangeMorality / AnimeAndManga

** During the Chimera Ants arc Gon's main objective is to avenge [[spoiler: Kite]], and when Neferpitou, the ant responsible for [[spoiler: Kite's]] condition, begs him for more time to heal Komugi, an innocent girl caught in the middle of the whole conflict, Gon flies into a rage over Pitou killing his beloved mentor yet showing compassion for someone else, and completely disregards Killua's attempts at getting crucial information. He gives Pitou less time than requested, reduces the amount of time for every distraction, and even threatens to ''kill'' the mortally wounded Komugi if Pitou tries to make a run for it. It's quite possibly the ultimate example of how Gon's morality is derived from his own experiences instead of any traditional sense of right and wrong.

** During the Chimera Ants arc Gon's main objective is to avenge [[spoiler: Kite]], and when Neferpitou, the ant responsible for [[spoiler: Kite's]] condition, begs him for more time to heal Komugi, an innocent girl caught in the middle of the whole conflict, Gon flies into a rage over Pitou killing his beloved mentor yet showing compassion for someone else, and completely disregards Killua. He gives Pitou less time than requested, reduces the amount of time for every distraction, and even threatens to ''kill'' the mortally wounded Komugi if Pitou tries to make a run for it. It's quite possibly the ultimate example of how Gon's morality is derived from his own experiences instead of any traditional sense of right and wrong.

** During the Chimera Ants arc Gon's main objective is to avenge [[spoiler: Kite]], and when Neferpitou, the ant responsible for [[spoiler: Kite's]] condition, begs him for more time to heal Komugi, an innocent girl caught in the middle of the whole conflict, Gon flies into a rage over Pitou killing his beloved mentor yet showing compassion for someone else, and completely disregards Killua. He gives Pitou less time than requested, reduces the amount of time for every distraction, and even threatens to ''kill'' Komugi if Pitou tries to make a run for it.

** During the Chimera Ants arc Gon's main objective is to avenge [[spoiler: Kite]], and when Neferpitou, the ant responsible for [[spoiler: Kite's]] condition, begs him for more time to heal Komugi, an innocent girl caught in the middle of the whole conflict, Gon flies into a rage over Pitou for killing his beloved mentor yet showing compassion for someone else, and completely disregards Killua. He gives Pitou less time than requested, reduces the amount of time for every distraction, and even threatens to ''kill'' Komugi if Pitou tries to make a run for it.

* While there are plenty of fans that would love to simply write him off as evil, Mayuri Kurotsuchi of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' appears to operate on this standard. Mayuri is the ultimate scientist of the series, lacking his good counterpart Urahara's morality and his EvilCounterpart Szayel or Aizen's god complex; all that matters to Mayuri are results, and as such he doesn't seem to see any sort of hypocrisy in torturing Quincies to death as a form of study and then healing the last remaining one years later to show his new medicine works perfectly. He abuses his daughter, but from his own perspective this is because he knows for a fact his creation can handle it and people protesting how he treats Nemu are questioning the quality of her design. Szayel raping and nearly killing Nemu to save himself from death doesn't appear to bother Mayuri (he can just "fix" her later), but he expresses utter contempt for him once he hears Szayel proclaiming himself a perfect being; perfection would be the death of scientific innovation, after all, and no man of science should view that as desirable.
** In the Thousand-year Blood War arc, there's minor villain Mask De Masculine, whose gimmick is that he's a baby {{face}} wrestler... working for the bad guys. He stays [[{{Kayfabe}} completely in-character]] in every scene he's in, and even as he slaughters the good guys he keeps telling them it's their own fault for being "villains." In the wrestling ring, he'd be absolutely correct, but on an actual battlefield, not so much.

* Guu of ''[[Anime/JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Haré+Guu]]'', essentially TheTrickster. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to her actions: she's just as likely to torment Haré as rescue him from mortal danger by summoning godlike powers, all the while seeming casual and uncaring. Her inscrutable agenda makes it impossible to pinpoint her CharacterAlignment.

