Chaotic Good

Character Alignment
Lawful Good | Neutral Good | Chaotic Good
Lawful Neutral | True Neutral | Chaotic Neutral
Lawful Evil | Neutral Evil | Chaotic Evil

He robs the government to feed the poor.

"A law which is not just does not seem to me to be a law."

— Saint Augustine of Hippo, On Free Choice of the Will

The living embodiment of Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!, Chaotic Good characters are rebels and free spirits who believe in doing good, by their own standards. Some don't have a problem with greater systems such as laws as long as they leave them alone; others are anarchists who believe that the betterment of all can only be achieved by actively rejecting any higher instances of power. Likely to take an intuitive approach to The Golden Rule, caring about other people's feelings and needs without having to calcify it into specific rules.

Some flavors of Chaotic Good include:

• Freedom Before Goodness: These are the ones who are more Chaotic than Good. They value freedom, and feel that they and others should be free to pursue their own desires — it just so happens that what they desire is to do good. They do not see doing good as a "duty" and may actively resent any attempts to compel them to do good even if the stakes are high, but will probably end up doing them anyway, justifying their actions by saying that this is what they want to do. They are also the type most likely to get annoyed by being called "The Hero" or something similar. This is also the type most likely to be a Lovable Rogue who commits crimes for their own gain, but balance it out with Never Hurt an Innocent and doing lots of good elsewhere in their lives.
• Goodness Before Freedom: These are the ones who are more Good than Chaotic. They desire to do good, but also feel that they have a responsibility to do good, and view freedom as a secondary (but still important) concern — essentially, they feel that being good is the price of being free, and they are more likely than Freedom Before Goodness to use the law to achieve a good end. They are not opposed to the Lawful system and may even accept it as necessary or even good, but they will rarely, if ever, let it get in the way of doing what they feel is right, sometimes making them a heroic example of The Unfettered. However, this means they risk trampling on the rights and freedom of others and may push them into Well-Intentioned Extremist territory if they are not careful.
• Freedom Is Goodness: These are the ones devoted to a Chaotic Good cause — freedom fighters, benevolent anarchists, and anyone who feels that Freedom generally leads to Good, and vice versa. They usually believe that Rousseau Was Right and Order Is Not Good, and try to promote a society with as little government as possible, or overthrow a corrupt oppressive regime without getting drawn into the politics behind replacing it with something better. They do not believe in The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized; the very concept is often their worst nightmare, and they will do everything to oppose or at least minimize any such trend (so long as they can be convinced that such is actually occurring, of course). For this type, the danger is being blind to the risk that their cause may be corrupted or has little chance of achieving its end, and if they are not careful they may end up unintentionally creating something even worse than what they fought.
• Balance Seekers believe in doing good and in their freedom to do good, but have a grudging or even healthy respect for Lawful Good methods or types who pursue goodness by other means. Essentially, they believe that they should be allowed to be free and good as they see fit, but recognize that the rest of the world is more complicated and that whether the time is for freedom or goodness is down to a case-by-case basis, and will try and seek the middle ground. They try to be vigilant against the Chaotic Good danger of being judgmental on matters Lawful as best they can, though they are not immune to it.
• Good With Nuts: This type is basically crazy, but they are without a doubt a good person, fighting the good fight and supporting their friends. The Hero can order them about as much as he likes; they've got no obligation to follow his orders. Who needs a plan? Just aim and fire! At the same time, their chaotic nature may mess up an Enemy Mine situation when they don't feel like working with the Big Bad even under orders. This type of Chaotic Good likes to mock their enemies with euphemisms. Their insanity often results in them hating evil and fighting it even more fervently than any other type. Sometimes optimists can also count as such. Characters of this type won't try to redeem the Knight Templar or the Well-Intentioned Extremist; to them, they are just as bad as the Card-Carrying Villain and the Evil Overlord (they may have some sympathy for the Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, though). By the way, you better not let them hear you saying that Lawful Evil is the lesser evil.

Unfortunately, characters of this alignment are the most likely good characters to be opposed by the Hero Antagonist.

An important aspect of Chaotic Good freedom fighters is that they excel in toppling corrupt regimes, but are often pretty terrible with power and responsibility themselves (as some of the examples show). A Chaotic Good character faces a tightrope walk even more narrow than most Lawful Good characters face because of their competing interests in being a free spirit that wants to do good in the world, and their general disdain for the authority and control over people's lives that they would be wielding to try to do that good. Generally, one of several things happens because of this:

• Riding into the Sunset — They just abandon authority altogether.
• Delegate their power to a friend or chancellor of some kind. This isn't always the best idea.
• They decide that the best thing to do with power is to just sit on it, and keep it out of more dangerous hands. Doing so winds up making for fairly poor terms in office, and the fleeting nature of life (or sanity) makes it a poor long-term strategy.
• Shift in Alignment — They just fail to reconcile their philosophy and their practical reality, try to reach too far with one campaign or another, and slide in alignment, either admitting the use of law and order, and sliding to Neutral Good, or Jumping Off the Slippery Slope to Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Evil.

Chaotic Good can be considered the most moral alignment because it combines a good heart with a free spirit, but it can simultaneously be considered a dangerous alignment because it can disrupt the order of society and punishes those who feel the need for a social framework around themselves.

See Also: Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil.

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If you have a difficulty deciding which alignment a good-aligned character belongs to, the main difference between Lawful Good, Neutral Good, and Chaotic Good is not their devotion to good, but the methods they believe are best to promote it:

• Even though there are some situations where they can't always use this method, Lawful Good characters believe the best way is to have a specific, strict code of conduct, whether self-imposed or codified as a law. Their first impulse when making a moral decision is to refer back to this code; those with externally imposed systems (codes of laws, hierarchies, etc.) will try to work within the system when those systems go wrong. Depending on whether they are more Lawful or more Good, they will either refuse to break the code even though it would hurt someone, or else break it only very reluctantly, and only when it would hurt someone if they kept their code. Lawful Good characters have to be very good when deciding to Take a Third Option.
• Neutral Good characters are indifferent to Order Versus Chaos, and their only interest is in doing good. They will use whatever means will promote the most good, whether that means tearing down a code of laws, following a code of laws, creating an orderly society, causing the breakdown of harmful kinds of order, or staying away from society altogether. Their only goal is to do good, full stop.
• Most Chaotic Good characters don't constantly break the law, but they cannot see much value in laws, or do not see the value in laws that do not function solely to punish evil. They believe that their own consciences are their best guides and that tying themselves to any given code of conduct would be limiting their own ability to do good. They do not get along with anyone who tries to instill any kind of order over the Chaotic Good character or others, believing these people to be restricting their freedom and the freedom of others; however, most Chaotic Good characters will respect the right of others to impose strong codes of conduct on themselves. Chaotic Good characters often focus very strongly on individual rights and freedoms, and will strongly resist any form of oppression of themselves or anyone else.

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Chaotic Good character types typically include:

• Most good-aligned Anti-heroes.
• Realistic good-aligned anarchist characters tend to be like this, as opposed to the usual caricature of such people.
• A Barbarian Hero is perhaps one of the oldest embodiments of this trope, although some can be Chaotic Neutral instead.
• Many heroic berserkers.
• Blithe Spirit, who loosens up excessively straitlaced communities.
• More heroic Blood Knights.
• Most good Boisterous Bruisers.
• More heroic versions of the Byronic Hero.
• More heroic examples of '90s Anti-Hero.
• Chivalrous Pervert and his buddy the Handsome Lech.
• Cloudcuckoolander — Those who aren't outright Chaotic Neutral.
• Conspiracy Theorist, when they're a hero.
• If they are the protagonist, a Cowboy Cop or a Military Maverick. Otherwise, they might be Chaotic Neutral.
• Destructive Saviour: Sure, he'll blow up your town, probably (inadvertently) breaking most of your laws, but he means good, honest! He's also destroyed the threat, but along with the threatened place.
• Ethical Slut, and her friends Good Bad Girl and Manic Pixie Dream Girl if not Neutral Good.
• For Happiness.
• In a heroic Four-Temperament Ensemble, the Sanguine or Choleric usually.
• Genki Boys/Girls, if not Neutral Good.
• Gentleman Thief and Classy Cat-Burglar, if they aren't Chaotic Neutral.
• Almost any Hot-Blooded Hero. As if rules could constrain this burning passion!
• Most morally good jerks.
• Just Like Robin Hood.
• Karmic Tricksters can be this.
• Kleptomaniac Hero, if good-aligned.
• Knight Templar Big Brothers are typically portrayed as this, in stark contrast to the Lawful Evil Knight Templar Parent variant. Though the more horrific examples tend to at least dip their toes into villainy.
• La Résistance (Unless they resist enforcing a new set of rules to replace the existing rule, in which case they are Lawful Good).
• The Last DJ.
• The Leeroy Jenkins.
• Lovable Rogue: if they are not Chaotic Neutral.
• The Id character in a heroic Freudian Trio.
• The Miles Gloriosus (if not Chaotic Neutral).
• Naughty Is Good.
• New-Age Retro Hippie.
• The Nice Guy (if he's somewhat undisciplined).
• Heroes of a Rage Against the Heavens plot.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits.
• Most Rebel Leaders.
• Most Rebellious Princesses.
• Rebellious Spirit: If they're not Chaotic Neutral.
• The Red Oni of a good-aligned Red Oni, Blue Oni pair will often qualify, for the same reasons.
• Shonen protagonists, if they're not Neutral Good.
• Soapbox Sadie.
• Most Swashbucklers, especially the ones who are explicitly designated as "outlaws" for all or part of the story.
• By obvious reasons, Guile Heroes.
• Many Tsunderes (Commonly type A, whereas type B would be around Neutral Good).
• Most heroic Unfettered.
• More sympathetic versions of the Vigilante Man.

Others, such as All-Loving Hero, Ideal Hero, Small Steps Hero, and Friend to All Living Things, can vary between Lawful Good, Neutral Good, and Chaotic Good.

Chaotic Good does not mean Aggressively Good. While there are several Chaotic Good Anti-Heroes, one does not have to be one to be Chaotic Good, and both Lawful and Neutral Good have Anti-Hero examples as well.

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Examples:

When dealing with the examples of specific characters, remember that assigning an alignment to a character who doesn't come with one is pretty subjective. If you've got a problem with a character being listed here, it probably belongs on the discussion page. There will be no real-life examples under any circumstances; it just invites an Edit War. Plus, real people are far too complex and multi-dimensional to really be classified by such a straightforward alignment system.

On works pages: Character Alignment is only to be used in works where it is canonical, and only for characters who have alignments in-story. There is to be no arguing over canonical alignments, and no Real Life examples, ever.

Anime and Manga

• AKIRA: The Capsules may be a violent bosozoku gang, but at least they put their violent tendencies towards fending off the more dangerous Clowns. This is made more explicit in the anime, where the Capsules' more unpleasant traits are significantly downplayed, if not outright eliminated.
• Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan embodies this alignment. His greatest desire is to finally rid his world of Titan scum, he is ambitious and highly determined to end the suffering that has swept his people for generations. Impulsive is an understatement, yet nothing stands in his way for long when he goes absolutely ape-shit in his Titan form.
• Dr. Kuroo Hazama, aka Black Jack, shows an almost gleeful disdain for the law, preferring to toss it aside for his own brand of poetic justice — usually involving the extortion of a large conglomerate for the sake of a single patient.
• Rock from Black Lagoon. He even states the fact, in front of Balalaika, under gunpoint, that he does his "good deeds" simply because he likes it. Sadly, he later has shades of Chaotic Neutral, as he becomes more cynical and morally grey.
• Bleach:
  • Ichigo. As he states when Rukia tries to pull a threshold guardian event on him, he'll save innocents because he wants to and not out of some sense of moral obligation. She learns just how much this is true when he tears up the social structure of an afterlife just to save her, even though she told him not to.

• Kaien Shiba, the former lieutenant of Squad 13 who is often compared to Ichigo, has a similar view on the law and morality, as Ukitake suggests that he'd put himself at risk and break the law to save Rukia. Renji, who is also quite similar to Ichigo, is willing to break the rules to stop Rukia's execution.
• The Vizard also fit this trope. Their reason for coming to Karakura town isn't because they particularly care about the people there or the great cosmic battle between good and evil — they just want to get revenge on Aizen. Who just so happens to be the evil side of the equation.

• Yuu Isami from Brain Powerd, a renegade Reclaimer who wants to stop his former peers from causing The End of the World as We Know It for their misguided ideals. At first an Ineffectual Loner who goes by his own rules, he maintains a similar attitude for most of the series. Has possibly shifted towards Neutral Good near the end.

• Case Closed and Magic Kaito: Kaito Kid is a Gentleman Thief, with emphasis on the Gentleman. He doesn't limit himself to jerkass victims, but he nearly always returns his loot after the heist is over and makes an effort to help out a person in need. Which includes most of his adversaries.
• Rosette Christopher in Chrono Crusade has no problems with following the rules when she sees they serve a purpose, but she'll just as quickly break them if they get in the way of her helping people or completing her (generally very noble) goals. Oh, and she's a nun that gambles, swears, and drinks.
• Tomoya Okazaki from CLANNAD. Before meeting with Nagisa, he was an outright Chaotic Neutral who couldn't give a damn about academics at all, and after meeting with Nagisa, he still doesn't give a damn about school but walks the extra mile to help others.
• Code Geass:
  • Kallen Kouzuki, as a Hot-Blooded freedom fighter to the end, embodies this.
  • This is the public opinion of Lelouch/Zero. Lelouch goes out of his way to portray himself as a Chaotic Good Freedom Fighter going against the tyranny of Britannia to hide his Chaotic Neutral motives. He starts getting better as time goes on, but being pushed past the Despair Event Horizon forces him to go into Lawful Evil territory, though this was all to achieve world peace.
• Corrector Yui, the impulsive and unpredictable "digital fairy" protecting the Com-Net.
• Dancougar: Fujiwara Shinobu has a rebellious attitude but sports a good heart deep down.
• Death Note: Touta Matsuda. Even as a policeman, he's constantly questioning whether going after Kira is a good thing, is the first in the task force to volunteer to get Shinigami eyes, and breaks into a corporate office building and shortly thereafter fakes his own death to gather evidence. To top it all off, he's the one who shoots Light to stop him from killing Near, even though Near's motives still remain unclear to the task force.

• Most of the Dragon Team from Dragon Ball fall under this alignment because while they fight to protect the Earth, they follow their own rules on how to do it.
• Most of the Mages in the Fairy Tail guild. To elaborate, they are all about The Power of Friendship and valuing True Companions. They embrace philosophies such as Thou Shalt Not Kill and protect the common citizenry of Magnolia. The raucous and rowdy nature of the guild as well as their bent to Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! places the guild as a whole firmly in Chaotic Good territory.
• Kiritsugu Emiya from Fate/Zero fits this description perfectly. Throughout the series, he constantly hunts down and assassinates the Servants and Masters participating in the war, along with anyone else who gets in his way, but his ultimate goal is ultimately a noble one, to acquire the Holy Grail and wish for a peaceful world, and is willing to do whatever it takes to do this.
• Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist. He gleefully delights in breaking the rules and defies authority when he feels like it, but he also constantly goes out of his way to help people. He also had mild elements of Cowboy Cop as he does have a position of authority as a State Alchemist, making him the equivalent of a Major in terms of rank.
  • Ed's mentor Izumi Curtis is also Chaotic Good, with even more of the former than Ed. She rightly distrusts the Lawful Evil Amestrian government. Get a Lawful Evil General Ripper telling her We Can Rule Together, and she will tell them to shove it.

• Kagura from Gintama fits the bill nicely. Unlike her more level-headed boss Gintoki, she charges straight into the problem and is often willing to use violent methods to solve problems. Katsura also counts; although he is a terrorist, his ultimate goal is to liberate Japan from the Amanto's control.
• This describes Onizuka-sensei of Great Teacher Onizuka perfectly. He may be stupid, selfish, greedy, a shameless Chivalrous Pervert, and the furthest thing from being a mature, responsible teacher, causing endless frustration to the Lawful Neutral vice-principal Uchiyamada, but he'd do anything for his students.
• Gundam:
  • Kamille Bidan from Zeta Gundam, an angry young Newtype who has a problem with authority, but often shows great generosity and love to those he cares for.
    Kamille Bidan: The ones that have to be eliminated are those whose souls are bound by gravity, but not even that justifies murdering the lives of so many innocent people! Why create a new world where NO ONE CAN LIVE IN!?!?
  • Judau Ashta from Gundam ZZ starts out as either this or Chaotic Neutral and definitely ends as this, since his main concern is stopping the war and protecting his friends.
  • Kincaid Nau, the Ace Pilot for the resistance group Crossbone Vanguard, opposing Jupiter Empire in an attempt to save Earth.

• Zechs Marquise from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing might fit this as well, though the rival to Heero Yuy. While having done several questionable acts such as working for Treize Kushrenada (both wish to show the world the horror of war, though) and joining the White Fang Revolution to destroy Earth, his main motive was to fight for he and his sister Relena's ruined homeland and to fight for the oppressed colonists. In Endless Waltz, he rejoins the fight to assist his former rival Heero in suppressing Dekim Barton's rebellion against his sister.

