Tropescilloscope: Grey and Gray Morality

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

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