I think it really just depends on where you happen to live. I've been fortunate to live in a place where people are generally honorable toward other people and animals, and such traits are not frowned upon at all..unless the person happens to be from out of state and just doesn't understand, but so it goes.

Actually, while my parents were in Victoria, B.C. recently they encountered a family visiting from Denmark. The husband was talking to my mom and told her how much he loved the Pacific Northwest because of just how kind people were to each other. Where he's from it's much more common not to aid people in need and to even mock them behind their back, but since coming to the Northwest it's made him see that there are still good people out there, and it's made him change his behavior when he's back home now. I found it really great that he continues to return with his wife and kids so his children can be exposed to a different way of life than what is the norm for them.

(Call me weird, but I've never looked to fictional characters as role models. I've had so many in my personal life and in the scriptures that I didn't need that, but I am glad it is there for people. I do tend to prefer real people since they're flawed though. It makes it easier to accept that none of us will ever be the perfect role model, but we should never stop being the best we can be.)