* The Pillar Men in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' have little to no regard for human life, other than the occasional human warrior who knows how to use the [[KiAttacks Ripple]] (which is their greatest weakness), but their leader, Kars, will go out of his way to not land on a patch of flowers, or kill some teenagers so they don't run over a puppy. Unfortunately, he later [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumps Off The Slippery Slope]] even for ''their'' standards.

* Izaya Orihara in Durarara!! works by an series of rules that seem to default to "I'm a troll" but have deeper and longer-reaching motivations. His morality seems to be guided simply by how boring something is.

* The main character of ''Manga/FrankenFran'' believes that life, ''any'' kind of life, is better than death, and thus seeks to save people's lives [[FateWorseThanDeath even if they'd prefer being dead afterwards.]] Not to mention that she's pretty nonchalant towards violence and murder in general.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'': Beers, the BigBad of the film, overlaps this with JerkassGods. He's the God of Destruction, it's his ''job'' to destroy worlds so it makes sense he doesn't see anything morally wrong with his actions. It's actually established that old planets have to be destroyed so new planets can be born; the problem with Beers is that he acts independently of the Supreme Kais (even worse now that there's only two of them left), chooses what planets that he will destroy at his leisure, and he can and will destroy even important planets without a second thought if he's [[DisproportionateRetribution irritated enough]].

** Similarly, [[MadScientist Huey Laforet]]. The only value that he places on human life is determined by how much scientific knowledge they provide.
** Ladd Russo, believe it or not, ''does'' have some code of ethics. It can best be described as thus: Life is fleeting, and people are liable to die at any moment. People who don't understand this need to be taught through direct experience - aka dying.

* The main character of ''Manga/FrankenFran'' believes that life, ''any'' kind of life, is better than death, and thus seeks to save people's lives [[FateWorseThanDeath even if they'd prefer being dead afterwards.]]

* Heartseed from ''LightNovel/KokoroConnect''. When he makes the phenomenon happen, the group finds Heartseed's actions malicious even though he ends up (maybe purposely) [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood bringing them closer together.]]

* The more intelligent mushi of ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' behave this way. The mushi's form of life is so alien from our own that 'good' and 'bad' may mean completely different things to us and them. For example, in the very first episode the mushi lure a young girl out to the forest for a feast, during which they tell her that they want her to watch over her future grandson. Ginko himself makes no comment as to whether he thinks she and her grandson will be better off with the botched mushification completed or not; he merely presents each of them with the option of completing it and lets them decide for themselves.

** Kaworu. By appearances, he comes off as simply AmbiguouslyGay for Shinji, but things become more complicated with the revelation he doesn't seem to conform to human definitions of love or sexuality. He also seems to have a genuine admiration and respect for humanity and its achievements, despite [[spoiler:attempting to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]]. [[AllThereInTheManual A lot of Kaworu's traits come from]] Mark Twain's ''Literature/TheMysteriousStranger'' (see Literature section). It's where we get moments like [[FanNickname Evil Manga Kaworu]].

** Rebellion however throws their status under this trope into question due to a certain MoralEventHorizon they commit. A certain line Kyubey says implies the Incubators do have a hint of malice towards humans.

** In the Thousand-year Blood War arc, there's minor villain Mask De Masculine, whose gimmick is that he's a {{babyface}} wrestler... working for the bad guys. He stays [[{{Kayfabe}} completely in-character]] in every scene he's in, and even as he slaughters the good guys he keeps telling them it's their own fault for being "villains." In the wrestling ring, he's be absolutely correct, but on an actual battlefield, not so much.

*** ''Every'' pure blooded Saiyan has this sort of morality, as it is in their nature to strive for a great battle no matter what the risk and such a behavior and mentality like that is questioned by several characters, good '''and''' bad, throughout ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. The only character who probably has more of an "alien" view of how the world is perceived than Goku is Vegeta; considering that his desperation for a great battle has the been the catalyst for ''every single arc in Anime/DragonBallZ occurring.'' There is a reason why some fans consider him TheLoad.

