Everyone Has Standards / Video Games

Characters with standards in Video Games.

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• Miles Edgeworth in Ace Attorney has many moments prior to his official Heel–Face Turn to show that he was not irredeemable.
  • He raises an objection to Dee Vasquez's testimony even though it almost destroyed Phoenix's case since at that point, Edgeworth realized that it's clear that Vasquez was the murderer.
  • He demanded that the trial in his first trial be stopped immediately when Terry Fawles poisoned himself while on the stand.
  • He sympathizes with Kay Faraday since his father had died in the courthouse just like hers and he tried to comfort her when she broke down and started crying.
• In Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown:
  • AWACS Bandog is a Jerkass, who regularly insults and belittles the Spare Squadron during missions. But even he doesn’t like Col. McKinsey, who is a cowardly Glory Hound. In fact, if McKinsey’s cargo plane is shot down in Transfer Orders, Bandog will say that the mission is lost, but the load wasn’t worth protecting.
  • Count may be a fraud and a Glory Hound himself, but he was not happy when Bandog tricked him into shooting down Full Band, despite the fact that Full Band was hardly a saint himself.
  • In the DLC Missions, when Erusea learns of what Matias Torres plans on doing with the Alicorn, i.e. launching a nuke at Oured to try to end the war, they decide that he’s gone too far, and send Osea the schematics for the submarine in order to stop him.
• In Telltale's Back to the Future: The Game, Marty takes pleasure in tormenting Biff a number of times, but even admits to himself Biff only deserves so much.
• BlazBlue:
  • In Relius' gag reel in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, Jin's incestuous obsession with Ragna (which, this being a gag reel, is driven up to eleven) freaks out Makoto Nanaya, herself a lesser sexual deviant who grew up with an eccentric family (if the descriptions she gives in her gag reel are any indication). Not helped by the fact that he's trying to kill Ragna's body (which she inhabits) while he's in her own.
  "Uwaaah! Geez, and I thought my family was nuts..."
  • BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle: As certain entries, far further down the page, can attest, Yukiko Amagi is a horrible cook who tends to be unaware at just how bad her cooking is. That is, until she encountered Noel Vermillion who helped her make curry along with Platinum the Trinity and... even Yukiko realized that Noel's cooking is bad news and ran off in terror instead of having to eat it.
• Caves of Qud takes place in a post-apocalyptic society in which water is valued deeply to the point of being used as currency and in bonding rituals between friends. However, killing someone you've water-bonded to is considered an unforgivable betrayal and performing the act is a quick way to make every faction in the game, even the victim's enemies, hate you.
• Civilization: Beyond Earth: According to Word of God, absolutely everybody finds the Harmony-Supremacy affinity completely repulsive. Harmony-Supremacy colonies gradually replace all of their body parts with either alien-derived biological or cybernetic alternatives, until they've mutilated themselves beyond recognition as human beings. At least pure Harmony and pure Supremacy try to stick with one or the other, to say nothing of what pure Purity may think of them.
• In Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly, Lua suggests to Hyde to take up wedding photography when he considers changing jobs. He declines the offer, for while he has his "disgustingly sentimental" moments, he doesn't like weddings because they "give [him] cavities". He then considers it after a one-on-one talk with the Barista, and if he gets invited to Lua and Baileys' wedding as their photographer, Gala reveals that Hyde has agreed to do a photoshoot for another couple.
• Corruption of Laetitia: In the Arowar siege battle, the Elysian soldiers will comply if Celeste demands that they order the civilians into the safety of their homes, despite being her enemy.
• Cult of the Lamb: Despite Sozo's volatile and self-centered nature, he never backstabs or attacks the Lamb, as well as rewarding the Lamb for bringing him mushrooms, stating that he always pays his debts.
• Cyberpunk 2077: Even if you play V as the hardest-ass, gun-totingest, booze-swillingest, most foul-mouthed child of a canine in existence, there are some lines they will not cross. They will not harm children or mess with The Mox, and absolutely hate Scavengers (gangs who murder people to carve out and re-sell their cybernetics).
• Danganronpa:
  • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc:
    • In the manga, Sayaka, while trying to decide who to kill in order to escape the school, decides to forgo killing Makoto, due to thinking of him as a friend, although that didn't stop her from attempting to frame him for the murder she tried to commit against Leon.
    • Hifumi Yamada is something of a creep, but he finds some things unacceptable. Hearing that Kiyotaka apparently stole Alter Ego after sexually assaulting Celeste and blackmailing her into stealing it for him enrages Hifumi enough to kill Kiyotaka, not realizing that Kiyotaka was innocent and Celeste was using him in her own plan.
  • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair:
    • While Mahiru generally finds the boys in her class annoying and gets along better with the girls, she thinks Tenko's desire for all "degenerate males" to die is going too far when the two girls meet in V3's Talent Development Plan.
    • Teruteru is a shameless pervert who is likened to pigs, but he draws the line at pretending to be one. At one point in Ultimate Talent Development Plan, Miu Iruma gives Teruteru some of her inventions as a Christmas gift, which he happily accepts. Teruteru tells Miu to find him if she had made another perverted invention, and Miu, who is comparing him to a pig throughout, offers him to become her pet pig if he oinks for her. To her surprise, Teruteru declines, saying that he doesn't need to see her inventions that badly.
