Tropescilloscope: Light Is Not Good

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

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