True Neutral

Antagonists whose approximate Character Alignment is "True Neutral" also known as the "Undecided" alignent. They value balance over good and evil, law and chaos. They do not lean towards either extreme and act based on their own interests, the situation they find themselves in, or simply out of pure pragmatism. Generally, they feel no inherent need to adhere to or defy a system of rules. It is the direct opposite to their evil counterparts.

These characters can be divided into different types depending on their focus:

• Pragmatists: who make decisions based on what is most convenient for them, regardless of ideologies or ethical codes.
• Indifferent: they simply do not care about the conflicts between good and evil, law and chaos.
• Balancers: who believe in harmony between extremes and act to prevent one of them from dominating too much.

Most of the time, these characters have a subtle or noticeable leaning towards another alignment, such as Lawful Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Neutral Evil, Lawful Evil or Chaotic Evil as for example, but without treppasse that frontier. and it is rare to see characters who are directly in the center of the moral/ethical axis.

Even if they're heroes, their morality is enough decayed to be questioned; their exact nature is debatable, and therefore impossible to truly determine, and it is up for the readers or viewers to make their judgment: while some can see them as heroes, even if they do not approve their methods, some will see them as criminal or even villains. One of the best instance is V who can be see either as a rebellion hero or anarchist, Scorpion from Mortal Kombat who can be see either as a heroic or villainous Assassin.

The most unique case about true neutral characters is that they aren't beholden to good nor evil, and they can also be responsible for keeping both moralities in balance, namely both good and evil. On the other side of the coin however, is that they can passify good, and seek to redeem characters as much as benevolent characters do, and they can also seek to put an end to ongoing conflicts and peacefully end them, or else something horrible will take place. This is exactly what arguably makes neutrality of three different alignments much more popular than benevolent characters.

On & Off characters who commit at the same time heroic and villainous deeds, such as some incarnations of Deadpool, Rick Sanchez or Michael Afton, or false heroes known as "Heroes by Proxy" (such as John Constantine) also belong to this category.

HIGHLY IMPORTANT: Heroes who are Pure Good can never be in this category for they remain completely incorruptible whereas it is unknown if True Neutral are bad or good.