Tropescilloscope: Light Is Not Good

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

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