...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Lawful Stupid

1233 statements
228 feature instances
258 referencing feature instances

Lawful Stupid	type	FeatureClass
Lawful Stupid	label	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid	page	LawfulStupid
Lawful Stupid	comment	Lawful Stupid, also known as Lawful Anal, is for people who may call themselves Lawful Neutral or Lawful Good but lean toward such rigid adherence to the law that anybody who breaks any law, anywhere, for any reason, is the enemy. Even saying an unkind word to someone is an act of pure evil to this kind of character, and the Lawful Stupid can and will act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner. That is why they are called Lawful Stupid, not Lawful Neutral or Lawful Evil. Woe betide the fellow party member who fails to live up to their obsessive standards. If the thief so much as jaywalks, Mr. Lawful Stupid will insist on turning him in to the "proper authorities" (regardless of what alignment said authorities are), or even execute him on the spot. Then he'll berate the other members of his party for "condoning" the thief's behavior, and may turn on them as well. This makes this guy highly irritating as well as stupid for turning in his only allies. For newbie DMs, the best solution is usually a blunt force object applied to the head of the offending character â€” if not the player. One of the issues that can arise that a writer must avoid with this trope is known as the "World Created Last Thursday" problem. If there is a societal explosion being caused now by the party or some group not corresponding with the laws, or the laws just not working in general... why hasn't this been a problem before now? Nobody Ever Complained Before? In tabletop roleplaying games, this was once such a common behavior for paladins that acting Lawful Stupid is what everyone expects paladins to do these days. The reason for this has to do with game mechanics in early editions of Dungeons & Dragons which required Paladins to act this way in order to avoid a De-power. A lot of inexperienced players failing to understand the difference between Intelligence and Wisdom didn't help the Paladin's image on this front, either. In fact, this kind of behavior from players is so common that the D&D Sourcebook Book of Exalted Deeds spends a good number of pages explaining how to be Lawful Neutral or Lawful Good without being stupid, largely included because the creators themselves got sick of the attitude.note However, they kind of failed, as the Book of Exalted Deeds is derisively referred to by players as Book of Stupidly Dumb Good because of how they handle Good and Evil in said book. Its companion piece the Book of Vile Darkness doesn't help matters. In-universe, a Paladin is supposed to be more street-smart than well-read, but there was a big difference between Paladin lore and the way players used the class, as well as the lore saying one thing and the rules saying another. Essentially, thanks to some miscommunications, confusion, and contradictions in the rules of early editions of D&D, the Paladin class as a whole has had to shake off the reputation as a class for Lawful Stupid behavior. Even after decades of efforts to correct the issue, the Paladin still isn't completely in the clear. This trope is a Lawful character carrying the Idiot Ball because that is the Lawful thing to do. Remember, however, that Tropes Are Not Bad. When properly used, this trope can actually be used to add depth to a character rather than reduce them to a farce:
Lawful Stupid	fetched	2024-04-10T11:16:08Z
Lawful Stupid	parsed	2024-04-10T11:16:08Z
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to AncientOrderOfProtectors: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to AnimatedArmor: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to AntiVillain: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to ArtifactOfDoom: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to AxCrazy: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to BatmanGambit: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to BigBad: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to BollywoodNerd: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to Castlevania: Not an Item - CAT
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to CharacterDevelopment: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to CityGuards: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to CivilWar: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to CorruptCorporateExecutive: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to CrapsaccharineWorld: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to CurbStompBattle: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to CutawayGag: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to Dragonlance: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to EarthShatteringKaboom: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to EvilChancellor: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to ExactWords: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to FallenAngel: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to Flanderization: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to FutureMeScaresMe: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to GenderBlenderName: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to GodzillaThreshold: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to HeroWorship: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to HolierThanThou: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to HonestJohnsDealership: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to HopeBringer: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to Hypocrite: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to InUniverse: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to InsaneTrollLogic: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to InspectorJavert: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to ItMakesSenseInContext: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to JerkassWoobie: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to Justified: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to KnightInShiningArmor: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to KnightTemplar: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to LawfulGood: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to LawfulNeutral: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to LiteralMinded: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to LogicBomb: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to LoopholeAbuse: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to MemeticBadass: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to MindControl: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to Mooks: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to MoralEventHorizon: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to NeglectfulPrecursors: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to NeutralGood: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to NoNonsenseNemesis: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to ObstructiveBureaucrat: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to ObviouslyEvil: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to OurVampiresAreDifferent: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to PlanetOfHats: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to PlayedForLaughs: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to PraetorianGuard: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to PrinciplesZealot: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to RayStevens: Not an Item - IGNORE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to SkewedPriorities: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to SpaceMarine: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to StateSec: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to StupidEvil: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to TheChessmaster: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to TheCowl: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to TheDragon: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to TheOldGods: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to ToBeLawfulOrGood: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to TooDumbToLive: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to TopGod: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to WarcraftExpandedUniverse: Not an Item - CAT
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to WasOnceAMan: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to WolfMan: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to accentuatethenegative: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to allcrimesareequal: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to exaggeratedtrope: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to lampshadehanging: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to nicejobbreakingithero: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to runninggag: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingComment	Dropped link to thechainsofcommanding: Not an Item - FEATURE
Lawful Stupid	processingUnknown	HeroWorship
Lawful Stupid	processingUnknown	Dragonlance
Lawful Stupid	isPartOf	DBTropes
Lawful Stupid / int_11b7db91	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Finn and Jake sometimes fall into this. In "Video Makers" they stopped showing copyrighted movies on movie night because of the FBI warnings, even though the FBI and the copyright holders are long dead, and the society under which the copyright law was made, no longer exists. Tree Trunks was like this toward herself when she called the Banana Guards on herself for stealing her own apples. And they showed up and cuff her, rather than the conversation with the dispatcher winding up on Ooo's Stupidest 911 Calls.
Lawful Stupid / int_11b7db91	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_11b7db91	featureConfidence	1.0
Adventure Time	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_11b7db91
Lawful Stupid / int_1367cea0	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm Dragon is forced to obey all laws. It's one of the many Geases her father laid upon her to limit her. She laments that if she ever found herself in a dictatorship or even just in the clutches of an evil bureaucrat she would have to enforce their regime of terror.
Lawful Stupid / int_1367cea0	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_1367cea0	featureConfidence	1.0
Worm	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_1367cea0
Lawful Stupid / int_13906bf7	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_13906bf7	comment	Sly Cooper has a perfect example in Carmelita Fox. In the first game, she's so fixated on arresting Sly that she completely fails to notice the Panda King's operations, as well as the fact that he buried an innocent village in snow; Sly even calls her on it. It continues into the second game, where she chases Sly and co. around the world to prevent them from stealing the Clockwerk Parts, despite the fact that she helped the Cooper Gang take down Clockwerk in the first game's ending and thus has full knowledge of how dangerous he is.
Lawful Stupid / int_13906bf7	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_13906bf7	featureConfidence	1.0
Sly Cooper (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_13906bf7
Lawful Stupid / int_183290f3	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_183290f3	comment	Denam in Tactics Ogre will be talked into going along with a False Flag Operation and many players were surprised that this brought them along the lawful route, which is normally seen as the "good" choice. Lawful was actually just the type that means you follow orders, no matter what, whereas, in some other games, the "lawful" was actually good. (Namely Ogre Battle 64, with implications in Knight of Lodis.)
Lawful Stupid / int_183290f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_183290f3	featureConfidence	1.0
Tactics Ogre (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_183290f3
Lawful Stupid / int_19f564b3	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_19f564b3	comment	The main Macrophage of Cells at Work! Lady can heavily lean into this due to the dedication he has to the protection of the host's body, which can sometimes leads to more trouble for the other immunity cells due to the severity of his gungho protective nature. This is shown full force during the Pregnancy Arc, misinterpreting the host's intimate acts with her lover as planned assaults against the body and would've caused a miscarriage had his superiors not barred him from patrolling the reproductive system during that time. This is all Truth in Television, as a woman's immune cells will briefly interpret a fertilized ovum as a foreign invader due to half of its DNA not belonging to the host, and the ovum would usually need to pump extra hormones into the bloodstream and dig deeper into the uterine walls in order to get them off its case so it can safely grow.
Lawful Stupid / int_19f564b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_19f564b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Cells at Work! Lady (Manga)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_19f564b3
Lawful Stupid / int_1ad6e2b5	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_1ad6e2b5	comment	In an episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Takashi is appointed leader of the School Disciplinary Squad by the Student Council President and takes this job way too far. When Yuma is challenged to a duel by the President, Takashi forbids Yuma from using Gagaga Girl because her outfit violates the school dress code. (Never mind that a ruling like this would be considered outright cheating in the actual card game.) In Takashi's defense, when he realizes that the President is a Brainwashed and Crazy minion of the Barians who has been using him, he quickly resigns from his position, and Yuma is able to use any cards he wants from that point.
Lawful Stupid / int_1ad6e2b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_1ad6e2b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_1ad6e2b5
Lawful Stupid / int_1af341a1	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_1af341a1	comment	Disgaea: To some people, Seraph Lamingtont of Disgaea 1 can come off as Lawful Stupid or Stupid Good. This is all a lie, as Lamington is a grade-A Chessmaster. Archangel Vulcanus, on the other hand, is either bonafide Lawful Stupid or just flat-out Lawful Evil. Adell from Disgaea 2 constantly insists on fair fights and keeping promises. This would be all well and good if it wasn't for one teensy weensy little fact: everyone within a 100-mile radius is a savvy hellspawn willing to milk this for all its worth. Rozalin spends quite a deal of time wondering how this kind of behavior hasn't killed him already. His attitude actually leads him to achieve heroic victory.
Lawful Stupid / int_1af341a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_1af341a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Disgaea (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_1af341a1
Lawful Stupid / int_1cc09117	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: When the Central 46 makes a ruling, no-one is allowed to oppose that ruling, not even captains. It's later revealed that this system of justice was either set up by or helped to be set up by Yamamoto, who enforces it with an unforgiving rigidity. When Ukitake and Kyouraku, his two favourite students, rebel, he is willing to kill them for their transgression. Only when it's revealed that everything was Aizen's manipulations does Yamamoto back down and focus on the real problem. After the time-skip, Yamamoto has been softened enough by Ichigo's beliefs that he's finally willing to break the law to save Ichigo to repay the debt the captains owe him. This softening took over a thousand years to achieve; Yamamoto was that rigid.
Lawful Stupid / int_1cc09117	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_1cc09117	featureConfidence	1.0
Bleach (Manga)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_1cc09117
Lawful Stupid / int_1d2eacd1	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_1d2eacd1	comment	Lord Theodore, head of the Knights of Mirsaburg in Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song, is Lawful Stupid to the core. Sure, the corrupt nobility deserves his scorn, but Theodore is utterly convinced that he's the only one who's right, ever. He clings so rigidly to his idea of chivalry that at one point, he jails and plans to execute one of his most loyal knights... because they were slashed in the back. After all, the knights never run away, and though he was clearly ambushed by monsters, without a witness to vouch for him, Theodore automatically assumes that he broke his vow and should die for cowardice. In fact, when the enemy pulls a Fake King plot, it works well mainly because it seems perfectly in-character for him to declare war on one of his allies just because she disagrees with him.
Lawful Stupid / int_1d2eacd1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_1d2eacd1	featureConfidence	1.0
Romancing SaGa (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_1d2eacd1
Lawful Stupid / int_20028d77	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_20028d77	comment	The Spectre falls under this trope from time to time, mostly because he is vengeance personified and thus prone to being tricked. Given his power, this is a very bad thing. This is why he is usually bound to a human host; both to limit his power and to give him some much-needed perspective.
Lawful Stupid / int_20028d77	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_20028d77	featureConfidence	1.0
The Spectre (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_20028d77
Lawful Stupid / int_2172e43f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_2172e43f	comment	The Gotham City story "The Fall" from Batman: Arkham Knight, adds an even bigger emphasis on this trope. During the story, we learn that in order to provoke Jason Todd, the Joker murdered an entire kindergarten class, chopped the children's bodies into pieces, then sewed them back together so that the grieving parents wouldn't be able to identify which child is theirs. This turned out to be the final straw for Jason Todd, who sought out the Joker with the intent to kill him. Given that Batman allows someone like that to continue living, this trope is in full effect.
Lawful Stupid / int_2172e43f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_2172e43f	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: Arkham Knight (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_2172e43f
Lawful Stupid / int_2250e67e	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise manages to one-up the above examples in "Dear Doctor", as they doom a whole sapient species to death by genetic defect, despite having already developed the cure (they decide not to distribute it). They do this because Archer envisions that there will be some directive against it in the future. In other words, he is stupidly enforcing a law that DOES NOT EXIST YET. It also relies on Dr. Phlox saying that evolution "intends" for the species to go extinct and be replaced by the other species on the planet, which is not at all how science works.
Lawful Stupid / int_2250e67e	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_2250e67e	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Enterprise	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_2250e67e
Lawful Stupid / int_261c8d3f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Johnny Tightlips, a member of the Springfield Mafia who never lets go of a secret, even when it's something that would save his life.
Lawful Stupid / int_261c8d3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_261c8d3f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Simpsons	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_261c8d3f
Lawful Stupid / int_2675c915	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_2675c915	comment	In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Glen Talbot has staked his career on shutting down S.H.I.E.L.D. because that's what the US government wants and doesn't seem to think too hard about how the US military will deal with HYDRA, an organization that even S.H.I.E.L.D. has struggled to contain. Talbot eventually wises up to the point that when HYDRA pulls an attack pretending to be S.H.I.E.L.D. at the UN, he's the first to express doubts it was really they and thereafter quickly evolves into actively cooperating, unofficially, with Coulson.
Lawful Stupid / int_2675c915	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_2675c915	featureConfidence	1.0
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_2675c915
Lawful Stupid / int_272985e9	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_272985e9	comment	The titular Inspector in Inspector Gadget 2. At the beginning of the movie, crime is so far down in the city he's busting old ladies for going marginally over the speed limit.
Lawful Stupid / int_272985e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_272985e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Inspector Gadget 2	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_272985e9
Lawful Stupid / int_27906e15	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_27906e15	comment	Puffin Forest: In one of Ben's Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, the Modrons of Mechanus, beings of pure Lawful Neutral, are baffled when they find that someone has stolen a Cosmic Keystone despite a strict "No Touching" sign on its pedestal. They conclude that the thief must have taken it without physically touching it, and then improve security by adding a "No Stealing" plaque. Overlapping with Artistic License â€“ Economics is the town from "Everyone Shops at the Black Market." The local government has outlawed the sale of magic items, which are vitally necessary for surviving D&D's 4th Edition, but luckily just about everyone in town can point the heroes to the underground black market that trades magic goods. When the party triggers a brawl in the market that has the town guards swoop in and arrest them, their jailors reveal that the government knew about the black market, but looked the other way since the town relied on it to survive. When Ben tries to explain that they could just change the law to make magic items legal to trade, the official argues that would destroy the black market their economy relies upon.
Lawful Stupid / int_27906e15	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_27906e15	featureConfidence	1.0
Puffin Forest (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_27906e15
Lawful Stupid / int_2a8943c0	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_2a8943c0	comment	The Miraculous Ladybug/Zootopia crossover Ultrasonic puts Judy Hopps in this role, when she refuses to let Ladybug destroy an akumatised microphone and insists on keeping it as evidence. While she may not have any experience of situations like akumas, it's clear that she knows Ladybug does, and her refusal to cooperate costs Zootopia dearly after the butterfly escapes.
Lawful Stupid / int_2a8943c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_2a8943c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Miraculous Ladybug	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_2a8943c0
Lawful Stupid / int_2a9edae	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_2a9edae	comment	In one sketch of The Kids in the Hall, Kevin refuses an offer from a drug dealer on the street and proceeds to tell the police parked near by. In an aside to the audience, as the police frisk the dealer in the background, he explains how right he was in turning them in, and turning his parents in for once having a pot party. Turns out the dealer is clean â€” he planted the drugs on Kevin, and Kevin ends up arrested.
Lawful Stupid / int_2a9edae	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_2a9edae	featureConfidence	1.0
The Kids in the Hall	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_2a9edae
Lawful Stupid / int_2c920943	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_2c920943	comment	The Angelic Host in Crimson are seven archangels that run Heaven and exist to be as unhelpful and obstructive as possible to the main protagonist. In their first appearance, they appear on a Christmas day to execute any sinners regardless of the severity of their sins and try to execute Alex for being a vampire and when it's pointed out that Lisseth (who is also a vampire like him) will cause a catastrophe unless if he can stop it, they shrug it off saying it's not a priority right now. Later on, they condemn a minor angel for killing a human who actually deserved it because only the Host is allowed to pass judgment on humans. And finally when Lisseth sets her plan to unmake reality and realize that Alex was the chosen one all along, but rather than help him, they decide the prophecy must play its course, leave him to fight by himself and block his allies from attempting to intervene in the fight. This costs them dearly since Lisseth starts draining their powers and immortality for herself.
Lawful Stupid / int_2c920943	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_2c920943	featureConfidence	1.0
Crimson (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_2c920943
Lawful Stupid / int_2e3e7ac2	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: At the end of "Paradise Lost," though Diana only did so in order to save the Amazons from Felix Faust and Hades, Hippolyta, though not happy about it, abides by the laws of Themyscira and exiles her for bringing the male members of the Justice League to the island. By the time of "The Balance," she changes her mind and lifts it. In the two-part "A Better World" story, Justice League Batman sees that Justice Lord Batman has made his world's Gotham City so clean and orderly that even a customer who dares to complain about being overcharged at a restaurant can get detained by the police.
Lawful Stupid / int_2e3e7ac2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_2e3e7ac2	featureConfidence	1.0
Justice League	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_2e3e7ac2
Lawful Stupid / int_2edb8878	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_2edb8878	comment	In White, after Soifon is hollowified while spying on Ichigo and Aizen, Yamamoto is outright told that her only chance for survival is to become a Vizored. Yamamoto declares that while he may have pardoned the Vizored, he refuses to intentionally create one as it's against the law and instead decides to execute her instead. Luckily, Soifon manages to instinctively activate Negacion and escape to Hueco Mundo where she becomes an Arrancar.
Lawful Stupid / int_2edb8878	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_2edb8878	featureConfidence	1.0
White (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_2edb8878
Lawful Stupid / int_2f203125	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_2f203125	comment	The entire basis of angels in Shin Megami Tensei is this trope, and it's Played for Drama. They will never do anything that even hints at disobeying the commands of YHVH, nor will they act without His orders. The problem is that God Is Evil. The results have ranged from actively hindering attempts to save the world because it won't make the world they want to the violent destruction of an entire system of government in order to facilitate genocide.
Lawful Stupid / int_2f203125	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_2f203125	featureConfidence	1.0
Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_2f203125
Lawful Stupid / int_2fee008d	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Post-Time Skip, Rossiu becomes overzealous in his task of upholding the newly created law, much to the very great annoyance of Chaotic Good Simon. For example, he believes the Grappal are far more advanced than the Gurren Lagann and keeps telling Simon that he must rely on his Red Shirt Army instead of fighting himself, even though, this being a Super Robot show, it's bleeding obvious that Simon's Gurren Lagann is the most powerful mecha in the world.
Lawful Stupid / int_2fee008d	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_2fee008d	featureConfidence	1.0
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_2fee008d
Lawful Stupid / int_303001f1	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_303001f1	comment	Haruka from the My-HiME manga, who is on a quest to expel the Orphan Resistance Unit from the school. Interestingly enough, though, she resorts to kidnapping, attempted theft of Elements, and recruiting known troublemakers like Nao to advance her agenda.
Lawful Stupid / int_303001f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_303001f1	featureConfidence	1.0
My-HiME (Manga)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_303001f1
Lawful Stupid / int_30940081	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_30940081	comment	The cops in Grand Theft Auto V theoretically make a token effort to arrest you, but they will immediately start shooting to kill if you react in any way other than standing perfectly still. This applies whether the original offense is wanton murder or flipping off a cop.
Lawful Stupid / int_30940081	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_30940081	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto V (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_30940081
Lawful Stupid / int_31db3e7d	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_31db3e7d	comment	Sam from Sam & Max: Freelance Police is this, for laughs. He genuinely loves justice, but his ways of achieving justice are batshit insane and mostly an excuse to charge around, shooting at things.
Lawful Stupid / int_31db3e7d	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_31db3e7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Sam & Max: Freelance Police (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_31db3e7d
Lawful Stupid / int_35c619e2	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_35c619e2	comment	In a Green Arrow story arc, a man who felt the justice system had failed summons a group of Literal Genie demons to enforce the law of his city. They twist their commands around so the slightest infraction allows them to slaughter with impunity.
Lawful Stupid / int_35c619e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_35c619e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Green Arrow (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_35c619e2
Lawful Stupid / int_364144a3	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_364144a3	comment	Inspector Sledge Hammer! is this trope. He is a Trigger-Happy Knight Templar Cowboy Cop who blew up an apartment building to deal with one sniper on the roof and once tied a guy to the hood of his car and drove said car around the parking lot at high speed just because the guy was speeding. Possibly a subversion, however, when you realize that Hammer has no qualms about ignoring laws against Police Brutality, excessive force ... and, obviously, blowing up apartment buildings.
Lawful Stupid / int_364144a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_364144a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_364144a3
Lawful Stupid / int_367f632a	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_367f632a	comment	Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising gives us a unique example of a Lawful Stupid Space Marine inside the Blood Ravens Chapter: Honour Guard Captain Apollo Diomedes. Although he is pure, he is singularly bent on obeying Chapter Master Kyras (who is corrupted by Chaos). He transmits and defends Kyras' order to stop defending Blood Raven recruiting worlds against the Black Legion incursion. He then goes on to label Gabriel Angelos and the player as 'renegades' of the chapter when they don't stop. (Un)fortunately, his Lawful stupidity does not come without consequences in two of the three possible outcomes for him: the two bad endings have him either (a) die to Heavy Bolter fire from Avitus or (b) become corrupted by Apothecary Gaelan. If the player completes the relevant mission's sidequest and frees Apothecary Gaelan from demonic possession, Apothecary Gaelan lampshades this by saying "[Captain Apollo's] pride blinds him."
Lawful Stupid / int_367f632a	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_367f632a	featureConfidence	1.0
Dawn of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_367f632a
Lawful Stupid / int_36ee2abe	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_36ee2abe	comment	The Computer in Paranoia — and since The Computer is in charge, this basically means not being Lawful Stupid in Alpha Complex is treason. This has gotten the entire Complex destroyed at least once.
Lawful Stupid / int_36ee2abe	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_36ee2abe	featureConfidence	1.0
Paranoia (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_36ee2abe
Lawful Stupid / int_37f1c1bb	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_37f1c1bb	comment	In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW), Twilight Sparkle's magic is so strong that it's a Story-Breaker Power, but she'll refuse to use it because of being a stickler for the rules. Twilight once refused to use her magic to stop a herd of bulls from hurting her friends and harassing a Wild West town because the bulls were legal citizens. It becomes doubly Lawful Stupid as Twilight uses magic to imprison them when they burn down a barn after Twilight had it declared a historic site. In other words, Twilight's Lawful Stupidity had to be worked around in-universe because she refused to act.
