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| 11 | * In the online Flash RPG ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', Brilhado are humanoids with dark purple wings with red tips. Books in the Temple of Hope say people once called them Angels but are really Greater Light Demons. AQ Demons are not satanic, but are creatures from the elemental realms. The Brilhado are Greater Demons because they are seen as demons even by the elemental realms' standards. Most of them work for N.O.V.A.. Subverted by Diviara: though being a Brilhado, he's a Necromancer who wears black robes, though his weapon, Duality, switches between Light and Darkness elements. He is a general of N.O.V.A. [[spoiler:but joins you after his brother's death]]. |
| 12 | * [[spoiler:Gravelyn]] from ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' is the Champion of Light, and is on the side of evil. |
| 13 | * The Elyos in ''VideoGame/{{Aion}}''. They look angelic, and tend to be comparatively more gentle than the Asmodians. They're also arrogant, self-absorbed, and just as dedicated to the petty and vindictive war against the Asmodians as are the Asmodians to the war against them. |
| 14 | * The "Crusade" in ''VideoGame/{{Anno 1404}}'''s campaign, which is a decidedly sinister power grab under a veneer of holiness. The storyline ultimately results in the player defeating the wicked Cardinal Lucius' CorruptChurch with an institution that proves Light is Good after all. |
| 15 | * ''VideoGame/{{Aragami}}'' focuses on a very GreyAndGreyMorality conflict between Light and Shadow, which have been warring so long that both sides have committed many atrocities. |
| 16 | * Mildred Avalon, the BigBad of the first ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'' game, uses a light-elemental arcana, wears white clothing, is incredibly beautiful, and has shiny, beautiful blonde hair. She's also an angel bent on tearing down the barrier between the human and Elemental worlds, [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans regardless of how many people she kills in the process]]. [[spoiler:Averted in later games after being reunited with her sister, where she has become TheAtoner.]] |
| 17 | * In ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', Abstergo Industries, the PresentDay incarnation of the Templar Order, favour sterile white surroundings, with BigBad Dr. Vidic as a VillainInAWhiteSuit. |
| 18 | * In ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', most of the Shinkoku forces (plus the commanders) utilize GoldAndWhiteAreDivine in their colorations, and most attacks are light based. Deus wears all white and wields lightning for his attacks. [[spoiler: [[TrueFinalBoss Charavartin]] is this even more so, by proxy of being God and the Creator and uses light as his main attacks. His Creator form invokes this and DarkIsEvil with a pure white skin color yet a black and white aura in his attacks]]. |
| 19 | * ''VideoGame/AttackTheLight'' has the cast of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fighting enemies made of HardLight. |
| 20 | * In the point-and-click adventure ''Baron Wittard'', the world-destroying entity Fenrir manifests as a silhouette of pure white light. |
| 21 | * ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': The [[TheOathbreaker Oathbreaker Knight]] described a lord to whom he had sworn an Oath thusly: "Where his light shone, my sword followed". Said lord ordered him to kill countless people and destroy villages in his name, until his conscious could abide it no more and he turned his sword on his lord. The Oathbreaker Knight, himself, firmly believes this and DarkIsNotEvil: the holy powers of a Paladin can be used for wicked ends, while the dark powers of an Oathbreaker can serve the greater good. |
| 22 | * ''VideoGame/TheBastardOfKosigan'' series (fan-made ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' expansion) has the classic angels and demons of Christian mythology as the 'order' and 'freedom' factions of a race of precursor humans, but the 'order' faction (who are definitely rather nasty, going directly to deadly force whenever anyone says 'no' to them) eventually won their war for the hearts and minds of ordinary humans and killed all the 'chaos' faction (except for two 'demons', one of whom is revealed to have been St. John and the other is your character's deceased mother, who stole Archangel Gabriel's (the leader of the 'order' faction) sword.) |
| 23 | * [[BigBad Baelheit]]’s special moves in ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos Origins'' are not only Light-based, they're callbacks to the special attacks of the protagonist from the first game in the series (of which Origins is a prequel). This makes sense, considering [[spoiler:Baelheit is the ''real'' [[ChosenOne Spiriter]]. And a WellIntentionedExtremist DiscOneFinalBoss to boot]]. |
| 24 | ** Baelheit has a whole [[TheEmpire evil empire]] that tries to get rid of people's Wings of the Heart by attempting to build a glorious utopian artificial continent floating in the sky and destroying all the other natural floating continents. Thousands of years in the past, however, is an evil cultist, Wiseman, who teaches his followers that their Wings of the Heart are the only things that truly matter. This eventually leads to a war where he can be seen draining energy from some corpses with his shadow dragon. [[spoiler:You even fight him during the second phase of the final battle.]] |
