Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

Darkness is associated with the forces of good. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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