Tropescilloscope: Morality Pet

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

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