| 25 | ** In the original ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'', [[spoiler:Melodia wears all white and has white hair and turns out to be the true BigBad behind [[TheEmperor Geldoblame]]]]. |
| 26 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'': |
| 27 | ** The [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angels]], which are best described as "grotesque monstrosities with marble-colored skin, stereotypical Greekish clothing, wings, and halos." They are literally from the 'World of Light' called Paradiso (in contrast to Inferno, the 'World of Darkness', and the human world, also known as the 'World of Chaos'), but beyond being angels of light, they are actually quite evil, full of themselves, and express a great hatred for humankind. In fact, they might as well be described as "Light Is Evil", as throughout three games they have never shown any redeemable qualities whatsoever ([[OurDemonsAreDifferent even with the Infernal Demons]], both DarkIsEvil and DarkIsNotEvil varieties exist). |
| 28 | ** More extreme is the BigBad, Father Balder. The last of the Lumen Sages, he orchestrated the genocide of both them and the Umbra Witches, [[spoiler: killed Luka's father]], is the one commanding the angels, and does not seem to care for his [[spoiler:daughter]] beyond being a tool for the awakening of [[GodIsEvil Jubileus]], who he intends to use to destroy the current universe so that a prettier one can be created [[spoiler:(although it turns out to be a circumstance of SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan as Balder housed the pure evil half of the former God of Chaos and humankind, Loptr)]]. Both the Umbra Witches and the Lumen Sages were essential to the balance of light and darkness in the universe before the great war between them ruined everything. In ''Bayonetta 2'' we find out that Father Balder was in a sort of [[StarCrossedLovers "Romeo and Juliet"]] relationship with Bayonetta's mother Rosa before she died in his arms. |
| 29 | ** Singularity and his Homunculi are of a bright silver and green-cyan and resemble mystical Hindu/Vedic deities that also have a Sci-Fi weapon feel to them. However, Singularity is also a vicious madman of a RealityWarper who wants to erase and reshape the multiverse (with 2,042 universes destroyed before prime Bayonetta meets him), and the Homunculi are his nanomachine-bioweapons of doing so. |
| 30 | * ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac: Repentance'': Dogma is a bright being who can transform in to a seraphim that uses light attacks. It is the only boss in the game with a white background in its versus splash screen. However, it attacks a child completely unprovoked, and [[spoiler:is a representation of a corrupt fire-and-brimstone religious broadcasting. It's the game's GreaterScopeVillain.]] |
| 31 | * ''VideoGame/BioShock2'': Sofia Lamb, with her blonde hair, [[TotalitarianUtilitarian sociopathic interpretation of altruism]], and [[PathOfInspiration identity-destroying cult]] that preaches TheEvilsOfFreeWill. |
| 32 | * ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'': |
| 33 | ** Columbia is a very brightly and vibrantly lit city very visually reminiscent of {{Heaven}}, right down to being a city [[FluffyCloudHeaven in the clouds]]. It’s also a militantly nationalistic city that openly practices slavery and is plotting to destroy the “Sodom Below”. |
| 34 | ** [[BigBad Comstock]] heavily associates himself with holy imagery yet is a very depraved man. |
| 35 | * ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': |
| 36 | ** Jin Kisaragi is [[{{Bishonen}} very handsome]], has blonde hair, wears brightly colored clothing, and is celebrated as the Hero of Ikaruga, a war which took place some years before the game. He's also an enormous {{Jerkass}} who possesses very few redeeming qualities, is easily angered, and who's {{Yandere}} for his brother, Ragna. [[spoiler:However, by the end of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'', it has appeared that he's pulled a HeelFaceTurn, and may be ''slightly'' closer to LightIsGood]]. |
| 37 | ** On the other hand, Jin's girlfriend, Tsubaki Yayoi, uses the Armagus Izayoi, a light-based weapon. Except that rather than simple light manipulation, this is some sort of EvilWeapon that steals light from other people, causing the user to go blind. Tsubaki thus far managed to avert this trope... until [[spoiler:she got {{Mind Rape}}d by Hazama, turning into a GreenEyedMonster bent to kill Noel for a selfish desire, playing the trope straight]]. |
| 38 | *** The Izayoi's reputation as a very nasty Sealed Weapon has spread far and wide, and everyone in the know [[spoiler:who isn't Hazama or Relius]] voices their objections to her wielding it. In her Story mode, Jin is exasperated that she would wield it, and Hakumen's Story mode conversation with Jin is a request to save her [[spoiler:both from Terumi's machinations and]] from it. Ragna, after defeating her in Arcade mode, tells her to get rid of it immediately, and if her combat quotes are any indication, Makoto's not fond of it either. |
| 39 | ** When we first see Mu-12, she descends from the Cauldron bathed in a bright light, lending her an almost angelic appearance. Also, most of her attacks are light-based to some extent. She's also known as Kusanagi, the sword that slays gods, and is [[spoiler:{{brainwashed|AndCrazy}} by the BigBad]]. |