  • Dangan Ronpa V 3 Killing Harmony,
    • While Tenko herself (see above) Does Not Like Men to a degree that makes Mahiru's complaints about her male classmates' immaturity seem tame, she's horrified at the death of the first murder victim, who is male. While she gets along with the girls for the most part (except Angie, due to being jealous that Himiko spends more time with her, and Miu, whom practically no one else likes), she initially distrusts Maki Harukawa after it turns out that Maki's the Ultimate Assassin.
    • Miu Iruma may be a massive pervert, but there are things that even she thinks are way too much for her. For instance, she is disgusted by Korekiyo Shinguji's incestuous relationship with his sister and that he killed Angie and Tenko for her sake. On another note, which overlaps with Hypocritical Humor, Miu finds Toko Fukawa's fantasy about being Byakuya Togami's doormat too disturbing to talk about in public. Hilariously, Toko claims that Miu gets turned on by weirder fantasies than that.
• Devil May Cry: Dante is a smug, irreverant fellow at the best of times, but when he accepts someone as a Worthy Opponent, he gets pissed if something untoward happens to them. In the first game, he's outraged when Mundus summarily executes Griffin for his failure while Griffin is begging him for help.
• In Disco Elysium, the Player Character's skills manifest as voices inside their head. They have a lot of Blue-and-Orange Morality, being focused on getting the player to utilize them even if it isn't appropriate, but do sometimes draw lines:
  • As much as Drama enjoys being The Gadfly, it admits that it has attempted to discourage you from constantly performing mock suicides with your gun, because it doesn't think it is a particularly funny act and it seems to make everyone at least mildly uncomfortable in an unfunny way.
  • Much as Electrochemistry loves recreational drugs, it's not into the idea of getting high on taxidermy chemicals until you lose control of your bladder ("even you could probably do better than that"). It also warns you away from the mega-lethal B-hydroxy-phenothiazine ("even I won't suggest it"), and does not nudge you into opioid use, except during an emotional breakdown where all hope is lost. Also, horny as Electrochemistry is, it will stop you from hitting on the Washerwoman on the grounds that she's 'an old crone', and if you decide you're going to masturbate in the street, it panics and orders you to save it for when you're in your room.
  • Physical Instrument and Endurance rarely contradict each other. They can even sound interchangeable at points. However, Harry's past as a gym teacher has Physical Instrument express relief that now they finally know why Endurance is so obsessed with fitness and machismo.
• Dwarf Fortress creator Toady is infamously encouraging of all the goofy, twisted Video Game Cruelty Potential his players can think of, however it turns out even he has a line that can be crossed. Realizing how valuable ivory was, players started setting up Mermaid breeding-and-slaughterhouse facilities as their bones were made of the stuff. Toady was so horrified by this that the next version of DF to release nuked the gold value of ivory into the ground.
• In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the Vigil of Stendarr is a Church Militant order dedicated to hunting down and destroying supernatural threats to mortal life, including Daedra, Daedra worshipers, vampires, lycanthropes, and others. The Vigil formed in the wake of the Oblivion Crisis with the goal of preventing any similar incidents. As dedicated to exterminating monsters as they are, the Vigil found Isran to be too extreme for them and kicked him out. He would later go on to form the Dawnguard, who would turn out to be much more effective against the vampire menace (while the Vigil would be almost entirely wiped out by vampires in the Dawnguard DLC)
• Fallout
  • Throughout the series, even the most despicable of wasteland scourges will take issue with cannibalism. Most who catch you engaging in the practice will attack on sight, while in Fallout 4, all of your companions will disapprove of you eating your fellow man (except for Dogmeat, who is a dog and doesn't know better; and Strong, who also enjoys human flesh).
  • Fallout 3:
    • Horace Pinkerton is pretty arrogant, insufferable, somewhat abrasive and bitter old scientist. But he's also very rightly disgusted about what he learned Dr. Braun was doing to people in vault 112...
    • Reilly, the titular leader of Reilly's Rangers, makes no attempt to hide that she and her team are mercenaries who kill for a living, but she prides herself on having some scruples about what kind of work she accepts, unlike Talon Company.
  • Fallout: New Vegas: James and Francine Garrett are regarded by some people in Freeside (especially the Followers of the Apocalypse) as little more than hopped-up crooks and drug enablers with their own establishment. They are, however, perfectly willing to supply the Followers with rehabilitatory chems and other supplies, because they actually don't want Freeside full of unsightly junkies and thugs causing trouble for the more valuable clientele. The Garretts are running a business first and foremost. Also, while The Omertas are in the same business as The Garretts, (selling drugs and alcohol, gambling, and prostitution), The Garretts try to collect debts owed to them without violence, unless necessary, allow their prostitutes a say in who they serve and don't force them into anything they don't want to do, and only outright order a hit on someone who betrayed and robbed them. The Omertas meanwhile, treat their prostitutes as little more than slaves and are so cutthroat with their debt collections, that even an NCR Ranger fears them.
