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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Gratuitous English He Who Fights Monsters Jerkass Has a Point One-Word Title The Dreaded Hollywood Law The Sociopath Character Development Index of Film Westerns Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Beta Couple Redshirt Army Honor Before Reason Horror Films You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Annoying Younger Sibling Room Full of Crazy Mood Whiplash Unusually Uninteresting Sight Film Noir Important Haircut Small Name, Big Ego Adults Are Useless Madness Mantra The Alleged Car Parental Neglect Face–Heel Turn Sole Survivor Vacation Films Only a Flesh Wound This Is Gonna Suck Here We Go Again! Rule of Cool Evil Sounds Deep Man on Fire Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Brainless Beauty Kill 'em All Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Depraved Bisexual Big Eater Danny Peary Cult Movies List Babies Ever After Intergenerational Friendship Attempted Rape Suddenly SHOUTING! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Groin Attack The Atoner Historical In-Joke Casting Gag Chewing the Scenery The Musical Pet the Dog The Ditz Homage Yandere Extremely Short Timespan Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Woman in White B-Movie Big Fancy House Say My Name Breaking the Fourth Wall Sequel Escalation Auto Erotica Historical Villain Upgrade Italian Films Vampire Fiction Faux Affably Evil Pretty Little Headshots Beard of Evil Catapult Nightmare The Chessmaster Those Two Bad Guys Shirtless Scene Failed a Spot Check Mr. Exposition Drowning My Sorrows Drill Sergeant Nasty Killed Mid-Sentence Fatal Family Photo The Vamp Sports Stories Brutal Honesty Idiot Ball Big Brother Instinct Gold Digger Not So Above It All Ascended Extra Camp Gay Evil-Detecting Dog Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Amusing Injuries Unspoken Plan Guarantee Country Matters The Hero Dies Wham Shot The Alcoholic The Quiet One Did Not Get the Girl Recycled IN SPACE! Heel Realization Fanservice Extra Eiffel Tower Effect Not Even Bothering with the Accent Offscreen Teleportation Fanservice Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Exact Words Cool Old Guy Anti-Villain Adaptation Expansion Hong Kong Films Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Improbable Weapon User Mad Scientist Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Wrong Genre Savvy Star-Crossed Lovers Lampshade Hanging Unresolved Sexual Tension Happily Married Chekhov's Gun Red Oni, Blue Oni And I Must Scream Shown Their Work The Un-Reveal Combat Pragmatist More Dakka Armor-Piercing Question Token Minority The Power of Love Cool Guns Meaningful Echo Offscreen Moment of Awesome Badass Grandpa Zombie Stories Riddle for the Ages Bare Your Midriff Together in Death Guile Hero Papa Wolf Cain and Abel Black Comedy Pragmatic Adaptation Drives Like Crazy Bullying a Dragon The Starscream Intrepid Reporter World of Ham Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Fourth Date Marriage Never Trust a Trailer Unwitting Instigator of Doom Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Visual Pun Black Comedy Rape Broken Aesop Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Paper-Thin Disguise Adaptational Villainy Bald of Evil Jerkass Black Best Friend Freeze-Frame Bonus Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Our Vampires Are Different Smoking Is Cool Flashback Even Evil Has Standards Alas, Poor Villain Protagonist Title Berserk Button Dark Action Girl Captain Obvious Dramatic Gun Cock Bolivian Army Ending How We Got Here Only in It for the Money No Good Deed Goes Unpunished "Well Done, Son!" Guy Knife Nut Belligerent Sexual Tension Developing Doomed Characters Department of Redundancy Department Mind Screw Wounded Gazelle Gambit Obfuscating Stupidity Aluminum Christmas Trees Adaptational Badass Call-Forward Random Events Plot Evil Laugh Covers Always Lie Cassandra Truth Dark Reprise My Beloved Smother For the Evulz "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Easily