Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 78: Dark Is Not Evil

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Yesterday's Results
Dragoon - 4
Jackdaw - 2
Robot Masters - 2
Admiral Holdo - 2
Fire Nation Airships - 1
TLJ - 1
Rogue One - 1
Royal Talon Flyer - 1
Sailboat - 1
Darkside - 1
HMS Thunder Child - 1
Russell Casse's sacrifice - 1

Nominations
Iconic Sequel Character
Intelligible Unintelligible
Corpsing
One of Us
Disney Villain Death
Eldritch Location
Supervillain Lair
Obfuscating Stupidity
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Lady of War
The Everyman
A Hell of a Time
Badass Driver
Always a Bigger Fish
Disco Dan
What Could Have Been
Tall, Dark And Handsome
Flaming Hair
Glass Cannon
Acting In The Dark

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS/ETC. you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.
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Full Results
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope
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Genius Bruiser - Beast (X-Men) / Bane (Batman)
Haunted Castle - Dracula's Castle (Castlevania)
Adolf Hitlarious - Downfall Meme
Body Surf - Mario (Super Mario Odyssey)
Stepford Smiler - Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club) / Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
The Juggernaut - Juggernaut (Marvel)
Deader Than Disco - Instrument-based rhythm games
Uncanny Valley - Junji Ito
Red Oni, Blue Oni - Sonic & Knuckles (Sonic) / Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)
Dead All Along - Auron (Final Fantasy X)
Ramming Always Works - Dragoon (Kirby Air Ride)

Today's tropes is the Dark is Not Evil
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkIsNotEvil

So, you have a race of people who all have black, leathery wings. They're born with the ability to shoot black, shadowy globs out of their hands. Also, they prefer the night, and let's not get started on their wardrobes. Surely, they're evil!

Well... no one actually mentioned them doing bad things; in fact, they may actually be pretty good guys. Despite any images that may have been burned into our minds, creepy appearances and killing people actually don't have much to do with each other. Unfortunately, however, people can still judge them based on their looks.

This trope can be a subversion or aversion of several other tropes depending on how it's played, including Beauty Equals Goodness, Always Chaotic Evil, and Colour-Coded for Your Convenience. A common use for it is for the "Don't judge a book by its cover" Aesop. It can also be used to promote Evil Is Cool and Evil Is Sexy.
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Auntie Whispers (Over the Garden Wall)
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Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Hades (Greek Mythology)
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Warren Peace (Sky High) [I hate to admit it, but this is actually the first thing I thought of]
Hellboy (Hellboy)
Nightcrawler (X-Men)

HM:
Dark Magician (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon)
Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
The Addams Family
Meta Knight (Kirby)
Prince Zuko (Avatar)
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Guts (Berserk)
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Nanu (Pokemon Sun/Moon)
Noctis Lucis Caelum (Final Fantasy XV)
Simon Blackquill (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies)
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Riku (Kingdom Hearts)
Hades (Greek Mythology)
Millenia (Grandia II)
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I actually really like this trope

even if it's kind of overused to hell
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Death of the Endless (The Sandman)
The Guy (Disturbed)
Garrett (Thief)

HMs:
Chief (Isle of Dogs)
Batman (DC Comics)
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Nega-Scott (Scott Pilgrim)
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Nightcrawler (X-Men)
Raven (DC Comics)
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batman
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morning
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ZerO
Max Payne
Nightcrawler
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Lulu (FFX)
Batman
Nega-Scott (Scott Pilgrim)

Specifically the movie Scott Pilgrim, in the comics they play Nega-Scott exactly like you'd expect.
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Mewtwo59 posted...

Nanu (Pokemon Sun/Moon)
Noctis Lucis Caelum (Final Fantasy XV)
Simon Blackquill (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies)

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Sirius black (harry potter)
Guts (berserk)
... Hiei (YYH)?
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Batman
Midna (Zelda Twilight Princess)
Hades (Greek Myth)
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Peace___Frog posted...

... Hiei (YYH)?

He definitely starts out evil.
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Yeah but then he isn't

I was more unsure about his color scheme, if it's dark enough, since i haven't watched yyh in a long minute
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He definitely has the color scheme covered. He wears almost entirely black with black hair.

Also, I looked it up and his name literally means "Flying Shadow".
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Nice.

I'll have to watch that series again some time.
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Anyone who has to be rehabilitated from being a bad guy doesn't really fit this trope IMO. I'm even on the edge about whether Magus from Chrono Trigger counts, since he is an antagonist at first and he does legitimately do some bad stuff for no good reason.
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Batman
Raven

I feel like Raven made this quote in the Teen Titans 2003 show at some point: "Darkness isn't evil. It's misunderstood."

Gargoyles - specifically Goliath I guess
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Batman
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Cloak (Marvel Comics)
Death (Sandman)
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Snape

And probably the Chandran but that's pure speculation on my part
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Whoops I just remembered it wasn't Raven, it was her friend in the spellbook who turned out to be evil lol
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OliviaTremor posted...

Snape

And probably the Chandran but that's pure speculation on my part

If hiei doesn't count then there's no way in hell that the chandrian do.

Though i've only read the first book so
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current
Batman - 5
Hades - 3
Nightcrawler - 3
Guts - 2
Nanu - 2
Noctis Lucis Caelum - 2
Death of the Endless - 2
Simon Blackquill (Ace Attorney) - 2
Nega-Scott - 2
Raven - 2
Auntie Whispers (OtGW) - 1
Jack Skellington - 1
Warren Peace - 1
Hellboy - 1
Riku - 1
Milenia - 1
The Guy - 1
Garrett - 1
Zer0 - 1
Max Payne - 1
Lulu - 1
Sirius Black - 1
Hiei - 1
Midna - 1
Gargoyles - specifically Goliath I guess - 1
Cloak - 1
Severus Snape - 1
Chandran - 1
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Riku (Kingdom Hearts)
Absol (Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire)
Batman (DC Comics)