Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

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

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