![]() ![]() ![]() This is the inverse of Moral Disambiguation, where the work moves towards Black-and-White Morality. Contrast Debate and Switch, where a morally challenging issue is made into more of a Black And White one, or ignored. It may sometimes overlap with Genre Deconstruction if Black and White Morality is one of the key assumptions of the genre which the work is deconstructing. However, plenty of works go through those tropes without shifting their basic moral scale. Also sometimes done intentionally as a means of averting or addressing Values Dissonance in especially long-lived genres or works the Western, for example, has changed as historical perceptions of the American frontier in popular culture have grown more morally ambivalent.Ĭompare Cerebus Syndrome, Darker and Edgier, Morality Kitchen Sink and Grimmification, which can all sometimes involve this. This can happen to entire genres: spy stories, war movies, westerns, superhero comics and so forth all incorporate significantly more Black-and-Gray Morality, White-and-Grey Morality or Grey-and-Gray Morality the longer the genres themselves are around. ![]() In other cases, it's a deliberate statement by the creators about morality and conflict in general. More often than not, the process is an unintentional side effect of exhausting the story possibilities of simple moral conflicts and adding less absolutely good or evil characters for variety's sake. What looks like a simple conflict between good and evil in the early installments gradually becomes more complex, and in the later installments there are many more gradations of morality. Many series with Black-and-White Morality end up gradually getting more and more shades of grey as they continue on. ![]()
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