Tropescilloscope: Deliberate Values Dissonance

Morals that modern people don't agree with presented in-universe. Not because the author believes in them, but because the culture being represented in-universe does. (read more at tvtropes.org)

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

More Tropes Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Ax-Crazy Captain Ersatz Death Glare Obstructive Bureaucrat Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Important Haircut Artistic License – Gun Safety Call-Forward Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Took a Level in Badass Earn Your Happy Ending Offscreen Moment of Awesome Up to Eleven Dressing as the Enemy Big Fancy House Villain Ball Recycled IN SPACE! Police are Useless Stealth Hi/Bye BFG Not So Different Works Set in World War II Dramedy Informed Ability Woman Scorned Meaningful Name Cain and Abel Crucified Hero Shot Say My Name Canadian Movies Slashed Throat Grey and Gray Morality The X of Y German Films Light Is Not Good Sequel Hook Handicapped Badass Fan Disservice Australian Movies Pet the Dog Black Best Friend Credits Gag Off-into-the-Distance Ending Tranquil Fury Romantic False Lead Character Development Arch-Enemy Ascended Extra Rule of Cool Red Herring More Dakka All for Nothing Reasonable Authority Figure The Brute Broken Aesop Hair-Trigger Temper A Minor Kidroduction Eiffel Tower Effect Enemy Mine Retired Badass Those Wacky Nazis Idiot Ball Same Language Dub Soft Glass Only Sane Man Not Quite Dead Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Asshole Victim Obviously Evil Central Theme Visual Pun Jerkass Has a Point Throwing Your Sword Always Works Black Comedy Rape Adapted Out Match Cut The Vamp No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Rich Bitch Pretty Little Headshots No OSHA Compliance Expy No-Sell Rasputinian Death Rule of Symbolism Villain Song Refuge in Audacity Abhorrent Admirer Animal Title Index Laser-Guided Karma Reality Is Unrealistic Does Not Like Shoes Horror Films Retcon Four-Temperament Ensemble Aluminum Christmas Trees Science Fiction Films Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Victoria's Secret Compartment Obfuscating Stupidity Anti-Hero Conspicuous CG Our Zombies Are Different Fatal Flaw Make It Look Like an Accident Intrepid Reporter Time Skip Blood from the Mouth Hollywood Law He Who Fights Monsters Gratuitous English All Just a Dream Eye Scream Cassandra Truth Evil Sounds Deep Cool Old Lady The Bad Guy Wins The '90s Breaking the Fourth Wall All Men Are Perverts Bloodless Carnage Hell Is That Noise Dropped a Bridge on Him Author Avatar Villain Protagonist Blatant Lies Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Heterosexual Life-Partners Papa Wolf Token Minority Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Batman Gambit Spiritual Successor Country Matters Suspiciously Similar Substitute Posthumous Character Becoming the Mask Spanner in the Works All There in the Manual Bilingual Bonus Bunny-Ears Lawyer Sinister Minister Covers Always Lie Honor Before Reason Ungrateful Bastard Adaptational Badass Toplessness from the Back The Ghost Hero Antagonist Guns Akimbo This Is Gonna Suck Dying Moment of Awesome Wounded Gazelle Gambit No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Humans Are Bastards The Casanova Annoying Younger Sibling Stalker with a Crush Bound and Gagged Broken Pedestal Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bi the Way Action Survivor The '80s Roger Ebert: Great Movies List British Films What the Hell, Hero? Fatal Family Photo Creepy Child Fun with Acronyms Artistic License – Military From Bad to Worse Cowboy Cop Pay Evil unto Evil Happily Married Product Placement The Film of the Book Put on a Bus Major Injury Underreaction Chiaroscuro Men Are the Expendable Gender Bolivian Army Ending Rule of Three Precision F-Strike Not So Stoic Flipping the Bird Actually Pretty Funny Beware the Nice Ones Too Dumb to Live Never Trust a Trailer Suddenly SHOUTING! Even Evil Has Standards Actor Allusion Male Gaze Ironic Echo Determinator It Will Never Catch On Berserk Button Failed a Spot Check Eldritch Abomination Expository Hairstyle Change Plucky Comic Relief The '50s Unusually Uninteresting Sight Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" It's Personal Friend to All Children Sassy Black Woman Fat Bastard Artistic License – History Missing Mom Only Known by Their Nickname Together in Death Straight Gay My Greatest Failure Car Fu Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Arc Words Shower Scene Contrived Coincidence Scary Black Man Overprotective Dad Improbable