1 | Moral Dissonance may refer to: |
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3 | * ApeShallNeverKillApe: A group of people who won't act maliciously towards each other but will act maliciously towards everybody else. |
4 | * BatmanGrabsAGun: A good guy makes an exception to their moral code treated as OOCIsSeriousBusiness. |
5 | * BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: A character embodies the very thing that their previous moral code stood against. |
6 | * BrokenAesop: The work breaks their own moral message by having its narrative conflict resolved by the very thing it preaches against. |
7 | * DesignatedHero: The work portrays the character as a [[IdealHero paragon of virtue]] when their actions are anything but heroic. |
8 | * DesignatedVillain: The work portrays the character as reprehensible, even though they don't do anything that warrants that label. |
9 | * {{Hypocrite}}: The character preaches one thing and acts in a way that contradicts it. |
10 | * InformedWrongness: The work tells us that what a character did is supposed to be seen as wrong despite there being nothing to justify that conclusion. |
11 | * JerkassBall: Someone acts uncharacteristically cruel or selfish for the sake of enabling {{Conflict}}. |
12 | * KarmaHoudini: When a character don't get punished for their reprehensible actions. |
13 | * KarmicOverkill: The audience thinks a character doesn't deserve the punishment they receive. |
14 | * MoralMyopia: Judging an action as either good or bad, not on its own terms, but according to who does it. |
15 | * OutOfCharacterMoment: A moment when character acts in a way contradictory to their usual morality. |
16 | * ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The protagonist is subject to different moral standards than other characters. |
17 | * StrawmanHasAPoint: The audience thinks a "wrong" argument within a story makes more sense than the author's "correct" argument. |
18 | * TautologicalTemplar: Somebody assumes they're inherently good and therefore ''everything'' they say or do is also inherently good. |
19 | * UnintentionallySympathetic: When a character is intended to be seen as unsympathetic but the audience doesn't think they are. |
20 | * UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: When a character is intended to be seen as sympathetic but the audience doesn't think they are. |
21 | * ValuesDissonance: What is totally acceptable or even applauded in one time or place might be seen as odd or shameful by another. |
22 | * WhatTheHellHero: A good guy is called out by in-work characters for failing to live up to their moral code. |
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