Even Evil Has Standards / Web Animation

• The Martinez boys from Anon have some extreme ways of sorting out problems, but unless they're being directly threatened, they have a rule against involving or hurting women.
• AoHaru Manga Library: In this episode, Keiichi's ex, Miharu, appears to be the typical greedy dumper at first. However, during the school trip, she becomes increasingly uncomfortable with how her new boyfriend, Daigo, goes so far to mislead both Keiichi and Nagisa in the mountain at night by tampering with the two's direction to their camps for no clear reason. She ends up exposing Daigo because of her own conscience before both Keiichi and Nagisa come back safely. She also proves to be an aversion to the typical Gold Digger: After everything is over and Daigo's punishment is described, she apologizes to Keiichi and doesn't try to rekindle their relationship.
• Arby 'n' the Chief:
  • Master Chief is portrayed as a mean-spirited, idiotic, derogatory sexist and an incredibly crude pig that treats everyone around him horribly for his own entertainment being that he cannot separate gaming from reality. However, he draws the line at being racist and is disgusted at Pedophiles.
  • Additionally in Season 6 when he learns that Chaos Theosis plans on shutting down Halo's OMN permanently, Chief helps Arbiter in taking them down since if he doesn't, it'll mean no more halo for himself.
• Apparently, Chris Brown is not allowed at "Club Villain".
• Wiz and Boomstick of DEATH BATTLE! are both crazy people who have done morally dubious things, usually to each other. However, both are shocked and appalled at Doomsday's origin, with Wiz, essentially calling it "baby murder" — the same scientist whose sole complaint with a "baby launcher" was the reload time.
• More like Jerkass than 'evil', but Dave of DSBT InsaniT does not like cold-blooded murderers like Killer Monster, although, as Portica points out, that doesn't really mean much.
  • He is also just as horrified as Asia and Autmn are upon discovering a chained-up elephant in 'Carneelval'. In fact, he is the one who suggests freeing it.
  • Eel, the Big Bad, is quite disturbed by Killer's Blood Knight attitude.
• Dorkly Bits:
  • In a video, the SimCity Monster rips you apart for your terrible choices in building a city and decides to run for mayor to fix them. He wins.
  • Speaking of Dorkly, In their parody of Pokémon FireRed, Pokémon Rusty, it is shown that even Team Rocket (the same organization that kidnaps Pokémon and uses them for tools) is disgusted by the way Rusty treats his Pokémon. "Pikachu" even evolves out of pure happiness the second one of the grunts touches him.
• Giovanni is this in Epithet Erased. While he is a criminal, successfully stealing the Arsene Amulet, he treats his minions with respect and thinks that villains who don't are cruel.
• Etra chan saw it!:
  • In this story, Yuzuriha attempts to hire a Yakuza group to kill Akane, however they refuse to take the job and instead turn her in to the police, leading to her arrest.
  • Akamatsu and Hiiragi are a couple of crooks trying to steal Tachibana's car. Hiiragi manages to get behind the wheel and make off with it without realizing the owner's daughter Akane is in the back. When he finds this out, he tries to let her go, not wanting this to turn into a kidnapping.
• Everything Is Broken: FI Creepybloom is a murderous cannibal but when Nutty calls her on a phone in part 13 to bring him "bathroom candy" she refuses because she thinks it "sounds illegal".
• Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged: Rufus Shinra may be an opportunistic bastard son of a bastard, but there are a few lines he won't cross.
  • When Cloud accidentally confesses that he wore a Giuseppe dress once, after a few seconds of silence Rufus leaves the scene as he tells Cloud that he won't judge him for it. Of course, his own words imply that he himself has worn a Giuseppe dress before, so mocking Cloud for the same would've made him a hypocrite.
  • Unlike President Shinra, Rufus has little patience for Heidegger's overkill, outright refusing to let him blow up the Western Continent just to kill Sephiroth even before Heidegger can pitch the idea to him.
