ALIGNMENT CHART! Samuel L. Jackson

So I guess this time around the argument will be about how a guy who murders people to make a point during conversation and a guy who blows up hundreds of innocents on the off chance one of them won’t die have ended up in the left-hand column.

Easy: that’s legal in their worlds.

A friend of mine brought up an interesting alternative: Nick Fury as NG and Mace Windu as LG–or are we pretending the prequels don’t exist?

Amazing! Although I am a bit disappointed to not see his preformance from ‘The Red Violin’ featured. It’s noteworthy for being one of the only times I have seen him not playing an Angry Black Man.

For LN, I would have probably picked his Paladin character form Jumpers. He follows the code of his order, regardless.

I’d actually be inclined to put Mister Senor Love Daddy from Do the Right Thing on there somewhere, but I can’t quite decide where. Chaotic Neutral, maybe?

dirge93: Yeah, True Neutral would be where I would put that character as well. And you can find out the titles of these films by mousing over the chart.

I can understand the argument for Jules as LN because he’s just a guy doing his job, but I’d agree it’s not the best character for that role. The paladin would have been fine, and there’s probably an even better option elsewhere on the chart I’m not familiar with.

The argument for Mr. Glass’s being lawful is pretty clear. He is following the ‘rules’ of comic books in order to verify that there is a reason for him being born in his condition, by creating a super hero he makes himself something other than a helpless cripple.

I could almost argue my way around him not being *truly* evil, since in the end he’s trying to create a hero. But thousands of dead people is a difficult stain to wash away and say ‘bygones’.

It can also be argued that he’s simply one crazy mother fucker.

Nick Fury, Jules and Mr. Glass are all about higher causes: the things they do aren’t personal. Well, I guess you could say that ultimately the things Mr. Glass did WERE personal, but he had his lofty higher purpose, which to me says ‘Lawful.’ That and all three are good, solid roles in noteworthy movies in away that, for instance, his decision to take a paycheck for ‘Jumper’ wasn’t.

Hey hey, it’s that idea I emailed MGK about two months ago! He only used about half of the ones I suggested, and moved a few of them around, but still, it’s pretty close! And I hadn’t thought of Shaft or Jackie Brown, either–good calls! Now, how about a little credit for the inspiration?

Ah, at last it happens. I’ve been thinking about a SamJack alignment chart for a while. My one big difference is that when I think of a Neutral Good character he’s played, it’s definitely Mister Señor Love Daddy from Do the Right Thing. “Are we gonna live together? Together are we gonna live?” Well, that’s how it strikes me.

I was hoping to see Black Snake Moan on here. I guess that would be Chaotic Good?

Michael — I thought Mr Glass always knew he was the bad guy… or rather, he believed that “Supervillain” was the only role open to him other than “useless cripple”, but to be a Supervillain required there to be a Superhero, hence his elaborate plans to establish one.

So you could say, perhaps, that he only fully took on the mantle of Supervillain at the end, when his plans have come to fruition, but he knew all along what he was doing. And saying “the children knew” is to reinforce that he feels that Supervillain had always been his only option.

(Hey what about Formula 51? Oh, wait, that sucked really hard, forget I mentioned it.)

Hey hey, it’s that idea I emailed MGK about two months ago!

Not to dismiss you, but:

1.) You and half a dozen other people as well at least one commenter requesting it publicly

2.) I honestly didn’t look at anybody’s suggestions when I did this one. It was a “yeah, people asked for it, seems like it could be fun, let’s do it” moment. Looking back at your email, there’s only one suggestion you made which ended up coinciding with the finished chart (Mr. Glass at LE).

3.) Which is not to say that you (and the others who requested it) don’t deserve credit for the suggestion. Hats off to you!

4.) Also you suggested Mace Windu, so you are a BAD PERSON.

The Sean Bean chart would have “dead” at the end of every category.

“The Sean Bean chart would have “dead” at the end of every category.”

Zombie alignment chart.

Kyle W.: You forget Sharpe, where Sean Bean went through an impressive 16 movies as the titular character WITHOUT dying, even once!

…he believed that “Supervillain” was the only role open to him other than “useless cripple”, but to be a Supervillain required there to be a Superhero, hence his elaborate plans to establish one.

Alternate character interpretations. To the viewing machine!

At some point, I keep meaning to watch every single Samuel L. Jackson movie and rate each of his performances on their “SLJ”-ness. Yes, it means I’d have to watch those godawful Star Wars prequels again, but still.