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