  • Fallout 4: All of your potential companions will be furious at the Sole Survivor if they are sarcastic when trying to comfort Glory as she dies after helping halt the Brotherhood's raid on the Railroad HQ (with the exception of Danse and X6-88, which is only because they are from opposing factions and couldn't be with you on that mission to begin with).
• Final Fantasy X:
  • Tidus, a Blitzball veteran and enthusiast, expresses his discomfort with Wakka's desire to pray for the Besaid Auroch's victory in the upcoming Blitzball tournament during the group's stay in Kilika, even after having witnessed Sin destroy Kilika and slaughter the inhabitants a day ago. Wakka goes on to explain that Blitzball takes people's minds off the event, but Tidus isn't fully convinced.
  Tidus: "Praying for victory is good...but is this right?"
  Wakka: "Something wrong with enjoying Blitzball?"
  Tidus: "Is this really the time?"
  • Wakka spends most of the game prejudiced against the Al Bhed. Nonetheless, he's deeply disturbed and angered when Seymour and the Guado invade and raze Home, the only Al Bhed settlement in Spira, in search of Yuna. Watching Rikku break down in tears pushes past any walls he had left, and he joins in on the defense.
  Wakka: "... Damn those Guado!"
• Quite a few examples in Fire Emblem: Awakening
  • Gaius is a thief who joined up with a group of Plegian soldiers intending to rob the palace, and was quite shocked to learn they had come to assassinate the exalt instead. This (plus Chrom being in possession of candy, his one weakness) can be used to recruit him.
  • While Chrom considers Frederick a trustworthy subordinate, he does not like how Frederick helps in his B and A supports... Let's just say that embarrassing doesn't begin to describe it.
  • Henry is an Ax-Crazy Heroic Comedic Sociopath who gets off to blood and gore but even he thinks murdering dogs is just wrong (in the English version, anyway). He also doesn't like it when villains try to tell him they're not so different.
  • Tharja mixes this with The Only One Allowed to Torment You. She delights in cursing people, even her own child, and pretty much hates everyone around her. However, as the Mooks of the Bad Future found out, if you dare to come after her family she will go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge until she breathes her last. No one screws with her loved ones but her. On another note, she does not like Gangrel and is perfectly willing to defect to the Shepherds if talked to, as she expresses in her supports with Stahl.
    Tharja: You thought I might be a Plegian spy? Yes, I figured as much. But you should know I never liked that dastard Gangrel. What kind of king would sacrifice his realm to suit his own twisted goals? It's a travesty he ever took the throne.
  • Gangrel might be The Caligula to a T but even he doesn't like the Grimleal. Subverted in that Gangrel turned his kingdom into a Grimleal dictatorship anyhow.
• Fire Emblem Fates:
  • Xander may be loyal to his father Garon and do what he asks, but (unless the Avatar joins Hoshido) he would never truly harm his siblings. Even when he does fight them, he doesn't truly want them dead unless he feels they have cast aside any sort of morality or love, as he initially seems to think the Avatar has in Revelation.
  • Camilla is a princess of Nohr, the antagonist faction, something of a eager fighter in battle, saw a lot of crap in her life that left it very hard to shock her, and can casually threaten people with death or dismemberment with a smile on her face. And yet in spite all of this, even she is left stunned by Hans' brutality in Conquest, when he not only butchers Cheve's citizens and executes all the defeated Hoshidan soldiers in Chapter 13, but also has Scarlet cruelly executed off-screen in a manner so grotesque that she's lost for words.
  • Niles is very sadistic and he goes as far as to tease almost everyone around him, from his lord to his daughter (even Camilla and Charlotte, who can pretty much strangle him on the spot), but in his support with Elise, he doesn't tease her at all when he finds out people don't take her seriously and he actually gives her some advice. Also he will apologize if he feels he went too far with his teasing.
  • Saizo's son Asugi, much like Gaius before him, is a thief with a Sweet Tooth who draws the line at murder, and cuts ties with his employer when ordered to break into a mansion and kill the owner.
    Asugi: I'll steal anything that's not nailed down. But murder—like that? Nah. Crosses a line. And there's NO price he could pay me to do that. Got my pride, I guess.
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses:
  • The Flame Emperor (better known as Edelgard), despite being a Well-Intentioned Extremist, has disdain for their allies of convenience, "those who slither in the dark," who have been responsible for several atrocities before and during the story. In the Black Eagles ending, Edelgard turns on them after the war and spends the next few years hunting them down.
  • Felix is a Blood Knight who's focused on fighting and becoming stronger, but he was disturbed by an incident in which his old friend Dimitri enjoyed himself while putting down a rebellion a few years before the start of the story. As a result, Felix likens Dimitri to a savage boar, and a wedge has been driven between the two friends.
  • Catherine is willing to do practically anything for Rhea, even kill children if she must. However, at the end of the Black Eagles route, she's horrified when Rhea orders her to set fire to the city of Fhirdiad (their allies) in order to kill the invading Black Eagle Strike Force, and reluctantly complies with the order.
  • Catherine also is a rather eager fighter, but after the Time Skip, she'll be rather uncomfortable at the idea that the characters who were students in the first act of the game have become "hardened killers" after five years of war, as expressed by many having more grim and cynical battle quotes.
