Tropescilloscope: Morality Pet

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

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