Tropescilloscope: Grey and Gray Morality

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

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