Forgiven Psychopathic Manchild Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Adapted Out Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Is a Crapshoot Time Skip Karma Houdini Sci-Fi Horror Get Out! After the End Too Dumb to Live Closed Circle You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Logo Joke Reasonable Authority Figure The Stoic Accidental Murder Large Ham Demoted to Extra Creative Closing Credits Dark and Troubled Past Mighty Whitey Gilligan Cut You Killed My Father Death by Sex Defrosting Ice Queen Cold-Blooded Torture MacGuffin Sir Swears-a-Lot Precision F-Strike Evil Is Petty Distracted by the Sexy Manchild Black Dude Dies First Cat Scare Apocalypse How Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Retcon Adorkable Downer Ending Genre Shift Dies Wide Open Dual Wielding Big Bad Duumvirate The Place Undying Loyalty Rape as Drama Fire-Forged Friends Even Evil Has Loved Ones Anguished Declaration of Love I Have Your Wife Really Gets Around Ungrateful Bastard Fun with Acronyms Driven to Suicide Crapsack World Jitter Cam An Axe to Grind Self-Deprecation Credits Gag Deliberately Monochrome Rousing Speech Author Appeal Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds An Aesop Facial Horror Bunny-Ears Lawyer Silent Movie Big-Bad Ensemble Good Is Not Nice Heel–Face Turn Conspicuous CG Evil Plan British Films Hypocritical Humor Lighter and Softer Bond One-Liner Knight Templar Actor Allusion Karmic Death Market-Based Title The Voiceless Wretched Hive Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Arch-Enemy Chekhov's Gunman Scare Chord Dirty Cop Hoist by His Own Petard Heroes Want Redheads Love at First Sight Establishing Character Moment Bloody Hilarious Meaningful Background Event Spiteful Spit Gory Discretion Shot Curse Cut Short Straight Gay Let's Get Dangerous! Victoria's Secret Compartment Dressing as the Enemy Award-Bait Song Stylistic Suck Henpecked Husband Word of God Ax-Crazy Romantic Comedy Fainting The Bully Animal Motifs Abusive Parents Chase Scene Card-Carrying Villain Red Herring Made of Explodium Suspiciously Similar Substitute Ambiguous Disorder Action Genre The Load Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fantasy Films Determinator aka: The Determinator Trailers Always Spoil Only One Name Curb-Stomp Battle Works Set in World War II Outrun the Fireball NO INDOOR VOICE Neck Lift Disney Villain Death Beware the Nice Ones Neck Snap Bury Your Gays All Just a Dream Guns Akimbo Television Movie Index Awesome, but Impractical She's Got Legs Properly Paranoid You Have Failed Me Artistic License – Physics Disproportionate Retribution Sealed Evil in a Can Playing Gertrude timeperiod Wham Line Peek-a-Boo Corpse Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Hate Sink Poor Communication Kills As Long as It Sounds Foreign Badass in a Nice Suit Film Series Your Head A-Splode Retired Badass Pragmatic Villainy Canon Foreigner Dark Is Not Evil One Steve Limit Punny Name Roger Ebert: Great Movies List No Antagonist Heterosexual Life-Partners Insane Troll Logic Never Found the Body My God, What Have I Done? Reality Ensues There Is No Kill Like Overkill What the Hell, Hero? Vitriolic Best Buds Friend to All Children "Awesome McCool" Name Foil Fiery Redhead Arc Words Leave the Camera Running Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Mundane Made Awesome Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Camera Abuse Japanese Films Despair Event Horizon No-Sell Ironic Echo Pre-Mortem One-Liner Evil Is Hammy No Ending Corpsing Animated Credits Opening folderlabel Heroic BSoD Decoy Protagonist Asshole Victim Men Are the Expendable Gender Demonic Possession Laser-Guided Karma Eye Scream Early Installment Weirdness Gorn Determinator Twist Ending Taking the Bullet The '80s The Big Guy The Remake Christmas Movies Index Empathic Environment Bottomless Magazines Tempting Fate Nice Hat Lock and Load Montage Domestic Abuse Fate Worse than Death Genre Savvy Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Bittersweet Ending Love Triangle As the Good Book Says... 