History BlackAndWhiteMorality / LiveActionFilms

** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Thor and his allies (with the exception of [[EnemyMine Loki]] and Odin) are heroic paragons, and their Dark Elf enemies just want to destroy the universe for no real reason.

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' is one of the few Marvel movies to follow this morality exactly (in fact, aversions include this movie's own sequels). This is justified in-story through the SuperSerum that created both Captain America and his enemy the Red Skull, as it enhances people's true qualities--good becomes great, bad becomes worse. Steve Rogers is an idealistic, friendly guy who just wants to do his duty for his country by fighting bad guys, and becomes a capable war hero. Red Skull is a bullying Nazi extremist too evil even for Hitler, is so narcissistic as to have a god complex, and becomes an OmnicidalManiac.
** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Thor and his allies (with the exception of [[EnemyMine Loki]] and Odin) are heroic paragons, and their Dark Elf enemies just want to destroy the universe for no real reason.

* Creator/RidleyScott's ''Film/{{Legend 1985}}''. The heroes are an innocent PrincessClassic with VirginPower and a group of forest inhabitants trying to protect the [[UnicornsAreSacred sacred unicorns]] [[CosmicKeystone who make life possible]]. The villain Darkness is a demonic EvilOverlord who rules over an army of evil goblins and cannibalistic pig-men executioners and wants to create an eternal night to bring about the end of the world.

* ''Film/PacificRim'': The protagonists are good, well-intentioned and noble, the kaiju are ChaoticEvil monsters that cause nothing but destruction and mayhem.
** In fact, most of Creator/GuillermoDelToro’s work has a clear distinction on who’s good and bad.
* ''Film/IndependenceDay'' definitely counts, The humans are all good, while their alien adversaries are given no motivation aside from [[HordeOfAlienLocusts stealing resources]].
* ''Film/SoldierOfOrange'': The Dutch resistance and their British allies are clearly heroic, the German occupiers and their fascist collaborators are clearly evil. Notably, this contrasts with Verhoeven's later film ''Film/BlackBook'', which applies BlackAndGrayMorality to the same conflict.
* ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'': Edward is a genuinely kind person whose biggest flaws are mild social awkwardness and naivety. Kim and her family are slightly hesitant to take in Edward but take him in quickly. Jim starts as a smug jerk and eventually descends into homicidal madness, while the rest of the town aside from Kim's family start off taking advantage of Edward's skills and are riled into an angry mob at the first opportunity.
* ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'': Derek is wholly good, refusing to participate in the genocide and going rogue on his first mission. Thor is a sadistic madman willing to defy orders to kill even more people. The rest of the aliens are actively genocidal, with "Our Leader" being the only one with any redeeming qualities, namely caring about his son.

* ''Film/SoldierOfOrange'': The Dutch resistance and their British allies are clearly heroic, the German occupiers and their fascist collaborators are clearly evil. Notably, this contrasts with Verhoeven's later film ''Film/{{Zwartboek}}'', which applies BlackAndGrayMorality to the same conflict.

** This is enforced in the films to the point that anyone who actually tries to stay neutral like Lando, is eventually forced to pick a side.
** In the [[Film/TheForceAwakens sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi trilogy]], the believe of this black-and-white morality among the Jedi has what made Master Luke Skywalker [[BrokenPedestal lose faith]] in the Jedi, and himself believes that the Jedi deserves to be extinct. However, upon meeting Rey, training her in the ways of the Force, and later [[spoiler:having a pep talk with Yoda's [[SpiritualAdviser Force Spirit]], saying that the original ways of the Jedi don't necessarily have to be returned, but rather turn into something better]], Luke [[RebuiltPedestal gets better]].

** It does throw in some grey morality however by showing both Jews who try appeasing or collaborating with the Nazis (in particular the ones who join the Ghetto Police), as well as Nazis who do not approve of the Holocaust (such as one Nazi official who's almost breaking down in tears when he describes to Schindler what happened to boatloads of Jewish 'experimental subjects', or the Nazi soldier who loses his mind at the sight of the burning mountain of corpses).

** In the [[Film/TheForceAwakens sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi trilogy]], the believe of this black-and-white morality among the Jedi has what made Master Luke Skywalker [[BrokenPedestal lose faith]] in the Jedi, and himself believes that the Jedi deserves to be extinct. However, upon meeting Rey, training her in the ways of the Force, and later [[spoiler:having a pep talk with Yoda's Force Spirit, saying that the original ways of the Jedi don't necessarily have to be returned, but rather turn into something better]], Luke [[RebuiltPedestal gets better]].