Weapon User Epic Fail Cat Scare Villainous Breakdown Frame-Up Artistic License – Geography Madness Mantra Heel Realization Not Using the "Z" Word Large Ham Dirty Cop Dirty Old Man Television Movie Index After the End Those Two Guys As the Good Book Says... An Arm and a Leg Blackmail Bond One-Liner Very Loosely Based on a True Story Revenge Cool Guns Show Within a Show Dark Action Girl Composite Character Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Costume Porn Index of Film Westerns Narrator Disproportionate Retribution Loads and Loads of Characters The Faceless Dark Reprise Real Life Writes the Plot Calling the Old Man Out Due to the Dead Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Pimped-Out Dress Slasher Movie Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hollywood Darkness Cat Fight All Girls Want Bad Boys Curse Cut Short Never Found the Body Big Damn Heroes Mooks Would Hit a Girl Documentary Badass Bookworm Bloody Hilarious La Résistance Mad Scientist Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Accidental Misnaming Animated Credits Opening Red Right Hand Foreshadowing Comically Missing the Point Crapsack World Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dogged Nice Guy Diabolus ex Machina Morality Pet Armor-Piercing Question Advertised Extra Corrupt Corporate Executive Ass Shove Creative Closing Credits Damsel in Distress Psychological Thriller Demoted to Extra Ms. Fanservice Humiliation Conga Danny Peary Cult Movies List Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Beard of Evil Protagonist Title Punny Name Dark Is Not Evil Canon Foreigner Star-Crossed Lovers Chase Scene Bavarian Fire Drill Ship Tease Dumb Blonde Gone Horribly Right Card-Carrying Villain Pragmatic Villainy Worthy Opponent Death by Irony Alas, Poor Villain As You Know Running Gag Jerk with a Heart of Gold Chekhov's Gunman Darker and Edgier Demonic Possession Irony Big Bad NO INDOOR VOICE Mr. Exposition Gender Flip Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Vomit Indiscretion Shot Redshirt Army Small Name, Big Ego Heroic Sacrifice Adults Are Useless Red Oni, Blue Oni Double Entendre Mystery and Detective Films Names to Run Away from Really Fast Even Evil Has Loved Ones Novelization Beta Couple Brick Joke Better to Die than Be Killed Cruel and Unusual Death Evil Plan Needs Wiki Magic Love Intergenerational Friendship Noodle Incident Ambiguous Disorder The Dog Bites Back Shipper on Deck Mundane Made Awesome Laughing Mad Scare Chord Not What It Looks Like Re-Cut Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Historical In-Joke Stealth Pun The Chick Rape as Drama Not Even Bothering with the Accent Overly Long Gag Domestic Abuse Evil Is Hammy B-Movie Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Action Girl Didn't Think This Through Dutch Angle Hypocritical Humor Your Cheating Heart Homage Abusive Parents Poor Communication Kills Dark and Troubled Past Bring My Brown Pants Fish out of Water Deconstruction In the Back Getting Crap Past the Radar Anti-Villain Never My Fault An Axe to Grind Mr. Fanservice Meaningful Echo Action Prologue Historical Hero Upgrade Mighty Whitey Antagonist Title Brother–Sister Incest Title Drop Let's Get Dangerous! Rated M for Manly Neck Snap Everyone Has Standards Early-Bird Cameo Good Is Not Nice Catch-Phrase The Cameo Bald of Evil Dull Surprise I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Japanese Films The Alcoholic From Nobody to Nightmare Vitriolic Best Buds The Great Depression Ghost Fiction Horror Comedy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Vacation Films Crazy-Prepared Pyrrhic Victory Gorn Unreliable Narrator Romantic Comedy Jerk Jock Historical-Domain Character Properly Paranoid Race Lift Police Brutality Love Triangle "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Closed Circle The Atoner Improbable Aiming Skills Blood Knight Death by Adaptation Hope Spot I Did What I Had to Do Moment Killer Only a Flesh Wound Leitmotif Dies Wide Open Italian Films Nothing Is Scarier One-Man Army Kill 'em All Establishing Character Moment Improvised Weapon Man on Fire Chekhov's Skill The Lancer Mythology Gag The Dragon Stuff Blowing Up Offscreen Teleportation Loophole Abuse Christmas Movies Index Children Are Innocent Babies Ever After Half the Man He Used to Be Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Gory Discretion Shot Be Careful What You Wish For Unusual Euphemism Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Authority Equals Asskicking Shout-Out Pretty in Mink Empathic Environment Big "NO!" Dirty Coward Red Shirt Trailers Always Spoil Kubrick Stare Big Bad Duumvirate