    Rufus: Heidegger, that seems like an overreaction. Like, dropping a section of the city, ON TOP OF ANOTHER SECTION OF THE CITY! Let's use a scalpel instead of a hammer to fix our problems from now on, okay?
  • During his trip to Costa del Sol, he allows all crewmen on his ship to take one souvenir home. "And no, women do not count, you pigs!"
• A Fox in Space has Andross, who is willing to murder, kidnap, start wars, and sacrifice his own men if it furthers his plans, but he has a low opinion on mercenaries and doesn't mind saying as much to Pigma in front of his face. Ironically, it seems Pigma himself feels similar about Andross. He fully admits to being a traitorous money-loving thug, but nevertheless considers Andross to be "a friggin' lunatic".
• FreedomToons:
  • "Bernie and Biden Debate Coronavirus": Dr. Mac may be an amoral journalist who regularly attempts to keep the public misinformed and embodies every negative stereotype of left-wing pundits, but when Bernie Sanders praises multiple dictators for minor good deeds, he and Joe Biden both turn on him, with Dr. Mac asking if he has any shame.
  • "Bernie Bros vs Biden's Bumblers": He also appears to be outraged by sexual harassment committed by the "Biden Bros" before Biden shows up to intimidate him into dropping the story.
  • "Fake News on School Shootings": Chaz Gregory is usually seen helping Dr. Mac keep the public misinformed, but here he calls out the PSA guy for lying about the NPR in order to dilute their findings on school shootings.
• The Frollo Show:
  • Hans Frollo, despite being a Nazi and resurrecting Hitler, would never betray his family, much like his mother taught him about.
  • When the Los no Frollos group invade Frollo's place, Stocking, the leader of group, made a rule of not harming innocents, and instead drop them into the PITy. This was her reason for assisting Madotsuki with the killing of Batiatus, as he murdered Ib, who didn't kill anyone.
• Hazbin Hotel:
  • Alastor was a Serial Killer in life, has a well-deserved reputation for making one-sided deals, and openly admits that he believes redemption for those already dead is impossible and is only backing Charlie's redemption idea so he can enjoy watching sinners "repeatedly trip and tumble down into the fiery pit of failure". That being said, he's shown to absolutely despise rapists; in a prequel comic, he gets far angrier at a butcher for trying to sexually assault a young girl than he did when said butcher threatened his life.
  • Katie Killjoy, among other things, reports with obvious glee on the blood-soaked turf wars happening in the streets. However, when her co-anchor makes a crude comment about a female demon involved in one, she chirps, "Well, you sure are a limpdick jackass, Tom!" and pours her boiling-hot coffee in his lap.
• Helluva Boss:
  • Immediate Murder Professionals, or I.M.P., is a Hell-run Murder, Inc. agency that kills people in the living world on behalf of clients in hell. While they humorously slaughter people left and right, they sometimes (almost incongruously) avoid killing people who are not targets, even giving medical aid to a child they accidentally shoot in the pilot, until they find out he was the target after all and kill him right away.
  • In "Murder Family", Moxxie has difficulties with the thought of killing a human family even when paid to do it.
  • Stolas is a demon lord who gets Blitzo to agree to a Sex for Services deal while he’s running from a crazed murderer. However, it's implied that he is among the better of the demon lords because he actually has some principles in his interactions with others.
    • Extra content shows him feeling offended by the suggestion he'd take advantage of a drunk Blitzo, despite him being a sex pervert. It's also shown he holds a deep hatred of Valentino, a pimp who is physically, emotionally and/or sexually abusive with his underlings, his own boyfriend and even his friends, exactly because of these actions.
    • As much as he grows to hate his wife Stella, Stolas never once tries to turn their daughter Octavia against her, preferring to keep her out of their quarrel as much as possible.
    • Unlike Stella, Stolas addresses every imp he meets with respect and decorum, showing no hints of the Fantastic Racism that dominates Hell's hierarchy.
  • Though he is an assassin for hire who happens to enjoy torturing his victims, Striker is regularly put off by some of his victims being Too Kinky to Torture.
