Pop culture and the Goodies vs Badies trope

[Kyriakos]

I am fond of the tropes Good Versus Good, White Versus Grey, Grey Versus Gray, and No Antagonist.

Still eclectic, going by how most forum posters seem to be all into the white versus black trope

 

[inthesomeday]

I’m partial to red versus gold

 

[Lexicus]

Blue and Orange for me.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Red, Blue, Green and Gold for me.
(old-school UT-99 4-way team deathmatches are fun)

 

[inthesomeday]

Maroon and cyan

 

[Lexicus]

Shirts and no shirts

 

[inthesomeday]

What happened to skins?

 

[Lexicus]

Damn, I knew there was an actual word for it lol

 

[Hygro]

Problem is it's not an entirely bad idea. I mean, I sense she's on to something in terms of people adding explicit Black-and-White Morality to traditional folktales as part of the project of building nation-states. But to claim that moral dualism played no role in culture before that project seems to stretch things too far.

I see. I have only read this thread.

It's kind of like middle 20th century interpretations of The Prince. There was that big debate whether or not it was satire because higher up in their analytical signal chain they had already judged it "evil, not good" which was perfectly crazy.

 

[Lohrenswald]

lack of nuance was invented 200 years ago

 

[PhroX]

I'd rather just have Goodies...

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Still eclectic, going by how most forum posters seem to be all into the white versus black trope

I am very fond of Moral Grey Area Cat.