Category:Grey Zone

The "Grey Zone" is for morally-ambiguous individuals and organizations. They can be Amoral, Anti-Villains, Anti-Heroes, and even Protagonists.

The main characteristic of a person or group in the "Grey Zone" is that some will consider them dangerous, criminal or "evil" while others may see them as good, scapegoats, or fighting for the right thing (even if their methods are wrong). These villains try to act evil, but they have some positive and redeeming qualities.

Some characters in fiction are deliberately designed to be in the Grey Zone and it is up to the reader or viewer to decide if they are a "hero" or a "villain"; as a result, each reader or viewer will probably have a different view of the character.

The most unique case about grey zone characters is that they aren't beholden to good nor evil, and they can also be responsible for keeping both moralities in balance, namely both good and evil. However, on the other side of the coin is that they can seek to redeem characters as much as benevolent characters do, and they can also seek to put an end to ongoing conflicts and peacefully end them.

On very rare cases, characters who are truly neutral also do exist.

Complete Monsters can never be in this category for they remain completely irredeemable whereas the Grey Zone belong to morally ambiguous characters. Even if "grey villains" commit crimes heinous enough to cross the Moral Event Horizon, there is usually an understandable reason behind said act.

'''Relatable villains such as Tragic characters DO NOT count either if they are simply evil. Furthermore, redeemed villains do not necessarily count unless said character was morally ambiguous before their eventual redemption.'''