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It doesn't matter what other media exists, for it will almost guarantee that there will be at least a few of these humane beings.
Contents
- 1 Fairy Tales
- 2 Fan Works
- 3 Film
- 4 Legends
- 5 Live-Action TV
- 6 Newspaper Comics
- 7 Professional Wrestling
- 8 Tabletop Games
- 9 Theater
- 10 Webcomics
- 11 Web Original
- 12 Western Animation
Fairy Tales[]
- The Little Mermaid in the older versions of the story represented purity. She gave up her underwater kingdom, her wealth, and her fins all for love. At the end of the story she is unable to kill the Prince, even though he has fallen in love with a another woman. Refusing to murder him out of revenge she instead commits suicide, jumping into the sea and becoming sea foam.
- Also from Hans Christian Andersen, Eliza in The Wild Swans. When her stepmother uses cursed toads on her:
Had not the creatures been venomous or been kissed by the witch, they would have been changed into red roses. At all events they became flowers, because they had rested on Eliza's head, and on her heart. She was too good and too innocent for witchcraft to have any power over her. |
Fan Works[]
- Adrian Clements from FNAF Crossover All Star,the protagonist defeated many villains and they all tried to corrupt hin,backfires
- Toy Chica from FNAF Crossover All Star,the deuteragonist,is able to trick villains to fall for her,Nightmare,the villain of the fanfiction,tried to corrupt her,which fails.
- Willy Clements from FNAF Crossover All Star,the tritagonist,like his parents,defeated villains and resist mind control.
Film[]
- Bail Organa in Star Wars, Leia's adoptive father and Senator of the Republic. An unwavering supporter of the rights of the people and of the Jedi Order, Bail puts himself in danger multiple times during the rise of the Empire by either criticizing Palpatine's policies or aiding the Jedi. When Order 66 began, the safe thing to do was to stay as far away from the Jedi as possible. What Bail did was head straight for the spaceport and embark on a mission to find any Jedi who had survived, and then to help them however he could. It was because of his incorruptible moral fiber that he became an enemy of the Empire and it eventually led to all of Alderaan being destroyed.
- Yoda represents all that is good and pure about the Jedi, and is renowned for his wisdom. Basically he’s Emperor Palpatine’s opposite.
- Peter Cushing's portrayal of Dr. Van Helsing in the various Hammer Horror films.
- Sgt. Howie in The Wicker Man. A literally pure hero.
- Giselle from Disney is pure of heart. In fact, she's never felt angry in her life, up until she ends up in New York City, that is. Her optimism is in contrast to Robert the lawyer, who is pessimistic until he meets her.
- Mater from Cars is a tow truck who does not have any corruptive qualities whatsoever. While at first it seems that he's lying about things such as meeting an alien, he actually has evidence to support those claims. This is however averted with Lightning McQueen. While he doesn't get corrupted, he was in danger of becoming a race car who would stop at nothing to win. Chick Hicks shows what would have happened if he WAS corrupted.
- Scooby-Doo, according to the live action movie. It it for this specific reason the daemons go after him.
- Joe Friday in the 1987 movie version of Dragnet is incorruptible. His only vice is cigarettes, which he warns others against taking up. Although as for pureness, at the very end of the movie he does end up with Connie Swail.
- Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire. Interestingly it is well done enough to make him more likable because of this instead of making him "sueish".
- Utterly subverted in Monty Python and The Holy Grail, in that Sir Galahad wants to be corrupted after some convincing by the women of Castle Anthrax, only to be "saved" by Sir Lancelot just in time, much to his - and the women's - chagrin.
- The fact that when Galahad was created Lancelot was his father always makes that sequence especially hilarious.
- The Golden Child is such a character. As a Buddhist monk with mystical powers, his mere existence serves to prevent the forces of evil from taking over the world. The only way they can kill him is if he becomes corrupted by committing an evil act, but despite starvation and isolation, he holds firm for The Chosen One to rescue him, and even manages to convert a mook to the side of good in the process.
- Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He keeps his principles in the face of Washington corruption. And he suffers for it.