Lawful Stupid / int_37f1c1bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_37f1c1bb	featureConfidence	1.0
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_37f1c1bb
Lawful Stupid / int_38c57aa2	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_38c57aa2	comment	An Eberron novel*Possibly the book "Bound by Iron" but not 100% sure averts this: The main character is a paladin, who is traveling with a prostitute. While she never stops belittling his beliefs, he keeps giving her calm and rational arguments as to why selling her body may be a bad idea in the long run. At the end of the book, the paladin and his Warforged companion confront the employer who double-crossed them. The employer is unarmed, with no guards around, and happily turns his back on them, since he knows no paladin would ever kill a defenseless man in cold blood. The pair leave. As they exit the compound... More of a subversion, which Eberron loves doing. The Paladin may not have done anything, but he did not stop his companion, either. Lawful Good in Eberron is a lot less of a hard and fast as a rule than most D&D games and the campaign almost explicitly states that not being capable of ruthless pragmatism will get you killed in that world. Eberron is a deliberate deconstruction of the whole D&D alignment trope. The employer in this example was Too Dumb to Live if he expected a paladin to act in any particular way based simply on his class.
Lawful Stupid / int_38c57aa2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_38c57aa2	featureConfidence	1.0
Eberron (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_38c57aa2
Lawful Stupid / int_3b34143f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Percy Weasley, especially in the fifth and sixth books, when he chose to betray his family to side with the Ministry of Magic. By extension, the Ministry themselves fall into this when they try to cover up Voldemort's return to save face and spread the propaganda that Harry and Dumbledore are attention-seeking liars. Argus Filch only hates people that break the rules in Hogwarts - which, given his hidebound and unbending view of school rules (and his tendency to tack anything he can think of onto the list of Forbidden Items), is every single student at Hogwarts. This is exemplified in Book 7 when he seemed more concerned about students breaking the curfews than the fact that the school is under Death Eater attack. Sir Cadogan, a living portrait of a knight in full plate armor, acted under code of chivalry, but is considered mental by the rest of castle. He bravely took the place of the Fat Lady after Sirius Black slashed her painting, and harassed students who couldn't remember his constantly changing passwords. However, Sir Cadogan gladly opened up to Sirius Black, the one person he was supposed to keep out, just because Sirius Black told him the right password by reading it, along with a bunch of old passwords, off a list right in front of Sir Cadogan. Sir Cadogan doesn't see anything wrong with this even when questioned about it.
Lawful Stupid / int_3b34143f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_3b34143f	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_3b34143f
Lawful Stupid / int_3caeeb6f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_3caeeb6f	comment	Over-funding the police department in the SimCity franchise will turn your officers into oppressive Lawful Stupids who will arrest people for the most minuscule of crimes (illegal possession of a pocket protector?!). Checking the status of your police departments while they're over-funded will show that there are actually more arrests made in their precincts than there are crimes committed, meaning they're wasting money arresting people who haven't even done anything.
Lawful Stupid / int_3caeeb6f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_3caeeb6f	featureConfidence	1.0
SimCity (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_3caeeb6f
Lawful Stupid / int_3ddddb25	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_3ddddb25	comment	Omi from Xiaolin Showdown is Lawful Stupid in regards to promises. At one point, Omi has to team up with one of the Big Bads to stop a race of unstoppable spiders. They do this by combining two Mac Guffins that work together to give infinite knowledge to find a way to stop them. Before doing so, the Big Bad makes him promise to only look for the way to stop them and specifically not to look for "the way to destroy evil forever". In the end, he mentions he "peeked". In later episodes, the main group finds themselves in a desperate situation and begin telling him they want him to use the secret. He holds firm that he cannot because it would go against his honor as a monk even when all 3 of them think it would be better to do it anyway but he still refuses. The end result is as part of the Big Bad's plan, this divides him from his friends and causes him to go against their safer wishes of not listening to the villain. He ends up temporarily locked in an aggressive mood from this and pledges his allegiance to the villain. Once he returns to normal, he stays with the villain because he made that promise (ignoring his friends' cries of "he wasn't himself"). It turned out that not using the secret to destroying evil was the best choice in the end, as the Big Bad pulled a Batman Gambit that would've resulted in Omi destroying good forever.
Lawful Stupid / int_3ddddb25	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_3ddddb25	featureConfidence	1.0
Xiaolin Showdown	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_3ddddb25
Lawful Stupid / int_3fbd173e	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_3fbd173e	comment	In Freefall, Florence Ambrose and Mr. Kornada are sympathetic and hostile/comedic portrayals of this, respectively: Florence is a Bowman's Wolf, a genetically engineered life form (or "Biological AI") based on the Red Wolf, and so comes with a potent cocktail of genetic programming that can mess with her normally law-abiding, honest, ethical nature and reduce her to just a puppet if she is given a direct order by certain people in positions of authority. She gets somewhat better after Doctor Bowman rewrites the genetic programming to limit the number of people capable of giving her an order she can't refuse. In comparison, the human Mr. Kornada is a Corrupt Corporate Executive and a walking stereotype of the "manager as an idiot who doesn't really have the faintest clue what he's doing, but doesn't care as so long as the "rules" are being followed". Florence actually has to trick him into saving his own life because he's so Lawful Stupid that he refuses to let the fact that a hurricane is tearing the building apart around him prevent him from holding a pointless meeting (the only ones attending being himself and two robots who want to throttle him, but who are prevented from doing so by the Aasimov Laws). He's not only offended to hear that Sam won't abandon Florence to die to ensure he gets there on time, he then goes on to fake a heart attack in order to force the robots to hijack Sam's ship to be sure that he gets his way. He has since upgraded to Stupid Evil, starting up a scheme to spread a program that would effectively lobotomize every robot who installs it, which apart from the genocide implications would utterly destroy the newly terraformed planet's infrastructure and economy. He would do this in order to steal their money!
Lawful Stupid / int_3fbd173e	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_3fbd173e	featureConfidence	1.0
Freefall (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_3fbd173e
Lawful Stupid / int_4037825e	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_4037825e	comment	Cao Cao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Three Kingdoms period? Arguably; either he is Lawful Stupid, a real master of PR, or simply awesome. In one instance, his troops are marching through wheat fields when Cao orders the men not to trample the wheat or they will be beheaded. Doing so, he wins the peasants' affections, since the peasants would like to eventually eat. Unfortunately, Cao's horse bolts and tramples some of the wheat in a panic. The law technically doesn't apply to Cao Cao. Accounts vary, but in one version Cao either goes to take his own life or orders himself executed. His men intervene and stop him, and Cao Cao instead cuts his hair in disgrace and shows it to the army. Either Cao Cao proved uncharacteristically Lawful Stupid at that moment, or he knew his men would spare him. Regardless, knowing their boss was quite willing to suffer such harsh discipline himself raised his men's morale and discipline greatly. Lawful Stupid or brilliant: could go either way.
Lawful Stupid / int_4037825e	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_4037825e	featureConfidence	1.0
Romance of the Three Kingdoms	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_4037825e
Lawful Stupid / int_404622d6	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_404622d6	comment	Mr. Herriman from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The man enforces stuff like the precise distance that a bust of Madame Foster must be from the wall (to the inch) like it was a jail-worthy offense.
Lawful Stupid / int_404622d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_404622d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_404622d6
Lawful Stupid / int_40c64dd8	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_40c64dd8	comment	It's a central trope of Dudley Do-Right, whose title character is a Mountie so blindly devoted to the minutia of the law and good behavior that common sense is typically beyond him. A demonstrative example is in the episode where Snidely Whiplash captures Nell from her wedding to Dudley. She manages to send a letter to Dudley asking for help, but he flat-out refuses to open it because there's no stamp on the envelope. Now operating on purest Rule of Funny, he runs to Whiplash's sawmill, where Nell is tied up in the path of a sawblade, convinces her to put a stamp on the envelope, runs back to base, and only then checks the note. He then rushes to the rescuenote after an hour-and-a-half pause to work out what Inspector Fenwick meant when he flubbed a line and saves the day. He then arrests Nell for mail fraud due to her using the wrong kind of stamp.
Lawful Stupid / int_40c64dd8	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_40c64dd8	featureConfidence	1.0
Dudley Do-Right	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_40c64dd8
Lawful Stupid / int_40e44a7a	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_40e44a7a	comment	Averted in the Judge Dredd reboot Dredd. The title character is ruthless and pragmatic, but ultimately a Reasonable Authority Figure. This is pretty much in line with his comic book version, which can be flexible if he thinks it would benefit the city (such as passing rookie Judge Anderson even if the rules say she failed because he can see she will be a good Judge).
Lawful Stupid / int_40e44a7a	featureApplicability	-1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_40e44a7a	featureConfidence	1.0
Judge Dredd	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_40e44a7a
Lawful Stupid / int_41352473	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_41352473	comment	Parodied in Excel♡Saga, when the Daitenzin decide to perform as many acts of justice as possible, however insignificant, so they can take off their suits. They end up fighting litterers, extortioners, and other petty criminals with the full force of Sentai heroes.
Lawful Stupid / int_41352473	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_41352473	featureConfidence	1.0
Excel♡Saga	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_41352473
Lawful Stupid / int_41b0198a	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_41b0198a	comment	Subverted in The Dresden Files novels. The Knights of the Cross are modern-day Paladins. They are God's chosen warriors and each has a holy sword. When doing God's work, they are invincible. One of the Knights, Michael Carpenter, has a strict code of ethics and honor. The subversion is he balances this with true compassion and pragmatism. He is the best example of Lawful Good which never veers into Lawful Stupid territory. He's also quite willing to adhere to the law himself, while letting others do the dirty work, as exemplified when Michael, Sanya, and Harry confront one of the Denarians, Cassius. Faced with two Knights and a wizard that he can't hope to defeat, Cassius "repents" and gives up his Blackened Denarius, which contains the Fallen Angel that the Knights fight against. Michael and Sanya immediately and without question accept Cassius's clearly false repentance and leave, while Cassius laughs at them for their naivety. They wait outside and listen while Harry turns on the now-defenseless Cassius with a baseball bat, beating the guy to the point of crippling him for the remainder of his life, to get the information they need. Michael points out that he's uncomfortable with what Harry did, but doesn't object more than that. And Harry himself is the master of Loophole Abuse, which is a key survival trait when dealing with the Fae (though by their standards he's merely a somewhat-talented amateur). Harry's early impression of the Wardens is that they're always like this, although it's mostly the hard-nosed fanatic Morgan who gives him that impression. And he's biased since he was unjustly accused of being a Dark Wizard. When Harry gets to know him much better in Turn Coat, he realizes that Morgan isn't fanatic, but rather solidly uncompromising, because a lifetime of hunting down warlocks and seeing none of them be redeemed (until Harry) means that he isn't willing to give them a chance to kill more people.
Lawful Stupid / int_41b0198a	featureApplicability	-0.3
Lawful Stupid / int_41b0198a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dresden Files	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_41b0198a
Lawful Stupid / int_42ffb88e	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_42ffb88e	comment	One might charitably describe the SCP Foundation as this, if not downright Lawful Evil; their treatment of the Class-D personnel (basically a collection of Dirty Dozened death row inmates) borders on sociopathic, particularly when you learn about Protocol 12, which allows the definition of Class D to be expanded to political prisoners and refugees in times of "duress". Their case files often redact virtually nothing except information that would actually benefit the reader, such as where those indestructible supernatural abominations they failed to contain are actually located. They doubtless would argue that they did what had to be done, but that would be easier to believe without the constant containment breaches.
Lawful Stupid / int_42ffb88e	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_42ffb88e	featureConfidence	1.0
SCP Foundation (Website)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_42ffb88e
Lawful Stupid / int_43c21f1a	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_43c21f1a	comment	One episode of Thunderbirds Are Go features a counterpart of Light-Fingered Fred who, after his life of crime, is running an atmospheric scrubber. Fred, in a perfect example of going from one extreme to the other, has become obsessed with the rules to the point of refusing to let a cleaning crew in early and interfering with the rescue because International Rescue are prioritising human life over waiting for clearance. Ironically, in his rule-following zealotry, he's actually forgotten about an incredibly important Rule Zero that renders all other rules null and void during a potentially fatal emergency, and he ends up being fired for causing and mishandling such an emergency.
Lawful Stupid / int_43c21f1a	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_43c21f1a	featureConfidence	1.0
Thunderbirds Are Go	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_43c21f1a
Lawful Stupid / int_4522fd1	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_4522fd1	comment	Stormwolf of the Whateley Universe. He's so busy being 'Lawful Good' that he isn't protecting a group of freshman girls who just managed to avoid being beaten, mutilated, and/or murdered in four separate attempts (one by a mutant ninja assassin) in one night. And he won't let the girls go get payback, either. Even though the girls know who attacked them, and who hired the attackers.
Lawful Stupid / int_4522fd1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_4522fd1	featureConfidence	1.0
Whateley Universe	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_4522fd1
Lawful Stupid / int_455e3038	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: Hank Hill is moral, determined and won't give up without a fight...but can be too fond of traditional values over the needs of others, he can be childish and ignorant when someone does something to bug him, he can be a huge stubborn mule when he himself is in the wrong. "Ho Yeah!" has an example similar to the Big Hero 6 one. During this episode, Hank, Peggy, and Tammy are in a car chase with Alabaster Jones, Tammy's former pimp. Hank's plan for losing him is he waits on a yellow light just long enough so he can be the only one to cross before the light turns red. Hank is genuinely shocked when he sees him speeding through the red light. The majority of the plot of the episode "The Accidental Terrorist" revolves around Hank being shocked, shocked, at the revelation that the car dealership he's regular client of has been swindling him for years because Hank is literally the only client who believes the cars' ticket price is the actual price (the dealership ups the ticket price by half) and does zero haggling. Furthermore, Hank's decision to fight back does not goes any further than putting copies of the message "this is a dishonest dealership" on the windshields of the cars on the lot (he is Mistaken for Terrorist because he accepts the help of a couple of Eco Terrorists, who promptly blow up the cars on the lot).
Lawful Stupid / int_455e3038	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_455e3038	featureConfidence	1.0
King of the Hill	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_455e3038
Lawful Stupid / int_468bebb0	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_468bebb0	comment	Aversion: The Ankh-Morpork City Watch. There's even an image macro lying around on the Internet somewhere of one of Paul Kidby's illustrations of Sam Vimes, with the caption "This is how you play Lawful Good, you bastards". Carrot is like this in Guards! Guards!. He arrests people for disobeying laws that haven't been enforced in centuries and tries to arrest the Patrician. His biggest mistake, however, probably comes in Jingo, where he gives Sergeant Detritus permission to enact the Riot Act, which gives the Watch the ability to use lethal force on civilians, something that Vimes notes would frighten even Vetinari. Fortunately, Detritus is a slow reader, and Vimes gets there in time to sort it out. When normally Sergeant Colon is made Captain he goes through a bout of the same, although just clamping things (including buildings), rather than actually arresting. Colon is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Lawful Stupid / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	-1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_468bebb0
Lawful Stupid / int_475b7e5c	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_475b7e5c	comment	1408: Enslin uses an old civil rights law to coerce Mr. Olin to let him stay in room 1408 despite the latter's very pointed requests that he not go in there and providing detailed files on the victims as proof that it's too dangerous. However, since Enslin ignores his warnings, Olin is forced to cooperate or otherwise open the hotel to a lawsuit. It doesn't help Olin's case that the owners of the hotel are blithely denying the obvious safety issues of the room, which would make it incredibly easy for Enslin's lawyers to argue discrimination in court.
Lawful Stupid / int_475b7e5c	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_475b7e5c	featureConfidence	1.0
1408	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_475b7e5c
Lawful Stupid / int_49a7016	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_49a7016	comment	General Morton from Zombi 3D is a prime example of what would happen if one of these was an Army general. When the dead infector is discovered in the Sweet River Resort, he has all the survivors killed and buried in a mass grave just to be on the safe side (in all fairness, a bellhop is shown to have been infected), and then he burns the infector's body... which causes an epidemic when a nearby flock of birds gets killed by the smoke and ash. When said epidemic is brought to his attention, he orders a massacre of the whole epidemic areaâ€“again, because he doesn't want to chance an infected person escaping to eventually contaminate the rest of the world.
Lawful Stupid / int_49a7016	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_49a7016	featureConfidence	1.0
Zombi 3D	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_49a7016
Lawful Stupid / int_49a88442	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_49a88442	comment	The Sharlayans of Final Fantasy XIV gather knowledge... and nothing else. They could have all of the answers to all of the problems the heroes deal with, but they would rather just hide away on their island and watch. Even the threat of The End of the World as We Know It is not enough to get the Sharlayans to act. To wit, they exiled one scholar for wanting to help the world, his son went and disowned his children for protecting the world, and they try to kill the Warrior of Light while learning the ways of the Astrologian. It's all technically a front for setting up a contingency plan in case the Final Days comes to pass, but even then, it's shown that the Sharlayan mindset heavily favors only following their mission to the letter and no further. This causes the heroes to butt heads with them, until it's suggested that if they can't convince the Sharlayans on moral grounds, they'll have to do so on pragmatic grounds by proving that what the Sharlayans are planning isn't going to work.
Lawful Stupid / int_49a88442	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_49a88442	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy XIV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_49a88442
Lawful Stupid / int_4a916434	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_4a916434	comment	Koala Man: Koala Man is obsessed with following the law to the letter. He never misses a moment to request that someone provide a permit for whatever it is they're doing. His anal retention is eventually revealed to have created his arch-nemesis, the Kookaburra.
Lawful Stupid / int_4a916434	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_4a916434	featureConfidence	1.0
Koala Man	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_4a916434
Lawful Stupid / int_4d1ba412	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_4d1ba412	comment	The Nasaghasts from The Adventures of Dr. McNinja are the vengeful spirits of dead astronauts who relentlessly hunt down and punish anybody that harms living astronauts, but the mechanics and rules of this are so ridiculously specific that most of their charges don't see them as particularly helpful. They can only avenge NASA personnel specifically (astronauts from other agencies are out of luck) and have no regard for whether or not said personnel deserve to be avenged (the Big Bad gets training at NASA specifically to exploit this). They also only avenge astronauts rather than actually protecting them; they work in response to harm, not to prevent it, which bites the aforementioned Big Bad in the ass when his ship gets shot down and the Nasaghasts rush off to fight his attacker rather than save him like he expected.
Lawful Stupid / int_4d1ba412	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_4d1ba412	featureConfidence	1.0
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_4d1ba412
Lawful Stupid / int_4d9653ef	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_4d9653ef	comment	Planescape describes the "lawful over good" approach as a characteristic of the entire plane of Arcadia (between LG and LN). It's the primary plane of influence of the Harmonium faction. That is until the Hardheads managed to slip a whole layer into Mechanus. And got La RÃ©sistance, including proxies of Arcadian gods who weren't too happy that they had to re-create their domains, surprise. AD&D Player's Guide to the Planes:
Lawful Stupid / int_4d9653ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_4d9653ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Planescape (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_4d9653ef
Lawful Stupid / int_4dd54482	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_4dd54482	comment	In a different sense, Alien X from Ben 10: Alien Force — a being capable of warping time and space, but whose thought pattern has been (and in some ways still is) strangled with debate between two diametrically opposed entities to the point at which the being cannot even move until a decision can be reached. Until Ben came along, they had no tiebreaker. And they're not very good at listening to him. It's revealed later on that their entire species is like this, as they spend most of their time trapped in debate like Ben was, and the one time we see what they're like outside of stasis is in Ben 10: Omniverse when they decide to fine Ben ($5) for using their powers to undo the destruction of the universe without permission.
Lawful Stupid / int_4dd54482	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_4dd54482	featureConfidence	1.0
Ben 10: Alien Force	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_4dd54482
Lawful Stupid / int_4f9a3b9f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_4f9a3b9f	comment	Played with in In Plain Sight - Marshal told his superiors that informing a mob boss that his girlfriend, who turned witness against him, is pregnant with his child is a very bad idea. Unfortunately they point out that the US Federal Government had attempted to do this before and the mobster successfully sued the government.
Lawful Stupid / int_4f9a3b9f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_4f9a3b9f	featureConfidence	1.0
In Plain Sight	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_4f9a3b9f
Lawful Stupid / int_52fca0e9	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_52fca0e9	comment	The worse it got was during one of their movies. Let's just say protecting the allegory of Native Americans and their way of life doesn't work if the captain took part in two Forced Relocations and said allegory was hogging radiation that could save lives... Comparison? There are around 600 natives. The radiation could save billions.
Lawful Stupid / int_52fca0e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_52fca0e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Insurrection	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_52fca0e9
Lawful Stupid / int_534f0200	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_534f0200	comment	Ryoga Shindai in Kamen Rider Saber is so committed to the tenets of the Sword of Logos that he continues to serve under the current Master Logos even as his Ax-Crazy-ness becomes more and more apparent. It takes the Master Logos outright renouncing his title for Ryoga to finally turn against him. Even then, he refuses to ally with the other swordsmen Riders and continues to deem them traitors, even though the only reason they betrayed the guild was to stop Master Logos.
Lawful Stupid / int_534f0200	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_534f0200	featureConfidence	1.0
Kamen Rider Saber	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_534f0200
Lawful Stupid / int_538833a4	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_538833a4	comment	Stuart of Retail is a Pointy-Haired Boss because of his rigid commitment to following every rule of what the corporate higher-ups want of the retail-level workers, even if it's impossible and/or contradicts something else. Even when it's pointed out to Stuart that what's being asked of the Grumbel's employees either shouldn't be done or literally cannot be done, Stuart still insists on doing what's ordered. When this inevitably blows up in his face, Stuart either blames the employees for not getting it done or stubbornly insists on continuing with a detrimental course of action, just because it's what the higher-ups told him to do. That Stuart seems to have no sympathy for his employees in spite of their struggles and is a complete kiss-up to his own bosses only adds to how the audience is meant to dislike Stuart.
Lawful Stupid / int_538833a4	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_538833a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Retail (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_538833a4
Lawful Stupid / int_53fdef82	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_53fdef82	comment	Snow White with the Red Hair: The Sereg Knight Commander locks up Mitsuhide when he's framed for the recent killings of several nobles, even though he knows Mitsuhide was framed, partially to try to lure the true culprit out by making it look like their plan is working. After capturing the real culprit he keeps Mitsuhide locked up, because he hasn't received orders from the palace to let Mitsuhide go. When it becomes clear the culprit had Mitsuhide framed in an effort to deprive Prince Zen of his loyal and competent bodyguard in preparation for assassinating the prince he still keeps him locked up, even placing the real culprit in a much less secure cell to ensure Mitsuhide is incapable of escaping, and even as the fortress is being overrun he refuses to free the innocent knight.
Lawful Stupid / int_53fdef82	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_53fdef82	featureConfidence	1.0
Snow White with the Red Hair (Manga)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_53fdef82
Lawful Stupid / int_5425ce75	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5425ce75	comment	Grand Theft Auto: The cops in Grand Theft Auto V theoretically make a token effort to arrest you, but they will immediately start shooting to kill if you react in any way other than standing perfectly still. This applies whether the original offense is wanton murder or flipping off a cop. Grand Theft Auto III combines this with Artificial Stupidity in a very annoying way. Any NPC who belongs to a gang you're enemies with will immediately begin shooting at you on sight. The cops will do absolutely nothing about this. However, if you attack back in self-defense, the same cops will be all over you like white on rice.
