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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 Meiers Alpha Centauri]]''}}
{{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]].
[[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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* '''White and Grey vs. Black:''' The core good guys don't do bad things, but there's other groups in the world who hate the villains just as much and are willing to do nasty things to them that the heroes don't have to.
* '''White and Grey vs. Black:''' The core good guys don't do bad things, but there's other groups in the world who hate the villains just as much and are willing to do nasty things to them that the heroes don't have to.
* '''White/Grey and Black vs. Black:''' Basically, where the heroes are forced to team up with bad and not-so-good people to take down other bad people.
* '''White/Grey and Black vs. Black:''' Basically, where the heroes are forced to team up with bad and not-so-good people to take down other bad people.
* '''White and Grey and Black vs. White and Grey and Black''': The situation is complicated. Some [[The Good, The Bad, And The Evil]] works fall here, as well as some [[Morality Kitchen Sink]] ones.
* '''White and Grey and Black vs. White and Grey and Black''': The situation is complicated. Some [[The Good, the Bad, and The Evil]] works fall here, as well as some [[Morality Kitchen Sink]] ones.
* '''White and Grey vs. Grey and Black:''' When you want one side to be good guys yet still have moral ambiguity in both parts of the conflict. Naturally has a [[Morality Kitchen Sink]].
* '''White and Grey vs. Grey and Black:''' When you want one side to be good guys yet still have moral ambiguity in both parts of the conflict. Naturally has a [[Morality Kitchen Sink]].
* '''White vs. Grey (and sometimes White) and Black:''' The villains are mixed in with people who aren't puppy-killing evil. Often leads to the dilemma that one must hurt the non-villains. Other [[The Good, The Bad, And The Evil]] works fall here.
* '''White vs. Grey (and sometimes White) and Black:''' The villains are mixed in with people who aren't puppy-killing evil. Often leads to the dilemma that one must hurt the non-villains. Other [[The Good, the Bad, and The Evil]] works fall here.
* '''[[Grey and Gray Morality|Grey vs. Grey]]:''' More [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynical]] works tend to fall here. Revenge stories, such as [[Cycle of Revenge]] and [[Feuding Families]] often present such a conflict. Don't have to go Grey to get a well-developed character or anything, but it does make it easier. See also [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] for a frequently grey conflict that doesn't have to be realistic. (Handled poorly, risks becoming [[A Lighter Shade of Gray]].)
* '''[[Grey and Gray Morality|Grey vs. Grey]]:''' More [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynical]] works tend to fall here. Revenge stories, such as [[Cycle of Revenge]] and [[Feuding Families]] often present such a conflict. Don't have to go Grey to get a well-developed character or anything, but it does make it easier. See also [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] for a frequently grey conflict that doesn't have to be realistic. (Handled poorly, risks becoming [[A Lighter Shade of Gray]].)
** '''[[A Lighter Shade of Grey]]''' happens when both sides are still morally ambiguous/neutral overall, but one is more good than the other.
** '''[[A Lighter Shade of Grey]]''' happens when both sides are still morally ambiguous/neutral overall, but one is more good than the other.
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