- Astronaut John Glenn from The Right Stuff. "Mr. Clean the Marine" lived on the straight and narrow, was devoted to his shy, stuttering wife, and when he was approached by a couple of prostitutes who were working their way through the entire flight crew, he drove them away. (Even in the straight-laced 1950s he was considered remarkable.)
- Ophelia and her baby brother from the movie Pan's Labyrinth both represent purity.
- Informed Attribute of the title character in Warrior of the Lost World.
- Implied to be the case with Princess Tamina and her ancestresses in Prince of Persia the Sands of Time. According to the backstory she tells to Prince Dastan, she is descended from a girl who managed to prevent the gods from destroying all of mankind through the wish of her pure heart that humanity would be spared.
- This is literally the reason why Steve Rogers became the ideal Super-Soldier in the form of the heroic Captain America.
Legends[]
- While most of the knights in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur are not exactly corrupt, when the Grail quest arrives, it finds that they are proud, violent, and unchaste. The honor of actually finding the Grail is reserved for Galahad, Percival and Bors. (Even Bors was not perfect, but was allowed because of the perfection of his repentance).
Live-Action TV[]
- Kenneth the page in Thirty Rock retains his sunny optimism despite being surrounded by unscrupulous business men and jaded industry types.
- Probably the best example is the season 4 finale, in which he is unjustly fired. He crashes a party and announces that he's finally going to tell everyone present how he really feels about them and the way they have treated him over the years...he loved every minute of it and will see them all in heaven. Combines Crowning Moment of Funny and Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
- In another episode, Jack, who is actively trying to corrupt Kenneth and test his virtue, traps him in an elevator with eight other people and informs him that since there is only enough oxygen for eight to survive long enough to be rescued, one person has to die (via the conveniently placed pistol in the phonebox). Kenneth immediately grabs the pistol and tries to blow his own brains out, and when it turns out to be unloaded (duh), tries to strangle himself with his belt. This causes Jack to flee from the elevator, completely unnerved and spluttering "What is wrong with you??"
- Fred Rogers...or rather, the character he portrays on Mr. Rogers' neighborhood. Let's face it, the man was just GOOD. Pure and simple.
- Fraser in Due South . He's a mountie, gosh darn it!
- The 1998 Merlin series repeatedly subverts this, as Vortigern, Uther, Lancelot, and Guinevere do not turn out to be the saintly people they were originally thought to be. Played straight with Arthur, however, and implied with Galahad.
- Alexis, Castle's daughter in Castle. In one episode, Castle gets paranoid about his teenage daughter having done something illegal, like drugs. Alexis assures him that she's not and hasn't been in any kind of trouble. The next morning, Alexis wakes him up, tearful and guilt-ridden about having lied to him in their earlier heart-to-heart, and painfully forces herself to confess the truth... she once jumped a subway turnstile without paying when she had a desperate need to catch the train. (The next she swiped her card twice and didn't ride to make up for it.) He punishes her. With mandatory ice cream for breakfast. She has to punish herself with being grounded for a week.
- Captain Sheridan in Babylon 5, so much so that in the show's universe he becomes a mythical figure himself, after Earth is bombed back to the middle ages.
- Edith Bunker in All in The Family is sweet and nice to everyone and completely honest, providing a contrast to her bigoted, Jerkass husband, Archie, whom she tolerates with endless patience. In the episode "Archie and Edith Alone", Archie even calls out her for it: "Good thing, that's you all over! Always doing good! Edith the Good! You never get mad at nobody, you never holler at nobody, you never swear, no, nothing! You're like a saint, Edith! You think it's fun living with a saint? It ain't!" He challanges her to "do something rotten"; she tries to insult him, then crash a bowl of flowers, but she's literally unable to do either.
- Rick from The Walking Dead refuses to betray his ideals or leave a man - even a jerk like Merle - behind.
- Martha M. Masters from House.
- Ximena Fernandez, the teacher from Carrusel. She never does anything objectionable and is always kind and follows her good morals. Also, Daniel Zapata and Carmen Carrillo never seem to get into trouble, are kind to everyone, and do well in school.
