Tough Traveling: Pure Good
The Thursday feature “Tough Traveling” is the brainchild of Nathan of Review Barn, who has come up with the excellent idea of making a new list each week based on the most common tropes in fantasy, as seen in (and inspired by) The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynn Jones. Nathan has invited anyone who is interested to come play along, so be sure to check out the first link for more information.
This week’s tour topic is: Pure Good
No middle ground, no moral middle, no grey area at all. Some people are pure avatars of goodness. Fantasyland seems to be full of them.
Wendy’s Pick
Honestly, I am at an utter loss over pure good characters. Why? Because I dislike them so much. Pure good is booooring. And sometimes pretty damn annoying too. Give me a Prince Jorg any day.
The BiblioSanctum 
lol you’re right, it’s no fun
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Lol, I concur. 😀
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Yeah… I don’t know if I can think of any purely good characters, either.
But on a related note, I loved Sailor Moon when I was younger. 🙂 The only local TV station that showed it would air it on Saturday mornings at 6:30, so I’d sneak out of bed before the rest of the family was up and watch it in the living room. *lol*
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I loved her too and recently started reading the manga with my daughters. Then we tried to watch Crystal and omg I could not staaaaand it!
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That is the shortest list ever. I also prefer moderately to severely flawed characters. That said, Samwise Gamgee is probably the only one I can think of who is purely good.
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Oh Samwise. Good choice! Otherwise, pure good characters just aren’t realistic. We need flaws to be believable!
I suppose the empress from Neverending Story might count too, but who knows what she got up to before she lost her name in the first place.
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I miss Sailor Moon, that was good fun
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Good guys aren’t popular these days. Bad guys are a dime a dozen. Wonder when the pendulum will swing again.
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It’s true, there are good characters all around but I don’t know about PURE good. And nowadays when these pure good guys do show up, often they are there to be ridiculed or lampooned. Grey to bad characters are definitely more common in fantasy right now.
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It’s odd that nobody seems on the side of ‘pure good’! Give me Jorg any day too!
Lynn 😀
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Let’s face it, evil characters are much more fun 🙂
And they don’t need to be completely evil, since a good mix of light and shadow makes for more interesting figures.
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Yup, more interesting and more realistic.
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