History Main / AlwaysLawfulGood

* In ''Webcomic/AxeCop'', all mermaids are good guys. Unfortunately they had mean and nice facial expression confused, so Axe Cop ended up killing one for looking evil before they cleared up the confusion. He usually does whatever he damn well likes, but this once he experienced MyGodWhatHaveIDone.

* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' features one example of a pretty literal angel in the form of Trias. It's game mechanically verifiable that he indeed has Good alignment, of course. [[spoiler: This in spite of the fact that his personality isn't in accordance with this -- besides being a WellIntentionedExtremist bent on ending the infinite suffering of the Blood War by committing the unnthinkable atrocity of leading an army of fiends to besiege heaven, he's just plain [[FantasticRacism racist]] and thinks he's got no obligation to treat lesser (that is, most) beings morally. Presumably his Good alignment is just due to being MadeOfGood.]]

* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' features one example of a pretty literal angel in the form of Trias. It's game mechanically verifiable that he indeed has Good alignment, of course. [[spoiler: This in spite of the fact that his personality isn't in accordance with this -- besides being a WellIntentionedExtremist bent on ending the infinite suffering of the Blood War by committing the unnthinkable atrocity of leading an army of fiends to besiege heaven, he's just plain [[FantasticRacism racist]] and thinks he's got no obligation to treat lesser (that is, most) beings morally.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs''. They have petty emotions (greed, selfishness, pride, and so on), but they'll end up doing the right thing - even an artificial smurf (like Smurfette.)

** The game's [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] are a TropeCodifier. From the earliest editions, the difference between a good or evil dragon came down to whether their scales were [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience metallic or chromatic]]. Metallic dragons are always good, and chromatic dragons are always evil. Later material has given more nuance to this, pointing out that even the noblest gold dragon still has an instinctive urge to increase the size of their DragonHoard, and will consider themselves superior to the mortal races around them, even if they're willing to help them out.

* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime establishes early on that no types of Pokémon are evil, [[MyMasterRightOrWrong even if they do obey evil trainers]]. This concept was [[{{Retcon}} dropped]] later with the appearance of actually evil Pokémon, and it was never true in the games.

* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime establishes early on that all Pokémon are not evil, [[MyMasterRightOrWrong even if they do obey evil trainers]]. This concept was [[{{Retcon}} dropped]] later with the appearance of actually evil Pokémon, and it was never true in the games.

* ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'': The Jewelpets themselves are this, due to Jewelina creating them out of the good qualities of humanity; their lot in life is to help people. [[spoiler:Even the one Jewelpet created by the BigBad instead of Jewelina, Diana, ultimately leans on the side of good.]] This is averted in the other anime seasons, which are all [[AlternateContinuity their own continuity]]. The Jewelpets run the whole gamut of {{Character Alignment}}s in them.

* If a race in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' is made up of [=NPC=]s who you can talk to and who don't have danger music playing when you are near them, then they're automatically this. The only time they actually become hostile to Link is if they've been forcibly turned into monsters. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfAges'' officially determines them to be two subraces of Zoras. The (usually) evil, monstrous-looking Zoras that debuted in the first game are called River Zoras, while the more humanoid Zoras that debuted in ''Ocarina'' are called Ocean Zoras.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Vorlons are a {{subversion}} as they turn out to be [[NotSoDifferent just as petty and terrorizing]] as their opposing species, the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Shadows]]. As a whole they turn out to be merely Always Lawful, ranging from the LawfulEvil Ulkesh to the LawfulGood Kosh, with an emphasis on Good over strictly Lawful (he had no qualms about encouraging TheChosenOne to bend the rules when necessary to maintain long-term order).

** The Star Sprites of ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' are portrayed as benevolent angel-like protectors of the Mushroom Kingdom, even if Starlow, the only prominently featured member of their race, is portrayed as a bit of a LittleMissSnarker.

* This is {{deconstructed}} in, [[ChaoticNeutral of all things,]] ''Franchise/TouhouProject''. The Celestials are explicitly stated to be Always Lawful Good, since that's ''the'' requirement to become a Celestial. However, the only Celestial to be named in the story, Hinanai Tenshi, is [[ItAmusedMe one hell of a rabble rouser]] because she finds herself unable to live up to this standard.
* If a race in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' is made up of [=NPC=]s who you can talk to and who don't have danger music playing when you are near them, then they're automatically this. The only time they actually become hostile to Link is if they've been forcibly turned into monsters. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' officially determines them to be two subraces of Zoras. The (usually) evil, monstrous-looking Zoras that debuted in the first game are called River Zoras, while the more humanoid Zoras that debuted in ''Ocarina'' are called Ocean Zoras.

* If a race in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' is made up of [=NPC=]s who you can talk to and who don't have danger music playing when you are near them, then they're automatically this. The only time they actually become hostile to Link is if they've been forcibly turned into monsters. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfAges'' officially determines them to be two subraces of Zoras. The (usually) evil, monstrous-looking Zoras that debuted in the first game are called River Zoras, while the more humanoid Zoras that debuted in ''Ocarina'' are called Ocean Zoras.

* ''Franchise/{{Jewelpet}}''
** ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'': The Jewelpets themselves are this, due to Jewelina creating them out of the good qualities of humanity; their lot in life is to help people. [[spoiler:Even the one Jewelpet created by the BigBad instead of Jewelina, Diana, ultimately leans on the side of good.]] This is averted in the other anime seasons, which are all [[AlternateContinuity their own continuity]]. The Jewelpets run the whole gamut of {{Character Alignment}}s in them.

