Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

Darkness is associated with the forces of good. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Well-Intentioned Extremist Funny Background Event Gone Horribly Right Evil Counterpart Playing Gertrude Bolivian Army Ending Black Comedy Light Is Not Good Combat Pragmatist Not Quite Dead Driven to Suicide Police are Useless Cold-Blooded Torture Badass Bookworm Nice Hat Abhorrent Admirer Retirony Stuff Blowing Up Skewed Priorities Insistent Terminology Accidental Murder Call-Forward Have a Gay Old Time Narrator Covers Always Lie Mystery and Detective Films Instant Death Bullet A Minor Kidroduction 20 Minutes into the Future Pre-Mortem One-Liner Ambiguous Disorder May–December Romance The '70s Adaptation Distillation Air-Vent Passageway Our Zombies Are Different Facial Horror True Companions And Starring Arc Words Punny Name Camp Gay Badass in a Nice Suit Badass Boast Took a Level in Badass Big "NO!" Bring My Brown Pants Diabolus ex Machina Exact Words Author Avatar Final Girl Chase Scene Faux Affably Evil Anti-Hero Canadian Movies Wham Shot And the Adventure Continues Epic Fail What You Are in the Dark Animated Credits Opening Ambiguously Gay Cool Old Guy Biopic Intergenerational Friendship Ironic Echo Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Idiot Ball Jitter Cam Black Best Friend Arch-Enemy Italian Films The Dog Bites Back Drowning My Sorrows Apocalypse How Damsel in Distress Broken Bird Men Are the Expendable Gender You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Pretty in Mink Older Than They Look Did Not Get the Girl Mexican Standoff Meaningful Echo How We Got Here Daylight Horror Precision F-Strike Crazy Jealous Guy Determinator aka: The Determinator For Want of a Nail Together in Death Fainting Darker and Edgier Killed Mid-Sentence Bilingual Bonus Credits Gag Neck Lift Good Is Not Nice Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Hollywood Darkness Fatal Flaw Adults Are Useless Improbable Weapon User Names to Run Away from Really Fast Adult Fear Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Downer Ending Kick the Son of a Bitch Evil Laugh The Remake Leaning on the Fourth Wall This Is Gonna Suck An Arm and a Leg Age Lift Babies Ever After Shower Scene Awesome, but Impractical Match Cut Ominous Latin Chanting Disney Villain Death Parental Substitute Ship Tease Advertised Extra Dirty Coward Adaptational Attractiveness Mind Screw The Cavalry Bloodless Carnage Camera Abuse Artistic License – History Alliterative Name The Hero The Big Guy Pet the Dog Curse Cut Short Even Evil Has Standards Cool Old Lady Scare Chord Not So Different Artistic License – Gun Safety Serious Business The Stinger Closed Circle In Name Only Overprotective Dad Product Placement Loophole Abuse The Reveal Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Riddle for the Ages Henpecked Husband An Axe to Grind Training Montage Your Head A-Splode Same Language Dub It Will Never Catch On Cat Scare Alas, Poor Villain Male Frontal Nudity Mugging the Monster Vampire Fiction Superhero Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Drill Sergeant Nasty Contrived Coincidence Cruel and Unusual Death Left the Background Music On Visual Pun Freeze-Frame Bonus Motor Mouth The Stoic Spanner in the Works Chekhov's Gun Card-Carrying Villain Shoot the Shaggy Dog Smug Snake Villain with Good Publicity Christmas Movies Index Wretched Hive Character Development Decoy Protagonist Accidental Misnaming Anyone Can Die Honor Before Reason Fate Worse than Death He Knows Too Much Adaptation Expansion One Steve Limit Put on a Bus After the End Missing Mom Dual Wielding Improbable Aiming Skills Eagleland Your Cheating Heart Actually Pretty Funny Gilligan Cut The Mafia Chekhov's Skill A Date with Rosie Palms The Hero Dies Rule of Symbolism Anti-Villain Be Careful What You Wish For Hero of Another Story Does Not Like Shoes B-Movie Redshirt Army Rule of Cool Film Series Jerk Jock The X of Y Femme Fatale Sci-Fi Horror Stylistic Suck Real Life Celebrity Paradox Kubrick Stare Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Knife Nut Insult Backfire Fantastic Racism You Have Failed Me Gainax Ending Animal Title Index Daddy's Girl Artistic License – Geography Curb-Stomp Battle Token Minority Happily Married Dark Reprise Adaptation Name Change Ax-Crazy Early-Bird Cameo Bare Your Midriff Undying Loyalty Pimped-Out Dress Public Domain Feature Films Major Injury Underreaction Hypocritical Humor Death by Adaptation Lampshade Hanging Japanese Films Bloodier and Gorier Anachronic Order One-Word