History Main / LawfulGood

* CaptainPatriotic

Others, such as BigGood, GoodIsNotNice, IdealHero, AllLovingHero, SmallStepsHero, KnightInSourArmor and FriendToAllLivingThings, can vary between Lawful Good, NeutralGood, and ChaoticGood. Generally, a lawful good government is TheFederation.

* HonestCorporateExecutive

* Heroic examples of PureIsNotGood.

While the key difference between Lawful Good and NeutralGood is the belief that upholding law/honor/social mores/etc. is required to set a proper example for others or to prevent a philosophical MoralDissonance; the key difference between Lawful Good and LawfulNeutral is the recognition that laws/honor/social mores/etc. exist only to protect the Greater Good, and will consider whether those strict guidelines accomplish their tasks rather than enforcing the rule for the rule's own sake.

** Klavier Gavin from the fourth game, the only prosecutor to unequivocally claim this alignment from his first appearance.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Weisse Schnee. While calling her nice is a [[LovableAlphaBitch a stretch,]] she's still a good person with a strong sense of loyalty and duty.

* William Laurence in Naomi Novik's ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' series. You can make a drinking game out of the number of times he says "duty" in any context, but while he's loyal to Britain no matter what it does, he consistently picks "good" whenever ToBeLawfulOrGood comes up, even if it requires going against the orders of his superiors. In "Empire of Ivory", he commits treason in order to amend a particularly terrible thing his government has done -- and then, despite [[spoiler:Napoleon]] being entirely willing to give him and Temeraire a nice house and a herd of cattle and require nothing of them beyond simply not interfering, [[TheFettered he deliberately heads right back to England to face trial and likely execution for his actions]].

* A character frequently forced to choose ToBeLawfulOrGood typically starts off as LawfulGood, but is unlikely to end the story with the same alignment.

** In many ways, the whole series is a study in multiple flavors of LawfulGood. Gird is different from Falk. Kieri, Paks, Dorrin, Stammel, and Arcolin are all different flavors of LawfulGood.

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'':
** Despite having KleptomaniacHero tendencies, Phoenix has got to be either this or Neutral Good. His successor Apollo Justice, focusing more on the lawful part of the equation than Phoenix did, is ''definitely'' Lawful Good. Post-CharacterDevelopment [[TheRival Edgeworth]] also counts; he clearly shows his pursuit of justice comes first and his desire to "win" second -- unlike in Franziska and Manfred von Karma's case. Also, Mia Fey, who is more collected and rational than Phoenix, eventually becoming his mentor before ''and'' after being murdered. Phoenix himself defends not only his clients, but anyone else that he believes are truly innocent. Not only this, but Phoenix has shown on a few occasions that he will ''object'' to his own not guilty verdict on his client when he feels the real killer hasn't been found yet or when the verdict isn't fully just (for example, the defendant is innocent, but someone else, who is also innocent, would be seen as guilty).
** Also Klavier Gavin from the fourth game, the only prosecutor to unequivocally claim this alignment from his first appearance.

* Most heroic versions of TheFettered
* The blue oni in a good RedOniBlueOni duo
* Heroic examples of TheSpock

* TheSuperego of a good-aligned FreudianTrio.

* In a heroic FourTemperamentEnsemble, the Melancholic usually.

* Florence Ambrose of ''Freefall'' tries to work within the system where possible and insists on being held accountable for her actions when she inevitably picks "good" on the ToBeLawfulOrGood question. When she's "jailed" in the dog pound, she refuses to leave until [[NoodleImplements she hears about Sam's plan to break her out]].

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* ''LightNovel/TheFarawayPaladin'': Its right there in the tital. [[AwesmeMcCoolName William G. maryblood]] is absolutely a Paladin in the TableTopGame/DungeonsAndDragons mold. A Holy warrior-priest sword to upload the cycle of life and death in opposion to a god of the undead, always seeking to see and act on the good in others, and inspiring others to be better than they are.

%%* Paksenarrion and Duke Phelan from ''Literature/TheDeedOfPaksenarrion'' by Creator/ElizabethMoon. Other paladins and marshals, and also sergeant Stammel are most likely of this alignment too. The series is supposedly based on Moon witnessing a lot of LawfulStupid Paladins at conventions, and determining how such a character would really act. So in many ways, it's a study in Lawful Good.

* ''Literature/TheDeedOfPaksennarion'': It's a book about 'Paladin done ''right''.' and a strong aversion of LawfulStupid. In addition to Paks, Kieri, Dorrin, and Stammel also fit this Alignment

* There's a fair number of these characters in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', but Inspector Ninzaburou Shiratori turns out to be the biggest one since his desire to uphold and protect the law turns out to be quiiiite important to him [[WiseBeyondTheirYears ever since he was a child]]. It's clearly seen when he gives a killer a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that begins with Shiratori ''reciting a specific law code word by word''.