Lawful Stupid / int_5425ce75	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5425ce75	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5425ce75
Lawful Stupid / int_544fb5a2	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_544fb5a2	comment	In Death series: An FBI agent named Jacoby comes off like this in Betrayal In Death. Commander Whitney even warns Eve to be careful, because this guy could try to hang her up on a technicality.
Lawful Stupid / int_544fb5a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_544fb5a2	featureConfidence	1.0
In Death	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_544fb5a2
Lawful Stupid / int_553051f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern: Before they had their rigid programming undone in Brightest Day, the Alpha Lanterns. One went so far as to attack a Red Lantern that had been released from its cell by other Green Lanterns in order to hold off a Zombie Apocalypse. The Alpha gets destroyed by Black Lanterns soon afterwards.
Lawful Stupid / int_553051f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_553051f	featureConfidence	1.0
Green Lantern (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_553051f
Lawful Stupid / int_56a211e9	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_56a211e9	comment	Early on in Slayers, Amelia's obsession with being a "Hero of Justice" could lead to this. Highlights include turning against Lina and Gourry when she learns that there is a (fake) bounty on their heads and an Imagine Spot in which she blasts someone with the Dragon Slave for picking up a lost quarter. She does relax her standards eventually, though.
Lawful Stupid / int_56a211e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_56a211e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Slayers	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_56a211e9
Lawful Stupid / int_5755b96a	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Miko Miyazaki is part Lawful Stupid, part Knight Templar, and occasionally parodies both. This strip is a good example of the former. It does have elements of subverting Honor Before Reason since the whole thing was largely to get the ogres into a compressed area, but it would have been a much better plan if she would have told the others what she was doing. Hinjo, and apparently most of the other paladins of the Sapphire Guard, are aversions, as they act normally, rationally, and without being condescending. They also don't like Miko, and she is sent on away missions so they don't have to deal with her ("often for months at a time"). Hinjo does have his moments of self-righteousness from time to time, but he's mostly a decent, rational, and practical man. Even more so with O-Chul, the Memetic Badass and all-around decent guy who the author has explained is an intentional foil to the aspects of this trope Miko embodies. Miko is a representation of how many people would play a paladin, O-Chul is a representation of how one should be played. Although it doesn't apply to Roy, this strip has Elan and Belkar refer to him as such. In this strip, Celia the sylph pretty clearly delineates the difference between Lawful Stupid and Lawful Good (warning: really long text). Durkon, being a Lawful Good Cleric, cannot lie and does not resist authority. However, he subverts this by using technical truths and when his comrades resist authority, they tend to get their asses handed to them. In-Universe, both Lord Shojo and Redcloak denounce Soon Kim's oath of non-interference and observation of the other four Gates and the persistence with which the Sapphire Guard adheres to this, like this. Seeing as how this genuinely does cripple their ability to keep the Gates safe from Xykon, they kind of have a point (although the drama that happened in Soon Kim's group stemming from the death of one of their own has hinted that there's much more complexity to the situation than this trope). The dwarven council holds a vote on how their demigod should vote on a matter that will affect their entire race. A few of them try to motion a delay, noticing that a little more than half of the council is under vampiric Mind Control meant to tamper with the vote. The vampires use a legal tactic to ignore the motion, and while a few eyebrows are raised, most of the undominated dwarves consider it an entirely reasonable compromise, and the remainder firmly believe that, having made an attempt to postpone the vote legally, there's now nothing they can do as long as the procedures are being followed. The day is saved when Durkon breaks the table. Rules say you can't vote without a table. Vote postponed.
Lawful Stupid / int_5755b96a	featureApplicability	-1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5755b96a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5755b96a
Lawful Stupid / int_57f80079	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_57f80079	comment	The Clave in The Mortal Instruments, to the point where their leadership is basically a Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering. Actual Lawful Good Shadowhunters frequently find themselves in To Be Lawful or Good situations simply because the Clave is hopelessly bogged down trying to figure out the most lawful way of dealing with just about anything.
Lawful Stupid / int_57f80079	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_57f80079	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mortal Instruments	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_57f80079
Lawful Stupid / int_5908ee91	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: Finally averted for the first time in the series by the city guards. If your bounty is low enough, you can easily get away with simply a slap on the wrist for picking up something that happened to be owned by somebody else if you just pay off the relatively small bounty. In some cases, they won't even take you with them to the keep, and will simply let you go immediately after paying off your bounty and giving them your stolen goods, and they have a lot more forgiving attitude than the guards in previous games. Also, if your crime is minuscule enough, you can talk them into just letting you go your way with a simple "don't do it again". And if you're with the Thieves' Guild or are a Thane in their town... Played straight with the Blades in Skyrim however. After a certain point in the main quest, they'll insist that you kill Paarthurnaxx for his crimes in the ancient Dragon War and stop helping you if you refuse to do so, on the basis that giving you their aid would violate their oaths as Blades. All this despite the Dragon War taking place thousands of years ago, Paarthurnaxx helping to win it for humanity, and living peacefully and giving them no trouble ever since. To say nothing of the fact that the Blades can't exactly afford to alienate allies given how they were almost wiped out by the Thalmor not too long ago... Daggerfall and Skyrim both have law enforcement stick arguably stupidly firmly to the law in another way — unlike the other games, where guards can try to (sometimes follow you to) arrest you for a crime done halfway across the game world, those games have crimes be strictly regional — which means the guards and the law don't care at all how notorious you might be in a neighbouring region, not even when it comes to keeping an eye on you.
Lawful Stupid / int_5908ee91	featureApplicability	-1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5908ee91	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5908ee91
Lawful Stupid / int_5921531a	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5921531a	comment	In Persona 3, we have Mr. Ekoda, the classic literature teacher with seniority in Gekkoukan High. He does what he believes is in the best interest of the school and his students, which includes covering up the disappearance of Fuuka caused by bullies to save the bullies' reputation, and suspending Saori because of a gossip magazine's false story about her being promiscuous, and nearly suspending the main character, just for being her (only) friend. Mitsuru's punishment for him of the former act, and Miss Ounishi and Toriumi, his two kohai, brushing him off to support Saori's Moment of Awesome wholeheartedly were definitely well deserved.
Lawful Stupid / int_5921531a	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5921531a	featureConfidence	1.0
Persona 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5921531a
Lawful Stupid / int_5921531c	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5 gives us Goro Akechi and Sae Niijima. They wish for the Phantom Thieves to be arrested - despite the fact that they're making otherwise untouchable criminals confess their crimes - because they're using a morally questionable method of Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing. Averted for Akechi, when it's revealed that he's a member of The Conspiracy, and the Phantom Thieves pose a threat to them. Sae eventually changes her tune on the thieves and becomes their Commissioner Gordon.
Lawful Stupid / int_5921531c	featureApplicability	-1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5921531c	featureConfidence	1.0
Persona 5 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5921531c
Lawful Stupid / int_5a3533fe	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5a3533fe	comment	Earl from My Name Is Earl can fall into this with regards to his list. One memorable example was when he learned that his winning lottery ticket from the first episode would have been bought by someone else, had he not stolen that man's money immediately beforehand. He promptly gives the other man all of his and Randy's savings, leaving them destitute. Then he promises to give the man even more until they're even, even though the man and Randy both think he's given enough. When he sells his car for cash to survive on, he even wants to give the man that money! The man has to reveal that he doesn't deserve the money and insist that karma wants Earl to have it before the status quo is restored.
Lawful Stupid / int_5a3533fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5a3533fe	featureConfidence	1.0
My Name Is Earl	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5a3533fe
Lawful Stupid / int_5a47599	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5a47599	comment	Even Batman falls under this trope during the Arkham Series. Throughout the series, Batman follows his traditional no-kill policy. While admirable at first, eventually it becomes gratuitous to the point where Batman is essentially allowing his worst villains to commit horrible atrocities. This comes to a head at the end of Batman: Arkham City, when the dying Joker begs Batman to give him the antidote to his illness. Batman actually contemplates allowing The Joker to die, noting that every time he throws Joker in Arkham or Blackgate, Joker just breaks out and causes more trouble. While Batman's final words to the Joker were him claiming that he would have saved Joker, it's heavily implied that this is false. The Gotham City story "The Fall" from Batman: Arkham Knight, adds an even bigger emphasis on this trope. During the story, we learn that in order to provoke Jason Todd, the Joker murdered an entire kindergarten class, chopped the children's bodies into pieces, then sewed them back together so that the grieving parents wouldn't be able to identify which child is theirs. This turned out to be the final straw for Jason Todd, who sought out the Joker with the intent to kill him. Given that Batman allows someone like that to continue living, this trope is in full effect.
Lawful Stupid / int_5a47599	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5a47599	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5a47599
Lawful Stupid / int_5b8abe25	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5b8abe25	comment	Madeline Goodlaw, the paladin from Rusty and Co., is very very stupid and very very lawful. She actually objects to the idea of taking even a single hour to plan on how to save Rusty, Mimic, and Cube.
Lawful Stupid / int_5b8abe25	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5b8abe25	featureConfidence	1.0
Rusty and Co. (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5b8abe25
Lawful Stupid / int_5b95bc94	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5b95bc94	comment	Grand Theft Auto III combines this with Artificial Stupidity in a very annoying way. Any NPC who belongs to a gang you're enemies with will immediately begin shooting at you on sight. The cops will do absolutely nothing about this. However, if you attack back in self-defense, the same cops will be all over you like white on rice.
Lawful Stupid / int_5b95bc94	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5b95bc94	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5b95bc94
Lawful Stupid / int_5c66fff9	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5c66fff9	comment	Another Lawful Stupid moment from Kelemvor is present in Neverwinter Nights 2 — Mask of The Betrayer. He claims he can't deal with the spirit eater curse because it would be overriding another god. This appears to be a moral issue rather than physically unable to help. The trouble is that not only is the god who made the curse dead, but Kelemvor is said god's successor. In short, Kelemvor could easily help, but won't because of a law from his predecessor that Kelemvor could change any time he wanted.
Lawful Stupid / int_5c66fff9	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5c66fff9	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwinter Nights 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5c66fff9
Lawful Stupid / int_5c783167	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5c783167	comment	In the Affectionate Parody film version of Dragnet, Friday is a borderline case, everything about his uncle's professional straight-lacedness played Up to Eleven and for Fish out of Water laughs, but he gets better (to the point that his Cowboy Cop act actually freaks out his partner because among other things he Drives Like Crazy). On his partnership with Pep Streebek, he's The Comically Serious and says stuff like complaining about kids trying to mug him on a school night.
Lawful Stupid / int_5c783167	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5c783167	featureConfidence	1.0
Affectionate Parody	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5c783167
Lawful Stupid / int_5db577ba	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5db577ba	comment	Batman in The Dark Knight crashes his Batpod to avoid running over the Joker who is busy unloading a machine-gun into random motorists. Batman avoids breaking his no-kill rule but the Joker lives to kill another day. To be clear, Batman is whizzing down the road on his Batpod. Joker is standing in the middle of the road the entire time. Batman sees the Joker. The Joker doesn't move. Batman waits until the last goddamn second to swerve, causing him to crash, instead of putting on the brakes when he first saw Joker in the road.
Lawful Stupid / int_5db577ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5db577ba	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5db577ba
Lawful Stupid / int_5e150650	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5e150650	comment	Solar and Lunar Exalted have character flaws built into the game system, meaning that for the highest Virtue there's an added Virtue flaw. The very idea of the mechanic is that at worst, especially Solars may succumb to the pitfalls of being called "Lawgivers." And then there's She Who Lives In Her Name who practically enforces this trope.
Lawful Stupid / int_5e150650	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5e150650	featureConfidence	1.0
Exalted (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5e150650
Lawful Stupid / int_5e91c79	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5e91c79	comment	Rebecca suffers from this briefly in Resident Evil 0 where she refuses to cooperate with Billy, a supposed felon charged with several murders. Not only does Rebecca threatens to arrest him, despite Billy not being aggressive at all, but she does this in the middle of a zombie/leech outbreak within the train they're on. Billy calls her out on it and forcefully says that they have to work together unless she wants to die to the horrors she just had an encounter with. Rebecca reluctantly agrees and over time, she starts to trust him. She even declares him legally dead at the end of the game when she finds out that Billy is actually innocent.
Lawful Stupid / int_5e91c79	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5e91c79	featureConfidence	1.0
Resident Evil 0 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5e91c79
Lawful Stupid / int_5e9ea81e	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5e9ea81e	comment	T'Challa succumbs to this in Black Panther. T'Challa knows full well that Killmonger is crazy and will lead Wakanda into a Forever War with the rest of the world, but still accepts his challenge to a fair fight for the throne because as a member of the royal family it's his right under the law. Then the rest of Wakanda follows Killmonger's orders because he is their rightful king, even though he isn't even really bothering to hide the fact that he is intentionally leading Wakanda to ruin out of spite.
Lawful Stupid / int_5e9ea81e	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5e9ea81e	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Panther (2018)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5e9ea81e
Lawful Stupid / int_5f205391	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5f205391	comment	In the Detective Comics two-parter "A Walk in the Park", part of the Batman: No Man's Land story arc, the mayor declares that Poison Ivy, who at that point is living more or less peacefully in Robinson Park, restoring it and caring for children who'd been orphaned during the earthquake, is an ecoterrorist and must be forcibly removed from the park, despite the fact that A) the park has gone unused for years before the earthquake and Ivy is the only one who feels any need to restore it, b) the kids are all orphans and would likely spend years being bounced around in foster care if removed from the park, and c) caring for the kids and the park is keeping Ivy out of trouble. Alas, it's an election year and the mayor really needs something to make him look tougher on crime.
Lawful Stupid / int_5f205391	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5f205391	featureConfidence	1.0
Detective Comics (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5f205391
Lawful Stupid / int_5f5b8099	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5f5b8099	comment	Downplayed (but still noticeable) in The Parselmouth of Gryffindor with the Sorting Hat, in a specific incident where his oath not to reveal anything he sees in the mind of his Sortees prevents him from giving key information to Dumbledore.
Lawful Stupid / int_5f5b8099	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5f5b8099	featureConfidence	1.0
The Parselmouth of Gryffindor (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5f5b8099
Lawful Stupid / int_5f6f0132	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_5f6f0132	comment	Adell from Disgaea 2 constantly insists on fair fights and keeping promises. This would be all well and good if it wasn't for one teensy weensy little fact: everyone within a 100-mile radius is a savvy hellspawn willing to milk this for all its worth. Rozalin spends quite a deal of time wondering how this kind of behavior hasn't killed him already. His attitude actually leads him to achieve heroic victory.
Lawful Stupid / int_5f6f0132	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_5f6f0132	featureConfidence	1.0
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5f6f0132
Lawful Stupid / int_605dd875	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_605dd875	comment	The Ascended in The (Questionable) Burdens of Leadership of a Troll Emperor are far more concerned with enforcing their non-interference law than dealing with any of the (many many) problems they've caused. Oma exploits this to stop the Tok'ra from worshiping her by explaining to them that the Ascended were responsible for the rise of the Goa'uld (by negligently leaving their technology lying around) and could have crushed them at any time but chose not to. Taken Up to Eleven when Oma notes that the Ascended would allow Anubis's plan to wipe out all life in the galaxy to proceed simply because he's not technically breaking their rules.
Lawful Stupid / int_605dd875	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_605dd875	featureConfidence	1.0
Stargate-verse (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_605dd875
Lawful Stupid / int_62126ef1	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_62126ef1	comment	Maria Hill from The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, who commands S.H.I.E.L.D. after Nick Fury disappears, is prone to this type of behavior (much like her comics counterpart). While it's understandable that she wants the Avengers to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., she tends to spend more time antagonizing them than actual villains. The worst case of this was when she tries to force the Avengers to join S.H.I.E.L.D or be arrested... outright ignoring the massive war that is happening between HYDRA and A.I.M in the middle of New York, until given the proverbial smack upside the head by Iron Man for being an idiot.
Lawful Stupid / int_62126ef1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_62126ef1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_62126ef1
Lawful Stupid / int_630755ab	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_630755ab	comment	In the Codex Alera novels: Secretary Pluvix, aide to Lord Gram of Calderon, refused to allow a close ally of Gram's in to see him when Bernard, the ally, is bringing word of an immediate attack on the valley. When Gram is shot by an arrow, Pluvix declares it was Bernard, or at the least, he set things up to bring Gram out and be in view to be killed, and so had Bernard and his companion locked up. That said, his stupidity doesn't mean he isn't without integrity and shows this by protecting a group of children during the attack from a feral bird-beast, bludgeoning the beast to death with his ledgers. The Canim are bound by a strict set of laws, known as the "codes" that they must follow. The Canim, being savvy as to just how much those with less integrity would be willing to abuse the law, established a specialist caste known as "hunters" - spies and assassins whose purpose is to allow their lords to follow the spirit of the codes when someone else abuses the letter of the codes - allowing them to avoid falling victim to being Lawful Stupid.
Lawful Stupid / int_630755ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_630755ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Codex Alera	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_630755ab
Lawful Stupid / int_65d9acd2	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_65d9acd2	comment	The Judoon (rhino space police) are described by the Doctor as logical but stupid. They follow the law exactly, but tend towards overkill and wouldn't think of checking the same floor twice. Physical assault is punished with death with no chance of trial. One threatened to execute a human for playing music too loudly in The Sarah Jane Adventures. This is, of course, Played for Laughs.
Lawful Stupid / int_65d9acd2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_65d9acd2	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sarah Jane Adventures	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_65d9acd2
Lawful Stupid / int_6673d40b	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6673d40b	comment	Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: As per Bleach canon with Soul Reapers following Central 46, though it gets Zig-zagged every which way. Captain-Commander Scorpan is burdened by The Chains of Commanding. He can and does personally disagree with several of Central 46's rulings such as declaring Celestia and Luna traitors to be executed, but he can't outright defy them outside of the law both because he would be setting a horrible example to the rest of Soul Society, and doing so could get the Zero Division to come down on his head. Instead, he has to rely on Bothering by the Book and use what legal powers he does have to argue against them. When Central 46 decides to move up the execution date and sends him their formal declaration, Scorpan immediately marches off to their building to debate them in order to delay the proceedings and hope Starswirl can find the evidence to pull the thread on the possible conspiracy behind this. Exactly as the conspiracy hopes, since it gets him out of the way of their own objectives and in the perfect place to trap him within the building's own specialized defenses against invasion when he finally realizes the ruse and they intentionally trigger the lockdown with sacrificial Hollow plants within Central 46. Captain Amore is a huge stickler for the rules, but she's not so blinded to realize as evidence mounts something is off, and, while she balks at an open rebellion against Central 46's ruling at first since it could start an open Civil War, she does put her foot down on the side of good. Even then, she's mortified when the Captains start fighting each other directly. Captain Hurricane bluntly treats those who defy Central 46's ruling as traitors and is fully willing to do battle with the Captains who side against them, regardless of possible corruption. Although he reveals he doesn't actually care about the ruling or if Celestia and Luna are traitors. He's just happy to use the whole thing as an excuse to both test himself against his fellow Captains in a serious fight and to use this whole debacle as the kick in the teeth for Soul Society to finally go back on the offensive in the war with Hollows and Quincy, as he's held a grudge over how their defensive nature has come with his own Division shouldering the majority of the burden and casualities. Captain Thunderhooves plays it straight, being so loyal to the law that he faces off with the dissenting Captains without ulterior motives like Hurricane despite being told repeatedly and knowing with his own eyes this has to all be a set-up. Captain Cheese Sandwich lays into him over it as they fight, to which Thunderhooves angrily replies the law needs to be upheld no matter their feelings because otherwise seeing the so-called highest enforcers flaunting it could destabilize Soul Society. After Starlight's manipulations are revealed, he admits he was a fool for blindly sticking to the Law.
Lawful Stupid / int_6673d40b	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6673d40b	featureConfidence	1.0
Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6673d40b
Lawful Stupid / int_671d5c19	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_671d5c19	comment	Bubbles in the "Bubblevicious" episode of The Powerpuff Girls. She managed to make a litterbug hit the ground before the gum wrapper he tossed and punches a guy black and blue for stepping on a single blade of grass. She rampaged her do-good behavior throughout Townsville and her crusade got her captured by Mojo Jojo. In another episode, the Mayor uses a hot-air balloon and a spring-loaded boxing glove to take the law into his own hands. He goes mad with power in less than a minute.
Lawful Stupid / int_671d5c19	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_671d5c19	featureConfidence	1.0
The Powerpuff Girls (1998)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_671d5c19
Lawful Stupid / int_68237790	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: Toward the end of the Strange Aeons adventure path, the party travels back in time to wake themselves up at the beginning of the campaign as part of stopping a Great Old One from waking up, and an aeon attacks them for using time travel, not caring about the circumstances. At least in first edition, which the adventure path was published for, aeons were True Neutral. (Although in second edition, they were changed to be Lawful Neutral)
Lawful Stupid / int_68237790	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_68237790	featureConfidence	1.0
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_68237790
Lawful Stupid / int_68959742	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_68959742	comment	In Suikoden IV, the hero Lazlo is accused of murdering his superior officer. The only evidence of Lazlo committing the crime was an extremely shady testimony by his envious, immature, and (former) best friend Snowe. Nevertheless, Lazlo's fellow officers immediately believe in his guilt and sentence him to exile without giving him a trial.
Lawful Stupid / int_68959742	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_68959742	featureConfidence	1.0
Suikoden IV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_68959742
Lawful Stupid / int_68ab8d50	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_68ab8d50	comment	Oh, yeah, they didn't learn. Another example of S.H.I.E.L.D. stupidity happened slightly after The Clone Saga in the Spider-Man one-shot Spider-Man: Dead Man's Hand, when they confiscated the Jackal's body and experimented on it. This led to an unscrupulous coroner who they clearly shouldn't have given the job to finding out the secrets of the Carrion Virus and turning himself into the third - and to date, deadliest - version of Carrion, who tried to unleash a biochemical weapon on New York to create a Zombie Apocalypse. (Sort of; the victims weren't truly zombies.) Spider-Man told Dum Dum Dugan to his face that "This would never be happening if Nick Fury were alive!" which clearly didn't help matters. Ironically, Fury was alive, but had faked his death, and Dugan knew that, but he couldn't exactly tell Spidey that.
Lawful Stupid / int_68ab8d50	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_68ab8d50	featureConfidence	1.0
The Clone Saga (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_68ab8d50
Lawful Stupid / int_69331e52	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_69331e52	comment	Hive Mind (2016): Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement is presented this way. An advocate having broken minor rules as a teenager, even ones that the Hive expects and wants some people to break, could be enough to sabotage their case regardless of the actual legal merits. A shortfall in the number of people at the Sea Farm - even though the people are all in the area, just not living in the immediate vicinity of the Sea Farm itself - could cause all trade to and from the Hive to be blocked, dooming one of the Hive's telepaths and probably killing millions of people.
Lawful Stupid / int_69331e52	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_69331e52	featureConfidence	1.0
Hive Mind (2016)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_69331e52
Lawful Stupid / int_699c1e80	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_699c1e80	comment	Not the first time S.H.I.E.L.D. had done something idiotic like this. In the She-Hulk graphic novel, they used their authority to kidnap She-Hulk in order to subject her to experiments to make sure she wasn't as dangerous as the Hulk. (Nick Fury objected, but he wasn't in charge at that point.) End result? An incompetent officer took control of the project, a mutant swarm of cockroaches hijacked control of the Helicarrier (this was the original one) the Helicarrier was destroyed, and they barely avoided a nuclear disaster due to the crash causing its reactor to become unstable. (She-Hulk would have left them to their fates, but there was a town with innocent civilians that would have been destroyed too, so they were able to convince her to fix the problem. Still, they didn't learn...)