Title Laser-Guided Karma Take That! Noodle Incident Madness Mantra Catch-Phrase Rated M for Manly Broken Pedestal Alpha Bitch Faking the Dead Novelization Big Bad Duumvirate Fat Bastard The Place Those Two Guys Military and Warfare Films Unspoken Plan Guarantee Line-of-Sight Name Retired Badass Thriller Crazy-Prepared Refuge in Audacity Deus ex Machina Hero Antagonist Russian Films Leitmotif Fanservice Extra I Need a Freaking Drink Extreme Doormat As You Know Betty and Veronica Epic Movie Karmic Death Slap-Slap-Kiss Random Events Plot Antagonist Title Developing Doomed Characters Suspiciously Specific Denial Sanity Slippage Only Known by Their Nickname Dies Wide Open The Brute Too Dumb to Live Boom, Headshot! Zombie Stories Important Haircut You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Time Skip Suspiciously Similar Substitute Woman Scorned Hong Kong Films Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Only Sane Man What the Hell, Hero? Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Evil Sounds Deep Police Brutality Mundane Made Awesome Lock and Load Montage Vomit Discretion Shot Gory Discretion Shot Animal Motifs Serial Killer Totally Radical Ungrateful Bastard Genre Savvy Auto Erotica Suddenly SHOUTING! Cool Car Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Vitriolic Best Buds Unreliable Narrator The Film of the Book Artistic License – Military Film Noir Jump Scare Romantic Comedy Obstructive Bureaucrat Everyone Has Standards Whole Plot Reference Disproportionate Retribution Berserk Button Cluster F-Bomb Arranged Marriage Eyepatch of Power In the Back Face–Heel Turn All Just a Dream All for Nothing Reckless Gun Usage Paper-Thin Disguise Mistaken for Gay All There in the Script The Ditz Exactly What It Says on the Tin Fun with Acronyms Handicapped Badass Tempting Fate Extremely Short Timespan Jerkass Properly Paranoid Genre Shift Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Cassandra Truth Greater-Scope Villain Dark Is Not Evil Loads and Loads of Characters Gold Digger Malevolent Masked Men Interrupted Suicide Manly Tears Big-Bad Ensemble Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Here We Go Again! "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bond Villain Stupidity Taking You with Me Children Are Innocent Blood from the Mouth Early Installment Weirdness Red Eyes, Take Warning Action Survivor Rewatch Bonus Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Not So Above It All Aside Glance A.I. Is a Crapshoot Adaptational Heroism My Greatest Failure MacGuffin The Faceless Not So Stoic Naked People Are Funny Reality Has No Subtitles Homage Mythology Gag Pyrrhic Victory Cool Guns Red Shirt Title Drop Kids Are Cruel Cain and Abel Bland-Name Product Politically Incorrect Villain No Antagonist Dark and Troubled Past Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Make It Look Like an Accident Chekhov's Gunman No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Affectionate Parody Comically Missing the Point Spared by the Adaptation Bunny-Ears Lawyer Show Within a Show Psychopathic Manchild Artistic License – Law O.O.C. Is Serious Business Logo Joke You Killed My Father Woman in White Death by Sex German Films Badass Grandpa Heterosexual Life-Partners Villain Opening Scene Framing Device It Can Think Batman Gambit Vomit Indiscretion Shot Naïve Newcomer Neck Snap Silence Is Golden Bar Brawl Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Translation Convention Bad Boss Demoted to Extra Actor Allusion Distracted by the Sexy Back from the Dead Five-Man Band Frame-Up Dwindling Party Brainless Beauty Book-Ends A God Am I As the Good Book Says... Let's Get Dangerous! Foreshadowing Only in It for the Money Made of Iron Action Genre In Medias Res Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Only a Flesh Wound Mr. Exposition The Quiet One Dramatic Irony Evil Plan From Nobody to Nightmare Humiliation Conga Adorkable Wrong Genre Savvy Belligerent Sexual Tension Worthy Opponent What Happened to the Mouse? All Men Are Perverts Horror Comedy Married to the Job Film Noir Index Not What It Looks Like Gratuitous English Domestic Abuse Dark Action Girl The '80s Freudian Excuse Award-Bait Song Get Out! Guile Hero It's All About Me Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Chewing the Scenery Storming the Castle Gorn Ripped from the Headlines Very Loosely Based on a True Story Disguised in Drag Evil vs. Evil Empathic Environment The Great Depression Authority Equals Asskicking Fingore Better to Die than Be Killed Becoming the Mask Dull Surprise Morality Pet Disappeared