Face Death with Dignity Word of God Redemption Equals Death Unresolved Sexual Tension Anachronic Order Mexican Standoff Parental Incest Lampshade Hanging Cold-Blooded Torture Green-Eyed Monster Roaring Rampage of Revenge Taking You with Me There Is No Kill Like Overkill She Cleans Up Nicely Apocalypse How Smug Snake Disappeared Dad Instant Death Bullet Our Vampires Are Different Drill Sergeant Nasty Suspiciously Specific Denial Facial Horror Cool Shades Sole Survivor Captain Obvious Stylistic Suck I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Meet Cute For Want of a Nail Body Horror Freudian Excuse Awesome, but Impractical Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Adorkable The Reveal Here We Go Again! Older Than They Look Depraved Bisexual Casting Gag Reality Has No Subtitles Spared by the Adaptation Sealed Evil in a Can Call-Back Flashback 20 Minutes into the Future The End... Or Is It? Interrupted Suicide The Lost Lenore Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Outrun the Fireball Adaptation Expansion Adaptational Attractiveness Logo Joke No Name Given Zombie Stories Epic Movie Fiery Redhead Vampire Fiction Bury Your Gays Mood Whiplash Public Domain Feature Films The Musical No Celebrities Were Harmed The Bully Tap on the Head The Stoner Tempting Fate Celebrity Paradox Sir Swears-a-Lot Maybe Ever After Yandere Well-Intentioned Extremist Hong Kong Films Insane Troll Logic I'm a Humanitarian Psycho for Hire My God, What Have I Done? Bar Brawl The Remake She's Got Legs Developing Doomed Characters Ominous Latin Chanting Deadpan Snarker Big Eater One Steve Limit No Antagonist Super Strength Decoy Protagonist N-Word Privileges "Shaggy Dog" Story Biopic Serious Business Serial Killer Vomit Discretion Shot In Medias Res Rule of Funny Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Market-Based Title Wham Line Does This Remind You of Anything? Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Destination Defenestration The Stoic Motor Mouth How We Got Here Driven to Suicide Based on a True Story Wrong Genre Savvy Funny Foreigner Big-Bad Ensemble Insult Backfire The Smurfette Principle Manic Pixie Dream Girl Your Head A-Splode A Father to His Men Drugs Are Bad Neck Lift Downer Ending Wretched Hive Kick the Son of a Bitch Fantastic Racism Shut Up, Hannibal! Imagine Spot Coming-of-Age Story Famous Last Words Spell My Name with an "S" The Mafia Back from the Dead Stock Footage Final Girl Camera Abuse Brainless Beauty Extreme Doormat Mind Screw Disney Villain Death Spiteful Spit Artistic License – Biology Affably Evil "Well Done, Son!" Guy Kill It with Fire Five-Man Band Betty and Veronica Drowning My Sorrows Parental Abandonment Stepford Smiler Badass Longcoat Eagleland Award-Bait Song Manipulative Bastard Oh, Crap! Bond Villain Stupidity The Smart Guy World of Ham You Killed My Father Foregone Conclusion Only One Name Slap-Slap-Kiss Woman in White Knight Templar As Himself Took a Level in Jerkass Take a Third Option Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Arranged Marriage Take That! Parental Substitute Insistent Terminology Femme Fatale Hoist by His Own Petard Eureka Moment Training Montage Sequel Escalation Distracted by the Sexy timeperiod As Long as It Sounds Foreign Boom, Headshot! Groin Attack Adult Fear Killed Mid-Sentence Mama Bear Death Seeker What You Are in the Dark Off with His Head! Daylight Horror Corpsing Age Lift Determinator aka: The Determinator Russian Films Meaningful Background Event Greater-Scope Villain Anyone Can Die Would Hurt a Child The Load An Aesop A.I. Is a Crapshoot Storming the Castle Fanservice '80s Hair Politically Incorrect Villain The Sociopath Rousing Speech Naïve Newcomer Auto Erotica The Oner Tagline The Un-Reveal Artistic License – Law Playing Gertrude Cluster F-Bomb Have a Gay Old Time French Films Fingore Leaning on the Fourth Wall Defiant to the End Whole Plot Reference And the Adventure Continues Every Car Is a Pinto The Starscream The Place Superhero Married to the Job Cool Car Gold Digger Deliberately Monochrome My Beloved Smother Shown Their Work Film Series Malevolent Masked Men Riddle for the Ages Grievous Bottley Harm Not So Above It All Death of a Child Sadistic Choice A Date with Rosie Palms The '60s May–December Romance Agony of the Feet Unspoken Plan Guarantee Paper-Thin Disguise Cool Old Guy Disney Death Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Reckless Gun Usage Historical Villain Upgrade Implacable Man Bittersweet Ending Almost Kiss The Power of Love Scenery Porn Fainting Deliberate Values Dissonance Genre Throwback "Awesome McCool" Name Hypocrite