Morality Standout

The Morality Standout is about how a character stands out in general and from other characters with the Morality Standard of the verse they exist in. Similar to how raising the Resourceful Capability Standard (RC Standard) makes it harder for a character to have a high Resourceful Capability (RC), the more characters their are that pass the standards, the harder it is for them to stand out from other characters in the verse, especially when the work has High Admirable Standards and/or High Heinous Standards, moreover when the Morality Standard is Complete Innocence or Depraved Exploitation.

## The List of Standards

### **Benchmark Standard**

The Benchmark Standard is the set of standards that a protagonist or antagonist needs to cross in order to qualify as a hero or villain, this allowing them to be heroic benchmarks and/or villainous benchmarks, thus separating them from normal protagonists and antagonists. The character has to pass both the General Benchmark Standard and the In-Story Benchmark Standard to be applicable as a hero or villain, but if they are in a non-heroic or non-villainous system, they have to pass the previous two standards as well as standing out from the members adhering to the system’s standards to pass the System Benchmark Standard.

* **General Benchmark Standard:** The character must go beyond basic Good-Natured or Ill-Natured acts, and their actions cannot be just pleasant or unpleasant, they have to either attempt to or actually be helpful or harmful in some way, with just mere association with someone who commits or attempts to commit helpful or harmful acts without actually assisting them with said acts cannot qualify as a hero or villain unless they attempt to commit or actually commit helpful or harmful acts themselves.
	+ **General Heroic Benchmark Standard:** The Good-Natured character has to go beyond basic Good-Natured and pleasant acts, with their actions either attempting to or actually being helpful in some way, with not just mere association with characters that attempt or actually commit helpful actions.
	+ **General Villainous Benchmark Standard:** The Ill-Natured character has to go beyond basic Ill-Natured and unpleasant acts, with their actions either attempting to or actually being harmful in some way, with not just mere association with characters that attempt or actually commit harmful actions.

* **In-Story Benchmark Standard:** The character and their actions have to be important to the plot in some way, and have to stand out from other Good-Natured or Ill-Natured characters in their verse.
	+ **In-Story Heroic Benchmark Standard:** The Good-Natured character’s good deeds must be important to the plot in a positive way most of the time, and have to stand out from other Good-Natured characters in their verse.
	+ **In-Story Villainous Benchmark Standard:** The Ill-Natured character’s bad deeds must be important to the plot in a negative way most of the time, and have to stand out from other Ill-Natured characters in their verse.

* **System Benchmark Standard:** If the character is part of a system (i.e. Groups and Organizations) that is either Good-Natured, Ill-Natured, or Neutral, meaning almost all if not all members of the system are non-heroic and non-villainous, then the character must commit acts that are beyond just pleasant or unpleasant that attempt to or actually are helpful or harmful in some way to pass the system standard.
	+ **System Heroic Benchmark Standard:** The Good-Natured character must go beyond the system’s good-natured standards by committing beyond pleasant acts that attempt to or actually are helpful in some way.
	+ **System Villainous Benchmark Standard:** The Ill-Natured character must go beyond the system’s ill-natured standards by committing beyond unpleasant acts that attempt to or actually are harmful in some way.

### Standout Standard

The Standout Standard is the set of standards a hero or villain needs to pass in order to stand out from the other heroes or villains, allowing the character to become Inconsistently Admirable or higher, or Inconsistently Heinous or lower. The character has to pass both the General Standout Standard and In-Story Standout Standard to qualify as a Standout Character (ranks greater than 4 + (3 +, 2 +, and 1 +) and ranks lower than 4 - (3 -, 2 -, and 1 -)), but if they are a member of an admirable or heinous system, they have to pass the previous two standards as well as go beyond that system’s standards to pass the System Standout Standard. Note that unlike the previous set of standards, only the characters that pass the standards that qualify as Inconsistent can be both Good and Evil (Completely Ambiguous, ranks 3+ and 3- equating rank 0).

