Tropescilloscope: Light Is Not Good

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

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