History PlayingWith / GreyAndGrayMorality

** Alice and Bob are honourable soldiers who love their respective countries, which are at war for reason they don't understand. It turns out that Alice's country is deeply committed to the well-being of all its citizens and Bob's country is deeply committed to racial purity, slaughtering millions of its own people in giant death camps.

* '''Straight''':
** Alice, the protagonist, is in conflict with Bob, an antagonist, but both characters are neither good nor evil.
** [[KnightInSourArmor Charlie]], [[AntiHero a merciless yet benevolent vigilante]] [[PragmaticHero who’s willing to do questionable tactics for the greater good]] decides to rebel against [[NobleDemon General Drake]], an [[AffablyEvil honorable]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist good-intentioned]] [[AntiVillain villain]] who [[DragonAscendant took over after Evulz’s death]]. Despite the story treating Charlie as TheHero and Drake as the villain, Charlie is far from being [[IncorruptiblePurePureness pure good]] while Drake is far from being [[CompleteMonster pure evil]].

** [[KnightInSourArmor Charlie]], [[AntiHero a merciless yet benevolent vigilante]] decides to rebel against [[NobleDemon General Drake]], an [[AffablyEvil honorable]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist good-intentioned]] [[AntiVillain villain]] who [[DragonAscendant took over after Evulz’s death]]. Despite the story treating Charlie as TheHero and Drake as the villain, Charlie is far from being [[IncorruptiblePurePureness pure good]] while Drake is far from being [[CompleteMonster pure evil]].

** [[KnightInSourArmor Charlie]], [[AntiHero a merciless yet benevolent vigilante]] decides to rebel against [[NobleDemon General Drake]] an [[AffablyEvil honorable]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist good-intentioned]] [[AntiVillain villain]] who [[DragonAscendant took over after Evulz’s death]]. Despite the story treating Charlie as TheHero and Drake as the villain, Charlie is far from being [[IncorruptiblePurePureness pure good]] while Drake is far from being [[CompleteMonster pure evil]].

** [[KnightInSourArmor Charlie]], [[PragmaticHero a merciless yet benevolent vigilante]] decides to rebel against [[NobleDemon General Drake]] an [[AffablyEvil honorable]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist good-intentioned]] [[AntiVillain villain]] who [[DragonAscendant took after Evulz’s death]]. Despite the story treating Charlie as TheHero and Drake as the villain, Charlie is far from being [[IncorruptiblePurePureness pure good]] while Drake is far from being [[CompleteMonster pure evil]].

** [[KnightInSourArmor Charlie]] [[PragmaticHero a merciless yet benevolent vigilante]] decides to rebel against [[NobleDemon General Drake]] an [[AffablyEvil honorable]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist good-intentioned]] [[AntiVillain villain]] who [[DragonAscendant took after Evulz’s death]]. Despite the story treating Charlie as TheHero and Drake as the villain, Charlie is far from being [[IncorruptiblePurePureness pure good]] while Drake is far from being [[CompleteMonster pure evil]]?

* '''Straight''': Alice, the protagonist, is in conflict with Bob, an antagonist, but both characters are neither good nor evil.

* '''Inverted''':
** BlackAndWhiteMorality, where some characters are clearly good and some are clearly evil.

** Alice is LawfulNeutral while Bob is ChaoticNeutral.

** BlackAndWhiteMorality.

** Alice is an [[AntiHero Anti-Heroine]] who battles against Bob, an AntiVillain.

* '''Double Subverted''': Alice's country slaughters similar numbers of its own people over ideological purity. But it's not EvilVsEvil because Alice and Bob are still honorable soldiers, fighting for countries they love despite evil governments. (RealLife wasn't this simple -- this is a fictional example).

* There is no conflict between Alice and Bob whatsoever.

** GoodVersusGood.
** EvilVersusEvil.

* '''Averted''': There is no conflict between Alice and Bob whatsoever.

** GoodVersusEvil.

* '''Inverted''': BlackAndWhiteMorality.

** Alice is an {{Anti Hero}}ine who battles against Bob, an AntiVillain.

** WhiteAndGreyMorality: Alice is a [[IdealHero clear-cut heroine]] while Bob is an AntiVillain.
** BlackAndGrayMorality: Alice is a shady AntiHero while Bob is a [[CompleteMonster diabolical villain]].

** Alice is [[ALighterShadeOfGrey more well-meaning than Bob]], but that doesn't make her completely good.
** WhiteandGreymorality.

** Alice and Bob's fight incorporates so many ShadesOfConflict, even [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Blue/Orange]] and [[SillyReasonForWar Green/Purple]] at times, that the conflict becomes more of a murky shade of brown (i.e. [[DistinctionWithoutADifference the]] ''[[DistinctionWithoutADifference exact same actions]]'') than anything resembling grey and gray.

** Alice and Bob's fight incorporates so many ShadesOfConflict, even [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Blue/Orange]] and [[SillyReasonForWar Green/Purple]] at times, that the conflict becomes more of a murky shade of brown than anything resembling grey.

** [[WhiteandGreymorality]].

** [[BlackAndWhiteMorality Light Gray and Dark Gray morality]].

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': Alice is [[ALighterShadeOfGrey more well-meaning than Bob]], but that doesn't make her completely good.
** [[BlackAndWhiteMorality Light Gray and Dark Gray morality]]

** Alice and Bob's fight incorporates so many ShadesOfConflict, even [[BluendOrangeMorality Blue/Orange]] and [[SillyReasonForWar Green/Purple]] at times, that the conflict becomes more of a murky shade of brown than anything resembling grey.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is an {{Anti Hero}}ine who battles against Bob, an AntiVillain.

* '''Invoked''': Charlie hates objective morality and wants to convince the world that morality is subjective by making his own moral philosophy.