| 40 | * In ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'', demons with light elemental attacks are rare, but not unheard of: Light Elementals, created by "wicked means", are the most obvious source of light attacks, but a number of the demonic bosses use them as well, and [[spoiler:demonic corruption doesn't stop Dominque from [[YinYangBomb using light powers]] either]]. |
| 41 | * ''VideoGame/Bomberman64'': |
| 42 | ** Each of the five major NPC's in this game (Sirius, Regulus, Artemis, Orion, Altair) are ColorCodedForYourConvenience, (White, Blue, Red, Green, and Black, respectively). [[spoiler:For most of the game, Sirius acts as your ally, giving you [[TheMentor sage advice]] and [[EleventhHourSuperpower convenient power-ups just before boss fights]]. That is, until you get 100 gold cards and beat the game's initial BigBad, Altair. Instead of escaping, Altair gets ambushed by Sirius, who steals Altair's Omni Cube (later explaining that Altair had stolen it form him in the first place) and [[EvilAllAlong reveals himself]] as the real BigBad after [[TheWorfEffect vaporizing Altair]] with a [[EnergyWeapon laser beam]]]]. |
| 43 | ** The sequel, ''Bomberman 64: The Second Attack'' provides three examples to this trope. First there's the boss, Zoniha, whose title is "The Purifying Light" and attacks with, you guessed it, light based attacks. The second case is the penultimate boss who is literally [[spoiler: a goddess of light who decides to pass judgment on Bomberman for refusing to cooperate with her]]. The final example is the final boss, [[spoiler: the angel of light and darkness, who seems to focus more on light attacks than dark ones]]. |
| 44 | * The creatures in ''VideoGame/TheBreach'' have a thing for yellow light, and the final boss [[EnergyBeing seems to be made entirely out of it]]. They're [[YouWillBeAssimilated rather forceful with those who refuse to join them]]. |
| 45 | * The goddess in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'' loves all of her children in creation to the point where she ordered her followers to kill all of the dragon brood because she thought their very existence was too dangerous. |
| 46 | * ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': |
| 47 | ** Despite Dracula representing the power of darkness, he has a few light-aligned minions, including the Amalaric Sniper, a fallen angel, Nemesis, an angel that hunts men, and Valkyries, divine warriors from Norse lore. |
| 48 | ** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'' introduces the White Fomor, a twelve-foot-tall hovering goat-headed man-thing who shot balls of light at you, and he "mocks God with his blasphemous chanting." Also, [[spoiler:Ecclesia's true purpose is to fulfill mankind's "greatest wish": The return of Dracula]]. |
| 49 | * In ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', light (white) is the elemental attribute of the hero, but also of many villains, often among the most powerful, [[spoiler: including the final boss]]. [[spoiler: Most of the strong white innate bosses you fight are placed in the time where you will be in Lynx's body. Lynx's innate is black, and white elements deal extra damage to black innate. Hope you got some Diminish]]. |
| 50 | * Nova Praetoria by far the brightest, shiniest zone in all of ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''. There's a bright Gold on White Motif, all of the civilians are happy, statues of superheroes dot the landscape, and one of the first missions involves ''picking flowers''. This is the Evil MirrorUniverse version of Paragon City. |
| 51 | ** With the new side switching system, now even the brightest, most light oriented Empathy/Energy Blast Defender can be a villain! |
| 52 | * ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberium'': The Brotherhood of Nod's most powerful defense structure is the "Obelisk of Light." |
| 53 | * ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'': Areas contaminated by [[EldritchAbomination the Hiss]] are full of [[RedIsViolent ugly, glaring bright red light]] that can make it hard to see and easier for its forces to [[JumpScare sneak up on Jesse]]. Most of their forces also have bleached-white skin, with the Hiss's scarlet light [[TaintedVeins visibly glowing just under the surface]]. |
| 54 | * ''VideoGame/CookieRun'': Longan Dragon Cookie is known as the Ivory Dragon, wears a flowing white robe with golden accessories, and seems to use some sort of EnergyWeapon. They are also a ''firm'' believer in MightMakesRight, believing that weaker beings do not deserve life. They plan to eradicate all Cookies by turning them to stone, and they have the power to back it up, [[spoiler: one-shotting a dragoned-up [[TheStarscream Snakefruit Cookie]] ''with just a glance.'']] |
| 55 | * ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' has the BigBad, Neo Cortex and his closest minions (particularly N. Brio and N. Gin), wearing their trademark [[MadScientist white lab coats]]. Clearly they are deranged, but also some of the series' most formidable and creative bosses. Even if they treat each other like [[ButtMonkey trash]] from time-to-time. |
| 56 | * ''VideoGame/CultistSimulator'' has the principle of Lantern, which is associated in equal parts with both the pursuit of truth and the absence of mercy. Lantern-aspect cards can be used to drive Hunters, your followers, and on unfortunate occasions yourself insane. |
| 57 | -->'''Fascination:''' Light LEAKS through the CRACKS. My mind is BRIGHTER than it EVER was. THE HIGHER I RISE THE MORE I SEE. |
