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)

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