  • Even Mercedes, who has an almost infinite amount of patience, finds herself annoyed by Lorenz's mannerisms. She, a noble turned commoner, realizes that while he helped her when she was hurt, he doesn't consider her an equal. She manages to find him tolerable at the end of their Support though.
  • Claude is rather insistent on uncovering people's secrets, and seems to have little regard for privacy. However, despite knowing that Flayn is hiding something at the end of Chapter 8, he disapproves if you insist that you put pressure on her to reveal what she knows.
• Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes:
  • Randolph is a firm believer in My Country, Right or Wrong, but when the Adrestian Empire descends into a Wretched Hive with Duke Aegir as its regent, he laments not being able to find dependable Imperial generals (forcing him to hire Jeralt's Mercenaries to fill out his ranks), as the ones who remain are allowed to Rape, Pillage, and Burn everything around them with impunity.
  • The final battle of Golden Wildfire sees Rhea use a long-forgotten form of white magic to obliterate every allied stronghold on the map, which her soldiers see as an act of divine providence and use it to throw themselves into the battle against the Leicester Federation with reckless abandon. Marianne, the Federation's requisite devotee of the goddess (who in Three Houses, had defended Rhea's decision to execute the Western Church members who were caught breaking into the Holy Mausoleum), is highly disturbed by the church soldiers' zealotry and vows to do what she can to stop them.
• In Five Nights at Freddy's, Phone Guy usually makes excuses as to why you shouldn't fear the Hostile Animatronics despite them attempting to kill you several times during your shift. He, however, admits that even he is creeped out by the Puppet.
• God of War (PS4): While Kratos is rather abrasive and unwilling to be around the Huldra brothers, he calls out Atreus when the latter asked why Brok's color is blue compared to his brother. More seriously, he is completely shocked at him when Atreus decides to insult Sindri for ranting about his brother. While Kratos shares Atreus' annoyance with the brothers' bickering, Kratos tells his son that his rudeness is highly uncalled for as he doesn't want to make more enemies as they already have, as irritating as they are.
• In God of War Ragnarök, while traversing Vanaheim, Kratos relates to Freya the story of how he became the Ghost of Sparta: by being tricked by Ares into murdering his own wife and child. Even though she still blames Kratos for the death of Baldur, and is only staying her oath to "rain down every agony" on him in retribution until Kratos helps her regain her warrior spirit, Freya is left speechless and utterly horrified at the cruelty that Kratos suffered. A short time later, she forgives him entirely, realizing their similarity in their pain mostly because of this moment.
• In Highway Blossoms, Mariah is a rather obnoxious person who gets into a lot of trouble, and her little sister Tess and their long-time friend Joe are used to putting up with her. That said, the other two members of "the Trio" have lines they won't cross. Late in the game, Marina, who'd befriended the Trio, loses her share of the treasure she and Amber found in a poker game, in which Mariah clearly took advantage of Marina's naivete. Joe's convinced the entire thing wasn't serious and tries to convince Mariah not to hold Marina to her end of the bargain. When Amber offers a double-or-nothing game, in which she bets her half in order to win Marina's back, Tess serves as dealer and, despite being Mariah's sister, offers to help Amber cheat in order to win what Marina "stole" back.
• Hypnospace Outlaw: The Dumpster is a site dedicated to mocking and poking fun at the other users of Hypnospace, sort of akin to Something Awful. That said, the user that runs it has a rule not to mock anyone under 18, and only makes an exception for the 15-year old Zane Lofton because he's genuinely a huge jerk.
• Injustice 2
  • By the time the game starts, everybody absolutely despises The Joker. Even people as vile as Brainiac, Darkseid, Grodd, Enchantress, Atrocitus, Reverse-Flash and Black Manta (and his former moll Harley) can't stand the memory of him, let alone meeting him in person, considering him a cancer that deserves to die (again) because of the nuking of Metropolis transformed the Injustice-verse into a Crapsack World. More to the point, all of the other bad guys do whatever they do because they have an agenda, but they all get ticked off at being compared to the brutish Monster Clown that had no other reason to perform terror but spread wanton chaos all For the Evulz.
  • Jason Todd, the Red Hood, is a gun-toting vigilante and utterly shameless about killing bad guys if the situation warrants it (even coming to blows with Batman over this), but every single interaction he has with a Regime member (even his own foster brother Damian Wayne) makes clear that he sees a clear difference between what he wants to do (keep the streets safe for innocent people) and what the Regime wants to do (Take Over the World and turn it into a tyrannical police state, and kill anybody who is either an obstacle or just plain pisses them off) and that is why he fights them.
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist:
  • Tang does not care much for living in harmony with nature and will advocate for pragmatic and sometimes ruthless positions, but even she feels awful about being forced to develop a plague that would wipe out lives on the planet in order to make space for humans.
  • Two involving Dys, the resident Emo Teen among Sol's peers:
    • If he's asked if he's the one who anonymously gave Sol a data band containing all their favorite media as a courtship gift, but isn't the one who did it, Dys says he may be a weird person, but he's not a stalker.