| 58 | * [[spoiler: Nagito Komaeda]] from ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' is a total [[LoveFreak Hope Freak]], presenting himself as selfless AllLovingHero and also [[spoiler: carrying the title of Super High School Level Good Luck, the same title as the main character from the previous game, with eventual aspirations to become Super High School Level Hope as he did]]. He's also one of the most AxCrazy characters in the series, quickly turning into a total WildCard, whether he's [[spoiler: trying to commit the first murder to kickstart the game, purposefully withholding information, jumping from supporting the main characters to supporting one of the killers and back again, and eventually even threatening to blow up the entire island while still ranting about hope, culminating in tricking an innocent girl into accidently murdering him]]. |
| 59 | * The Angelus displays this well in ''VideoGame/TheDarknessII'', albeit mostly through FlavorText found in certain holy (and not so holy) relics. Bound the souls of a hundred children to her purpose, possessed a woman to slaughter a village, roasted the unkillable Cain alive when he came to her to help with his atonement, and managed to completely burn the soul of the one Brotherhood member to save the world from destruction, into absolute nothingness. And just for a kicker, [[spoiler: proves itself even more underhanded than The Darkness itself, tricking Jackie into sending himself to hell to help Jenny, only to leave him in hell so she won't have to actually fight The Darkness herself]]. |
| 60 | * ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' likes to play with this trope. The Age of Fire is presented as a good thing, and the Lord of Sunlight was actually noted to have been a great ruler over his kingdom. However, the lore quite firmly establishes that all life in the series, save the Dragons, was in fact born of Darkness. Humanity in particular is stated to have a very close connection to Dark, and this is variously presented as a good, bad, or neutral but dangerous thing. Furthermore, light in the series is linked with Fire. Anyone who works closely with fire knows how incredibly destructive it can be if not controlled, which is reflected in the series: when the Witch of Izalith, more learned in the ways of Fire than any other, attempted to create a new Flame with which to sustain the world, it resulted in the Flame of Chaos, the origin of all ''demons'' and which is presented as just as much a corrupting force as Dark ever was. |
| 61 | ** Gwyn, the TopGod and lord of Sunlight is quite obviously associated with Light and the First Flame, and he at first seems like a benevolent entity who sacrificed himself to ensure the Age of Fire continues. [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII The third game, however]], building on elements from the second game, reveals the full picture: [[spoiler:Gwyn was terrified of the Dark, and in his fanatic scramble to banish it entirely, made the Seal of Fire on mankind, imprisoning their natural darkness. This restriction turned it into a terrifying void raging against its seal, whereas it used to be calm and serene. Gwyn's fear broke the "logic of the world", the natural cycle of light and dark.]] |
| 62 | --->'''Aldia:''' Once, the Lord of Light banished Dark, and all that stemmed from humanity. And men assumed a fleeting form. These are the roots of our world. Men are props on the stage of life, and no matter how tender, how exquisite... A lie will remain a lie. |
| 63 | * Two of the bosses in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' have bright appearances that belie their true dark nature. [[spoiler:Queen Nashandra initially looks like a tall beautiful woman clad in white]] while her real form is the stuff of nightmares. [[OptionalBoss Darklurker]] is an angelic being who resides in the darkest depths and is as hostile as any other enemy. Ironically, one of them (likely both) is [[spoiler:a fragment of Manus, the purest example of DarkIsEvil from the [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI previous game]]]]. |
| 64 | * ''VideoGame/DarkMessiahOfMightAndMagic'' creates a LoveTriangle between the protagonist Sareth, a sweet young mage named Leanna, and a succubus named Xana. Leanna dresses in bright colors, acts innocent and blushes cutely, and her magic largely involves healing and the telekinetic lifting of heavy objects at plot important moments. Xana boldly flirts, alternates jealous and catty observations aimed at Leanna with subtle suggestions about threesomes, and her assistance includes giving Sareth brutal offensive upgrades based around demonic transformations. One of the two ladies demands the other be killed and will attack Sareth as a traitor if he refuses. Guess which one. |
| 65 | * The Light school of magic in ''Dawn Of Magic'' deals ''radiation damage''. |
| 66 | * [[spoiler: Brother Angelico]] from ''VideoGame/DeadInVinland'' is this as a nasty surprise. [[spoiler: Sweet gentle devoutly Christian monk in a white robe... who's also a SerialKiller. When he's caught, he'll be confused because he doesn't remember his crimes, and he'll politely offer to help the TeamMom with the dishes while standing in front of three mutilated corpses.]] |
