Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

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

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