Tropescilloscope: Grey and Gray Morality

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

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Red Oni, Blue Oni Dramedy Fish out of Water Air-Vent Passageway Crazy Jealous Guy Abhorrent Admirer Artistic License – Law Word of God Title Drop Unresolved Sexual Tension Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Parental Neglect Fiery Redhead Freeze-Frame Bonus All Men Are Perverts Due to the Dead Bunny-Ears Lawyer Jerkass Handicapped Badass Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Dreaded Zombie Stories Hypocritical Humor Adaptational Badass Stepford Smiler Ironic Echo Ambiguous Ending Light Is Not Good Here We Go Again! Tempting Fate Undying Loyalty Pay Evil unto Evil Chase Scene An Arm and a Leg Big Bad Adaptation Distillation Almost Kiss Double Entendre Shirtless Scene The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Your Cheating Heart Awesome, but Impractical The Chick Advertised Extra Belligerent Sexual Tension Overly Long Gag Get Out! Slasher Movie Shipper on Deck A God Am I Stylistic Suck Drill Sergeant Nasty Mundane Made Awesome Brick Joke Dumb Blonde Children Are Innocent Betty and Veronica Together in Death Five-Man Band Shut Up, Hannibal! Stock Footage Friend to All Children Knife Nut Film Noir Index Chekhov's Gunman Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Bittersweet Ending Love at First Sight Artistic License – Physics Action Genre Hoist by His Own Petard Foreshadowing Anachronic Order Conspicuous CG The Sociopath Retirony Dark Action Girl The Ghost Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Chiaroscuro Off-into-the-Distance Ending Badass Grandpa timeperiod Fan Disservice Gainax Ending Bloody Hilarious Domestic Abuse The '60s Truth in Television Blatant Lies Hong Kong Films The Bully Canon Foreigner No Antagonist Alliterative Name Silent Movie Bowdlerise Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Evil Plan Every Car Is a Pinto Monumental Damage Neck Snap Take That! 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Fatal Flaw Spared by the Adaptation Cool Guns Big Fancy House Not So Different Empathic Environment Dropped a Bridge on Him Big "NO!" Badass Bookworm Brainless Beauty Recycled IN SPACE! Playing Gertrude Storming the Castle Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Trailers Always Spoil British Films Evil-Detecting Dog Damsel in Distress Setting Update How We Got Here Protagonist Title Armor-Piercing Question Dramatic Irony Ascended Extra Dark Reprise Rousing Speech Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bottomless Magazines Men Are the Expendable Gender Dressing as the Enemy Horror Films Mad Scientist A Father to His Men Have a Gay Old Time Celebrity Paradox Continuity Nod Captain Ersatz Manic Pixie Dream Girl Flashback A.I. Is a Crapshoot Determinator Mr. Fanservice Punny Name The End... Or Is It? Contrived Coincidence Victoria's Secret Compartment Diabolus ex Machina Paper-Thin Disguise Drives Like Crazy Historical Hero Upgrade Jerkass Has a Point Bavarian Fire Drill The Remake Mama Bear No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Scary Black Man The '70s Loads and Loads of Characters Dirty Coward Hypocrite Blonde, Brunette, Redhead I'm a Humanitarian Mythology Gag Action Girl Vomit Discretion Shot It Can Think Amusing Injuries Babies Ever After The Smart Guy Corpsing The Casanova Flipping the Bird Cold-Blooded Torture Pragmatic Villainy Parental Incest Break the Cutie Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Overprotective Dad Spiteful Spit The Dragon Major Injury Underreaction Adaptational Attractiveness Historical Villain Upgrade Those Two Bad Guys Wicked Cultured Not Even Bothering with the Accent Silence Is Golden Country Matters Intrepid Reporter Guile Hero Evil Laugh Adaptation Dye-Job Death by Sex Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Chewing the Scenery And I Must Scream Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Eyepatch of Power