History Main / BigGood

** Supreme Commander Fowler from ''Space Patrol Delta''.

* In more recent chapters of ''OnePiece'' Silvers Rayleigh seems to operate in this capacity, being likely the strongest and most traveled ally of the Strawhats.
** Shanks and Whitebeard [[spoiler: until his death]], two of the strongest Pirates alive also can qualify.

* Luke Skywalker in the Expanded Universe of Star Wars. Remember how George Lucas said that Anakin could have become twice as powerful as Emperor Palpatine had he suffered none of his injuries from Obi-Wan? Yeah, well Luke inherits that potential from his father and eventually fully realizes it and is now officially the most powerful Force practitioner who ever lived. He has countless feats to his name but some that stand out are single handily facing down an army of thousands of invading aliens, and WINNING, walking directly on top of a lava flow, and manipulating the gravity of a black hole and moving it so as to prevent it from destroying an entire planetary system. There is a reason why Luke became the Grand Master of the New Jedi Order.

*** The presence of a greater BigGood is implied in the Season 3 episode where the [[PreviewBoss First Evil]] was introduced, Angel is DrivenToSuicide by the First Evil reminding him of every innocent life he's destroyed when evil. He attempts to commit suicide-by-sunrise, but fails because it suddenly clouds over and starts snowing just before the sun comes up. [[LawOfConservationOfDetail When they spent the entire episode complaining about the unseasonably warm and sunny weather they were getting that Christmas.]] [[hottip:*: Of course, some [[WildMassGuessing Fanon theories]] on the cause of this include SantaClaus being the Big Good.]]

* [[TheObiWan Dallben]], from the [[PrydainChronciles Prydain Chronicles]]. Competes with [[TheAragorn Prince Gwydion]] for the title, with the former raising the protagonist and the latter being the warrior-prince he aspires to be.

*** If you know the Bible you would understand; Jesus was not meant to bring peace but the sword, he says somewhere in the Bible, and the number of kills god has made are neverending...
*** Hence the ambiguity from the perspective of anyone without established religious convictions.

** Somewhat subverted, in that while everyone thinks the Big Good is Dumbledore, Dumbledore thinks the Big Good is Harry, and even mentions that he himself is expendable.
*** Also subverted in that while he is the leader of Good against all Evil, he himself takes some reaaally questionable methods every now and then. All for the Greater Good and justifiable, but he isnt a white dove, then again the leader should never be.
** Arguably Harry himself in the last book. Even though he does not exactly lead anyone, he continues to inspire hope and is a rallying point for the students of Hogwarts, Dumbledore's Army, and the Order of the Phoenix.

* [[TheNostalgiaCritic SANTA CHRIIIST, SANTA CHRIIIIIST!]]

[[AC: RealLife]]
* Depending on who you are and what you believe, there's Gandhi, Sun Yet Sen, Jinnah, George Washington, Charles Martel, Saladin, Joan of Arc, Hannibal, Flavius Aetius,.. the list might as well be endless.
** On second thoughts, the last three did have nominal superiors to answer to.
*** And at least 2 of them believed were acting on the behalf of God.
**** And G.W. and Joan of Arc are good only to nationalists of their respective nations... I'm surirpsed Nelson Mandela aint in the list, or Raoul Wallenberg; Nelson defeated apartheid and aoul saved so many jews from nazi germany he's on the guiness book of records as the person that has saved more lifes ever.

*** If you know the bible you would understand; Jesus was not meant to bring peace but the sword, he says somewhere in the bible, and the number of kills god has made are neverending...

** Xaphania, perhaps?

* [[TheObiWan Dr.Riddles]] in ''GashBell'' for [[TheHero Kyio, Zatch]] and Gang, Constantly getting the more decent guys together to fight against threats like ancient demons and Faudo.

* If the World Government in ''OnePiece'' is truly evil, then Revolutionary leader [[spoiler:Monkey D.]] Dragon will likely be the series' Big Good.
** Aside from Dragon, there was Edward 'Whitebeard' Newgate and Red-Haired Shanks, more specifically during the Whitebeard War.

** Whitebeard and Shanks of the Four Emperors, too. No true idea of Kaidou and Big Mom, though.

AuthorityEqualsAsskicking is in full force most of the time, with the Big Good usually starting off several orders of magnitude more powerful than TheHero. The character may even be servant to [[TheManBehindTheMan a greater good]] just like his or her evil counterpart is servant to a greater evil. Unlike the BigBad, however, the Big Good ''can'' be taken down rather early- to show [[TheWorfEffect just how powerful the enemy has gotten]] by that point or [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning as part of a greater plan.]] One of the more common ways this is done is to have the two Bigs confront each other directly, with the Big Good coming up short. Expect TheHero or some other member of the {{Nakama}} to take up the mantle by time the GrandFinale comes round.