| 67 | * Papa Blanc from ''[[VideoGame/DeBlob de Blob 2]]''. He poses as a benevolent religious leader decked out in white, as are his subordinates. He also uses remote-controlled drones that emit a gentle light that temporarily hypnotizes those who stare at it. [[spoiler: Papa Blanc is really Comrade Black, who plots to take over the colorful planet of Raydia through any means possible. His ultimate weapon is a giant version of the small drones mentioned above, the Hypno Ray, which combines the colors siphoned from the planet below. This combined color energy takes the form of a brilliant beam white light when shot back down to the planet. Using this weapon, Comrade Black can hypnotize the entire planet in a matter of about 45 minutes]]. |
| 68 | * In ''[[VideoGame/Dota2 Defense of the Ancients 2]]'' the Radiant team is mostly filled with virtuous heroes who fight for good. Exceptions include: |
| 69 | ** Centaur Warrunner (A BloodKnight who loves to kill, and fights to prove that he is the most dangerous warrior ever) |
| 70 | ** Anti-Mage (Who seeks to eliminate every magic user on the planet, whether they are good or evil) |
| 71 | ** Troll Warlord (A {{Troll}} taken up to eleven, to the point where even his brothers couldn't stand him) |
| 72 | ** Chen (A zealous KnightTemplar who will destroy all who refuse to convert) |
| 73 | ** Ogre Magi (More ChaoticStupid than evil, some of their equipment descriptions suggest they kill and loot random travellers) |
| 74 | ** Mirana and Luna -- not exactly evil, but working on a different scale of morality as commanded by Selemene. Their personalities can be nasty: Mirana is a haughty RichBitch with low opinions on nearly everyone, while Luna, in spite of already toning it down from her past, is an AxCrazy BloodKnight revelling in making her foes bleed and suffer. |
| 75 | * ''VideoGame/DensetsuNoStafy4'': Degil is pale white and [[WickedHeartSymbol uses a heart motif]], as well as having attacks that involve roses and kisses. She's also the BigBad of the game, who steals a powerful artifact from the Ami Kingdom in order to make the kingdom’s prince love her. |
| 76 | * ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'': |
| 77 | ** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1 1'': When Mundus appears on screen for the first time, he is seen in a serene, white-marble cathedral bathed in soft light, and takes the form of a gigantic [[GodIsEvil marble statue of a winged, bearded man who looks like God]]. As a visual representation of this trope, Mundus's true form is revealed to be a grotesque, writhing mass of flesh. |
| 78 | ** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'': This applies to Arius and Argosax, the main villains of the game. Arius wears [[VillainInAWhiteSuit a white suit]] and is an EvilSorcerer, MadScientist and CorruptCorporateExecutive all rolled into one. Argsax meanwhile is a demonic EldritchAbomination whose final form resembles a fiery angel. |
| 79 | ** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' has the "Fallen" enemies that appear angelic until they spread their wings and reveal a monstrous face on their torsos. There's also Beowulf (who has no relation to the mythical hero); a light-elemental demon, complete with pseudo-TronLines, with a desire to see every blood relation of Sparda dead. He is a tough nut to crack too. When [[EvilTwin Vergil]] defeats Beowulf, he acquires him as a Devil Arm which grants the user light powers. |
| 80 | ** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4''. The villains [[spoiler:are a CorruptChurch]]. Their signature soldiers are the beautiful Angelo living armors, crafted with a glorious mixture of angelic and demonic features and deliberately created as "angels." By contrast, main character Nero's sinister EvilHand turns out to be a powerful force for good. Interestingly, the villain's raison d'etre, [[spoiler: using demonic energy to kill all the demons in the world]], isn't necessarily a bad one, but in the third act of the game, it's pretty obviously shown that [[spoiler: Extremism has taken root, so they've become da bad dudes]]. |
| 81 | * The angels in the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' franchise are portrayed as being manipulative and having no feelings for humans beyond using them to fight the demons. The necromancers believe that although the demons winning would lead to an eternity of torture for mankind, the angels winning would lead to domination and mental stagnation, and so the balance must be maintained. The main exception to this rule is the archangel Tyrael, who started out spiteful to humans but grew to appreciate them. And Auriel and a few others, but they certainly don't align with High Heavens policy. In fact, whereas the demons just want to enslave mankind, the angels in general and Imperius and Malthael in particular tried to [[spoiler:destroy the mortal world because they deemed it a taint on creation]]. Also, humankind used to be a lot more magically powerful in the past, until the antimagic effects of the [[spoiler:Worldstone (thanks to renegade angel, Inarius)]] took hold. Then when a group of humans rediscovered their ancient power and managed to resist [[spoiler:an angelic invasion intent on destroying the mortal world, the only lasting impact was that the mortal plane was allowed to continue to exist -- thanks to Tyrael convincing the Angiris Council that people do have feelings -- albeit without their powers, with the Worldstone still there and the plane itself only protected from extraplanar influence by a brittle pact between the Council and Mephisto, who naturally circumvented the pact and proceeded to do the things demons do in Diablo while the angels stand by and watch]]. This plot twist is found in the third book of the Sin War series, and is rather scary in a Cthulhu sort of way. These are angels who [[spoiler:''almost destroyed our universe, then were only prevented from finishing the job by democratic vote'', then took away humankind's power and allowed the mortal world to be overrun by demons and people to get killed in a lot of creative ways, just to see if humankind would eventually grow up to fight off the demons by themselves and join their ranks -- or presumably face the judgement anyway]]. Think about ''that'' when you get killed by Blessed Hammer in [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]] ''AGAIN''. |
