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* Morrigan from ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'', for a given value of "innocent". She [[Raised by Wolves|knows little of the outside world]], having lived all her life in the Kocari Wilds with occasional visits to civilization. Her cynicism and social Darwinism is largely the result of her upbringing by Flemeth.
* Orpha in [[Eien no Aselia]] was raised to think of killing as a good thing. So she appears quite sadistic while completely unaware of how her behavior horrifies Yuuto. She wanted his approval and tried to get it the way she had been taught.
* One particularly weird example is Rance, from the [[Rance]] series of h-games. As harem heroes go, Rance is about as amoral as they come; his number one goal in life is to have sex with every woman on earth, and he doesn't particularly care whether said sex is consensual or not. (He prefers consensual, but he still has a loose definition of it).) This leads to him being the h-game poster child of the [[Black Comedy Rape]] tropes, - and yet in a conversation in ''[[Sengoku Rance]]'' a priestess dismisses the possibility of using him as a ritual sacrifice due to the lack of evil in his heart. Apparently Rance legitimately ''does not realize that rape is wrong'', though this may be averted somewhat; he's clearly freaked out later in the game when a sympathetic character even ''he'' thought was off-limits was raped "[[Rape as Drama|for real]]" by the villains. It's possible that his double-standard comes from [[Genre Savvy|some manner of awareness]] of his ability to invoke [[Victim Falls For Rapist]] / [[Black Comedy Rape]] and the villains' lack thereof.
* ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'': She may be portrayed as adorable, but {{spoiler|[[Rosenkreuzstilette|Iris]] shows just how devious she can be when it comes to chessmastery, manipulation, trickery, lies, and - believe it or not - murder. There's a reason why she orchestrated RKS's attack against the Empire [[For the Evulz]], after all!}}
* Anna's portrayal in ''[[Epic Battle Fantasy]] 5'' has shades of this: her childish behavior has other party members getting curious about her actual age, and she treats hunting and killing wild animals and monsters as fun and games. {{Spoiler|After encountering and beating Annabelle, a gross caricature of her protrayingportraying her as a sadistic monster, she feels so horrible about herself that she considers giving up on hunting.}}
 
== Webcomics ==
* The Dimension of Lame from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is populated entirely by pure, innocent people., Thiswhich makes manipulating them ''very'' easy for the [[Demonic Invaders]]. It's not a sense of right and wrong they lack, but of different levels of wrong, or of [[I Did What I Had to Do]] in even obviously acceptable forms such as fighting back against aggression.
** They equate "peace" with "good", and are thus completely content as long as they don't have to face any kind of adversity, regardless of the consequences to anyone else - this results in them quite cheerfully looking for Torg to turn them over to the invading demons and get them to leave.
** It's not a sense of right and wrong they lack, but of different levels of wrong, or of [[I Did What I Had to Do]] in even obviously acceptable forms such as fighting back against aggression. They're completely good as long as they don't have to face any kind of adversity.
* Basically the entire point of ''[[Minus]].'', which combines this innocence with [[Goo-Goo Godlike|omnipotence]], resulting in an [http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus1.html imaginative little girl] who can do anything she wants, from creating magical worlds of wonder to [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|effortlessly bringing nightmares to life]], fromto creating a whole new afterlife, to ending life as we know it.▼
** They equate peace with good, so were quite cheerfully looking to find Torg to turn over to the invading demons to get them to leave. So good they are not, as they'll sell out anyone if it'll get them peace no matter what the horrible consequences for who they sell out.
* The eponymous character of ''[[Axe Cop]]'' is described by the comic's artist as "borderline psycho.". ''Axe Cop'' is also written by a six year old. Draw your own conclusion.▼
▲* Basically the entire point of ''[[Minus]].'', which combines this innocence with [[Goo-Goo Godlike|omnipotence]], resulting in an [http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus1.html imaginative little girl] who can do anything she wants, from creating magical worlds of wonder to [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|effortlessly bringing nightmares to life]], from creating a whole new afterlife to ending life as we know it.
* Schlock in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' is what happens when an alien of superhuman strength and durability with the mind of a child gets thrown into a world of outlaws and mercenaries that rewards aggression and intimidation. {{spoiler|He was actually born directly as an adult with an empty mind, and his own people chased him off their home planet, trying to kill him out of fear that he would become an out-of-control sociopath.}}▼
▲* The eponymous character of ''[[Axe Cop]]'' is described by the comic's artist as "borderline psycho." ''Axe Cop'' is also written by a six year old. Draw your own conclusion.
* Peter and Paul, the "hardly good boys" in ''[[Gunshow]]'', do all manners of reprehensible or even horrifying things in their genuine and naive efforts to do some good around them.▼
▲* Schlock in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' is what happens when an alien of superhuman strength and durability with the mind of a child gets thrown into a world of outlaws and mercenaries that rewards aggression and intimidation. {{spoiler|He was actually born directly as an adult with an empty mind and his own people chased him off their home planet trying to kill him out of fear that he would become an out-of-control sociopath.}}
▲* Peter and Paul the "hardly good boys" in ''[[Gunshow]]'' do all manners of reprehensible or even horrifying things in their genuine and naive efforts to do some good around them.
 
== Western Animation ==
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