Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

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

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