Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

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

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