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* Eli and Lt. Scott from ''StargateUniverse'' might fit, though they are pretty ineffective.

* Cassie from ''{{Animorphs}},'' though the others are not always willing to listen to her, and sometimes her ideas cause serious problems, like when she [[spoiler:let Tom escape with the morphing cube to stop Jake from having to kill him]].

* Cordelia in {{Angel}} after she received the visions. She made sure Angel kept his focus on 'helping the helpless' rather then vengeance or making money.
* ''{{HouseMD}}'''s Dr. Wilson.

* Daniel Jackson from StargateSG1
* Eli and Lt. Scott from StargateUniverse might fit, though they are pretty ineffective.

{{Truth in Television}}, or one would think.

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* In ''{{Gargoyles}}'', there is an episode with a golem. The role of one of the characters in that episode is to guide the golem's actions and help it stay in the right.

* [[RetiredBadass General]] [[CoolOldGuy Iroh]] to his nephew [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Zuko]] in ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''.

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* ''{{Freefall}}'': Florence tries to be Sam's conscience. Very hard and frustrating job, but slowly Sam seems to be changing a bit.

* ''DoctorWho'' According to Donna this is why the Doctor needs human companions, so they can stop him. Needless to say she's right: [[spoiler:While traveling alone the Doctor ends up risking the future of human space exploration by saving a woman destined to die in order to inspire those that make it happen. The woman in question ends up committing suicide to save the future in defiance to what the [[AGodAmI Doctor has become]]]].

** To the point where the Cadmus storyline strongly implies that if Flash dies (particularly if he dies at Lex Luthor's hands), Superman will go crazy and kill Lex with his heat vision in a ARoaringRampageOfRevenge. [[spoiler: When the moment actually comes where Superman ''believes'' that Lex has killed Flash, he comes very close to doing it, but in the end relents and says "I'm not the man who kills Lex Luthor. Right now I wish to God that I was, but I'm not." Luckily, Flash turns out to be alive after all.]]

* In {{Digimon Adventure 02}}, Wormmon is the conscience to Ken, the digimon emporer who badly mistreats his loyal companion.

* Puck from ''{{Berserk}}'' tries to be this for Guts, calling him out on his less-than-heroic decisions. Guts being Guts, however, he doesn't much care a lot of the time.

* Puck from ''{{Berserk}}'' primarily acts as this for Guts, calling him out on his less-than-heroic decisions. Guts being Guts, however, he doesn't much care a lot of the time.

* In {{Digimon Adventure 2}}, Wormmon is the conscience to Ken, the digimon emporer who badly mistreats his loyal companion.

* In Digimon Adventure 2, Wormmon is the conscience to Ken, the digimon emporer who badly mistreats his loyal companion.

* Noi the lizard in The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer serves as an animal mentor and a conscience for Yuuhi. Noi is quite concerned about Yuuhi's desire to see the world destroyed.

* {{Digger}} acts as the newborn Shadowchild's conscience and helps it develop one of its own. This is very difficult since a) it's a sort of demon and b) it has absolutely no reference point for "good" or "bad" and c) they live in a world where things like CarnivoreConfusion can be a ''really'' big problem.

Compare MoralityChain, where a character is kept on the straight and narrow against his otherwise nature. Often one of the roles of TheConsigliere.

->''"[[WhoWatchesTheWatchmen Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?]] Me."''
-->-- '''The Guarding Dark''', ''[[{{Discworld}} Thud]]''

* Samuel Vimes of ''{{Discworld}}'' often fears that he will give in to his darker urges. As a result, his subconscious created the Guarding Dark, an entity within his mind but separate, which ensures he does what is right.

* ''DoctorWho'' According to Donna this is why the Doctor needs human companions, so they can stop him. Needless to say she's right: [[spoiler:While travelling alone the Doctor ends up risking the future of human space exploration by saving a woman destined to die in order to inspire those that make it happen. The woman in question ends up committing suicide to safe the future in deviance to what the [[AGodAmI Doctor has become]]]].

-->'''Paul Blake:''' You can't just walk away.\\
'''Jarvis Edison:''' You did.\\
'''Paul Blake:''' How did I end up with Jiminy Cricket?

* ''DoctorWho'' According to Donna this is why the Doctor needs human companions, so they can stop him. Needless to say she's right: [[spoiler:While travelling alone the Doctor ends up risking the future of human space exploration by saving a woman destined to die in order to inspire those that make it happen. The woman in question ends up committing suicide to safe the future in deviance to what the [[AGodAmI Doctor has become]]]]

* Although [[CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes]] will often accompany Calvin in his mischief, he serves as Calvin's moral compass on a many occasion.
** Well...he ''tries,'' anyway.

* Bill McDonagh has been described by the developers as acting as Ryan's conscience in {{BioShock}}. The player arguably has Tenenbaum and Atlas who advise the player, Tenenbaum especially on issues like Little Sisters. Except they are both completely different characters.

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* ''DoctorWho'' According to Donna this is why the Doctor needs human companions, so they can stop him. Needless to say she's right: [[spoiler:While travelling alone the Doctor ends up risking the future of human space exploration by saving a woman destined to die in order to inspire those that make it happen. The woman in question ends up committing suicide to safe the future in deviance to what the [[AGodAmI Doctor has become]]