• Cagalli Yula Athha from Gundam SEED is a Rebellious Princess example. She even joined La Résistance at one point in the story. This actually causes her difficulties when she becomes leader of her country and cannot rule through sheer force of personality.
• Big Good Balance Seeker Lacus Clyne ended up leading La Résistance in both SEED and SEED Destiny. Nobody ever sees her coming.
• Shinn Asuka, who has enormous issues with authority, especially authority that contradicts his worldview. He tries to be good but ultimately lets his problems push him into the arms of Lawful Evil Well-Intentioned Extremist Chairman Durandal.

• Hajime no Ippo: Takeshi Sendoh wants to help you and protect you if you're in trouble due to bullies. What will he do about it? Form his own delinquent gang and beat the shit out of these cowards.

• Rare romance example: Yuuto Ayase from Haruka Nogizaka's Secret starts off as a True Neutral; but after meeting Haruka and discovering her secret, not only does he promise to play Secret-Keeper for her, he outright defends her Otaku tendencies because he knows how unfairly society sees the subculture, often Taking the Heat in the process.
• Hellsing: Integra Hellsing's main goal is to protect the United Kingdom, and she's more than willing to do whatever she can to do so. She also doesn't care if other people disapprove of her methods as long as they get the job done.
• Hungary from Hetalia. She loves her friends and will protect them without hesitation — and will beat the SHIT out of you to do so.

• South Italy aka Romano, too. The dude growls and whines a lot, but if you have a problem that he can help you solve, he'll deal even with The Mafia itself to help you out.
• America wants to be Lawful Good, but his Manchild tendencies put him half in Neutral Good and half here.

• South Korea. He's the most childlike and Hot-Blooded of the Asians but has a heart of gold as well.
• Cuba! Keeps wanting to fight with America, shows kindness to Canada and Switzerland, always ready for good brawls.
• And Poland, though he might just be just too childish and... out there. On the other hand, he tries to stand up against Russia of all people.

• Seychelles, too. She comes off at first as Neutral Good, but her square refusal to submit to either England or France and her Hot-Blooded moments make her more of this.

• Inuyasha:
  • InuYasha himself, as part of being a textbook Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Having been an outcast from society his entire life, the guy honestly does not give a shit about rules or social expectations, but that doesn't keep him from being an ultimately decent person. It takes some Character Development, though, as at the very beginning he was a bit too much of an antisocial jerk and his good side did not have a chance to come up, so he was more Chaotic Neutral.
  • Shippo, being mischievous but kind-hearted and alternating between Mouthy Kid and Bratty Half-Pint.
• The Irresponsible Captain Tylor is this, being benevolent and good-natured, but not particularly inclined to following rules... of any sort. He is irresponsible, after all.
• From Gurren Lagann's successor Kill la Kill, we have our hero, Ryuko Matoi. She fights an oppressive regime run by her Absurdly Powerful Student Council and is a member of La Résistance. This becomes especially apparent after the Genre Shift into a "Save the World" Climax, where after some Character Development she becomes a genuinely heroic person and stops humanity from becoming livestock for a race of invading aliens.
• Weiss, the protagonists of Knight Hunters, are a group of assassins who are willing to commit immoral murders of villains out of the law's reach in order to bring better tomorrows for the innocent lives they threaten.
• Kotoura-san's Yuriko Mifune of the ESP Society and Research Club has two goals in life and will make sure that others know: to find scientific proof that Psychic Powers exist and to protect those that do have them. How does she attempt to meet these goals? Just "kidnap" the cute New Transfer Student who just so happens to be a Telepath and use her as a means to your ends! Her excitement is understandable since espers are extremely rare, and Yuriko has been looking for another one for about 10 years. Yes, another one: her mother was clairvoyant and was Driven to Suicide after being called a "fake". By proxy, Yuriko was also bullied for being superficial despite not being an esper. This is what motivates her to be The Unfettered Plucky Girl that is pushing so hard against the cruel Crapsaccharine World. After all, espers are humans too, not monsters; and she's really fighting for their acceptance in an otherwise Untrusting Community for them.
• Atsuko "Akko" Kagari from Little Witch Academia fits this alignment to a tee, being a childish, reckless, and overconfident Plucky Girl who tends to brush tradition and rules aside out of disinterest and has a bad habit of getting into trouble. However, despite her flaws, she is still a very kind, All-Loving Hero who cares deeply about her friends and will always go out of her way to do the right thing and to help those in need, even if it means breaking the rules and getting herself into trouble or danger in the process. It is also thanks to her heart of gold that she is chosen to wield the Shiny Rod. Director Yoh Yoshinari would later confirm that she falls under this alignment during TRIGGER's Anime Expo 2022 panel.
• The Wolkenritter during the second season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Anti Villains with kind hearts and a downright heroic goal of saving an innocent girl, they found themselves on the wrong side of the law since the only way they knew how was to take the Mana of others. Even then, they made sure never to kill or seriously injure anyone, went after magical monsters when they could, and looked after the welfare of the people they fought. Shifted to Lawful Good once the incident was resolved.
• My-HiME:
  • Natsuki Kuga is an impenitent truant who has lived at the borders of the law for most of her life to take down the evil Searrs Foundation. She doesn't make friends easily, but is fiercely devoted to those she has, and was even willing to defend Nao, one of her bitter enemies, from an attack by her maddened friend Shizuru after realizing she and Nao weren't so different after all. Her My-Otome Faux Action Girl incarnation Natsuki Kruger is probably Lawful Good instead.
  • Mikoto Minagi fits this alignment most of the time, too. Though she's quite naive, having lived a sheltered life before going to school at Fuuka, she's quick to make friends and is fiercely protective of them... especially Mai. Her childlike nature also comes with a general distrust of authority, and an unfortunate susceptibility to mind control.
  • In My-Otome, Shizuru lives and breathes this trope, outright encouraging the students to break the rules and follow their hearts... and incidentally flirting with almost every single one of them.
• Naruto's Naruto Uzumaki is another borderline case, going between this and Neutral Good. Inherently, he's Chaotic Good, but as a loyal Konoha shinobi, he serves an organization that holds Lawful Goodness as an ideal; therefore, he tries to aim for that. Throw him a Knight Templar adversary, however, and he'll come down on the side of Goodness over Law. Hard.
• Nagi Springfield of Negima! Magister Negi Magi, the main character's super powerful Disappeared Dad. He would take out enemy hideouts even when he's not supposed to, blast suspicious politicians with no regard to consequences, and would charge into the fray to save princesses from their sad fates with nary a thought. During a Grey-and-Gray Morality Story Arc, a former ally of his said that Nagi would have theoretically helped the Hero Antagonist who planned to reveal the Masquerade since it would eventually lead to mages moving freely and saving more lives. The chaotic effects a Broken Masquerade would have had on society would have been a detail he wouldn't have dwelled too much on.

• The titular character of Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! definitely counts as this, which is doubly ironic since she's supposed to be Nyarlathotep The Crawling Chaos, one of the only Cthulhu Mythos beings regarded as outright evil and not merely operating on a different moral plane. In Nyarko's case, she's part of the Space Police and has a wonky moral compass, mercilessly slaughtering her enemies and using her position to break intergalactic laws regarding export limits on anime goods. However, the well-being and happiness of her loved ones (especially her Love Interest Mahiro) are her number one priority, though this causes some problems because Mahiro is well versed in Lovecraft and has a hard time believing that she's not out to get him.
• One Piece:
  • The Straw Hat Pirates. Being pirates, they're criminals and lawbreakers by default, have no compunctions about stealing available loot (but except for Nami, so far only from people who were glad to pay them for the help anyway), and some of the cast members (Zoro, Nico Robin) are very willing to kill even decent law officers that confront them, whereas Luffy was unconcerned (or more likely didn't think that far) about creating a prison riot that set many rapists and murderers loose on the populace in his effort to free his brother, but they also tend to help people they like, at times. An interesting example happens during the Skypea arc. The Titular pirates defeated a self-proclaimed god so they could steal the gold he had stolen first. This goes to the point that after saving the island from sure destruction Luffy personally woke up his crew carefully enough to not wake up the hungover inhabitants so they could sneak away with as much gold as they could carry. The habitants wanted to let them have it for saving them anyway, but other than Nico Robin none of the Straw Hats know that. Also, they usually spend all their money on parties. Though Luffy also picked up a second motivation: to ring a giant golden bell to let a character he'd befriended earlier in the arc know that the giant floating island the Straw Hats were on, and that said character had devoted his life to finding, really did exist.
  • Dr. Kureha tends to act like this, coming in whenever she wants and treating the patients for certain fees she requests. Unlike Hiruluk, she does not have any great desire to save Drum Kingdom.
  • Luffy has even flat-out stated that he doesn't care about saving the world or anything like that, just protecting his friends. Fortunately, he makes friends very easily, who are always antagonized by just the right people for Luffy to end up saving the day anyway.

• The titular character of Puella Magi Madoka Magica starts as Neutral Good, and overall still fits there, but demonstrates far more Chaotic traits than Lawful as the series goes on: impulsiveness, defiance in the face of adversity, and a strong sense of ideals-above-all. At the end of the series, she claims during her ascension to divinity that if any law causes people to suffer, she will destroy it or rewrite it.
  • Homura during her previous timelines was Neutral Good, but became chaotic later, and would do anything to protect Madoka (sadly, later on even becoming Chaotic Neutral, also due to not being mentally healthy). Kyoko initially came across as a Chaotic Neutral delinquent, but her past is eventually revealed, turning out to be a good person who has to find ways to survive; with her Heroic Sacrifice she's firmly established as CG.
• Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai's protagonist Sakuta Azusagawa is a borderline example, since he's generally Neutral Good and is not a law-breaker by nature, but he doesn't seem to greatly value conformity either. As he says, "Who's that everyone, anyway?". He simply cares about doing what's right, that is.
• Suiseiseki from Rozen Maiden comes off as Chaotic Neutral at most times due to her screwball nature, but she hides deep feelings for her sisters to the point she wouldn't fight in the Alice Game if it meant losing her sisters.
• Both Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus and Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune from Sailor Moon. They're more rebellious and switch sides to obliterate evil. It usually takes Sailor Moon going full Princess Serenity to reel them in and make them follow orders with the rest of the group.

• The protagonist of Soul Eater, Maka Albarn, arguably becomes this as part of her character development. She starts the anime obeying Lord Death's order to stay in Death City following the Big Bad being unsealed from his can. She ends it by ditching a mission so she can violate a truce the DWMA had set up with Medusa out of sheer hatred for her friend's abusive mom.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann:
  • Kamina, big time. A textbook definition of this alignment, as he's boastful and likes to fight, doesn't give a fuck about rules, and does the right thing nonetheless.
  • Simon starts as Neutral Good indeed, but he ultimately cares only about doing what he sees as the right thing. Rules set by anyone else? He cheerfully ignores them. This includes rules of physics. Really, the only rule he's sure to obey is the Rule of Cool.
  • Several of the other members of Team Dai-Gurren are also this. The second half shows why Chaotic Good people shouldn't be put in charge of a city, since Simon and the other Chaotic Good members tend to slack off and leave everything up to Lawful Neutral Rossiu, and the Lawful Good members of the gang such as Leeron, to actually run the city.
• Kotetsu "Wild Tiger" Kaburagi from Tiger & Bunny. He does what his conscience drives him to do and not what the public expects him to, caring little about points, fame, or what gets obliterated in the process of his incredibly selfless acts.
• Taiga from Tora Dora!. She may be brash, violent and ill-tempered, with a tendency to cause trouble for her behavior, and yet she does have a good heart, sends presents to poor children and shows Undying Loyalty towards her friends and loved ones.
• Vash the Stampede from Trigun. Despite his sometimes foolish dedication to pacifism and "love and peace", he is considered the ultimate outlaw with a 60 billion double dollar bounty on his head, and, much to his chagrin, has two insurance agents going around trying to prevent him from causing any more damage than he already has (most of which is not even his fault). Ultimately, he is dubbed a "human disaster" and is not even liable for the destruction he inadvertently causes. He is not specifically against law and order, but in a world where the law is often brutal and corrupt, he tries to live out his life as happily as he can, and is far from any kind of crusader.
• Kaori Miyazono from Your Lie in April fits here, being an impulsive cloudcuckoolander Wild Child who doesn't follow the rules at all when playing music, and has a pretty brash way to do things generally. However, she does her best to help Kousei coming back to music, which he is naturally talented at, and is a kind and optimistic Genki Girl.
• Yusuke Urameshi from YuYu Hakusho is the embodiment of Chaotic Good. To the point where he charges at his Chaotic Evil counterpart Sensui only to veer off at the last minute and jump in the nearby lake for a swim, just to taunt Sensui that he can't predict his every move.
• Katsuya Jonouchi/Joey Wheeler from Yu-Gi-Oh! (after he befriends Yugi). The rules of society mean nothing to him and he's a textbook Hot-Blooded Cloudcuckoolander, but he has a clear sense of morality. And if you're evil — especially if you're evil to those he cares about — you will be smacked down. Hard.
• Yusei Fudo from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds. He breaks damn near every rule in New Domino City for the sake of making a better life for himself and his friends.
• Brago in Zatch Bell!. He's generally an embodiment of Dark Is Not Evil; while being a remorseless Jerkass and willing to kill to get his way at first, he comes to be a strong aid to the good guys, although it seems that it's only when he feels like it. And he has a strong bond with his bookkeeper Sherry — although in an anime filler arc, he seemingly ditches her when he finds himself in a world where he can read his own spells (though it's part of an elaborate ruse so Sherry can maintain her strength for the second round of battle against their and Zatch's opponent. Interestingly enough, he is also aiming to become a King and has been mentioned a number of times that he would be a "strict but kind king," meaning he is aiming to become Lawful Good should he become King though Zatch beats him in their final battle.

Comic Books

• The definitive Chaotic Good hero of The DCU is Oliver "Ollie" Queen, aka Green Arrow. He is Just Like Robin Hood — a former Millionaire Playboy who gave up his fortune (or lost it to corrupt business partners, depending on which version of the background you go by) to devote himself to protecting the less fortunate from crooked politicians, Dirty Cops, Corrupt Corporate Executives, and any Lawful Evil person who says Screw the Rules, I Have Money!. However, this does lead to conflicts with those of differing beliefs, such as against Barry Allen, due to Barry being with the police. While both are friends with Hal Jordan, they don't get along very well in the comics (Hilarious in Hindsight considering they're good friends in the Arrowverse).

• Ambush Bug, from DC Comics, most certainly counts. He is completely batshit insane, and most of the time doesn't even seem to be aware of what is going on, doing wild chaotic things that hardly make sense to anyone but himself, but is firmly on the side of good.
• Depending on the Writer, if he isn't Lawful Good, Batman is Chaotic Good. He rejects authority, is not a team player, deals out his own justice, etc. Batman's alignment has always been hard to define. He could be considered lawful because he obeys a strict code of justice, but he could also be described as chaotic because he operates outside of the law as a vigilante.
• The New 52 Superman (and the Golden Age version) definitely fits this alignment: physically intimidating corrupt businessmen and politicians, wanted by the police, and focused on helping everyone (especially the poor) regardless of what the laws are.
• The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk practically embodies this trope; he is a force for good at almost all times, but is almost completely unpredictable and wants to be left alone. (Depending on the Writer, though, he sometimes enters Chaotic Neutral territory.)
• The New Gods of New Genesis, who represent the freedom and joy of doing the right thing uncompelled, in contrast to the Lawful Evil Darkseid who seeks to eliminate free will.
• Prince Charming and Rose Red from Fables. The former is a rake, a lecher, and a rogue, but deep down harbors both conscience and courage he'd never admit to. The latter is a wild child who genuinely cares about her family and community, even if she doesn't like their rules. Reynard the Fox also fits here.
• Harold "Hal" Jordan of Green Lantern tends to end up here often. Though he can often head to Lawful Good, most notably when with Green Arrow, he bends the rules, argues with the Guardians, and willingly goes against authority to do what he thinks is right, and is something of a Cowboy Cop IN SPACE.

• Marvel Comics' living cartoon, Slapstick of The Awesome Slapstick. A Fun Personified Cloudcuckoolander with an indestructible cartoon body, an oversized mallet, and too many bad jokes and pranks to count.
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Their existence and modus operandi are chaotic, their behavior is also often chaotic, but they themselves are consistently fighting on the side of good. Many of their enemies are also Lawful Evil.
• Transmetropolitan: Spider Jerusalem, dedicated to the Truth, no matter what, and perfectly willing to shoot the President of the United States with a gun that makes you shit yourself. He hovers on the edge of, and occasionally slips completely into, Chaotic Neutral.

• Any and all heroes in Sin City due to the violent nature of the Crapsack World around them. Typically, they only get involved when something affects them or their loved ones. John Hartigan is probably the closest thing to a Lawful Good character, and he is willing to disobey orders. Granted, the Sin City police force is filled with corruption, but his actions convey a man who is willing to do what it takes to see justice served.

