History GoodAngelBadAngel / WesternAnimation

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey MouseWorks]]'' short "Pluto's Kittens" features Pluto's angel and devil. Later, after Mickey punishes Pluto for making a mess (when it was actually three kittens who made the mess), ''Pluto's angel and devil start giving Mickey suggestions.'' And they don't just look like Pluto's; the Devil even mentions the kittens, which Mickey does not, at this point, know about.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': In "Money Can Buy Me Love: Stupid Is as Cupid Does," a born-again Christian JFK has an angel and devil version of himself appear on his shoulder when Abe needs advice on courting a new ManicPixieDreamGirl at school. The angel tries to keep JFK on his new religious path, while the devil wants him to revert to his sex-crazed former self. When JFK ignores the devil, he just decides to give Abe advice directly, with the flabbergasted angel declaring, "You can't just switch shoulders!" The angel and devil JFK then both frantically give ''Abe'' advice on what to tell the new girl. Then it gets exaggerated when JFK's angel has his ''own'' shoulder angel and devil, which in turn have their own shoulder angels and devils as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': In "Money Can Buy Me Love: Stupid Is as Cupid Does," a born-again Christian JFK has an angel and devil version of himself appear on his shoulder when Abe needs advice on courting a new ManicPixieDreamGirl at school. The angel tries to keep JFK on his new religious path, while the devil wants him to revert to his sex-crazed former self. When JFK ignores the devil, he just decides to give Abe advice directly, with the flabbergasted angel declaring, "You can't just switch shoulders!" The angel and devil JFK then both frantically give ''Abe'' advice on what to tell the new girl.

** In another episode (Season 4's "Whacking Day"), Homer tells Lisa that inside man is a struggle between good and evil that will never be resolved. Cut to an ImagineSpot of Good Homer's grave as Evil Homer (really Homer in a devil costume) does the cha-cha on Good Homer's grave, chanting "I am Evil Ho-mer!"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'': In the episode "Dirty Little Secret, Nerdy Little Secrets" and the episode "All We Are Saying is Give Reef a Chance". Both examples with Emma.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{2DTV}}'' subverted this gag twice with footballer Roy Keane. His shoulder devil eggs him on to kick Micheal Owen in the groin. Resisting the temptation, an even bigger devil shows up and eggs him on to do worse, which he then does. Owen's shoulder angel peacefully tells the battered footballer not to retaliate, with a larger angel suggesting they should buy Roy some flowers.

* Parodied in the series of shorts called ''Weighty Decisions'', where a (live-action) man gets visited by his ([[RogerRabbitEffect animated]]) shoulder Angel and Devil whenever he needs to make a moral dilemma. However, the Angel and Devil (Neil and Gordon, respectively) always get sidetracked and talk about completely unrelated things (For example, when the man appears to be contemplating jumping off a ledge, Neil and Gordon appear ready to debate on whether he should go through with it or not, only for the latter to start arguing over the former calling sick and bailing at a party he threw the other night).

* ''WesternAnimation/2DTV'' subverted this gag twice with footballer Roy Keane. His shoulder devil eggs him on to kick Micheal Owen in the groin. Resisting the temptation, an even bigger devil shows up and eggs him on to do worse, which he then does. Owen's shoulder angel peacefully tells the battered footballer not to retaliate, with a larger angel suggesting they should buy Roy some flowers.

* ''2DTV'' subverted this gag twice with footballer Roy Keane. His shoulder devil eggs him on to kick Micheal Owen in the groin. Resisting the temptation, an even bigger devil shows up and eggs him on to do worse, which he then does. Owen's shoulder angel peacefully tells the battered footballer not to retaliate, with a larger angel suggesting they should buy Roy some flowers.

** In another episode (Season 4's "Whacking Day"), Homer tells Lisa that inside man is a struggle between good and evil that will never be resolved. Cut to an ImagineSpot of Good Homer's grave as Evil Homer (really Homer in a devil costume) doing the cha-cha on Good Homer's grave, chanting "I am Evil Ho-mer!"

