History LightIsNotGood / WebOriginal

** The Schnee family is entirely white themed. Their surname means 'snow' and those born into the family have names that evoke whiteness. The red-themed founder of the Schnee Dust Company was a good man who used his wealth to lift the people of Mantle out of poverty. However, the current head of the family is Jacques Schnee, who married into the family and took on the family's name and symbols when he took over the business from his philanthropic father-in-law. Under his leadership, the SDC is no longer the beacon of quality and philanthropy that it once was; as a stately, white-haired, white-suited man, he looks the part and is an expert at engaging in good PR, but is a greedy businessman who not only maximises profit by cutting corners on quality, suppressing wages and workers rights, but who also terrorises his own family and seeks to control every aspect of their lives as well.

** James Ironwood [[spoiler: becomes this by the end of Volume 7, serving as another threat to Ruby and her friends, after making some more extreme decisions to stop Salem, including declaring Martial Law on Mantle, arresting and killing his own people who disagree with him, and threatening to destroy Mantle if Penny doesn’t arrive in Atlas Academy.]]
** [[spoiler:The Curious Cat is revealed to be one of the Brothers' early creations to assist the denizens of the Ever After and heal their hearts, but became a self-absorbed, sadistic monster who used those same abilities to control and possess.]]

* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]][[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1591 -1591]], the "Fallen Star." Its light can disintegrate all matter.

* Most of the villains in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' have much lighter armor than the "heroes"

** The Schnee family is entirely white themed. Their surname means 'snow' and those born into the family have names that evoke whiteness. The founder of the Schnee Dust Company was a good man who used his wealth to lift the people of Mantle out of poverty. However, the current head of the family is Jacques Schnee, who married into the family and took on the family's name and symbols when he took over the business from his philanthropic father-in-law. Under his leadership, the SDC is no longer the beacon of quality and philanthropy that it once was; as a stately, white-haired, white-suited man, he looks the part and is an expert at engaging in good PR, but is a greedy businessman who not only maximises profit by cutting corners on quality, suppressing wages and workers rights, but who also terrorises his own family and seeks to control every aspect of their lives as well.

** The God of Light is a being of creation, responsible for creating all living beings including the humans. People would always worship him over his brother -- God of Darkness -- and considered him to be a benevolent deity. That said, [[spoiler:God of Light sees humanity as merely an experiment. After humans rebel against the gods, God of Light lets his brother destroy humanity and departs from Remnant, leaving the leader of the rebellion immortal on an empty world as a punishment [[DisproportionateRetribution for defying her gods.]] He eventually brings humanity back, but proclaims that if humans do not unite until the Judgement Day, their world will be permanently destroyed.]]

* [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale's]] neighboring town and rival, Desert Bluffs, is made out to be a happy place, much more upbeat than the defeatist and Orwellian Night Vale. Its radio announcer Kevin constantly rambles about how nice it is to live there, and even its cover art is bright yellow with a big sun prominently featured, in contrast to Night Vale's dark purple and ever-watching eye...and then [[TheNarrator Cecil]] describes the blood on the walls...

* In the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, Golden Girl fits this trope. She's another student at the SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy. She is strikingly lovely, and when she uses her powers (golden energy blasts, golden force fields, super-strength, flight), she's covered in a golden glow. She actively hates Phase (one of the main characters and good guys) and tries to hurt her every time they spar in aikido.

* In the ''Roleplay/LeagueOfIntergalacticCosmicChampions'' Sailor Good had light-based powers, but was evil... it was just her last name that was Good.

