Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Darkness

It's dark, but the audience can see and the characters aren't bumping into anything. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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