• The Creeper walks the line between Chaotic Good and Chaotic Neutral in most of his incarnations, but he considers himself one of the good guys.
  Batman: Good or bad?
  The Creeper: Good. Definitely good.
• The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Despite his Jerkass chaotic nature, Whirl always does good and fights evil; it just doesn't matter how he does it. For example, he successfully talked his way through a hostage situation involving Fortress Maximus by getting Max to identify with him and deliberately serving as the "voice in his head" — even though he was seriously at risk by doing so.
  Rung: Everyone just... just stay calm. Max, please, lower the gun. I know what this is about — what this is really about. Lower the gun and we'll talk, yes?
  Whirl: Don't listen to him! It's a trick! Pull the trigger!
  • Rodimus is a brash, authority-rejecting hero who won't hesitate to sacrifice his life for others (though he wants to live — not out of fear, but so he can make up for past misdeeds), and has a problem with following rules. This puts him at constant odds with his Lawful Good second in command on the Lost Light, Ultra Magnus, and his Lawful Evil-possibly-becoming-Lawful Neutral co-captain Megatron.
  • A strong case could be made for Brainstorm. Despite designing truly devastating weapons during the war (some of which were outright banned from use), he has never killed anyone himself, and can't bring himself to do so. When he completed his time machine, he pacified the crew non-lethally, despite the fact that he was about to change history and thus killing them would have had no real repercussions. And his plan was to go back and prevent the war non-violently, altering the events of Megatron's life to keep him a pacifist. He only planned to kill him as a last resort, stood there for ten minutes agonizing over whether to pull the trigger (this is Megatron, responsible for the deaths of billions), and is happy to be talked out of it. And the whole reason he was doing this is that while he initially just wanted to save his unrequited love Quark, seeing how much Chromedome suffered from losing Rewind inspired him to try to save everyone instead. And since he was an MTO created to be a soldier, he does so with the knowledge that he will cease to exist if he succeeds.
• X-Men:
  • Wolverine is often portrayed this way, defying authority to do what is good (in a not nice way). During the Civil War, he even spoke out against the Superhuman Registration Act despite the X-Men officially staying out of the conflict.

• Fantastic Four: Johnny Storm, a.k.a. the Human Torch, fits the bill. During his early years, he tended to be very reckless, charging in without thinking it over. But he's still a good person at heart. Over time though, he slowly lost some of his chaotic tendencies and matured. Still, some of those traits pop up again from time to time, especially during the Civil War.
• Catwoman falls somewhere between this and Chaotic Neutral, never fully fitting either alignment but never being evil either. She steals not of out greed but for the thrill of the chase and usually steals only from high-profile scumbags. Her intentions are also often at least somewhat altruistic.
• Harley Quinn when she is a good guy. When she tries being a hero she maintains her random, mischievous nature and has difficulty being serious or paying attention to things like "laws", but she's definitely devoted to helping people and stopping villains in her own unconventional way.
• Starfire of the Teen Titans is a pretty archetypical example of Chaotic Good superheroine. She is hot-blooded, emotional, free-spirited, and more violent than the rest of the team, but her heart is firmly on the side of goodness and compassion. She would be contrasted with enforced Lawful Good Raven, who had to keep her human emotions in check or else succumb to her demonic heritage.

Fanfic

• Calvin has softened into this in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: thanks to the fic presenting a more black and white moral system than the original strip, he's more likely to do the right thing... though he's still plenty mischievous.
  • Also, the MTM fits: he'll do most of what Calvin wants him to, but he usually doesn't jump to it.
• Harry Potter in The Wizard in the Shadows, by Nimbus Llewelyn. Usually operates as a Destructive Saviour free agent with There Is No Kill like Overkill tendencies. Has absolutely no problem with killing people — provided they deserve it — or using his status as The Dreaded and his raw power to intimidate everyone from lowly soldiers to heads of state to get what he wants and just about the only people he reliably takes orders from are Aragorn, Gandalf, and Boromir. If it wasn't for the fact that his motives are unambiguously good and that he only kills orcs, trolls, and people who have crossed the Moral Event Horizon, he might be Chaotic Neutral.
  • Emrys fits into this category as well, taking an Exact Words approach to any order given... unless he actually wants to do it anyway.
• In Child of the Storm, also by Nimbus Llewelyn, a significant number of the heroic characters fit this (though others, like Nick Fury, T'Challa, Odin, Frigga, and Jesus are more Lawful Good, and still others, like Peter Wisdom a.k.a. Regulus Black are Lawful Neutral).
  • The Avengers walk the line between this and Neutral Good, varying between one and the other depending on the situation. They do more or less exactly what they like, and obey laws as and when it is convenient, prioritizing whatever is the right thing to do (or whatever they feel is the right thing to do, which is noted In-Universe to not always be the same thing). They have rules of engagement while on Avengers duty, so as to capture criminals and ensure they get due process, but these rules can be flexible. As is pointed out In-Universe, they borderline being The Unfettered, have deposed leaders that they don't like before (in this 'verse, they got involved in Libya and helped depose Gadaffi), and also keep secrets when strictly speaking it might be more moral to reveal them — i.e. the fact that Bucky used to be the Winter Soldier.
  • Harry himself tends towards this in the second half of the first book and first half of the second, partly by nature, and partly thanks to the Avengers' influence on him, with Hermione inwardly noting that he tends to regard rules as things to be worked around than worked with. He generally disdains authority, with very few exceptions, and absolutely loathes being constrained. His Character Development in the sequel eventually takes him into Neutral Good, as he becomes less impulsive and more thoughtful, remarking that since there is no intrinsic fairness and justice in the universe, he should try and make some -- and thereby make it a better place.
  • Doctor Strange a.k.a. Taliesin, meanwhile, is the series' Magnificent Bastard in chief, and a Well-Intentioned Extremist who bobs around the darker end of this trope. He believes in no authority other than his own, tends to take things entirely on his shoulders (when not manipulating people into place), while also being capable of casually murdering literal mountains of people (usually evil people, to be fair) who impede his grand plan, or simply standing back and allowing awful things to happen if he deems them necessary. Oh, and he treats both the laws of man and the laws of nature as being lists for 'targeted disobedience'. While this seems ironic in view of his grand-scale manipulations, he points out at one point that he doesn't make people do things, more puts them in situations when they'll choose what he wants them to because it is in their nature to do so. It is also probable that part of his general disdain for authority relates back to the fact that he's only really ever served one King, Arthur Pendragon, as his Court Physician and Bard, as well as support Court Mage behind Merlin, his teacher, and seems to feel that every authority figure since has fallen short by comparison - which, considering said King was The Paragon, isn't exactly surprising.
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Harry believes that if it serves the cause of good, it should be done, even if it's illegal and sounds insane. He has participated in school fights, a jailbreak, and everything in between. Oh, and sacrificing an evil god to summon a virgin. There's a reason he calls his faction the Chaos Legion. A quote that sums up his attitude: "Tell me something. What does a government have to do, what do the voters have to do with their democracy, what do the people of a country have to do, before I ought to decide that I’m not on their side anymore?"

• In the Contractually Obligated Chaos series, it gets explained that Beetlejuice is by nature a Chaotic Neutral character, while Lydia is Neutral Good. However, under her influence, he has become Chaotic Good, and the danger of keeping them apart is that he will slide back into that neutrality if he's away from her for too long. Prince Vince, who is noted to be a reader of This Very Wiki, describes the situation using these terms in the fifth installment.
• The main character of Fallout: Equestria Littlepip opens her story by directly disobeying the rules of her Stable to venture out into the Wasteland, frequently finds herself in conflicts with Red Eye, The Goddess, and the Pegasus Enclave, who are all Lawful Evil respectively, and due to her curious and affable nature constantly charges into dangerous missions impulsively with little organization to her methods.
• Betelgeuse in Say It Thrice is described by Tucker as being Chaotic Neutral but with Chaotic Good tendencies, thanks to his devotion to his Morality Pet Lydia.

Film

• Pirates of the Caribbean:
  • Captain Jack Sparrow. He has no respect for law or authority, but at the end of the day, he can't seem to stop himself from doing the right thing, even when No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. He's an unapologetic thief and pirate, but refuses to take part in the slave trade and routinely goes out of his way to save innocents, even at risk of being imprisoned... Or worse.
  • Most of the other heroic pirates fall here as well. They are after all pirates, so being chaotic is no surprise, but they all seem to have some degree of a moral compass. A strong example occurs towards the end of the first movie, where they abandon Jack for dead, but come back for him in the end. And of course, we never see them engage in actual piracy, just stealing from people who deserve it and villains.
• Star Wars:
  • R2-D2 will break any rule he thinks gets in the way of his core duty: service to his owner. This sometimes includes ignoring his owner's commands.
  • Han Solo starts off as a Chaotic Neutral criminal who's Only in It for the Money but isn't malicious enough to be evil. His loyalty to Leia and Luke leads to him redeeming himself enough to qualify as good, but he still plays by nobody's rules but his own. By the time of The Force Awakens, he's become the one insisting that the rebels need to press on for the sake of the galaxy.
    Never Tell Me the Odds!.
  • Chewbacca, who like Han is a criminal who dislikes rules or impositions on his freedom but who is brave, loyal, and benevolent, also qualifies.
  • Anakin Skywalker (before becoming Darth Vader) also seems to be this alignment, although he considers himself Neutral Good. However, over the course of the prequels, he grows tired of constant conflict and desires order, beginning his shift to Lawful Evil.
• The Monkey King from The Forbidden Kingdom virtually embodies Chaotic Good. He's playful but benign, even causing a scene during the appearance of a divine Emperor who only appears once every five hundred years. Hilarity Ensues. This is true of most versions of Journey to the West. There's nothing evil about Monkey. He's Arrogant even by Physical God standards (though whether he counts as a god is debatable). Buddha him/herself had to put a gold headband on his head (which shrinks whenever Tripitaka, or presumably anyone really, chants the "Headache Sutra") and crush him under a mountain just so he'd be a little bit controllable, but it's not like he doesn't want to help Trippitaka. If it were up to Monkey, he'd cloud-fly Trippitaka straight to India and be back before lunch. He actually had to be restrained from going too fast.
• Flik from A Bug's Life has some serious problems fitting in with the other lawful-leaning ants, is quite spontaneous, and doesn't accord special respect to authority, landing him squarely in Chaotic Good territory.
• V in V For Vendetta is a tough call in the original comic, but as an altruistic freedom fighter opposed to a tyrannical government is more concretely Chaotic Good in the movie.
• The lighter portrayals of James Bond, such as in the Roger Moore era, tend to portray him as a Lovable Rogue who's out to fight evil but causes plenty of destruction in the process. Grittier interpretations lean more towards Chaotic Neutral.
• Indiana Jones cares about his friends and family deeply and will fight for any of them, even if it means sacrificing the MacGuffin to do so. But he sure won't care about any rules that get in his way.
• John Rambo is a Shell-Shocked Veteran Anti-Hero who hates to be pushed around; but he will avoid killing his own countrypeople, save imprisoned veterans, rescue his Colonel Badass mentor, and protect his Morality Pet missionary from being raped. In short, he will go out all his way to save and protect anyone worth protecting even if it means completely disregarding orders from above and the Thou Shalt Not Kill policy of some other people.
• Mary Poppins, in the film of the same name, is a benevolent force of chaos in her charges' too-ordered lives.

• Bud White in the movie adaptation of L.A. Confidential is, overall, a Chaotic Good cop who has his own brand of justice. His rivalry with Ed Exley exemplifies the difference between Chaotic Good (White) and Lawful Good (Exley, at least until the ending, when he kills the villain in cold blood). What's interesting is that the movie casts many shades of grey on both individuals, with the first often coming across as a vigilante thug and the second as a self-satisfied, holier-than-thou jerk (in the book, both were even less sympathetic).
• Kirk in Star Trek (2009), in contrast to Spock's Lawful Good nature and McCoy's Neutral Good. He saves the galaxy after cheating in the Kobayashi Maru test for a reason.
• Despite being either Lawful Good or Lawful Neutral in the comics, the film version of Iron Man fits here. He flies into a combat zone without telling anyone (almost getting himself killed by the US military in the process), deliberately goes against SHIELD's advice and reveals he is Iron Man, and, in the second film, refuses to give the government access to his technology.

• Jake and Elwood Blues of The Blues Brothers manage to level a Chicago mall, a gas station, the front of Daley Plaza, and several police cars in their quest to save the orphanage they were raised in. They also offer to steal the money first before getting the Mission from God.
• The Mask: The Mask at first is Chaotic Neutral but at the end of the film shifts to this as he is a good-hearted man despite his wild nature.
• Yang Tianchun from Iron Monkey is a Chinese Robin Hood. By day, he's a doctor who makes rich people pay through the teeth while giving free service to poor people (he's the only doctor in town, so he can get away with it too). By night, he's an expert martial artist who steals from greedy government officials and beats up corrupt Shaolin Monks 4 to 1.
• In The Dark Knight Trilogy, Batman is clearly Chaotic Good, to the extent that drug dealers end up calling the police on HIM. The members of the Batmen Militia from The Dark Knight are even more so; though they're clearly good guys and are "only trying to help [him]", they're perfectly willing to use guns against the bad guys, and it doesn't help their case; it's shown early on that Batman regularly arrests its members any time he catches them out in the wild.
• Most of the Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) are of this alignment, except Drax, who is True Neutral (since vengeance is all that drives him), and Rocket, who is textbook Chaotic Neutral.
• Anger Management: Buddy Rydell's therapy techniques to help Dave and Teach Him Anger include such shady activities as paying a transvestite prostitute, stopping the car in the middle of traffic, and making him confront a Buddhist.
• Rush Hour has Detective Carter, who works for the FBI, but has no partner (which he is criticized for), is loud/obnoxious, and does things his way. He is told off by the chief for what he did but he just ended up justifying his actions by saying no one got hurt and the job got done. He ends up helping people enough to keep him from being Chaotic Neutral.
• Dirty Harry is clearly this, despite being a police officer. He frequently breaks laws and is remarkably blunt in his criticism of them.
  Rothko: This rifle might make a nice souvenir. But it's inadmissible as evidence.
  Callahan: Who says that?
  Rothko: It's the law.
  Callahan: Well, then, the law is crazy.
• Kevin Flynn in TRON acts like an overgrown teenager, and cheerfully uses his hacking not only to try and prove Dillinger's theft but to make his traffic tickets and phone bills vanish. What prevents him from going completely Chaotic Neutral is that he genuinely cares for the people he allies himself with. He seems to have clawed his way into Neutral Good by the sequel. His son Sam in TRON: Legacy proves the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, checking in with his dad's company for an annual practical joke (to try and shame them into doing the right thing) and being on a first-name basis with the police officers working the impound lot.
• Die Hard: John McClane. Some cops use pepper spray. John fills an elevator full of C-4 and uses it to clear out a floor of terrorists. If he didn't care so much about protecting civilians, this man would be considered a psychopath.
• Ofelia in Pan's Labyrinth is defined by her rebellious and spirited nature, and doesn't follow orders even when she would ostensibly benefit from doing so.
• The Three Stooges tend to be this, as the chaos they wreak is almost never intentional on their part and they are almost always the good guys. Though there are many occasions where they are more Chaotic Neutral and two occasions where they are clearly Chaotic Evil. Most of their films that don't have them just looking out for themselves to evade an enemy have them come across someone in need and forget their own interests in order to help. They are usually pure of heart... and dim of wit.
• Billy Jack. When his best friend is raped by the sheriff's son (mainly out of spite), she keeps it from Billy, knowing what he'll do. Billy finds out anyway and kills him in one of the greatest examples of Tranquil Fury ever put to celluloid.
• Demolition Man:
  • Edgar Friendly is a slovenly man who flouts the saccharine tightly-controlled society of 2032 because he believes strongly in people being allowed to make their own choices. Unfortunately this puts him at odds with the Lawful Evil extremist leader who unfreezes a psychotic criminal to kill him.
    Edgar Friendly: (To Spartan) You see, according to *Cocteau's* plan. *I'm* the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who would sit in the greasy spoon and think "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the big rack of barbecued spare ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I *want* high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter, and buckets of cheese, alright? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run around naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because maybe I feel the need to, okay, pal? I've seen the future, you know what it is. It's made by a 47-year-old virgin in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake, and thinking "I'm an Oscar-Meyer Wiener". You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cocteau's way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other option: come down here, maybe starve to death.
  • John Spartan is a sterling example as well. He is more than willing to break the rules to save people, and even saves Simon Phoenix from the building he blew up at the beginning, although it turns out to be a mistake on his part. His Love Interest Lenina Huxley starts out as more Lawful Good, but over the course of the movie, she becomes Chaotic Good like Spartan as well.

• Michelle from American Pie. She may be a nympho and a little crazy, but she's quite a nice person.
• Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore from Apocalypse Now is a hedonistic warmongering surfer type who happens to be a force of good luck for Captain Willard and his crew in their mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, bombing a beach they have to cross simply because he couldn't stand to see such a beautiful surf-worthy beach being occupied by the enemy. What pushes him, just barely, into this territory is that he rewards a Viet Cong soldier for having the balls to keep fighting as his guts were spilling out by trying to give him some water from his own canteen. (Key word: trying.)
• In Batman and Harley Quinn Harley Quinn starts out as Chaotic Neutral, as even after being supposedly reformed she's still a pretty big jerk, though not incapable of kindness at times, particularly with Goldblum's death. By the end, she seems to have completed her Heel–Face Turn and became straight-up Chaotic Good.
• The Tremors series has Burt Gummer, a Crazy Survivalist who is openly distrustful of the government and plays by nobody's rules but his own, but also is very respectful of human life and can always be counted on to protect people from the monsters he constantly faces.
• In Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, most of the heroes (Edgin Darvis, Holga Kilgore, and Simon Aumar) have this as their official alignment. They are a bunch of thieves and con-men who nevertheless respect innocent life, only steal from the rich, and will act as heroes if the situation calls for it. Edgin gets bonus points for being motivated primarily by the welfare of his wife and daughter.

