Tropescilloscope: Grey and Gray Morality

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

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