* In ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'', the angels OF Heaven are portrayed as the masters of light. This being ''The Salvation War'', the angels are very much ''not'' on the side of good. Michael, who is plotting Yahweh's downfall, is a heroin dealer [[spoiler: and hooks a young angel on it]].
** And just to put the cap on it, the archangel Uriel is eventually [[spoiler: killed by a laser beam. In other words, by ''pure light'']].
* The famous [[Creator/JitteryDragon ''Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies'']] [=YouTube=] pop saga by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/JitteryDragon Jittery Dragon]] somewhat invokes this trope at its fifth alternative ending, [[spoiler: with Pterano, by touching the coldfire stone, becoming an angel; cue the ominous orange light surrounding him, actually a mixture of edited footage from Land Before Time X with footage from Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion]]. This became a running gag within the series, having him reappearing in the second part of ''The land before everyone froze to death'', stating that he is the cause of the climate change as he came on the Great Valley.
* ''DarthWiki/WALLEForumRoleplay'': There's a group called White Enterprises. It's not white at all.
* [[LouisCypher Morning Star]], [[VideoGame/{{Quest64}} Mammon]] in ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars''
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erUMp1WZ6l4&feature=related this short]], [[LightIsGood light begins as good]], but soon enough [[AxCrazy gets berserk.]]

** Freelancer [[RedShirt mooks]] wear white armor, as do some of the UNSC/separatist troopers - who admittedly might not be evil, but they're shooting at our favorite characters, so we're rooting for them to get heavily owned.

* The plot for OffSwitch has the hero fighting to save his world (which is composed of shadows) from the invading light demons.

* In the CreepyPasta "Thanks", the protagonist's nightlight allows a monster to find them. The monster mockingly thanks them, claiming it couldn't find them in the dark.

* In ''Literature/{{Phaeton}}'' Light is the most destructive and corrupting of all elements, people with light based abilities tend to go mad really fast
* [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale's]] neighboring town and rival, Desert Bluffs, is made out to be a happy place, much more upbeat than the defeatist and Orwellian Night Vale. Its radio announcer Kevin constantly rambles about how nice it is to live there, and even its cover art is bright yellow with a big sun prominently featured, in contrast to Night Vale's dark purple and ever-watching eye...and then [[TheNarrator Cecil]] describes the blood on the walls...
** Specifically, Desert Bluffs has been taken over by a company called '[=StrexCorp=]', which seems to be more of a malevolent, multidimensional force taking the ''form'' of a giant company. In another plane of existence, it's form is a bright light, and is described thusly;
--> The light is alive. And malicious. And vast. And ''encroaching''. It buzzes and shines and everything about it hurts those that are close to it, and destroys those who are within it.
* In ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', the light is an demon demi-god. [[spoiler: Turns out the light is more like the lure of an angular fish for the demi-god.]]
* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', many clerics of Cardia, the God of Order, are more than willing to torture and enslave half-demons who they see as abominations and kill any Chaos worshipper they get their hands on as a means of delivering justice. Artemicia, despite being the Goddess of Healing, has tried to kill her demigod son Leon on several occasions, and her clergy has also committed atrocities, organizing ethnic cleansings and forcing warrior tribes of the desert to accept their religion in place of the Old Ways.
* The Whites in ''WebAnimation/LuckyDayForever''. In comparison to the Proles, their city is brightly lit even at night. Their city is also quite clean by forcing the Proles into servitude. They often select a Prole to convert into a White through a lottery. [[spoiler:In reality, the "lucky" Proles are used as parts for the Whites.]]
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** The Schnee family is entirely white themed. Their surname means 'snow' and those born into the family have names that evoke whiteness. The founder of the Schnee Dust Company was a good man who used his wealth to lift the people of Mantle out of poverty. However, the current head of the family is Jacques Schnee, who married into the family and took on the family's name and symbols when he took over the business from his philanthropic father-in-law. Under his leadership, the SDC is no longer the beacon of quality and philanthropy that it once was; as a stately, white-haired, white-suited man, he looks the part and is an expert at engaging in good PR, but is a greedy businessman who not only maximises profit by cutting corners on quality, suppressing wages and workers rights, but who also terrorises his own family and seeks to control every aspect of their lives as well.
** The God of Light is a being of creation, responsible for creating all living beings including the humans. People would always worship him over his brother - God of Darkness - and considered him to be a benevolent deity. That said, [[spoiler:God of Light sees humanity as merely an experiment. After humans rebel against the gods, God of Light lets his brother destroy humanity and departs from Remnant, leaving the leader of the rebellion immortal on an empty world as a punishment [[DisproportionateRetribution for defying her gods.]] He eventually brings humanity back, but proclaims that if humans do not unite until the Judgement Day, their world will be pernamently destroyed.]]
* ''Literature/VoidDomain'': The Elysian Nuns are a CreatureHunterOrganization who use blinding white holy [[KillItWithFire fire]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]]. They're also {{Knight Templar}}s afflicted with BlackAndWhiteInsanity, who have no qualms about murdering children whom they perceive to be abetting the Enemy. [[spoiler:It's ultimately revealed that their magic is drawn from the SentientCosmicForce of Death itself.]]