  • As the Sin of Gluttony, Beelzebub encourages people to indulge in reckless consumption of food and booze so that she can feed off their vibes. On the other hand, she can tell when someone is consuming to cope with their problems, and is very much against it, since she wants people to consume so that they enjoy themselves.
  • Asmodeus is the Sin of Lust, meaning he would prefer people get it on for the sake of getting it on. However, when he thought Stolas came to him for a Love Potion, he was legitimately mad, implying that even he thinks that Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil.
  • Very much averted with Mammon, the Sin of Greed. He has absolutely no standards and his sole concern is to indulge his own greed, gleefully exploiting and abusing Fizzarolli to make as much money as he can from his merchandise.
• Homestar Runner: Bubs, owner of Bubs' Concession Stand, has committed so many businesses practices that are shady, crooked or downright illegal that they have their own page on the Homestar Wiki site. However, as seen in the Strong Bad Email "ISP", he insists to Strong Bad that "throttling [him] down” is “not one of the 99 ways [he] rip[s him] off."
• How It Should Have Ended: The Villian Pub has strict rules on who can be allowed in. Anti-Heroes such as Deadpool aren't allowed, and neither are those who save the world such as the Suicide Squad. But the one character that all of the villians hate is The High Evolutionary for his cruel experiments on children and animals. Voldemort even admits that he hates children but thinks that the HE is the worst. He also gets punched by Zod for killing Groot (who Zod actually likes).
• Lackadaisy: For all his chillingly detached pursuit of booze runners from his former gang, Consummate Professional Mordecai's standards stop him from shooting Lackadaisy's young Getaway Driver, Ivy. What those standards are remains ambiguous, as comic canon limits their interactions to a scene from his target's nightmares.
• Plan 3: Played for Laughs in The Chinese Food Curse when the Fate Lord tells Stephen he has to take Hosuh’s head as his next trial to have his curse lifted; Stephen is appalled when the Fate Lord stops him and reveals he was joking, while the Fate Lord is appalled that Stephen was actually willing to go through with it.
  Stephen: Huh? Tha-j- why would you joke about something like that?!
  Fate Lord: WHY WERE YOU READY TO DO THAT?!
• Red vs. Blue:
  • The Ax-Crazy AI Omega/O'Malley, who desires nothing less than to CRUSH EVERY LIVING SOUL INTO DUST, draws the line at Red Bull.
    O'Malley: They will all taste oblivion! Which tastes just like Red Bull... which is disgusting!
  • This also seems to be a factor separating Agent Washington from the Meta on a moral scale in Revelation. Wash is more of a villain due to circumstances, and seems to honestly think he's doing the right thing (at least at first, and he later performs a Heel–Face Turn), but the Meta's just a maniac obsessed with gaining more power for itself at everyone else's expense.
  • The Director of Project Freelancer is an obsessive, abusive, selfish, borderline delusional, and manipulative Grade A Jerkass who continuously tortured the Alpha to create and harvest A.I. fragments to be used in yet more potentially harmful experiments, but even he says Sigma and Gamma using the supposed "death" of Tex to torture the Alpha was going too far. However, it's also arguably subverted in that he still utilized the fruits of their labor despite being supposedly opposed to their methods.
  • This is also what sets Locus on the road to eventually making a Heel–Face Turn, when his partner and boss Felix and the Chairman both decide to outright exterminate the people of Chorus, including their own foot-soldiers, causing him (with some help from Agent Washington) to question his Consummate Professional persona he had been previously using to justify his prior actions.
    • It's also Played for Laughs elsewhere in The Chorus Trilogy: Apparently, Felix is such an utter asshole that even his own soldiers - the Space Pirates - have learned to "just tune him out" whenever he's acting like even more of a douche than he normally is.
