Tropescilloscope: Morality Pet

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

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