Everyone Has Standards / Comic Books

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Characters with standards in Comic Books.

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• The DCU
• Marvel Universe

Other Comics

• Aggretsuko (Oni):
  • As in the original anime, while Ton is a lazy Mean Boss with a chauvinistic streak, there are several things that cross the line for him.
    • In the very first issue, he's the one who delivers a message about practicing proper self-care when sick and not risking infecting others by coming into work regardless.
    • Issue 3 of Aggretsuko Meet Her Friends makes this a central part of the plot. While Ton's disregard for women is prevalent for much of the story, he's caught off-guard by Kin's lewder comments about Retsuko and Natsuki. It comes to a head near the end, when he admits that he was excited about the possibility of taking his daughters to golf with him (hoping that they could bond over the sport), getting disheartened when they bluntly shut down his idea. When Kin's immediate reaction is to mock him and say he should focus on marrying them off instead, Ton hits his limit and takes him to task for his beliefs.
  • Karen, despite being nitpicky and disrespectful for much of the original series' third issue, absolutely flips out once she learns that Ton has been abusing his underlings (like forcing Retsuko to make him tea).
• 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.
• Associated Student Bodies: It happens in the middle of his tirade against Marcus for supposedly being a child-molester who corrupted his son, but when the gay-bashing incident from issue 3 is brought up, and Mr. King states Daniel "wouldn't have been a target...if you'd stayed out of this perversion", the wolf responds with "And women don't get raped unless they really wanted it. Yeah, right." Mr. King proves that even though he's a bigot (and can't see the apt parallel), at least he isn't a rape apologist, by angrily snarling, "Don't you dare put words in my mouth!"
• 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.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow: Ty Lee may be a flirt but she thinks Mai is laying it on a little thick with her relationship with Kei Lo.
• The Bellybuttons: For how much of a master manipulator Albin is, even he isn't very impressed with Karine when he pieces together that she planted drugs in Xander's car.
• Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes: Aleron saw no need for excessive bloodshed in his time leading the gorilla army against humans. He's introduced ordering a subordinate to simply clear out and scare off humans rather than actively murder them, stating he had no intention of leading a slaughter.
• Brat Pack: Slumburg may be a wretched hive whose citizens cruelly participate in a Shock Jock's radio poll on whether the kid sidekicks deserve to be killed, but when someone actually goes and does it they're horrified, form an angry mob to kick the crap out of said shock jock, and send the four kids off with the most expensive funeral in the city's history (including solid gold memorial statues).
• 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.
  • The Tz'oook from the "Threat From the Infinite" miniseries are Invading Refugees that originate from Earth of the Permian period and want to retake the planet, but when given proof that they actually come from a parallel universe and the knowledge to go back they immediately abandon the invasion, as they don't want to enslave or displace people that have nothing to do with them. When they discover their Earth cannot be recolonized they decide to use their universe hopping technology to find another inhabitable Earth without a sapient species for the same reason.
• 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.
• The Internship: Fletcher, despite being a smug asshole and former pornstar, gets a moment of this in Volume 4. When River reveals to him that they’re actually a virgin, he refuses to have sex with them. While he says he’s interested in doing so, he’s not interested in popping River’s cherry. He outright tells them they ought to save their first time for someone who cares about them, someone they’re close to. Needless to say, River is completely stupefied. That said, given how the second story arc opens by showing that Fletcher is still flirting with River despite that moment, this standard’s status is up for debate.
• Jingle Belle: Sashi Ounce the snow leopard may be Jingle Belle's rival but she's a Graceful Loser and the only hockey captain who rejects the Bliz Wiz's offer to get revenge on the Elves.
• 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.
• Local Man: #10's back-up feature has Softkore taking Crossjack out clubbing, explaining he's the only guy on the team who's available and old enough to date.
• 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.
• In Peanut, Celia is a classic Alpha Bitch, but when Sadie appears to have eaten a peanut and Louann wonders where Zoo is, she offers to call him.
• 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.
• Scott Pilgrim: For all her complaints, Julie was quite visibly shocked when seeing Scott die by the hands of Gideon.
• 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 more evolved 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.
• Terminator/RoboCop: Kill Human: Even the All-Loving Hero John draws a line in the sand with RoboCop when the latter tries to kill the T-800, saying that he's no human and he's the real machine here.
• Tintin: King Ottokar's Sceptre: Professor Alembick's twin brother might be part of the conspiracy that abducted his own twin and overthrow King Muskar XII, but he's horrified when Tintin is ejected out of their plane via a Trap Door.
• Transformers (2023):
  • While Soundwave is still a Decepticon and willing to steal what he needs from humans or defend himself, he doesn't go out of his way to attack and kill them unprovoked like Starscream and Skywarp do and is clearly unimpressed by them doing so. Highlighted by issue two when a cop opens fire on Soundwave, who simply ignores it since the cop can't possibly harm him… only for Starscream to sadistically stomp on the unlucky officer for no reason. Later in issue four, he calls out with visible disgust how killing and tormenting the locals does nothing to help their situation and that Starscream is just making everything worse for them with his bloodlust.
  • Thundercracker and the other revived Decepticons are shocked and enraged when they see that Skywarp has been murdered and integrated into Teletraan to repair them. Starscream only manages to keep them from a mass Freak Out by lying that the procedure was voluntary.
  • Astrotrain attacks a hospital to capture Spike, but doesn't like injuring innocent bystanders, and only does so because he has a job to do. The second Spike gives himself up, Astrotrain immediately ceases his attack and leaves with him, commending Spike for his bravery.
• 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.
• W.I.T.C.H.: The reason why Vathek turned against Cedric. An angry mob of Meridian refugees was about to kill Cedric for displacing them, only for Will to shield him. Vathek took offense on Will's behalf that Cedric was an Ungrateful Bastard.
• Zombillénium: Francis is a Benevolent Boss who hates firing people as he knows what it entails, but he does fire the zombies responsible for Aurélien's first major hulking out, as it endangered visitors.