Basic Trope: Black-and-White Morality as a sign of insanity.
- Straight: Alice upholds a black and white world view, and is mentally unstable.
- Exaggerated: Alice believes that that anybody who so much as swears or insults is evil and murders them in retaliation.
- Logical Extreme: This trope is applied to all life, even plants.
- Downplayed: Alice has a mental disorder and has difficulty understanding that she could be in the wrong or that anyone opposing her could have a point.
- Justified:
- Alice is still a child, or she is The Ingenue or a Naïve Newcomer from a world where morality does indeed work so simply.
- Alice is mentally ill.
- Inverted: Alice claims that everything is grey, even though there's explicitly black and white actions and motivations throughout the story. She's labelled as insane.
- Subverted: Alice is actually correct in her assertions; morality really is that clear-cut.
- Double Subverted: Until Drake shows up, who is morally complex, not as morally pure as the heroes yet not as explosively evil as the villains.
- Parodied: Alice truly believes that the difference between the forces of good and the forces of bad is so stark that the two sides cannot even communicate with each other, because Good Cannot Comprehend Evil and the Evil Cannot Comprehend Good and both sides are nothing but.
- Zig Zagged: Alice initially believes that Black-and-White Morality is the rule of the land, but, later on in the story, she Took a Level in Idealism and now believes that morality is white-and-grey, or she Took a Level in Cynic and believes that morality is black-and-grey.
- Averted: Alice is actually quite sane.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: "I worry for Alice. She truly thinks that the world is so simple, that heroes must be flawless and villains must be scum, so what happens when a silver tongued, self-dissimulating Manipulative Bastard enters her life, tricking her into becoming his lackey because she cannot see that he is evil?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: Byronic Hero Drake is formally introduced into the story; and of his nature, Alice and Diana discuss:
- Alice: "So Drake is heroic, even in spite of his dreadful countenance?"
Diana: "Not quite... he is noble, selfless, and he is willing to give up his very life for his friends. Yet he is not perfect; he doesn't shy away from using underhanded tactics, he will sacrifice the few to save the many, and he will manipulate adversaries into doing what he wants."
Alice: "...So he is a villain, then."
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: People become scared of Alice due to her instabilities and she is sent to a mental hospital in an attempt to treat her.
- Reconstructed: ???
Black-and-White Insanity!? I will show you Black-and-White Insanity!!
