Tropescilloscope: Morality Pet

An amoral character's voice of reason. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Author Appeal Took a Level in Jerkass Punny Name Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Villainous Breakdown Gratuitous English Black Best Friend No OSHA Compliance Despair Event Horizon Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Arc Words Eldritch Abomination A.I. Is a Crapshoot Say My Name Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Even Evil Has Loved Ones Imagine Spot Stealth Pun Lampshade Hanging Anachronic Order Corpsing The Great Depression Wretched Hive Ripped from the Headlines German Films Bullying a Dragon No Celebrities Were Harmed Obstructive Bureaucrat Fat Bastard Attempted Rape Names to Run Away from Really Fast Novelization All Men Are Perverts Throwing Your Sword Always Works Demoted to Extra Bad Boss Damsel in Distress Sinister Minister Disguised in Drag The Place The '80s Once More, with Clarity! 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Funny Foreigner Blood from the Mouth Twist Ending Suspiciously Specific Denial Big-Bad Ensemble Market-Based Title Action Prologue Faking the Dead Central Theme From Bad to Worse Dwindling Party Important Haircut Badass in a Nice Suit Heroic Sacrifice Pyrrhic Victory Sanity Slippage Artistic License – Geography Bilingual Bonus Loads and Loads of Characters Mundane Made Awesome Cool Guns Wham Shot Leaning on the Fourth Wall Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Older Than They Look Cluster F-Bomb Body Horror Police are Useless Getting Crap Past the Radar Wounded Gazelle Gambit Black and Gray Morality Works Set in World War II Mistaken for Gay Here We Go Again! 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Kick the Dog Parental Abandonment Vacation Films Real Life Writes the Plot Due to the Dead Empathic Environment Adaptation Expansion Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Deliberately Monochrome The Smart Guy Batman Gambit Hypocrite Four-Temperament Ensemble Adaptational Attractiveness Rule of Three Moment Killer Only in It for the Money Informed Ability Contrived Coincidence Manipulative Bastard Let's Get Dangerous! Dies Wide Open Intrepid Reporter Very Loosely Based on a True Story Shut Up, Hannibal! Badass Boast Jitter Cam Canon Foreigner Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Failed a Spot Check Never My Fault Bar Brawl Cat Scare Random Events Plot Expository Hairstyle Change Cloudcuckoolander The Stoic It's Personal Brick Joke Genre Savvy Logo Joke The Casanova Take a Third Option Pay Evil unto Evil Demonic Possession Taking the Bullet Sassy Black Woman Asshole Victim Half the Man He Used to Be Beauty Is Never Tarnished Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The '60s Have a Gay Old Time Camera Abuse What You Are in the Dark Award-Bait Song Stuff Blowing Up Cain and Abel Killed Mid-Sentence Rousing Speech Maybe Ever After Television Movie Index Deal with the Devil Love at First Sight Big "NO!" 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Epilogue In Medias Res Needs Wiki Magic Love Redshirt Army Token Minority The Reveal Unusual Euphemism Missing Mom A Minor Kidroduction Costume Porn O.O.C. Is Serious Business One Steve Limit Dying Moment of Awesome Slasher Movie Knight Templar Auto Erotica Beard of Evil Horror Films Henpecked Husband Conspicuous CG The Chessmaster He Knows Too Much Military and Warfare Films Wrong Genre Savvy Fatal Flaw Ms. Fanservice Adorkable Handicapped Badass Naïve Newcomer Gender Flip Death by Sex Not So Stoic Funny Background Event Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bottomless Magazines The Cavalry Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Laser-Guided Karma Facial Horror Soundtrack Dissonance Babies Ever After Impaled with Extreme Prejudice She's Got Legs Villain Opening Scene Overly Long Gag Author Avatar French Films Dramatic Irony Domestic Abuse Death Glare Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Recycled IN SPACE! 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Or Is It? Red Herring Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The Remake Exactly What It Says on the Tin Victoria's Secret Compartment Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Death Seeker Dutch Angle Hong Kong Films Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Suddenly SHOUTING! Eye Scream Determinator aka: The Determinator Ungrateful Bastard Slashed Throat Mugging the Monster Refuge in Audacity Match Cut Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Big Bad The X of Y The Bully Jerkass Evil Counterpart All Just a Dream Dull Surprise Adults Are Useless Closed Circle The Lancer Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Malevolent Masked Men Made of Explodium Film Noir Index What the Hell, Hero? 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