Tropescilloscope: Light Is Not Good

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

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