Tropescilloscope: Grey and Gray Morality

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

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