Tropescilloscope: Grey and Gray Morality

Opposing sides are neither "good" nor "evil". (read more at tvtropes.org)

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