Tropescilloscope: Morality Pet

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

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