| 82 | ** When the Angel [[spoiler:Tyrael sacrifices his powers]], an uncontrolled amount of his power permeates the land surrounding New Tristram. His power is aligned with [[spoiler:Justice]] so it awakens the dead who desire that, namely revenge on those who killed them. As their true targets are long dead, they instead turn on the living. |
| 83 | * In ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', the Royal Knights are a group of 13 "Holy Knight" [[{{mons}} Digimon]] that act as guardians of the Digital World but have a tendency to serve antagonistic roles, especially their TokenEvilTeammate, the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Virus]] Digimon Crusadermon. In ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'', [[spoiler:Crusadermon serves as the BigBad for the majority of the storyline as she [[DemonicPossession possesses]] the CorruptCorporateExecutive Rie Kishibe in order to bring the rest of the Knights into the real world. Once they get there, they end up having a small CivilWar over whether to KillAllHumans or not in order to protect the Digital World]]. |
| 84 | * There are hints of this in the backstory of the ''VideoGame/{{Disciples}}'' series. The Highfather, head honcho god that the bright and shiny Empire worships, was a Jerkass who blamed the {{Satan}} expy Bethrezen for the flaws in creation that Bethrezen merely pointed out and imprisoned him in Hell. Reaches new heights in the third game, [[spoiler:since the big reveal is that the angel Inoel sent from the heavens is the herald of the end of the world. The Highfather wants to destroy the world, believing it to be a hopeless mess, and the FinalBoss is the archangel who was sent to do it. Bethrezen and his followers are actually trying to ''prevent'' this]]. |
| 85 | * A major theme in ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'', along with DarkIsNotEvil. |
| 86 | ** The villain in the [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness first game]], Vulcanus, is an archangel who [[spoiler:manipulates humans to start a war with the demons]] and attempts to ascend into godhood in order to bring about absolute peace by forcing all angels, humans and demons to do as he commands. Despite what they themselves believe, neither demons or angels are absolute good or evil, but both are capable of actions of either morality. |
| 87 | ** Regardless of their leader's alleged OmniscientMoralityLicense, Celestia qualifies as this. Though not evil, they are people capable of being very wrong while also being very sure they're right, and aren't above FantasticRacism towards demons ''and'' humans. We do know that Lamington and Flonne aren't as apeshit about order as [[KnightTemplar Vulcanus]], but the rest... |
| 88 | ** In this sense, it would seem that Lamington was usurped by the ambitious Vulcanus (despite him having no chance), and the rest of the angels merely followed orders. Lamington never actually does anything offensive besides dealing with Vulcanus and Flonne, however Flonne is dealt with by their laws [[spoiler:and in the good ending returns as a fallen angel rather than being turned into a flower]]. Flonne seems to be ruled more by ThePowerOfLove and the RuleOfCool than anything else. She has no prejudices (and in fact states as much early in the game) and no real desires beyond living a happy life and bringing love to those around her. |
| 89 | * ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': [[spoiler:Throughout the game you are constantly being saved by the gods, who often heal you with a holy light after certain battles. However later in the game when you must feed your god with Source, they teach you the skill "Source Vampirism" which the Gods also use. To consume Source from a spirit is to completely destroy them, and deprive them from even having an afterlife. However the gods seem perfectly willing to use this horrific powers to feed themselves. Ultimately when you fail to become divine, the gods who once saved you and called you their "Champion", will turn on you. In Divinity, "Divine" is not always good. Even with the gods backing you, the protagonist is just as capable of being evil. The gods are just as self-centered as anyone else.]] |
| 90 | * ''VideoGame/{{Dominions}} 3'' has its fair share of evil Light nations. Take for example Marignon, a nation led by an inquisition that went too far in their search of heresy that they made a pact with demons and started practicing blood magic to increase the effectiveness of the inquisition. But then, there are [[GreyAndGreyMorality no "good" nations in Dominions]]. |
