History Main / LawfulGood

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* [[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 receive 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.

** {{God}} as viewed by the monotheistic religions. He is firm about his laws and their punishments, but is also believed to be very merciful and forgiving of transgressions who overall works for the good of mankind. Other interpetations paint Him as LawfulNeutral or [[GodIsEvil Lawful Evil.]]

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** Bright Noah the eternal captain of the Universal Century timeline and easily one the most dutiful and moral ReasonableAuthorityFigure of the franchise, not afraid of using an ArmorPiercingSlap to set people straight and willing to join LaResistance to save TheFederation from the corruption of the Titans.

* ''Literature/AesirCrossWars'': This is the default alignment of [[TheSmartGirl Uriel Cross]]. While her boss, Forseti, is mellow enough to be considered NeutralGood instead, Uriel is among the most uptight characters in the book, and is very devoted to performing her duty as the Guardian Angel to the God of Justice.
** [[TheHero Azrael Hardrada]] also starts out this way, being a noble, heroic angel focusing on the Cross War at all costs. Unlike Uriel, however, he mellows out and becomes more NeutralGood, instead.
** [[WorldsStrongestMan Siegfried]] starts out as more of a revenge-motivated TrueNeutral, but after achieving his vengeance, he decides that Hel is the true problem, and joins the battle to stop her, becoming a Lawful Good Einherjar general.

Others, such as characters with SuperOCD and CreatureOfHabit, can vary between Lawful Good, LawfulNeutral and LawfulEvil

** In the [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW IDW comics]], particularly ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', Ultra Magnus is portrayed as being LG with the emphasis on ''lawful'': while he's stoic and humourless to a nearly lethal degree, and is so anal about minor infractions that [[SuperOCD he views a misplaced apostrophe or a skewed badge as mutiny]], he's also the guy who calls out Rodimus for assuming without evidence that Cyclonus attacked [[spoiler:Red Alert]], who actually attempted suicide, and is the only person to consistently treat Ten and [[spoiler:the penitent Megatron]] with some measure of respect.

* Heroic examples of TheSpock

* TheSuperego of a good-aligned FreudianTrio

* Jack Valentine of ''Film/LordOfWar'', an uncorruptible Interpol agent HeroAntagonist whose goal is to bring NeutralEvil VillainProtagonist Arms Dealer Yuri Orlov to justice. He even passes a WhatYouAreInTheDark moment when he has a chance to disappear Yuri on an isolated stretch of dirt road in Africa. Instead he uses the letter of the law to punish him as much as he is able by "detaining" him for 24 hours (leaving him tied up on the road and coming back for him the next day).

* Guy from ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' and ''StreetFighter'', specially in the latter. Yes, he beats up the bad guys outside the law, but he does so to ''uphold'' said law, and he endlessly seeks both to bring Cody back to the side of good ''and'' make sure Rose realizes she shouldn't be a DeathSeeker.
** Plus, [[ActionGirl Chun-Li]] also deserves credit for being the most foremost example in the ''StreetFighter'' franchise. She works hard to bring [[BigBad M. Bison]] and Shadaloo to justice, [[ActionMom adopted several children]], and [[ApologeticAttacker hates inflicting harm on her opponents]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Castelvania}}'': Sypha's main motives are compassion and protection, fueled by her duty as a speaker. Speakers travel between towns promoting education and charity. She joins Trevor and Alucard mainly to save people and she is the moral compass of the trio.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Castelvania}}: Sypha's main motives are compassion and protection, fueled by her duty as a speaker. Speakers travel between towns promoting education and charity. She joins Trevor and Alucard mainly to save people and she is the moral compass of the trio.

* ''WesternAnimation/[[Castelvania]]: Sypha's main motives are compassion and protection, fueled by her duty as a speaker. Speakers travel between towns promoting education and charity. She joins Trevor and Alucard mainly to save people and she is the moral compass of the trio.

* ''LightNovel/TheFarawayPaladin'': Its right there in the title. William G. Maryblood is absolutely a Paladin in the TableTopGame/DungeonsAndDragons mold. A Holy warrior-priest sworn 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.