Sci-Fi Horror Chewing the Scenery Face–Heel Turn Hooker with a Heart of Gold Sexy Discretion Shot Once More, with Clarity! Dramatic Irony Badass Grandpa Brutal Honesty Wham Shot Jitter Cam You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Room Full of Crazy Real Life No Ending Despair Event Horizon Bottomless Magazines Bad "Bad Acting" Mugging the Monster Leave the Camera Running Nice Hat Gilligan Cut Black Comedy Dramatic Gun Cock Ambiguous Ending Genre Savvy Creator Cameo Framing Device Faux Affably Evil Lighter and Softer Reality Ensues A God Am I Daddy's Girl Curb-Stomp Battle I Need a Freaking Drink Heroes Want Redheads Random Events Plot The Hero Dies Psychopathic Manchild Big Brother Instinct Love at First Sight Sanity Slippage Did Not Get the Girl Hero of Another Story Ripped from the Headlines Truth in Television Villain Opening Scene The Mole Left the Background Music On Chekhov's Gun Animal Motifs Mercy Kill Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Badass Normal Catapult Nightmare Faking the Dead Break the Cutie Naked People Are Funny Freeze-Frame Bonus Gainax Ending Belligerent Sexual Tension Knife Nut Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Evil-Detecting Dog MacGuffin Pre-Mortem One-Liner Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Fanservice Extra Made of Explodium Music Stories Big Applesauce Shell-Shocked Veteran Lock and Load Montage Deal with the Devil Evil Is Petty Pragmatic Adaptation Continuity Nod Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Red Eyes, Take Warning Those Two Bad Guys Get Out! Aside Glance Sacrificial Lion Bullying a Dragon Translation Convention Evil Counterpart Anachronism Stew Department of Redundancy Department Cloudcuckoolander Totally Radical And Starring Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Line-of-Sight Name Non-Indicative Name Nice Guy Skewed Priorities The Chessmaster Adaptation Dye-Job Attempted Rape Video Credits Dissonant Serenity Rewatch Bonus The Cavalry Evil Laugh Eyepatch of Power Martial Arts Movie It's All About Me Taking the Bullet Evil vs. Evil Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil For the Evulz Smoking Is Cool Undying Loyalty Guile Hero Kick the Dog Manly Tears Kids Are Cruel Adaptational Villainy Bad Boss Film Noir Index Deus ex Machina Artistic License – Physics Twist Ending In Name Only Bait-and-Switch The Ace Bowdlerise Book-Ends Last-Name Basis Only in It for the Money Mistaken for Gay The Ditz The '70s And I Must Scream Black Dude Dies First Hate Sink The Voiceless Extremely Short Timespan Butt-Monkey Scenery Gorn Beauty Is Never Tarnished Parental Neglect "The Reason You Suck" Speech What Happened to the Mouse? Genre Shift Retirony One-Word Title Villain with Good Publicity Affectionate Parody Alpha Bitch Camp Gay Broken Bird Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Alliterative Name Sports Stories Break the Haughty folderlabel Hidden Depths Air-Vent Passageway Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Easily Forgiven Exact Words Adaptation Name Change I Have Your Wife The Hero Jump Scare The Dreaded Exactly What It Says on the Tin Manchild Black and Gray Morality Fate Worse than Death War Is Hell Bare Your Midriff Badass in a Nice Suit Setting Update Shirtless Scene Darkest Hour The Alleged Car Silent Movie Amusing Injuries Karmic Death The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Bland-Name Product Heroic BSoD Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Silence Is Golden Action Genre Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Double-Meaning Title Wicked Cultured Soundtrack Dissonance All There in the Script Slasher Smile Ambiguously Gay Crazy Jealous Guy Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Big Guy Karma Houdini Anguished Declaration of Love The Quiet One Fourth Date Marriage He Knows Too Much Adaptation Distillation Military and Warfare Films Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Plot Hole Film Noir Death by Sex Dwindling Party Immune to Bullets Fantasy Films Really Gets Around Funny Background Event Fire-Forged Friends Dual Wielding You Have Failed Me Peek-a-Boo Corpse Amoral Attorney Disguised in Drag Monumental Damage Foil Author Appeal Defrosting Ice Queen Accidental Murder True Companions Punch-Clock Villain Adaptational Heroism Male Frontal Nudity Jerkass Evil Brit Drives Like Crazy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Made of Iron Race Against the Clock It Can Think Heel–Face Turn Self-Deprecation Bloodier and Gorier Combat Pragmatist Badass Boast Early Installment Weirdness Henpecked Husband Thriller Fake Shemp The Stinger