Tropescilloscope: Light Is Not Good

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

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