Tropescilloscope: Light Is Not Good

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

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