| 91 | ** Want to permanently brainwash enemy civilians into zealot loyal to your cause? (Disclaimer: The process is far from perfect, only some will be properly converted, others will be driven irrevocably insane or will simply die.) There's an astral spell for that. Want to curse somebody for the rest of their lives? There's an astral spell for that, too. Want to cause a province-wide epidemic of bad luck? Astral magic. Want to paint a unremovable bullseye on somebody that will make them a target for any passing EldritchAbomination? Yep, astral magic. Want to ''send'' an EldritchAbomination to wreck havoc on a distant province? You're going to need astral magic. Want to forge an ArtifactOfDoom? A lot of them require skill in astral magic. Want to ''taint the source of magic itself'', so that only BloodMagic is safe to use? Hope you've got at least six levels in the astral path. |
| 92 | * ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' has the Maykrs, an angelic race that acts benevolent to all who worship them. In reality, they had made a deal with Hell and allowed demons to slaughter large portions of civilizations and harvest their souls for Argent Energy in order to stave off Transfiguration. When the Maykrs order it to be done to Earth, the Slayer responds in his [[SpannerInTheWorks usual manner]]. This eventually culminates in him [[KillTheGod killing the Khan Maykr]] [[ItsPersonal for betraying him and his fellow Night Sentinels, as well as sacrificing countless worlds to TheLegionsOfHell.]] |
| 93 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' likes this trope, just as it likes the [[DarkIsNotEvil inverse]]. |
| 94 | ** There are the templars in general -- an order of religious knights in shining armor, devoted to their duty of protecting the people from supernatural menace...unfortunately, this involves locking up many innocent people who have been born with magical potential. While some templars are decent, others are viciously abusive of their charges (beating, raping, or effectively lobotomizing them), and the order ends up locking most mages in solitary confinement, forbidding any contact with their friends and families, sending death squads to kill people suspected of aiding runaway mages, and [[spoiler: attempting to kill every mage in the city at the end]]. |
| 95 | ** In particular, there's [[spoiler: Knight-Commander Meredith, the faction's leader and the game's FinalBoss, who is driven mad by an ArtifactOfDoom; her shiny armor, regal bearing, and pretty pale-blonde hair accentuate this trope]]. |
| 96 | ** And, on the other hand, there's [[spoiler: Anders: an altruistic, idealistic healer mage (handsome and blond too) who lives in the city's worst slum healing refugees for free and sheltering runaway mages, constantly risking his life for his patients and charges, the cause of mage freedom, and his friend and/or lover Hawke...who is gradually being corrupted from within by an otherworldly spirit twisted by his own anger at templars and the world's injustice, and who ends up blowing up a church with innocent clergy inside in order to start the Mage-Templar War]]. |
| 97 | * ''Franchise/DragonQuest'' has some enemies which are zombified priests, who use the same healing and support magic that the party's own priests can, too. From ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'' onwards, monsters can breathe light on enemies to damage them, like the Godsteed. |
| 98 | ** Marcello, the half-brother of Angelo in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' definitely exemplifies this trope when he fights against the party after obtaining Rhapthorne's sceptre. One of his attacks, Pearly Gates, even smites the party with holy light. There are also fallen priest monsters that are servants to the Lord of Darkness, some of whom can even fully heal and revive their fallen compatriots. |
| 99 | ** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'', this is probably the reason the hero is attacked. Not that the hero himself is evil, but that the Luminary's reincarnation [[DoomMagnet brings with it the return of evil]]. Jasper himself is evil, due to [[spoiler: being Mordegon's right hand man]]. |
| 100 | * In ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'', everyone important is training to become the Messiah, but it turns out that the Messiah has two candidates and that if the 'bad' one wins they might destroy everything or turn the world into a land for monsters. [[spoiler:But it actually goes beyond that: The Messiah itself is a position that dooms the world. Also, GodIsEvil]]. |
| 101 | * ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'' is a really good example. Holy beings such as angels are just as bloodthirsty as demons. Even if you're not actually evil they'll still attack you on sight with intent to kill and, given how powerful they tend to be, they'll probably succeed at that goal. You can't sneak past them either, thanks to their glowing halo which will illuminate you and make you easy to spot. And if you do manage to kill one of them [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption your reward is a blast of holy fire courtesy of their god, The Shining One]]. That's right. You get smote with holy fire... ''for defending yourself''. The only characters safe from attacks by angels, daevas, and other holy monsters are followers of the three good gods, and even then it only works if your piety is high enough and the being in question isn't having a bad day. What's more, even on the off chance an angel does decide you deserve to live they'll still only become neutral, not friendly, meaning they'll still attack you if you're in their way. |
| 102 | * ''VideoGame/DungeonMakerIITheHiddenWar'' has white orcs, apostate priests, and other holy type monsters that are more than happy to try to kill you. |
| 103 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' |