*** To elaborate: The above quote refers to one of the many extradimensional deities of the Foundation universe: He Who Made Light. He stands in opposition to his brother, He Who Made Dark, and none of them like us.

* ''Roleplay/WALLEForumRoleplay'': There's a group called White Enterprises. It's not white at all.

* In Creator/KyellGold's webnovel ''Literature/{{Camouflage}}'', Archbishop Argile is a chilling example. A powerful [[TheMarvelousDeer stag]] with a [[ManInWhite white pelt]], he is the head of operations of the Catholic Church in the french town of Tigue, and considered a holy man for his fur colour. He's also a sociopathic monster provoking zealous persecution of gay men, intimidating his underlings and [[spoiler:raping the convicts]]. Danilo, a white [[PantheraAwesome tiger]], starts off as an asshole, but eventually he comes to do his [[LightIsGood colour]] [[MessianicArchetype justice]].

** The Simorgh, one of the [[{{Kaiju}} Endbringers]], is a fifteen-foot-tall humanoid creature with alabaster-white skin and numerous [[GoodWingsEvilWings angel-esque wings]]. It's also a city-destroying [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]] who likes to MindRape anyone who gets into the radius of her psychic "song".

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The Schnee family is entirely white themed. Their surname means 'snow' and those born into the family have names that evoke whiteness. The founder of the Schnee Dust Company was a good man who used his wealth to lift the people of Mantle out of poverty. However, the current head of the family is Jacques Schnee, who married into the family and took on the family's name and symbols when he took over the business from his philanthropic father-in-law. Under his leadership, the SDC is no longer the beacon of quality and philanthropy that it once was; as a stately, white-haired, white-suited man, he looks the part and is an expert at engaging in good PR, but is a greedy businessman who not only maximises profit by cutting corners on quality, suppressing wages and workers rights, but who also terrorises his own family and seeks to control every aspect of their lives as well.

* There's a group called [[WALLEForumRolePlay White Enterprises]]. It's not white at all.

* [[LouisCypher Morning Star]], [[{{Quest64}} Mammon]] in ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars''

* In ''Literature/VoidDomain'', rank and file of the local group of {{Church Militant}}s wear white habits. While they're generally seen as good guys, being hunters of undeath and necromancy, they tend to take their operations to extremes. It isn't unheard of for them to attack people on suspicion or start a battle while innocents are nearby.

* In the WhateleyUniverse, Golden Girl fits this trope. She's another student at the SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy. She is strikingly lovely, and when she uses her powers (golden energy blasts, golden force fields, super-strength, flight), she's covered in a golden glow. She actively hates Phase (one of the main characters and good guys) and tries to hurt her every time they spar in aikido.

** One of the SCP-001 proposals posits that [[spoiler: the ''Sun'']] itself is an SCP. Reading the article shows the world falling to it...[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou including you]].

** One of the SCP-OO1 proposals posits that [[spoiler: the ''Sun'']] itself is an SCP. Reading the article shows the world falling to it...[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou including you]].

* In ''Literature/VoidDomain'', rank and file of the local group of ChurchMillitants wear white habits. While they're generally seen as good guys, being hunters of undeath and necromancy, they tend to take their operations to extremes. It isn't unheard of for them to attack people on suspicion or start a battle while innocents are nearby.

* In the CreepyPasta "Thanks", the protagonist's nightlight allows a monster to find him/her. The monster mockingly thanks him/her, claiming it couldn't find him/her in the dark.

* [[SCPFoundation SCP]][[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1591 -1591]], the "Fallen Star." Its light can disintegrate all matter.