Folklore

• Robin Hood is best known as an outlaw who robs the rich to give to the poor. It's not that Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men are necessarily against any laws at all; they just don't like Prince John or the Sheriff of Nottingham levying cruel and unjust taxes on poor people. To this end, Robin Hood will break the law to rob people if he thinks they have it coming, and his antics put a constant thorn in the side of the evil Prince and the Sheriff.
  • Robin Hood is sometimes more Neutral Good or even Lawful Good, depending on how much emphasis is put on his support for King Richard. Some of the older ballads (where King Richard does not appear at all) paint him as more of a Chaotic Neutral outlaw and trickster, however.
• Likewise, Br'er Rabbit is usually portrayed as a lovable, happy-go-lucky Rascally Rabbit.
• This is probably the best way to describe Nanabozho (aka Nanabush or Wiskadjek) from Ojibway and Cree myths. A Shapeshifting Trickster, sometimes he is a hero who defeats winter with his cunning, and sometimes he's a goofball who loses his eyes. While some of it is the result of him evolving over time, the changes also reflect that Nanabozho is learning, much like the children hearing his stories.

Literature

• Eris, goddess of Chaos and Discord, especially as portrayed in the Illuminatus! Trilogy. As the goddess of Chaos and Discord, she tops the list, mostly because we fear her wrath if she isn't placed there. Hagbard and nearly all of the Discordian characters in the Trilogy fit this alignment; the only exception being The Dealy Lama, who is True Neutral.
• From Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. The Greek Robin Hood.
• The Dark Elf Trilogy: Drizzt Do'Urden, the original renegade drow, is canonically Chaotic Good, in that he has his own code but never forces it on anyone — as long as they keep to themselves. If they try to enforce their own code on unwilling people, though...
• Firekeeper, the eponymous heroine of the Firekeeper novels, is a girl who was raised by wolves. This leaves her with a very wolf-like loyalty to any she considers part of her "pack." The combination of her wolf mindset and human body, however, leave her with a chaotic nature such that she renders attempts by trained seers to divine the future wherever she is concerned nigh impossible.
• Jane Austen's heroines are usually Lawful Good, but Emma Woodhouse is chaotic, rule-defying, and assertive to a fault.
• Many protagonists from Dean Koontz's stories: they are often gun owners, Properly Paranoid, live in small groups or families, and are distrustful of big government and government institutions, seeing them as fascist and corrupt. This often contrasts with the Lawful Evil villains that they battle, who are obsessed with order.
• Bilbo Baggins, the main hero of The Hobbit is, at least at the end of his adventure, a Chaotic Good burglar. The moment he converts to this from Neutral Good is probably when he stops feeling guilty about stealing the Elf-King's food to survive.
• Harry Potter:
  • The Weasley twins have some shades of Chaotic Neutral, in that they exist primarily as comic relief with their pranking and disdain for authority (other than Dumbledore). However, the later books reveal them to be clearly Chaotic Good, as they join the fight against Voldemort with Fred giving his life for the cause. They also have a clear Big Brother Instinct towards Harry, Ron, Ginny, and a first-year who suffers under Umbridge in the fifth movie.
  • Dumbledore would fall here. Initially he comes off as Neutral Good, but when he is revealed to be The Chessmaster in Deathly Hallows, it becomes clear that he lies outside the normal system. Even before that, there are hints of The Last DJ tendencies, such as his general aversion to the Ministry of Magic even when they're on the good side and the Ministry's equal distrust of him.
  • The Marauders were this before James and Remus graduated to Neutral Good, and Peter Pettigrew graduated to Neutral Evil. Sirius remained in Chaotic Good territory.
  • Luna Lovegood is very much this. She acts because it's the right thing to do, and genuinely doesn't give a damn about what people think of her.

• Conan the Barbarian starts out Chaotic Neutral, as a thief, pirate, and mercenary with no real concern for others, but as he gets older he becomes noticeably more benevolent, putting him in the Chaotic Good alignment.

• Patrick McLanahan and the old-timers among his Dreamland/HAWC/Sky Masters coworkers from the works of Dale Brown. They're willing to use their Cool Planes and other equipment to protect the world and America as a nation, even if they have to disobey the Joint Chiefs and the President in doing so. His mentor, Brad Elliott, was even more contemptuous of authority. This is contrasted with the more lawful newcomers and superior officers he has to testily deal with.
• Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson's Hokas. They don't so much disobey the rules as never manage to notice them; imaginative to the point of autohypnosis, if you give them a story, they will grab characters out of them and start role-playing as if they were those characters. They will drive you batty. But they're definitely good. Hoka Pirates were deeply offended at being told they had to give back their loot after they sacked a city; did you take them for thieves?

• In The Dresden Files, the eponymous wizard Harry Dresden falls into this trope. As of now, he is currently on the bad side of the supposedly Lawful Neutral council of wizards (who've tried to have him killed and/or framed a few times), is under a hit from most of the Chaotic Evil court of vampires and a group of fallen angels, probably would be arrested on sight if he were ever to walk into a police station simply for having the gall to do so, and is trying to discover a super-evil secret society of wizards that have infiltrated the aforementioned council. All after he's saved the world at least twice. Just because he finds the idea of flouting city regulations to be "aesthetically pleasing."
• Ghengiz Cohen of Discworld, whose Code is more or less by definition the same as Conan's.
  • It's debatable where the Witches stand on the alignment spectrum, but they tend toward this. Nanny Ogg is almost certainly Chaotic Good, and Granny Weatherwax also has a rather anti-authoritarian streak, while at the same time definitely being good (though she'll complain about it). Agnes may not be chaotic, but her Split Personality Perdita clearly is. Magrat is probably Neutral Good, but her "channeling" of Queen Ynci (there's no such person, it was her all along) suggests a slight chaotic bent as well. Witches are fine with rules, but make it absolutely clear that they do not apply to them. As it happens, Witches do have rules they're supposed to follow, but, as Nanny herself once said, if you're gonna break a rule, break it good and hard.

• Holly Short in Artemis Fowl. She frequently disobeys the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police) whenever they give her an order, but she never does this out of personal gain, and so she frequently saves people's lives as a result.
• The Wheel of Time: The impulsive but good-hearted Mat Cauthon embodies this alignment for much of the series, although he starts to gravitate more towards Neutral Good as he is forced to become responsible. Many Aes Sedai in the Green Ajah also seem to gravitate towards this alignment, notably Alanna, Myrelle, and post-Healing Leane. A few others are more debatable, such as Faile and her cousin Tenobia.

• Temeraire, who often conflicts with the British government and his own Lawful Good captain because of his insistence on equal rights for dragons.

• Huck Finn, the titular hero of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He's a rebellious teenager who hates following rules and is viewed as an antisocial menace by many of the adults around him, but he is also by nature compassionate and altruistic, and much of the conflict of the story results from him rebelling against societal norms and rules his conscience tells him are wrong, culminating in him refusing to return Jim to enslavement even though he believes he'll be damned to hell for doing so.
• Simon Templar, The Saint, walks the fine line between here and Chaotic Neutral. His campaign against gangsters, drug dealers, and so forth is based partially on justice for their victims and partially on it being fun and profitable. As for the Chaotic part, at one point the books comment that in Simon's opinion, the law is only really justified in existing by the funny noises it makes when he breaks it (and because it provides him with a seemingly endless string of police officers to annoy).

• In The Moomins, the general attitude of the Moomin family is a sort of laid-back, "do whatever seems fun and be nice to everyone who's not terribly annoying" kind of Chaotic Good. People can just wander into their house and stay there indefinitely without anyone minding, and they themselves might go on all sorts of escapades at a whim (though with careful packing). Many of their friends are similar as well.
  • Moomintroll is in many ways still a child, and he's typically motivated simply by a search for excitement and adventure, as well as being a Heroic Wannabe.
  • Moominmamma is a champion-class caring mother archetype — but one who usually feels that if it's fun, it's good for you, so she does little to stop the general Chaotic bent of the family and rather significantly contributes to it.
  • Moominpappa is a restless sort-of authority figure in the family who occasionally gets midlife or other crises that lead him to run off or take everyone else with him on a random adventure.
  • Of the family's friends, Snufkin is a born wanderer who doesn't ask for anything else in life other than the freedom to walk alone and play his harmonica. He's psychologically unable to stay in one place or with other people for too long, so after moving in with the Moomins, he still periodically leaves them to go Walking the Earth alone for an extended time. He also all but has an allergic reaction to strict rules.
  • Little My is a miniature Fiery Redhead who does her own thing and doesn't give a damn what anyone else thinks.
• In A Song of Ice and Fire, the Brotherhood Without Banners start out Just Like Robin Hood, roaming the countryside protecting the peasants and offering summary justice to war criminals. However, mission creep and the reality of war gradually drags them out of "good" territory, and once they start working for "Lady Stoneheart" they're more like Neutral Evil.
  • As a tomboyish Rebellious Princess, Arya Stark starts out as this alignment, though she arguably slips out of it more into Chaotic Neutral territory as a series of terrible experiences cause her to become more vindictive and brutal.
• Sharpe is Chaotic Good with Neutral tendency. A great example of Good is Not Nice, he relies on guile, wits, and raw fighting ability to win, but always sides against evil characters.

• Crowley from Good Omens starts off as Lawful Neutral, but then becomes this after he decides to rebel against the forces of Hell and try to stop the Apocalypse. To him, the idea of eternal Heaven where all vices are abolished is equally as distasteful as that of eternal torture in Hell.
• Pippi Longstocking defies societal norms by her very nature, being a little girl with Super Strength who's perfectly capable of living by herself and doesn't have any need for school. (She tries it once because she thinks it's unfair she doesn't get to go on holidays.) Her attitude matches this entirely. She's definitely a good person, but try to enforce normal people's norms on her and you'll end up as a comic relief incident.
• John Yossarian of Catch-22. He would like to devote himself to something, but every time he finds something to be loyal to, he finds people like Card-Carrying Villain Colonel Korn and Pointy-Haired Boss Colonel Cathcart getting in the way. The result is that he ends up with a contempt for authority and a fondness for disobedience, but he's nevertheless probably the most compassionate character in the book.
• The titular character of Percy Jackson and the Olympians is the epitome of Chaotic Good. He's extremely compassionate, denies any respect for "authorität persons" - including the gods - is very reluctant to stick to rules, and always does what he considers to be right. In addition, he defeats every opponent he comes across without worrying about consequences for other people: for example, on the island of Circe, he released all the captured pirates during his flight without a thought to the consequences.
  • The sequel The Heroes of Olympus shows Leo Valdez, who also falls into this trope, although he is not as strong and rebellious as Percy.
  • In the continuation Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Magnus also shows signs of being chaotic good.
• Sally from the Spooksville series. She's rather sarcastic and disdainful of authority, but still a brave and good-hearted person. She would probably fall under type 6 (good with nuts) as she comes across as borderline insane at times, such as planning to blow up an alien spaceship while she's still on it. The TV show tones down her rudeness and craziness a lot, but she still counts as this (in one episode she even says "Death before conformity.")
• Unusually for a Piers Anthony novel, Zane from On a Pale Horse is chosen to be Death specifically because he embodies this alignment. While most of the other Incarnations fight against Satan's My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours by playing within the system and taking Satan's games and the rules of their own roles to their logical conclusion, Zane is willing to rebel against the rules governing the Incarnations to do the right thing. This leads to the resolution to his book's conflict, since as Death, he's ultimately not bound by the rules, and no one can force him to take a soul he doesn't want to.
• Elves in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium have a strong tendency towards this. It's basically impossible to command an elf unless they've decided you can (as the Valar find out the hard way when they try to browbeat the Noldor into staying in Valinor), or to persuade them away from a course of action once they've made up their mind: but they also have naturally kind dispositions, and are resistant to evil. Elves do have lords and kings, but they do not seem to have any formal authority over their vassals/subjects. Rather, their power is almost entirely informal: based on relationships that they build between themselves and their subjects. While these positions are technically hereditary, if a ruler is deemed unworthy elves will either leave their realm (as happens to Gil-galad) or simply follow someone else's commands en masse (as happens to Fëanor). That is not of course to say that elven crowns are purely ceremonial. Elves expect their rulers to arbitrate disputes, wage war or negotiate peace on their behalf, and build infrastructure for collective use. This is not as surprising as it might first seem: they are styled "kings" but elven rulers are really tribal chieftains since they are related to most of their subjects. The only major exception to this being Galadriel and Celeborn as rulers of Lothlórien: most of the elves who live in that realm are Silvan elves, but Galadriel is a Noldo and Celeborn is a Sinda. Individual elves though can display almost any alignment including lawful and evil ones: it's just that elven culture encourages a Chaotic Good alignment.
• The Elminster Series: The titular Elminster is good because he's a hero who wants every sentient creature on Faerun to have a chance at a happy and peaceful life. He's chaotic because he's a over 1000 years old veteran adventurer and trickster with great magical powers who has Seen It All and has little to no patience for modern human laws and authority figures.
• Naofumi Iwatani, the titular protagonist of The Rising of the Shield Hero, is generally of this alignment; he's a good man at the end of the day, although he's still a morally grey Anti-Hero and has shades of Chaotic Neutral. He's mostly motivated by keeping himself and his loved ones alive, and doesn't care much about what happens to the world he was summoned to. He will not hesitate to use morally questionable means to obtain what he wants, though he has lines he will not cross; he is not actively malevolent, except towards those who have wronged him, and he is willing to aid others, but he wants to be rewarded for his good deeds, though he is reasonable and will try to negotiate a profitable agreement for both parts. He's still a mercenary who cares about his personal profit, that is.

Live-Action TV

• Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds definitely fits. In fact, it is revealed that before she joined the BAU she was a hacker who targeted evil mega-corporations and the like, and was caught but allowed to join BAU instead of going to jail.
• Angel spent most of his time here, as long as Darla wasn't around, in which case all bets were off. Angel's colleagues were virtually all people who came from exceptionally troubled and morally dubious backgrounds and were generally seeking redemption in one form or another, as was, of course, the title character. As a result, while their overall intentions were generally positive (except when Darla was present, as mentioned, in which case Angel would lose control), there was often collateral damage.
• Merlin is fundamentally a good guy, albeit one who has an unfortunate habit of killing people who are trying to kill his friends, but he is a warlock in a kingdom where magic is banned and the crown prince's servant/protector/friend. Aside from breaking the law just by existing, if given a choice between doing what he's told or doing what he believes is right, he consistently chooses the latter.

• Dr Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, from M*A*S*H. He was always eager to skirt the rules, especially when it meant doing the right thing. He exhibited the same CG behaviors in the original book and the 1970 film version as well.
• Dr. Leonard McCoy from the original Star Trek has very little patience for rules and regulations, and people (especially Spock) telling him what to do, but he has a strong moral compass and devotes his life to helping others.
• Jadzia Dax, of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, does what she thinks is best, and will hang most rules, excepting only the most important Federation laws — and sometimes even then...
  • In the later seasons, Garak eventually became Chaotic Good (although he began more as Chaotic Neutral when we first see him, and there are implications that well before the series began, in his worst Obsidian Order days, he may have even been Evil). He would break any rule at any time, even killing people (as in the masterpiece "In The Pale Moonlight"), but in the later seasons, it was always for the benefit of the Alpha Quadrant against the Lawful Evil Dominion that he hated.
  • Kira Nerys, most likely; as a former rebel and terrorist, she has difficulty adjusting to life as someone in actual authority, and in the earliest series, she is struggling with Sisko's orders. The conflicts between her former life and her current position are played out over a number of episodes, but demanding Sisko let her rescue Li Nalas and her subsequent attitude towards Jaro replacing her with Li make her at least Chaotic Good by intention.
• Hell, many Star Trek fans have argued that humanity's hat is being Chaotic Good. They generally mean well and care about such ideals as peace and liberty, but they also do the most bizarre shit imaginable just to see what happens next. Some even call this the United Federation of "Hold My Beer, I Got This".
• Mal from Firefly. One of his core beliefs is in personal freedom. He's also fiercely loyal to people who he's responsible for (his squad, his crew, etc) and to humanity, and won't let anything, even laws, stand in the way of securing their well-being.
  • River might fit this. It's hard to tell through the crazy. She's definitely good, but having such a hazy grasp on what goes on in her head, she might well be following some set of rules known only to her.
    Teacher: So, with so many social and medical advancements we can bring to the Independents, why would they fight so hard against us?
    River: We meddle. People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.

• Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens from Justified is perhaps one of the darker examples of this trope. There's no question that he's a good guy; he even wears a white hat, for God's sake. However, his character arc tests the limits of his Goodness, to the point that even his own Chief Deputy punches him in the face due to his moral failings. Despite his stumbles and falls, the audience is compelled to forgive him because he is dogged in his pursuit of the truly bad guys, fights to protect those weaker than himself, and honors the wishes of his dead or dying adversaries. Throughout the series, he remains a constant thorn in the side of his co-workers, bosses, and opponents alike, to the point that when his fellow Deputy says "You've been a bad boy," his response is a tired "You're going to have to be more specific."
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath Charlie Kelly from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is on the borderline between this and Chaotic Neutral. He's particularly the most moral of the gang, and definitely a good guy.
• In contrast to the Neutral Good J. D. and Carla, and the Lawful Good Turk, Dr. Cox from Scrubs regularly breaks hospital rules and dishes out hard truths on his students because it's often the only way to make sure patients receive the best care possible. It regularly gets him in trouble with his boss, Lawful Neutral Chief Of Medicine Bob Kelso, who (unlike Cox) has to make hard choices to keep the hospital running. Character Development (and a string of worse Chiefs of Medicine getting the job once Kelso retires) eventually cause him to undergo a slight alignment shift to Neutral Good and become Chief Of Medicine himself. While he retains all his hatred of hospital bureaucracy and bean-counting and his love of breaking rules, he understands that doing it himself is the only way to ensure patient care is prioritized over everything else, essentially making him the Big Good of the series.
• Jack Bauer from 24. Notable in that he works for a Lawful Neutral organization, but he's seen breaking CTU's rules far more often than following them.
• The Doctor from Doctor Who fits here quite well, though of course, as a millennia-old character portrayed by fourteen actors over decades, they have arguably shown traits of many (if not all) alignments. Depending on the incarnation, they can range from Chaotic Good to True Neutral. He started out as True Neutral, though veering toward Neutral Evil before turning towards Chaotic Good as the series progressed. This image argues that the Doctor has veered from Lawful Good to Chaotic Evil. The Doctor is normally into Freedom Over Goodness, but partly down to his logical Character Development after the Third (who had been severely screwed over by authoritarians), and partly due to the Punk subculture coexisting with the Fourth Doctor's era, Four was more into Freedom Is Goodness, intentionally dedicated to spreading chaos and anarchy wherever he went due to his political beliefs. The high point of this is "The Sunmakers", where he defeats an oppressive government terrorising the population but also screws over the rebels attempting to establish an alternative government, leaving the entire system in anarchy, and with the overall feel that he did it just because he wanted to watch something burn that day. In general, the Doctor plants themselves firmly on the side of Good because their prime motivation is to protect innocent people and thwart evil, and they are willing to sacrifice almost anything to achieve these goals. They are Chaotic because they usually reject or have a tenuous relationship with authority (see UNIT and Torchwood... and don't even get them started on Gallifrey), and tend to solve problems independently and creatively. They are also not bothered at all by breaking the law, although they do have their own very strong moral code, and straying from it almost always results in them regretting it.

• Heroes:
  • Peter Petrelli probably started out Neutral Good, but struggles with his Awful Lawful family over three Series have seemingly pushed him firmly into the Chaotic Good category. Both alternate future versions of Peter also seem to have been Chaotic Good, to the point of being willing to blow up buildings or shoot his own brother in order to save lives.
  • Claire as well. She's one of the handful of characters to remain consistently good throughout the show (barring the evil version in one alternate future) — she doesn't tend to seek out wrongs to right like Peter or Hiro, but she won't stand on the sidelines. The Chaotic part just comes from being a teenager, and not having any consistently reliable authority figures in her life.
• Some of the sympathetic police of The Wire are portrayed as Chaotic Good for their willingness to occasionally bend or break rules to do proper police work and protect the people. The show's overall message is that "the system" is fundamentally flawed and corrupt. However, even the sympathetic characters are shown to occasionally take things too far.
  • Detective Jimmy McNulty is this in his better moments (though at other times he veers more toward Chaotic Neutral). He chafes under authority constantly, but genuinely wants to make Baltimore a better place.
• Michael Westen and his crew from Burn Notice. Ex-spies gone freelance with voluminous rap sheets and hearts of gold.
• The A-Team, as a group of outlaw mercenaries who spend an equal amount of time fleeing the law and fighting criminals and other villains, qualify.
• Doug Ross of ER is a possible subversion or deconstruction. He does whatever is best for his patients and will freely break rules to do so. This tends to destroy not only his own life and career but his friends', too.
• Sam and Dean Winchester from Supernatural, especially in the first three seasons. Their objective is their job ("saving people, hunting things — family business"), and they'll go to any lengths to save people, no matter how many laws they break. In Season 4, both brothers (but especially Sam) plunge into Chaotic Neutral territory. They're back up to Chaotic Good again by Season 5 when they're trying to stop the Jerkass angels from causing The End of the World as We Know It.
• Michael Scofield in Prison Break. His brother's on death row, so what does he do? He robs a bank so he'll get sent to the same prison, where he can break his brother (and several other convicts) out. By the fifth season, he's broken out of two prisons and into a secure facility, and the feds are starting to get smart. He does all this because he has a psychological condition that makes him focus on everyone else's problems and want to help them.
• Battlestar Galactica:

• Felix Gaeta moves towards this in his final appearances, though this is largely due to major disillusionment and bitterness over the loss of his leg and the alliance with the dissident Cylons. His attempt to do the right thing in his mind eventually leads to disaster and his death by firing squad.

• Shawn Spencer from Psych. He's willing to work with the police to catch murderers, but has less than no respect for procedure or laws against lesser crimes, once even deciding to sabotage an investigation when he realized it was a consensual insurance scam.
• In earlier seasons of House, this is Dr. Gregory House on a good day, and more uniformly later on, especially throughout Season 6 and most of Season 7, possibly reverting to his previous vacillation between Chaotic Good and Chaotic Neutral after Cuddy broke up with him and brought back his lack of faith in humanity.

• Veronica Mars only uses her skills for good, but aside from the particular season's arc, she usually only does it when she wants to or when she's being paid. Her methods fly in the face of every authority figure in her life, even the ones she respects, like her father, and often involve breaking the law.

• Fox Mulder of The X-Files. He disregards law in his pursuit of the truth, emphasized during his time under Director Kersh.

• The Maverick family is always moral and willing to help out those in need. They are, however, willing to break most laws if it gets in the way of helping others, and they take great pride in cheating cheaters, and swindling swindlers. Besides, you can't be a roving gambler and be lawful.
• NCIS:
  • Gibbs is the epitome of this trope. He's a former marine and NCIS agent, but Tony has had to accept every one of the man's formal honors and hide them in a desk drawer just so Gibbs won't throw them away. His own personal code is apparently higher than any authority. Gibbs is a man you want on your side every time.
  • And right there with him is Tony DiNozzo. He may come across as an annoying goofball and Handsome Lech, but underneath the Obfuscating Stupidity is a highly competent and compassionate investigator who's willing to break the rules to ensure justice.

• Jim Rockford of The Rockford Files did good, but was always on the very edges of society. His troublesome friend Angel was more in Chaotic Neutral territory.
• DG of Tin Man started out here. She was in constant trouble with her boss and the local sheriff back in Kansas, made plans under her robotic parents' noses to escape, and could get plenty mouthy. The Power of Love and The Power of Friendship are her biggest drivers, though.
• Angela from My So-Called Life is generally this. She's more than a little pissed at all the rules and regulations her parents try to impose on her and will often (reluctantly) break them if it means loosening up and having a good time. However, she generally strives to do the right thing and genuinely loves both her family and friends.

• Sherlock Holmes, as portrayed in Elementary. He's eccentric, willful, chafes under regulations, has little regard for authority figures or social convention, and, especially pre-Character Development, can be a brat at times. But he does care about victims of crimes as well as the puzzles, and he often shows sympathy to unfortunate or marginalized people.
• Babylon 5: One of the few alignments not strongly represented among the major characters, although Lyta Alexander comes close. Also, Lorien implies the Shadows were originally this, thousands or millions of years ago, before they got too interested in proving themselves right rather than working in secret concert with the Vorlons to help the Younger Races find a balance between Order and Chaos.
• Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place is this for the most part, bordering on Chaotic Neutral. She is lazy, irresponsible, selfish, openly mocks authority, and at times treats her best friend like a servant. However, she does actually love her family and Harper and in the end will usually do the right thing even though much of the time "the right thing" means fixing a problem she caused in the first place. She's still saved the world numerous times and often shows more of a desire to help people than her more rule-abiding siblings.
• Castle. His mother would probably be the same, though his daughter is more Neutral Good.
• The version of Bruce Wayne/Batman on Gotham is this alignment. He actually lives for a while with Selena Kyle, who teaches him to pick locks, and even commits a few crimes while he's with her. He later explains to her that he doesn't mind stealing if it's from (other) criminals. He also defends his new lock-picking expertise to Alfred by telling him that it's a morally neutral skill (implying that if he thinks that breaking in somewhere will help save someone or further an investigation into a bigger crime, he doesn't have a moral problem with it.) While he doesn't seem to distrust the law and is willing to work with legitimate authority figures he trusts like James Gordon, he seems to prefer to work outside the boundaries of the law and develops a very strong, internal code of right and wrong at a young age that doesn't seem to be based on society's rules but may be influenced by different moral philosophy works that he's implied to have read over the years.
• Stranger Things: Jim Hopper, Hawkins' resident Cowboy Cop. Despite being a police chief, he is the first one to break the rules and even the law in order to save his loved ones and his town from conspiracies and creatures from the Upside Down.

Music

• Joe in Act II: Father of Death by The Protomen. He's the only man in the entire city whose desire for freedom and change is stronger than his fear of the machines controlling the city and uses this drive to escape the city to return later on to liberate it along with Dr. Light. He simply refuses to bow down to the machines, and his Hot-Blooded resolve to save the city burns strong even until his death.

Musicals

• The titular character of Pippin goes through a Goodness Before Freedom phase when he stages a coup d'état against his father, King Charlemagne. Unfortunately, Pippin reverts to his father's behaviors and realizes he is an equally incompetent ruler.
• Siegmund in The Ring of the Nibelung is an attempt by his father, the Lawful Neutral Wotan, to create someone Chaotic Neutral to stop threats Wotan cannot. However, being manipulated by Wotan means Siegmund isn't truly free, and he does try to act moral, claiming what he thought wrong others approved of and vice versa. This is used to justify the Brother–Sister Incest that means Wotan has to kill Siegmund.

Tabletop Games

• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • King Boranel of Breland in Eberron. Courageous leader. Champion of warforged rights. Former treasure hunter. Boisterous Bruiser. Cool Old Guy. Even his enemies like him because of his desire to make the world a better place.
  • This is the default alignment of most elves besides the drow, who are Always Chaotic Evil. Elves have a society that looks out for everyone, encourages freewheeling art and leisure activities, and fights for the freedom of others. When they stray into the "snooty arrogant pricks" stereotype, though, they seem more True Neutral.
  • The Eladrins in 2nd and 3rd edition D&D are elf-like angels who exist to spread the ideals of Chaotic Good (in 4E, they're just another name for high elves). For example, firre eladrins promote artistic expression, Shiradi Eladrins free the oppressed, Courre Eladrins spread joy, etc. They survive as the Azatas in Pathfinder.
  • Way back in the days of Mystara, there was a race from the Plane of Dreams who had this as their most common racial alignment, followed by Chaotic Neutral and Neutral Good, with a very, very tiny minority of Chaotic Evil. This race, known as the Diaboli, were unfairly treated because they looked like purple variants of your iconic devil.
  • Pathfinder brings us the Azatas, who are the Eladrin by another name. It also brings us Nirmathas, which is not-fantasy England ala Robin Hood fighting Molthune, the Lawful Neutral not-Imperial Germany.
• The Free Council in Mage: The Awakening hold this up as their ideal. At the birth of the 20th century, a group of unaligned mages, the Nameless Orders, were extended an offer of "We Can Rule Together" by the Lawful Evil Seers of the Throne. Most of the Nameless Orders opted instead to tell the Seers where they could stick it, then formed the Free Council to more effectively coordinate the sticking and back it up with guns and bombs. The Council's alliance with the older Diamond Orders against the Seers and the Abyss is a bit uneasy due to this rebellious and anti-authoritarian streak; the Diamond Orders revere the legacy of Atlantis, generally believe on some level that mages are superior to Sleepers (albeit in a With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility kind of way as opposed to the Despotism Justifies the Means beliefs of the Seers), and favour a hierarchical model for mages with the Silver Ladder technically in charge, while the Free Council generally want mage society to create something new rather than blindly mimic a long-lost, barely understood city, believe that mortal works contain magic all their own, and reject the Silver Ladder's beliefs in favour of egalitarianism and democracy.
  Democracy seeks the truth; hierarchy fosters the Lie. Humanity is magical; human works have arcane secrets. Destroy the followers of the Lie. — the Free Council Charter of Unity
• This is what most Anarchs in Vampire: The Masquerade try to be, opposing the Lawfu L Neutral/ Lawful Evil status quo of the Camarilla, claiming that power should be redistributed from the elders to all vampires equally. They are often not very good at practicing what they preach: day-to-day fighting usually leads to loss of Humanity until they become Chaotic Evil, with only a few examples pretty solidly remaining in any remotely good waters.
• Although it's mildly surprising to find any kind of good alignment in Warhammer 40,000, Logan Grimnar of the Space Wolves has to qualify. He's the only one to call out the Imperial authorities on genociding the people of Armageddon after Angron invaded, and has sworn never to let anyone do that kind of crap again if he can prevent them.
  • The Space Wolf Chapter itself is Chaotic Good incarnate. They wouldn't open the Codex Astartes if their lives depended on it, and tell the Inquisition to piss off after what happened on Armageddon.
  • Pre-heresy Night Haunter, aka Konrad Curze, might have been a borderline case of this, having spent most of his youth being an illegal vigilante on his homeworld before the arrival of the emperor, hunting down and killing corrupt officials and criminals alike. He seems to have been fully aware of his Face–Heel Turn beforehand, and it is highly suggested he let himself get assassinated because of that afterwards.
  • The Soul Drinkers chapter of the Space Marines. They fight for the good of the people of the Imperium, but are no longer bound by loyalty to the Imperium, convinced that the Imperium as it is couldn't be what the Emperor wanted.
  • The Harlequins could also be considered Chaotic Good, given their completely enigmatic nature, willingness to help Craftworld, Exodite, and Dark Eldar, dedication to the destruction of Slaanesh, and the fact that they follow a Chaotic Good trickster god, the Laughing God.
  • Radical Inquisitors often shoot for this, seeing their descent into Chaos/pacts with demons/use of forbidden xeno technology (case depending) as a way to improve the security of the Imperium or its citizens' lot in life (dreaming of destroying Chaos using armies of psykers is especially common). Results vary.
• With a focus on fantasy tropes and almost three decades of storytelling, Magic: The Gathering is bound to have some examples:
  • Gerrard Capashen oscillates between this and Neutral Good. Unusually for a mono-White character, he's pretty brash and impulsive, though always trying to do the right thing.
  • Koth, especially in his conflict against New Phyrexia, leading La Résistance. However, he's firmly a case of Good is Not Nice, being abrasive and brusque towards his allies.
  • The flamekin from Lorwyn are a race of these, being spiritual, passionate shamanists fighting against the elves.
  • Usually assumed stereotypical alignment for Red/White by non-savvy fans, because White is the colour most stereotypically associated with good and Red is always associated with chaos, not in the least because the most visible Red/White faction, the Boros, are presented as such. However, very few Red/White characters have actually been Chaotic Good: the Boros themselves in canon are firmly associated with the law, and under Aurelia have degenerated into borderline Lawful Evil, while the Lorwyn Nobilis of War and associated races are Chaotic Evil. Like Batman, they can easily be slotted into any alignment.
    • Further subverted by the Ixalan Planeshift claims that the stereotypical Red-White alignment is actually Lawful Good. Emphasis on "stereotypical", as examples above show.
  • Chandra Nalaar, the iconic red planeswalker and first red-aligned member of the Gatewatch. While card flavour text generally portrays her as a Pyromaniac, she has a deep hatred of tyranny and oppression. In early Aether Revolt art, she appears to be leading a rebellion against the repressive Consulate. Her mother, too — believing Chandra to be dead, Pia has reached the status of "Renegade Prime" for her work in inspiring dissent and revolution.

Theme Parks

• Figment from Journey into Imagination at Disney Theme Parks, where his free thinking contrasts Channing's more Lawful outlook on imagination.

Video Games

• The Yatagarasu in Ace Attorney, a Phantom Thief who steals evidence of corrupt business and sends it to the media. While most of the game is about finding the identity of the thief, the Yatagarasu itself is shown as sympathetic.

