As all these entries start, I was once again thinking the other day (Wonderful isn't it? Thinking I mean.) and I was coming up with all the different types of good guy, bad guy situations that there are. I have, so far come up with about five.

The first, and most commonly known, is Black and white (for the purpose of simplicity we will use colors black=bad white=good). There is a definite bad guy that you are totally rooting against and there is a definite good guy that you want to win because he (for this discussion we will simply just use guys as it is easer that way and their pronouns are shorter) is the good guy. That is just how it works.

There is the second, and more commonly used one today, White and Black. Now I know what you're thinking "that is just he first one switched around", yes I know that but the positions have in fact changed. You see with this one it is the 'good guy' that is the black one and the 'bad guy' who is the white. This gives us our all time favorite anti-hero. He is not perfect, he has flaws (sometimes many) and it is harder for him to save the day as he has two opponents to contend with, his enemy and himself. He is the 'good guy' in black. There is the 'bad guy' in white who usually represents all the things that we might ever want in life (money, land, the whole nine yards) and he might even be seen as a good guy. He hands out some charity to little orphans and helps those under him. But then that character usually gets twisted at some point where the things of this world that we all want so badly finally taint his 'white' and his true colors come out. All the while our poor hero is struggling with himself and weather he has it in him to do what is right instead of simply coping out and quitting.

Next match up is a bit more interesting not to mention heart retching. White on white! This is where both sides (as far as we can tell) are right and just, or at least not all bad. These are the ones that make for good stories. You have the 'hero' you know he is trying to do the right thing and help people out but then you see that the 'villain' is doing the same thing simply in a different way. He isn't all bad. And you're just sitting there going "he's only human and not perfect" and you kind of get why the 'villain' did what he did. It may have seemed right at the time, he was lied to and used, who knows but you know that you really don't what him to die for it because it might have even been something you would have done. A classic case of right vs. right.

The next is something that doesn’t show much except in anime (as far as I have seen at least). Yes, that's right, black on black. The bad guys bad and so is the good. (I need only say the word Hellsing for some to know what I mean) This is where you get a case of choosing the lesser of two evils. The good guy is flawed enough that you can't be totally on his side but the bad guy is as well so you just go for the good for the sake of posterity. (Although I know some people who like those baddies . . .). It can be cool to watch as you're trying to find some hint of good in the characters so as to justify their actions.

The next is one that can be very up setting: grey. Yeah that's right just strait up grey. You don't know who's good and who's bad, heck there isn't even a hue visible. Everything is monotone gray and you are unsure as to what is going on and who is who. The ever popular 'line' is blurred and both sides mesh until you simply label it all bad for the sake of sanity, with the rational that good must be white and what is perfect with out blemish. While black is void. This one upsets us usually because it makes up question our position on the spectrum of life. Are we perfectly good, doubtful. However, we don't exactly go around killing innocent people now do we? So where does that leave us and our 'white' lies? That is for you to decide.