** Kaworu. By appearances, he comes off as simply AmbiguouslyGay for Shinji, but things become more complicated with the revelation he doesn't seem to conform to human definitions of love or sexuality. He also seems to have a genuine admiration and respect for humanity and its achievements, despite [[spoiler:attempting to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]]. [[AllThereInTheManual A lot of Kaworu's traits come from]] Mark Twain's ''Literature/TheMysteriousStranger'' (see below). It's where we get moments like [[FanNickname Evil Manga Kaworu]].

*** ''Every'' pure blooded Saiyan has this as it is in their nature to strive for a great battle no matter what the risk and such a behavior and mentality like that is questioned by several characters, good '''and''' bad, throughout ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. The only character who probably has more of an "alien" view of how the world is perceived than Goku is Vegeta; considering that his desperation for a great battle has the been the catalyst for ''every single arc in Anime/DragonBallZ occurring.'' There is a reason why some fans consider him TheLoad.

* The Pillar Men in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' have little to no regard for human life, other than the occasional human warrior who knows how to use the [[KiAttacks Ripple]] (which is their greatest weakness), but their leader, Cars, will go out of his way to not land on a patch of flowers, or kill some teenagers so they don't run over a puppy. Unfortunately, he later [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumps Off The Slippery Slope]] even for ''their'' standards.

* Heartseed from ''LightNovel/KokoroConnect''. When he makes the phenomenon happen, the [[FiveManBand group]] finds Heartseed's actions malicious even though he ends up (maybe purposely) [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood bringing them closer together.]]

* The D-Reaper from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' is a prime example of this trope, acting on its former programming (Deleting anything that has evolved beyond its parameters) and being absolutely terrifying about it without any real intentions.

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* The second chapter of ''Manga/WorldTrigger'' has Kuga, a young boy from another dimension, walking around Japan doing things like offering his classmate a large wad of cash when he offers to take him out for dinner, [[DisproportionateRetribution breaking a mugger's leg]], then simply knocking out ''another'' group of muggers when he's told by his OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent friend that what he'd done was excessive, and offering compensation to a woman who'd crashed her car into him. [[HealingFactor He healed himself almost instantaneously]], so it was likely for the car damages.

* The Pillar Men in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' have little to no regard for human life, other than the occasional human warrior who knows how to use the [[KiAttacks Ripple]] (which is their greatest weakness), but their leader, Cars, will go out of his way to not land on a patch of flowers, or kill some teenagers so they don't run over a puppy. Unfortunately, he later [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumps Off The Slippery Slope]] even for ''their'' standards.
* Vampires in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' (more the anime than the manga) are alluded to having their own set rules and motivations, this is what made the Freaks so dangerous since they were artificial vampires and thus had vampire powers but human desires and instincts. Vampires such as Incognito and Alucard seem to have taken human masters in part for this reason.
* The more intelligent mushi of ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' behave this way. The mushi's form of life is so alien from our own that 'good' and 'bad' may mean completely different things to us and them. For example, in the very first episode the mushi lure a young girl out to the forest for a feast, during which they tell her that they want her to watch over her future grandson. Ginko himself makes no comment as to whether he thinks she and her grandson will be better off with the botched mushification completed or not; he merely presents each of them with the option of completing it and lets them decide for themselves.
* Kyubey of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is stated to be unable to understand human morality, being utterly confused as to why [[spoiler:the girls would be horrified by the idea that a contract with him is essentially [[OurLichesAreDifferent lichification]]]]. He later states that [[spoiler:the species that he belongs to is incapable of emotion of any sort.]] In terms of actions, he also sees nothing wrong with [[spoiler:manipulating generations of girls into situations that inevitably lead to their becoming murderous {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, since the system prolongs the life of the universe by reversing entropy]]. He also doesn't understand why humans consider [[YouDidntAsk omitting important information]] as a form of duplicity. Although he is quite clearly aware of what humans think of his actions, hence his duplicity. He just doesn't get ''why'' we think that way.
* Togashi makes allusions to this in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', too, once the S-Class demons start to turn up. Previous, all the weird-thinking people like Sakyou and Sensui were [[AxCrazy insane]] or just evil.
* Togashi ''loves'' this trope -- the Prince in ''Manga/LevelE'' is similarly inscrutable, and his compatriots and relatives often fails to understand whether he's really ''this'' different, or just a JerkAss {{Troll}}.
* Mercurians in ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}'' are the descendants of the {{nanomachine}} plague left on the planet by a terrorist half a millennium ago. They've since developed into the civilization so utterly alien to the humanity's way of thinking that their ''ambassador'' (or at least the entity supposed to contact the Solar System at large) turned out to be a 20 meter tall killing machine with a phallic-shaped WaveMotionGun in the right place. Fortunately there ''[[WorldOfBadass were]]'' places where such "[[AssInAmbassador Ambassadors]]" could be dealt with.
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'' has the Extraterrestrial Liquid-metal Shapeshifters (ELS) from TheMovie. These are intelligent metal-based life forms that evolved on a gas giant. They communicate telepathically, or by combining their physical forms together to form a unified being. Naturally there is some amount of extreme confusion between the two species when they meet humanity. The mutual misunderstandings lead to a war between the two before a clear means of communication is found.

