History LightIsNotGood / Film

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'s ArchNemesis King Ghidorah is a bright gold in color, in contrast to the charcoal-gray Godzilla. But whereas Godzilla tends to be a rage-filled AntiHero, Ghidorah is an OmnicidalManiac who simply likes killing so much that he wipes out whole planets [[ForTheEvulz for the fun of it]].

* ''Film/TheHungerGames'':

* The main villain in ''TheLegendOfZorro'' kills people because he believes he is doing God's work, and often quotes the Bible.
* The fundamentalist minister in ''{{Footloose}}'' although, at least in the original he's not as bad as most of the examples here being a WellIntentionedExtremist AntiVillain who, aside from his ''idee fixe'' about dancing is fairly reasonable.
* In ''Literature/NightWatch'' and ''Day Watch'', the good guys are called Night Watchers, while the bad guys are called Day Watchers. This is because the Night Watch are the side of the Light Others, whereas the Day Watch are the side of the Dark Others. The names are literal; Night Watch keeps a watch on the dark, and Day Watch keeps a watch on the light. The books and movies make it clear that when you get down to it, both sides are just people with jobs, and the Night Watch have quite their share of dicks.

* In ''Film/TheGodfather Part III'', the Vatican is revealed to be in cahoots with the Corleone crime family.

* The movie adaptation of the first book of ''HisDarkMaterials'', ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'', seems to love this trope, to the point that Mrs Coulter (who was black haired in the books) became blonde (to which the author said: "I was clearly wrong. You sometimes are wrong about your characters. She's blonde. She has to be."), and intercision is not done with a blade as in the books, but with lasers.

* In a rather bizarre scene from ''{{Gordy}}'', the villain is shown with a heavenly, golden glow around him as overlaid footage of what he believes is sabotaged clips of the title pig is being shipped off.

* In ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'', compared to District 13, the Capitol has its people dressed in bright lavish colors, the President is named after white snow and its Peacekeepers wear bone white armor, but the Capitol is anything but good.

* In ''[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1]]'', compared to District 13, the Capitol has its people dressed in bright lavish colors, the President is named after white snow and its Peacekeepers wear bone white armor, but the Capitol is anything but good.

* In ''[[TheAmityvilleHorror Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes]]'', a lamp is the primary antagonist. [[{{Narm}} No, really]].

* [[Film/{{Transformers}} Soundwave's]] robot mode vaguely resembles an angel. His satellite mode (well, at least the [[MerchandiseDriven toy version]]) also continues this theme somewhat.

* When [[{{Daybreakers}} Edward Dalton]] parks his car under a tree in the full heat of the day, the whole scene does a great job at equating light with fear.
* When we are introduced to the BigBad in ''HeroicTrio'', he is wearing a gold, glittery outfit and is illuminated in the middle of a dark lair.

* The movie adaptation of the first book of ''HisDarkMaterials'', ''TheGoldenCompass'', seems to love this trope, to the point that Mrs Coulter (who was black haired in the books) became blonde (to which the author said: "I was clearly wrong. You sometimes are wrong about your characters. She's blonde. She has to be."), and intercision is not done with a blade as in the books, but with lasers.

* ''Film/{{Immortals}}'' has as the villain Hyperion, the titan of light from GreekMythology.

* The secondary villain of "[[The Rescuers]]". Mr. Snoops wears a yellow sportcoat and pants which yellow is a good color but he is a bad guy.

* Humans in ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' are presented as this, while TheFairFolk are the opposite. Our world may have sunshine and bright colours, but it also has [[ColdBloodedTorture pain]], [[WarIsHell conflict]] and [[BlatantLies lies]]. [[DarkIsNotEvil Their world has none of these things]].

* [[StarWars The Storm]][[{{Mooks}} troopers]] are dressed in Shiny White Armor.
** Somehow related, on Kamino [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas everything and everyone is]] [[ShiningCity shiny]] [[PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath except outside]].

* In ''Literature/NightWatch'' and ''Day Watch'', the good guys are called Night Watchers, while the bad guys are called Day Watchers.
** This is because the Night Watch are the side of the Light Others, whereas the Day Watch are the side of the Dark Others. The names are literal; Night Watch keeps a watch on the dark, and Day Watch keeps a watch on the light. The books and movies make it clear that when you get down to it, both sides are just people with jobs, and the Night Watch have quite their share of dicks.
*** The lot of you missed the whole point: the Light Side is just as packed with assholes as the Dark. The main difference is that the Light consists of collectivist hypocrites feigning righteousness and confused idealists who actually buy into their crap, while the Dark is made up of devil may care individualists who do not need to justify anything with fake morality. For example, Dark vampires kill people, but the Light Side ''gives them hunting licenses'' to do so.
** Realising that Light and Dark are the same in essence is what happens to all older others.

* Emma Frost from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', ([[MsFanservice scantily]]) clad in white and able to turn her body into a mass of shining diamonds, is not a ''good'' girl.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', Lord Shen is a white peacock who is a ruthless conqueror who is perfectly willing to commit genocide on the Giant Pandas to thwart a prophecy and then kill anyone in the way of his ambitions. Chillingly fitting considering that in Chinese culture, white is the color of ''death''.

* ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'' - '"Don't go into the light', Carol Ann!"

* Frollo from ''Disney/TheHunchbackofNotreDame'', who is an evil religious fanatic bent on "purifying" all of medieval Paris.

* Storm Shadow from ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra''. Subverted in that he is also shown to be one of the few on the side of Cobra with a moral code (he doesn't kill women or children and is angry when Zartan does so0, and in ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' [[spoiler:he pulls a HeelFaceTurn]].

* A glowing, beautiful, angelic version of BigBad Sauron would've appeared in the climactic battle in TheMovie of ''TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King'' had the design team not decided that making the omnipotent Eye corporeal [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would've been silly.]] Still, the idea of Kate Winslet as a TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} character would've been something.