Lawful Stupid / int_699c1e80	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_699c1e80	featureConfidence	1.0
She-Hulk (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_699c1e80
Lawful Stupid / int_69d15cc0	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Mordo turns out to be this in Doctor Strange. He's completely inflexible about the breaking of "natural law" to the point that when Strange does this by rewinding time, even though the alternative was The End of the World as We Know It. He'd rather watch the universe be destroyed by a being from outside reality than stop it from happening if it meant using time magic. Mordo's justification is that his faith has been shattered by the revelation that The Ancient One was purposefully using the power of Dormammu to keep herself alive despite the fact that Dormammu is what her order is fighting against. He reacts badly to this revelation, and Strange defying the law, even for a good reason, breaks what little faith he had left. Mordo believes that The Ancient One's use of power and the necessity of Strange's actions are irrevocably connected, and cannot get past it, falling back on the laws that he believes in to keep himself from doing what they did. He falls back on them so hard that he ultimately comes to believe that sorcerers are actively dangerous to the safety of the world. T'Challa succumbs to this in Black Panther. T'Challa knows full well that Killmonger is crazy and will lead Wakanda into a Forever War with the rest of the world, but still accepts his challenge to a fair fight for the throne because as a member of the royal family it's his right under the law. Then the rest of Wakanda follows Killmonger's orders because he is their rightful king, even though he isn't even really bothering to hide the fact that he is intentionally leading Wakanda to ruin out of spite. In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Mordo's Alternate Universe counterpart and his teammates on The Illuminati suffered from this as well. They were a bunch of haughty Well Intentioned Extremists who arrested and tried to execute Doctor Strange for something an alternate version of him did by accident with the justification that if one of them's dangerous then they all are. Soon after, Mister Fantastic invokes Reed Richards Is Useless in the most literal manner possible by essentially telling Scarlet Witch how to disable Black Bolt during his attempt at talking her down. Fitting enough, the only one with a brain between them was the telepath Professor X.
Lawful Stupid / int_69d15cc0	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_69d15cc0	featureConfidence	1.0
Marvel Cinematic Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_69d15cc0
Lawful Stupid / int_6a4c8f1b	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	Shown as a flaw in the hero system (albeit for laughs) in One-Punch Man, as C-class heroes need to do one good deed a week in order to keep their status, and his fights tend to not take place in public areas or get reported unless a fellow hero is there. Saitama was not aware of that, and was informed of it by his ally Genos when there was half a day left. The result was not him doing a good deed, but running around and scaring everyone with the expression on his face looking for one.
Lawful Stupid / int_6a4c8f1b	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6a4c8f1b	featureConfidence	1.0
One-Punch Man (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6a4c8f1b
Lawful Stupid / int_6a8aff51	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6a8aff51	comment	Nale from The Stormlight Archive. Obeys the letter of the law, but abuses it to hunt down the people who can help stop the coming apocalypse, because he thinks that if he can stop them from returning, the apocalypse won't happen. He's wrong. Justified, after a fashion. Nale is insane, and knows he's insane, so he chooses to stick to something external to himself and fixed (the laws of men) rather than trust his own damaged mind. Nale's entire Patron Order, the Skybreakers, have become this as most sworn personal loyalty to Nale as their third ideal, and thus are bound to what Nale thinks is right.
Lawful Stupid / int_6a8aff51	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6a8aff51	featureConfidence	1.0
The Stormlight Archive	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6a8aff51
Lawful Stupid / int_6abf16c2	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6abf16c2	comment	The Vacintians in the Big Finish Doctor Who drama "Time Reaver" are an extremely orderly and by-the-book race who have begun policing a former Wretched Hive to track down an incredibly dangerous weapon which they created, because it never occurred to them anyone would use it as a weapon. However, their method of doing so is to insist that everyone has the proper paperwork. In theory, this should lead to everyone on the planet being arrested, except that it also hasn't occurred to them that the people they've arrested won't voluntarily make their way to the Customs House. At one point the Big Bad gloats that they can't do anything to stop him without orders signed in triplicate.
Lawful Stupid / int_6abf16c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6abf16c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Finish Doctor Who (Audio Play)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6abf16c2
Lawful Stupid / int_6ac55ec7	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In one of Ben's Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, the Modrons of Mechanus, beings of pure Lawful Neutral, are baffled when they find that someone has stolen a Cosmic Keystone despite a strict "No Touching" sign on its pedestal. They conclude that the thief must have taken it without physically touching it, and then improve security by adding a "No Stealing" plaque.
Lawful Stupid / int_6ac55ec7	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6ac55ec7	featureConfidence	1.0
Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6ac55ec7
Lawful Stupid / int_6c1234ed	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarves in Dwarf Fortress are usually considered this by their community. They have a very lawful ethos, but the actual justice system is fairly ridiculous and usually serves to punish the one dwarf most necessary for the survival of your fortress because some noble demanded you make something impossible and threw a tantrum when it wasn't made. They're also quite prone to Artificial Stupidity, doing things like dodging off of ledges, disregarding danger in favor of loot, building walls from the wrong side and trapping themselves, and other such moronic things.
Lawful Stupid / int_6c1234ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6c1234ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Dwarf Fortress (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6c1234ed
Lawful Stupid / int_6d46ab6b	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6d46ab6b	comment	In The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, the Paladin is accused of the trope by his party members for refusing to allow them to torture information out of an evil captive. Especially ironic because 1. that Paladin does not really fit the trope (torturing is classified as an evil act even when the victim is evil, so it makes sense that a paladin would oppose it), 2. the paladin was added as an NPC because the party is completely out of control both in-game (being more interested in killing and having sex with everything than following the story) and in real life (being assholes to all other players to the point they didn't want to play with them anymore), and 3. the accusation comes from an Ax-Crazy powerplayer whose character (the Vain Sorceress) swings wildly between Chaotic Stupid and Stupid Evil.
Lawful Stupid / int_6d46ab6b	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6d46ab6b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6d46ab6b
Lawful Stupid / int_6d92a167	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6d92a167	comment	Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness: In the first chapter of Act IV, the minute Issa finds out that Kokoa and Moka accidentally turned Tsukune into a ghoul, he starts physically attacking them along with Akua and Kahlua, furious that they didn't do their vampire duty and kill said ghoul on sight while all but openly dismissing the fact that they managed to cure him. Tsukune takes the time to call him out on it. In Act IV chapter 16, Rason accuses the other angels as such, considering the fact that Hokuto is actively trying to resurrect Alucard and destroy the world, and they're not lifting a finger to stop him because, even if he is now a monster and regardless of how evil he is now, Hokuto was born human and thus, the angels' Thou Shalt Not Kill Muggles rule still applies to him until he actually dies with sin. Yes, that's right: the angels in Heaven are willing to let Hokuto revive an ancient Eldritch Abomination and wipe out all life on Earth because their laws insist that all humans, even ones as deranged and evil as Hokuto, are sacred and cannot be touched.
Lawful Stupid / int_6d92a167	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6d92a167	featureConfidence	1.0
Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6d92a167
Lawful Stupid / int_6e17a0d1	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6e17a0d1	comment	Die Hard: With the exception of Sgt. Al Powell, every LAPD officer, as well as FBI special agents Johnson and Johnson (no relation), is unhelpful to John McClane in his efforts to stop Hans Gruber, who takes complete advantage of their stupidity.
Lawful Stupid / int_6e17a0d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6e17a0d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Die Hard	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6e17a0d1
Lawful Stupid / int_6e859048	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6e859048	comment	"Ho Yeah!" has an example similar to the Big Hero 6 one. During this episode, Hank, Peggy, and Tammy are in a car chase with Alabaster Jones, Tammy's former pimp. Hank's plan for losing him is he waits on a yellow light just long enough so he can be the only one to cross before the light turns red. Hank is genuinely shocked when he sees him speeding through the red light.
Lawful Stupid / int_6e859048	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6e859048	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Hero 6	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6e859048
Lawful Stupid / int_6ed95443	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_6ed95443	comment	The bus driver in Quick Change insists on exact change even when being presented with a two-hundred-dollar bill and the option to keep the rest, arrives and leaves the stop at exact moments to the second (to the point that someone begging for some additional time to get change is pretty much to say "tough luck") and hands out receipts for transboarding when his bus' engine explodes by repeating the line to keep it because it will be needed like some kind of broken, sped-up record. An exasperated Grimm (Bill Murray) finally tells him, "You better lighten up. You're becoming Ralph Kramden's Evil Twin," when the man gets belligerent about the "no talking to the driver" rule.
Lawful Stupid / int_6ed95443	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_6ed95443	featureConfidence	1.0
Quick Change	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_6ed95443
Lawful Stupid / int_72262aee	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: In the episode "Avatar Day", Aang decides to stand trial for the crimes "he" did (or more correctly, a previous Avatar from several centuries ago — the Avatar spirit passes from generation to generation and all Avatars are connected), namely murder an Earth King. The village makes him follow EVERY law and tradition on the matter, using logic that would make trolls blush. Even when the old Avatar appears before them and explains that A) the king was a tyrant about to attack her homeland and B) he accidentally fell into the sea when she separated her homeland from the mainland to protect it, the village takes it as a confession. (To be fair, the same Avatar later argues that she was prepared to kill the king to save her homeland so it does not make much of a difference.) The village then pulls out the "Wheel of Punishment" to decide Aang's fate, with punishments including "eaten by shark" and "boiled alive." The only reason they do not execute Aang is that rhino riders from the Fire Nation attack the village and Aang beats the villagers at their own game, claiming that as a condemned convict he cannot help. The mayor then physically moves the Wheel of Punishment.
Lawful Stupid / int_72262aee	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_72262aee	featureConfidence	1.0
Avatar: The Last Airbender	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_72262aee
Lawful Stupid / int_74795739	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_74795739	comment	The Pirates of Penzance: The titular pirates are so extraordinarily Lawful Stupid that they're barely even pirates by the time of the play. While they have no problem kidnapping young ladies, they feel the need to marry them before any ravishing takes place. They refuse to attack forces weaker than them because it's dishonorable. They will never attack an orphan, being orphans themselves, and word has got around to the point that it seems that every ship they take is manned entirely by orphans. In fact, at the end of the play, they stand down from battling with the police after being ordered to yield in the name of Queen Victoria, and "for all our faults, we love our Queen." Frederick is the embodiment of Lawful Stupid, as the subtitle "The Slave of Duty" indicates. He rejoins the pirates and betrays the Major-General and Mabel to them, just because of a technicality in a contract that was signed on his behalf when he was a small child. Especially when you consider the fact that the contract was arranged by accident in the first place. His hearing-impaired nursemaid was supposed to apprentice him to be a pilot, not a pirate. General Stanley isn't immune either, being so wracked with guilt it leaves him sleepless after telling the Pirates he's an orphan — sure, doing so easily saved his family without bloodshed and made him an entire crew of pirates as allies, but it was a LIE! Going one further, he states that it's a lie because of the family portraits over the fireplace. They aren't even HIS family.
Lawful Stupid / int_74795739	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_74795739	featureConfidence	1.0
The Pirates of Penzance (Theatre)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_74795739
Lawful Stupid / int_7545887f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_7545887f	comment	Wayward Pines is a Stepford-meets-Camazotz nightmare in which any deviation from prescribed norms, any attempt to escape, and any attempt to talk about the past, is punishable by death. Every house and every street is lined with cameras and recorders, and a Shadow Dictator is always watching you. Such behaviour is Lawful Stupid on its face, because no human society could function under such constant duress. But there's more. Wayward Pines is in fact the last human settlement on Earth; the rest of humanity has devolved into cannibalistic crazies. The guy who made this town knew this would happen and so forcibly abducted large numbers of people back in our time and kept them in cryonic suspension for 2000 years in the hopes of preserving a human population. When he revived them and told them of their situation, they were naturally not all that prepared for it, and promptly died. So, what did he do? Did he decide to perhaps gradually introduce his victims to the reality he had forced them into? Maybe try to instill a sense of hope and purpose? No. He decided to keep everyone in the dark and kill anyone who came close to finding out what was going on. Keep in mind, these were the last people left alive on Earth, so he couldn't have had many in reserve.
Lawful Stupid / int_7545887f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_7545887f	featureConfidence	1.0
Wayward Pines	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_7545887f
Lawful Stupid / int_7668653a	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2 introduces the Justicar Samara, who is sometimes Lawful Stupid, but sometimes surprises the player by subverting the trope. On the way to recruiting her, the player hears a lot about the Justicar's Code and how it requires Justicars to act in Lawful Stupid fashion, and the police officers in the area are anxious to get her off their planet before her Code compels her to kill anyone who impedes her pursuit, up to and including police (since, according to the code, any law enforcement who is holding up her investigation is a dirty cop, whether or not they really are). The subversion comes when the player sees Samara use loopholes in her Code to avoid being forced into stupid behavior. That being said, she is very blunt about the body-count she'll accept, acknowledging to Shepard that the Code is a black-and-white set of rules in a grey world, and makes it clear that she will shoot her way out of the police station if they hold her for more than a day; the Code allows her to submit to arrest, but if anybody tries to actually put her in a cell or restrain her, the Code tells her that she is obligated to kill that person. Furthermore, the Code itself contains a clause that allows a Justicar to swear allegiance to someone for the duration of that person's mission or quest, during which time that person's orders override the Code in order for the Justicar to be able to serve the greater good without oathbreaking. (The Code also says that if, during this period, the person to whom Samara swears allegiance orders her to do anything immoral, she'll do it but will have to kill the person after being released from service.) In a similar vein, the asari themselves hold the Justicars in high regard and respect the questionable rigidness of their code; they're treated as heroes akin to knights in human history, so they're given a lot of leeway. However, most asari also realize how archaic the code is, and more importantly, they realize how other races wouldn't understand or respect the righteous code of the Justicars outside of asari culture. Samara's recruitment mission involves you helping a local asari detective get Samara out of Illium as fast as possible to a) prevent her from restraining Samara, thus forcing Samara to kill the detective, and b) reduce the risk of Samara causing a cross-species incident. Paragon Shepard is a big and very refreshing aversion of this trope. S/he respects the politics of the galaxy until they start to get in his/her way. If Udina locks down his/her ship s/he will participate in hijacking it in order to stop the galactic apocalypse among other examples. It's one reason why Paragon Shepard is just as badass as Renegade Shepard. In the third game, if Samara is alive at the end of the Ardat-Yakshi temple quest she'll decide that her code compels her to kill her last daughter since there is no longer a temple for her to stay in and Ardat-Yakshi (asari Vampires that kill with sex) are not permitted to live anywhere else. However, she can't go through with this and will try to kill herself because she refuses to kill her only surviving daughter, and so killing herself first is the only way she can see which would allow Falere to live unless Shepard steps in. In that case, however, both Shepard and her daughter Falere will convince her that Falere will remain on the planet her own free will, which Samara accepts.
Lawful Stupid / int_7668653a	featureApplicability	-1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_7668653a	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_7668653a
Lawful Stupid / int_791e7b7f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_791e7b7f	comment	In Zootopia, Judy writes herself a parking ticket while issuing parking tickets.
Lawful Stupid / int_791e7b7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_791e7b7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Zootopia	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_791e7b7f
Lawful Stupid / int_79328e7	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_79328e7	comment	Zig-zag: The Wacky Races story "The Scavenger Scramble" (Gold Key, issue #7, April 1972) has the racers needing one more item to complete their motorized scavenger hunt: a parking ticket. Dick Dastardly parks the Mean Machine at the red curb in front of a police station thinking he'll get his ticket immediately. Instead, the policemen all come out to gawk at Dastardly's Cool Car.
Lawful Stupid / int_79328e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_79328e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Wacky Races	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_79328e7
Lawful Stupid / int_797793b1	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_797793b1	comment	Shaman King: The X-LAWS are all this. A group that vows to wipe out Hao and his allies. Okay, the only problem is that if you are not on their side you're automatically considered an enemy. They refuse to work with others outside their group and tend to look down on anyone not in their team (mostly Marco carries this attitude). The X-LAWS says they do this to rid evil from the world and stop the killing. It is not as bad in the manga, but in the anime, they take it to the extreme. Way to go ruining your chances helping other people stop the Big Bad. Hao even calls them out on this and insults their leader. The Patch Tribe become this in the final arc. They vow to serve as Hao's Praetorian Guard as he has become the Shaman King, and they're honor-bound to protect him. This despite the fact that Hao has made no secret of his plan to wipe out humanity.
Lawful Stupid / int_797793b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_797793b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Shaman King (Manga)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_797793b1
Lawful Stupid / int_798e6a69	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_798e6a69	comment	DM of the Rings lampshades this when the players refuse to act in this manner.
Lawful Stupid / int_798e6a69	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_798e6a69	featureConfidence	1.0
DM of the Rings (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_798e6a69
Lawful Stupid / int_7a55e957	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_7a55e957	comment	Blood Bowl is not immune to this either, it has this in the form of the teams Bright Crusaders and the appropriately-named Heroes of Law, both aiming to set a good example by not breaking any rules of the game in trying to achieve victory. Because of how prominent cheating is in the game and the natures of most teams, they tend to not win very often at all. Blood Bowl is, after all, a game in which even the ones who make the rules cheat, and death is extremely common among its players, so sticking to the rules is suicidal.
Lawful Stupid / int_7a55e957	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_7a55e957	featureConfidence	1.0
Blood Bowl (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_7a55e957
Lawful Stupid / int_7a909592	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_7a909592	comment	In Erik the Viking, the title character lands on the mystical island of Hybrasil, where even a single drop of spilled blood will cause the entire island to sink. This results in their being completely nice and non-critical to each other in any way, in order to avoid any chance of an argument that could escalate into any accident. This is taken even to the point that their music is nothing but loud, chaotic noise and clanging sounds since no one will dare find any fault with it. Then, even when a drop of blood is finally spilled and the island begins to sink, no one will believe a word of it, but simply denies that it's happening, and they all go down with the island.
Lawful Stupid / int_7a909592	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_7a909592	featureConfidence	1.0
Erik the Viking	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_7a909592
Lawful Stupid / int_7c038c18	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: In the episode "Phineas & Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo," O.W.C.A. can't do anything to fight Doofenshmirtz because they all swore an oath to obey him. Admittedly, he had access to all of their communications and possibly their other equipment. When he briefly took over in the finale, he made thwarting him illegal, causing Perry to instantly back down. This is Baljeet's entire character. He has a neurotic obsession with routines and clear direction to the point that he sang an entire punk song (ironically) about enforcing this trope. His Establishing Character Moment is him studying at the start of summer vacation despite already being The Smart Guy. In the episode "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!" he happily signs up for a brutal Military School after being declared too smart for his cram school. The episode ends up being All Just a Dream, but it was entirely in character for him.
Lawful Stupid / int_7c038c18	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_7c038c18	featureConfidence	1.0
Phineas and Ferb	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_7c038c18
Lawful Stupid / int_7c19a801	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_7c19a801	comment	FTL: Faster Than Light brings us the Zoltans, a race of Energy Beings who are very uptight about regulations in their territories and are more than willing to kill you over customs disputes.
Lawful Stupid / int_7c19a801	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_7c19a801	featureConfidence	1.0
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_7c19a801
Lawful Stupid / int_7d8c61a2	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Koth Vortena from the Fallen Empire expansion of Star Wars: The Old Republic. He's a Wide-Eyed Idealist who disapproves if the Player Character does morally reprehensible things in the name of the greater good, while simultaneously defending The Emperor who is a Complete Monster, Omnicidal Maniac, and Humanoid Abomination simply because he hadn't wronged his world.
Lawful Stupid / int_7d8c61a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_7d8c61a2	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Wars: The Old Republic (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_7d8c61a2
Lawful Stupid / int_7ded6239	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_7ded6239	comment	Get Ace: Mrs. McDougal is shown to be this trope in one episode when she goes to extreme lengths to pay for dental floss she wasn't charged for. The kicker? It turns out the dental floss was free as part of a promotion.
Lawful Stupid / int_7ded6239	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_7ded6239	featureConfidence	1.0
Get Ace	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_7ded6239
Lawful Stupid / int_8085bad5	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_8085bad5	comment	A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe has The Followers of the Icosahedron, who wish for the world (well, what little there is) to be destroyed completely by the Singularity because the natural laws of nature require so to pave the way for a new universe.
Lawful Stupid / int_8085bad5	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_8085bad5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_8085bad5
Lawful Stupid / int_81692f99	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Kathryn Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager has occasionally been Lawful Stupid. Several times she has refused to take an opportunity to get the ship home because it would require going against the "values" of the Federation. This isn't always a bad thing, mind — the Federation was envisioned as a near-idealistic society so it would have some values worth keeping to — but it grated on some viewers after a while. And if she had, the show would have been over. Was lampshaded in an episode, where a holographic simulation shows the Maquis taking over Voyager, because of their frustration over Janeway's Lawful Stupid tendencies. In "Madame Captain's" defense, though, the Prime Directive requires this of Starfleet officers; they are literally expected to die rather than violate the Prime Directive. There were times when Janeway's stupid insistence on following this or that rule was so obviously jeopardizing the lives of the crew that any sane and reasonable life-form would have knocked her out and taken over the ship. And then she'd suddenly decide to pull something underhanded in an attempt to get home, before going back to acting all high-and-mighty again, which made her look like the biggest hypocrite. This can be blamed on multiple writers adding to the problem by trying to enforce their own interpretation of her without regard for consistency or the fact that she would be written by others after them. Star Trek: The Next Generation was not immune to this. For example, Picard and Worf regard violating the Prime Directive (or using subterfuge to intervene without violating it, which was something Kirk did multiple times) as worse than letting a species go extinct when their planet is about to blow up. See "Homeward", the episode involving Worf's human adoptive brother. In that episode, the crew screws up and one of the aliens discovers he is being misled (Worf's brother beamed his people to the holodeck so that they wouldn't know they were being moved from one planet to another during the transition). His world shattered, the alien man commits suicide rather than face the horrifying decision of abandoning his people forever or living among them but never revealing the truth. YMMV as to whether potentially destroying a culture is preferable to letting the people go extinct. Also the episode "Pen Pals", where only at Data's strong insistence do they decide to trouble themselves to help another planet that's about to explode. In the first season episode "Justice," the Enterprise visits a planet of Lawful Stupids. They're as friendly as can be, but Wesley gets sentenced to death for stepping on some flowers. If you think about it, the whole point of the Prime Directive is recognizing that interfering can do more harm than good. But if a culture is already facing the worst-case scenario (extinction), it's hard to see how Starfleet can make it worse. The only defense to this that kind of makes sense is, "What if they actually weren't going to go extinct and you cause them to go extinct trying to prevent it?" In-universe, characters sometimes try to defend it by invoking the frankly antiquated idea that they could be interfering with a "cosmic plan" (which if it were truly fated, you wouldn't be able to interfere with anyway, so why worry?). The worse it got was during one of their movies. Let's just say protecting the allegory of Native Americans and their way of life doesn't work if the captain took part in two Forced Relocations and said allegory was hogging radiation that could save lives... Comparison? There are around 600 natives. The radiation could save billions. It happened again in the second reboot film when Kirk gets sanctioned, demoted, and yelled at because a stone-age alien culture was influenced and their "natural evolution altered" by the crew of the Enterprise. The reason this occurred was that Kirk had bothered to try and save that species from extinction due to a massive volcanic eruption. Zig-zagged because Pike seemed less upset with the interference than the fact that Kirk put his ship and crew in danger and followed it up with a shoddy attempt at a cover-up. Notably, no other officer was demoted or court-martialed despite them all being part of the action. Star Trek: Enterprise manages to one-up the above examples in "Dear Doctor", as they doom a whole sapient species to death by genetic defect, despite having already developed the cure (they decide not to distribute it). They do this because Archer envisions that there will be some directive against it in the future. In other words, he is stupidly enforcing a law that DOES NOT EXIST YET. It also relies on Dr. Phlox saying that evolution "intends" for the species to go extinct and be replaced by the other species on the planet, which is not at all how science works.
