Tropescilloscope: Morality Pet

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

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