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* ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'': Vargas, TheDragon of BigBad Emilio Largo.

* Pinkie Brown in ''Literature/BrightonRock''. He's revolted by sex and the idea of opening himself up to another person and similarly scared of the loss of control involved with drugs and alcohol. Sharply contrasted with the drunken, ReallyGetsAround hedonist Ida Arnold.

** Vorbis from ''Literature/SmallGods'' is an ascetic religious man who truly believes in his holy war, [[spoiler: or so ''he'' believes right up until judgement.]] He takes his asceticism so far it becomes a form of ostentation - for instance, he only consumes water and stale bread. If given fresh bread (as his servants once attempted) [[UpToEleven he will wait for it to go stale before he eats it]].

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'': While the Joker is ''anything'' but LawfulEvil, it's revealed in the backstory that he only ordered a glass of milk when he visited the Iceberg Lounge.
* Andrew Ryan from ''VideoGame/BioShock1'', despite living in and forming a society based on [[LegoGenetics rewriting one's DNA]] ([[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity and subsequently going insane]]), is not a Splicer and may have never used [[PsychoSerum ADAM]] in his life. The same goes for Sofia Lamb of ''VideoGame/BioShock2''. It seems the only Gene Tonic that Ryan possibly used was the one that makes people look younger. [[spoiler:Frank Fontaine never bothered to splice up either ([[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply never use your own supply]] and all that), and it seems like the only time he ever touched ADAM was to get MagicPlasticSurgery to turn him into Atlas. Of course, when he knows you're coming to kill him, he splices up as much as he can before you get there so he can fight you, to the point that he looks like the actual mythological Atlas by the time he's done.]]

Often a trait of a KnightTemplar or TheFundamentalist. See also VillainousValour, EvilVirtues, ChurchgoingVillain, FamilyValuesVillain, EvilVegetarian, and VillainousAromanticAsexual. If he spends his spare time getting jacked in the gym instead of wallowing in hedonism then you also have KingpinInHisGym. Compare SmugStraightEdge and EvenEvilHasStandards. Contrast MrViceGuy, a good character with significant vices, and StrawHypocrite, which will occur if the villain indulges in licentious activities he denies his minions or the citizens under his tyranny to enjoy. In the case of drug dealers who fail to uphold this rule, see GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply.

Often a trait of a KnightTemplar or TheFundamentalist. See also VillainousValour, EvilVirtues, ChurchgoingVillain, FamilyValuesVillain, and VillainousAromanticAsexual. If he spends his spare time getting jacked in the gym instead of wallowing in hedonism then you also have KingpinInHisGym. Compare SmugStraightEdge and EvenEvilHasStandards. Contrast MrViceGuy, a good character with significant vices, and StrawHypocrite, which will occur if the villain indulges in licentious activities he denies his minions or the citizens under his tyranny to enjoy. In the case of drug dealers who fail to uphold this rule, see GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply.

** Tywin Lannister drinks wine, like most people in the Seven Kingdoms, but seems to have only simple, constructive hobbies such as fishing and hunting. He also harshly criticizes whoring. [[spoiler:However, Tyrion finds out that Tywin does, in fact, frequent prostitutes when he discovers Shae in Tywin's bed.[[note]]It's implied that after ''all'' his children and grandchildren have now thoroughly disappointed him, he's just trying for more heirs.[[/note]]]]

* Triple H is a lesser-known example. He's not as overt, and he is not ''SmugStraightEdge'', he's just a self-admitted evil man who happens to not do drugs (or at least not anymore, Trips [[FanNickname used to be known as HGH]]).

* Rikki Kixx is a straight-edge rocker in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''. As it turns out, he is unable to indulge in alcohol or drugs for a variety of legal, professional, and health reasons, and is promoting sobriety solely to deny people the joy that he himself can no longer feel.

** In one episode, Quark is shocked to learn that in the past, humans would choose to poison themselves with cigarettes, suggesting that Ferengi do not use any harmful recreational drugs. He's shown in another episode, however, that he wasn't above ''selling'' drugs to interested parties.

