History Main / DarkIsEvil

Why EvilIsNotWellLit, and why [[CueTheSun having the sun vanish is a bad sign]]. See also LightIsGood, LightDarknessJuxtaposition, BadPowersBadPeople, ObviouslyEvil, DarknessEqualsDeath, NiceDayDeadlyNight, and WhiteIsPure. That said, stories where Dark Is Evil and LightIsNotGood are commonplace to show that the light can be just as foul as dark, if not eviller. DarkIsNotEvil is the inversion and the good counterpart of this trope. Another one is TheSacredDarkness, where Dark may or may not be evil, but is just as important as Light.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' introduces Syndrome (who used to be Buddy Pine, a.k.a. Incrediboy), who plans on [[EngineeredHeroics faking heroism]] in front of the public by continuously eliminating supers and then using the Omnidroid v.10 in Metroville to implement such heinous purpose of his.

* ''Film/AngelsAndDemons'' has a rather ironic example. [[spoiler:The Camerlengo Patrick [=McKenna=] plans to make everyone in the world turn against science so that they could be more devoted to religion, where it involves eliminating certain members of the Catholic Church (including the now-former Pope Pius XVI), using an antimatter bomb as a form of global threat towards everyone, and having to be elected as the new Pope himself.]]

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Ursula is a Witch that uses BlackMagic..

* ''Film/AngelsAndDemons'' has a rather ironic example. [[spoiler:The Camerlengo Patrick [=McKenna=] plans to make everyone in the world turn against science so that they could be more devoted to religion, where it involves eliminating certain members of the Catholic Church (including the now-former Pope), using an antimatter bomb as a form of global threat towards everyone, and having to be elected as the new Pope himself.]]

* ''Film/AngelsAndDemons'' has a rather ironic example. [[spoiler:The Camerlengo Patrick [=McKenna=] plans to make everyone in the world turn against science so that they have a greater focus on religion, to which it involves eliminating certain members of the Church (including the current Pope), using an antimatter bomb as a form of global threat towards everyone, and having to be elected as the new Pope.]]

* Darkness is a rather large motif in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'', where its associated with despair, callousness, cruelty, and theshow's BigBad, a monster framed in shadow called The Beast.

*** The [[Platform/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Pokémon]] [[VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness entries]], where the ongoing focus of the stories are the Shadow Pokémon [[DubNameChange (called Dark Pokémon in Japan)]] created and wielded primarily by the villain organization of Cipher. Regular Pokémon who've underwent a process involving [[MindRape "shutting the door to their hearts"]] that leaves them as emotionless fighting machines, Shadow Pokémon retain their ordinary typings, but they're shown to be surrounded by a dark purple aura and use all manner of deadly Shadow-type attacks that are super-effective on ''every'' type. This is especially true of ''Gale of Darkness''' mascot [=XD001=], aka [[OlympusMons Shadow Lugia]], whose corruption gives it a dark purple color scheme complete with [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].

** Fourth Espada [[StrawNihilist Ulquiorra Cifer]] is highly associated with darkness and the color black. His hair is black, and when he transforms into his Ressureccion, he gains a pair of black wings and his Reiatsu turns from dark green to jet black with a green outline. He can fire a jet black colored Cero called Cero Oscruras, though Ulquiorra implies that any Espada can use it when in Resurreccion. In his Ressurection: Segunda Etapa, his lower body is covered in dark fur, his arms are colored black, and a dark substance pours down from his Hollow hole.

** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth.]] He wears black and has a black wing.
*** Also, in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', he has dark-based moves, such as Shadow Flare and Octaslash.
*** In a strange subversion, his true form, Safer Sephiroth, is the [[LightIsNotGood inverse.]]

* In ''Film/MadameWeb2024'', Ezekiel Sims' spider-suit resembles a black Franchise/{{Spider-Man}} suit, and he's the villain.

* In ''Film/MadameWeb2024'', Ezekiel Sims' spider-suit resembles a black Franchise{{Spider-Man}} suit, and he's the villain.