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