History MoralityPet / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Tora Ziyal is this to her Cardassian father, Gul Dukat during Seasons 4, 5, and 6. Though since Dukat [[spoiler:goes insane after she is killed and eventually becomes the Bajoran antichrist, this could also be a MoralityChain.]]

** Chloe for Lucifer. She [[spoiler: literally]] brings out his humanity, and is able to talk him down from seriously hurting the criminals they catch.
** Trixie is one for Maze.

** Gives evil vampire Klaus one in the form of Caroline.

* ''Series/Titans (2018)'': Gar Logan is heavily implied to be this for Rachel Roth. Most noticeably in the Season 2 premiere [[spoiler:Trigon specifically targeted Gar in his effort to break Rachel. When Gar survived his beating from the possessed Titans, he was able to pull Rachel out of her father's thrall by holding her hand and asking her to come back.]] It's also implied he might be a minor one to Jason, as the latter is overall more considerate of Gar's feelings than he is of any of the other Titans'.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' gives us an interesting example. After being on the road for almost a year after his defeat in the previous season, The Governor adopts a little girl and her family. He genuinely wants to change his ways, but he quickly becomes worse than ever in the things he does to protect them. An odd case where the morality pet actually makes a character worse.

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': In a very dark example, Ellie Spicer becomes this to Billy Flynn, the most prolific {{serial killer}} and rapist to appear on the show. Killing Ellie's grandparents when her father, Matt, was a child, Billy develops a "grandfather complex" towards Ellie. Killing Matt, Billy kidnaps Ellie and tries to turn her into a protégé, treating her as the granddaughter he doesn't have. Sick as it may be, his treatment of Ellie is the only evidence that there might still be something human inside Billy; when the fact that what he's doing to her is bad is pointed out to him, Billy [[spoiler:lets her go, than goes to his [[SuicideByCop suicidal death]].]] Also, Stan Wolcott is one of these for Vincent Rowlings in the episode "The Big Wheel."

* ''Series/BlackAdder'': In the first series, Prince Edmund is an utterly vile human being, but when married off to Leia, the 11-year-old princess of Hungary, his BigBrotherInstinct kicks in and they form a rather sweet platonic bond. The episode where she is introduced ends with Edmund, the poisoner, conspirator and assassin, tucking her into bed and telling her bedtime stories.

* ''Series/{{Jericho}}'': In Season 2, [[spoiler:Heather]] is a textbook example of that to Major Beck.

** Karen is Frank's morality pet before David Lieberman. She is one he reaches out to when Micro is following Frank. She is the one who finds Micro for him. He opens up to her about his family at the bridge. He puts the whole mission on hold when Karen is being targeted by Lewis and literally takes a bullet for her. One of the only times you see Frank very emotional in Season 1 is when Lewis is threatening Karen on the radio.

* ''Series/{{ER}}'' Jeanie Boulet and John Carter might be the only people Kerry Weaver was ever consistently nice to without an ulterior motive and could genuinely call friends.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Sheldon Cooper is an obnoxious, self-involved, petty {{manchild}} and the only people who can keep him in line is [[MyBelovedSmother his strict mother]] and his Mee-Maw.

* ''Series/BlackAdder'': In the first series, Prince Edmund is an utterly vile human being, but when married off to the Leia, the 11-year-old princess of Hungary, his BigBrotherInstinct kicks in and they form a rather sweet platonic bond. The episode where she is introduced ends with Edmund, the poisoner, conspirator and assassin, tucking her into bed and telling her bedtime stories.

** The Doctor tends to need companions to do this for him. As WebSite/SFDebris noted, this was apparent from his earliest appearance in the Classic Series, when the First Doctor was ready to bash an injured man's head in to save his own hide and only stopped by the intervention by the human he'd previously disparaged for being a ''primitive'' in comparison to himself. A more understated example is Jo, who the Third Doctor's obvious nurturing of tends to soften his rudeness towards her and others. "The Deadly Assassin" veered into darker territory with the Fourth Doctor, which took place immediately after the departure of Sarah-Jane Smith and wherein the Doctor had no companion for the duration of the story, and he soon [[LighterAndSofter cheers up again]] after spending time with Leela and picking up K-9. The new series makes this dynamic more explicit -- after he loses Rose and Donna initially decides not to go with him, she tells the Tenth Doctor to find someone because sometimes he "needs someone to stop [him]" from [[KnightTemplar going too far]], and when he stops taking companions he [[AGodAmI goes]] [[AntiHero off]] [[CharacterDevelopment the deep end]].

