Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Darkness

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

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