Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

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

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