• Heart Aino from Arcana Heart wants you to know, that if something is causing any problems, she will gladly run off and deal with it. Without having to deal with any legal procedures, or a specific plan. She will fight her own friends, apologize for it, and continue wrecking her way straight to the source of the main problem's front door and break it down. With love.
• The Assassin Order from Assassin's Creed, including the main characters in each game (Altaïr, Ezio, Desmond). They believe in free will and the right to individuality. However, their creed explicitly says that they must break the laws of men to fulfill their goals. As Ezio says:
  Ezio: There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, or show you the path. Choose your own way. Do not follow me, or anyone else.
  • Connor is on the borderline between this and Neutral Good. He is more than willing to do what he believes is right, whether that be fight off or unite the Templars and save his people.
• Asura from Asura's Wrath certainly qualifies. He is a hot-tempered and stubborn demi-god by nature and is known for charging head-on at the enemy without a second thought. A powerful combatant, Asura displays both a strong will and an absence of fear in less-than-positive situations and will fight his adversaries relentlessly until he is victorious. Due to his stubborn nature, Asura rarely accepts the aid of others and prefers to get out of messes on his own. However, despite all this Asura is a good-hearted warrior with a strong moral code and gets angered when he sees an act that goes against his morals. Emphasized at his final battle with Chakravartin, when Asura repudiates the omnipotent god's offer to make the heroic warrior into the world's new god since he believes that the world doesn't need a god like him. Which is justified, considering that Chakravartin destroyed trillions of innocent lives so Asura could be his successor.
• Backyard Sports: There is no way Ronny Dobbs would follow anyone unless the person actually needs help.
• Baldur's Gate:
  • Minsc in the second game, changed from Neutral Good in the first after the death of his charge Dynaheir makes him even more unhinged than he already was. Or possibly just because they rethought what suits him best. He's very keen on being a hero and succeeds at it but is prone to berserker rages, has a weird, child-like way of looking at things, and lacks the intelligence to understand complex moral situations.
  • Sarevok, the Chaotic Evil villain of the first game, returns in the second as an ally and can be redeemed to become Chaotic Good if sensible dialogue options are chosen in your conversations with him. This causes him to become a nicer person, and to abandon his ambitions of godhood in favour of finding a new purpose in life.
  • Nalia, the Rebellious Noblewoman who is trying her very best to help people and has a profound distaste for the class system.
• Kazooie from Banjo-Kazooie is a loyal friend to Banjo and has her heart in the right place, but mainly likes going on adventures and getting into fights, and shows little respect for authority or anyone for that matter.
• While Baten Kaitos has several characters who could be placed here, Kalas is definitely the most exemplary, although it could be argued that what with his betrayal of the group, he could be seen as Chaotic Neutral or even Chaotic Evil. However, when he rejoins the group, he definitely becomes Chaotic Good.
  "In this world, there are things that people mustn't touch... Who cares?!"
• In BioShock 2, if Subject Delta performs good actions such as saving little sisters and sparing NPCs, Eleanor becomes this, willing to fight for their freedom against her mother. Otherwise, she might become Chaotic Evil.
  • As a more definite example, this is how the followers of Atlas and Lamb viewed themselves, fighting against the Rapture hierarchy. Diane McClintock (an idealist rebel under Atlas's command and Ryan's former mistress), Grace Holloway (an anti-Ryan jazz singer and key supporter of Doctor Lamb), the assassins in Hephaestus (like Kyburz and Anya Andersdotter) (who all attempted to bring an end to Ryan's by now Lawful Evil government by taking the law and the greater good of the city into their own hands) and, following her Heel–Face Turn, Tenenbaum (kidnapping Little Sisters from official control and leaving them in the sewers beneath Olympus Heights) are some character examples. Ryan's original founding of Rapture was motivated by a desire to escape what he believed to be an evil hierarchy on the surface world, and ultimately to indirectly destroy it by removing the greatest minds from the reach of the parasites. Ryan's loyalty to his convictions did not last, and he slowly shifted to Lawful Evil as he jettisoned his principles in favor of power. It's more complex than that, though, as enforcing an Objectivist utopia is a contradiction in terms. When Ryan realizes this, he refuses to admit his error and drifts toward his despotic persona. It is interesting that in the case of Fountaine, the roles are reversed — he considers himself an opportunist smuggler, while in fact, he caters to the actual needs of the Rapture citizens.
  • Augustus Sinclair has shades of this, particularly of the Noble Demon variety. Although he claims to be out for himself primarily, he encourages Delta to not kill unnecessarily and does whatever he can to help him, even taking personal risks (also, unlike Fontaine, he doesn't end up betraying Delta... At least not willingly).
• Roland in Borderlands 2, being the leader of a militia group consisting of former Crimson Lance soldiers who were left on Pandora after General Knoxx's defeat in the first game fighting to drive Hyperion out of Pandora. Also the titular character of Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage. Sure, he loves explosives and destruction and doesn't care too much about rules, but that doesn't stop him from being an ultimately decent person who places great emphasis on goodness. He serves as the foil to Lawful Evil forces of Handsome Jack.
• In Rockstar Games' 2006 hit Bully, Russell Northrop is this trope in one of the final cutscenes.
  Russell: Russell! Likes to hurt people! For peace!
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: Soma Cruz is characterized by his stubborn will to defy his fate of becoming the second Dracula and repeating the tragedy over the last 1000 years. A warning, though: if he loses his childhood love, he can turn into Chaotic Evil.
• Captain Nick "Havoc" Parker in Command & Conquer: Renegade is very much a Chaotic Good Military Maverick. Just look at his Nom de Guerre for crying out loud—you don't get a nickname like "Havoc" by playing by the rules all the time. He's demonstrably rebellious, but only in the name of doing his utmost to protect civilians. Admittedly, his insubordination does get him thrown in the brig from time to time.
• Nathan Zachary and the Fortune Hunters of Crimson Skies. They may be air pirates, but they only steal from people that can afford the loss (in fact, many of their targets are such bastards that they more than deserve whatever trouble the Fortune Hunter's raids bring them). They are also known to help defend innocents; one mission in the PC game had Nathan Zachary and crew protecting a hospital ship from a rival pirate gang. The Fortune Hunter's founding charter forbids wanton attacks on civilian targets and Zachary is rumored to have shot down one of his own pilots when he needlessly strafed civilian targets.
• Dante from Devil May Cry, a gunslinging White Hair, Black Heart demon hunter who goes out of his way to save the world from the forces of darkness, even if it means smashing up everything in sight. Oh, and he loves his pizza… with extra cheese.
  • Nero is probably a more explicit example in the 4th game. He has nothing but utter disdain for the hierarchy of the pseudo-Church Militant organization that he works for, and is more than willing to fight tooth and nail against it in order to save his girlfriend.
  • The rebootverse' Dante, who rightfully has no respect for the demonic authority in control of the enslaved human society he lives in. Naturally, once he regains his erased memories of his childhood, Vergil, and his parents, he displays no hesitation in joining The Order and fighting against the demons who have tortured him for so long.
• Raspberyl from Disgaea 3 is Chaotic Good. She's a rebel against the rules of the netherworld. She's still respected anyway because she has the guts to stand up to the PTA.

• Two potential protagonists in Divinity: Original Sin II qualify as this (interestingly both are Professional Killers):
  • Sebille is more chaotic than good, having little respect for authority, due to her backstory but still tries to do right most of the time, and has a soft spot for those who have also been, captured, wrongly imprisoned, or enslaved themselves, and will work to free them.
  • Ifan Ben Mezd, meanwhile, is more good than chaotic, having left the authority of the Magisters after everyone he knew was killed in a deathfog attack he unknowingly perpetrated. He's now part of the infamous, and very loosely organized, lone wolves assassins, where he takes mostly contracts to kill bad people without pay and works alone. He also tries to do right by everyone, though with a bit more respect for authority than Sebille. He's possibly also the friendliest guy you can recruit for your party, his main competition for that role being Neutral Good Lohse.
• The Doomguy/Doom Slayer from Doom is mostly famous for being a demon-gutting badass, but he murdered his own commanding officer for ordering him to fire upon civilians and shows deep contempt for Samuel Hayden because his attempts to mine Hell for energy cost the lives of many good men.
• Donkey Kong and company definitely qualify. Especially Donkey Kong himself. He has a strong will to do good and believes strongly in The Power of Friendship, but he is also rather dumb and doesn't quite get the rules of society. This gets especially evident when pitted against Mario in Mario vs. Donkey Kong, where he decides to steal the factory's entire supply of Mini-Marios when he finds out that the store that sells them is sold out.
• Dragon Age: Origins: Leliana begins the game as more Neutral Good, though she can become this if you "harden" her through her personal quest and she embraces her more rebellious and free-spirited side.
• Isabela in Dragon Age II. Oh, she'll insist she's Chaotic Neutral, but she sticks by a somewhat self-serving personal code of 'free merchantry' that she will violate on conscience. She can be influenced to do the right thing and return the Qun artifact, but she only took such a dangerous job for poor rewards because she reneged on a previous deal by freeing a cargo of slaves, which she denies emphatically was done for good intent... but never quite gives any sensible reason.
  • Which personality type you play your Hawke as tends to determine how far (s)he leans. A Diplomatic Hawke is in Goodness Before Freedom, who fights for freedom for everyone based on the established rules. A Snarky!Hawke is a Balance Seeker.
  • Varric is a snarky rogue whose base of operations is a scoundrel-laden bar and who lies constantly. He dislikes tradition and could be politely described as indifferent to the finer points of legality. He's also the friendliest member of the party, and apart from Merrill, probably one of the most compassionate — he pays thugs to stay away from both Merrill and Anders, brings Merrill food when she's too obsessed with her project to eat, and arranges a regular card game for Fenris to keep him out of his shell. About the only ones he doesn't regularly help out are Isabela (who can look after herself), and Aveline, the captain of the guard (who he trolls). He's the only party member apart from Hawke to be on everyone's good side, including the three party members arranged in a triangle of mutual contemptuous disdain.
• After being the Big Bad in the first Drakengard game and almost causing The End of the World as We Know It... Manah comes back in the second game as The Atoner and the leader of a group of resistance fighters against the excesses of the Knights of the Seal. While a rebel, her intentions are good (thus marking her adult self for this alignment), but unfortunately, she does not realize that the gods still hold dominion over her, and are trying to make her re-enact the apocalypse of 18 years ago...
• The Pilgrims of Endless Space are defectors from the Lawful Evil United Empire, formed when a group of freedom fighters and intellectuals hijacked a UE colony ship. The Pilgrims are dedicated to the study of the Endless and the liberation of UE-controlled systems; they even gain a bonus to system control when attacking UE planets. Part mystic, part scientist, and part rebel, the Pilgrims are one of the four "Good" factions, along with the lawful Amoeba and the neutral Automatons and Sophons.
• Some characters in Fate/stay night are listed as Chaotic Good in the Visual Novel:
  • Rider (Medusa). She may look like a pure Dark Action Girl serving a Smug Snake like Shinji, but most of her heinous actions are from Shinji, not by herself. In truth, she really just wants to protect her true Master, Sakura, and would much like to kill Shinji. She's still quite a sadist, though, as one finds out the hard way in some of the Bad Ends.
  • Gilgamesh, the Jerkass Social Darwinist who wants to unleash an unspeakable evil upon the world, is actually listed as Chaotic Good. See the main alignment page for more on his reasoning.
  • Not exactly Chaotic Good, but Berserker (Hercules) might count, considering his total devotion to Ilya. Thanks to her keeping him in a perpetual state of madness, though, his true alignment is given as Chaotic Mad.
  • It can also be argued that Shirou is this: he will fight to protect as many people as possible, regardless of anything other than the fact that someone needs saving. Cue people being pissed at him for wanting to save both friend and enemy alike with ruthless idealism.
    • Shirou varies somewhat according to route. He seems to start out more Neutral Good or Lawful Good since he does seem inclined towards following the rules, but in some of the routes (particularly Heaven's Feel), he seems to move more towards this alignment.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Edge from Final Fantasy IV. You first meet him as he's attempting to storm the Tower of Bab-Il and kill Rubicante BY HIMSELF, despite his countrymen pleading for him not to do so. He's got a weak spot for pretty girls to the point where they're the only thing that can keep his temper from doing something downright suicidal, like challenging Rubicante a second time after the Fiend just effortlessly trounced him. He's also brash, loud, hotheaded, and arrogant, but his heart's in the right place and he becomes a loyal friend to the team.
  • Locke from Final Fantasy VI qualifies as Chaotic Good partially because he was part of the rebellion from the beginning and the fact that it's clear from the beginning that he's a damn good thief, despite his insistence that he's a treasure hunter. Setzer also qualifies; he openly admits that the most important thing in life is being free from any obligations. He's also more than willing to bet his life on the flip of a coin. He IS a gambler, after all.
  • Zidane from Final Fantasy IX, who is extremely good, despite being a thief.
  • Tidus from Final Fantasy X starts out as this as well. While undeniably good, he is dismissive and even contemptuous of tradition and authority, and much of the early conflict in the story results from his ethical disagreements with Yuna, Wakka, and Lulu, who all lean more toward Lawful Good. By the end of the game he arguably evolves more into Neutral Good, as he begins to care more about ending the threat of Sin above all else.

• Rinoa from Final Fantasy VIII, as a good-hearted member of the Forest Owls, a resistance group to a tyrannical government, is this. A case can be made for several other playable characters, though not members, to fit this alignment as well.

• Fire Emblem:
  • Fire Emblem Gaiden has a rather wonky example. Emperor Rudolf wishes to free Valentia from the gods Mila and Duma, who have become corrupted and driven to insanity by their own power, and usher in a new era where mankind chooses his own destiny by his own two hands. While his ultimate goal is Chaotic Good, his methodology (starting a war of aggression to make the continent strong enough to oppose the gods) straddles the line between Lawful Neutral and Lawful Evil, and he definitely paints himself as a bog-standard Lawful Evil tyrant.
  • Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade:
    • Sain. There are three major things that distinguish him: his Chivalrous Pervert nature, his hamminess, and his open disregard for authority unless the orders come from his lord/lady of liege. Double if the orders come from Lady Lyndis.
    • Hector starts as such, escaping from Ostia almost on his own to help Eliwood in spite of his brother Uther's orders. As the plot advances, though, he settles on the border between this and Neutral Good.
    • Also Fargus and his pupil Dart, which makes sense since they're both pirates and very Hot-Blooded.
  • Boyd from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is most likely this. Despite being a bit cocky, he's a genuinely nice person who will do whatever it takes to help people, even if it means breaking the rules in the process. Most notably shown early in Path of Radiance where he's in favor of defying the Daein army for escorting Princess Elincia to the politically-neutral Gallia, saying "it's what heroes do."
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Edelgard is a deconstruction of this trope. Her aim is overall to get rid of the crest and nobility systems. However, her trauma and ambition lead to her flying off the rails into Lawful Evil territory and ultimately get her killed in all but her own route where she stays Chaotic Good.
• Genshin Impact: Diluc left the Knights of Favonius because he grew to dislike their Lawful Good ways that limited their actions, and he ended up becoming Mondstadt's equivalent to Batman.
• Ghost of Tsushima has the titular "ghost", Jin Sakai. After the utterly disastrous opening where Khotun Khan exploits the samurai codes of honor to butcher the entire defensive force, Jin loses all faith in the rigid samurai ways and begins to adopt his own ruthless strategy to combat the Mongol invaders, causing him to butt heads with his Lawful Good mentor Lord Shimura. Despite this, he is unwaveringly a kind, polite, and humble man whose primary goal is to protect his people from said invaders.
• Sol Badguy from Guilty Gear. He means well and is an atoner for mistakes of his past. But he prefers to do things alone and doesn't get along with the law very much, which causes conflict with his Lawful Good rival Ky Kiske. His Spiritual Successor from BlazBlue, Ragna the Bloodedge, also counts, as he is a One-Man Army who openly despises the current evil Bureau and goes to lay waste to any and all of the Bureau's institutions he can get at. He has sworn to destroy their oppressive reign. At worst, however, he can be Chaotic Neutral, because none of this is done for altruistic reasons, like protecting/freeing the oppressed people, but solely for his own desire to exact revenge on the NOL and Hazama / Terumi. Consequently, he doesn't care if the many innocent Punch Clock Villains of the NOL get caught in the crossfire and die during his onslaughts, because they're in his way.
• Half-Life: Gordon Freeman definitely qualifies. He isn't the kind of guy who would willingly submit to any government, even being a major spark in the larger rebellion against the Combine in Half-Life 2. Episode 2 even assumes you did the completely optional choice of blowing up Doctor Magnusson's casserole in the original game. Kleiner also admits that they all owe a lot to Gordon, even if he often manages to bring trouble. He qualifies as chaotic good because he is put into a situation where he's obliged to disregard any organization most of the time to simply fight back the Combine and spark an uprising to take down a gigantic Citadel and reveal the true identity of "our benefactors"; in the aliens' eyes at least, they are doing humanity a great favor by bleeding the planet dry of its natural resources and transforming humanity into an army of transhuman soldiers.
• Sky from Jade Empire. The man's a thief and a con artist. The first time you see him, he's feeding some pirates a load of BS about you being his partner in crime. About the only thing that seems to piss him off is slavers. It's Personal, you see. He balks when he sees the Water Dragon, more because the goddess was enslaved by the Brothers Sun, not necessarily because he gives a rip about the Laws of Heaven. But even though he does like to relieve folks of their silver, he doesn't squawk if you... redistribute it.
• Destructive Saviour Rico Rodriguez (Scorpio) in Just Cause. His storyline and black market progress depend on how much Chaos he causes. Whether he is good or Chaotic Evil depends on how you make him treat the locals.
• The King of Fighters:
  • Kyo Kusanagi constantly skipped school and would fight anybody, even authority figures. He also doesn't really care about following the traditions of his family in any way except for his own. The man is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold to a T, but when he shows the gold moments, they truly shine through. Quite Hot-Blooded (and even more so in early years), carries his responsibilities as Kusanagi heir/leader but refuses to believe destiny has a direct touch on them, tries to shoulder huge responsibilities on himself during the Tales of Ash saga despite lots of people telling them to rely on them as well.
  • Also, this is Ash Crimson's alignment. He went against everyone and everything and made himself as the most ambitious asshole ever — to work from the inside of Those of the Past for his own desire to protect his Only Friend. And he saved the world as an afterthought and said he liked it... as he's being Ret Goned.