Lawful Stupid / int_81692f99	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_81692f99	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_81692f99
Lawful Stupid / int_82439e64	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_82439e64	comment	Dwight Schrute of The Office. He tends to be as extreme about this as you can get away with in an office environment, taking even the slightest vestments of authority way too seriously and reporting minor infractions. This, in turn, is what makes it so satisfying to see Jim go all Bugs Bunny on him. Angela is like this too, but a little less stupid than Dwight. Naturally, it was the basis of a romance between the two. Jim occasionally uses this as the basis of a prank. For instance, he tells Dwight that the rules against wasting valuable office time mean that Dwight must not cease working even for a second and gets out a stopwatch to drive the point home. Dwight is hoisted on his own petard (to the point of peeing in a coke bottle at his desk) because he can't bring himself to admit that that rule if taken to its literal extreme would indeed be stupid.
Lawful Stupid / int_82439e64	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_82439e64	featureConfidence	1.0
The Office (US)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_82439e64
Lawful Stupid / int_83d41855	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_83d41855	comment	The Gargoyles are usually quite reasonable, but one time, Goliath, faced with a mighty opponent, decided to use the Eye of Odin. The Eye magnified his power to truly awesome levels — but also magnified his nature, that of a protector and guardian, to the point where he was willing to deceive his charges by pretending there was danger when there wasn't, to ensure they stayed somewhere safe rather than moving on, even if they would spend the rest of their lives sitting in an ice cave.
Lawful Stupid / int_83d41855	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_83d41855	featureConfidence	1.0
Gargoyles	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_83d41855
Lawful Stupid / int_83e716b1	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_83e716b1	comment	Carol and Phil from The Last Man on Earth are, as near as they can tell, the only two human beings left alive After the End, two years after a virus wiped out mankind. Carol still insists on following all of society's piddling rules. She insists that Phil stop at stop signs and berates him for parking in a handicapped parking spot, and she is appalled to discover that Phil's house is filled with formerly priceless artifacts he's picked up while tooling around America. She also forces Phil to marry her in a sham ceremony before they start repopulating the earth. While some of this is anal-retentiveness she eventually reveals that she doesn't want to "live like an animal". Ironically they crash into the third survivor's truck because Phil didn't stop at a stop sign.
Lawful Stupid / int_83e716b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_83e716b1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Last Man on Earth	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_83e716b1
Lawful Stupid / int_86814cd0	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_86814cd0	comment	Main character Cecil realizes he's becoming this at the beginning of Final Fantasy IV after slaughtering the innocent people of Mysidia under the orders of his king. Cecil even calls himself a coward who didn't have the guts to disobey an order he knew was morally wrong. Cecil vows never to follow such a heinous order again, but is tricked into delivering a package that destroys a town full of summoners the next day, causing Cecil to say "screw it" and openly rebel.
Lawful Stupid / int_86814cd0	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_86814cd0	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_86814cd0
Lawful Stupid / int_86814cd2	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_86814cd2	comment	Beatrix and Steiner from Final Fantasy IX are both this to varying degrees throughout the game. Beatrix helps The Empire destroy two cities simply because the evil nutcase Queen Brahne ordered it. Steiner wants to return the Rebellious Princess who wants to escape said evil nutcase, and not only doesn't notice that the Queen has become an evil nutcase, he stubbornly attempts to return Garnet to Alexandria even though Garnet says repeatedly that she intended to leave and cooperated fully with her "kidnappers." He also blames Lovable Rogue Zidane for every bad thing that happens, even though Zidane was hired by Garnet's foster uncle — because Queen Brahne was turning into an evil nutcase. It's only after the Queen attempts to kill her own daughter that both of them finally admit that the Queen has gone off the deep end. When interviewed by EGM, the game designers all but referred to Steiner using the trope name: "When the knights come after him, he's certain that it's a mistake, a miscommunication. The Queen cannot be doing this." That said, Steiner does believe that Brahne would never do anything as drastic as start a war on the Burmecians despite the fact that the party comes across evidence of just that. Considering that Steiner served Alexandria long enough to become captain of the Knights of Pluto (and thus knew Brahne long before she began to go insane), Steiner's denial makes sense up until the dying Burmecian soldier appears in Lindblum - shortly before he has his own doubts about the queen.
Lawful Stupid / int_86814cd2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_86814cd2	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy IX (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_86814cd2
Lawful Stupid / int_8756f1a5	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_8756f1a5	comment	In The Twelve Kingdoms, a flashback shows us King Chuutatsu of Hou. He was chosen for the job by Hourin for his strong sense of justice. Unfortunately, it turned out to be too strong. He eventually decreed All Crimes Are Equal and that someone guilty of any crime would be put to death by crucifixion (turns out Hou was the only one of the Kingdoms to still do so). The situation was not helped by his Queen falsely accusing officials and women of Court she didn't like just to be rid of them. After thirty years and hundreds of thousands of citizens put to death, his remaining officials revolted and beheaded him, the Queen, AND the dying Hourin, though the latter could also count as a Mercy Kill. The King's 13-year-old (actually 43) daughter was the only survivor, and her learning what people really thought of the King is the catalyst for her finally maturing.
Lawful Stupid / int_8756f1a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_8756f1a5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Twelve Kingdoms	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_8756f1a5
Lawful Stupid / int_87e00d8e	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_87e00d8e	comment	The Teen Titans/Knights of the Round Table in The Ravens of Avalon largely seem to care more about arresting or executing Sorceresses than what said Sorceress is currently doing. In one case, three of them try to arrest then attack Raven despite knowing that her magic is currently protecting the village from a powerful winter storm and that she just healed them after helping them against a sorcerer. Eventually Raven tells him he can deal with the storm himself and leaves. Despite the storm currently destroying the village and the freezing cold, Roy at least is more concerned with capturing Raven than seeking shelter.
Lawful Stupid / int_87e00d8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_87e00d8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Teen Titans (2003)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_87e00d8e
Lawful Stupid / int_880cfa15	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_880cfa15	comment	Hogan's Heroes: Colonel Hogan instantly decides that Crittendon is better off never knowing about the team (and furthermore, that he needs to be kicked out of Stalag 13 fast) when he "jokingly" asks Crittendon what would he do if he found out that the other prisoners were sabotaging the Germans and Crittendon answers that he would give them away to the Germans immediately because what Hogan and his team does is unlawful under the rules the Geneva Convention has set for prisoners of war. Crittendon also constantly bumbles around the camp scheming incredibly stupid escape plans because it's the duty of prisoners of war to escape, not knowing that these efforts occasionally almost draw the Germans' attention upon Hogan's team.
Lawful Stupid / int_880cfa15	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_880cfa15	featureConfidence	1.0
Hogan's Heroes	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_880cfa15
Lawful Stupid / int_8818f28f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_8818f28f	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine discusses this in the ending, where after defeating a Chaos Sorcerer, Captain Titus is turned to the Inquisition by his battle brother Leandros, who accuses him of being tainted due to his resistance to the warp. Titus states that the Codex Astardes is a set of rules that are meant to shape and guide them, but the true test of a Space Marine is how one lives with said rules. In his eyes, Leandros has failed this test. note Ironically, by reporting Titus directtly to an Inquisitor, instead of a Chaplain or Librarian, Leandros actually disobeyed the Codex.
Lawful Stupid / int_8818f28f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_8818f28f	featureConfidence	1.0
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_8818f28f
Lawful Stupid / int_8a6d6d61	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_8a6d6d61	comment	Mummy Nanny: Charlie and Charlie make all other dumb cartoon cops look like geniuses by comparison. In the first episode, after losing their patrol car, they commandeer the vehicle of the Obviously Evil bad guys and order the Big Bad to follow the suspects' car. He does exactly what they told him to do, but then they order him to stop and ticket him for speeding, letting their suspects get away. It's a Running Gag that they're a bit trigger happy when it comes to ticketing. In one episode they even try to ticket a rocket and spend several minutes searching the underside of it for the windscreen before it takes off and they're engulfed in the flames.
Lawful Stupid / int_8a6d6d61	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_8a6d6d61	featureConfidence	1.0
Mummy Nanny	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_8a6d6d61
Lawful Stupid / int_8d36db52	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_8d36db52	comment	Tyranny: Double Subversion with Judge Tunon: He is dedicated to laying out the laws of Overlord Kyros to the exact letter, no matter how extreme or tormenting her edicts get. Subverted because he is old and smart enough to know that Kyros doesn't really give a shit about how things play out as long as they play out in her favor, so he can interpret the law any damn way he wants given that it is fulfilled to the letter, even if it gets Tunon a few extra supplies or torture victims. Double Subverted if the player character can successfully convince Tunon that despite their sheer rebellion against Kyros, they have fulfilled both the letter AND the spirit of the law in their own way, which forces Tunon to accept them as the better Overlord even if you are a bloodthirsty anarchist or a rebel who intends to erect an empire that will spit in the face of everything Overlord Kyros intends.
Lawful Stupid / int_8d36db52	featureApplicability	-0.3
Lawful Stupid / int_8d36db52	featureConfidence	1.0
Tyranny (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_8d36db52
Lawful Stupid / int_8db36f7	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_8db36f7	comment	RoboCop is subjected to this in the second movie, in a deliberate bid by OCP to make him so useless that they can justify scrapping him. They decide to make him a more positive social role model by giving him over three hundred new Directives that he's forced to obey, including "Pool opinions before expressing yourself," "Discourage feelings of negativity and hostility," and "Don't run through puddles and splash other pedestrians." Robocop realizes that this is impairing his ability to uphold the core three Directives and enforce the law to his best capacity and purposely shocks himself to short out the Lawful Stupid programming, something the bad guys didn't expect.
Lawful Stupid / int_8db36f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_8db36f7	featureConfidence	1.0
RoboCop (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_8db36f7
Lawful Stupid / int_8ee238c9	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: In Persona 3, we have Mr. Ekoda, the classic literature teacher with seniority in Gekkoukan High. He does what he believes is in the best interest of the school and his students, which includes covering up the disappearance of Fuuka caused by bullies to save the bullies' reputation, and suspending Saori because of a gossip magazine's false story about her being promiscuous, and nearly suspending the main character, just for being her (only) friend. Mitsuru's punishment for him of the former act, and Miss Ounishi and Toriumi, his two kohai, brushing him off to support Saori's Moment of Awesome wholeheartedly were definitely well deserved. Persona 5 gives us Goro Akechi and Sae Niijima. They wish for the Phantom Thieves to be arrested - despite the fact that they're making otherwise untouchable criminals confess their crimes - because they're using a morally questionable method of Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing. Averted for Akechi, when it's revealed that he's a member of The Conspiracy, and the Phantom Thieves pose a threat to them. Sae eventually changes her tune on the thieves and becomes their Commissioner Gordon.
Lawful Stupid / int_8ee238c9	featureApplicability	-1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_8ee238c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Persona (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_8ee238c9
Lawful Stupid / int_8ffd1b86	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_8ffd1b86	comment	Mordo turns out to be this in Doctor Strange. He's completely inflexible about the breaking of "natural law" to the point that when Strange does this by rewinding time, even though the alternative was The End of the World as We Know It. He'd rather watch the universe be destroyed by a being from outside reality than stop it from happening if it meant using time magic. Mordo's justification is that his faith has been shattered by the revelation that The Ancient One was purposefully using the power of Dormammu to keep herself alive despite the fact that Dormammu is what her order is fighting against. He reacts badly to this revelation, and Strange defying the law, even for a good reason, breaks what little faith he had left. Mordo believes that The Ancient One's use of power and the necessity of Strange's actions are irrevocably connected, and cannot get past it, falling back on the laws that he believes in to keep himself from doing what they did. He falls back on them so hard that he ultimately comes to believe that sorcerers are actively dangerous to the safety of the world.
Lawful Stupid / int_8ffd1b86	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_8ffd1b86	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Strange (2016)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_8ffd1b86
Lawful Stupid / int_905cf99c	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_905cf99c	comment	The Mangalore in The Fifth Element are a Proud Warrior Race, but they literally won't fight without a senior Mangalore present, surrendering immediately when he's killed.
Lawful Stupid / int_905cf99c	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_905cf99c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fifth Element	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_905cf99c
Lawful Stupid / int_90a3a7f4	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Hego from Kim Possible. He hides his identity with glasses and a tie, talks on and on, giving the enemy the chance to attack, and follows the rules of hero/villain interaction to the T, even lecturing the other heroes on the 'proper' way to do things while they were all in danger from the villain. By about halfway through his introductory episode, the heroes completely understand why his little sister turned evil. Even the other brothers find him annoying. Even when he turned evil he still acts like this, much to Electronique's nerves. Hego stayed behind when his brothers are out on vacation. He was so lonely and wished he went, he's beginning to think something is wrong with him.
Lawful Stupid / int_90a3a7f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_90a3a7f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Kim Possible	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_90a3a7f4
Lawful Stupid / int_924c78dc	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_924c78dc	comment	In Hunter: The Reckoning, several groups of hunters seemed to fall exclusively into the realm of Lawful Stupid (Zeal-based Creeds whose philosophy was "the only good monster is a dead monster") or Stupid Good (Mercy-based Creeds who tried to redeem or wouldn't defend themselves against even the worst monsters).
Lawful Stupid / int_924c78dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_924c78dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Hunter: The Reckoning (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_924c78dc
Lawful Stupid / int_94bfa327	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_94bfa327	comment	The Land of Dreams is a borderline, possibly unintentional case in early points of The Dreamstone. While they are usually only protecting their dream-making trinket so that Zordrak can't give them nightmares, they consider the Urpneys the highest form of scum for trying to steal it (despite being meek unwilling slaves who only follow Zordrak's plans out of fear of execution if they don't) and are frequently much more relentless in punishing the villains than vice versa. Later episodes tone them down, though they still retain a very black and white approach.
Lawful Stupid / int_94bfa327	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_94bfa327	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dreamstone	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_94bfa327
Lawful Stupid / int_959e88d	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_959e88d	comment	In Dragon Quest XI, the knight Hendrik's rigid adherence to his king's order to arrest The Chosen One Player Character leads to him trying to kill the king's daughter Jade for standing in his way. One of the several problems with this is that she was believed to be dead and as a result was the casus belli for his crusade. He spent half the game trying to arrest the player for a crime he was about to commit himself. It isn't until his best friend tries to kill him that he realizes something is horribly wrong with his side, and he makes up for it by becoming the Sixth Ranger.
Lawful Stupid / int_959e88d	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_959e88d	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Quest XI (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_959e88d
Lawful Stupid / int_963d9065	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_963d9065	comment	S.H.I.E.L.D. was living and breathing this trope during the Civil War. Anyone who opposed the Superhuman Registration Act was seen as the enemy and when caught were sentenced to a concentration camp in another dimension. They even hired supervillains to hunt down the rebel superheroes. That's mostly due to the fact that Maria Hill, who tends to be the absolute epitome of Lawful Stupid, was running S.H.I.E.L.D. during that arc. In fact, it was the entire reason she was chosen to replace Nick Fury. The government knew she was completely incapable of questioning or disobeying orders. Unfortunately, this trope was also Maria's undoing when she allowed Norman Osborn full rein. The scene where she attempts to arrest Captain America for "breaking" a law which is still being debated in Congress at the time (i.e. is NOT a law yet) is textbook Lawful Stupid with a side order of Holier Than Thou on Hill's part. Trope happily averted in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. live-action TV series where Maria helps Coulson attack the US army (who she was co-operating with for immunity from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s terrorist label so that she could work privately for Stark) so that he can escape and continue to pursue Hydra. And before that, when told by the President of the USA to nuke Genosha while the Avengers are on it, she refuses, even though at that point her relationship with the group was decidedly frosty. Not the first time S.H.I.E.L.D. had done something idiotic like this. In the She-Hulk graphic novel, they used their authority to kidnap She-Hulk in order to subject her to experiments to make sure she wasn't as dangerous as the Hulk. (Nick Fury objected, but he wasn't in charge at that point.) End result? An incompetent officer took control of the project, a mutant swarm of cockroaches hijacked control of the Helicarrier (this was the original one) the Helicarrier was destroyed, and they barely avoided a nuclear disaster due to the crash causing its reactor to become unstable. (She-Hulk would have left them to their fates, but there was a town with innocent civilians that would have been destroyed too, so they were able to convince her to fix the problem. Still, they didn't learn...) Oh, yeah, they didn't learn. Another example of S.H.I.E.L.D. stupidity happened slightly after The Clone Saga in the Spider-Man one-shot Spider-Man: Dead Man's Hand, when they confiscated the Jackal's body and experimented on it. This led to an unscrupulous coroner who they clearly shouldn't have given the job to finding out the secrets of the Carrion Virus and turning himself into the third - and to date, deadliest - version of Carrion, who tried to unleash a biochemical weapon on New York to create a Zombie Apocalypse. (Sort of; the victims weren't truly zombies.) Spider-Man told Dum Dum Dugan to his face that "This would never be happening if Nick Fury were alive!" which clearly didn't help matters. Ironically, Fury was alive, but had faked his death, and Dugan knew that, but he couldn't exactly tell Spidey that. Marvel also has an instance of this with Valerie Cooper. In one instance, when Julia Carpenter broke Iron Man and the Avengers out of the Vault and helped them clear their names after they were set up and framed by Quicksilver, Val declared her a fugitive and outright told Iron Man that even if the Avengers were innocent from the start, it didn't give Julia the right to break the law either way.
Lawful Stupid / int_963d9065	featureApplicability	-1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_963d9065	featureConfidence	1.0
S.H.I.E.L.D. (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_963d9065
Lawful Stupid / int_96ffd493	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_96ffd493	comment	In Worm - Justice For All, even after a mini-Endbringer Truce situation is declared, Aegis still tries to bring in the Undersiders after saving them from Hamelin's Pocket Dimension. Even Piggot, not exactly a fan of villainous parahumans, thinks that he's being an idiot, and decides that he needs flexibility training.
Lawful Stupid / int_96ffd493	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_96ffd493	featureConfidence	1.0
Worm - Justice For All (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_96ffd493
Lawful Stupid / int_97fecfcb	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_97fecfcb	comment	The Principal in Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning patrols the school halls for anyone who breaks the rules. If he catches you breaking a rule, he'll chase you down and send you to detention with each capture making your next detention session longer. He does this despite the fact that Baldi is chasing you down aiming to beat your ass senseless with a ruler and other students breaking the rules in front of him. A patch changed the Principal's behavior slightly where he'll actually send the bully to detention if he catches him stealing from you.
Lawful Stupid / int_97fecfcb	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_97fecfcb	featureConfidence	1.0
Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_97fecfcb
Lawful Stupid / int_980c3316	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_980c3316	comment	The entire Marvel Family was like this. In Marvel Family #46 this gets taken to a ridiculous extreme by Mary Marvel. When she and an explorer are on an island of robots, they find out a law by the long-vanished civilization says that any humans there must be executed. Mary says she has to submit, as she 'never breaks a law, even the ancient law of a vanished civilization'. It is especially ridiculous considering Mary Marvel told the robots about the law when translating a document.
Lawful Stupid / int_980c3316	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_980c3316	featureConfidence	1.0
Shazam! (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_980c3316
Lawful Stupid / int_9ab064e6	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_9ab064e6	comment	Inspector Javert, from the musical (and yes, the book as well) Les MisÃ©rables, is rapidly approaching the embodiment of Lawful Stupid by story's end. Once a criminal, always a criminal is his mantra. He attempts to arrest the highly successful and well-loved mayor of a town who was running a factory explicitly for people who couldn't afford to live otherwise (all-around hero Jean Valjean) for the heinous crime of a parole violation years previous. He also attempts to arrest Valjean (whom he knows is superhumanly strong and a criminal facing decades of hard labour) armed only with a baton. Unsurprisingly, Valjean (who can pick up a fully-loaded cart) over-powers Javert and escapes. This wasn't due necessarily to Javert's stupidity (he's generally an intelligent man), but to his belief that "good" always overcomes "evil", where "good" and "evil" are equal to "law" and "crime", respectively.
Lawful Stupid / int_9ab064e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_9ab064e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Les MisÃ©rables (Theatre)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_9ab064e6
Lawful Stupid / int_9ce851a3	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_9ce851a3	comment	Reese in one episode of Malcolm in the Middle where he's sent to boot camp. The drill instructors eventually shape him into the perfect soldier who follows orders without question or free thought. The instructor demonstrates by ordering him to march forward into a wall and remarks, "He'll do that all day." This backfires when he's put in charge of a group for a war games session and his walkie talkie breaks, leaving him paralyzed and unable to do anything except repeatedly request orders from the nonfunctional device. He eventually snaps out of it, but returns to his Chaotic Evil persona and defeats both the opposing side and his own instructors with a tank.
Lawful Stupid / int_9ce851a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_9ce851a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Malcolm in the Middle	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_9ce851a3
Lawful Stupid / int_9d34190a	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: The City Guards play this unerringly straight throughout much of the series. Commit any crime in their presence, from assaulting people with fire spells, to outright murder, to accidentally stealing an item worth one gold while attempting to speak to a merchant, and they will swarm you. They'll attempt to arrest you, and will try to kill you if you refuse to comply. Think you've escaped? Not so fast...they've been known to literally track you halfway across the game world attempting to bring you to justice. Up to Eleven with the city guards in Oblivion. They shout the same phrase, in the same tone of voice, whether you've just murdered someone in cold blood or have stolen a sweetroll. Skyrim: Finally averted for the first time in the series by the city guards. If your bounty is low enough, you can easily get away with simply a slap on the wrist for picking up something that happened to be owned by somebody else if you just pay off the relatively small bounty. In some cases, they won't even take you with them to the keep, and will simply let you go immediately after paying off your bounty and giving them your stolen goods, and they have a lot more forgiving attitude than the guards in previous games. Also, if your crime is minuscule enough, you can talk them into just letting you go your way with a simple "don't do it again". And if you're with the Thieves' Guild or are a Thane in their town... Played straight with the Blades in Skyrim however. After a certain point in the main quest, they'll insist that you kill Paarthurnaxx for his crimes in the ancient Dragon War and stop helping you if you refuse to do so, on the basis that giving you their aid would violate their oaths as Blades. All this despite the Dragon War taking place thousands of years ago, Paarthurnaxx helping to win it for humanity, and living peacefully and giving them no trouble ever since. To say nothing of the fact that the Blades can't exactly afford to alienate allies given how they were almost wiped out by the Thalmor not too long ago... Daggerfall and Skyrim both have law enforcement stick arguably stupidly firmly to the law in another way — unlike the other games, where guards can try to (sometimes follow you to) arrest you for a crime done halfway across the game world, those games have crimes be strictly regional — which means the guards and the law don't care at all how notorious you might be in a neighbouring region, not even when it comes to keeping an eye on you. Online brings back the "universal bounty" system, which is really amazing as the game takes place during a time where there is no universal ruler of Tamriel, and you can be accosted in (for example) an Aldmeri Dominion city for a crime you committed in an Ebonheart Pact City.
