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{{trope}}
{{quote|"Most humans are grey. And our job is to chastise the darker grey, correct?"
|''[[Bokurano]]'', chapter 39 page 19.}}
In conflicts that feature [[Grey and Gray Morality]], neither side in the struggle is more "right" than the other due to both having well-justified goals that they accomplish by perpetrating acts of heroism ''and'' villainy.
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== Anime
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' clearly does favor Lelouch. However, his most frequently recurring antagonist, Suzaku, has the same goal and generally goes about it with ''less'' dog kicking than he does. {{spoiler|They end up on the same side by the end of the series.}}
** It flips once you get into R2, where Suzaku does his own share of dog-kicking, Lelouch gets turned into even more of a [[The Woobie|Woobie]]/[[The Chew Toy|Chew Toy]], and everybody betrays someone (especially [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|Suzaku]]).
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* ''[[Slayers|SlayersTRY]]'', which gets really confusing 2/3 of the way through when it seems like everyone wants the same thing but are on different sides.
* ''[[Crest of the Stars]]'' [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] the usual portrayal of [[The Empire]] vs. [[The Federation]] as a [[Black and Grey Morality]]: the [[Fantastic Racism|Four]] [[The Federation|Nations Alliance]] is the [[Designated Villain]], while the [[What Measure Is a Non Human|Humankind]] [[The Empire|Empire]] [[Space Elves|Abh]] is the [[Designated Hero]].
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== Fan
* In ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'', even though the story is supposed to be about both sides equally, the author has admitted that he favors GDI over the Brotherhood of Nod, and the portrayal does reflect this; GDI characters have a few more scenes than the Nod side, and the GDI troops are portrayed as more sympathetic than their Nod counterparts, who generally come off as religious fanatics.
* ''[[Frigid Winds and Burning Hearts]]'' is supposedly an attempt to balance out Princess Celestia (who's had to do some very unpleasant things to keep Equestria from collapsing on itself) and Princess Luna (who wants Equestria to run itself and values freedom... but doesn't realize the price). However, the author is rather clearly on Luna's side, with Celestia being portrayed again and again as a tyrant and those under her as monsters, while Luna is the viewpoint character and all of the sympathetic characters are on her side. After a while, the grey unmixes into black and white (no pun intended).
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