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Sinister Minister La Résistance Russian Films Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Off with His Head! Parental Incest Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Implacable Man Slasher Smile Destination Defenestration Freudian Excuse Well-Intentioned Extremist Jump Scare Daylight Horror Politically Incorrect Villain Video Credits The Bad Guy Wins Last-Name Basis Real Life Writes the Plot Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Hooker with a Heart of Gold Alliterative Name Call-Back Badass Normal Famous Last Words Cruel and Unusual Death Historical Hero Upgrade Abhorrent Admirer Those Wacky Nazis Exactly What It Says on the Tin Death of a Child Up to Eleven Hero Antagonist Central Theme "Shaggy Dog" Story Bloodier and Gorier Pretty in Mink I'm a Humanitarian Bavarian Fire Drill Our Zombies Are Different Air-Vent Passageway Tap on the Head Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Sadistic Choice O.O.C. Is Serious Business Soft Glass It Will Never Catch On Calling the Old Man Out Psycho for Hire As You Know Jerk Jock Biopic I Need a Freaking Drink Villain Protagonist Ominous Latin Chanting Double-Meaning Title Dirty Old Man Show Within a Show Sassy Black Woman Once More, with Clarity! Deconstruction Line-of-Sight Name In the Back Revenge Eureka Moment Fantastic Racism Rule of Symbolism Training Montage Canadian Movies Overprotective Dad Extreme Doormat The Chick Badass Bookworm Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Leitmotif Age Lift Bait-and-Switch Funny Background Event Bland-Name Product Daddy's Girl Laughing Mad Better to Die than Be Killed Public Domain Feature Films The Stinger Contrived Coincidence What Happened to the Mouse? Darkest Hour Nothing Is Scarier Death by Adaptation Dutch Angle Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Very Loosely Based on a True Story It's All About Me Does This Remind You of Anything? Anachronism Stew Cool Shades Evil Brit Blood Knight Artistic License – Geography Unreliable Narrator In Medias Res Those Two Guys Four-Temperament Ensemble Roaring Rampage of Revenge A God Am I Green-Eyed Monster Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Epic Fail Race Against the Clock Grey and Gray Morality Beauty Is Never Tarnished Car Fu Badass Longcoat Shower Scene Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The X of Y The Hero Action Girl The Ace Hair-Trigger Temper Whole Plot Reference Punch-Clock Villain Mistaken for Gay Never My Fault Moment Killer Based on a True Story Dwindling Party Toplessness from the Back Australian Movies Kids Are Cruel Smug Snake Heroic Sacrifice Body Horror Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Spell My Name with an "S" The '50s Loophole Abuse Leaning on the Fourth Wall Eagleland Shell-Shocked Veteran Red Right Hand The Film of the Book Historical-Domain Character Foregone Conclusion Skewed Priorities Captain Ersatz The Cavalry Loads and Loads of Characters Unusual Euphemism Everyone Has Standards Only Sane Man 20 Minutes into the Future Arranged Marriage Aside Glance Military and Warfare Films Cluster F-Bomb Bad "Bad Acting" Fatal Flaw Slap-Slap-Kiss I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Imagine Spot Overly Long Gag Break the Haughty Plot Hole Interrupted Suicide '80s Hair Music Stories Costume Porn Bond Villain Stupidity Serial Killer Corrupt Corporate Executive Epic Movie Stock Footage Flipping the Bird Setting Update Spared by the Adaptation Light Is Not Good Male Gaze My Greatest Failure The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Fish out of Water Malevolent Masked Men Adaptation Name Change Only Known by Their Nickname Crazy-Prepared Handicapped Badass Damsel in Distress Kubrick Stare A Father to His Men Bad Boss Didn't Think This Through Hypocrite Your Cheating Heart Hollywood Darkness Stepford Smiler Earn Your Happy Ending I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Manic Pixie Dream Girl True Companions Deliberate Values Dissonance As Himself Take That! What You Are in the Dark Worthy Opponent Rasputinian Death