Lawful Stupid / int_9d34190a	featureApplicability	-1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_9d34190a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_9d34190a
Lawful Stupid / int_9da2491b	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_9da2491b	comment	In the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries there's a magistrate who is so convinced that Darcy is guilty of theft he won't even consider examining the evidence and running an investigation.
Lawful Stupid / int_9da2491b	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_9da2491b	featureConfidence	1.0
Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_9da2491b
Lawful Stupid / int_9e2f90f4	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The World Government is ruled by a bunch of arrogant nobles who are not only perfectly willing to ignore a prison breakout that freed more than one hundred highly dangerous criminals back into the world, they are willing to cover it up as though it never happened. While focusing nearly the entirety of their forces into one single place to ensure the end of the bloodline of a decades-dead pirate. (Possibly an example of It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, as the reason for the cover-up of the prison break out was that after already taking a hit to their reputation, they didn't want to announce that their formerly impenetrable prison just had a massive break out and cause a panic/queue more trouble. That said, one has to wonder how you talk your way out of formerly imprisoned criminals suddenly appearing in the world. Besides, they can kill anyone who can prove they got out. Or so they assume. The World Government tends to have a Screw the Rules, I Make Them! attitude at times.) Admiral Kizaru is less evil than his bosses, but he tends to be this, emphasis on "stupid." He can't tell the difference between the "black" Den Den Mushi, only used for espionage, and the standard Den Den Mushi used as a phone, completely overlooks slavery and its many implications, and nearly destroyed an entire island in the Saobody Archipelago because he couldn't be bothered to check where he was aiming.
Lawful Stupid / int_9e2f90f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_9e2f90f4	featureConfidence	1.0
One Piece (Manga)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_9e2f90f4
Lawful Stupid / int_9e7653e4	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_9e7653e4	comment	Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels: Prosecutor Jack Emery certainly came off as this early on, but he dropped it by the book The Jury. Reporter Ted Robinson managed to hit a higher level of this than Jack did, and he didn't drop it until either the book Collateral Damage or Final Justice. FBI Agent Erin Powell AKA Honey Sweet was certainly this in Collateral Damage.
Lawful Stupid / int_9e7653e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_9e7653e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Sisterhood Series	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_9e7653e4
Lawful Stupid / int_9e8e9ba3	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_9e8e9ba3	comment	In one Gaunt's Ghosts novel, an officer is arrested for insubordination because he had been ordered to advance along a certain road and engage the enemy and was forced to detour around a traffic obstacle (While still obeying the important part of the orders - to engage the enemy). Gaunt recognizes the sheer idiocy of this and does everything he can to get the charges dropped.
Lawful Stupid / int_9e8e9ba3	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_9e8e9ba3	featureConfidence	1.0
Gaunt's Ghosts	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_9e8e9ba3
Lawful Stupid / int_a183d57f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a183d57f	comment	Zapp Brannigan from Futurama is hypocritically Lawful Stupid, with extra emphasis on his stupid part. On the other hand, you're not supposed to like him much anyway.
Lawful Stupid / int_a183d57f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a183d57f	featureConfidence	1.0
Futurama	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a183d57f
Lawful Stupid / int_a4420d22	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros.: The Office of Secret Intelligence (or at least Colonel Gathers) has a code of never killing women or children no matter what, even though they're secret agents with a license to kill (although it's really a good thing). The Guild of Calamitous Intent's byzantine ruleset for "arching" constitutes a subversion; the fact that the rules limit the ability of villains to cause real damage is intended by the Sovereign, who understands that turning dozens of megalomaniacs with lasers loose on the world wouldn't be good for anyone (showcased best when Monarch is not allowed to be Rusty Venture's arch-enemy anymore - he gets so ticked off that he becomes a No-Nonsense Nemesis and massacres all of his replacement "arches" (a dozen or at least, and those are the ones we see on screen) in a rapid-fire montage).
Lawful Stupid / int_a4420d22	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a4420d22	featureConfidence	1.0
The Venture Bros.	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a4420d22
Lawful Stupid / int_a4cdab75	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a4cdab75	comment	The MACUSA in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Tina brings Newt into MACUSA because he is showing a wanton disrespect for the local laws. She is told off because she is disrespecting her post, and they do not even believe her or make any effort to investigate the stranger she has brought into the MACUSA headquarters. When she comes back the following day after an Obscurus had killed a local senator with proof that magical creatures had escaped from the man she brought in yesterday, MACUSA... gives her a tongue lashing for not informing them of this earlier. Never mind that she actually did... MACUSA were the ones who turned her away when she did.
Lawful Stupid / int_a4cdab75	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a4cdab75	featureConfidence	1.0
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a4cdab75
Lawful Stupid / int_a54eef52	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a54eef52	comment	England from Hetalia: Axis Powers is guilty of this trope (with relative truth to it). He's always trying to make sense of the chaotic world he's in, taking offense to even minor inconveniences especially one's caused by either France or America. Most of England's suffering was the result of his own rigity and Tsundere-like behavior. And you wonder why, he has so little friends?
Lawful Stupid / int_a54eef52	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a54eef52	featureConfidence	1.0
Hetalia: Axis Powers (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a54eef52
Lawful Stupid / int_a5549ed0	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a5549ed0	comment	In The Bible, the Pharisees are generally characterized this way. These were the top religious guys, who knew every law backwards and forwards and took great pride in following them to the letter (and made sure everyone else knew it). Until some carpenter from a backwater town started calling them out saying "Hey guys, you're doing it wrong." The fact that he claimed to be the Son of God (you know, the one who wrote the laws in the first place), and backed up that claim with miraculous powers, didn't make them any more inclined to listen to him; in fact, they got their knickers all in a twist just because he had the gall to heal somebody on the Sabbath day. That, and the fact that he was starting a movement that threatened their power meant that he and his followers had to be silenced by any means necessary.
Lawful Stupid / int_a5549ed0	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a5549ed0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Bible	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a5549ed0
Lawful Stupid / int_a68c19b8	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a68c19b8	comment	Eldigan of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War is a loyal knight of Agustria who obeys King Chagall no matter what. Unfortunately, Chagall is a patricide who, when Eldigan questions his plans to attack the neighboring country, locks Eldigan in the dungeon and sends another lord to attack his lands and sister Lachesis. Rather than turn on him after Sigurd rescues both of them, Eldigan protects Chagall and continues to obey his orders when Chagall gets belligerent again, even going so far as to attack Sigurd's army. His obedience to Chagall eventually kills him, either at Sigurd's hands or by Chagall's orders if he listens to his sister and quits his attack.
Lawful Stupid / int_a68c19b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a68c19b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a68c19b8
Lawful Stupid / int_a7cefbd2	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a7cefbd2	comment	Babylon Bee: This article where people are convinced that Skynet should be allowed to wipe out humanity because Cyberdyne is a private company.
Lawful Stupid / int_a7cefbd2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a7cefbd2	featureConfidence	1.0
Babylon Bee (Website)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a7cefbd2
Lawful Stupid / int_a81325d3	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Main character Cecil realizes he's becoming this at the beginning of Final Fantasy IV after slaughtering the innocent people of Mysidia under the orders of his king. Cecil even calls himself a coward who didn't have the guts to disobey an order he knew was morally wrong. Cecil vows never to follow such a heinous order again, but is tricked into delivering a package that destroys a town full of summoners the next day, causing Cecil to say "screw it" and openly rebel. Beatrix and Steiner from Final Fantasy IX are both this to varying degrees throughout the game. Beatrix helps The Empire destroy two cities simply because the evil nutcase Queen Brahne ordered it. Steiner wants to return the Rebellious Princess who wants to escape said evil nutcase, and not only doesn't notice that the Queen has become an evil nutcase, he stubbornly attempts to return Garnet to Alexandria even though Garnet says repeatedly that she intended to leave and cooperated fully with her "kidnappers." He also blames Lovable Rogue Zidane for every bad thing that happens, even though Zidane was hired by Garnet's foster uncle — because Queen Brahne was turning into an evil nutcase. It's only after the Queen attempts to kill her own daughter that both of them finally admit that the Queen has gone off the deep end. When interviewed by EGM, the game designers all but referred to Steiner using the trope name: "When the knights come after him, he's certain that it's a mistake, a miscommunication. The Queen cannot be doing this." That said, Steiner does believe that Brahne would never do anything as drastic as start a war on the Burmecians despite the fact that the party comes across evidence of just that. Considering that Steiner served Alexandria long enough to become captain of the Knights of Pluto (and thus knew Brahne long before she began to go insane), Steiner's denial makes sense up until the dying Burmecian soldier appears in Lindblum - shortly before he has his own doubts about the queen. The Sharlayans of Final Fantasy XIV gather knowledge... and nothing else. They could have all of the answers to all of the problems the heroes deal with, but they would rather just hide away on their island and watch. Even the threat of The End of the World as We Know It is not enough to get the Sharlayans to act. To wit, they exiled one scholar for wanting to help the world, his son went and disowned his children for protecting the world, and they try to kill the Warrior of Light while learning the ways of the Astrologian. It's all technically a front for setting up a contingency plan in case the Final Days comes to pass, but even then, it's shown that the Sharlayan mindset heavily favors only following their mission to the letter and no further. This causes the heroes to butt heads with them, until it's suggested that if they can't convince the Sharlayans on moral grounds, they'll have to do so on pragmatic grounds by proving that what the Sharlayans are planning isn't going to work.
Lawful Stupid / int_a81325d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a81325d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a81325d3
Lawful Stupid / int_a825da3e	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a825da3e	comment	In Magic: The Gathering, White Magic is the color of order and law, which, since all five colors can encompass good, evil and neutral creatures, can easily be twisted into dogmatism and tyranny. Most examples of this happening are treated dead seriously as villains for their set, but there are no shortage of comedic cards showing bullheaded bureaucrats or idiotic paladins. For instance the un-set Unstable has the Order of the Widget, so devoted to honor through artifice that they literally turn themselves to toasters (their leader apparently has gone to the point of not being a sapient creature anymore). On a more serious note, there is Azor, a White-Blue planeswalker who plunged his home plane into a centuries-long Civil War. He set up a comprehensive set of rules for a perfect society, and handed them to a faction he charged with upholding and enforcing said rules. When they failed, he went to the next one, and so on. He never realized that some people might not like his rules, that a bit of flexibility might have been better than trying to account for every contingency, and that some of the people he granted power would inevitably abuse it. Centuries later, he still hasn't figured it out.
Lawful Stupid / int_a825da3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a825da3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a825da3e
Lawful Stupid / int_a869f91d	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a869f91d	comment	The Most Popular Girls in School: Trisha 2 refuses to help out Mackenzie and Brittnay restrain a panicking Trisha because she can't take her seatbelt off while the seatbelt sign is on.
Lawful Stupid / int_a869f91d	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a869f91d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Most Popular Girls in School (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a869f91d
Lawful Stupid / int_a86b7660	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_a86b7660	comment	Fraser from Due South lives for this trope. In the S02E01 episode North, he and Ray are flying to Canada when he realizes their "pilot" is actually a criminal who hijacked the plane. He sits on the information for some time because, as he explains to Ray, "It's a moot point. He has a gun; we don't." When Ray reveals that he took his backup gun on board, Fraser nods approvingly and then says, "I will have to arrest you, of course, once we land." Fraser Sr. isn't much better. He shares an anecdote at one point indicating that he pulled over his late wife for speeding...while he was in the car with her. To be fair, Fraser is as hard on himself as anyone else. In An Eye for an Eye, (S01E13) Fraser encourages a neighborhood watch effort that ends with one member turning to vigilantism. He tells Lt. Welsh that he's taken the liberty of officially reprimanding himself. Welsh tells him to "put it in the file with the rest of them," indicating that (a) this is not the first or second time this has happened, and (b) Fraser reprimanded himself with the Chicago PD, not the RCMP. He has a file of self-inflicted reprimands with an agency he does not work for, in a country he is not a citizen of. In Mountie on the Bounty (S03E12-E13), Fraser throws a gun at a mook because he is only licensed to carry a firearm in Canada. The very second the ship enters Canadian waters, he takes Ray's gun and cuts off the villain's escape route.
Lawful Stupid / int_a86b7660	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_a86b7660	featureConfidence	1.0
Due South	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_a86b7660
Lawful Stupid / int_aa188702	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_aa188702	comment	In Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, there is a small faction of the Covenant called The Governors of Contrition. While the normal Covenant place a large emphasis on the works of the Forerunners being holy, the Governors of Contrition take it to a huge extreme. They even consider The Flood (a plague that turns people into space-zombies) to be worth embracing because it was created by the Forerunners (which it wasn't; in fact, it's the other way round: The Flood in the form of the Precursers created the Forerunners). Even the normally ridiculously dogmatic Covenant realize this is madness.
Lawful Stupid / int_aa188702	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_aa188702	featureConfidence	1.0
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_aa188702
Lawful Stupid / int_abf4c9b3	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_abf4c9b3	comment	Dead or Alive: Kasumi's entire dilemma stinks of this; for leaving the clan without permission to kill Raidou and avenge her brother Hayate, she is marked a traitor that needs to be put down. In a cutscene from Dead or Alive: Dimensions, Hayate initially wants to find Kasumi and bring her home, but Shiden, Hayate and Kasumi's own father, blatantly tells him that, as the next leader of the clan, his loyalty is to the clan itself first and foremost.
Lawful Stupid / int_abf4c9b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_abf4c9b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Dead or Alive (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_abf4c9b3
Lawful Stupid / int_abfcff6a	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_abfcff6a	comment	The "Upsidasium" story arc of Rocky and Bullwinkle has Air Force commander General Broadbeam arresting himself for the theft of the Upsidasium payload perpetrated by Boris Badenov disguised as Rocky. Broadbeam first accused Rocky of the theft as a result, but his alibi is that Gen. Broadbeam was with him the whole time.
Lawful Stupid / int_abfcff6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_abfcff6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Rocky and Bullwinkle	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_abfcff6a
Lawful Stupid / int_aca7b22d	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball: Darwin falls into this trope frequently. In "The Internet", even though they were both aware that The Internet itself hacked into the traffic lights and was trying to kill them, Darwin stood in place and scolded Gumball like a child for running across the road. Unfortunately Miraculously, Darwin was not hit by a single car during this entire tirade. In "The Loophole," Bobert, due to being Literal-Minded, quickly descended into this when Gumball and Darwin order him to uphold the law, choosing to uphold very ridiculous laws by burning off Miss Simian's hair with a laser ("According to the law in New Mexico, females are forbidden to appear unshaven in public."), threatening an old man simply eating soup with an Arm Cannon ("According to the law in New Jersey, it is illegal to slurp your soup."), continuing to do so when said old man screams in fear ("In North Carolina, it is illegal to sing off-key."), ripping off a security guard's beard ("In Massachusetts, goatees are illegal without a license."), and blowing up Billy's lollipop ("Lollipops are also banned.") When Gumball tries to stop him, Bobert tries to shoot him for "obstruction of justice," only to miss and blow up the roof, at which point Bobert starts shooting himself for destroying public property. All of this completely ignores the fact that none of these characters are in or even from the countries where these Loony Laws are enforced. In "The Job", Nicole tries to get Richard fired from his job as a pizza delivery guy to prevent the universe from being destroyed, but Larry refuses because there's nothing in the company rules explicitly stating that employees can't tear apart the fabric of reality while making deliveries. Fortunately, Larry ends up finding an unrelated reason to fire Richard just in time to avert the apocalypse.
Lawful Stupid / int_aca7b22d	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_aca7b22d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Amazing World of Gumball	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_aca7b22d
Lawful Stupid / int_ae1f8a83	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_ae1f8a83	comment	In Jesus Christ Superstar, Pontius Pilate is depicted in this sense. The powers that be, as well as the angry mob, demand that Jesus be crucified. Pilate recognizes that he sees somebody who hasn't actually committed a crime. He is, however, duty-bound to follow Roman law and the edict of his superiors. That's why he gave Jesus every opportunity to confess to anything; both to spare Jesus from martyrdom, and to spare himself from condemning an innocent man. Ironically, he could've theoretically delayed the inevitable as much as he needed, but Jesus's desire to die for the sins of humanity finally wore Pilate down, and he "washed his hands" of what would happen from there, while still viewing Jesus as innocent.
Lawful Stupid / int_ae1f8a83	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_ae1f8a83	featureConfidence	1.0
JesusChristSuperstar	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_ae1f8a83
Lawful Stupid / int_ae56742b	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_ae56742b	comment	In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Mordo's Alternate Universe counterpart and his teammates on The Illuminati suffered from this as well. They were a bunch of haughty Well Intentioned Extremists who arrested and tried to execute Doctor Strange for something an alternate version of him did by accident with the justification that if one of them's dangerous then they all are. Soon after, Mister Fantastic invokes Reed Richards Is Useless in the most literal manner possible by essentially telling Scarlet Witch how to disable Black Bolt during his attempt at talking her down. Fitting enough, the only one with a brain between them was the telepath Professor X.
Lawful Stupid / int_ae56742b	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_ae56742b	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_ae56742b
Lawful Stupid / int_aea45493	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_aea45493	comment	Signalman of Gekisou Sentai Carranger, for all that he's a Sixth Ranger for the team, has had moments where his compulsive need to obey the rules of the road prevents him from helping. He can't run a red light, and must obey traffic signs, even when it's clearly a Bowzack trap.
Lawful Stupid / int_aea45493	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_aea45493	featureConfidence	1.0
Gekisou Sentai Carranger	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_aea45493
Lawful Stupid / int_aef5c87e	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_aef5c87e	comment	The titular pirates are so extraordinarily Lawful Stupid that they're barely even pirates by the time of the play. While they have no problem kidnapping young ladies, they feel the need to marry them before any ravishing takes place. They refuse to attack forces weaker than them because it's dishonorable. They will never attack an orphan, being orphans themselves, and word has got around to the point that it seems that every ship they take is manned entirely by orphans. In fact, at the end of the play, they stand down from battling with the police after being ordered to yield in the name of Queen Victoria, and "for all our faults, we love our Queen."
Lawful Stupid / int_aef5c87e	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_aef5c87e	featureConfidence	1.0
Pirate	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_aef5c87e
Lawful Stupid / int_af155cc6	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_af155cc6	comment	Team 7 is eliminated from the Chunin Exams in Team 7's Ascension due to outside interference on their behalf. Said interference was Jiraiya stepping in to save their lives when Orochimaru attacked them.
Lawful Stupid / int_af155cc6	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_af155cc6	featureConfidence	1.0
Team 7's Ascension / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_af155cc6
Lawful Stupid / int_b0097aa5	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b0097aa5	comment	The Illuminati gravitates into this territory a lot of times, particularly with their egregious handling of the Hulk on several occasions. They were also ready to pronounce a death sentence on the Scarlet Witch because of her increasing insanity and Avengers: The Children's Crusade ended up revealing that they'd been completely oblivious to the fact that her insanity had been orchestrated and manipulated by a supervillain. When Wiccan of the Young Avengers starts displaying even the slightest bit of lack of control over his powers, they come to the immediate conclusion that he's just as unstable as the Scarlet Witch for no other reason than being the Scarlet Witch's son. In all fairness, Wanda had killed 3 Avengers by the time the team was seriously considering putting her down, manipulation or no. And all The Avengers were doing with Wiccan was monitoring his powers to make sure another M-Day wouldn't happen. It only went farther than that after the Young Avengers broke him out, and Wolverine was the only one actually out for his blood after that.
Lawful Stupid / int_b0097aa5	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b0097aa5	featureConfidence	1.0
TheIlluminati	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b0097aa5
Lawful Stupid / int_b1c94339	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b1c94339	comment	In one of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, Hornblower can save his ship only by lying to a French officer that Napoleon has recently died. To make the enemy believe him, Hornblower has to support the lie by taking an oath on his honor as an officer. He plans to resign his commission in disgrace at the next port because he has permanently dishonored himself. Fortunately for him, he finds out, by Jove, Napoleon really IS dead, so the lie was the truth all along. In Forester's defense, he conveys the standards of that culture so vividly that the reader can believe in Hornblower's scruples.
Lawful Stupid / int_b1c94339	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b1c94339	featureConfidence	1.0
Horatio Hornblower	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b1c94339
Lawful Stupid / int_b47b4839	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b47b4839	comment	On Bad Judge, the prosecutor has a touch of this, though more anal than stupid. Some of the humor comes from the clash between his legalism and Rebecca and Tedward's pragmatism.
Lawful Stupid / int_b47b4839	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b47b4839	featureConfidence	1.0
Bad Judge	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b47b4839
Lawful Stupid / int_b486be12	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b486be12	comment	Steven of Daily Grind reveres with unwavering Lawful Stupidity the by-laws of the secret society that raised him from orphanhood. Even after it turned out that he was the only member who took them seriously and the rest were variously crooks and dupes so that he had to kill off everyone else (as stipulated in the by-laws for this situation) and restart the society from scratch. He's only Lawful when the law in question is the by-laws, however. On the rare occasions where the by-laws do not dictate what to do, he's an almost likable Neutral Good.
Lawful Stupid / int_b486be12	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b486be12	featureConfidence	1.0
Daily Grind (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b486be12
Lawful Stupid / int_b4996199	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Spidey has an enemy named Cardiac, a high-tech Knight Templar who exists simply to punish people who escape justice because of this Trope. Spider-Man would try to be Lawful Stupid when opposing Cardiac, but his heart (and the writer's) really wasn't in it, and Spidey would end up helping Cardiac more often than not, while also trying to contain his murderous tendencies.
Lawful Stupid / int_b4996199	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b4996199	featureConfidence	1.0
Spider-Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b4996199
Lawful Stupid / int_b50cc7e6	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: General Ross is probably the embodiment of this Trope. His lifelong goal — some would say obsession — to bring the Hulk to justice has likely caused more property damage and casualties than he ever could have prevented had he succeeded, and likely cost the U.S. Army a fortune, all without any success. The Hulk is one of the strongest humanoid beings in the Marvel Universe, capable of hefting a battleship over his head, and making him angry just makes him stronger (as Ross clearly knows after all this time), so you'd think that when he shouts "LEAVE HULK ALONE!!", Ross would get the hint. This is taken to the most extreme conclusion in Hulk (2008) when he becomes the Red Hulk in order to pursue his goal, becoming, in many ways, even worse than his quarry. Word of God described the Red Hulk as "The kind of Hulk we haven't seen before. A thinking, calculating, brutal weapon-toting kind of Hulk." Not that this is a good thing. Ross was more than capable of murder, destroyed the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, and nearly wrecked San Francisco, proving that, despite being able to think, he was just as destructive.
Lawful Stupid / int_b50cc7e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b50cc7e6	featureConfidence	1.0
The Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b50cc7e6
Lawful Stupid / int_b618b457	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b618b457	comment	The Vogons from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are an entire race of Obstructive Bureaucrats. As a whole, they aren't particularly bright, imaginative, intelligent, or even likable. They just run things in a planet-sized Vast Bureaucracy and do what they're told. The book states that they wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmother from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without loads of paperwork first. They did destroy Earth, but only because they were making way for a new hyperspace bypass that the planet just happened to be in the way of.