** The president of the United States, who's willing to let millions of drug users around the world die -- including people that only took a drug ''once'', people using marijuana for medicinal reasons, ''children'' who were born affected by a drug, and his own ''Chief of Staff'' -- just so he can say he was the president that won the war on drugs. [[spoiler:As soon as the Kingsman release the antidote, said Chief of Staff exposes his crimes to the public and gets him impeached and arrested.]]

** Tywin Lannister drinks wine, like most people in the Seven Kingdoms, but seems to have only simple, constructive hobbies such as fishing and hunting. He also harshly criticizes whoring. However, [[spoiler:Tyrion finds out that Tywin does, in fact, frequent prostitutes when he discovers Shae in Tywin's bed[[note]]It's implied that after ''all'' his children and grandchildren have now thoroughly disappointed him, he's just trying for more heirs.[[/note]]]].

* The husband and wife team of Sportsmaster and Tigress in ''Series/{{Stargirl}}''. Sportsmaster is an obsessive follower of an intense fitness regime he calls "the Program", which he assumes everyone should be on. Tigress reacts with horror to the processed food in Barbara Whitmore's kitchen, and turns down Barbara's offer of coffee because she avoids caffeine. (Barbara offers her water, and she asks what kind, then looks absolutely disgusted when told "tap", presumably due to chemicals.) They've raised their daughter the same way; when they're in prison she's horrified that her foster home serves macaroni and cheese, and doesn't even know what wheatgrass ''is''.

* Andrew Ryan from ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'', despite living in and forming a society based on rewriting one's DNA ([[ComesGreatInsanity and subsequently going insane]]), is not a Splicer and may have never used [[PsychoSerum ADAM]] in his life. The same goes for Sofia Lamb of ''VideoGame/BioShock2''. It seems the only Gene Tonic that Ryan possibly used was the one that makes people look younger. [[spoiler:Frank Fontaine never bothered to splice up either ([[TheAggressiveDrugDealer never use your own supply]] and all that), and it seems like the only time he ever touched ADAM was to get MagicPlasticSurgery to turn him into Atlas. Of course, when he knows you're coming to kill him, he splices up as much as he can before you get there so he can fight you, to the point that he looks like the actual mythological Atlas by the time he's done]].

* This is the party line of Caesar's Legion in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', which officially forbids alcohol, chems (including stimpaks and healing technologies), and general "profligacy" on the belief that relying on these things for pleasure or aid in combat has made humanity weak. Subverted in the case of the high-ranking Centurion Aurelius of Phoenix, whose office contains items like beer, lingerie, a comic book, and "[[ImAHumanitarian strange meat]]", though they might be confiscated goods.

* The soft-spoken Zaheer from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' reveres the culture of the Air Nomads; a people that try to separate themselves from earthly concerns. In fact, the [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers full realization of his powers]] comes from letting go of ''all'' his worldly attachments [[spoiler: the last one of which was his girlfriend, when she is killed nearby.]]

* Zigzagged in ''Film/AmericanHistoryX''. While Derek initially dislikes drugs for their association with minorities and his self-righteous belief that drug use is somehow beneath the dignity of his race, it's his dislike of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang for what he perceives as their hypocrisy in dealing drugs with the Mexican Mafia that starts him on the path to his HeelFaceTurn.

A sister trope or sub-trope of PureIsNotGood, this is when a villain lives a temperate and orderly lifestyle, [[UsefulNotes/StraightEdge free of drugs, tobacco, alcohol, illicit sex, and other such vices]]. Such a villain will probably be LawfulEvil and keep to a schedule, complete with moderate exercise. ''Maybe'' you can trip them up by [[ClockKing exploiting their dependence on a schedule,]] but that's a maybe. You're dealing with someone who truly understands moderation, and happens to be evil.

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* Mordecai Heller from ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' qualifies for this trope. Readers never see him drinking alcohol (at least after the [[IntoxicationEnsues Bunny Hugs incident]]), smoking, knowingly indulging in illicit substances, or [[{{Asexual}} engaging in romantic pursuits]]. He's also meticulously clean, tidy, and orderly, going so far as to dust the shelves in the Lackadaisy armory after stealing weapons from it.