** "The Great Cookie Robbery" had this happen with Baby Gonzo, when Nanny trusts him to share with the rest of the babies to tide them over before lunch. The angel Gonzo says that he should indeed share them, while the devil Gonzo (decked out in [[HellBentForLeather a leather biker outfit]]) says that he should keep them all to himself and not tell the other babies.

* In one of episodes of the DVD series ''Growing Up With Hello Kitty'', Franchise/HelloKitty has trouble with patience and has to deal with this several times. Each time the devil wins, he does a HappyDance. Eventually, the angel wins, but the devil is a sore loser. He shows up several more times, each time looking more battered and beaten and at the end vows to find a new impatient kid to pester.

** A Disney World War II Propaganda short staring Donald Duck, "The Spirit of '43", posits that when an American worker (Donald) comes into money, his mind has two separate personalities; the Thrifty, who takes the form of a Scottish old man (Hmmm!), who encourages Donald to save his money for taxes and the Spendthrift, a smooth-talker in a jazz suit who insists that Donald should spend his cash on idle luxuries. The moral of the short is that by paying your taxes you help the US war effort, and not paying your taxes essentially helps the Axis. To really drive the point home, the Spendthrift briefly looks like [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]], and the doors to the bar he's pulling Donald towards has doors shaped like the Nazi Swatska. The Thrifty, on the other hand, is knocked into a wall made to look like an American Flag, with his circling stars resembling the stars on the flag. Donald, naturally, goes to pay his taxes, but not without giving the Spendthrift a a solid uppercut, damaging the saloon doors into becoming a V (for victory!).

** A Disney World War II Propaganda short staring Donald Duck, "The Spirit of '43", posits that when an American worker (Donald) comes into money, his mind has two separate personalities; the Thrifty, who takes the form of a Scottish old man (Hmmm!), who encourages Donald to save his money for taxes and the Spendthrift, a smooth-talker in a jazz suit who insists that Donald should spend his cash on idle luxuries. The moral of the short is that by paying you taxes you help the US war effort, and not paying your taxes essentially helps the Axis. To really drive the point home, the Spendthrift briefly looks like [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]], and the doors to the bar he's pulling Donald towards has doors shaped like the Nazi Swatska. The Thrifty, on the other hand, is knocked into a wall made to look like an American Flag, with his circling stars resembling the stars on the flag. Donald, naturally, goes to pay his taxes, but not without giving the Spendthrift a a solid uppercut, damaging the saloon doors into becoming a V (for victory!).

* ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'': In one episode where Bobby accidentally breaks his mother's statue of Elvis, his angel and devil are Captain Squash and his ArchEnemy.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', when Batman confronted the criminal who killed his parents, ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger and ComicBook/TheSpectre represented these roles, with the former advocating for justice and the latter for revenge. What makes this example even sweeter is that Stranger is voiced by Creator/KevinConroy (the voice of Batman from [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries the DCAU series]], and Spectre is voiced by Creator/MarkHamill (the voice of the Joker from the same).

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger and ComicBook/TheSpectre act this way in a certain decisive moment.

--> '''Twin 1 (angel)''': Try this to quench your thirst-
--> '''Twin 2 (devil)''': -for power!

* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' episode "Going Uruguay". Timon's shoulder angel and devil are bickering over whether or not Timon should confess to his plan to devour a friendly termite colony. When the shoulder angel brings up how Pumbaa might feel about it, ''Pumbaa's'' shoulder angel and devil appear and join in the argument, despite Pumbaa having passed out earlier from the guilt of keeping the secret. The argument gets ''so'' sidetracked that Timon snaps and confesses just to get them to shut up.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' episode, Timon's shoulder angel and devil advise him whether or not to eat some friendly termites. As they're arguing with each other, Pumbaa's shoulder angel and devil appear and start arguing with Timon's angel and devil.

* Spidey gets these in ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', with the Good Angel wearing a blue costume, and the Bad one in Red. In one episode, the Bad Angel was replaced by a Shoulder-''[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]]'', in an episode where it wasn't so much good versus evil/selfish but duty versus friendship, when acting on his sense of duty could've gotten the Hulk locked up. They sometimes agree on something, like letting Taskmaster get Flash Thompson.