* ''Series/VRTroopers'': Grimlord is shown to be an extremely BadBoss who thinks that just about everyone under his command are nothing but disposable tools. The one exception is Juliet, the pet iguana of his alter ego Karl Ziktor, to the point he appeared horrified at the idea of subjecting her to an experiment in order to test a device to use against the VR Troopers.

** Wolter is a blunt, brutish, rough semi-thug who rarely cares about others' feelings--unless it's Emmi, his psychologically damaged wife. With her, he becomes an entirely different man: kind, gentle, patient and compassionate.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Vir is pretty much [[ByronicHero Londo's]] Morality Pet, especially in seasons 2 and 3 [[spoiler:as Londo becomes more and more tainted by the Shadows.]]

*** Buffy too in S7, after Spike gains his soul and seeks redemption. She used to be his MoralityChain in Season 5 and 6.

** Karen is Frank's morality pet before David Lieberman. She is one he reaches out to when Micro is following Frank. She is the one who finds Micro for him. He opens up to her about his family at the bridge. He puts the whole mission on hold when Karen is being targeted by Lewis and literally takes a bullet for her. One of the only times you see Frank very emotional in season 1 is when Lewis is threatening Karen on the radio.

* ''{{Series/Hannibal}}'': The entire concept of the show is built around the [[MindGameShip bizarre]], [[LoveHurts brutal]] and [[LoveMakesYouEvil intensely sensual dynamic]] between SerialKiller [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibal]] [[AGodAmI Dr. Hannibal Lecter]] and the [[TheMentallyDisturbed unstable]] [[TheProfiler FBI profiler]] [[TheEmpath Will Graham]]. Despite Hannibal being a sadistic sociopath capable of killing anyone who gets in the way of his plans (even close acquaintances and [[FalseFriend "friends"]]), season three reveals that [[OneTrueLove his love for Will]] [[OfficialCouple is far from subtext]]. Not only does he go out of his way to save Will's life at the cost of his own freedom twice, but in the finale, [[spoiler: [[TakingTheBullet he stands between Will and the man hunting them down and takes the bullet meant for Will.]]]] [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Seems even cannibal serial killers can have loved ones.]]

** In the fourth episode of season 3, [[spoiler:a kid named Noah, who is apparently Sylar's son]] is the most distilled version of the Morality Pet ever seen for [[spoiler:future!Sylar. He claims to have curbed his "[[EvilTastesGood hunger]]" for him. When he dies, Sylar ''explodes''.]]

* ''Series/{{Jericho}}'': In season 2, [[spoiler:Heather]] is a textbook example of that to Major Beck.

* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' presents a convulted example in Nico Saiba and Taiga Hanaya. Their relationship is a mutual one, because they need to balance each other out. Nico easies Taiga's jerkish tendencies and he treats her irresponsible attitude. Sometimes, she hates him for making her care about his suicidal ass. Sometimes, he hates her for her casual flipping off whatever Cthulhu passes around, causing him constant stress and worry.
* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': Sento and Misora inittially had to work hard on keeping Ryuga from either slipping off the slippery slope or getting himself killed by doing something stupid in anger. Ryuga eventually repayed the favor by acting like Sento's moral compass when he hesitated and by being immensely protective towards both.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Henry is this for Regina/The Evil Queen. In season two, [[spoiler: Belle and his son, Baelfire/Neal]] is this for Gold/Rumplestiltskin. In season three, Henry also becomes this for [[spoiler: Rumplestiltskin.]]

** [[spoiler:Lana]] is this for ComicBook/LexLuthor in season four, when he is pretty much already evil... [[VillainWithGoodPublicity not that anyone knows that.]] [[spoiler:But judging by how he is imprisoning meteor freaks in ''Subterranean'', capturing and experimenting on Chloe as no more than a test subject, insisting he has nothing to due with [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Victor's]] mistreatment then immediately going to discuss having Victor's girlfriend kidnapped in order to force him to cooperate, [[MoralEventHorizon he's gone too far.]]]] Of course, this lasts until season six where, in order to make her marry him, [[spoiler:[[BabyTrap he drugs her with hormones to make her believe she's pregnant,]] [[KickTheMoralityPet then stops once it's done in order to make her think she had a miscarriage.]]]]

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Tora Ziyal is this to her Cardassian father, Gul Dukat during seasons 4, 5, and 6. Though since Dukat [[spoiler:goes insane after she is killed and eventually becomes the Bajoran antichrist, this could also be a MoralityChain.]]

** Castiel acts as this for Meg in Seasons 7-8. This starts when Castiel is severely depressed after [[spoiler: absorbing Sam's mental illness]] in season 7, and while he is [[spoiler: being mind-controlled by the angel Naomi]] in season 8. It comes to a head in season 8, episode 17 when [[spoiler: Meg dies to buy Castiel and the Winchesters some time]]. She refers to Castiel as her "unicorn."