* The hydrites from the German SF series ''Literature/{{Maddrax}}'' are a species of [[FishPeople fish people]], which lives completely [[HerbivoresAreFriendly peaceful and vegetarian]]. They consider humans to be barbarians, because an average hydrit is morally superior to an average human. But once they eat meat, [[EvilFeelsGood their dark instincts awaken]], and they are more a case of [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always Chaotic Evil]].
* The [[{{Nephilim}} shadowhunters]] in ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' should correspond exactly to this ideal. In fact, very often it is not the case. The protagonists were usually closer to [[ChaoticGood Chaotic Good]] or [[NeutralGood Neutral Good]], while most other shadowhunters were [[LawfulNeutral morally gray]], [[LawfulEvil or even evil]]. Even among the comparatively good shadowhunters, [[FantasticRacism the rejection of vampires, werewolves and warlocks is widespread]], and in the past [[VanHelsingHateCrimes they have hunted and killed them for minor reasons]].

* In ''Series/StargateSG1''

* ''Series/DoctorWho''

* This is {{deconstructed}} in, [[ChaoticNeutral of all things,]] ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''. The Celestials are explicitly stated to be Always Lawful Good, since that's ''the'' requirement to become a Celestial. However, the only Celestial to be named in the story, Hinanai Tenshi, is [[ItAmusedMe one hell of a rabble rouser]] because she finds herself unable to live up to this standard.

* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''

* The Mystics in ''Film/TheDarkCrystal''. [[spoiler: Justified in that they're the innocent, non-violent spiritual half of a species that became divided into two races, the other being the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil selfish, despotic]] Skeksis.]]

* [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elves]] in Tolkien's original conception. His original idea behind them was to depict a people not corrupted by the Original Sin. Most works ''inspired'' by Tolkien instead use ElvesVersusDwarves where dwarves are lawful and elves are ''chaotic'', or have elves being another name for TheFairFolk, or outright go for ScrewYouElves. For that matter, in the Myth/NorseMythology that inspired Tolkien, the elves clearly aren't lawful good either.
* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Mice, otters, hedgehogs, moles, hares, badgers, and squirrels are always good, and probably living in Redwall itself. Shrews are generally ChaoticGood (but always chaotic); voles are good but sometimes whiny (though there was one vole in ''Martin the Warrior'' who was a [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch traitor and a spy]]).

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and its SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', nearly all [[BlowYouAway airbenders]] are ChaoticGood, favouring peace and freedom in equal parts. The exception is Tenzin (who is in fact LawfulGood); even Zaheer, the BigBad of the 3 season, was motivated entirely by [[AntiVillain altruism]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist and wanted for humanity to leave in freedom]], [[KnightTemplar though he was ruthless about his goals]].

This alignment is often justified by the race being somehow "close to Light".

* [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]] in Tolkien's original conception. His original idea behind them was to depict a people not corrupted by the Original Sin. Most works ''inspired'' by Tolkien instead use ElvesVersusDwarves where dwarves are lawful and elves are ''chaotic'', or have elves being another name for TheFairFolk, or outright go for ScrewYouElves. For that matter, in the Myth/NorseMythology that inspired Tolkien, the elves clearly aren't lawful good either.

** The game's [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] are a TropeCodifier, since from the earliest editions, the difference between a good or evil dragon came down to whether their scales were [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience metallic or chromatic]]. Later material has given more nuance to this, pointing out that even the noblest gold dragon still has an instinctive urge to increase the size of their DragonHoard, and will consider themself superior to the mortal races around them.
** Outsiders from the Upper Planes, as codified in ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', are this since they are to some extent MadeOfGood. The Archons are the LawfulGood natives of the Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia and closely fit Western depictions of an angelic hierarchy, the Guardinals of the Blessed Fields of Elysium are a NeutralGood array of [[BeastMan animalistic humanoids]], and the Eladrin of the Olympian Glades of Arborea are more or less a ChaoticGood variant of TheFairFolk. Unlike the various kinds of [[AlwaysChaoticEvil fiends]] that are locked in [[EvilVersusEvil the Blood War]], the differing types of celestials do not wage war against each other, because even the stuffiest of archons would rather tolerate the fickleness of an eladrin over the LawfulEvil order imposed by a devil. That said, good outsiders are not ''always'' Always Lawful Good, as some can become {{Fallen Angel}}s and be banished from the heavens.
** For many editions, ThePaladin class ''had'' to be Lawful Good, and losing that alignment meant losing several class abilities. 4th Edition changed this, and has a ''class'' [[InNameOnly named "paladin"]] that is not an example of the ''trope'' ThePaladin.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' shows many different types of demons. In fact, there are [[OurDemonsAreDifferent many demons that can not be evil but neutral or even good]]. In an episode in the third season, a Yarbnie demon is brutally murdered by vicious humans, and Angel and his friends are horrified because Yarbnie demons (all of them), are absolutely peaceful and harmless.

* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime establishes early on that all Pokémon are not evil, even if they do obey evil trainers. This concept was [[{{Retcon}} dropped]] later with the appearance of actually evil Pokémon, and it was never true in the games.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': By the standards of the Imperium (and not a sane human of the 21st century), the Grey Knights are this, refusing to consort with the kind of loonies who think using Chaos against Chaos is a good idea, and as a result, not one Grey Knight has ever fallen to Chaos (mentally, that is, they've died in droves to Chaos).

* [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]] in Tolkien's original conception. His original idea behind them was to depict a people not corrupted by the Original Sin. Most works ''inspired'' by Tolkien instead use ElvesVersusDwarves where dwarves are lawful and elves are ''chaotic'', or have elves being another name for TheFairFolk, or outright go for ScrewYouElves. For that matter, in the NorseMythology that inspired Tolkien, the elves clearly aren't lawful good either.