* While there are plenty of fans that would love to simply write him off as evil, Mayuri Kurotsuchi of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' appears to operate on this standard. Mayuri is the ultimate scientist of the series, lacking his good counterpart Urahara's morality and his EvilCounterpart Szayel or Aizen's god complex; all that matters to Mayuri are results, and as such he doesn't seem to see any sort of hypocrisy in torturing Quincies to death as a form of study and then healing the last remaining one years later to show his new medicine works perfectly. He abuses his daughter, but from his own perspective this is because he knows for a fact his creation can handle it and people protesting how he treats Nemu are questioning the quality of her design. Szayel raping and nearly killing Nemu to save himself from death doesn't appear to bother Mayuri (he can just "fix" her later), but he expresses utter contempt for him once he hears Szayel proclaiming himself a perfect being; perfection would be the death of scientific innovation, after all, and no man of science should view that as desirable.
* The title character from ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' exemplifies this trope. His one and only concern is discovering and solving the mysteries he feeds upon. This, mixed with the fact that he is a demon, make for a very unique morality in which he likes and protects humans, not because it is the right thing to do, but because they provide his food and entertainment. That by no way means he can't have fun at the expense of humans, though.
* A lot of the swordsmen in ''Vagabond'' follow their own personal codes of honor, and the story doesn't really present Musashi as "evil" because he kills people.
* Most of Eclipse Drivers in ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' show this symptoms. Aside they must kill in order to survive, none of them are care with other infectees and other living things but themselves or their family. However, the most worse case is the Huckebein family. With exception for their [[VillainTakesAnInterest affection]] to Tohma, [[TheUnfettered they're seems have little to no problems to doing criminal activity to get what they want]], as well as no regards to other lives. Additionally, [[AppealToForce they seem to view themselves above both civilization and society]], and appears to strongly believe in MightMakesRight.