    • If Sol asks him if he's the one who made the shrine at the Prosaic Plains, he remarks that while they think he's weird, he's not "this weird", implying that Sol assumed he made a Stalker Shrine for them.
• In Katawa Shoujo, Kenji is a misogynistic Conspiracy Theorist who apparently cannot find anyone else to join his cause, but he won't accept people who like futanari porn. It's also indicated that he had a girlfriend once, possibly Yuuko, and that he doesn't have a problem with women in general, but feminists.
• Knight Bewitched 2: Uno may be willing to kill to enact justice, but he refuses to kill Ash when he learns the latter was brainwashed to commit crimes.
• Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2: While Raziel starts out the game cherishing his humanity and believing vampirism is a plague, he's nonetheless disgusted with the brutality of Moebius' soldiers.
  Raziel: In this era, vampires were clearly not the uncontested predators we had been... these creatures were hunted mercilessly, and oppressed. And while I still believed that vampirism was a plague, and had to be wiped out, there was nothing noble or righteous in this crusade – this was simply ruthless persecution.
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Nabooru may be a thief, but she makes it clear to Link that she draws the line at stealing from women and children, as well as murder; since Ganondorf has no such restraints, Nabooru is disgusted by his methods and states outright that despite Gerudo law stating that every lone male Gerudo must become their king, she will never bow to such an evil bastard.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the Curiosity Shop deals in stolen goods and the man running it has little to no scruples, being a racist jerk who only deals with humans, openly and proudly admits when he's selling something that belongs to someone else, and even employs monsters to steal people's stuff so he can sell it back to them. He's even willing to buy Zora Eggs. However, he draws the line at buying living sentient things: he might be willing to buy unhatched eggs, but he won't buy the Seahorse or the Deku Princess.
• Lie of Caelum:
  • On the True route, Aruke calls out Kenzo for threatening to sexually assault Miyu and states that he completely deserved the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Kyou delivered to him. This is despite the two of them being friends and adopted siblings. Aruke also states that their mother might disown him for his deplorable behavior. After the Souen Forest events, she invites Kyou and Miyu to her restaurant as an apology for Kenzo's behavior.
  • A Snapboard message shows that Kenzo is ranked last in the list of hottest guys, even though he looks fairly handsome. It's implied that his sexist words against Miyu caused the majority of the female student body to turn against him.
• In A Little Lily Princess, Lavinia can be a rather cruel Alpha Bitch to Sara, particularly becoming jealous of her after Sara takes Lavinia's place as their teacher Miss Minchin's star student and treating her with contempt after Sara's father dies penniless, resulting in Miss Minchin making Sara a servant. However, she is disdainful of Miss Minchin, knowing that she's only nice to students whose parents can pay her a lot of money. Sara accuses Lavinia of being just like Miss Minchin, to which Lavinia replies by claiming to be kinder than Miss Minchin should she so desire, but by this point, it's clear that Lavinia isn't wrong about Miss Minchin.
• Lonely Wolf Treat: Juju is far from the nicest rabbit to predators, causing her relationship with her cousin Mochi to go south after the latter befriended Treat the wolf. However, when their garden is thrashed by an unknown wolf hater, Juju is genuinely shocked, condemning the culprit as going too far and offering her help to solve the mystery.
• Love & Pies: Despite being a Dirty Old Woman who finds Edwina sexy, Esme calls the latter's father, Sebastian, a Slimeball for dating Freya because even if they were both adults when they hooked up, he's still 30 years older than her.
• Mass Effect:
  • Ashley Williams is somewhat distrusting of aliens, inasmuch as she wants humanity to not have to rely on them. Even so, she doesn't support the Terra Firma party, and she's particularly strongly against Cerberus.
  • The asari are prejudiced against those of their kind who were born from unions between two asari, rather than an asari and another race, but hardly any of them are racist enough to use the term "pureblood" directly to one's face. The fact that Tela Vasir does this to Liara is treated as a Kick the Dog moment for Vasir.
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain:
  • Despite the depths Miller, Snake, Ocelot and the Diamond Dogs in general go in pursuing their revenge all are in agreement that what Huey had been doing was far beyond the pale, and don't hold back in expressing disgust with what Huey did to his wife and tried to do with his son. Even the villains revile him.
  • Kaz is shown to openly favor more brutal and extremist methods at pursuing said revenge, but he is adamantly against killing children for any reason. Should Snake kill any enemy Child Soldiers, Miller will instantly end the mission.
• Mortal Kombat 9: in Stryker's arcade ending, he doesn't particularly mind the attention lavished onto him for saving Earthrealm, getting a key to the city, having a popular line of action figures, and having the paparazzi hound him. When word comes that Hollywood wants to make a movie of him, however, he puts his foot down, because he absolutely refuses to be portrayed by Johnny Cage.
• In No More Heroes, Travis Touchdown is a sociopathic Byronic Hero who largely kills people for fun. And yet even he refuses to kill any innocent civilians, outright expressing disgust at those who do such as Destroyman and Bad Girl. He's also repulsed by Bad Girl's lack of backstory or reason why she's even an assassin other than being a psychopath^note though later games would reveal much more about her, even going as far as to call her a "perverted killing machine".
