Yeah... I've tried getting a Complete Angel (my name for the Pure Good term) proposal started, but nobody would take it. Plus I've got tons of awesome characters guaranteed to make the cut. Some even compete against C Ms. This trope will have to suffice until then.
Edited by SpaceProtagonist Hello, I'm the American Cinema Critic, I remember because the majors don't.
I feel like this should be moved to the YMMV tab, with my reasoning being that since people have different values and Complete Monster, this trope's polar opposite, is a YMMV trope, so should this.
MagBas
The Skywalker twins, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo. It's this very trait that allows them to defeat the Empire: Leia, despite being tortured for information, refuses to break and give up the rebels, even though it could mean her life; later, when the love of her life is tortured she still refuses to give in to Vader's demands. Luke's utter inability to even comprehend power for its own sake, as well as his ability to love and forgive anyone, is what ends the Emperor's life: he would fight his father to protect others and give his sister the time she needed to stop the Emperor's plans, but he would not kill him or seek to replace him. This leads Anakin to remember who he is and kill the Emperor himself to protect his son.
I removed the Luke example because the movie itself turns really clear that Luke suffered a legitimate temptation . In other words, he was not corrupted, but was corruptible.
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Seems like they're both shoehorned. Leia is a good character through-and-through, but she isn't really portrayed as this so much as a tough woman underneath her Princess exterior.
... also, she did kind of take time off from the war and put herself and several of her high-ranking officers to save Han. That... wasn't a decision made for the war effort, I'm just saying.
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MagBas
- Melanie Wilkes from Gone with the Wind was originally supposed to be like this; not exactly by today's standards, since she doesn't seem to have a problem with slavery and enthusiastically supports the South in the Civil War.
look, i am sure that values dissonance not changes the mode as something is portrayed.( To be more explicit, all the "pure" characters created 100 years ago realized cringe- worthy things/ showed cringe-worthy opinions to current values.) But, in either case, this is a Zero-Context Example.
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No context, yeah. Keep this off.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Something about the description here hits me the wrong way... it seems to be implying that this sort of a character is bad writing. It can be—and it's easier to mess up than most characters—but I've read several examples that really are fully rounded characters. They don't tend to be main characters; they are more likely to be people who've already faced and defeated temptation, or simply people who are truly innocent and just don't *get* evil to begin with (they will often be saints or non-humans; aliens, angels, the faithful dog, etc.).
I wish I could tweak this to reflect that idea—that this trait is not a hallmark of a bad character, but still very easy to mess up—but I can't really figure out how to express that. Perhaps someone else would be willing to give it a shot.
I added this to the YMMV tab. Is this OK? I just felt like people would have different opinions on who is purely good just like they have different opinions on who is purely evil...
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We need a TV Tropes folder for this page. One of the tropes is Screw the Money, I Have Rules!.
I think one should be based on the heroes wiki to see if heroes are approved as this or not. Goku got rejected. Sailor Moon got rejected. Versions of Batman, Spider Man and Wonder Woman got rejected. Spongebob... oh, he isn't even close to Pure Good as shown on the near pure good wiki. So, shouldn't many material here be deleted?
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