Lawful Good is known as the "Saintly" or "Crusader" alignment. A Lawful Good character typically acts with compassion, and always with honor and a sense of duty, and unlike Lawful Neutrals, these characters put doing good things above obeying to the law. A Lawful Good nation would consist of a well-organized government that works for the benefit of its citizens. Lawful Good characters include righteous knights, paladins, and most dwarves. Lawful Good creatures include the noble golden dragons.

Due to their fair and sympathetic nature, Lawful Good characters believe in good societal rules that would benefit everyone.

They are the moral opposite of Lawful Evil, the Law/Chaos opposite of Chaotic Good, and the complete opposite of Chaotic Evil. Stereotypically, Lawful Good characters are seen as the most honorable characters, but Neutral Good and Chaotic Good characters may definitely be honorable as well in their promotion of goodness.

Lawful Good characters can count, if they have no corrupting factors as Pure Good as both archetypes can be identified through traits such as acts of kindness like saving lives or being pleasant with any other character (e.g. Zane, Palutena, Captain America, Meta Knight (Kirby: Right Back at Ya!), Dewey Riley, Ochaco Uraraka, Horace Nebbercracker, Makoto Naegi, Kyoko Kirigiri, Soichiro Yagami, Kyojuro Rengoku, Elastigirl, Princess Peach, Rosalina, Tippi, Fox McCloud, Otohime, and Atticus Finch). These heroes never choose to put the law above doing good, as they do not want innocent people being negatively affected as a consequence.