• In No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle:
  • Henry offers help with a particularly troublesome multi-form boss. When he sees the (incredibly ridiculous) final form, he just up and leaves.
    Henry: I can't be associated with that travesty. I've got standards, for fuck's sake.
  • Travis is perfectly fine with wiping out virtually anyone he meets, but while he's willing to fight children and teenagers (and even cause lasting damage, such as cutting off a limb), he refuses to kill them (a standard that other members of the United Assassins Association don't share).
• No Umbrellas Allowed: While you can help AVAC arrest Yeongmi Mo, the narcissistic actor, for Avarice Crimes by offering to buy his doll at twice its appraisal value, he'll call you out for giving him "special treatment" if you offer more than that.
• Octopath Traveler: While Lianna is willing to do almost anything to bring her father back to life, even betraying her adopted sister Ophilia to steal the ember, she also opens the door to Ophilia's cell to allow her to escape. She's also horrified when the ritual she takes part in absorbs the life energy of the Savior's followers, as well as said Savior's callous reaction to it.
• In Persona 3, Hidetoshi Odagiri is a stickler for the rules who spends weeks, if not months, tracking down a smoker who left a cigarette butt in the boys' bathroom. That being said, he doesn't agree with the school's planning on expelling the smoker, and gets into an argument with a teacher who becomes suspicious of the protagonist's behavior, thereby costing him a deal that could have earned him a recommendation.
• Persona 5:
  • The Phantom Thieves of Hearts, despite stealing the "hearts" of corrupt adults to make them confess to their crimes, never kill anyone. This becomes a plot point when Goro Akechi, a detective on the Thieves' case, notes that while he doesn't approve of their methods, he points that they have never killed before and ergo, someone else must be behind the murders of the principal of Shujin Academy and Kunikazu Okumura. Upon finding out the identities, he proposes an alliance to solve the case due to the desperation of the police making them resort to drastic measures, something he can't abide. Painfully subverted since not only does he sell you out, he's the one that has been murdering people and used the whole thing to try and get close. The Thieves outsmart him and end up confronting him in Shido's Palace.
  • Related to the above, early on, Ryuji hates Kamoshida, for physically abusing his team, overtraining Ryuji until he broke his leg (thus ending his career as a runner), and having the track team shut down. That said, when Morgana suggests that Kamoshida might die if his heart is stolen, Ryuji seriously reconsiders stealing his heart. Of course, after Kamoshida rapes Ann's friend Shiho and causes her to try to kill herself, Ryuji decides to take the risk to see Kamoshida brought to justice.
  • The Phantom Thieves also refuse to steal the hearts of targets whose crimes are too minor. During Mishima's Confidant, the protagonist refuses to change the heart of a famous actor just because of some rumors about his involvement with an idol singer (especially since Mishima's suggesting it to make the Phantom Thieves more famous), or do the same to Akiyama, an old acquaintance of Mishima's who bullies him. The latter suggestion even causes the Phantom Thieves to consider changing Mishima's heart, although they decide against it after his own Shadow has an epiphany.
  • While Sae Niijima is a borderline Amoral Attorney who prioritizes winning cases over actually pursuing justice, to the extent that she's willing to twist the truth and manipulate evidence to make innocent people look guilty, she's disturbed by the Police Brutality that was visited upon the protagonist and seems legitimately concerned about him when he nearly blacks out at a few points. It's also implied that for all Sae's cynicism, she hasn't yet crossed the line into actually forging evidence. It's a plot point in that she has a Palace and ties into events with Goro Akechi, since he points out she may start falsifying evidence in her attempts to find the Thieves. They do infiltrate her palace and her sister, Makoto, talks sense into her.
  • In the Wheel of Fortune Confidant, Chihaya sells worthless Holy Stones to people for 100,000 yen (roughly $1,000 USD), albeit because she believes that people can't overturn fate without their power. However, when a woman in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend comes to her asking to buy another one, Chihaya instead suggests that the woman break up with him.
• Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Rei may be a borderline Extreme Omnivore, but even she can't handle Yukiko's cooking; said cooking knocks her out cold and makes her dream that she was being held down while someone poured sand in her mouth. Furthermore, the moment she sees the horror that is Mystery Food X: The Final Edition, a mixture of Fuuka, Chie, Rise and Yukiko's horrible cooking in one brutally lethal package, her eyes burn from that insult to existence.
• Pikmin series: Louie is a Big Eater who will gladly experiment eating almost every creature on PNF-404 and has written detailed cooking notes on most of them. However, he refuses to eat the helpful Pikmin themselves (he has thought about it, but mentions that he is trying to practice restraint). He also won't even consider eating dogs, as his notes on Moss and the Ancient Sirehound instead have him talking about riding them with no mention of cooking them.
• A few times in Rakenzarn Tales:
  • Daffy Duck, the duck with a "me first" money-making attitude, shows this if you meet the conditions for the Ultra Boss fight in the Inn of Evil sidequest. Mainly because what's going on is people being fed to an army of giant insects.
  • Autolycus, king of thieves, avoids unnecessary bloodshed and even left clues to the Knights as to worse criminals.
