Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

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

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