Not So Stoic Curse Cut Short Epic Movie Foregone Conclusion Wounded Gazelle Gambit Smug Snake Heel–Face Turn Dirty Cop All Girls Want Bad Boys Adult Fear Chekhov's Skill Offscreen Teleportation Authority Equals Asskicking Funny Background Event Hero Antagonist Ripped from the Headlines Product Placement Bond One-Liner One-Man Army Cool Old Guy Obfuscating Stupidity Humiliation Conga Vampire Fiction Too Dumb to Live Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Madness Mantra Evil vs. Evil Killed Mid-Sentence Meaningful Background Event Karmic Death Imagine Spot Race Lift Bad Boss Serious Business Crapsack World "The Reason You Suck" Speech Double-Meaning Title Rewatch Bonus Everyone Has Standards Romantic Comedy Does Not Like Shoes Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Big Brother Instinct Heroes Want Redheads All There in the Manual Rasputinian Death Immune to Bullets Mercy Kill A Date with Rosie Palms Depraved Bisexual As Long as It Sounds Foreign Villainous Breakdown Hollywood Darkness NO INDOOR VOICE Shower Scene Sealed Evil in a Can Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Facial Horror Catapult Nightmare Didn't Think This Through Moment Killer Sci-Fi Horror From Nobody to Nightmare Danny Peary Cult Movies List Martial Arts Movie Mystery and Detective Films Bait-and-Switch The Chessmaster Mistaken for Gay Sir Swears-a-Lot Big Applesauce Pre-Mortem One-Liner Cloudcuckoolander Adaptational Heroism Mooks Dogged Nice Guy Villain Protagonist Those Two Guys Genre Throwback Defrosting Ice Queen Music Stories Redshirt Army Cat Fight Black Dude Dies First The Cavalry Abusive Parents The Ditz Sassy Black Woman Gender Flip Riddle for the Ages Dutch Angle Butt-Monkey Yandere Plucky Comic Relief Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Sports Stories The '90s Arc Words Developing Doomed Characters Homage Naïve Newcomer Anti-Hero Laser-Guided Karma Black Comedy Rape He Knows Too Much Good Is Not Nice In the Back Driven to Suicide Soundtrack Dissonance Shout-Out Names to Run Away from Really Fast Daylight Horror Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Darkest Hour My God, What Have I Done? Italian Films Improbable Aiming Skills B-Movie Roaring Rampage of Revenge Death Glare Reality Is Unrealistic Agony of the Feet Pet the Dog Retired Badass Meaningful Name Villain Ball Horror Comedy The Musical Suddenly SHOUTING! Deal with the Devil Curb-Stomp Battle Gory Discretion Shot Stealth Pun Face–Heel Turn Exact Words Romantic False Lead Even Evil Has Loved Ones Karma Houdini Rule of Three Captain Obvious Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Took a Level in Badass Beard of Evil Time Skip Scenery Porn Shell-Shocked Veteran Evil Is Hammy Visual Pun Small Name, Big Ego Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Accidental Murder Ungrateful Bastard Rated M for Manly Manchild Unspoken Plan Guarantee Stalker with a Crush Brutal Honesty Covers Always Lie Final Girl The Bad Guy Wins Spell My Name with an "S" Action Survivor Leitmotif "Awesome McCool" Name You Killed My Father The Lost Lenore May–December Romance Dramatic Gun Cock The Stoner Kick the Son of a Bitch There Is No Kill Like Overkill World of Ham Big Damn Heroes All Just a Dream Woman in White Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Whole Plot Reference Despair Event Horizon Cruel and Unusual Death BFG Taking You with Me Ship Tease And Starring Adaptation Expansion Ms. Fanservice No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Ace Unreliable Narrator Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Wham Line Bloodless Carnage Dark and Troubled Past Fanservice Extra Evil Brit Adults Are Useless Does This Remind You of Anything? The Faceless Early Installment Weirdness Villain Song Nice Hat Red Herring Not What It Looks Like Corrupt Corporate Executive Police Brutality Ominous Latin Chanting Face Death with Dignity Daddy's Girl Sinister Minister Cool Old Lady Crazy-Prepared Fun with Acronyms Spanner in the