- My Wife and Kids has Tony, Claire's boyfriend, as this.
Newspaper Comics[]
- The Calvin and Hobbes page image is from a story that just barely subverts this. The guy vanishes into thin air upon having an evil thought.
Professional Wrestling[]
- Rey Mysterio, Jr.. Has been a babyface for his entire WWE career (nearly 10 years by this point) and hardly ever cheats in matches (and when he does, it's couched as justified). Kids love him.
- John Cena is commonly portrayed as this, and for the most part he really is. However, he's still a thug at heart, and will occasionally Pay Evil Unto Evil if you get him angry enough.
- His current feud with Kane hinges on the big monster attempting to get Cena to "embrace the hate", in order to corrupt him, as it were.
- Kelly Kelly and Eve Torres. The only two major Divas in modern WWE history to have never, ever been heels.
- Eve recently averted this by turning heel.
- Sting. (He has been a heel a few times, but many fans either don't remember or don't care.)
Tabletop Games[]
- In the 1st through 3rd Editions of Dungeons and Dragons, members of the Paladin class were required to maintain their Incorruptible Pure Pureness or lose their class abilities. Unfortunately, many problems arose when people played them as merciless, smite-happy, Lawful Stupid Knight Templars and GMs didn't call them on it, or when GMs interpreted even the slightest bit of grey morality as an excuse to strip the paladin of their powers and players didn't call them on it. 4th Edition abolished this restriction, but they are expected to stay in line with the ideals of their patron god (so if your patron god expects you to be a bastion of Incorruptible Pure Pureness, then think twice about putting the orc kids to death. If your patron god is a slaughter-happy maniac, then think twice about petting those puppies unless you intend to snap their necks while doing so)
- 3.5 has a series of feats for monks that grant absurd bonuses if they follow incredibly strict disciplines. The feat Vow of Poverty is the most extreme one, which grants the character a few bonuses in exchange for them never owning any material possessions save for the very basic essentials. The result is a character who will never break his chosen vow no matter what.
- That's not a monk-only feat. Vow of Poverty, along with Vow of Peace (a feat requiring you to never deal lethal injury to a living thing, in exchange for tremendous numerical bonuses) appear in the Book of Exalted Deeds, and anybody can take them. Enforcing 'fluff' rules (like non-mechanical penalties for starvation) is the only thing that limits them (other than the whole "can't lethally injure something or own shinies" things).
- Anybody who remains Exalted, (i.e. To Good characters what regular Good characters are to Neutral ones) on top of the additional restrictions for the Vow itself, yes.
- That's not a monk-only feat. Vow of Poverty, along with Vow of Peace (a feat requiring you to never deal lethal injury to a living thing, in exchange for tremendous numerical bonuses) appear in the Book of Exalted Deeds, and anybody can take them. Enforcing 'fluff' rules (like non-mechanical penalties for starvation) is the only thing that limits them (other than the whole "can't lethally injure something or own shinies" things).
- The end of 3.5 gave us Heroes of Horror and the near-definitive ruleset for the taint of evil, which treated evil that was vile enough as a physical thing that could corrupt the bodies and minds of characters. Characters with the Pure Soul feat were incorruptible, and immune to taint.
- Ravenloft has a class of characters called "Innocents" who share this trait. They get a certain amount of protection from the horrors of the Demiplane of Dread, but they lose it if they do evil or even get exposed to it in certain circumstances. The goal of the PCs is usually to keep that from happening. There's also a "True Innocent" Prestige Class that jacks this up to eleven. Paladins are brought back closer to this trope as well in said campaign setting: Paladins are literally such beacons of goodness that they slightly dissolve the fabric of Ravenloft itself enough to make the various Darklords able to sense their general location...
- 3.5 has a series of feats for monks that grant absurd bonuses if they follow incredibly strict disciplines. The feat Vow of Poverty is the most extreme one, which grants the character a few bonuses in exchange for them never owning any material possessions save for the very basic essentials. The result is a character who will never break his chosen vow no matter what.
