Tropescilloscope: Light Is Not Good

Light is presented as evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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