  • Mitsuba admits to being a conwoman, but she doesn't cop to murder and sticks up for the people she cares about, as shown during her Ultra Boss fight against her friend, Jeane.
• Rise of the Third Power:
  • Selene is a ruthless pirate captain, but she won't tolerate whoring in her territory.
  • According to Rowan, even pirates would find it dishonorable to rig the gunpowder barrels on enemy ships to explode.
• In Sands of Destruction, Morte has a loud personality and bright pink wardrobe to match, but eventually the Serial Escalation of the dresses the Feral women want to trade with her gets to be too much. The final one really gives her pause because it's see-through, but she does eventually decide to wear it - "a dress is a dress", after all.
• Hikawa's backstory in Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne has him get rejected by the Gaea Cult because they considered his beliefs too extreme- he eventually causes the Conception, which basically destroys the world, then plans to remake the world as a World of Silence. To elaborate, this is a cult of demon worshippers we're talking about!
• Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair
  • Kotoba is a notorious pervert, as well as a Stalker with a Crush towards Momoko. Despite this, he despises how Hiro treats his girlfriend Momoko, such as telling a ghost story about a girl who commits a Murder-Suicide with her boyfriend and forces untrusting girlfriends to hang themselves as a way of passive-aggressively chiding Momoko for being a Clingy Jealous Girl. While Kotoba was part of Momoko's "fake murder prank" plot, he was unaware that the argument was staged, and his reaction was thus genuine.
  • For most of the game, Kamen intensely dislikes Raiko, and the feeling is mutual on Raiko's part. However, Raiko not only feels bad for Kamen when her best friend Momoko commits suicide, but also is the only one who speaks up in Kamen's defense when Kamen is accused of murdering Momoko, Hiro and Kotoba. Even if Raiko accuses Kamen of being the murderer, she still has enough compassion to insist that Kamen be treated fairly.
• The titular Sly Cooper is a principaled Karmic Thief, but he rarely lets things get personal and, even when intervening because it's the right thing to do, typically only does so to further his own ends. He'll often offer to rival criminals to simply give him what he wants and he'll be on his way, and is even willing to (albeit begrudgingly) drop his grudge with Panda King if it means pulling off his heist. General Tsao however, who kidnapped a woman, is forcing her to marry him, and basically views her as an object at best? Sly is not letting that stand and actually brushes off Tsao's offer to give him what he wants if he'll just leave.
  Sly Cooper: I've faced a lot of bad men in my time, but you sir, are the worst.
  General Tsao: You have won this battle, but the war rages on! Take your foolish computer. It won't help you. Jing King is mine.
  Sly Cooper: Jing King is a person, not property. And sorry pal, but we're ending this right now.
• Star Control II: The Spathi, as a whole, are already a race of cowards who would gladly surrender to a slave-taking race if it meant never having to face another enemy, whose navy has to be Press-Ganged in its entirety because no one would ever volunteer to face a threat, and whose ships are explicitly designed to fight while running away. But even by the Spathi's standards, captain Fwiffo is just too cowardly to be respectable. Their high council doesn't even need to ask to figure out who gave you their secret password once they see him with you (and they're right about it; he gave you the code as soon as he saw your warship, assuming you were going to torture him horribly and wanting to get that out of the way).
  If you held a weapon to Fwiffo's head, he would say anything you wanted him to say. In fact, if you held a vegetable to his head, he would probably say anything you wanted him to say.
• Star Wars: Rebellion: If an Imperial player uses a Death Star to destroy a planet, they immediately lose a substantial amount of Loyalty from everyone, even planets previously 100% loyal to The Empire.
• Super Robot Wars X
  • Klim Nick doesn’t like Julio at all, calling him a “sheer bundle of incompetence.”
  • Nestor may have went along Dr. Hahn brainwashing Ple into think that Nestor was her big brother, but he didn't seem to be completely comfortable with the whole thing. After a brief moment of shock when X-Cross broke the brainwashing, he admits to himself that they should've never used methods like that to begin with. Him having his own little sister (according to the Buddy Complex mobile game) might have something to do with that.
• Team Fortress 2:
  • The Sniper would insist that while he might be a Professional Killer, the emphasis is on "professional", and professionals have standards.
    Sniper: Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
  • "Meet the Director" has even the Spy and Scout be weirded out by Soldier's habit of collecting heads, as shown off in "Meet the Soldier".
    Spy: Whose...head is that?
  • The Pyro is a particular magnet for this. In "Meet the Pyro", even the Heavy, Scout and Spy are shown to be somewhat afraid of even the Pyro on their side. Then, in the comic "A Cold Day in Hell", Pyro hallucinates a wild bear in Russia as a Smokey the Bear parody who insists that "fire is nobody's friend", and the resultant axe violence, in which Pyro just outright obliterates the bear's head, even disconcerts the Soldier, one of the only characters who comes close to Pyro's level of batshittery.
    Soldier: That...that's enough, Pyro. You're launching bone shards everywhere. Some of us are naked here.