** Believe or not ''Goku'' shows very strong shades of this sort of morality throughout ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Considering Goku is a [[BloodKnight Saiyan]] it's in his blood to love fighting and combat, and that love for fighting sometimes come off as a negative to humans, gods, and even other aliens (as well as the show's fanbase). He is often regarded with unease whenever he shows such excitement for battle, with one of Goku's friends even calling him a monster for being so excited about a fight when the entire planet hangs on the brink of destruction . Also, his love of fighting often causes them to make decisions that many think of as bad, or even stupid. Moments that have brought up this accusation include [[WorthyOpponent sparing Vegeta's life after their battle just so that he could fight him again]], [[GambitRoulette sending his own son to fight Cell, gambling that Gohan would awaken his hidden power just in time during his struggling fight and ultimately win]], [[HonorBeforeReason giving a Senzu Bean to Cell so that Gohan gets a fair match against him, rather than a better chance to win and save the world]] and [[ParentalNeglect abandoning his family and friends to train a child he just met so that child could become more powerful and protect the earth when Goku dies]]. Further evidence of this is in the newest movie ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'' when Goku's morality is questioned because of his love of fighting.
*** Pretty much ''every'' pure blooded Saiyan has this as it is in their nature to strive for a great battle no matter what the risk and such a behavior and mentality like that is questioned by several characters, good '''and''' bad, throughout ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. The only character who probably has more of an "alien" view of how the world is perceived than Goku is Vegeta; considering that his desperation for a great battle has the been the catalyst for ''every single arc in Anime/DragonBallZ occurring.'' There is a reason why some fans consider him TheLoad.
* Heartseed from ''LightNovel/KokoroConnect''. When he makes the phenomenon happen, the [[FiveManBand group]] finds Heartseed's actions malicious even though he ends up (maybe purposely) [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood bringing them closer together.]]
* Minerva-X from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' is a sentient HumongousMecha specifically created to be Mazinger-Z's BattleCouple. Despite -or maybe ''[[MindScrew because]]''- she was created by humans, several of her personality traits -mainly her conception of what love is- are completely bizarre. Because she was created to be Mazinger's partner in battle, [[CargoShip she is in love with Mazinger]] in spite of she knows it is a machine and it is not sentient. She also treats the pilot of a HumongousMecha like if it was another part of the mecha (presumably, the brain). This is expanded on ''ShinMazingerZero'', where she (transformed into a RobotGirl) teases Sayaka because she saw Aphrodite (Sayaka's FemBot) fighting alongside Mazinger and got jealous, got... all bothered when she was inside Mazinger's cockpit, and she told she loved Kouji... but she loved even more Kouji piloting the Hover Pilder, and she loved above all Kouji on the Pilder piloting Mazinger. [[http://www.mangareader.net/930-43892-28/shin-mazinger-zero/chapter-8.html Usually Kouji and Sayaka only shake their heads and accept her like she is]].
-->'''Sayaka''': How... unique...
* The Angels from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
** Kaworu. By appearances, he comes off as simply AmbiguouslyGay for Shinji, but things become more complicated with the revelation he doesn't seem to conform to human definitions of love or sexuality. He also seems to have a genuine admiration and respect for humanity and its achievements, despite [[spoiler:attempting to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]]. [[AllThereInTheManual A lot of Kaworu's traits come from]] Mark Twain's ''Literature/TheMysteriousStranger'' (see below). It's where we get moments like [[FanNickname Evil Manga Kaworu]].
* The eponymous Anime/{{Mononoke}}, from the show of the same name, are repeatedly stated to think completely differently from people. Depending on the incident that created them, their thought process can be very, ''very'' warped.
* Guu of ''[[Anime/JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Haré+Guu]]'', essentially TheTrickster. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to her actions: she's just as likely to torment Haré as rescue him from mortal danger by summoning godlike powers, all the while seeming casual and uncaring. Her inscrutable agenda makes it pretty much impossible to pinpoint her CharacterAlignment.