Lawful Stupid / int_b618b457	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b618b457	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b618b457
Lawful Stupid / int_b63ce3e6	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b63ce3e6	comment	Zeus from the 2011 Immortals. Even though Hyperion is going around slaughtering innocent villages and destroying temples, Zeus still forbids the Greek Gods from interfering on pain of death and kills Ares for pulling a Big Damn Heroes to save Theseus. He finally does get personally involved, but only because Hyperion had already unleashed the Titans and the Greek Gods get slaughtered/critically wounded in the ensuing melee. Zeus' (in)actions directly lead to restarting the Titanomachy that's still going on even as the movie ends.
Lawful Stupid / int_b63ce3e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b63ce3e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Immortals	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b63ce3e6
Lawful Stupid / int_b659836d	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b659836d	comment	Online brings back the "universal bounty" system, which is really amazing as the game takes place during a time where there is no universal ruler of Tamriel, and you can be accosted in (for example) an Aldmeri Dominion city for a crime you committed in an Ebonheart Pact City.
Lawful Stupid / int_b659836d	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b659836d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls Online (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b659836d
Lawful Stupid / int_b6886bfd	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b6886bfd	comment	It happened again in the second reboot film when Kirk gets sanctioned, demoted, and yelled at because a stone-age alien culture was influenced and their "natural evolution altered" by the crew of the Enterprise. The reason this occurred was that Kirk had bothered to try and save that species from extinction due to a massive volcanic eruption.
Lawful Stupid / int_b6886bfd	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b6886bfd	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek Into Darkness	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b6886bfd
Lawful Stupid / int_b6d53f19	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_b6d53f19	comment	Riddle Rosehearts from Twisted Wonderland is obsessed with adhering to all ancient laws established by the Queen of Hearts, even ones that plainly violate common sense. In one notable incident even he himself regards as an Old Shame, he follows a law that dictates one runs laps underwater after getting soaked in the rain and does this in the lounge of Octavinelle dorm, making a fool of himself in front of Octa students.
Lawful Stupid / int_b6d53f19	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_b6d53f19	featureConfidence	1.0
Twisted Wonderland (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_b6d53f19
Lawful Stupid / int_bac7740b	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_bac7740b	comment	The Jerk: Some random carnie gets upset about Navin trying to sneak into the carnival without paying, but the way he starts to point it out after he catches onto Navin's lie screams this:
Lawful Stupid / int_bac7740b	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_bac7740b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Jerk	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_bac7740b
Lawful Stupid / int_bb55a676	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_bb55a676	comment	The Legion of Super-Heroes could fall into this in their early years. In one instance Supergirl was not accepted into the Legion despite passing her test with flying colours because she had been temporarily aged to an adult after accidental exposure to Red Kryptonite, and thus was barred from membership due to being over 18. Aside from the fact that the aging was temporary, the Legionnaires knew she was really only 15 years old but still disqualified her.
Lawful Stupid / int_bb55a676	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_bb55a676	featureConfidence	1.0
Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_bb55a676
Lawful Stupid / int_bcadd7cb	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 has a few examples of this. Many Chapters of Imperial Space Marines suffer from this. Some of them decry any form of stealth as cowardice; others refuse to retreat even when strategically or tactically viable out of a sense of martial pride; and others still refuse to field psykers, work alongside aliens, or even ally with anyone else at all because of deeply-held suspicions and prejudices (although the no psykers is more an entirely justified case of not wanting to deal with a potential daemonic breakout during a battle). The Space Marines' holy book, the Codex Astartes, actually discourages this sort of behavior and contains all sorts of useful and varied tactical advice; however, adhering too closely to the Codex Astartes can cause a Chapter to enter Lawful Stupid territory from the other direction. The Ultramarines are probably the number one victim of Accentuate the Negative because of this. The Codex Astartes was not considered a document of holy significance in Guilliman's time. In fact, the Emperor specifically tried to promote atheism throughout the Imperium. Marneus Calgar came to the conclusion, upon reflection, that he was being Lawful Stupid and that Guilliman never intended for the Codex Astartes to be this way. So, in conclusion, in the grim darkness of the far future, there's always room for Character Development. At least until it was retconned in the fifth edition Space Marine Codex. The Monodominant faction of the Inquisition are, as a group, fanatically devoted to the letter of Imperial law and dogma, to the point that they are considered xenophobic and reactionary even by the xenophobic and reactionary standards of the Imperium. Monodominants fervently believe that only genetically pure and religiously faithful humans deserve to exist and that everything else - aliens, daemons, heretics, malcontents, traitors, and mutants, up to and sometimes including the psykers that the Imperium needs in order to continue functioning - needs to be killed with fire. Other Inquisitors tend to consider the Monodominants bombastic, closed-minded, and self-defeating, and note that their pogroms and witch hunts tend to bury more answers than they uncover (and, less importantly, tend to kill a lot of innocent people in the process). The Monodominants usually respond by loudly accusing their detractors of heresy and attempting to kill them (with fire). Ogryns are fiercely loyal beings who would never knowingly betray the Imperium or the God Emperor. However, they have the collective IQ of a doorknob and can be easily tricked into thinking anyone is betraying the God-Emperor by just pointing at someone and yelling traitor. Another great example of Lawful Stupid space marines comes from the later Dawn of War Expansion Packs. In Dark Crusade the fight between the Space Marine Blood Ravens and the Redshirt Army Imperial Guard is at least justified: planet holds relics that, if exposed, might prove Blood Ravens to be a Traitor Legion successor. Soulstorm tops it by also adding the Church Militant Adepta Sororitas and having almost no backstory explaining why three fanatically loyal Imperial factions are trying their damnedest to annihilate each other. Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising gives us a unique example of a Lawful Stupid Space Marine inside the Blood Ravens Chapter: Honour Guard Captain Apollo Diomedes. Although he is pure, he is singularly bent on obeying Chapter Master Kyras (who is corrupted by Chaos). He transmits and defends Kyras' order to stop defending Blood Raven recruiting worlds against the Black Legion incursion. He then goes on to label Gabriel Angelos and the player as 'renegades' of the chapter when they don't stop. (Un)fortunately, his Lawful stupidity does not come without consequences in two of the three possible outcomes for him: the two bad endings have him either (a) die to Heavy Bolter fire from Avitus or (b) become corrupted by Apothecary Gaelan. If the player completes the relevant mission's sidequest and frees Apothecary Gaelan from demonic possession, Apothecary Gaelan lampshades this by saying "[Captain Apollo's] pride blinds him." Gabriel Angelos is not impeccable himself. When the people who have been guarding an Artifact of Doom for centuries tell you that destroying it is not a good idea, you should probably listen to them however rude and unconvincing they are and not smack it with your hammer. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine discusses this in the ending, where after defeating a Chaos Sorcerer, Captain Titus is turned to the Inquisition by his battle brother Leandros, who accuses him of being tainted due to his resistance to the warp. Titus states that the Codex Astardes is a set of rules that are meant to shape and guide them, but the true test of a Space Marine is how one lives with said rules. In his eyes, Leandros has failed this test. note Ironically, by reporting Titus directtly to an Inquisitor, instead of a Chaplain or Librarian, Leandros actually disobeyed the Codex. In one Gaunt's Ghosts novel, an officer is arrested for insubordination because he had been ordered to advance along a certain road and engage the enemy and was forced to detour around a traffic obstacle (While still obeying the important part of the orders - to engage the enemy). Gaunt recognizes the sheer idiocy of this and does everything he can to get the charges dropped.
Lawful Stupid / int_bcadd7cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_bcadd7cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_bcadd7cb
Lawful Stupid / int_bd310eaa	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, if it wasn't for Abraham's oath to kill anything and everything born from the Dewitchery Diamond, he wouldn't even qualify as a villain. His entire reason for wanting to kill Ellen is his adherence to carrying out his oath even when it conflicts with everything else he believes in.
Lawful Stupid / int_bd310eaa	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_bd310eaa	featureConfidence	1.0
El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_bd310eaa
Lawful Stupid / int_beac6ffb	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_beac6ffb	comment	The Postman in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask dutifully adheres to an extremely strict schedule, to the point that on the third day, when the Moon is about to crash into Clock Town, he can be seen having a panic attack in his room, saying that he wants to flee, but he still has mail to deliver the next day. You can get him to flee by giving him the Priority Mail to deliver to the Mayor's wife, who then orders him to leave town.
Lawful Stupid / int_beac6ffb	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_beac6ffb	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_beac6ffb
Lawful Stupid / int_becd6614	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_becd6614	comment	The villain of obscure fantasy film The Barbarians is a rare example of Lawful Evil Stupid, he spares the twin protagonists lives and embarks on an elaborate decade-long plan that eventually ends in attempting to get them to kill each other in a gladiatorial arena. All this because he promised their mother that "They will not die by my hand or the hand of any of my men", in exchange for her joining his harem.
Lawful Stupid / int_becd6614	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_becd6614	featureConfidence	1.0
The Barbarians	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_becd6614
Lawful Stupid / int_bff01809	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer: Lord Mazdamundi of the Lizardmen, who has ruled that all species have to go back to within the boundaries set for them 20,000 years ago by a race who disappeared when Chaos first came to the Warhammer world. Part of this involves putting all of the elves back on Ulthuan — high elves, dark elves, and wood elves. The main downside to this? High elves hate dark elves, dark elves hate high elves, and wood elves hate everybody. The culture of the elves would be reduced to burning ruins within a year. Throw in the fact that Elves are manning many of the ex-Lizardmen anti-Chaos wards outside of Ulthuan... yeah, this makes standard Lawful Stupid look clever. This is a big part of the reason why the Dwarfs are dying out: any slight on their honour, no matter how minor or unintentional on the part of the offender, must be repaid in blood. They're nearly constantly taking losses in pointless wars against practically everyone. Thankfully under High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer, though, they're starting to grow out of this self-destructive tendency. Why'd they start dying out in the first place? Because the Slann took a look at the state of the continents and noticed that a mountain range or two had drifted away from the place the Old Ones had put it in. So they put it back in place, never mind those short hairy guys living in the mountains. The destruction of the dwarf empire allowed the Chaos-worshipping Skaven to take over most of their territory.
Lawful Stupid / int_bff01809	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_bff01809	featureConfidence	1.0
Warhammer (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_bff01809
Lawful Stupid / int_c2297a9c	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_c2297a9c	comment	Despite being a satire of zero-tolerance policy, the whole premise of Judge Dredd runs on this. However, while initially Dredd was certainly like this, with incidents such as victims often being arrested for minor acts committed while being the victims of greater crimes, as time progressed Dredd grew more of a conscience and has been known to bend, oppose and, on occasion, flout the law if the situation appeared to warrant it. The later overturning of Mega-City One's mutant laws is a good example of this. It's worth noting that the comic actually started out on a far less satirical note, with Dredd (and his fellow Judges) being far more idealistic. A very early comic had him risk his life to save a child, then telling a recruit that a Judge must be willing to sacrifice himself to protect a citizen. Later comics treated citizens as completely expendable, sometimes with the justification that they were just potential lawbreakers. The Dark Judges can be seen as this trope NOT played for laughs. Initially, they were strict enforcers of the law but took it to the extreme of All Crimes Are Equal, and eventually decided that since all crimes are committed by the living, then all life should be a crime. The concept of killing people for jaywalking or littering seems ridiculous, even darkly humorous to anyone sane, but it's a whole other ballgame when the entities doing it are more than capable of killing entire planets, which they have.
Lawful Stupid / int_c2297a9c	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_c2297a9c	featureConfidence	1.0
Judge Dredd (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_c2297a9c
Lawful Stupid / int_c42e8f56	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_c42e8f56	comment	Nightwing in Coincidence and Misunderstandings. He knocks out and arrests Jinx for "vandalism, being an accomplice to grand larceny, and murder". This despite the fact that Jinx just saved him from a suped-up Overload (which is where the vandalism and murder charges come from), and knowing that she's at least dating a being that the Justice League warned him not to antagonize, and that said being flat out told the Titans that if they get in her way she "would have no compunctions against stringing your broken bodies along this tower for all the world to see and letting the birds feast on your flesh until your eventually collective demise".
Lawful Stupid / int_c42e8f56	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_c42e8f56	featureConfidence	1.0
Coincidence and Misunderstandings (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_c42e8f56
Lawful Stupid / int_c43df4d8	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Megara from the original series story "The Stones of Blood" destroyed their own creators for violating the rules they established. The Judoon (rhino space police) are described by the Doctor as logical but stupid. They follow the law exactly, but tend towards overkill and wouldn't think of checking the same floor twice. Physical assault is punished with death with no chance of trial. One threatened to execute a human for playing music too loudly in The Sarah Jane Adventures. This is, of course, Played for Laughs.
Lawful Stupid / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_c43df4d8
Lawful Stupid / int_c95aade7	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_c95aade7	comment	God of War: Ascension: The Furies. Described as "following their own view of right and wrong," they seek to punish everyone who has ever broken a blood oath to the gods. In particular, they doggedly pursue Kratos throughout the game, determined to punish him for turning on Ares despite the fact that Ares tricked him into killing his wife and daughter. It's ultimately subverted when it's revealed that the real reason the Furies are pursuing Kratos is because they're in league with Ares in his plan to topple Olympus.
Lawful Stupid / int_c95aade7	featureApplicability	-0.3
Lawful Stupid / int_c95aade7	featureConfidence	1.0
God of War: Ascension (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_c95aade7
Lawful Stupid / int_ca4949d1	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_ca4949d1	comment	Eve Forward's Villains by Necessity has the Balance Between Good and Evil central to its plot — if it's not maintained, the world will be sublimated into either a big light blur or a big dark blur with a possible domino effect for other worlds — but supports this mostly by populating the side of Good with Lawful Stupid Knights Templar, with some Stupid Good lackeys for variety. This has the unfortunate effect of undermining the premise, since the "good" antagonists really aren't particularly good people, and the "evil" protagonists mostly aren't particularly evil either. Notably, one such Stupid Good lackey, the centaur bard Robin, eventually clues in and performs a Heelâ€“Face Turn to side with the "evil" protagonists, and the Black Knight called Blackmail turns out to be a legendary paladin who has sided with the protagonists for the sake of saving the world and in disgust at his former True Companions' Lawful Stupid behavior.
Lawful Stupid / int_ca4949d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_ca4949d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Villains by Necessity	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_ca4949d1
Lawful Stupid / int_cb6abea3	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_cb6abea3	comment	In the original Yu-Gi-Oh!, Isono (an employee of Kaiba's who acts as a referee during the Battle City finals) is a borderline example. He sticks adamantly to the rules of the game, even though something is obviously wrong (as in, Marik's demonic presence risking everyone's lives), and makes every call by the book. For example, a deleted scene from Yugi's duel with Marik has him rule that Yugi's drawing a card and setting it without confirming it is not allowed (if it's a monster, it's in the wrong slot), even though Yugi has a good reason for this. (Kaiba himself, however, overrules this ruling, saying it's "interesting", and the duel continues.) The worst example is when he forbids Yugi from helping Bakura, even though Bakura was dying because a duelist isn't allowed to make physical contact with an opponent.
Lawful Stupid / int_cb6abea3	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_cb6abea3	featureConfidence	1.0
Yu-Gi-Oh!	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_cb6abea3
Lawful Stupid / int_cc0da260	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_cc0da260	comment	The 3rd-year Pandoras in Freezing after Satellizer unleashes a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle on one of their peers. They try to justify their persecution of her in that the Pandoras are humanity's best line of defense against the monstrous, alien Novas, and that in battle, unit cohesion and the chain of command have to be maintained. What makes this truly stupid, though, is that none of them seem to care that the 3rd-year that Satellizer beat up had forcefully disrobed her and taken pictures of it, and was ready to have her male assistants rape Satellizer. And then it turns out that all Pandoras are expected to act Lawful Stupid by the government and anyone who acts out of line would be horrifically punished. Just ask Elizabeth.
Lawful Stupid / int_cc0da260	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_cc0da260	featureConfidence	1.0
Freezing (Manga)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_cc0da260
Lawful Stupid / int_ccc80720	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_ccc80720	comment	In My Life as a Teenage Robot, the Skyway Patrol is comprised of so many Obstructive Bureaucrats that they need to fill out paperwork in order to do anything, even when they are right in view of a monster attack. Even taking quick/"rash" measures requires filling out paperwork, the only addition being a red "RUSH" stamp that's measured in urgency by the amount of times it's used (two for intervening on a current alien attack and three for the officer's threat of arresting Brad and Jenny). Do you know what the dumbest moment of this is? When they apprehended a monster in one episode, upon going back into the field, it's revealed the creature is still on their ship because they didn't get orders to deport it back to its homeland.
Lawful Stupid / int_ccc80720	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_ccc80720	featureConfidence	1.0
My Life as a Teenage Robot	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_ccc80720
Lawful Stupid / int_ce9bf544	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_ce9bf544	comment	Keiichiro Washizuka of the The Last Blade series of fighting games. As a member of the Shinsengumi during the Meiji era, he often let his personal morality, a relic of the age of Samurai, get in the way of his better judgment... which wasn't that good to begin with. He's also an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy who seems to think he's never wrong.
Lawful Stupid / int_ce9bf544	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_ce9bf544	featureConfidence	1.0
The Last Blade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_ce9bf544
Lawful Stupid / int_cf10c600	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_cf10c600	comment	Clu in TRON: Legacy. He's given the unfortunately worded directive to "create the perfect system", which, being a computer program, he takes literally, destroying everything in The Grid that isn't perfect, and then planning to go into the outer world (the "real" world) to continue doing it.
Lawful Stupid / int_cf10c600	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_cf10c600	featureConfidence	1.0
TRON: Legacy	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_cf10c600
Lawful Stupid / int_cf69b21e	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_cf69b21e	comment	Silverbolt in Beast Wars is another example of how it's possible to get by with being Lawful Stupid by being stupid lucky (not as an alignment, just "lucky to the point of absurdity"). For instance, he actually helps Blackarachnia open up a tunnel leading to the in-stasis Autobots from the original cartoon.
Lawful Stupid / int_cf69b21e	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_cf69b21e	featureConfidence	1.0
Beast Wars	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_cf69b21e
Lawful Stupid / int_d0b0076	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_d0b0076	comment	In Icewind Dale and its sequel, Paladins have no sense of subtlety or tact; on the few occasions you mean NPCs of Evil alignment that are putting up a friendly front, if you have a Paladin in the party they will immediately call out the villain on their deception, not only provoking them into a fight when you're not ready but denying the party any chance to talk to them to get information. They're also liable to refuse quest rewards for no reason but their faith, which demands they not accept material rewards for their deeds — they will do this even if the person giving the reward is well-off and offered it upfront when you accepted the quest. Because of how the dialogue interface work in these games, you're typically given little choice to say anything else but what the Paladin's presence demand you say.
Lawful Stupid / int_d0b0076	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_d0b0076	featureConfidence	1.0
Icewind Dale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_d0b0076
Lawful Stupid / int_d3c4b794	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_d3c4b794	comment	My Bride is a Mermaid: Mawari Zenigata tries to be Lawful Good, but due to her overzealousness and nature as a Control Freak, she tends to veer into this territory more often than not.
Lawful Stupid / int_d3c4b794	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_d3c4b794	featureConfidence	1.0
My Bride is a Mermaid (Manga)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_d3c4b794
Lawful Stupid / int_d5b84b32	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_d5b84b32	comment	In Spore, Diplomats have to take a Vote to Take Immediate Action for anything, even as their cities are being destroyed or their biosphere is dying of a virus.
Lawful Stupid / int_d5b84b32	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_d5b84b32	featureConfidence	1.0
Spore (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_d5b84b32
Lawful Stupid / int_d5ddd6c1	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Early on in PokÃ©mon: The Series, Ash would frequently use only one PokÃ©mon at a time against Team Rocket, even though Jessie and James would almost always send Ekans/Arbok and Koffing/Weezing at him at the same time. He cited the PokÃ©mon League rules as why in the third episode. This is despite the fact that his battles with Team Rocket have nothing to do with the PokÃ©mon League. He would eventually get over this.
Lawful Stupid / int_d5ddd6c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_d5ddd6c1	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon: The Series	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_d5ddd6c1
Lawful Stupid / int_d69208d2	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door Numbuh 86 acts like this in spades during the episode "Operation: E.N.D.", believing that every member of Sector V are scheduled to be decommissioned due to computer-issued orders, even though she knew from personal experience that they are not the right age (for example, she and Numbuh 1 have been going to school together since at least Kindergarten). Numbuh 86's incompetence is a big part of her character, sadly... In Operation I.T., Numbuh 362 stops Numbuh 86 from decommissioning the new Kids Next Door leader, despite the fact that said new leader is Father, because he decreed that the leader cannot be decommissioned.
Lawful Stupid / int_d69208d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_d69208d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Codename: Kids Next Door	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_d69208d2
Lawful Stupid / int_d8ba9a46	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_d8ba9a46	comment	In Dr. Strangelove, Colonel "Bat" Guano initially refuses to let Captain Mandrake break into a vending machine to get the change he needs to call the President even though the latter is trying to prevent a nuclear holocaust. Even after giving in, Guano sternly insists Mandrake will "have to answer to the Coca-Cola company".
Lawful Stupid / int_d8ba9a46	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_d8ba9a46	featureConfidence	1.0
Dr. Strangelove	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_d8ba9a46
Lawful Stupid / int_da92c130	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_da92c130	comment	In Erfworld, Don King of Transylvito becomes Lawful Stupid after a devastating defeat in a battle that should have been a sure thing. Formerly cunning and only minorly interested in the formalities of rank and nobility, he becomes convinced that the Titans (gods) are punishing him for not taking those concepts more seriously. In an attempt to atone for his apparent sins, he drains his treasury and neglects his kingdom's immediate needs in order to reestablish and prop up another Royal side.
Lawful Stupid / int_da92c130	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_da92c130	featureConfidence	1.0
Erfworld (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_da92c130
Lawful Stupid / int_db30cf92	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_db30cf92	comment	Hollyleaf of Warrior Cats was turning into this before her death, or disappearance, according to some. Even Jayfeather had thought in Dark River that Hollyleaf was so into Black-and-White Morality that she believes that those who follow the warrior code are good and those who don't are evil.
Lawful Stupid / int_db30cf92	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_db30cf92	featureConfidence	1.0
Warrior Cats	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_db30cf92
Lawful Stupid / int_ddfad40f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_ddfad40f	comment	Yamamoto once again, in The Vasto of White mixed in with Knight Templar. Anyone who challenges his authority and the law given out by The Soul King is in the wrong. Even when his own zanpakuto, Ryujin Jakka refuses to harm the titular Vasto, he refuses to believe he is wrong simply because the law says he isn't.
Lawful Stupid / int_ddfad40f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_ddfad40f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Vasto of White (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_ddfad40f
Lawful Stupid / int_e144ba19	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_e144ba19	comment	The Arishok in Dragon Age II is in Kirkwall because the Qun, the set of rules that all Qunari follow, demands that he find the person who stole a book from him and punish the one responsible. Throughout the whole thing, several characters (including Player Character Hawke, depending on what dialogue choices the player picks) end up Stating the Simple Solution that it's just a book and the Arishok should really just let it go. The Arishok even admits that he finds the corruption of Kirkwall to be revolting, but he still outright refuses to leave the city until the rules of the Qun are satisfied. He'll even cop to it if Hawke calls him out on it. This eventually leads to the Arishok becoming the boss of Act II of the story, as the Arishok eventually snaps and goes on a bloody rampage throughout Kirkwall, because the Qun says he could do that and because he didn't see any other way out that both got him what he wanted and still followed the rules.
