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==Examples== *'''[[Ao]]''' from the [[Forgotten Realms]] probably fits the bill, since he sits back and eats hot pockets all day, not bothering about anything in the multiverse, whether gods are killing each other or not - only stepping in when the universe stops working properly and fixing it like a cosmic janitor with infinite power (and he doesn't even get paid!). * [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] actively describes True Neutral in Stupid Neutral of the "actively sabotages good, evil, law and chaos when they get too powerful" terms. * [[Mordenkainen]] (basically the [[Greyhawk]] equivalent of [[Elminster]]) actually lives by the Stupid Neutral creedo of "Good, Evil, Law and Chaos are ''all'' dangerous if they are allowed to get too strong, so the best I can do for the world is keep them balanced". He runs a secret society dedicated to fucking shit over for whoever or whatever he thinks is being too successful and "threatening the Balance". Perhaps fittingly, he's an Abjurer and his legacy spells all relate to wrecking magic - the buffs-eating Mordenkainen's Warding Whip, or the magic item-killing Mordenkainen's Disjunction. He does try to justify this position as Angels would consider [[lawful Stupid|Neutrality as the next great evil]] without contrasting extremes, and everyone knows why a law or chaos victory would suck. It's not that convincing. Notably, he is actually listed as being ''Chaotic'' Neutral in alignment in his most recent appearances in 5e, implying that his overzealous dedication to neutrality ironically makes him not actually neutral anymore. * Played for laughs in [[Futurama RPG|Futurama]] with the Neutrals, a race of humanoid aliens whose gimmick is that they act [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussCHoQttyQ as neutral as possible]. Hell, their motto is literally ''Live Free or Don't'', and they'd likely shrug either way. * Jemorille the Exile is an Argenach [[Rilmani]] who managed the impressive feat of being ''so'' stupid about Neutrality that he got the other Rilmani to exile him to Sigil to stop him from fucking over any more Prime Material worlds with his dumb ideas; if his boasting is to be believed, he created the Temple of Elemental Evil and taught [[Rajaat]] defiling magic, making him the asshole responsible for [[Dark Sun]]. * Kino from the [[anime]] ''Kino no Tabi'' has been accused of this by some detractors. Without [[Skub|going too deep into it]] and creating a wall text explaining every point on this, let's explore ''the'' moment from the show which is widely considered a moment of Stupid Neutrality: Kino has just left a country which thinks the apocalypse is coming because their book of prophecies [[Lawful Stupid|has told them so]]. When that doesn't happen, a priest tells them that the apocalypse has been postponed by 30 years. She then arrives at another country, where she finds that a poet was commissioned by the king to write a sad poem, and did so only after his wife committed suicide. Years later, after the poet died, society arranges for a young girl to recite the [[VTNL|cryptic and extremely long]] sad poem every day. As Kino leaves, the border officer tells her that after the poem was written down a nearby country acquired it, [[Just as planned|calling it the Book of Prophecies]]. After that, while camped overnight under the stars, Kino is interrupted by an army from the Land of Prophecies invading the Sad Land. When she asks why, a soldier responds that a new interpretation of the Book of Prophecies indicated that the next country [[derp|is responsible for their world coming to an end]]. She fully knows that the country which has 'The Book of Prophecies' acquired the poem in a accident, and they now think it's some kind of cryptic prophecy to the end of the world, when it's actually just the [[edgy]] ramblings of a sad man. Instead of telling that to the soldiers, she just quietly watches as they march to the Sad Country and go on to [[Exterminatus|exterminate everyone]] in there over a simple mistake. Now here's where Kino's neutrality is called into question: even if she didn't manage to convince them it would have cost her literally nothing to try explain the true nature of the book and the "prophecy" inside it. Because of her neutrality and refusal to take ANY action, including giving logical statements outside of self-defense, she [[Grimdark|basically condemned a country to death]] even as [[Derp|she feels bad for their situation]]. [[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]][[Category:Alignment]][[Category:Stupid Alignments]]
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