Tropescilloscope: Light Is Not Good

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

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