Dad Every Car Is a Pinto Big Applesauce Agony of the Feet Recycled IN SPACE! The Dragon Throwing Your Sword Always Works Creative Closing Credits Coming-of-Age Story Bury Your Gays Red Oni, Blue Oni Television Movie Index No Celebrities Were Harmed "Well Done, Son!" Guy Captain Obvious Pretty Little Headshots Anachronism Stew Psycho for Hire Market-Based Title Dirty Cop The Chick Armor-Piercing Question The Smurfette Principle Country Matters Kick the Dog Horror Films Oh, Crap! Adaptational Badass Cloudcuckoolander Scenery Gorn Bond One-Liner Small Name, Big Ego Evil Is Hammy Conspicuous CG Meet Cute Dissonant Serenity Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Bottomless Magazines Face Death with Dignity Brick Joke Stealth Pun Red Right Hand Brother–Sister Incest Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Nice Guy Pragmatic Villainy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Hypocrite Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Kill It with Fire The '50s Villain Protagonist Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Spiritual Successor Once More, with Clarity! NO INDOOR VOICE Fourth Date Marriage Yandere Fire-Forged Friends Made of Explodium Villain Ball Sacrificial Lion Department of Redundancy Department Monumental Damage Pay Evil unto Evil The Casanova Historical Hero Upgrade Composite Character "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Alleged Car The Un-Reveal Fantasy Films Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Determinator Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Only One Name Adapted Out Revenge Sealed Evil in a Can The Starscream Bowdlerise The Lost Lenore Artistic License – Biology Canon Foreigner Those Two Bad Guys Hell Is That Noise Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Sequel Hook Spiteful Spit Room Full of Crazy Continuity Nod Despair Event Horizon Annoying Younger Sibling Love at First Sight Heel–Face Turn Expy Jerk with a Heart of Gold Really Gets Around Manic Pixie Dream Girl Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Male Gaze Redemption Equals Death Sir Swears-a-Lot Dressing as the Enemy Broken Aesop Moment Killer Genre Throwback She's Got Legs Deconstruction The Mole A Father to His Men Cool Shades Retcon Re-Cut Bullying a Dragon Works Set in World War II Eye Scream Bait-and-Switch Lighter and Softer Break the Cutie Bald of Evil Breaking the Fourth Wall Bittersweet Ending Dramatic Gun Cock Darkest Hour "Awesome McCool" Name Creepy Child Fake Shemp Creator Cameo The Lancer No OSHA Compliance Heel Realization Deadpan Snarker Parental Neglect Amoral Attorney Beard of Evil The Dreaded Rule of Three Fiery Redhead Heroic Sacrifice Author Appeal Fish out of Water BFG Grey and Gray Morality Attempted Rape Defrosting Ice Queen Badass Normal Chiaroscuro Star-Crossed Lovers Music Stories Romantic False Lead No Name Given Index of Film Westerns timeperiod I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Hate Sink Evil Is Petty Vacation Films Shipper on Deck Hoist by His Own Petard Rich Bitch Eldritch Abomination Non-Indicative Name Parental Incest Twist Ending Deliberate Values Dissonance Sole Survivor All There in the Manual Establishing Character Moment The Ace Butt-Monkey Took a Level in Jerkass Death Glare Captain Ersatz Outrun the Fireball Brutal Honesty Soundtrack Dissonance Maybe Ever After Beauty Is Never Tarnished Stock Footage Manchild Off with His Head! La Résistance Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Vamp Race Against the Clock Meaningful Background Event Super Strength Deliberately Monochrome Disney Death Hidden Depths The Chessmaster No-Sell Guns Akimbo Does This Remind You of Anything? Famous Last Words Stepford Smiler Rousing Speech Shell-Shocked Veteran Big Eater Dumb Blonde Mad Scientist Big Brother Instinct Mercy Kill Ambiguous Ending Enemy Mine Protagonist Title Heroic BSoD Dramedy Blatant Lies She Cleans Up Nicely Leave the Camera Running Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Parental Abandonment Didn't Think This Through Four-Temperament Ensemble Earn Your Happy Ending Running Gag Dirty Old Man Hooker with a Heart of Gold Rape as Drama Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Failed a Spot Check The Voiceless Grievous Bottley Harm Anguished Declaration of Love Mooks Not Even Bothering with the Accent Implacable Man Defiant to the End Asshole Victim I Have Your Wife Crapsack World N-Word Privileges Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Video Credits Car Fu Laughing Mad Wounded Gazelle Gambit Red Herring Action Girl He Who Fights