History Main / TheCommandments

* ''Webcomic/{Tamberlane}'': The Edicts are... not pretty.
-->The Ten Edicts Of Creature Kind\\

-->[[TheExile A Tainted Animal Must Be Branded And Banished To Abroad]]\\

* ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' has the principles of Animalism, which are written on the side of the barn for all to see. The first principle was "All animals are equal". As their system [[HeWhoFightsMonsters slipped into totalitarianism and tyranny]], the principles got altered and removed until only a subversion of the first rule remained: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." The other six laws, in order of appearance:

[[caption-width-right:350:"Those who will not live by the law...''shall DIE by the law''!"]]

## [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain gay marrage is wrong, cuz its icky, lol]].

## Don’t be his friend. (You know you’ll only wake up in his bed in the morning. And if you’re under him, you ain’t getting over him.)

* ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'': All sixteen Exceeds (the sentient races of Disboard) are bound by ten inviolable Pledges set up by Tet, the God of Games, upon his/her ascent to being the One True God following the brutal war that destroyed most of the Old Dei (themselves one of the Exceeds, by virtue of Tet surviving). [[spoiler:It was actually created by Riku Dora and his wife Schwi 6,000 years ago, with Tet as their own Old Deus created to help fulfill their wish of creating a peaceful world for the war-weary Exceeds.]]

* ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'': The Axis cult, the religion that worships Aqua, chants their divine commandments during the finale of season 2. Even though they don't realize that Aqua [[PhysicalGod really is their goddess in the flesh]], [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly it still powers her up enough to defeat the enemy]]. Of course, this being ''[[LazyBum Aqua]]'', her commandments are... odd.

-->''[[FanCreatedOffspring Aurora]], for now, is doing well.

Contrast SingleTenetReligion.

When rules are played for annoyance, that's RuleNumberOne. When rules are played for alienation, that's ApeShallNeverKillApe. When a long series of {{Noodle Incident}}s result in somebody having a long list of commandments that just for them, it is ThingsYouAreNotAllowedToDo. Commandments specifically for robots fall under LawsOfRobotics.

* On ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine,'' the [[ProudMerchantRace Ferengi]] characters (especially Quark) would occasionally quote from "The Rules of Acquisition", found [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition here]]. There are at least 285 official rules, apparently, and more unofficial rules.
** The first and most important Rule of Acquisition: Once you have their money, never give it back.

* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica''. The Order of Hermes had a Code of Conduct which (among other things) forbade dealing with demons, endangering the Order, interfering with secular governments and spying on or killing other mages.

* ''Anime/DeathParade'': The [[{{Psychopomp}} arbiters]] have a set of three rules that dictate their existance, with an additional one being added at [[TheStinger the end]]:

## 1. Arbiters cannot quit making judgments, for that is the sole reason they exist.
## 2. Arbiters cannot experience death, for that would bring them too close to being human.
## 3. Arbiters cannot feel emotion, for they are merely dummies.
## 4. [[spoiler:Arbiters may not work hand in hand with life, for that will ruin them]].

##[[DeathBySex You can never have sex]]. [[spoiler: (Though Sidney has sex with Billy and survives.)]]

##All bloodshed, war and pillaging is forbidden. (This includes any kind of violence or violation of rights, like physical injuries, rape or an ArmorPiercingSlap.)

* The WebVideo/{{Smosh}} video "A CULT BRAINWASHED ME!" revolves around a cult called "[[ChurchOfHappyology the Church of Religiotology]]" that worships a being called "Herman" [[spoiler: who is really a thirteen-year old boy [[GodGuise pretending to be God]]]] that the cult's founder, [[Creator/TomCruise Com Truise]], meet on an AOL chat forum. Herman gave Com three commandments to base the religion on:

* The WebVideo/{{Smosh}} video "A CULT BRAINWASHED ME!" revolves around a cult called "Religiotology" that worships a being called "Herman" [[spoiler: who is really a thirteen-year old boy pretending to be god]] that the cult's founder, [[Creator/TomCruise Com Truise]], meet on an AOL chat forum. Herman gave Com three commandments to base the religion on:

## gay marrage is wrong, cuz its icky, lol.

** Thou shalt not transform others. [[note]]No {{Baleful Polymorph}}s, but one can transform one's own body.[[/note]]

** The Alessian Order, a [[FantasticRacism rabidly anti-Elven]] [[TheChurch religious sect]] which established a [[TheTheocracy Theocracy]] in the 1st Era that wielded nearly as much power as the Emperor at its height, had a set known as the "Exclusionary Mandates," which ultimately all boil down to an argument that the [[OurGodsAreDifferent the human interpretation of Akatosh is good, the elven interpretation of him is bad, and it's one's duty to purge the latter from the former]]:

## Don’t let him. (You’ll have to kick him out again.)