Grey Zone

The "Grey Zone" is for morally-ambiguous individuals and organizations. They can be Anti-Heroes, Anti-Villains or both, and often act(ed) as neutral characters. Those characters often appear in mature and dark-oriented stories in which the traditional "good vs. evil" scenario does not occur. This alignment can also be known as True Neutral.

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.

The most unique case about grey zone 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.

Notes[]

• Heroes that are Pure of Heart can never be in this category for they remain completely incorruptible whereas it is unknown if Grey Zones are good or bad.
• NPGs also can never qualify this category because they always fight as heroes and are all noticeably good while Grey Zone heroes aren't completely known to be good or bad.
• Redeemed Villains do not always count if they are truly good and/or have crossed the Goodness Zone several times, no matter how bad they were before.
• However, even if Redeemed Villains characters have "Grey Zone" act in a much more mischievous and lethal manner (e.g SMG3).