  • Season 14 has a downplayed case, as Felix wasn't as evil as he was back then as he is in the present. Still, during his days bounty-hunting with Locus and Siris, he was the most inclined to violence and to Kick the Dog out of the three. Even so, he was just as horrified as the other two were when Ruben Lozano made it abundantly clear that he was perfectly willing to let his own son Gabriel die, even calling him a "parasite". ^note Admittedly, his horror may actually have had less to do with the immorality of Lozano's actions and more to do with the fact that he had just lost his only form of leverage against a very pissed-off and powerful mob boss. Additionally, both he and Siris were completely stunned when Locus opted to simply murder Gabriel after it became clear that the man had outlived his usefulness to the three.
  • Genkins is an arrogant sociopath and member of the Cosmic Powers who wants to cause a Time Crash so he can become a real god and not just be a hyper-advanced Monitor utilizing a God Guise. However, even he is disturbed by the unhealthy and increasingly unnerving methods that the Director stooped to in his attempt to bring Allison Back from the Dead.
    • Similarly, Chrovos, despite being the Big Bad of both The Shisno Paradox and Singularity, later admits to Donut that she doesn't actually want to destroy the universe like her Omnicidal Maniac rants may imply, with her instead wanting to "just" control it again. Most notably, she actually helps the Reds and Blues save the timeline when Genkins becomes the Dragon Ascendant since she's realized how absurdly dangerous he is and that he can't be allowed to live. It's also Played for Laughs in that both her and Genkins are utterly disgusted when she briefly takes the form of Donut in "A Sitch In Time," with the latter even claiming that he just "threw up in his mouth."
• RWBY:
  • Salem's methods and plans are something Mercury Black and Emerald Sustrai struggle to cope with; they're both horrified upon discovering the Grimm are endlessly generating from the Pools of Annihilation in the Domain of Darkness, they cringe in fear of Salem's Seer Grimm, and they're horrified when Salem begins transforming the Grimm into new forms in preparation for battling Atlas. While Mercury claims to Emerald he's right where he's supposed to be and is fine with helping Salem create a new world order, he's deeply unnerved by Salem's relationship with and use of the Grimm and becomes very unsettled when Tyrian confirms Emerald's claim that Salem wants to destroy the world instead of remake it.
  • Although Hazel Rainart is perfectly willing to kill Ozpin, and even the child that hosts him, he's a reluctant fighter who objects to Adam engaging in unnecessary murder. When he learns Salem lied to him about her true goal, he's so horrified by what she plans to do that he stops torturing Ozpin and Oscar and starts helping him instead.
  • While Jacques Schnee is a Corrupt Corporate Executive, he clearly draws a line at committing murder. And while for purely self-serving reasons, he also consistently criticizes Ironwood's increasingly authoritarian behavior, noting the numerous times he's violated the rule of law, and the near constant secrecy and hypocrisy present in James' actions.
• In Sonic for Hire episode "Back To Work", Earthworm Jim suggests to Psy-Crow that use drugs to have a better time. Psy-Crow is immediately appalled.
  Psy-Crow: Aw, no way man, drugs? Really? Who still does cocaine?
• Spooky Month: The Happy Fella, who's done nothing but try to murder everything he sees, is absolutely disgusted when Roy tells Skid and Pump to give him their clothes. Roy has to angrily clarify that he just meant their sweaters.
• SuperThings:
  • The episode "Assault at Kaboom City Bank" has Gold Hands, recurring bank robber, still respecting the rules of the zebra crossing, something that Agent Silverstar praises him for.
  • The episode "Fixing the Planet!" has Glazer and Power Punch acting with the heroes, aghast at Gameglitch's latest scheme. Thanks to recklessly causing the city to glitch out, this switched around the recycling bins, mixing up the trash. The two of them point out that they live on this planet too, so they should all be doing their part in keeping it clean. As punishment, Gameglitch gets assigned "organic matter" for her trash duty pickup.
  • The episode "The Rescue Force against V-Rex!" has Moonarchaos, embodiment of villainous chaos, wholly weirded out and stunned into confusion by Professor K.'s reasoning for destroying the bakery: just wanting the cake they quit selling. The confusion takes the wind out of him, causing him to teleport the villains away from the action.

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