** Matt becomes this for Rebekah in season 4.

* ''Series/Titans (2018)'': Gar Logan is heavily implied to be this for Rachel Roth. Most noticeably in the season 2 premiere [[spoiler:Trigon specifically targeted Gar in his effort to break Rachel. When Gar survived his beating from the possessed Titans, he was able to pull Rachel out of her father's thrall by holding her hand and asking her to come back.]] It's also implied he might be a minor one to Jason, as the latter is overall more considerate of Gar's feelings than he is of any of the other Titans'.

*** Mariah Dillard initially seems like she'll be one to Cottonmouth, albeit one that is in the grey due to benefiting off his corrupt dealings. Ultimately she proves she's actually much worse, which culminates in her murdering her cousin, framing his death on Luke Cage, and taking control over his criminal empire.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Harry Kim is this at the beginning for Tom Paris, though it quickly fades into a more balanced friendship. The first time we see Tom genuinely being nice, he's defending Harry from Quark's attempt to scam him, and Harry manages to get through Tom's defenses when he refuses to be driven away by Tom's past. In a later scene, Paris specifically asks to be included in a rescue mission; Janeway initially speculates that he's trying to prove himself after being berated by Chakotay, but Paris explains that it's actually because he wants to get Harry back safely. It's the first sign that there's more to Tom Paris than meets the eye.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Harry Kim is this at the beginning for Tom Paris, though it quickly fades into a more balanced friendship. The first time we see Tom genuinely being nice, he's defending Harry from Quark's attempt to scam him, and Harry manages to get through Tom's defenses when he refuses to be driven away by Tom's past. In a later scene, Paris specifically asks to be included in a rescue mission; Janeway initially speculates that he's trying to prove himself after being berated by Chakotay, but Paris explains that it's actually because Harry is the one they're going to rescue and he wants Harry to be okay. It's the first sign that there's more to Tom Paris than meets the eye.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Harry Kim is this at the beginning for Tom Paris, though it quickly fades into a more balanced friendship. The first time we see Tom genuinely being nice, he's defending Harry from Quark's attempt to scam him, and Harry manages to get through Tom's defenses when he refuses to be driven away by Tom's past. It's the first sign that there's more to Tom Paris than meets the eye.

* ''{{Series/Hannibal}}'': The entire concept of the show is built around the [[MindGameShip bizarre]], [[LoveHurts brutal]] and [[LoveMakesYouEvil intensely sensual dynamic]] between SerialKiller [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibal]] [[AGodAmI Dr. Hannibal Lecter]] and the [[TheMentallyDisturbed unstable]] [[TheProfiler FBI profiler]] [[TheEmpath Will Graham]]. Despite Hannibal being a sadistic sociopath capable of killing anyone who gets in the way of his plans (even close acquaintances and [[FalseFriend "friends"]]), season three reveals that [[OneTrueLove his love for Will]] [[OfficialCouple is far from subtext]]. Not only does he go out of his way to save Will's life at the cost of his own freedom twice, but in the finale, [[spoilers: [[TakingTheBullet he stands between Will and the man hunting them down and takes the bullet meant for Will.]]]] [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Seems even cannibal serial killers can have loved ones.]]

* ''{{Series/Hannibal}}'': The entire concept of the show is built around the [[MindGameShip bizarre]], [[LoveHurts brutal]] and [[LoveMakesYouEvil intensely sensual dynamic]] between SerialKiller [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibal]] [[AGodAmI Dr. Hannibal Lecter]] and the [[TheMentallyDisturbed unstable]] [[TheProfiler FBI profiler]] [[TheEmpath Will Graham]]. Despite Hannibal being a sadistic sociopath capable of killing anyone who gets in the way of his plans (even close acquaintances and [[FalseFriend "friends"]]), season three reveals that [[OneTrueLove his love for Will]] [[OfficialCouple is far from subtext]]. Not only does he go out of his way to save Will's life at the cost of his own freedom twice, but in the finale, [[spoilers: [[TakingTheBullet he stands between Will and the man hunting them down and takes the bullet meant for Will.]]]] [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Seems even cannibal serial killers can have loved ones.]]

* ''Series/KirbyBuckets'': Dawn, Kirby's nasty older sister, usually acts like a nice, regular teenager when she's around Belinda.

* In ''Series/{{Charite}}'', Ida Lenze is this to ill-tempered, arrogant Doctor Behring. He thinks he has better things to do with his time than performing a surgery on some random young woman, but the moment he recognizes Ida, he's onto the task. To a lesser degree, also Else Spinola and his horse Lotte, for both of whom he always has a few kind words.