Moral Dissonance may refer to:
- Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: A group of people who won't act maliciously towards each other but will act maliciously towards everybody else.
- Batman Grabs a Gun: A good guy makes an exception to their moral code treated as O.O.C. Is Serious Business.
- Became Their Own Antithesis: A character embodies the very thing that their previous moral code stood against.
- Broken Aesop: The work breaks their own moral message by having its narrative conflict resolved by the very thing it preaches against.
- Designated Hero: The work portrays the character as a paragon of virtue when their actions are anything but heroic.
- Designated Villain: The work portrays the character as reprehensible, even though they don't do anything that warrants that label.
- Hypocrite: The character preaches one thing and acts in a way that contradicts it.
- Informed Wrongness: The work tells us that what a character did is supposed to be seen as wrong despite there being nothing to justify that conclusion.
- Jerkass Ball: Someone acts uncharacteristically cruel or selfish for the sake of enabling Conflict.
- Karma Houdini: When a character don't get punished for their reprehensible actions.
- Karmic Overkill: The audience thinks a character doesn't deserve the punishment they receive.
- Moral Myopia: Judging an action as either good or bad, not on its own terms, but according to who does it.
- Out-of-Character Moment: A moment when character acts in a way contradictory to their usual morality.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: The protagonist is subject to different moral standards than other characters.
- Strawman Has a Point: The audience thinks a "wrong" argument within a story makes more sense than the author's "correct" argument.
- Tautological Templar: Somebody assumes they're inherently good and therefore everything they say or do is also inherently good.
- Unintentionally Sympathetic: When a character is intended to be seen as unsympathetic but the audience doesn't think they are.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: When a character is intended to be seen as sympathetic but the audience doesn't think they are.
- Values Dissonance: What is totally acceptable or even applauded in one time or place might be seen as odd or shameful by another.
- What the Hell, Hero?: A good guy is called out by in-work characters for failing to live up to their moral code.
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