Moral Dissonance may refer to:
- Batman Grabs a Gun: A good guy makes an exception to their moral code treated as O.O.C. Is Serious Business.
- Became Their Own Antithesis: A character embodies the very thing that their previous moral code stood against.
- Broken Aesop: The work breaks their own moral message by having its narrative conflict resolved by the very thing it preaches against.
- Designated Hero: The work portrays the character as a paragon of virtue when their actions are anything but heroic.
- Designated Villain: The work portrays the character as reprehensible, even though they don't do anything that warrants that label.
- Hypocrite: The character preaches one thing and acts in a way that contradicts it.
- Jerkass Ball: Someone acts uncharacteristically cruel or selfish for the sake of enabling Conflict.
- Out-of-Character Moment: A moment when character acts in a way contradictory to their usual morality.
- Karma Houdini: When a character don't get punished for their reprehensible actions.
- Moral Myopia: A character is portrayed as unsympathetic/morally wrong for not holding themselves to their own stated morality.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: The protagonist is subject to different moral standards than other characters.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: When a character is intended to be seen as sympathetic but the audience doesn't think they are.
- Values Dissonance: What is totally acceptable or even applauded for in a particular culture might be seen as reprehensible by other cultural standards.
- What the Hell, Hero?: A good guy is called out by in-work characters for failing to live up to their moral code.
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