* [[spoiler:Ronnie Schiatto]] from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' is just as likely to incite a massacre as he is to follow a man for two-hundred years just to give him some company. The only answer he's ever given for his motivations is that he's [[TimeAbyss very old]], [[EldritchAbomination very powerful]], and [[ItAmusedMe very bored]].
** Similarly, [[MadScientist Huey Laforet]]. The only value that he places on human life is determined by how much scientific knowledge they provide.
** Ladd Russo, believe it or not, ''does'' have some code of ethics. It can best be described as thus: Life is fleeting, and people are liable to die at any moment. People who don't understand this need to be taught through direct experience - aka dying.
** [[spoiler:Elmer C. Albatross']] moral axis doesn't take into account things like "good" or "evil". All he cares about is happiness. Seeing other people happy makes him happy, though he doesn't actually care about the people. This makes him a bonafide sociopath with a mindset so alien and disturbing that it terrifies [[spoiler:the ''BigBad'']].
* The second chapter of ''Manga/WorldTrigger'' has Kuga, a young boy from another dimension, walking around Japan doing things like offering his classmate a large wad of cash when he offers to take him out for dinner, [[DisproportionateRetribution breaking a mugger's leg]], then simply knocking out ''another'' group of muggers when he's told by his OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent friend that what he'd done was excessive, and offering compensation to a woman who'd crashed her car into him. [[HealingFactor He healed himself almost instantaneously]], so it was likely for the car damages.
* ''Manhwa/SoulCartel'': Mephisto the demon has this in regards to his appearance. He finds his small, rather SuperDeformed state to be much cooler than his more powerful and [[{{Bishonen}} tall and attractive]] state. Apparently they are a "devil's aesthetics" as he puts it. He even calls the AloofDarkHairedGirl Su-In ugly because of her long legs.

* The Pillar Men in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' have little to no regard for human life, other than the occasional human warrior who knows how to use the [[KiAttacks Ripple]] (which is their greatest weakness), but their leader, Cars, will go out of his way to not land on a patch of flowers, or kill some teenagers so they don't run over a puppy. Unfortunately, he later [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumps Off The Slippery Slope]] even for ''their'' standards.
* Vampires in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' (more the anime than the manga) are alluded to having their own set rules and motivations, this is what made the Freaks so dangerous since they were artificial vampires and thus had vampire powers but human desires and instincts. Vampires such as Incognito and Alucard seem to have taken human masters in part for this reason.
* The more intelligent mushi of ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' behave this way. The mushi's form of life is so alien from our own that 'good' and 'bad' may mean completely different things to us and them. For example, in the very first episode the mushi lure a young girl out to the forest for a feast, during which they tell her that they want her to watch over her future grandson. Ginko himself makes no comment as to whether he thinks she and her grandson will be better off with the botched mushification completed or not; he merely presents each of them with the option of completing it and lets them decide for themselves.

* Black Hanekawa chides Koyomi from ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' for thinking he can befriend or empathize with so-called "oddities" such as itself. Koyomi frequently repeats that oddities should not be hated for what they do because they're only doing what is natural for them.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'': The {{Shinigami}}. Their entire existence revolves around killing human beings, and they need to do it to survive. Their greatest sin is to kill someone to preserve the life of another, which is apparently too close to playing God. Ryuk dropping the Death Note onto Earth out of boredom seems pretty cruel, since it turns Light Yagami and others into callous killers, but to him, killing people with a Death Note is just a part of nature. Shinigami might be a subversion, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation since they seem to understand and comprehend human emotion and values perfectly.]] Ryuk is ''well aware'' that Light is a monster and even calls him out on it, but just doesn't care. Which makes a certain amount of sense for a nigh-immortal Shinigami; [[WeAreAsMayflies we're all going to die soon anyway]] so why should he care if some of us die a few decades earlier.
* Kyubey of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is stated to be unable to understand human morality, being utterly confused as to why [[spoiler:the girls would be horrified by the idea that a contract with him is essentially [[OurLichesAreDifferent lichification]]]]. He later states that [[spoiler:the species that he belongs to is incapable of emotion of any sort.]] In terms of actions, he also sees nothing wrong with [[spoiler:manipulating generations of girls into situations that inevitably lead to their becoming murderous {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, since the system prolongs the life of the universe by reversing entropy]]. He also doesn't understand why humans consider [[YouDidntAsk omitting important information]] as a form of duplicity. Although it should be noted that he is quite clearly aware of what humans think of his actions, hence his duplicity. He just doesn't get ''why'' we think that way.

