Tropescilloscope: Grey and Gray Morality

Opposing sides are neither "good" nor "evil". (read more at tvtropes.org)

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