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1Moral 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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