• Mass Effect:
  • Garrus could be considered Chaotic Good, though one could make the argument that he is not necessarily against the law, only the red tape that prevents him from doing good. However, in the second game he is undoubtedly Chaotic Good, in the first installment, he asks the player to commit a cold-blooded murder and states that there is nothing inherently wrong in killing a mass-murderer without trial. Which makes him a dark incarnation of this alignment.
  • Captain Bailey is also unquestionably this. His entire leadership and policing strategy can be summed up as "Do what's right, dammit!" When Shepard first talks to him about reinstating his/her identity as being "alive," Bailey says that normally you'd have to spend about a week going through customs and the Citadel bureaucracy, or he can just press a button right there and get you everything you need. Later on, he shows he's perfectly willing to help Shepard and Garrus get some vigilante justice in on a criminal C-Sec can't track down because he's inside their network, and during Thane's loyalty mission, he arrests a criminal on flimsy charges so Shepard can interrogate them and looks the other way after checking into Thane's background, saying that "Someone's going to have to deal with it, but not me." After dealing with all the other Obstructive Bureaucrats in the game, Bailey is a breath of welcome fresh air.
  • Even Shepard can show signs of this if you take the Paragon path but mix in a healthy dose of renegade actions and dialogue (or as fans have nicknamed it, Paragade.) You can still play Shepard as warm and compassionate, but with a definite irreverence for any kind of authority, probably best shown in the Renegade response to the Turian Councillor after releasing the Rachni Queen.
  • Paragon Shepard slowly veers from Lawful Good into this alignment from the end of the first game onwards, where they go rogue, steal the Normandy, and defy the Council's orders not to head to Ilos. Their reason seems to be, because they are a Spectre, they are sworn to protect the Galaxy, even from the bunch of morons that run it. By the second game, when the Council refuses to take the Reapers and Collector threat seriously, Shepard is forced to work with Cerberus in order to end the threat. By the third game, Shepard barely seems to consult the Council at all before making decisions of Galactic importance and part of the plot even involves going to the heads of state for each race directly, cutting their Council representatives completely. Even if you don't get the Salarian leader's thumbs-up, you can still wind up with half the Salarian military pledged to your cause by their respective commanding officers having more sense about the big picture of the war.
  • Kasumi Goto. While she's a thief, every instance of her has her using her skills for the greater good, from protecting the Alliance by recovering her greybox to a casino heist to benefit children.

• Mega Man:
  • Zero. "I never cared about justice, and I don't recall ever calling myself a hero... I have always only fought for the people I believe in. I won't hesitate... If an enemy appears in front of me, I will destroy it!"
  • Proto Man, whom Zero is an Expy of. He'd rather die with a fatal flaw in his design than give up his own freedom, but he'd nevertheless back up Mega Man and help him save the day whenever he can.
• Metal Gear: Solid Snake, the titular hero, and his best friend Otacon are this, frequently showing a sincere heart of gold, and he and Otacon will stop at nothing to fight for the very cause they believe in — although Snake frequently insists he himself is Chaotic Neutral or even Chaotic Evil.

• Metal Wolf Chaos Michael: President Wilson probably started as Lawful Good, but once his VP RICHAAAAAAARD!! declares him an enemy of the state, he cranks President Action up. He evidently supports Second Amendment rights.
• Faith from Mirror's Edge. As a courier, she tries to bring some communications freedom to the city after the November riots. Guess how much the totalitarian government likes that.

• In No More Heroes, Travis Touchdown eventually becomes this alignment late in Desperate Struggle, eventually growing tired of the fighting and vowing to destroy the UAA and avenge all those who died because of them. Besides, he never was too keen on rules and regulations from the beginning.
• Lucio from Overwatch is a pretty textbook Chaotic Good, considering he could be like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing from the corrupt Vishkar Corporation that made his turf suffer, driving them back, becoming a hero to spread the good message of progress and freedom. However, some criticize his method of achieving freedom: Symmetra, a doubtful agent of Vishkar, considers him not understanding the concept of freedom and might be mistaking it for anarchy, whereas Zenyatta, a very zen True Neutral monk, tells him that doing good with chaotic things will beget even more chaos. In other words, Lucio represents unrestrained freedom that might get him into trouble if he doesn't learn restraint, he just got off good at this point because his opposition was pretty much a textbook corrupt corporate. But if he learns to balance between Chaotic and Good...
• Pathfinder: Kingmaker, being set in the Pathfinder ruleset, has several canonically Chaotic Good characters.
  • Linzi is a carefree bard who cares about freedom of expression and people generally being nice to each other because she thinks Good Feels Good. She's not above things like 'borrowing' some funds from the treasury to buy a cheap printing press to donate to your barony.
  • Octavia is a former slave who believes in freedom and kindness above all things. She despises coercion and slavery and is also the closest thing the game has to a pacifist, and will usually always support the options that don't cause people to die. Depending on how her personal quest goes she can end up closer to her life companion Regongar in outlook.
  • Kalikke is a tiefling (a person with a devil in her family tree) who grew up in a nation where tieflings are subject to heavy discrimination. In contrast to her Lawful Evil twin Kanerah, Kalikke responded to her circumstances by creating an underground society and support network for tieflings, in order to lessen their suffering to aim for long-term changes. She believes strongly in community and fighting systemic oppression.
  • Maegar Varn, the baron of Varnhold in the eastern Stolen Lands. He's a former mercenary commander who was given his barony after clearing it of goblins and bandits (much like the Player Character). When the chips are down, he turns out to be not half-bad at actually ruling even if he doesn't like it very much, and is an early supporter of peaceful relations and trade with your own barony.
• Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous:
  • The Azata Mythic Path available to the Player Character sees them slowly transform into an azata, beings from the plane of Elysium who are literal embodiments of the Chaotic Good alignment. Azata character options tend towards acts of mercy and kindness taken on impulse, and problems are solved by singing the Song of Elysium almost to the point of becoming a Running Gag.
  • One of the subplots of the first act embroils the Player Character in a clash between a group of Chaotic Good priests of Desna, the Chaotic Good fairy-goddess of freedom and travel, and the Lawful Stupid Inquisitor Hulrun Shappok—a man who jumped off the slippery slope long ago in his battle with the demons of the Worldwound. The Desnans arguably brought it on themselves with a well-intentioned but poorly executed attempt to repair damage to the Kenabres Wardstone (which helps maintain a barrier that keeps the demons from spreading across Golarion), which the paranoid Hulrun took as an attempt at sabotage.
  • Arueshalae, one of the available Player Party members, is a succubus who seduced and Mind Raped a priest of Desna, and had Desna herself reach through and essentially turn her conscience back on so she could have a Heel Realization. When first encountered she's aligned Chaotic Neutral but she desperately wants to redeem herself for all the horrible things she's done, and depending on player interactions can either shift fully to Chaotic Good (in which case she's able to consummate the Romance Sidequest with the Commander if the player pursued it) or fall back into evil.
• Persona:
  • Junpei Iori fits the bill quite nicely. Coarse, Hot-Blooded, doesn't do his homework, inherently rebellious... but a good guy who cares deeply about his friends, and despite enjoying his role in SEES slaying Shadows, he ultimately decides Shadows — and Nyx, therein — are better off not existing so that everyone else can live normal lives.
  • Kanji Tatsumi is another example, though pre-recruitment has him as a Chaotic Good with leaning towards Chaotic Neutral. He's coarse, gets into a lot of fights, and a bit of a delinquent, but he genuinely cares about his friends and has some issues opening up to people. Post-Character Development makes him a borderline example of Chaotic Good, as while he's still the alignment, he begins leaning towards Neutral Good a bit more after calming down a bit.
    • Yukiko Amagi is this too, albeit more played with. Being a Yamato Nadeshiko, she appears to be Neutral Good, but her hidden issues pre-recruitment shows a lot of discontentment with having her life decided for her in what she perceives to be a Gilded Cage, and wants to be able to live freely and make her own decisions in her life. Post-Character Development makes her realize how much the Amagi Inn means to her, and she becomes a borderline example like Kanji, albeit with more leaning towards Neutral Good than Chaotic Good.
  • Further played with in Persona 5 regarding the Phantom Thieves; they're inherently breaking the law to rebel against tyranny, but many choose to do so not because they want to force reform, but because they have no other choice to protest the corrupt system. Makoto Niijima is likely Lawful Good, while characters like Ann Takamaki, Yusuke Kitagawa, Haru Okumura, and Futaba Sakura are more Neutral Good as opposed to Chaotic Good. The protagonist, Ren Amamiya, is the only character that fits more into the bill, as he is willing to get arrested and being labelled as a delinquent in order to save a woman from being raped by a corrupt politician and break the very fabric of society in order to free the hearts of the people of Tokyo.
    • Other than the main character himself, other two main examples of this alignment within the party are Ryuji Sakamoto and Morgana. Ryuji is an energetic ex-athlete turned delinquent who is consistently the most aggressive against abusive authority figures, while also being supportive of his friends and even his former teammates. Morgana is a mischievous cat thief who helps kickstart the party's escapades in stealing hearts, all while trying to become a human by stealing treasure with them. Despite their similar alignment, the two are actually Vitriolic Best Buds on a good day and tend to argue over each other ad infinitum if no one stops them. Post-Character Development Ryuji learns to dial back his chaotic tendencies somewhat while Morgana puts more focus on helping his friends over thievery and trying to become human, and they solidify their friendship.
• Planescape: Torment: Morte, canonically. An inveterate troll and lech, he remains with The Nameless One out of a sense of both debt and kinship, no matter how horrible a personality he may be reborn into, if for no other reason than to limit the damage. If Nameless is played as evil, Morte will be the first to offer What the Hell, Hero? protests.
• Crazy Dave of the Plants vs. Zombies series. He's on the side of angels, but he's a Cloudcuckoolander who will do anything to defeat Zomboss. Especially if you have bacon.
• Ratchet. He may be the greatest do-gooder around and savior of the entire universe, more or less, but he's still one young and reckless adventurer. And a vandal, to boot. He falls into True Neutral briefly during the course of the first game after a betrayal by his idol disillusions him. During this part, his only reason for not abandoning Clank is that they happen to be going to the same places as each other.

• In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux, this happens in the extended Chaos ending. Alex explains that Jimenez's dream world ruled by strength ultimately leads to the extinction of the human race and convinces him to create a world where all humans live in harmony with demons and have the blessings of infinite possibilities. Jimenez turns against Mem Aleph to create a world of Chaos in his own way.
• Sanjuro Makabe of Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, despite being in the military, tends to only follow orders when they happen to be what he wants to do anyway and puts protecting those he cares about above all else.
• Alessa, from Silent Hill. Although you spend most of the game fighting monsters she sends after you, in the end, she has a reason for doing it: preventing The End of the World as We Know It, brought about by the birth of an evil cult's sun god. The movie version of Alessa, however, probably falls into a different alignment.

• Sly Cooper and his gang. They're thieves, but of the lovable kind, and they generally only steal from other criminals (partly because of honor, and partly because of the challenge).
• Sonic the Hedgehog and NiGHTS are good examples of Chaotic Good: the former a free spirit who has no regard for rules or authority and is always happy to help anyone in need out of his hatred of oppression, the latter a Defector from Decadence who "doesn't follow orders and hates bullies like Wizeman."
  • Fittingly enough, Sonic's Image Song It Doesn't Matter actually says, "Long as the voice inside drives me to run and fight, it doesn't matter who is wrong or who is right." It also specifies that he lives by his feelings and follows his own moral code. In Sonic and the Black Knight, he states that he doesn't care if this makes him "the bad guy" in the eyes of the rest of the world.

• Space Quest: Roger Wilco, "Almighty Janitor" (quotes intentional) and sometimes space hero, tends to fall here. Rules and regulations mean absolutely nothing to him, and he frankly isn't bright enough to handle responsibility on a daily basis. But when confronted with the choice to do what's right rather than ignore it? He'll pull out the Indy Ploy and take the "what's right" option.
• Tassadar and Jim Raynor of Starcraft, who reject The Knights Templar Conclave and the Lawful Evil Arcturus Mengsk's rule respectively in order to fight the Zerg Swarm. Jim Raynor later on becomes a Freedom Fighter/Mercenary leader fighting against the Terran Dominion.
  • As of Heart of the Swarm, Kerrigan shifts in that direction as well. She's willing to show mercy and moves to curb her Swarm's most murderous tendencies and avoid civilian casualties, but she's still the law to herself, and you'd better not get in her way.
• The members of the Star Fox team are valuable heroes to the Lylat system who have repeatedly foiled the schemes of Mad Scientist Andross, and the Hive Mind alien creatures called Aparoids. Their leader, Fox McCloud, has also repeatedly turned down offers to become a part of the Cornerian army, saying that they prefer doing things their own way as mercenaries and bounty hunters.
• Mission Vao in Knights of the Old Republic is this to a tee: she's a fun-loving thief who constantly seeks adventure and can't stand the mundane nature of The Upper City Of Tarris. However, she also has a very strong moral compass and remains both friendly and fiercely loyal to the player character (and her Wookie companion) throughout their adventure.

• In the Street Fighter series, Ken and Sakura are carefree spirits when it comes to street fighting, living for the thrill of the fight and not actively out to hurt anyone.
• Viktor from the Suikoden series. He is dedicated to bringing freedom and helping the weak, but he will manipulate people to get out of paying bar tabs, set a bureaucrat's house on fire to rescue people unjustly sentenced to death, denies himself love to allow his lady to achieve her own goals and destiny, and physically assaults a clerk when told he can't see the mayor because she is in a meeting and cannot be seen without an appointment. His response? "It's the best way to deal with government workers."
• Lloyd of Tales of Symphonia also. The only rules he respects are his stepdad's Dwarven Vows, and even then not all of them.
• Yuri Lowell, protagonist of Tales of Vesperia, certainly falls into this alignment. By the time the story starts, he's already got a rap sheet with The Empire because he tends to try to do right regardless of law. During the course of the game itself, he murders two different foes that were exploiting commoners to their own ends in cold blood. He holds no illusions about these acts, as when called on the latter case he states flat out he knows "Murder is a crime."

• Alvin of Tales of Xillia starts off as True Neutral, but once he starts dealing with his various backstory problems he turns Chaotic Good, helping Jude's party out even if he has to betray everyone else he's ever known to do it. In the sequel, he's still Chaotic Good, although he's struggling to shed his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder reputation, which haunts him rather a lot.
  • Gaius in the sequel. As king of Rieze Maxia, he takes up a secret identity and personally tours other countries to learn their culture, get a feel for the political climate, and maybe topple four criminal empires when he has a moment to spare.
  • Muzet in the sequel as well. She (repeatedly) steals fruit from villagers, but it's because she's... unused to humans. She's also a bit preoccupied trying to find her sister so they can protect the world.
• The Pyro from Team Fortress 2 is weird in that it has 2 sides to it that each emphasizes one end of this trope. It wants to spread happiness and rainbows everywhere, but it's only doing it, quite literally, from its point of view. From everybody else's view, it's a psychopathic Ax-Crazy monster.
• Marisa from Touhou Project always tries to do good for the world, but she's also a Kleptomaniac Hero.
• Mercury of TRON 2.0. No exits? Let's make things explode and create one! No weapons? Let's improvise the lightcycle baton into a nasty melee weapon. And while we're at it, let's openly hit on your creator's son.
• Uncharted: Nathan Drake, a thief, who often gets into more trouble when trying to do right, but still does try.
• Rexxar in Warcraft III is right on the edge between Chaotic Good and Chaotic Neutral. He helps the orcs fight off an invasion, in the process being declared the official champion of the Horde, but afterwards retreats into the wilds, not caring for civilisation and all of that nonsense, but promising to help the orcs if they're ever threatened again. After defeating Admiral Proudmoore, the man behind the invasion, he tells the admiral's daughter to be proud of her father and remember him as a great warrior.
  • Tirion Fordring of Warcraft disregards the wishes of everyone in his society to help an orc who saved his life. In exchange, his order of Paladins strips him of his powers and plan to execute him until the Orcs save him. It's only later he notices that despite breaking the law, he can still channel the light.
  • Eitrigg◊, the orc Fordring helped, chose to leave the Horde upon realizing its corruption and evil years earlier. He later rejoins when, and only when, they prove their Heel–Face Turn to him.
• B.J Blazckowitz from Wolfenstein. He's the main force fighting against the Nazi tyranny (in his universe, the Nazis won World War II and are still in charge of Europe as of 1980). His Wolfenstein: Youngblood daughters seem to be following in his footsteps as well (although Jess is probably closer to Neutral Good.)
• Yoshimitsu. He clearly defies rules to do right for the society. That’s what happens when add samurai and Robin Hood to this character.

