Tropescilloscope: Light Is Not Good

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

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