The Greendale Seven. At the conclusion of season three, the famed Greendale study group from Community had made a name for themselves as the most notorious group of students on campus.
Part of the reason for this was that they seemed like an unlikely group of friends. The other part was that their personalities were all so clashing with one another that it would be hard for anyone not to notice them. But because of this, the characters on the cult NBC comedy were allowed to be more flawed, with more shades of gray. It makes their placement on a D&D moral alignment chart all the more fascinating.
Jeff Winger - True Neutral
"I don't care" is a common phrase that comes from the mouth of Jeff Winger, the de facto leader of the study group. He is typically nonplussed about most situations going on around him, having no loyalty to anything except what is driving his innermost pleasures.
Granted, Winger can easily be manipulated into becoming the most passionate figure of some game or event. For the most part, though, he exists in the world as someone looking out only for himself. Perhaps if a movie ever comes around, he can wriggle his way out of true neutral labeling.
Britta Perry - Chaotic Good
At the beginning of Community, Britta is a fairly unassuming, average college community status. But over the course of the show, they let her show her true colors. For better and for worse.
Britta is an entirely wacky character with no evident singing ability and no discernible talent for self-awareness. Her intentions always seem to be good: to fight against poverty and to fight for the environment, among others. But the ways in which she goes about advocating for these causes are often flawed. Like when she wants to know how long peyote lasts.
Annie Edison - Lawful Good
What makes Annie a lawful good character is not that she can often serve as the voice of reason in the group (a pen-themed bottle episode aside). Instead, one has to look to the later seasons to see Annie's lawful traits.
In season six, as Community wound to its close, some of the members of the Greendale Seven were hesitant to move on from the life they'd made for themselves at the school. Annie is the first one to grow up, take responsibility, and push forward with her life into some goals of high aspiration.
Troy Barnes - Neutral Good
Troy Barnes has a strong argument for being the member of the study group with the purest heart. However, there is no way that he could ever be described as a lawful character. One ride into the study room on his ATV is enough to show that the only law Troy obeys is his own.
He still acts with the best of interests at heart, though, and his neutral good characteristics help ground the study group and mediate them. When he leaves the apartment to grab the pizza in "Remedial Chaos Theory" and the entire group collapses in on itself, that is reason enough to show how grounded Troy is.
Abed Nadir - Chaotic Neutral
On the surface and to the average person, Abed Nadir probably seems like a lawful character and maybe even a good character. However, closer examination shows that Abed's actions are not always geared towards helping his friends. Sometimes, he just wants to put them into difficult situations to observe how they react and see what happens.
He often does this in extremely chaotic ways because Abed takes after a classic film character when he just wants to see the world in a state of upheaval. For Abed, life is a television show and he never acts like it's anything but.
Shirley Bennett - Lawful Good
It is interesting that Shirley and Annie both occupy lawful good status. For the most part, the two women seated on their side of the study table are in sync with one another and find sweetness in most things. But on the contrary, every now and then they show the underlying shades of a fierce rivalry between the two of them.
Perhaps they can serve as one another's non-lawful good outlets from time to time. After all, as a devout Christian and a caring mother, the study group can be Shirley's time to let her inner demons out. For the most part, she is lawful good, but her dubious actions can be seen soon on Netflix when the show comes to the streaming platform.
Pierce Hawthorne - Neutral Evil
Perhaps a mirror of his real life counterpart, Pierce Hawthorne is an undeniably evil character. One would need only watch the actual Dungeons and Dragons episode of the show to see that.
When Pierce is excluded from the roleplaying game, he lashes out with a series of viscous attacks against Neil, akin to that of a school bully. Yes, Pierce is a lonely, ostracized soul, but that does not give him any reason to act horribly racist and sexist towards the people around him. At the very least, he did grow a little, tiny bit by his end.
Ben Chang - Chaotic Evil
Continuing with the theme of evil, there was perhaps no more obvious candidate for the alignment of chaotic evil than Benjamin Franklin Chang. He's the former Spanish professor/campus dictator/amnesiac student/member of the Save Greendale committee.
Yes, he's worn a lot of hats, but "campus dictator" is the only label that should matter. He attempted to kill the Greendale Seven while encouraging his servants to sing, "Chang eats the sun and drinks the sky and they both go with him when he dies." If that's not chaotic evil, then nothing would be at Greendale.
Craig Pelton - Lawful Neutral
Craig Pelton, the dean of Greendale, is introduced in a recurring capacity in the show initially. However, as the show goes on, he becomes just as important a member of the group as anyone. In that sense, his academic and professional standing calls to him and speaks as his conscience of what is good and what is lawful.
However, Craig Pelton's neutrality stems from how he never really works to make Greendale any better, nor does he aim for it to be worse. He likes his life exactly as it is and he does not want it to change in the slightest.
Magnitude - Chaotic Good
"Pop pop!" Magnitude is the coolest student on campus and everyone loves when he shows up with his delightful catchphrase that is brimming with glee. He's a party person who improves the moods of anyone around him.
But Magnitude follows only the code of Magnitude. It's unclear how much work he actually puts into his schooling, if any. Instead, he just hangs out and shows up to the fun parts of school while seemingly avoiding the boring parts. After all, what use would a "Pop pop!" be in the context of a stuffy lecture. Community never wanted to show that side of college (and it was for the better).