History Main / LawfulNeutral

* The Man from ''WebVideo/TheBoothAtTheEnd'' is either this or TrueNeutral, depending on your point of view. He has a code that he follows unswervingly (ask him for something and he gives you a task which will get you what you want), but the tasks he gives people often are extremely immoral things (murder, theft, etc.). However, he makes clear he never forces anyone to do anything, and sometimes the goal will be accomplished without the task being completed.

* ''ComicBook/DoctorFate'': The Lords of Order are this, as energy beings who personify the concept of order and are obsessed with maintaining and spreading it throughout the universe. While usually reputable, their obsession with order at all costs can at times cause them to take actions that are on the other side of the morality spectrum, such as when Nabu, the Lord of Order who empowers Doctor Fate, rallied the other Lords to destroy all magic in the multiverse due to its chaotic nature (which, it's worth noting, is very similar to an event before this in which Aztar, the angel the Spectre, did the same thing for the same reasons).

* [[BountyHunter [Bounty Hunters]] who abide by a code of honor (when not LawfulEvil).

* {{BountyHunter}}s who abide by a code of honor (when not LawfulEvil).

* {{BountyHunter}}s.
* A BrokenSystemDogmatist (when not LawfulEvil)

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsFrankCastle The Punisher]]. His vision of an orderly society involves shooting every single mobster, terrorist, serial killer, and miscellaneous scumbag he can find. Good characters who interfere with his plans are treated better than his usual targets, but are still subject to nasty injuries if he deems it necessary. However, he'll never intentionally kill them or any civilians.
* Ultimate Ronan the Accuser. He's dedicated at performing his duty of punishing the enemies of TheEmpire, and is loyal to his LawfulEvil father, Ultimate Thanos, but has a conscience and feels guilt when he has to kill innocents.
** The classic 616 version of Ronan eventually develops into this alignment during the cosmic storyline Annihilation, where he punishes the corrupt House Fiyero not for revenge but because they committed crimes against the Kree empire.
%%* The Guardians of the Universe in the ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' comics.
* Eric Finch from ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''. While he openly disapproves of the ruling Norsefire party, he serves them because he thinks they are the only alternative to anarchy and chaos.
%%* [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Harvey Dent.]] [[ChaoticNeutral Two-Face, on the other hand...]]

* ComicBook/NickFury heads up the supreme law enforcement agency in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} While usually an honest man, and a more sympathetic ear than anyone else on Uncle Sam's payroll, his acting in his agency's best interest makes him as much a sparring partner of regular heroes as the [[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner Hulk]] is. Of course, this is compared with Marvel's very iconoclastic collection of heroes -- by government standards, he's a bit of a CowboyCop who occasionally goes renegade. (To be honest, you'll find just about anyone with a lawful alignment goes renegade sooner or later.)
* Moses, the watchdog of [=McKenzie=] Farm from ''Lupo Alberto''. He is determined to keep the protagonist out of the farm and to make his inhabitants work with order and discipline. He may also appear as LawfulEvil when he enjoys giving Alberto a brutal beating. It should be noted he is much more affable when off-duty, and that Alberto is a ''wolf'' that candidly admits to eat chicken, even when [[CrackPairing his girlfriend is a hen herself]] (and has once tried to eat her best friend).

* ComicBook/IronMan may come as close as allowed for a non-deconstructionist superhero. When a leader, he's hardass and impersonal. He's been known to outright dismiss magic, or have a distaste for it when it shows up. And his superheroic antics often feel like they're more upholding a status quo than improving lives. Hell, after ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}, some might peg him as downright LawfulStupid, but we can meet him halfway on this -- it certainly showed that for him, goodness came second to law and order. However, most adaptations, following on from the characterisation of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse version place him squarely in ChaoticGood territory.
* ComicBook/TheSpectre, especially in recent years, has tended toward this alignment. Note that his civilian identities have all, aside from [[Characters/GreenLanternHalJordan Hal Jordan]], been policemen (Well, Hal is a cop, he's a [[SpacePolice Space Cop]]). His concern is with punishing evil and keeping the world of magic honest. For the Spirit of Vengeance to actually go out of his way to help people, he often has to be persuaded by his human side and/or other heroes.
* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'':
** Rorschach believes life has no intrinsic morality to it and crafted a moral code for himself that he sticks to unfailingly and judges everyone else by -- the core of it being that if you do anything he judges "evil", you are fair game to have anything happen to you (and in a classic case of MoralMyopia, the actions Rorschach and other vigilantes undertake in the pursuit of criminals never bother him). [[spoiler:In the end this causes him to reject the BigBad's plan to save the world because he'll rather see the world burn than betray his principles and let evil go unpunished.]]
** Ozymandias is a complicated case, but probably fits best here. While his actions- [[spoiler:depopulating New York, giving a dozen innocent people cancer to discredit Dr. Manhattan, cold-bloodedly murdering his absolutely loyal refugee servants to prevent them being a loose end, and pulling a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on his loving pet Bubastis in an attempt to kill Dr. Manhattan, which turns out not to work]]-certainly seem like the actions of an evil character, he was only trying to avert a nuclear war that could potentially wipe out all life on Earth.

* The ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse parody of ''Literature/LesMiserables'' has, of course, Javert, who they manage to bring [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]]: [[spoiler:when he finally catches Scrooge Valjean, he simply tells him he spent the last five years chasing him because ''Valjean had been pardoned and he, as the officer on the case, was to tell him'', congratulates for the newfound freedom, and calmly walks away]], without showing any feeling but satisfaction in having finally completed his job after over a decade.
* When not portrayed as ChaoticNeutral, [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] is usually portrayed this way. In some adaptations she's a [[AdaptationalVillainy straight up villain]] rather than an AntiHero, in which case she'd probably be LawfulEvil.
* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'':
** Orm likely sees himself as LawfulGood, with his personal sense of honour and duty towards Atlantis, but he is capable of doing some pretty morally dubious stuff if he deems it justified. He’s recently begun to drift more towards TrueNeutral as he has grown increasingly bitter and resentful towards Atlantis and the Aquaman Family due to what he sees as betrayal, becoming actively malicious and acting in unscrupulous ways.
** [[spoiler:Vulko]] is a pretty straight example. According to Atlantean law, Arthur is the rightful king and he believes he has a duty to Arthur and his mother to do anything to make that happen, whether Arthur wants him to or not.
* [[Characters/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Katana]] probably falls here. She probably ''would'' be LawfulGood, except she [[KnightTemplar seems a bit too harsh in general]], such as basically viewing all criminals as deserving of death even if their crimes are fairly minor or they have some [[AntiVillain extenuating circumstances or the like.]]