Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

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

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