Tropescilloscope: Dark Is Not Evil

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

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