Tropescilloscope: Morality Pet

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

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