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Basic Trope: Characters that don't have standard good and evil expectations. * Straight: The characters do something that is difficult for the audience to understand. * Exaggerated: Singing at night is an indication that you are a priest, even if you don't want to be one. Few want to be a priest as everyone listens to you. Having others listen to you is just wrong, very wrong, but everyone will respect you, while also ridiculing you for doing wrong things. * Justified: The less human the characters, the more justified. * Inverted: Moral principles are easily-distinguishable. Good and evil are easily recognised. * Subverted: Any time where non-humans act in a human way with human values. Happens a lot in fiction. * Double Subverted: ... but for a few issues they act le

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  • Basic Trope: Characters that don't have standard good and evil expectations. * Straight: The characters do something that is difficult for the audience to understand. * Exaggerated: Singing at night is an indication that you are a priest, even if you don't want to be one. Few want to be a priest as everyone listens to you. Having others listen to you is just wrong, very wrong, but everyone will respect you, while also ridiculing you for doing wrong things. * Justified: The less human the characters, the more justified. * Inverted: Moral principles are easily-distinguishable. Good and evil are easily recognised. * Subverted: Any time where non-humans act in a human way with human values. Happens a lot in fiction. * Double Subverted: ... but for a few issues they act le
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  • Basic Trope: Characters that don't have standard good and evil expectations. * Straight: The characters do something that is difficult for the audience to understand. * Exaggerated: Singing at night is an indication that you are a priest, even if you don't want to be one. Few want to be a priest as everyone listens to you. Having others listen to you is just wrong, very wrong, but everyone will respect you, while also ridiculing you for doing wrong things. * Justified: The less human the characters, the more justified. * Inverted: Moral principles are easily-distinguishable. Good and evil are easily recognised. * Subverted: Any time where non-humans act in a human way with human values. Happens a lot in fiction. * Double Subverted: ... but for a few issues they act less human. * Parodied: When a non-human explicitly points out they are who they are and not human to another of their kind (even when humans are unknown to them). * Deconstructed: Any animal/alien psychology discussion. * Reconstructed: And this discussion shows why their mind set work out for the better. * Zig Zagged: Recently transformed humans have to decide whether to act like humans or follow the instincts they have obtained. * Averted: * Any story that doesn't deal with non-human behavior. * Aliens aren't made distinct by having alien morality but by having human morality, or absolutely no sense of morality. * Enforced: By having non-humans not act like humans, you can justify the actions they make more easily, allowing for more plot flexibility. * The writers like the challenge of wildly different moralities. * Lampshaded: "Many humans would have objections with eating each others flesh as a sign of friendship." * Invoked: The character transforms into another animal to avoid the moral implications involved with an action they are taking. * Exploited: The character who suggests the transformation, then takes advantage of the form's weakness. "Go fetch the bone doggy" * Defied: A human tries to raise an alien as human and teach it human values. * Discussed: A mission briefing on how to talk with the aliens on another planet. * Conversed: Humans come across an alien sitcom (All My Circuits). * Played For Laughs: The aliens get embarrassed about the implications of their value system. * Played For Drama: In a foreign land the characters are subject to laws they don't think are right. Back to Blue and Orange Morality
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