Weakened By The Light / Western Animation

Examples of Weakened by the Light in Western Animation.

• Two of the ghosts from the Chest of Demons in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo were vulnerable to sunlight:
  • Queen Morbidia from "Me and My Shadow Demon" was defeated when exposure to sunlight turned her into ash, afterwards her ashes were swept up and put into the Chest of Demons.
  • Rankor from "Coast-to-Ghost" was a vampire ghost, so naturally he had a weakness to sunlight. When he's about to be destroyed by sunlight, though, he willingly goes back into the Chest of Demons when Scrappy and Flim-Flam offer it as a way to escape the sunlight.
• Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers: Starstones, a rare gem that is often used as an Amplifier Artifact is extremely fragile, and decays rapidly when exposed to UV light.
• Being a vampire, Marceline from Adventure Time can't be in sunlight without an umbrella or some kind of shade, or she'll burn and die.
• Alfred J. Kwak: Alfred manages to defeat the Evil Spirit of Darkness when he realizes that shining a bright light in the genie's face hurts it to the point that it would prefer going back inside the bottle. Alfred even removes his lamp for a few seconds just to annoy it, prompting a partial re-emergence by the genie, before forcing it into the bottle completely.
• In Archie's Weird Mysteries, a vampire explains to the titular character that while the Vampire Master can't ever handle sunlight, lesser minions like herself can if they stay in human form and "wear some serious sunblock".
• Ben 10:
  • Original Series: Introduces Zs'Skayr, a subconscious alien that broke free from the Omnitrix with plans to take over. When Ben used his DNA as Ghostfreak, he had a sun-proof cloak that hid his true appearance, restricted his power, and protected him from sunlight (which could burn him to death). But when he went rogue, he got rid of the sun-cloak and went out his way to make the world filled with darkness.
  • Ben 10: Omniverse: Introduces Whampire who is, well... a vampire (actually an alien called a Vladat). Although he's only incredibly weakened and in pain when faced with light instead of being killed by it. This weakness also applies to Vladat's genetic source in the alien form's debut episode, Lord Transyl.
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • Anyone whom Count Spankulot transforms into Spank-Happy Vampires are weakened by sunlight. As demonstrated in "Operation: L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N.", when Numbuh 5 faces off against her vampirified teammates when she is caught using the Quadruple Emergency Bypass Code to lift the lockdown, only the count's victims, as well as the victims of those whom the Count transformed, are weakened by sunlight. It is when the Treehouse lockdown is over, the sun comes up and weakens the vampirified operatives. However, the Count himself is immune to sunlight.
  • In "Operation: L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E.", we're introduced to Black John Licorice, a rival candy pirate of Stickybeard's who is described to be more vicious, he'd "do anything for candy, even steal it from his mom". After Black John and his crew chopped down and stole several cursed licorice trees, a curse was placed on them that turned them into black licorice skeletons that come to life at dusk, then are reduced to piles of licorice bones at sunrise until nightfall comes and they come alive again. The song Stickybeard and his crew sing about him is very self-explanatory. The only way Black John and his crew can break the curse is to replant the very forest they cut down with a magic seed, which Heinrich Von Marzipan eats during his time at the Kids Next Door Arctic Prison, and when they kidnap him in order to recover the seed, Numbuh Five has to join forces with Stickybeard to find him.
• Gargoyles turn to stone at sunrise, which leaves them defenseless against enemies. Thus, a common way to kill them is to pulverize them while in stone sleep.
• Zartan from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. The experiments done on him give him amazing powers, but a severe weakness to sunlight. Exactly how it works and what qualifies as enough sunlight seems to vary from episode to episode. Eventually, the writers got rid of it. In any case it was basically just a way to promote his toy, which changed color in sunlight.
• The He-Man and the Masters of the Universe episode "Night of the Shadowbeasts'', the eponymous beasts not only hate sunlight, but moonlight as well. To use them, Skeletor causes a volcano to erupt, filling the sky with smoke and ash.