** In the [[Film/TheForceAwakens sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi trilogy]], the believe of this black-and-white morality among the Jedi has what made Master Luke Skywalker [[BrokenPedestal lose faith]] in the Jedi, and himself believes that the Jedi deserves to be extinct. However, upon meeting Rey, training her in the ways of the Force, and later [[spoiler:having a pep talk with Yoda's Force Spirit, saying that the original ways of the Jedi don't necessarily have to be returned, but rather turn into something better]], Luke [[RestoredPedestal gets better]].

** In the [[Film/TheForceAwakens sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi trilogy]], the believe of this black-and-white morality among the Jedi has what made Master Luke Skywalker [[BrokenPedestal lose faith]] in the Jedi, and himself believes that the Jedi deserves to be extinct. However, upon meeting Rey, training her in the ways of the Force, and later [[spoiler:having a pep talk with Yoda's Force Spirit, saying that the original ways of the Jedi don't necessarily have to be returned, but rather turn into something better]], Luke gets better.

** In the [[Film/TheForceAwakens sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi trilogy]], the believe of this black-and-white morality among the Jedi has what made Master Luke Skywalker [[BrokenPedestial lose faith in the Jedi, and himself believes that the Jedi deserves to be extinct. However, upon meeting Rey, training her in the ways of the Force, and later [[spoiler:having a pep talk with Yoda's Force Spirit, saying that the original ways of the Jedi don't necessarily have to be returned, but rather turn into something better]], Luke gets better.

** In the [[Film/TheForceAwakens sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi trilogy]], the believe of this black-and-white morality among the Jedi has what made Master Luke Skywalker lose faith in the Jedi, and himself believes that the Jedi deserves to be extinct. However, upon meeting Rey, training her in the ways of the Force, and later [[spoiler:having a pep talk with Yoda's Force Spirit, saying that the original ways of the Jedi don't necessarily have to be returned, but rather turn into something better]], Luke gets better.

** In the [[Film/TheForceAwakens sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi trilogy]], the believe of this black-and-white morality among the Jedi has what made Master Luke Skywalker lose faith in the Jedi, and himself believes that the Jedi deserves to be extinct. However, upon meeting Rey, training her in the was of the Force, and later [[spoiler:having a pep talk with Yoda's Force Spirit, saying that the original ways of the Jedi don't necessarily have to be return, but rather turn into something better]], Luke gets better.

** In the [[Film/TheForceAwakens|sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi|trilogy]], the believe of this black-and-white morality among the Jedi has what made Master Luke Skywalker lose faith in the Jedi, and himself believes that the Jedi deserves to be extinct. However, upon meeting Rey, training her in the was of the Force, and later [[spoiler:having a pep talk with Yoda's Force Spirit, saying that the original ways of the Jedi don't necessarily have to be return, but rather turn into something better]], Luke gets better.

* Deconstructed a bit in another Ridley Scott movie, ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven''; protagonist Balian's refusal to take a "wrong" action, regardless of circumstances, sets the scene for much of the film's conflict from that point on. He even gets a WhatTheHellHero from his lover for it.
-->'''Sibylla''': There will come a day when you will wish you had done a little evil to do a much greater good.

* Deconstructed a bit in another Ridley Scott movie, ''Film/KindgomOfHeaven''; protagonist Balian's refusal to take a "wrong" action, regardless of circumstances, sets the scene for much of the film's conflict from that point on. He even gets a WhatTheHellHero from his lover for it.

** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Thor and his allies (with the exception of [[EnemyMine Loki]]) are heroic paragons, and their Dark Elf enemies just want to destroy the universe for no real reason.

** It does throw in some grey morality however by showing both Jews who try appeasing or collaborating with the Nazis (in particular the ones who join the Ghetto Police), as well as Nazis who do not approve of the Holocaust (such as one Nazi official who almost breaking down in tears when he describes to Schindler what happened to boatloads of Jewish 'experimental subjects', or the Nazi soldier who loses his mind at the sight of the burning mountain of corpses).
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified rebels are good]], TheEmpire is [[GoodRepublicEvilEmpire evil]]. Black And White Morality is ''enforced'' by the Force in the case of the Jedi. If Jedi aren't committed 100% to the Light Side, it's only a matter of time before they become insanely evil. ''Star Wars'' is in many ways [[ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway a fairy tale]] [[RecycledInSpace (IN SPACE!)]] Only in George Lucas's canon however. In Franchise/StarWarsLegends things aren't so black or white.