Tropescilloscope: Grey and Gray Morality

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

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