Eleanor Shellstrop lived a great life on Earth, full of nachos and Rihanna concerts...When she died, she discovered that the afterlife is real, and it's full of frozen yogurt.
This show asks the main characters to examine their choices, their motives, and the effects their actions have had on the world. Let's take a look at some of the moral alignments of the characters, and how the events of the show may have changed some of our favorites from selfish "ashholes" to upstanding citizens of this fine universe of NBC's The Good Place to celebrate the conclusion of the show.
Mindy St Claire: True Neutral
Mindy St Claire—what else is there to say? Arguably the most eccentric character on the show, Mindy is the only person to be awarded her very own Medium Place. She helped her sister to start the world's largest relief fund—but why did she want to do it? We may never know.
Later, after her death, she helps Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, Janet, and Jason whenever any of the Cockroaches come knocking on her door. She hides them, helps them remember plans they've concocted in other timelines, and even agrees to let the team run their experiment in her Medium Place. However, she also filmed Chidi and Eleanor having sex without them being aware of it—not for blackmail, just for herself. This is True Neutral.
Simone Garnett: Neutral Evil
Simone is a tricky character to evaluate. She seems (on the surface) to be generally good. She's fun to be around. She brings cupcakes to work for her coworkers. She helps Chidi with his thesis. But when you dig deeper and look at her motives, and especially what she does when the chips are down, things begin to get dicey. Didn't she only buy those cupcakes because funding came through? (Even Eleanor comments on how she spent the funding on cupcakes.) And everything can be summed up in Simone's last actions during the experiment: she leaves Chidi to save Brent on his own so she could attempt to escape without them.
Michael: Neutral Good
Michael starts the story as lawful evil. He wants to make the Bad Place better for all demons, make things more fun, and be a great Bad Place employee. Pretty quickly, his neighborhood turns him into an outcast, and he's forced to ally himself with Eleanor and the crew. After Chidi teaches him about mortality, Michael begins to care about the humans around him. Eventually, he grows to consider himself a caretaker for the humans in his neighborhood, and further—a demon who is responsible for fixing the afterlife system. Michael is totally neutral good.
Janet: Neutral Good
When we meet our Janet (not a girl), she's just like any other Good Place Janet: Lawful Good through and through. (Bad Place Janets are lawful evil, while Neutral Janets are quite obviously True Neutral.) After 800+ reboots, Janet begins to change.
She stays loyal to Michael, her architect, throughout the entirety of the show—but her first season days of doing whatever she was told exactly how she was told to do it with no questions asked are over. Most infamously, Janet conspired against the judge with Michael and the Cockroaches to keep the humans safe. Whatever she does, she does it for good reasons, but she's not afraid to break the rules.
Vicky: Lawful Neutral
Vicky, Real Eleanor, or as Janet once drunkenly slurred, "Victoria," is one of the funniest characters on the show, if not the most dramatic. In season four, we saw her shine in her new role as a trainer in the new afterlife system. However, it's in this plotline that Vicky shows her true colors as lawful neutral. When we first meet the character, her only goal is to contribute to Michael's neighborhood and torture the four humans as well as she possibly can. But in season four, she flips sides immediately after hearing the afterlife system would be changing. This proves Vicky is in this for herself, and for whatever the people want. After all, she is a performer.
Chidi Anagonye: Lawful Good
Chidi is so lawful good he might have a secret tattoo about it somewhere under his sweater vest. In season one, he agrees to help Eleanor before he knows her situation—but after he knows her situation he still helps her because he feels bound by the promise he had made to her.
Later, he refuses to lie, even if only to save his life from literal demons in the Bad Place. He's obsessed with doing the right thing to a literal fault. And in season four, we learn his greatest regret is accidentally moving with an overdue library book—and as a result, he put the library in his last will.
Judge Gen: True Neutral
Maya Rudolph was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her role as Judge Gen in this show twice--and why wouldn't she be? Judge Gen is truly one of the most complicated characters to ever appear in a prime-time sitcom. Since the dawn of time, Judge Gen has the most important job in the universe: to weigh in on unresolved disputes in the afterlife, and to remain as impartial as possible during the process. While it's clear that the character outside of the job might want things (she's obsessed with Netflix and also Chidi) she remains neutral and impartial in her decisions and actions.
Jason Mendoza: Chaotic Neutral
Jason Mendoza, the m0l0tov cocktail king, is a shining example of chaotic neutral. If he likes you, you're his people, just like Pillboi and Donkey Doug. If he doesn't like you, you're out, just like Sheila the black market alligator dealer with a pierced jawbone, who he framed for stealing boogie boards back when he was alive in Jacksonville, FL. He sold drugs to college students, but it was really oregano. He rescued Janet from the Bad Place fearlessly. But then a few episodes later he skips out on the work required to remake the afterlife system. In short: you never know what you're going to get when Jason's on the screen.
Tahani Al-Jamil: Chaotic Good
She raised billions of dollars for charity, but it was mostly so she could outdo her sister. She led a nonprofit that focused on producing self-help seminars and books... but all the while, her favorite thing in the world was the feeling she got when the flight attendant would close the curtain between first class and business plus.
After four seasons, Tahani is the character most likely to say something accidentally offensive. However, she's also the character who is most outside of her element. Until she gets a little more comfortable relating to other people, her actions will remain chaotic good.
Eleanor Shellstrop: Neutral Good
Eleanor begins the story as a neutral evil character. Most tragically, she agrees to pet and house sit for a weekend, but when one of her mildly trashy friends invites her to a Rihanna concert in Vegas, Eleanor abandons the dog, leaving piles of food all around the kitchen and yelling at the dog to ration before leaving for the concert. When next we see the dog, it's so round that it's being carted around in a toy wagon, and Eleanor still doesn't apologize. But by the end of the story, Eleanor is offering to sacrifice herself to Shawn just to get the afterlife working a tiny bit better, making her truly neutral good.