* ''TabletopGame/CardfightVanguard'': Prior to the Overdress era, Lawful Good was pretty much the whole identity of Royal Paladin and Gold Paladin, paragons of virtue and slayers of evil who win with the power of friendship that they are. However, special mention goes to Bastion, because he lives in an era that's coming out of a 3000-year dark age where their nation expects them to lean more on the LawfulNeutral side. He does display some of those tendencies, as he'll never disobey a direct order and in his own words "The Law is Absolute", but he clearly feels conflicted on some level when given an order that is actively detrimental to the common good.

%%** [[IllGirl Hotaru]] [[ApocalypseMaiden Tomoe]] a.k.a Sailor Saturn could count as well.

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* ComicBook/SheHulk fits into this trope in contrast with [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk her cousin]]'s ChaoticGood or ChaoticNeutral tendencies. {{Justified|Trope}}, though, she ''is'' a lawyer after all.

* Priam Agrivar from [[Creator/DCComics DC's]] ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' and ''Comicbook/ForgottenRealms'' comics. Yes, a literal (A)D&D paladin. Also a former drunk who nonetheless managed to pull himself back out of the bottle and a generally likable character.

* Richard Rider, aka ''Comicbook/{{Nova}}'', the premier member of the Nova Corps (Marvel's answer to the ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps), is so much of a boy scout he seems like he fell straight from UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|Of Comic Books}}. His recently-ended series went from one big scene to another, with Richard refusing to compromise doing the right thing for ''any'' reason. The guy even chooses to stay behind on a doomed planet to make sure that ''everyone'' escapes before Galactus eats it, even if it means he would have to fight an impossible battle against ComicBook/{{Galactus}} and his herald, the ComicBook/SilverSurfer. He's also a good example of lawful good doesn't mean lawful nice as he will rip your insides out if you piss him off as Annihilus found out the hard way.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', in his more "Boy Scout" incarnations. Although when he originally debuted in the GoldenAge and most of time Superman fluctuates between ChaoticGood and NeutralGood. Post-Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}, he's become more like the original version, in some cases even making Franchise/{{Batman}} look tame by comparison.
* ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'':
** ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, though after the Marvel Comicbook/CivilWar some would argue differently. Cap's the flavor of this alignment where far more weight is put on Good than Lawful, and is one of the few major characters in the Marvel Universe to dedicate himself to Good first above anything else, having gone so far to once even giving up the "America" part of his name, rather than having to unquestionably follow the government's word no matter what. His ComicBook/UltimateMarvel incarnation, however, puts a little more emphasis on the Lawful part over the Good part than his main universe counterpart.

%%* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'', Zachary is pretty much a dictionary definition of Lawful Good...unless you [[BerserkButton threaten his wife]] or [[PapaWolf kids]].

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Weiss Schnee. While calling her nice is a [[LovableAlphaBitch a stretch,]] she's still a good person with a strong sense of loyalty and duty.
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* Tyrael the Angel of Justice in the Videogame/{{Diablo}} series is firmly on the side of good and is compassionate towards humans, in contrast to his LawfulStupid brethren. ThePaladin from D2, the [[WarriorMonk Monk]] and the [[ChurchMilitant Templar]] from D3 are also LG.

* [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Lightning]] may have become this in VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2. Given her [[ThePaladin paladin]] status in that game.

%%* Poo in ''{{Mother}}''.

* ''LightNovel/TheFarawayPaladin'': Its right there in the title. [[AwesomeMcCoolName William G. Maryblood]] is absolutely a Paladin in the TableTopGame/DungeonsAndDragons mold. A Holy warrior-priest sworn 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.

* AllLovingHero

* IdealHero

** Chromatic dragons are [[AlwaysLawfulGood always some flavor of good]]. In particular, bronze dragons, silver dragons, and gold dragons are all said to explicitly be Lawful Good. Bronze dragons are scholarly hermits who, [[IGaveMyWord once they give their word, would rather die than break it]]. silver dragons are the paladins and crusaders of dragonkind, who routinely live under incredibly strict moral and ethical codes because they genuinely crave the stability they bring. Gold dragons are altruistic, mentorly sorts and paragons of dragonkind, but known to let their focus on the big picture cloud their ability to see details.