Glee: The Alignment Chart
Alignment charts are the internet's favorite way to reduce complex characters to simple categories, and I am not above pandering to that impulse. So here's one for Glee, which has enough characters with enough contradictions to fill the grid twice over.
Lawful Good: Finn Hudson. Tries to do the right thing, follows the rules (mostly), genuinely believes in fairness and teamwork. His lawful good nature is actually his most interesting quality, because the show keeps putting him in situations where being good isn't enough.
Neutral Good: Tina Cohen-Chang. Quiet, kind, supportive. Doesn't need rules to be decent, doesn't need chaos to express herself. Just a genuinely good person who happens to be underwritten by the show's creators, which is its own kind of injustice.
Chaotic Good: Kurt Hummel. Will break every social convention, every expectation, every rule of high school survival to be authentically himself. His courage is chaotic in the best possible way — he doesn't rebel for the sake of rebellion, but because conformity would require him to be less than he is.
Lawful Neutral: Rachel Berry. Rachel lives and dies by rules — her own rules, which she has constructed with meticulous care and which happen to place her at the center of everything. She's not evil, but she's not good either. She's simply inevitable.
True Neutral: Brad the Piano Player. He's always there. He never speaks. He plays whatever is required. He judges no one. He is the show's one true constant, and he asks nothing in return.
Chaotic Neutral: Brittany S. Pierce. Exists in a state of pure, unfiltered chaos. Says and does whatever occurs to her in the moment. Not malicious, not benevolent, just operating on a wavelength the rest of us can't quite tune into. She is the show's id, and she is magnificent.
Lawful Evil: Sue Sylvester. Works within the system to destroy her enemies. Files paperwork, follows procedure, uses the rules as weapons. The most dangerous kind of villain — the one who can point to a policy manual while she ruins your life.
The beauty of Glee's characters is that they shift alignment depending on the episode — sometimes depending on the scene. But these feel right to me as their baseline settings. Your alignment chart may vary. That's the fun of it.