• D'Compose and his undead underlings from Inhumanoids were vulnerable to sunlight, which had the added bonus of turning humans who had been zombified by D'Compose back to normal.
• The Imperium in Justice League had no resistance to sunlight.
  • The same can be said about the snake-like Lizard Folk spirits trapped in the Black Diamond, in the episode "Eclipsed".
• The Owl House: King claims that demons with large black eyes tend to be sensitive to bright light — this is useful for stunning or K.O.ing Eda's Owl Beast form when she transforms. Justified in that the eyes are likely mostly pupil, leading to light sensitivity.
• The Powerpuff Girls:
  • The episode "Boogie Frights" had the Boogie Man and his minions being allergic to the sun so they block it with a giant disco bulb, eventually once the girls destroy it the sunlight disintegrates them.
  • When Buttercup wanted to become a better superhero in "Super Zeroes", she became Mange, a knockoff of Darker and Edgier comic book Anti Heroes — Spawn in particular. However, when the time came for her and her sisters (both of whom also assumed their own "better superhero" identities) to go out and fight a monster destroying Townsville, Mange was the only one who stayed behind, saying it's too bright and that she only travels at night. Mange then spent the rest of the day sitting on the couch with Professor Utonium until night fell, arriving too late at the scene as the monster had already left (her sisters were also late for reasons of their own). The three girls spent the night under a tree. When the monster came back to face the girls again, Mange sits out the fight, preferring to stay under the tree's shade. This attitude led the monster to eventually call her "Little Miss Darkness who’s afraid of a little sun".
• In Primal (2019),the nocturnal Night Feeder has an extreme sensitivity to light or fire as a brief spark makes it pull back and a small fire is enough to send it into a full-blown retreat. Spear and Fang use this to their advantage by making strategic sparks to force it into a circle of trees that they ignite and form a ring of fire to prevent it from escaping giving Spear to toss a lit spear in its body, setting it ablaze.
• The Secret Saturdays: In "The Owlman Feeds at Midnight", the titular Monster of the Week really doesn't like fire or bright light. The Saturdays use this to try and subdue it, but Doyle ends up giving it too much light when he resorts to bringing a jetpack into the mix and ends up vaporizing it.
• The Nightbreed from Static Shock. Continuous exposure to light seems to leave them very weakened and feeling sick.
  • Ebon also counts, although he can come out in daylight and be just fine. Only a focused beam of light seems to weaken him.
• Storm Hawks: In their debut episode, the Nightcrawlers have a bad case of this — they're deadly when stalking around darkened locations or when it's night, but they're pained and quickly driven off by a blast of light from Solaris Crystals. They're upgraded to overcome this weakness in later appearances.
• The Kanabo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward are weak against sunlight. Due to being The Hive, even Sh'Okanabo can become vulnerable to the light when enough Kanabo are destroyed, as revealed in the penultimate episode "The Day of Awakening". Hence, why Sh'Okanabo wanted to block out the sun so it wouldn't interrupt his plans to cover the world with Kanabo drones again.
  Viral: Analysis indicates that the unique wavelength of this planet's solar radiation's focus through its unusually oxygenated atmosphere has a dire effect on the emerging symbiosis. In other words...
  Sh'Okanabo: All of my efforts have been in vain! The Kanabo cannot survive on Earth. (Angrily roars as he throws a temper tantrum and tosses everything around in his ship) This place could sustain us for centuries if not for its accursed sun... But perhaps... That obstacle can be eliminated. (laughs evilly)
• Mumm-ra from Thunder Cats 2011 has this as his Weaksauce Weakness, though interestingly enough his earlier counterpart didn't. (He was instead vulnerable to his own reflection.)
• Trolls from Trollhunters are a magical, stone-based species that originates from deep within the Earth. Should a troll's skin touch sunlight (with the exception of Changelings and Stalklings), they become inert stone.
• In Xyber 9: New Dawn, The Machina can't handle sunlight due to the virus they're all infected with.
• In Yin Yang Yo!, the Big Bad of the first season, the Nightmaster, is vulnerable to any kind of light. His master plan is to block out the world's three suns, making him all-powerful.