Web Animation

• RWBY: Fitting their Robin Hood inspiration, Robyn Hill and the Happy Huntresses fit here. Their main motivation is the survival and prosperity of the people of Mantle, and to that end often are at odds with the Lawful Neutral authority of Atlas. They would use the legal channels to aid them but don't hesitate to use thievery and force to take the necessary resources to aid their people.

Webcomics

• In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Dr. McNinja is prone to bizarre outbursts and is wildly inconsistent in his Technical Pacifism. Rather than holding the Doctor to the law, the authorities changed the law to accommodate him. Even though he's been driven loopy by his dual compulsions to kill and to heal, he hasn't lost sight of his goal of helping those who need it.
• There's a lot of unthinking, unsystematic goodness in Sluggy Freelance.
  • Torg is a nice guy, occasionally heroic, usually scatterbrained, and doesn't think of the consequences of his actions, but he's never intentionally malicious — his shoulder devil is shown to be too hyper and derangedly Obviously Evil to affect him. (The angel is very simple goodness personified.)
  • Riff would undoubtedly be in jail by now if his exploits weren't too bizarre for the authorities to believe. Even if you ignore the mass destruction of property he's been directly or indirectly responsible for, there's no way he has a license for the various guns, explosives, nuclear reactors, and reality-altering equipment he tinkers around with. He's even caused (or almost caused) the end of the world more than once. Yet, when vampires, demons, or aliens start threatening the Sluggyverse, he's usually there on the front lines with a laser cannon, a bag full of grenades, and giant killer robots to fight them off.
  • Kiki the ferret just wants to be everyone's friend, but she's also too freaking hyper to even remember what's going on.
  • Aylee, a space alien from another dimension whose body occasionally changes form to adapt to the environment, starts out as Chaotic Neutral in an "Oops, wasn't I supposed to eat him?" kind of way; child-like, clueless, driven by biological impulses. In chapter 52, she goes through some Character Development and comes to an existentialist realisation that she can't just drift along and has to make a choice to do what is right and to avoid what is wrong. Having matured that much but much the same as before otherwise, she could be considered Chaotic Good after this.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • Haley Starshine ("Chaotic Good-ish"): An Action Girl with a lot of personal complexes who, despite her greed, cares about people and wants to do the right thing. She does murder her arch-rival Crystal while she's helpless in the shower, but Haley assumes that Bozzok will resurrect her; Crystal is revived, but not in the way Haley thought she would be.
  • Elan... Well, he's too good-hearted and with too thin a grasp on reality to be anything else.
  • Belkar speculates that Lord Shojo was of this alignment, and he's probably right. For the good of Azure City, he faked senility, broke any laws and oaths that got in his way and lied about it all to an order of paladins under his command, including his nephew and heir.
  • Haley must have gotten it from her father, who was run out of Greysky by the Guild because of his Robin Hood thievery. He's less effective than Haley, but he's far more ambitious and is trying to topple an Evil Empire by resistance from within. As a gladiator/prisoner at that!
  • It is said that Elan's mother may be of this alignment, and that alignment differences between her and her Lawful Evil husband were the grounds for their divorce.

• Molly in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! is sweet and nice and wouldn't dream of hurting a fly... but she steals cars when she gets upset, and she tends to build giant potentially destructive robots.
• In this El Goonish Shive filler strip, Grace claims to be Chaotic Good.
• The cartoonist of Kevin & Kell has identified Rudy as Chaotic Good. Rudy does usually want to do the right thing, even if sometimes he drags his feet while doing so, and sometimes it takes him a bit to figure out what the right thing is. His solutions to problems can be messy or rather unorthodox. Most of his chaotic nature can be attributed to his youth: for most of the comic he's a teenager, arguably the most chaotic of ages (he only entered college in 2015, twenty years after the comic began).

Web Original

• Most of the protagonists in Breeniverse series, such as lonelygirl15 and KateModern, are this to some degree. Since they're fighting against an evil conspiracy called "the Order" which has agents in governments and police forces worldwide, they frequently commit crimes ranging from breaking and entering to kidnapping without hesitation. This becomes a major plot point in LG15: the resistance when Jonas is classified as a terrorist as the result of his actions.
• Tom of Ruby Quest only wants freedom for him and his friend Ruby, but while she has some clear limitations of what she is willing to do to achieve this, putting her in Lawful Good territory, he is willing to go to any lengths to get them away, including physical violence and sacrificing himself in order to ensure her freedom.
  • Red arguably started here as well. He definitely cared for his patients and was willing to try unorthodox and potentially dangerous methods in order to cure them. However, by the time we meet him, he has degenerated into Chaotic Neutral.
• Keith Jackson from Survival of the Fittest is a version three who looks out for his friends as best he can, but at the same time isn't a paragon of virtue. He threatens violence at least once to get people he doesn't like the look of to leave and doesn't hesitate to start shooting when his group was threatened.
• Whateley Universe:

• Probably The Lamplighter, since for a superhero he sure is in trouble a lot with the Boston police.
• And Beltane. If you're being a big jerk, she may use her powers to do something wacky to you.

• Despite his status as a supervillain, The Brigand is a classic Robin Hood / Byronic Hero figure, avenging his father's disgrace by taking down Corrupt Corporate Executive types through media exposure.

• Originally a Chaotic Neutral in his videos and a broken, desperate-for-more-power selfish in Kickassia, The Nostalgia Critic seems to have settled on this after Suburban Knights. Despite being an occasional asshole to his team, he gives up his plans for profit after it turns out the MacGuffin's powers are real, bravely stands up to an all-powerful evil sorcerer, and is genuinely grief-stricken by Ma-Ti's death. As for being Chaotic, he still decides to take the Gauntlet from its clearly inept current protectors.
• DC Super Hero Girls: This version of Harley Quinn is a straight-up hero (albeit still of the "good with nuts" type, unsurprisingly.) She does still like to pull pranks and the like but they're never deliberately mean.

Web Videos

• Arin Hanson of GameGrumps, fame is a man of pure pleasure and curiosity. Short-tempered as he may be, Arin is just a fun guy who whole-heartedly reacts to everything. On the occasion, Arin loses his patience (mostly from a videogame) resulting in some of the shows most hilarious moments, leaving poor, Danny having to console the frustrated gamer.

Western Animation

• Finn from Adventure Time is the poster child for this trope. He tends to break many rules and laws and gets into a lot of trouble in his zealous attempts to do the right thing. Even Word of God seems to agree that "chaotic" is a good description for him.
• Despite being a member of a law enforcement organization, Walter "Doc" Hartford of Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers is this. He's fond of trouble, a master of BS, and fine with breaking and entering (computers mostly, but he isn't past other breaking and entering). His canon was never developed, aside from Word of God stating he joined the Rangers "reluctantly." Fanon tends to go with the theory that he wasn't always on the "good" side of the law.
• Gumball from The Amazing World of Gumball is this for most of the time. He might be snarky, but he is good and wants what is best for his friends and family. An example of this is at the end of 'The Others' where he has Tina ram into the bus that Claire was riding out of Elmore. He also saves Rob from the void in 'The Rerun'.
• The Warner Siblings from Animaniacs. Although they do tend to flip between this and Chaotic Neutral, since the Warners care more about having fun than necessarily doing the right thing, when they come across someone who has been wronged, or is simply in need of assistance, they help them out (usually in the most annoying, but effective, way possible). They also refuse to get violent with anyone unless they are intentionally being a Jerkass. Yakko even describes himself and his siblings as Chaotic Good in an episode of the revival.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Katara. In "The Painted Lady", she goes out of her way to help strangers (and the help involves stealing to the enemy army), even if it would ruin their group's plans.
  • Toph's on the borderline between this and Chaotic Neutral. She's not particularly moral, but definitely a good guy. She also hates rules, and once celebrated the group decision to ignore the orders of the authorities of a city by gleefully blowing a hole in the wall of their apartment. Ironically enough, in Sequel Series The Legend of Korra, it turns out that Toph went on to become Republic City's Chief of Police. And then break the rules for the sake of her daughter Suyin, majorly pissing off her other daughter Lin in the process and causing a rift that would take twenty years to heal. She meant well.
  • Jet, whose title (freedom fighter) says it all. He starts out as a Chaotic Neutral Well-Intentioned Extremist rebel leader in his first appearance, but gradually moves toward a less ruthless, more heroic alignment in the next season.
  • In the sequel series, Korra herself starts out this way. She's aggressive, impulsive, has no respect for the rules, makes her entrance to Republic City tearing a large chunk of a street to shreds, gleefully uses bullying and threats to get her way, and responds very, very badly to attempts to impose discipline or set rules for her; the Krew only exists as a unit because — knowing full well that she wasn't allowed to — she went out to pro-bending. She's also honest, straightforward, cares greatly for her friends and honorary family members (such as the airbender kids and — despite their vastly opposed temperaments — Tenzin), and regularly risks her life to protect Republic City and the world. Moves closer to Neutral Good in the fourth season, as maturity and the lessons learned in her long fight against heavy metal poisoning cause her to moderate her aggressive impulses and attempt to solve things with peaceful negotiation first, using ass-beating only when that fails.
  • The first avatar, Avatar Wan, also qualifies. He fights against the injustice that a rich family dominates the city and oppresses the population. He steals the ability to fire bending because he want that this family lost their power so that the other people are better treated. When he is exiled from the city, he makes friends with the spirits in the forest and is no longer interested in returning to the city. And when he sees two fighting spirits, he immediately interferes, although he is told that the matter does not concern him.
• In a continuing attempt to distance him from his canon Lawful Stupid Knight Templar charcterisation, Tony Stark in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes has been made into a chaotic good rebel, who gives a massive "screw you" to S.H.I.E.L.D. in his first appearance.
• Darkwing Duck is often self-centered and likes to do things his way, but when he gets dangerous, he gets dangerous for the good of St. Canard.
• Dungeons & Dragons (1983): Eric the Cavalier, Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Knight in Sour Armor streak, constant questioner of the Dungeonmaster, and team's Lancer. Cute Bruiser Bobby is also this alignment, as he's got more temper than good sense, and is the youngest of the kids.
• El Tigre is ultimately cemented as this. He spent the entirety of the series as Chaotic Neutral, constantly grappling with the decision of whether to use his powers for good or evil. Despite being a Lovable Rogue ready to lie, cheat, and steal whenever the opportunity presented itself, he regularly fought bloodthirsty supervillains willing to cross boundaries he never considered and in the Grand Finale decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a superhero.
• Fry from Futurama is the Chaotic Good Idiot Hero. He consistently wishes to do the right thing but will break any rule to do so. He also has a tendency to encourage his best friend Bender's kleptomania. However, he doesn't intentionally hurt people (unless he really has to) and most of his actions are unselfish.
• Rex of Generator Rex. Always ready to risk his life to help total strangers or even people who flat-out hate and distrust him. Not so good with following rules or taking orders.
• Gravity Falls:
  • Mabel Pines qualifies. Her extreme unpredictability is a defining trait of her character. As seen in "The Deep End", she won't let any rules stand in the way of doing what she believes is right. As seen in "Blendin's Game" and "The Love God", she feels very guilty about the idea of hurting other people, even by accident. However, she goes absolutely ballistic against unambiguously evil people like Gideon and Bill Cipher.
  • Wendy Corduroy, natch. Not only does she have no problem with breaking rules, she revels in doing so. She's an unapologetic slacker when it comes to her assigned duties at the Mystery Shack, but the farthest thing from one when it comes to helping her friends. In "The Last Mabelcorn", when she sees that Mabel's attempts at pacifying a haughty unicorn so the unicorn will give them a hair (which would protect the Shack) aren't getting them anywhere, she devises a devious plan without Mabel's knowledge to get the needed hair. While going through with it, Mabel tells Wendy that what they're doing is bad, to which Wendy counters, "But protecting the Shack is good." They all wind up taking the hair by force when the unicorn reveals her true colors and taunts Mabel over it.
• The title character of Jimmy Two-Shoes definitely fits this mold. Considering the setting is basically Hell by another name, it's probably a good thing he follows his own rules.

• Coop from Megas XLR. Sure he saves the day, but he causes way more destruction to the city than any of the enemies he fights.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Rainbow Dash: Brash, impulsive, and egotistical, but good and loyal at heart; lazy about her assigned duties, but never about general duty to others when they really need her. Is also not above breaking the rules when it is to her benefit, or will save her embarrassment. However, she shows increasingly lawful tendencies over the course of seasons 2 and 3 as her leadership qualities develop, and may be heading for Neutral Good.
  • Pinkie Pie: Very nice, and just wants everyone to be friends and have fun, but also slightly nuts and more than just slightly energetic and excitable. She also actively enjoys chaos, action, wild activity, and especially surprises, and seems to care little about rules as long as everyone is enjoying themselves. Has been described, more than once, as "so random." She does have a very deep sense of honor about promises, though.
  • Cheese Sandwich is essentially a male Pinkie Pie, and thus shares her character alignment (as well as her energy, her sweet tooth, her fondness for randomly breaking out in song, etc.).
  • Princess Luna occasionally falls into this hard, especially in her comic portrayals. Despite her status as ruler, she shows very little appreciation for any of Equestria's laws, blows off lists and schedules as boring pedantry, and is near-constantly Hot-Blooded. All the same, she does clearly care for others and is only too eager to be helpful and productive.
  • By the end of season 4, Discord starts to lean slightly toward Chaotic Good. After spending thirty episodes as Chaotic Neutral, Tirek's betrayal seems to thoroughly traumatize him. After being saved by Twilight, who had no reason whatsoever to show him any mercy, he couldn't help but join Twilight's True Companions for a group hug. In following appearances, while he does behave mischievously at times and struggles with old habits, he is ultimately trying to be a good friend, often in his own chaotic way.

• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
  • Glimmer starts out here. The plot of the entire series only gets a chance to happen because Glimmer first disobeys her mother Angella's orders and fighting the Horde, then disobeys more orders in order to accompany Bow on his improvised First One technology hunt in the Whispering Woods. Most of Glimmer's first season is spent chafing at her mother's more cautious and defensive approach. She drifts closer to Neutral Good in seasons 2-3, though, as she takes on more responsibility in the Princess Alliance and The Chains of Commanding start to weigh down on her.
  • Sea Hawk, a boisterous, swashbuckling ship captain who's loyal to his friends, compassionate even to his enemies, out of his gourd on Respect Women Juice, and bizarrely fond of setting his boat on fire (supposedly, where he comes from, people found it charming).
• The Simpsons:
  • Bart Simpson often flips between this and Chaotic Neutral due to his highly rebellious and laid-back nature. Thing is, he aspires to be Chaotic Neutral, but usually feels guilt or is just plain too nice to be purely neutral. He's still highly chaotic, as befitting his rebellious nature.
  • Homer is either this or Neutral Good when at his best. Otherwise, he's either True Neutral or Chaotic Neutral, but many of his deeds show he isn't incapable of being a good person, despite his selfishness and immaturity.
  • While she was initially Neutral Good, Lisa becomes this in later episodes. As Springfield continues to have more idiotic faults, Lisa stops being so honest and often takes measures into her own hands, such as derailing her family's BBQ party for the sake of ethical veganism.
• The Mask: The Mask is chaotic, wild, fun-loving, and genuinely insane but he has a good heart, is also harmless as he only trolls people who annoy him and uses his powers to fight the supervillains who attack Edge City, even cares about his friends as well like Milo and Peggy, the people who are friendly to him and his unmasked self Stanley. He doesn't like hurting people or even killing them as he refuses to join with an elf who knew the previous wearers of the mask which shows that The Mask has morals unlike the evil mask personas.
• South Park:
  • Kyle is usually this, given his tendency to base his position squarely on his personal sense of righteousness, and serves as The Conscience for the boys, but has a strong case of He Who Fights Monsters with Eric Cartman.

• Connie from Steven Universe sits in a strange place, as her parents are very firmly Lawful Neutral and expect her to be too. When placed outside their immediate vision, however, she’s impulsive, aggressive, cheerful, and brave, and states that she loves hanging out with Steven because of all the monsters and explosions that surround him. She notes that her favourite part of the book series she likes is the subtle anti-authoritarian message (that may be entirely in her head).
• Lance from Sym-Bionic Titan. Though he's one of the good guys, he's been in jail on-screen about three times and two of them were on Galaluna, where it would seem that this happens often. The two noted arrests happened to be the result of a Cassandra Truth, but if the following quote from the King is anything to go by, it's happened several times in between.
  Messenger: One of our own has been detained...
  King: *sigh* Lance.
  • That's not even mentioning the episode "Phantom Ninja", where he becomes known as the titular character and pulls off vigilante acts at night. Let's just say anyone he got to would feel it the next morning.
• Prowl from Transformers: Animated is constantly ignoring orders to do what he feels is right, even if that involves teaming up with villains. This can get him into a lot of trouble, and it nearly killed him once.
  Prowl: "There's only one person I depend on. Me."

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