Lawful Stupid / int_e144ba19	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_e144ba19	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Age II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_e144ba19
Lawful Stupid / int_e4b5d35b	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_e4b5d35b	comment	Freedom Planet: Neera Li is an overzealous lawwoman who refuses to trust Lilac on the basis that she was part of the Red Scarves, even when they bring her proof that there is a dangerous enemy that threatens them all. And in the sequel, long after Lilac saved the world, she continues to treat her as a criminal!
Lawful Stupid / int_e4b5d35b	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_e4b5d35b	featureConfidence	1.0
Freedom Planet (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_e4b5d35b
Lawful Stupid / int_e67a7d6c	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Emily Sevensheep from Negima! Magister Negi Magi is not open to discussion with unarmed wanted criminals. It takes both Negi stripping her of her weapons and her boss telepathically contacting her for her to agree to discuss... for a time.
Lawful Stupid / int_e67a7d6c	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_e67a7d6c	featureConfidence	1.0
Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Manga)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_e67a7d6c
Lawful Stupid / int_e694aadb	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_e694aadb	comment	In the Ciaphas Cain novels, the Administratum reeks of this. In Caves Of Ice, an annoyed Colonel Kasteen declares martial law when the head of the Administraum for the facility her regiment is defending from an ork invasion demands daily status reports. In The Last Ditch, the regiment crash lands on the planet, so the shuttles assigned to pick them up are deemed destroyed, even though they never left the launch pads. A general order is then issued to clear space for ships that officially exist. When the Planetary Defense Force requests a list of all assets on the planet that can assist in the evacuation of the capital, the Administratum leaves out the shuttles on the orbital docks. Why? Because they're in orbit and therefore technically not on the planet.
Lawful Stupid / int_e694aadb	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_e694aadb	featureConfidence	1.0
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_e694aadb
Lawful Stupid / int_e75c6d45	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_e75c6d45	comment	Goblins: In quite a different flavor, you have Fumbles, who becomes so desperate to "make things right" (after he does something very, very wrong) that he lets his sense of justice completely overthrow his sense of survival. And get it in a headlock. And while Fumbles starts off with the idea that he can do it without involving the rest of his team, the comic is very good about showing that his actions have long-lasting consequences, and affect everyone he cares about, in large part because they also care about him. Big Ears the paladin manages to avert this nicely, which is rare for a paladin, as they are usually flanderized into one of these if they don't start out as one. He instead follows closely what a lawful good paladin should be. Which is horribly contrasted by Kore, a dwarven paladin who somehow retains all his paladin powers (including immunity to injury by the artifact axe Big Ears acquires) killing everyone he comes across for no other reason than being "tainted" by contact with evil and has no problems cutting down children and crippled, blind goblins incapable of harming anyone. Kore is lampshaded as something VERY... VERY wrong. It eventually turns out that he was corrupted and driven completely insane by a demonic overlord.
Lawful Stupid / int_e75c6d45	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_e75c6d45	featureConfidence	1.0
Goblins (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_e75c6d45
Lawful Stupid / int_e7e37776	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_e7e37776	comment	While the antagonists in Firefly run the gamut, Agent Dobson from the pilot takes the cake. Throughout the episode, he claims the moral high ground and says the crew's crimes won't go unpunished... Even after shooting an unarmed woman, trying to make a backdoor deal with a criminal, bludgeoning a priest who was trying to help him, and holding a mentally unstable girl (whom he had been assigned to seize, not kill) at gunpoint as a hostage. Plus trying to overpower two war veterans and a mercenary alone. All of this was done without understanding why Simon was a criminal, other than he'd stolen Alliance "property".
Lawful Stupid / int_e7e37776	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_e7e37776	featureConfidence	1.0
Firefly	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_e7e37776
Lawful Stupid / int_ea3d1dea	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_ea3d1dea	comment	In Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware Benrey is convinced Gordon is a thief and a troublemaker for not presenting his passport to security, in spite of the fact that that policy had been adopted that day, multiple people were telling Benrey Gordon worked there, and none of the other security guards cared or demanded his passport. Even after Gordon shows Benrey his passport, he continues to harass Gordon. Ironically, he completely ignores when Gordon actually does commit a crime, instead harassing him over the passport nonsense and things he could not possibly have done.
Lawful Stupid / int_ea3d1dea	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_ea3d1dea	featureConfidence	1.0
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Web Video)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_ea3d1dea
Lawful Stupid / int_ea4f62db	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In the episode "Back To The Woods", when James Woods steals Peter's identity, he gets Joe to arrest him for it. Woods presents Joe with his fake identification and he buys it, even calling him Peter. Lois hung a huge lampshade on this. And in "Thanksgiving", Joe tries to arrest his son for going AWOL in Iraq. Joe, again, shows this in "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.", where he refuses to simply arrest Jeff unless Brenda herself reports him for his behavior. Which would be valid if Jeff's abuse had no tangible evidence, but he openly assaulted Brenda in front of Joe, so he'd in actuality be required to arrest him for that. One of the cutaway gags featured a number of policemen bursting in Peter's house when he tried to tape Monday Night Football, demanding he produce the expressed written consent of the NFL and ABC. The skit ends with them unloading their clips into his VCR (he only had ABC).
Lawful Stupid / int_ea4f62db	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_ea4f62db	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Guy	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_ea4f62db
Lawful Stupid / int_eaaef767	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_eaaef767	comment	In Flight of the Navigator, the staff of the NASA facility decide to keep David virtually imprisoned indefinitely without regard for the consequences when they realize how much alien data is contained in David's brain; one scientist even laments how they may have lost "one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th Century", not considering what they'll have to say to the press, the legalities involved in having violated the terms of their agreement with David's parents, and most importantly, tearing David's family apart. All of this forces David to take the far more dangerous risk that Max had to avoid, which started the mess to begin with, in order to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
Lawful Stupid / int_eaaef767	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_eaaef767	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_eaaef767
Lawful Stupid / int_ef076a36	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_ef076a36	comment	Kathryn Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager has occasionally been Lawful Stupid. Several times she has refused to take an opportunity to get the ship home because it would require going against the "values" of the Federation. This isn't always a bad thing, mind — the Federation was envisioned as a near-idealistic society so it would have some values worth keeping to — but it grated on some viewers after a while. And if she had, the show would have been over. Was lampshaded in an episode, where a holographic simulation shows the Maquis taking over Voyager, because of their frustration over Janeway's Lawful Stupid tendencies. In "Madame Captain's" defense, though, the Prime Directive requires this of Starfleet officers; they are literally expected to die rather than violate the Prime Directive. There were times when Janeway's stupid insistence on following this or that rule was so obviously jeopardizing the lives of the crew that any sane and reasonable life-form would have knocked her out and taken over the ship. And then she'd suddenly decide to pull something underhanded in an attempt to get home, before going back to acting all high-and-mighty again, which made her look like the biggest hypocrite. This can be blamed on multiple writers adding to the problem by trying to enforce their own interpretation of her without regard for consistency or the fact that she would be written by others after them.
Lawful Stupid / int_ef076a36	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_ef076a36	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Voyager	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_ef076a36
Lawful Stupid / int_f10619d8	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_f10619d8	comment	Grand Maestro Mohs from Tales of the Abyss is both Lawful Evil and Lawful Stupid. He wants to start a war and get hundreds of people killed just because the Score says so, conveniently overlooking the fact that the Score is, at best, a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Mayor Teodoro of Yulia City is, too, and apparently most of the Order of Lorelei. For example, after the destruction of a major city, the mayor refuses to believe that a nearby city might be in danger, because only one of them was said to be destroyed in the Score, laws of physics or common sense be damned. He won't even send someone to go look and make sure. Tear starts off as this as well, willing to believe in Mohs no matter how nasty he's revealed to be, simply because he's a head of the Order. Teodoro's actions above, however, start shaking her out of this.
Lawful Stupid / int_f10619d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_f10619d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_f10619d8
Lawful Stupid / int_f2041376	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_f2041376	comment	In the two-part finale of Charmed Season 6 it was revealed there was a "good" and a "bad" universe (with ours being the former). However, due to some events in part one that cosmically unbalanced the two universes, even the most minor of infringements of law or courtesy would lead to a horrible punishment in the one supposed to be good. Among the punishments that are seen onscreen are one of the main characters being shot point-blank in the chest for parking her car on her neighbor's property without permission (Leo managed to heal her) and a nurse at the hospital having his hand cut off for using his cell phone indoors. In fact, when the main characters visit the hospital, they discover that the maternity ward is the only area of the hospital not dedicated to treating criminals for the injuries they received at the hands of the police in accordance with this trope. In the Mirror Universe, it becomes good deeds that are punished with death. Even something as simple as saying "God bless you" after someone sneezes. This is too extreme even for the Charmed Ones' evil counterparts to live with, and the two sets of Charmed Ones cooperate to re-balance the universes.
Lawful Stupid / int_f2041376	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_f2041376	featureConfidence	1.0
Charmed (1998)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_f2041376
Lawful Stupid / int_f2da188a	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_f2da188a	comment	Played with in an episode of The Batman where Joker decides to act out an over-the-top parody of this. He dresses up in a makeshift Batman outfit and only attacks people breaking laws — typically very minor ones like littering or jaywalking — and then uses Joker gas on them.
Lawful Stupid / int_f2da188a	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_f2da188a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Batman	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_f2da188a
Lawful Stupid / int_f724b70d	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_f724b70d	comment	Code Lyoko has the faculty of Kadic Academy act this way in "Satellite". When all of the student's cell phones ring unexpectedly, rather than suspect that there may be something wrong with the signal tower, the faculty immediately assume the students all have someone calling them at the exact same time and confiscate the phones while lecturing them about having cell phones on in class. They even go so far as trying to deactivate the signal tower to ensure students can't use their phones even if they steal them back, not even considering that this would make it impossible to call for help in an emergency.
Lawful Stupid / int_f724b70d	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_f724b70d	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Lyoko	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_f724b70d
Lawful Stupid / int_f74b5f80	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_f74b5f80	comment	The Vorlons of Babylon 5 were left by the other First Ones to teach the younger species about the benefits of an ordered society, i.e. to have laws and enforce them. They were intentionally set up against the Shadows, who strike fear and sow discord to show the younger species the benefits of chaos—i.e. freedom, competition, and innovation. Between them, they were supposed to move the younger species towards a good, harmonious blend somewhere in the middle. But eventually they got too caught up in "winning" the argument, and so the Vorlons became general order-mongers and the Shadows general chaos-mongers.
Lawful Stupid / int_f74b5f80	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_f74b5f80	featureConfidence	1.0
Babylon 5	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_f74b5f80
Lawful Stupid / int_f7558a18	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_f7558a18	comment	In the Men in Black: The Series episode "The Worm-Guy Guy Syndrome", Kalifadik enforcers come to Earth to teleport alien fugitives to life imprisonment for any violation, no matter how minor.
Lawful Stupid / int_f7558a18	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_f7558a18	featureConfidence	1.0
Men in Black: The Series	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_f7558a18
Lawful Stupid / int_fc0e7530	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_fc0e7530	comment	There was an episode of Dexter's Laboratory in which The Blue Falcon brought in Dynomutt for repairs. Dexter instead builds a competent crime-fighting robot instead of a comic relief sidekick, that's willing to open fire on innocent people jaywalking or littering.
Lawful Stupid / int_fc0e7530	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_fc0e7530	featureConfidence	1.0
Dexter's Laboratory	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_fc0e7530
Lawful Stupid / int_fc439a61	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_fc439a61	comment	Ace Attorney Investigations 2 has Justine Courtney, a judge who attempts to get Edgeworth's prosecutor's badge taken from him for illegally boarding the plane of the President of Zheng Fa, despite this allowing him to catch a murderer, and is willing to give an innocent verdict to murderer Patricia Roland, despite hearing her confession and seeing the decisive evidence at the scene, all because the decisive evidence is missing and thus can't be presented to the court. Subverted when it turns out that she did the former under orders of Blaise Debeste, and the latter due to her adopted son being kidnapped, with the demand for a not guilty verdict.
Lawful Stupid / int_fc439a61	featureApplicability	-0.3
Lawful Stupid / int_fc439a61	featureConfidence	1.0
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_fc439a61
Lawful Stupid / int_fe5f7909	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_fe5f7909	comment	Carrot is like this in Guards! Guards!. He arrests people for disobeying laws that haven't been enforced in centuries and tries to arrest the Patrician. His biggest mistake, however, probably comes in Jingo, where he gives Sergeant Detritus permission to enact the Riot Act, which gives the Watch the ability to use lethal force on civilians, something that Vimes notes would frighten even Vetinari. Fortunately, Detritus is a slow reader, and Vimes gets there in time to sort it out. When normally Sergeant Colon is made Captain he goes through a bout of the same, although just clamping things (including buildings), rather than actually arresting. Colon is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Lawful Stupid / int_fe5f7909	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_fe5f7909	featureConfidence	1.0
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_fe5f7909
Lawful Stupid / int_fe6dcd31	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_fe6dcd31	comment	Somewhat averted in the Greyhawk campaign setting. The predominantly Lawful Good followers of the god Heironeous in what became the kingdoms of Furyondy and Nyrond seceded from the Great Kingdom of Aerdy rather than be subject to the increasingly Lawful Evil nature of its government and favored god Hextor. That said, Lawful Stupid remains the favored alignment in the Theocracy of the Pale. This is to be expected from a country that follows Pholtus, the Lawful Neutral deity who's nickname is "The Blinding Light" and whose tenets teach that followers should always follow orders blindly. Throw on a huge helping of Fantastic Racism against non-humans (basically, anyone who's half-human, such as half-orcs and half-elves, are worthy only of being slaves and anyone who's not human at all like elves, dwarves, and halflings should be outright exterminated).
Lawful Stupid / int_fe6dcd31	featureApplicability	-1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_fe6dcd31	featureConfidence	1.0
Greyhawk (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_fe6dcd31
Lawful Stupid / int_ff9ab17f	type	Lawful Stupid
Lawful Stupid / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation was not immune to this. For example, Picard and Worf regard violating the Prime Directive (or using subterfuge to intervene without violating it, which was something Kirk did multiple times) as worse than letting a species go extinct when their planet is about to blow up. See "Homeward", the episode involving Worf's human adoptive brother. In that episode, the crew screws up and one of the aliens discovers he is being misled (Worf's brother beamed his people to the holodeck so that they wouldn't know they were being moved from one planet to another during the transition). His world shattered, the alien man commits suicide rather than face the horrifying decision of abandoning his people forever or living among them but never revealing the truth. YMMV as to whether potentially destroying a culture is preferable to letting the people go extinct. Also the episode "Pen Pals", where only at Data's strong insistence do they decide to trouble themselves to help another planet that's about to explode. In the first season episode "Justice," the Enterprise visits a planet of Lawful Stupids. They're as friendly as can be, but Wesley gets sentenced to death for stepping on some flowers. If you think about it, the whole point of the Prime Directive is recognizing that interfering can do more harm than good. But if a culture is already facing the worst-case scenario (extinction), it's hard to see how Starfleet can make it worse. The only defense to this that kind of makes sense is, "What if they actually weren't going to go extinct and you cause them to go extinct trying to prevent it?" In-universe, characters sometimes try to defend it by invoking the frankly antiquated idea that they could be interfering with a "cosmic plan" (which if it were truly fated, you wouldn't be able to interfere with anyway, so why worry?). The worse it got was during one of their movies. Let's just say protecting the allegory of Native Americans and their way of life doesn't work if the captain took part in two Forced Relocations and said allegory was hogging radiation that could save lives... Comparison? There are around 600 natives. The radiation could save billions. It happened again in the second reboot film when Kirk gets sanctioned, demoted, and yelled at because a stone-age alien culture was influenced and their "natural evolution altered" by the crew of the Enterprise. The reason this occurred was that Kirk had bothered to try and save that species from extinction due to a massive volcanic eruption. Zig-zagged because Pike seemed less upset with the interference than the fact that Kirk put his ship and crew in danger and followed it up with a shoddy attempt at a cover-up. Notably, no other officer was demoted or court-martialed despite them all being part of the action. Star Trek: Enterprise manages to one-up the above examples in "Dear Doctor", as they doom a whole sapient species to death by genetic defect, despite having already developed the cure (they decide not to distribute it). They do this because Archer envisions that there will be some directive against it in the future. In other words, he is stupidly enforcing a law that DOES NOT EXIST YET. It also relies on Dr. Phlox saying that evolution "intends" for the species to go extinct and be replaced by the other species on the planet, which is not at all how science works.
Lawful Stupid / int_ff9ab17f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lawful Stupid / int_ff9ab17f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_ff9ab17f

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Lawful Stupid	processingCategory2	Castlevania (Franchise)
Lawful Stupid	processingCategory2	Character Flaw Index
Lawful Stupid	processingCategory2	Characters as Device
Lawful Stupid	processingCategory2	Knight in Shining Tropes
Lawful Stupid	processingCategory2	Loyalty Tropes
Lawful Stupid	processingCategory2	Stupidity Tropes
Shaman King (2001) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Batwoman (Rebirth) (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Chick Tracts (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Civil War (2006) (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Eternals (2006) (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
In the Shadow of Dragons (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Maria Hill (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Paperinik New Adventures (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
S.H.I.E.L.D. (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Thor (2014) (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Ultimate X-Men (2001) (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Peanuts (Comic Strip) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Civil War / Comicbook / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Green Lantern (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past / Fan Fic / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Remi The Grey / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
A New World, A New Way (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Anyone (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Big Human on Campus (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Chains (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Dodging Prison & Stealing Witches (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Dost Thou Even Steal Hearts? (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Doth Thou Even Steal Hearts? (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
My Ideal Academia (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Sean Bean Saves Westeros (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Shadowchasers (Cyber Commander) (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Supernova (One Piece) (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Keys Stand Alone (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Naked Jedi (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Prayer Warriors (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Rise Of Spike The Dragon (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Together, They Fight Crime (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Waiting is worth it (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
When One Domino Falls (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
White (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Worm - Justice For All (Fanfic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Above the Law (1988) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Bachelor Mother / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Bornholmer Strasse / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Boys on the Side / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Bram Stoker's Dracula / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Clockwise / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Dead Silence / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Demons of War / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Die Hard / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Dragnet / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Final Justice / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Flight of the Navigator / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Fortress of War / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
1408 / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Green Snake / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Hawk the Slayer / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Hot Fuzz / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Immortals / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Intolerance / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Les MisÃ©rables (1935) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Meet the Parents / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Quick Change / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Spaceballs / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Foreigner (2017) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Jackal / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Undead / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Wolf's Call / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Throw Momma from the Train / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Under Siege / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Les Misérables (Franchise) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
raocow (Lets Play) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Apprentice Adept / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Black Tide Rising / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Bridge in the Menagerie	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
Dragonlance / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Edgar & Ellen / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Eisenhorn / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Fellow Man / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Guards! Guards! / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Hell's Kitchen Sink / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Horus Heresy / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Mahabharata / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Nemesis Series / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Of Blood and Honor / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Paradise Violated / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Paranoid Mage / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Sisterhood Series / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Smaller & Smaller Circles / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Soul Drinkers / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Accursed Kings / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Canterbury Tales / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Castle in the Attic / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Dark Artifices / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Gaiad / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The League of Peoples 'Verse / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Lost Fleet / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Mist / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Mortal Instruments / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Power of Five / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Silver Chair / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Supervillainy Saga / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Three Musketeers / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Warlord Chronicles / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Villains by Necessity / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Xanth / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
BridgeInTheMenagerie	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
British Pubs	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
Magus	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
Ptitleeym5vv2h	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
RollBots	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
TheDeedOfPaksenarrion	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
TheITVPanto	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
The Paladin / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
ThePilferedPrincess	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
TheWarlordChronicles	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
WoolieWool	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
A Certain Scientific Railgun (Manga) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Blue Exorcist (Manga) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Death Note (Manga) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Freezing (Manga) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Letter Bee (Manga) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Osu! Karate Club (Manga) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Ratman (Manga) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee (Manga) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Island of Giant Insects (Manga) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Alice's Restaurant (Music) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Deus Mortuus (Roleplay) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
NoPixel (Roleplay) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Void of the Stars (Roleplay) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Around the World in 80 Days (2021) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Batman (1966) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Beetleborgs / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Boardwalk Empire / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Charmed (1998) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
8 Simple Rules / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Good Luck Charlie / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
In Plain Sight / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Kaamelott / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Legends of Tomorrow / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Les Guignols de l'Info / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Chaser's War On Everything / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Last Man on Earth / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Resident / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
GURPS (Tabletop Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Reality Storm (Tabletop Game)	seeAlso	Lawful Stupid
Starfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Henry IV, Part 1 (Theatre) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Marat/Sade (Theatre) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Richard II (Theatre) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Book of Mormon (Theatre) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Mikado (Theatre) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Pirates of Penzance (Theatre) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
AdventureQuest Worlds (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Ara Fell (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Baldur's Gate II (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
CrossCode (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Deep Fear (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Dungeon Fighter Online (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Fear & Hunger: Termina (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Get in the Car, Loser! (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Halo 3: ODST (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Harvester (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Hero-U (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Icewind Dale (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Light Crusader (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Marvel Heroes (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Nancy Drew (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
One Way Heroics (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Pathfinder (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Pathfinder (Video Game) (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Persona 3 (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Pillars of Eternity (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Przygody Reksia (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Radiant Historia (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Romancing SaGa (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Songs of Conquest (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Spore (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Star Control (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Star Traders: Frontiers (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Star Trek: Armada (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Streets of Rage (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Tactics Ogre (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Tales Series (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Legend of Dragoon (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Outer Worlds (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Warcraft (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Zone of the Enders (Video Game) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Super Danganronpa Another 2 (Visual Novel) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Puffin Forest (Web Animation) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Bleach (S) Abridged (Web Video) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Counter Monkey (Web Video) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Dimension 20 (Web Video) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Final Fantasy In A Nutshell (Web Video) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Quinton Reviews (Web Video) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Mythology Guy (Web Video) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Daily Grind (Webcomic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Generic Title (Webcomic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Oglaf (Webcomic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
TwoKinds (Webcomic) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Babylon Bee (Website) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
TV Tropes (Website) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Adrian / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
C.O.P.S. (1988) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Dudley Do-Right / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Ernest et CÃ©lestine / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Hercules: The Animated Series / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Inspector Gadget / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Koala Man / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Monsters vs. Aliens (2013) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Mummy Nanny / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
My Life as a Teenage Robot / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Pigs Is Pigs (1954) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
She-Ra: Princess of Power / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Skylanders Academy / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Storm Hawks / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Big Knights / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Herbs / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Penguins of Madagascar / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Sponge Bob Square Pants Movie / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Ultimate Book of Spells / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Viva PiÃ±ata / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Wayside / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Blackest Night (Comic Book) / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Arc Of Sacrifices / Fan Fic / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Dresden Files / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Ben 10: Alien Force / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.