![]() Despite the fact that he's now just a poor old man, the others stick with him until he finds a way to restore the status quo. DuckTales: In "Down But Not Out in Duckburg", Scrooge comes home to discover that Glomgold has gotten control of all his businesses and even the city in his absence.In the Doctor Strange story, "The Oath", Strange goes through great lengths to save his manservant when he discovers Wong is suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. Wong's loyalty is most assuredly returned.He even sticks around after Strange relinquishes the title of Sorcerer Supreme and joins the New Avengers. Wong, Strange's manservant and friend, is his one constant companion.Green Lantern: Dexter of the Red Lantern Corps is a former housecat who actually became an Anti-Hero/ Anti-Villain out of sheer loyalty to his former owner.ĭexter: I find ones who hurt you.Jimmy also shows that there's an entire neighborhood who is happy to have Superman around and renamed their area as "Kentville". In the New 52 storyline, Superman: Truth, Jimmy stands by Superman's side after his identity is revealed to the entire world (it probably helps that Supes revealed his identity to him just prior to the shit hitting the fan). From sacrificing multiple opportunities to learn his Secret Identity, to helping him with criminals armed with Kryptonite, to standing up to a fully-powered Kryptonian to ensure the currently-powerless Superman was protected (in Superman #172), Jimmy's loyalty to Supes trumps any sacrifice or risk it might involve. It usually takes an Elseworlds story for it not to apply. Superman: Extreme loyalty (to Superman) is one of Jimmy Olsen's foremost (and most well-known) qualities.Max Lord: We talked about this! Don't clone the dog! Dogs are weird! The whole loyalty thing just seems to be branded right in on a genetic level, for Pete's sake! When the government has asked him to do things that he felt were against those ideals, he's either quit being Captain America or gone rogue. Cap himself has undying loyalty to not America as a nation but rather America's ideals.Even someone as hard to work with as The Incredible Hulk has Cap as the one person he'd never raise a finger to. Every single hero worth his salt in the Marvel U trusts Cap unconditionally, cause Cap will go through hell and back to not leave any of them behind. If any Marvel Universe hero inspires and has this as a defining trait, it's Captain America.However, outside the Wayne Manor, someone still stands, the first Robin, Dick Grayson. So when Bruce calls a meeting, no one except Alfred attends. In the story arc "Death of the Family", the Joker's torment of the Batfamily via Joker venom has shaken them physically and caused a great loss of faith in each other and in themselves.Undying loyalty doesn't change regardless of who dies. So when Batman apparently dies, he goes Darker and Edgier, and tries to prove he is alive. Batman notes that Tim Drake's loyalty is his prime motivation, and his loyalty to his father caused his 10-Minute Retirement.Alfred said that he would not allow him to destroy himself and so, by abandoning Batman he could show his true loyalty to him. Sometimes, Alfred quits when Bruce has decided to ruthlessly risk his own life only for his stubbornness."Venom" and "Officer Down" are two such stories where this happened. Sometimes Batman's jerkiness is too much for him and he'll leave for a time. I've failed.Īlfred: So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.
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