Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

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

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