* Princess Voluptua in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' takes her job and responsibilities very seriously, such that she is willing to [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100223.html sacrifice her chance for personal happiness]] for them. Even BeleagueredBureaucrat Zippobic, who ''[[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry hates]]'' the government she represents, [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100525.html grudgingly concedes]] that he respects and trusts ''her'' (even if he does think she [[CharacterFilibuster talks too much.)]]

* ''WebAnimation/RWBY'': Weisse Schnee. While calling her nice is a [[LovableAlphaBitch a stretch,]] she's still a good person with a strong sense of loyalty and duty.

%%* In ''Freefall'' ship's engineer Florence Ambrose is definitely Lawful Good, at least partly due to genetic engineering (the Lawful part, anyway).

* [[Main/SantaClaus Santa Claus]] in his many depictions is this. After all he only rewards good people with presents once a year, while bad folk recieve coal. He does his job often with the aid of a list, which has the names of every good or evil human on the planet. He may be a kids story, but damn can he be inspiring to do the right thing.

* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' has the titular character, designed as a direct counter to the gangsters and corruption which permeated the 1930's. Dick Tracy is thoroughly incorruptible, fearless, merciful, and a brilliant detective, who uses cutting-edge forensics technology to prove both guilt and innocence.

* ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'': Hank the Ranger is quicker to point out the law and rules of the party's location, and also the one who is least likely to argue or question the Dungeonmaster.

** Similarly, Jonathan from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' is this, and is unique amongst classical Law Heroes in the sense that he's still heroic even after choosing to side with Law. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Despite being a blue-blood by birth in a kingdom set in the apocalyptic 21st century,]] he firmly believes in equality and respect regardless of class, and despite hating demons with a passion, it isn't entirely unjustified given what they do. It's telling that he's the only Law Hero from a mainline SMT game to [[spoiler:question the ethical nature of sacrificing himself to effectively annihilate Tokyo, and goes along with it less out of blind devotion, [[HeroicSacrifice but because he wants a future of peace for all he cares about,]] effectively making him NotSoDifferent from Neutral Flynn.]]

* In a heroic FourTemperamentEnsemble, the melancholic usually.

* Dalinar Kholin of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' is a Lawful Good aristocrat in a society where [[AristocratsAreEvil almost all aristocrats are corrupt and self serving.]] He follows the ancient Codes of leadership which have otherwise been forgotten and [[spoiler:ultimately gives up his (extremely valuable) magic sword in order to buy the freedom of a bunch of slaves because he'd promised he'd free them]]. Kaladin is also Lawful Good, although more of the "personal code" variety since he hates the entire aristocracy essentially unilaterally. Also, his sidekick Syl is [[spoiler:an honorspren, essentially a spirit of lawful goodness]].

** Skips is another character that falls into this alignment. He is stoic who has worked at the park for a long time due to his immortality. Because of this he is very smarter than all of the characters combined. Mordecai and Rigby turn to him for advice on their various wacky adventures. Even when it's not his thing he still tries to help. In the season 5 episode, "Skip's Story". He has been expelled from many other schools and gets into a fight with Clorkbane. Walks meets and falls in Love with Mona and vows to never fight again to show his love for her. Mona dies during prom night. He meets the Guardians of Eternal Youth and tey tell him he will return and grant him immortality to see can protect the Earth from Clorkbane's wrath. He changed his name to Skips in memory of how they skiped together and stayed true to his name ever since. He lives the burden that he will outlive his loved ones. But chosed to live this way because he already lost his lover and believes that this is his duty to the universe. He does have a checkered past and killed Rigby in an Arm Wrestling match and rectified it by arm wrestling Death.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': Pops Maellerd is a literal embodiment of pure good. That's why he is a Lawful Good. In season one of the show he's an incredibly king guy who is always in a good mood. He does not care that Mordecai and Rigby are slackers and even slacks off with them sometimes like in the season 2 episode, Go Viral. He would not harm anyone on purpose and is very patient with everyone. He had his fair share of causing trouble like forcing Benson to Manage his anger in the season 3 episode Think Positive. Which almost causes the destruction of the park. That instance was a result of his pure childlike innocence and desire for everyone to be happy and get along. He goes through great lengths to helps others like in the season 2 episode Really Real Wrestling. Being a chosen one Pops is destined to fight Anti-Pops. In the final episode, Regular Epic Final Battle Part 3: The Power he defeats Anti-Pops by killing him with kindness. In it he hugs his evil twin and sacrifices himself so he can save the universe even Anti-Pops learns the error of his ways from this hug.