Tropescilloscope: Grey and Gray Morality

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

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