Works Foil The Great Depression Blackmail The Reveal Skewed Priorities Anguished Declaration of Love Made of Explodium Plot Hole Decoy Protagonist Actor Allusion Animal Motifs Comically Missing the Point Self-Deprecation Faking the Dead Mugging the Monster Blood Knight Bloodier and Gorier One Steve Limit Logo Joke Expository Hairstyle Change Market-Based Title Vacation Films Say My Name Put on a Bus Large Ham Bland-Name Product Reckless Gun Usage Really Gets Around The Voiceless Throwing Your Sword Always Works Totally Radical She's Got Legs Cain and Abel Kubrick Stare Becoming the Mask Only in It for the Money Animal Title Index Reasonable Authority Figure Be Careful What You Wish For Demonic Possession Training Montage Kick the Dog Offscreen Moment of Awesome Wrong Genre Savvy No OSHA Compliance Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Character Development Red Eyes, Take Warning The Hero The Stinger Animated Credits Opening Villain with Good Publicity Artistic License – Geography Oh, Crap! Beauty Is Never Tarnished My Greatest Failure Shown Their Work Man on Fire What You Are in the Dark The '50s Fate Worse than Death Mr. Exposition Action Prologue As You Know German Films Neck Lift Woman Scorned Aside Glance Big Bad Duumvirate Creator Cameo Disney Death Not So Above It All Fanservice Once More, with Clarity! 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Epilogue La Résistance Amoral Attorney Fingore Biopic Fatal Family Photo Real Life Writes the Plot Worthy Opponent Science Fiction Films Japanese Films Death by Adaptation Ambiguous Disorder Fire-Forged Friends Bring My Brown Pants Antagonist Title Badass Normal Evil Sounds Deep Distracted by the Sexy Would Hit a Girl Eye Scream Arch-Enemy Improvised Weapon Closed Circle Heroic BSoD Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Naked People Are Funny Novelization It's Personal Badass in a Nice Suit A Minor Kidroduction Film Series Happily Married Kill 'em All You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Lighter and Softer Car Fu Failed a Spot Check Downer Ending Fourth Date Marriage The Place Hero of Another Story The Un-Reveal One-Word Title Blood from the Mouth Australian Movies Apocalypse How I Want My Beloved to Be Happy French Films I Need a Freaking Drink Creative Closing Credits 20 Minutes into the Future Based on a True Story Nice Guy Punch-Clock Villain Not Using the "Z" Word Pretty Little Headshots Intergenerational Friendship Coming-of-Age Story Idiot Ball Dull Surprise Noodle Incident Sole Survivor Funny Foreigner Deconstruction Grey and Gray Morality Cat Scare Documentary Exactly What It Says on the Tin In Medias Res Revenge Black Comedy Morality Pet Scenery Gorn Destination Defenestration Let's Get Dangerous! I Did What I Had to Do Dark Is Not Evil Gorn Random Events Plot It's All About Me Broken Aesop Would Hurt a Child Suspiciously Specific Denial Room Full of Crazy Cassandra Truth The Hero Dies Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Alas, Poor Villain Important Haircut Insult Backfire Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Extreme Doormat Not Quite Dead Match Cut Works Set in World War II Deliberate Values Dissonance Meet Cute Politically Incorrect Villain The Oner The Cameo Lock and Load Montage Guns Akimbo No Name Given Real Life Token Minority Male Gaze Red Right Hand Superhero No Celebrities Were Harmed Mexican Standoff Deadpan Snarker Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Broken Bird Asshole Victim Honor Before Reason Take a Third Option Lampshade Hanging Military and Warfare Films The Mole Adaptation Name Change Dwindling Party Ambiguously Gay Television Movie Index The Brute She Cleans Up Nicely The Power of Love Genre Savvy Pragmatic Adaptation Only Sane Man Vomit Indiscretion Shot And the Adventure Continues Heel Realization Call-Back Book-Ends Artistic License – Gun Safety Fat Bastard Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Adorkable Adaptational Villainy Made of Iron Tagline