Tropescilloscope: Morality Pet

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

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