Monsters Documentary Historical-Domain Character Real Life Writes the Plot Deal with the Devil Corrupt Corporate Executive '80s Hair Bavarian Fire Drill Dutch Angle Stalker with a Crush Groin Attack Mighty Whitey Drugs Are Bad Dropped a Bridge on Him Scenery Porn Reality Is Unrealistic I Did What I Had to Do Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Break the Haughty Smoking Is Cool Unwitting Instigator of Doom Poor Communication Kills Bi the Way Reality Ensues Wham Line Hair-Trigger Temper Friend to All Children As Long as It Sounds Foreign Shut Up, Hannibal! Sinister Minister Shout-Out Obfuscating Stupidity The Ghost Dogged Nice Guy Double-Meaning Title Villainous Breakdown Funny Foreigner Humans Are Bastards Heroes Want Redheads Central Theme Death Seeker Foil Obviously Evil The Stoner Adaptational Villainy Adaptation Dye-Job Nothing Is Scarier From Bad to Worse Fatal Family Photo Unusual Euphemism Tap on the Head Overly Long Gag Would Hurt a Child No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Imagine Spot Word of God Ascended Extra Posthumous Character Corpsing French Films Those Wacky Nazis Eureka Moment Slasher Movie Call-Back Death by Irony Trailers Always Spoil Sadistic Choice Rasputinian Death Setting Update Peek-a-Boo Corpse Not Using the "Z" Word Jerkass Has a Point I Want My Beloved to Be Happy I'm a Humanitarian Fan Disservice Stealth Hi/Bye Silent Movie Blood Knight Up to Eleven War Is Hell Straight Gay Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Black Comedy Rape Double Entendre Drives Like Crazy Sassy Black Woman Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Sociopath Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas An Aesop Action Prologue Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Amusing Injuries Karma Houdini Tranquil Fury The Atoner Costume Porn Needs Wiki Magic Love Eiffel Tower Effect Taking the Bullet Demonic Possession Big Damn Heroes Historical In-Joke "Shaggy Dog" Story All Girls Want Bad Boys Psychological Thriller Villain Song Hollywood Law Fanservice Insane Troll Logic Sequel Escalation The Cameo Pragmatic Adaptation No Ending The Smart Guy Victoria's Secret Compartment Wicked Cultured Body Horror Offscreen Teleportation Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Even Evil Has Loved Ones The End... Or Is It? My Beloved Smother Papa Wolf Martial Arts Movie Bloody Hilarious Off-into-the-Distance Ending Love Triangle The Oner My God, What Have I Done? Meaningful Name Ass Shove Last-Name Basis Australian Movies Affably Evil Easily Forgiven It's Personal Expository Hairstyle Change There Is No Kill Like Overkill Our Vampires Are Different Spell My Name with an "S" Mama Bear Artistic License – Physics Kill 'em All Evil-Detecting Dog Knight Templar Death of a Child Depraved Bisexual Shown Their Work Foregone Conclusion Ms. Fanservice Rule of Funny British Films Hope Spot As Himself Reasonable Authority Figure Slasher Smile Plot Hole Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mood Whiplash Based on a True Story The Power of Love Beware the Nice Ones folderlabel Flashback Shirtless Scene Man on Fire Plucky Comic Relief Sports Stories Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Take a Third Option Ghost Fiction Science Fiction Films The '60s Never Found the Body And I Must Scream Large Ham Destination Defenestration Sexy Discretion Shot Mr. Fanservice Immune to Bullets Unusually Uninteresting Sight Beta Couple Half the Man He Used to Be Due to the Dead Informed Ability Unresolved Sexual Tension Would Hit a Girl Flipping the Bird Dying Moment of Awesome Crucified Hero Shot The Alcoholic Say My Name Intrepid Reporter Aluminum Christmas Trees Black Dude Dies First Gender Flip Green-Eyed Monster Improvised Weapon Roaring Rampage of Revenge Soft Glass Bound and Gagged Offscreen Moment of Awesome Evil Brit Cowboy Cop Punch-Clock Villain The '90s Race Lift Big Bad Catapult Nightmare Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Almost Kiss Danny Peary Cult Movies List One-Man Army The Musical Toplessness from the Back Abusive Parents The Bully World of Ham Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Bad "Bad Acting" Big Fancy House Manipulative Bastard Tagline Never My Fault Casting Gag For the Evulz Slashed Throat Getting Crap Past the Radar Historical Villain Upgrade Cat Fight Never Trust a Trailer Blackmail More Dakka The Load Self-Deprecation The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Calling the Old Man Out Truth in Television Scary Black Man Irony Badass Longcoat The Bad Guy Wins Black and Gray Morality