Tropescilloscope: Morality Pet

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

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