* **General Standout Standard:** The character must commit above average (non-basic) acts, and their best or worst acts have to be shown onscreen.
	+ **General Admirable Standout Standard:** The hero must commit above average heroic acts, and their best good deeds have to be shown onscreen.
	+ **General Heinous Standout Standard:** The villain must commit above average villainous acts, and their worst bad deeds have to be shown onscreen.

* **In-Story Standout Standard:** The character’s actions must stand out from the other character actions and be unique in how they commit their actions in some way in their verse.
	+ **In-Story Admirable Standout Standard:** The hero’s good deeds must stand out from other hero good deeds by being more noble in their verse and must be unique in their virtuousness.
	+ **In-Story Heinous Standout Standard:** The villains’s bad deeds must stand out from other villain bad deeds by being more vile in their verse and must be unique in their wickedness.

* **System Standout Standard:** If the character is part of a system (i.e. Groups and Organizations) they have to stand out from other members of a system by going beyond the admirable or heinous system standards, which is more likely if they created the system and/or lead it.
	+ **Admirable System Standout Standard:** The hero must go beyond the just system’s admirable standards by standing out as more admirable than the members adhering to the system’s standards.
	+ **Heinous System Standout Standard:** The villain must go beyond the corrupt system’s heinous standards by standing out as more heinous than the members adhering to the system’s standards.

### **The Ultimate Standard**

The Ultimate Standard is the set of standards needed for heroes and villains to stand out from the other heroes and villains that stand out (best of the best or worst of the worst), meaning they have to pass the Standout Standard in order to qualify for The Ultimate. Sometimes, more than one hero and/or villain can qualify for The Ultimate, see The Ultimate article for more details. The hero or villain has to pass both the General Ultimate Standard and the In-Story Ultimate Standard, but if they are a member of an admirable or heinous system, they have to pass the previous two standards as well as go beyond the system standouts who have gone beyond the system’s standards already to pass the Ultimate System Standard. However, unlike the other two sets of standards, the characters here cannot pass both the good standards and evil standards at the same time, as the character is supposed to remain a clear hero or a clear villain, otherwise they would not be the best of the best or the worst of the worst.

* **Ultimate General Standard:** No Grey Zone or  Completely Ambiguous (rank 0) characters because the characters have to have a clearly defined morality and not a mix of good and evil, the character must stay on the Morality Ranking Side they are on (Positive Side, or Admirable Ranking; or Negative Side, or Heinous Ranking), and the acts must have the biggest impact compared to other stand out character acts.
	+ **Ultimate Good General Standard:** The hero has to be a clear hero, can never become fallen as they must remain noble to be considered the best of the best, and the good deeds must have the most positive impact compared to other stand out hero acts.
	+ **Ultimate Evil General Standard:** The villain has to be a clear villain, can never redeem themselves as they must remain vile to be considered the worst of the worst, and the bad deeds must have the most negative impact compared to other stand out villain acts.

* **Ultimate In-Story Standard:** The character has to stand out from the other stand out characters by being the best of the best or the worst of the worst, having the most influence and impact on the verse they come from.
	+ **Ultimate Good In-Story Standard:** The hero has to stand out from the stand outs by having the most or best good deeds, cross the most or biggest Goodness Zones, and have the most influence and impact on the verse they come from.
	+ **Ultimate Evil In-Story Standard:** The villain has to stand out from the stand outs by having the most or worst bad deeds, cross the most or biggest Moral Event Horizons, and have the most influence and impact on the verse they come from.

* **Ultimate System Standard:** If the character is part of a system (i.e. Groups and Organizations) they have to stand out from the stand out members of the system by either being better than the admirable stand outs or worse than the heinous stand outs, meaning they go the most beyond the system standards, which usually means they created and/or lead the system.
	+ **Ultimate Good System Standard:** The hero has to stand out from the stand outs of a just system by going the most beyond the system’s admirable standards, which usually means they created and/or lead the admirable system.
	+ **Ultimate Evil System Standard:** The villain has to stand out from the stand outs of a corrupt system by going the most beyond the system’s heinous standards, which usually means they created and/or lead the heinous system.

* The Ultimate Good Wiki
* The Ultimate Evil Wiki