* At the very beginning of ''Film/AmericanPsycho'', it's established that Patrick Batman takes very good care of his health and hygiene. He uses all kinds of expensive products to keep his skin clean, smooth, and to prevent aging. He exercises like mad, quoting that he can do up to 1,000 crunches. And he eats a very strict diet. He is also ''possibly'' a sadistic serial killer.

* ''Literature/James/Bond'': As the page quote implies, a number of Bond villains ran along these lines in the original novels, likely to contrast with Bond (who, much like his creator Creator/IanFleming, smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish). Bond's ArchEnemy Blofeld was noted to be ''so'' straight-edge and professional that he kills a subordinate for raping a kidnap victim, and even refunds a chunk of the ransom her parents paid. As stated in ''Literature/{{Thunderball}}'':

* As the page quote implies, a number of Bond villains ran along these lines in [[Literature/JamesBond the original novels]], likely to contrast with Bond (who, much like his creator Creator/IanFleming, smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish). Bond's ArchEnemy Blofeld was noted to be ''so'' straight-edge and professional that he kills a subordinate for raping a kidnap victim, and even refunds a chunk of the ransom her parents paid. As stated in ''Literature/{{Thunderball}}'':

* ''Literature/TheDwarf'': The titular dwarf is repulsed by pretty much everything, including but not limited to drunkenness, religion, art, human emotion, and his own body. As a part of this, he refrains from all forms of human interaction not immediately necessary, gags at the thought of sexuality, loathes the times when he is forced to drink wine, and only eats and drinks as much as is necessary to stay alive.
* ''Literature/AfterTheRevolution'': The Heavenly Kingdom bans anything heavier than coffee for its inhabitants, and is an expansionist Christo-Fascist state who persecutes and publicly executes minorities [[spoiler:and forces its willing black and latino inhabitants to become BrainInAJar {{Wetware CPU}}s for {{Attack Drone}}s.]]

* Hob, the child [[TheDragon Dragon]] of Cain in ''Film/RoboCop2'', is the only one of the main trio of the Nuke cult not to GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply, which he uses to usurp control of the gang away from Cain after he's hospitalized.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book 35 gives us the Controller William Roger Tennant a talk show host and philanthropist, who is described several times as irritatingly perfect. And deep down inside is a frustrated warrior sick of maintaining this easy-going friend-to-all charade.

-->--'''Auric Goldfinger''', ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}''

* Andrew Ryan from ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'', despite living in and forming a society based on rewriting one's DNA ([[ComesGreatInsanity and subsequently going insane]]), is not a Splicer and may have never used [[PsychoSerum ADAM]] in his life. The same goes for Sofia Lamb of ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock 2}}''. It seems the only Gene Tonic that Ryan possibly used was the one that makes people look younger. [[spoiler:Frank Fontaine never bothered to splice up either ([[TheAggressiveDrugDealer never use your own supply]] and all that), and it seems like the only time he ever touched ADAM was to get MagicPlasticSurgery to turn him into Atlas. Of course, when he knows you're coming to kill him, he splices up as much as he can before you get there so he can fight you, to the point that he looks like the actual mythological Atlas by the time he's done]].

* The Syndicate Of Buzzkills from ''VideoGame/{{WASTED}}'' are a fanatical cult of teetotallers (the only form of entertainment people have AfterTheEnd is drinking irradiated booze). They're willing to murder anyone who disagrees.

** The president of the United States, who's willing to let millions of drug users around the world die-including people that only took a drug ''once'', people using marijuana for medicinal reasons, ''children'' who were born affected by a drug, and his own ''Chief of Staff''-just so he can say he was the president that won the war on drugs. [[spoiler:As soon as the Kingsman release the antidote, said Chief of Staff exposes his crimes to the public and gets him impeached and arrested.]]

* Boba Fett in ''Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters''. He rails against the drug trade and in particular despises Han Solo for drug-smuggling, and is also a teetotaler. Also, when Leia is offered to him by Jabba the Hutt during ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', he leaves her alone and takes the couch[[note]]He doesn't send her back, though, to avoid offending Jabba.[[/note]] on grounds that both extramarital sex and rape are immoral. (Leia also points out in response to the drug thing that, being a BountyHunter, Fett is essentially a murderer for hire, to which he angrily retorts that, unlike Han, what he does for a living is legal.)