  • In the comics, while two of the Team Fortress Classic mercs are discussing bailing on a contract gone bad and getting started somewhere else, Pyro is content to watch them silently from the rafters. When one of them proposes starting an orphanage in order to acquire children for an unspecified but definitely unpleasant purpose, that's when the Pyro gets involved.
  • Saxton Hale is a giant mass of Testosterone Poisoning that walks like a man, with a particular record for killing animals, selling guns that don't work and solving most of his problems with violence. However, he refuses to fight a child and seems weirded out by Charles Darling's much more bizarre form of animal cruelty, in which he finds the last members of endangered species and forces them to stand on boxes so he can look into their sad defeated eyes whenever he wants.
• Terra Invicta: The Servants and the Protectorate have the same endgoal, to bring mankind under the control of the invading aliens. The Servants are fanatics with a distinctly religious flavour, while the Protectorate are largely driven by cynical belief that mankind cannot hope to beat a starfaring species so submission is the only way to avert extinction. The Protectorate winning is arguably the much worse outcome, as they ultimately concede to all of the aliens' demands and do the hard work for them while offering nothing that a superior attacker could not simply take at gunpoint, and their only "consolation" is being in charge of Earth as long as the Hydras are content to let them be; while ironically, the alien-worshipping fanatical Servants find the initial surrender terms too humiliating and successfully negotiate for much better ones, effectively letting humanity become the Dragon-in-Chief. It makes sense, as the Servants have at least some twisted principles about how this "subjugate humanity" deal is supposed to go.
• Thief: Garrett is mostly amoral, and whatever atrocities other people get up to, he'll ignore it as long as it doesn't affect him personally. The very fact that he's a professional thief should give an indication of his opinion towards the law as well. However, Garrett will honor his promises (though he rarely makes them) and repay his debts, and he sometimes gets indignant upon seeing other criminals take advantage of the poor and helpless. He also dislikes killing, viewing it as "unprofessional", though he will kill if he really has to.
• In Threads of Fate, while Duke and Belle are a pair of treasure hunters who are willing to bully, cheat, steal, and even kill to get their hands on the relic, when they learn that Rue's motivation for finding it is to resurrect his dead lover Claire they are thoroughly disgusted with Mint for knowing this and still intending to betray Rue to keep the relic for herself. So much so that they give her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and warn Rue of her intentions.
• Toonstruck: Drew and Flux, snarky though they may be around the majority of the game's cartoony characters, are horrified when it's revealed that King Hugh (actually Fluffy-Fluffy Bun-Bun in disguise) wants to use the newly built Cutifyer machine to forcibly cutify the entire toon world and eventually go on to the human world. This takeover would include the Malevolators, the other antagonists who want to turn the whole world evil, but Drew and Flux don't want to forcibly brainwash all of the Malevolands' people, too.
• Warframe: During the Second Dream quest, the Stalker is given a chance to kill the player Tenno by slaying their Operator, but he hesitates and loses his chance; afterwards, Hunhow explains that as deeply as the Stalker hates the Tenno, he doesn’t hate them enough to remorselessly kill a child.
• In World of Warcraft, during the quest chain that leads you to the Temple of the White Tiger, Horde players can ask Sunwalker Dezco, a tauren paladin, whether it would be a good idea to capture Anduin Wrynn, prince of Stormwind, right then and there, as he's negotiating with Xuen, one of the August Celestials, for the right for the Alliance, Horde and Pandarian refugees to enter the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Dezco does not approve, saying this would make you no better than Garrosh, and that he has no desire to fight against an unarmed child, do so in the temple of an August Celestial or bring harm to someone who has earned his chieftain's respect.
  • Garrosh Hellscream himself has a long list of tactics he considers unacceptable; blowing up civilian settlements, recklessly launching a surprise attack on the Alliance and undermining the efforts against a mutual enemy, using fel magic, raising the dead, using the Plague of Undeath, and various others such as Mind Control. However, it seems he may be abandoning at least some of those standards considering that he has enslaved molten giants, blew up Theramore and plans to weaponize the power of the Sha.
  • Despite being empowered by consuming the souls of demons and willing to do anything to stop the Burning Legion, the Illidari are nonetheless disturbed that the Fel Hammer is powered by souls. The one explaining it to the player is quite emphatic You Do Not Want To Know what it does to them.
  • Darion Mograine, a ruthless Anti-Hero who, like the Illidari above, is willing to do anything to defeat his enemies, is horrified that the new Lich King (Bolvar Fordragon) has asked the Deathlord to raise Tirion Fordring from the dead as the last of the Four Horsemen. Since Darion respects the person in question and believes that person deserves better, he's horrified, and while he reluctantly agrees to go through with it, he believes he's crossing the Moral Event Horizon by doing so.
• In XCOM Enemy Within, EXALT takes Bio-Augmentation to levels that even Dr. Vahlen won't touch.
• In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Nia immediately defects from Torna after Jin kills Rex by literally stabbing him in the back and Malos orders her to kill the other salvagers hired for the mission. She may be in a terrorist organization, but she refuses to go that far.
• In Yandere Simulator, Info-chan won't accept upskirt photos of corpses, as they would be too incriminating against her should she be approached by the authorities. Also, her clientele are perverts, not necrophiliacs.

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