Characters with standards in Comic Books.
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- Anya's Ghost: Anya may fantasize about Sean inexplicably leaving his long-time girlfriend for her instead, but when he offers for her to have a threesome with him and his best friend's girlfriend while Elizabeth miserably guards the door for them, she decides she doesn't want him that badly.
- Asterix:
- In Asterix in Britain, British cuisine is so reviled by every non-Briton that when threatened with being eaten by lions boiled in mint sauce, the Romans protest at this inhumane treatment... of the lions. Obelix similarly thinks a boar boiled in mint sauce didn't deserve such a fate.
- In Asterix and the Great Divide, another Gaulish village is divided between the two chiefs of Cleverdix and Majestix. At one point, Majestix's advisor Codfix makes a deal with a nearby Roman camp where they will take Cleverdix's supporters as slaves to put Majestix in full control of the village, but when Majestix first meets with the centurion and learns about that part of the deal, he proclaims that he will not have any Gauls be slaves to Romans, even to become chief. Similarly, Cleverdix isn't comfortable with becoming chief after Majestix and his lot are captured, and when Codfix briefly abducts Majestix's daughter Melodrama, Cleverdix offers his rival his sincere condolences for his current loss.
- Cybersix: Lori may be a Clingy Jealous Girl to an absurd degree, but she can't stand people who abuse kids, having been abused herself.
- Disney Mouse and Duck Comics: Regularly used in the sub-series involving Zeke Midas "Big Bad" Wolf and his son Li'l Wolf. Zeke will proudly do anything villainous or nasty, but he never so much as lifts a hand to his son — even if he is constantly frustrated that Li'l Wolf refuses to do bad things.
- One story has Zeke discovering a number of apparently abandoned children. He goes into a rant against parents who do that, and points out that he never abandoned his own kid.
- Dynamo5 : Despite never trying to catch Chrysalis because of his affair with her, Captain Dynamo/William Warner still tries to stop her crimes, as Chrysalis noticed. Despite their relationship were (she claims they were in love), she could never turn him to her side and he did everything to stop her criminal career.
- Elfquest has the troll Flam, who joins ranks with the Elves in the "Shards" story, mostly for the loot, and because it is fun. But when a human soldier threatens to kill two children, his reaction is on the right side:
- Nobody kills brats! It is just.not.DONE!
- Of course, his interfering saves the children involved.
- In Jupiter's Circle, Skyfox refuses to kidnap the President of the United States as that would be too catastrophic for the country. So he kidnaps the Vice President to make his political point.
- Laika: While people don't want stray dogs running around, everyone is disgusted with Georgi the dogcatcher when he actually kills a stray dog in a violent manner by stomping on her head. The old woman who asked him to help catch the dogs rebukes him for making a public spectacle and tells him to never show his face in the market again, and the other dogcatchers angrily point that their job is to catch the dogs, not kill them.
- MAD has quite a few examples, played in various ways.
- Averted on a list of things celebrities would never say. One of them is Adam Sandler refusing to do a scene because it's "stupid."
- In the parody of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, the spectators demand a stop to the robot fight when they see the apparently human main character among the contestants. Of course, the promoter sees this as an opportunity to collect even more money.
- Monstress:
- Maika is a vindictive pragmatist who has no problem mutilating or killing people to get her way, but she won't hurt children. Also, having once nearly been lynched by a mob for being Arcanic, she states she wouldn't wish such a fate on anyone, even humans, whom she hates on principle.
- Yafaela, one of the bounty hunters sent to abduct Kippa states that while she's low, she hates slavery.
- Paper Girls: All of the adults — good, evil, indifferent and even imaginary — scold the girls for swearing.
- Persepolis: When the Satrapis are being questioned by the morality police, Marjane's grandmother tries to sneak away to run upstairs (So they could dispose of the alcohol in their house). When she is caught, she lies that she has diabetes and needs to drink some syrup. She's let go and one member even says his mother's diabetic so he knows why that's important.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): In issue 230, despite trashing Eggman's goons in droves on a regular basis, Sonic and the Freedom Fighters are still utterly repulsed to find out just how far Eggman's Bad Boss tendencies go; he reveals his World Roboticizer will destroy everything that's already robotic, and when pointed out that he'll be destroying his Dark Egg Legion and Badnik Horde as well, Eggman, with a giant Slasher Smile, states outright that he doesn't care because he can easily rebuild. It's at this point that Sonic, who previously pitied Eggman due to his Villainous Breakdown, loses any tolerance or patience he had for Eggman, openly regretting ever feeling sorry for him at all.Sonic: I never should've showed you a shred of mercy, you sick-!
- Star Wars Legends: In Boba Fett's comic, at one point he takes out a flying Imperial concentration camp ship for free. Even the guy whose morals aren't much more sophisticated than "get paid for it" and has to be specifically told not to default to vaporizing his target won't stand for that kind of thing.
- Stuck Rubber Baby: Toland's parents believed that white people were smarter and overall better than black people but they forbade him from ever saying the n-word.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW): Old Hob is a major Jerkass who hates humans with a passion, but even he is disgusted when Agent Bishop murders his own father in cold blood.
- Whirl in The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye is a violent Jerkass who spent some time as a dirty cop, and played a significant role in starting the Great War by attacking an imprisoned and helpless Megatron. At the same time, he's extremely loyal to his few friends; he turns on Getaway's conspiracy when it became clear the conspirators were manipulating Tailgate to his death, because of Whirl's Odd Friendship with Cyclonus. It turns out that despite his faults, he's able to pass the morality lock on a Matrix of Leadership.