- While Warhammer tends to subvert these kinds of characters whenever they can, the High Elf Everqueen seems relatively immune. Helps being Friend to All Living Things, and she's so pure her very presence dissolves demons and dark magics. Naturally she tends to be a Distressed Damsel.
- Outside of Warhammer 40000 literature mentioned above, there were the Sensei, descendants of the Emperor who can't even have negative feelings like hate and envy, and the Star Child, the incorruptible innocence of the Emperor that he had to discard in order to kill his favourite son after purging him of all the evils that led to the fighting.
- The Grey Knights Chapter subjects its recruits to the equivalent of 666 Mind Rapes as part of their training, then erases their personalities at the end of it, on top of the nightmarish training regimes of a Space Marine, ensuring their complete incorruptibility. For the whole millenia-long history of their chapter not a single Grey Knight has ever fallen to Chaos, despite this being a setting where reading the wrong book or talking to the wrong person leaves one open to Chaos taint. Supposedly their purity and piety is so extreme that demons find it physically painful to even get near them (apart from the physical pain caused by the boltguns and flamethrowers, that is).
- The 5th edition codex adds another layer of pureness, the Purifiers, who are considered even more incorruptible than their fellow brethren. And then there's their champion, Castellan Crowe, who's so pure that he carries around a daemon sword with no ill effect.
- The Sisters of Battle, despite what the majority of fan-fiction seems to want, have had only a single Sister fall after many thousands of years of constantly battling Chaos.
- Maybe. In Cain's Last Stand, an entire mission of Sisters is corrupted by Mind Control. Other works have them corrupted too, like the graphic novel Daemonifuge, and some of the epilogues of Dawn of War Soulstorm (if it exists, or it was what happened).
- Darnath Lysander, Captain of the Imperial Fists 1st Company, was lost in the Warp for a millennium. When he finally got spat out again, he was captured by the Chapter's arch-enemies and tortured. He broke out of his prison, unarmed, and returned to his Chapter. The Chaplains and Apothecaries tested him for six months for any sign of taint. He passed, and was given command of his old company. He then proceeded to hand the asses of his captors to them on a silver platter.
- The thirteenth company of the Space Wolves have been fighting in the Eye of Terror, uncorrupted, for approximately ten thousand years.
- Though that has a lot to do with them being already corrupted in a different way.
- The Grey Knights Chapter subjects its recruits to the equivalent of 666 Mind Rapes as part of their training, then erases their personalities at the end of it, on top of the nightmarish training regimes of a Space Marine, ensuring their complete incorruptibility. For the whole millenia-long history of their chapter not a single Grey Knight has ever fallen to Chaos, despite this being a setting where reading the wrong book or talking to the wrong person leaves one open to Chaos taint. Supposedly their purity and piety is so extreme that demons find it physically painful to even get near them (apart from the physical pain caused by the boltguns and flamethrowers, that is).
- Deconstructed by the Unconquered Sun in Exalted. He's pure in four different ways that don't interact well, and deals with the stress by hanging out playing the Games of Divinity for, oh...about the last two thousand years.
Theater[]
- Sarah Brown from Guys and Dolls is an example of this, and this trope is parodied by her mission band's inability to "save" any souls until Sky makes the other gamblers come to the testimonial
- The protagonist Violane in the play L'Annonce faite à Marie (The Tidings Brought to Mary) by Paul Claudel. Violane is moved by pity to kiss a leper, and gives him her engagement ring to help finance the church. This of course does not sit well with her fiancée Jacques -- especially now that she has contracted leprosy herself. Jacques marries Violane's sister instead, but when their child dies, the saintly Violane, blind and forsaken in the lepers' colony, brings the kid back to life.
- Daesdaemona in William Shakespeare's Othello is the embodiment of rational virtue. As such, she is as incorruptible as it gets.
Webcomics[]
- Piffany the cleric in Nodwick is so full of incorruptibly pure pureness that she had only one utterly trivial entry in the universal Book of Misdeeds.
- She's so pure, in fact, that she's been known to motivate those with terminally tarnished souls just by the threat of making her cry.
- She's so pure she can make Artax and Yeager do good.
