Tropescilloscope: Morality Pet

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

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