Black and Gray Morality: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Hench]]'', by Natalie Zina Walschots, is set in a world of metahumans with Black and Gray Morality. On one side there are superhumans who are quite willing to permanently cripple or kill bystanders, use their powers to attack people who are simply defending themselves, or throw each other under a bus at the slightest hint of negative publicity. On the other side are the villains.

 

* The Kaleds and Thals, as portrayed in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''Genesis of the Daleks''. They're even verging on black and black, given the Kaleds are [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]] and progenitors of the Daleks, and the barely less evil Thals are planning to wipe out the entire Kaled race with a "distronic" missile (strongly implied to be something like a nuclear weapon).

* [[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]. The antagonists of the show tend to be [[Designated Villain|DesignatedVillains]] in that their goals are not very evil at all, i.e. killing [[Villain Protagonist|Uther]]. Uther executes anyone related to magic at all, even if they just let a magic user sleep in their house for the night, having committed a "Great Purge" of magic users before the series even started. He even [[Moral Event Horizon|killed children born of magical parents in fear that they inherited magical blood]]. However, the main villains, {{spoiler|Morgana and Morgause}} do tend to be a bit extreme in their methods, but they are nothing compared to Uther. In fact, some times, they can be downright heroic, like when they {{spoiler|put the castle to sleep to assinate Uther without sacrificing any innocent lives}}.

** ''[[Firefly]]'' and ''[[Serenity]]'', the protagonists are thieves but usually non-violent except in self-defense; the main antagonist is a corrupt government that tortured an innocent little girl.

** ''[[Dollhouse]]''. The show is all about a business that brainwashes people to act like other people and service the needs and wants of the business' clients (sometimes sex, sometimes other things). Most (but not all) of the brainwashed people "volunteered" for it, so YMMV on wheather or not this is wrong. The business sometimes uses the technology and brainwashed people for clearly good things (rescuing kidnapped people, trying to help an abused child grow up into a healthy adult etc.) and sometimes for clearly bad things (theft, ruining an innocent man's reputation etc.) In any case, they are never as bad as their enemies, which include The Ghost (a child molester) and [[Create Your Own Villain|Alpha]] (a sadist who [[Knife Nut|carves up people's faces with a large knife]] [[For the Evulz]]).

** Listen to Castiel's speech to Dean about how every human is a work of art and thus all precious to God, and reconsider. When Uriel's disdain for humanity is answered by an icy cold "You're close to ''blasphemy''", you can't say that Good doesn't exist or that it doesn't care. It's just very ''outnumbered'' right now.

* ''[[Farscape]]'', by the end. The villains start a galaxy-wide war, so to fix it John Crichton decides to {{spoiler|''destroy the whole damn <s>galaxy</s> universe''.}} ''And he's not bluffing''. By the end of the series, the cumulative body count of the good guys is such that it probably counts as a natural disaster.