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{{quote|''"Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?"''
|'''Colonel Corazon Santiago''', ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]''}}
[[Conflict]] is the driving force of nearly any story. It provides suspense, [[Stuff Blowing Up|action]], [[The Quest|adventure]], [[Seinfeldian Conversation|conversation]], [[Contemplate Our Navels|contemplation]], [[Character Development|development]] and [[Self Explanatory|football hooligans]].
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Not to be confused with [[Cool Shades]], though those may be involved somewhere.
* '''[[Black and White Morality|Black vs. White:]]''' Doesn't need too much explanation. [[Harry Potter|Harry against Voldemort]], [[Castlevania|Belmont Family versus Dracula]], [[The Lord of the Rings|Gondor against Mordor]], [[Transformers|Autobots against Decepticons]], etcetera. When there are a lot of other conflicts on the side, this tends to be the one most emblematic of the series. The [[Worthy Opponent]] may deign to work for the [[Card-Carrying Villain]] to get the chance to fight [[The Messiah]], but the story isn't so much about the first as it is about the last two.
* '''[[Good Versus Good|White vs. White]]:''' [[Lighter and Softer]]
* '''[[White and Grey Morality|White vs. Grey:]]''' A lot of conflicts between the [[Ideal Hero]] and the [[Anti-Hero]] or [[Anti-Villain]] tend to lean on this side. Also the most [[Egregious]] [[Our Elves Are Better]], when lacking perfection isn't good enough for the smug little bastards. At this shade you have [[Mega Man Zero|Zero versus Harpuia]], [[Pokémon Black and White|trying to stop N]], etc. See also [[But Not Too Evil]].
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** '''Grey vs. Grey and Black''': A subgroup of [[Grey and Gray Morality]]. Basically, both sides are handled with great moral ambiguity, but the enemy side is made clear by there being also some Black (eg: [[Complete Monster]]) individuals in place along with the [[Anti-Villain]], [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]], [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], [[Knight Templar]], etc. Only recently put up and worth serious contemplation, especially in regards to the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]].
* '''[[Black and Gray Morality|Grey vs. Black:]]''' The protagonists aren't the nicest guys in the world, and may even be out and out assholes, but we root for them because the people they fight are [[Complete Monster|even worse]]. Often present in [[Darker and Edgier]] works.
* '''[[Evil Versus Evil|Black vs. Black]]:''' [[Enemy Civil War]], [[Warhammer
** '''[[A Lighter Shade of Black]]''' is an attempt to avert this by making one villain the clearly more sympathetic one.
* '''[[Blue and Orange Morality|Blue vs. Orange]]:''' A story where one of the sides is not so much good/evil/neutral as ''alien'' or just bizarre. May use [[Otherness Tropes]].
Also not to be confused with ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' (which technically falls under Grey vs. Grey, since the characters are all [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
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