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