Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

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

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