- From her official bio: Piffany is the epitome of goodness, sweetness, and light. Her birth was said to be heralded by rainbows, songbirds singing in three-part harmony, and her entire village having a "nice day." She was given to her clerical order by her parents, who reportedly were sleep-deprived due to Piffany's 300-watt halo of purity keeping them (and most surrounding farm animals) awake at night.
- Suffice it to say, Piffany is such a pure example of this trope, there's justification to rename it "The Piffany".
- Kiki from Sluggy Freelance has never intentionally caused anyone any harm and seems to love everyone. Unfortunately, she's also a colossal idiot and Genki Girl, so the amount of harm she causes unintentionally can be quite staggering.
- Her counterpart Good Bun-Bun from the Dimension of Lame has a similar purity, although he's smarter than she is. Actually, all of the people in that dimension are completely non-violent, kindhearted and incorruptible, which turns out not to be a good thing. When he's about to leave that world, Torg said to Good Bun-Bun, "You're the only one who's been straight with me in this entire world."
- Despite never having been referred to as being Incorruptibly Pure, Elan from Order of the Stick is pretty clearly this, especially recently. He's too naive/innocent/adorably ditzy to even dream of committing evil acts.
- To the point where he's a little morally torn by the fact that he had to steal new clothes after escaping from prison. Haley (the rogue)'s reaction to this is... enthusiastic.
- O-Chul is another good example. Even after being imprisoned and tortured for months, he sticks to the Paladin code and is ultimately rescued with his honor intact.
- Tony the Tiger in Breakfast of the Gods. This is likely the reason why he's chosen as the leader of the heroic cereal icons when they decide to declare war on Count Chocula. Sadly, Trix Rabbit is not an example.
- The entire citizenry of the eponymous City of Reality is like this, as part of a deliberate Deconstruction of a Mary Suetopia.
- After his Magic World adventure, the citizens of Reality have declared Todo this, calling him "The Soul of Reality."
- Jesus, Buddha, and Criminy in Sinfest. While Jesus and Buddha are self-explanatory, Criminy is a young, nerdy bookworm. Fuchsia, a servant of the Devil, has fallen in love with him and shifted from Chaotic Evil to nearly Neutral Good as a result.
- Earlier, Satan mocked Monique as thinking she was this. She countered that compared to him, she was.
- Somewhat subverted or parodied with Joyce from the Walkyverse. She was so innocent that she was the only one immune to the Aliens' torture of choice: being forced to watch The Sound of Music. So they showed her pornography instead. Despite being a college student, she had no idea of how human sexuality worked, and this messed her up so badly that she used an alien memory erasure device to delete all her memories, and it takes her years to get them back. Although she has since matured to the point where "pre-marital hanky-panky" no longer bothers her (and she frequently engages in such with her fiance Walky), she is still the nicest, sweetest, most innocent person you are likely to ever meet.
- Claire of Sister Claire has but one vice in all the world; she loves cats, and can't help stopping to play with them should she meet any outside the walls of the convent (which is actually more serious than you might think, since the nun who is her mentor and mother-figure is flagrantly allergic to cats and even a little bit of fur on Claire's clothes will cause her to swell up like something funny that swells up really big). She's vaguely aware of the existence of evil but has difficulty conceiving of it in others (with the possible exception of Sister Marguerite, with whom an antagonistic relationship would be an improvement for poor Claire). Her chipper innocence almost gets her in serious trouble when Gabrielle takes her to a supernatural nightclub.
Web Original[]
Fishy Boopkins in SMG4's blooper videos is pretty much the nicest guy that you'll ever meet. It's for this reason he quickly manages to befriend the main cast. Of course, he happens to be friends with Bob, who isn't exactly the trope, considering what a Jerk he can be. Also present is Tari who is a pacifist and happens to love rubber ducks, aside from playing video games. She does get along with Saiko Bichitaru who has a history of violence however.
Western Animation[]
- Optimus Prime. There's a reason no other leader of the Autobots has gone uncontested.