** [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Gon]] [[FriendToAllLivingThings Freecs]] has distinct shades of this. He isn't TheUnfettered, because he is guided by a strong sense of right and wrong, but as the counterfeiter he hangs out with finally realizes, "He doesn't care about the good and the bad." Mostly it's enough to peg him as ChaoticGood, but that doesn't really do him justice. Neither the readers nor the other characters can really predict where his moral sense will take him, and he surprises the hell out of even his best friend (a child assassin) a lot. Notable events include:

** The Chimera Ants enter this territory from time to time, as well. Though they're largely just evil.
*** Although most of the ants are evil and some are good, the king, Meryem, is a master of this trope. All the experiences he goes through continually shape his moral code which fluctuates wildly through the arc, turning him from what appears to be a Cell ripoff into one of the most deep and interesting villains in Shonen manga. And yet he always seems to have his code stuck somewhere in the Blue and Orange territory.

* Togashi ''loves'' this trope -- the Prince in ''Manga/LevelE'' is similarly inscrutable, and even his compatriots and relatives often fails to understand whether he's really ''this'' different, or just a JerkAss {{Troll}}.

* While there are plenty of fans that would love to simply write him off as evil, Mayuri Kurotsuchi of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' appears to operate on this standard. Mayuri is the ultimate scientist of the series, lacking his good counterpart Urahara's morality and his EvilCounterpart Szayel or Aizen's god complex; all that matters to Mayuri are results, and as such he doesn't seem to see any sort of hypocrisy in torturing Quincies to death as a form of study and then healing the last remaining one years later to show his new medicine works perfectly. He abuses his daughter, but from his own perspective this is because he knows for a fact his creation can handle it and people protesting how he treats Nemu are questioning the quality of her design. Szayel raping and nearly killing Nemu to save himself from death doesn't appear to bother Mayuri very much (of course, he can just "fix" her later), but he expresses utter contempt for him once he hears Szayel proclaiming himself a perfect being; perfection would be the death of scientific innovation, after all, and no man of science should view that as desirable.
* Kimblee in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga and second anime has an odd code which seems to consider holding true to your role or principles the most important thing, irrespective of their conventional morality. He criticizes soldiers for being reluctant to massacre defenseless people, but expresses admiration for the Rockbells for their determination to save lives (of the ''same people'' the soldiers were killing) as doctors. He sides with the homunculi because they give him freedom to practice his [[StuffBlowingUp alchemy]] without restriction, but claims to be primarily interested in who'll win the conflict between them and humans. In the end he [[spoiler: saves Ed from a GrandTheftMe by Pride because he's repulsed by Pride abandoning his claims of superiority as a homunculus to merge with a human to save himself.]]
* Invoked by Cuuko in ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan''. She claims that being a Alien [=/=] [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Great Old One]] means that human morality doesn't apply to her. Mahiro doesn't buy it, because she and any other Mythos entity he's met have shown all too human behavior. Note that she said this when Mahiro stopped her from [[DudeShesLikeInAComa attempting to strip (and go further with)]] a HeroicBSOD-ing Nyarko in public.
* The [[OneGenderRace Arume]] from ''Manga/BlueDrop''. Pathologically afraid of human males to the point of gender segregation and transgender experiments, think [[ChildSoldiers using little girls as biological weapons disposal units]] is "beautiful," and think schoolgirls are mighty fine; which they express through [[{{Squick}} bizarre sex acts]].

* Most of Eclipse Drivers in ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' show this symptoms. Aside they must kill in order to survive, none of them are care with other infectees and other living things but themselves or their family. However, the most worse case is the Huckebein family. With exception for their [[VillainTakesAnInterest affection]] to Tohma, [[TheUnfettered they're seems have little to no problems to doing criminal activity to get what they want]], as well as no regards to other lives. Additionally, [[AppealToForce they seem to view themselves above both civilization and society]], and appears to strongly believe in MightMakesRight.
* The main character of ''Manga/FrankenFran'' believes that life, ''any'' kind of life, is better than death, and thus seeks to save people's lives [[FateWorseThanDeath even if they'd prefer being dead afterwards.]]
* The D-Reaper from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' is a prime example of this trope, acting on its former programming (Deleting anything that has evolved beyond its parameters) and being absolutely terrifying about it without any real intentions.