- Moral Orel, as stated in the above quote. Orel lives in a Crapsack World of Stepford Smilers but continues to be a genuinely nice, moral, faithful, and kind person... and it pisses his father off to no end. Even after he's become disillusioned after trying so hard and failing to find any reason to honor his selfish, abusive, philandering asshole of a father, and the series ends with a grown-up Orel with his wife and children, there's a picture of said asshole father still on the wall, implying that Orel's come to graceful terms with it, and keeps him in his life.
- Even when demonstrated to not be fully immune to corruption it is never his fault, due to some adult giving him terrible advice.
- Butters Stotch. South Park keeps on using him as The Chew Toy, but he remains relatively well-adjusted despite almost hitting the breaking point a couple of times. Even when he tries to be evil and adopts the persona Professor Chaos, he fails miserably. His friend Eric Cartman, in contrast, is anything but.
- This trope is the reason the position of The Pope in the South Park universe was not intended for a human, but a rabbit (St. Peter, the first Pope, was in fact Peter Rabbit). Rabbits embody Incorruptible Pure Pureness while Humans Are Bastards who are greedy and power-hungry.
- Samurai Jack, to the point where he was able to resist being stabbed through the chest by his own weapon because of his purity.
- There was a notable instance of Aku manifesting Jack's evils (anger and battle-lust - basically the sin of Wrath - which culminates in a frustrated Jack attacking his shoe) as Dark Jack. The episode turns into a Double Subversion when Jack defeats the Dark clone by simply calming down and purging himself of those thoughts. Not completely incorruptible, but very close.
- Aang of ~Avatar: The Last Airbender~ aims for this. He has faltered (especially when Appa and Katara were endangered), but in the end he achieves this.
- Ned Flanders from The Simpsons, especially in the early seasons.
- The Zeta Project gives us Zeta, who in essence becomes this after his moral epiphany during the pilot. Though he did immoral things before hand, once he obtains sentience he becomes a soft spoken, loving, gentle, compassionate person who is innocent to the ways of the world. He seems to have a self imposed moral code of never killing anyone and doing his best not to hurt anybody, and his sincerest wish is to live his life peacefully.
- Princess Tenko from Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic is "always pure of heart and soul" and a good example of a Purity Sue.
- Jimmy Two-Shoes. The entire show is about a guy who is The Pollyanna while being trapped in Hell.
- It's eventually revealed that Finn Mertens from Adventure Time is pure good, since he is the Reincarnation of the Blue Catalyst Comet, which incarnated as a butterfly, a symbol of rebirth. His goodness extends to the point that he tries to beat his purity into others. This is noticeable in the episode "Goliad": when the golem that Princess Bubblegum created turns evil, what does she do to stop it? Make a new one with Finn's DNA instead of her own. The original tries to invoke We Can Rule Together, but because of the pureness, it refuses and sacrifices itself to stop the other. On another occasion, the Lich uses Finn's innocence against him to open up a portal to the multiverse by a means Finn thought would prevent it. Throughout the series, he also has helped countless characters. Despite his Blood Knight tendencies and Hot-Blooded moments, Finn is still a purely good person deep down. Adventure Time.
- The Flash in Justice League. Word of God said that they had to kill him off in the Justice Lord timeline because they couldn't think of anything that would make him willingly Face Heel Turn. In-universe, Wally's absence is what lets the normally incorruptible League fall off the path.
- As noted in the Comic Book section, Captain Marvel in this series as well.
- In the season 2 premiere of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, Discord goes out to corrupt the mane six. He manages to easily brainwash four of them into becoming the opposite of their respective Elements of Harmony (such as Applejack, the Element of Honesty, becoming a perpetual liar). Fluttershy, however, is so pure and nice, that he has to just brainwash her with brute force.
- Princess Celestia, probably. We've only seen her get even slightly angry twice, and both were rather extreme circumstances. The return of a tyrannical, reality warping, anthropomorphic personification who wanted to make existence a living hell for all her subjects, and her favorite student inadvertently brainwashing the whole town into a brawl simply so she could complete a school assignment. All other times, Celestia has shown the patience and virtue of a saint, and was rather forgiving on the second mentioned occasion.
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