| 104 | ** In the {{backstory}}, the creations of the [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Dwemer]] used a lot of gold and bronze colors, along with glowing jewels and enchantments in their {{Magitek}} SteamPunk technology. They were also {{Naytheist}}s who would [[LoopholeAbuse bend the laws of nature and physics]] in order to [[RagnarokProofing make their creations last]], passed AbusivePrecursors 101 with flying colors, and caused their entire race to disappear without a trace by [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence attempting to tap into the power]] of the [[GodIsDead Heart of the "dead" god Lorkhan]]. |
| 105 | ** Meridia, a [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] associated with LifeEnergy, Light, and [[ProudBeauty Beauty]], was once a Magna-Ge, (essentially an angel of the god of magic) and retains the [[DivinelyAppearingDemons angelic imagery]]. Her titles include the Lady of Infinite Energies and the Radiant One, and she is generally regarded as one of the less malevolent of the Daedric Princes due to her loathing of the undead and opposition to some of her more obviously malevolent peers, such as the [[GodOfEvil Daedric Prince Molag Bal]]. She is also a self-righteous, [[ItsAllAboutMe utterly selfish]] {{Narcissist}} who [[ControlFreak despises any mortal free will or defiance]], [[BadBoss casts aside her servants as soon as she decides they're of no more use to her]], and only acts in defense of mortals when they have [[EnemyMine a common enemy]]. She serves as the GreaterScopeVillain of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'''s ''Knights of the Nine'' expansion, where her [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] servants, the Aurorans, act the muscle for [[BigBad Umaril the Unfeathered]], who seeks the downfall of [[SaintlyChurch The Nine Divines]]. |
| 106 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', [[PhysicalGod Tribunal deity]] Almalexia is frequently associated with light. Her CatchPhrase is "come, bask in the light of my mercy" and her home city of Mournhold is known as "the City of Light, City of Magic." [[spoiler:As the {{Face Heel Turn}}ed BigBad of the ''Tribunal'' expansion, she shows that she is definitely ''not'' good]]. |
| 107 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'': |
| 108 | *** The Golden Saints (Aureal in their own language) are employed as enforcers by Sheogorath, [[MadGod the Daedric Prince of Madness]]. While they aren't outright evil, they [[PunyEarthling frown upon mortals as unworthy]] and are a lot less sympathetic than their counterparts, [[DarkIsNotEvil the Dark Seducers]]. They also guard the bright and happy "Mania" side of the Shivering Isles. |
| 109 | *** Jyggalag, the Daedric Prince of [[ControlFreak Order]]. Despite his associations with order, light, and his [[TinTyrant shiny metal appearance]], he is a destructive deity who stops at nothing in an attempt to put the universe into his idea of "perfect order". In the backstory, he threatened the other ([[OrderVersusChaos chaotic-leaning]]) Daedric Princes so much that they [[IronicHell cursed him]] into [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis becoming his own antithesis]] -- Sheogorath. At the end of every Era, Jyggalag is allowed to return to his true form in an [[EternalRecurrence event known as the Greymarch]]. During this time, he retakes and destroys the Shivering Isles (Sheogorath's and formerly his own [[EldritchLocation realm]]), only to return to the form of Sheogorath at the end. The main plot of the ''Shivering Isles'' expansion is about him trying to break this ViciousCycle once and for all. |
| 110 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Thalmor]] soldiers in wear the standard golden Elven Armor. |
| 111 | * ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'': Of the trio of rivals that Mantorok has to deal with, Chattur'gha [[EvilIsVisceral is a Ancient of Flesh]], Xel'lo'tath [[MadGod is a Ancient of Spirits]], and Ulyaoth is a Ancient of the Mind, fitting this trope. [[DarkIsNotEvil Said Ancient is the complete opposite of Mantorok, Ulyaoth being a God of Machines in contrast to Mantorok being a Fertility God]]. |
| 112 | * ''VideoGame/EveOnline'' has the Amarr Empire as one of the main factions in the game. They are a pure and devoutly religious people who protect the galaxy from evil with their beautiful golden spaceships. However, these beautiful spaceships are enormous monstrosities like the 'Apocalypse' and 'Armageddon' battleships with laser cannons that are among the most powerful weapons in the game that can turn most opponents into dust in minutes. And how do they protect the galaxy from evil? By conquering as much of it as they can, enslaving other races that oppose them and claiming divine right to do whatever they feel like to anyone they feel like as servants of a higher power. The only thing that stopped them cold was a far more advanced and powerful race which they tried to claim as their property. Since then, they have put their plans for purging the galaxy of evil on hold. |
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| 116 | * ''VideoGame/FallFromHeaven'', a ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV'' GameMod, features the Mercurians: angels so [[TheUnfettered single-minded]] in their hunt for demons that they are often mistaken for the very demons they hunt. |
| 117 | * The Institute of ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is quite possibly the cleanest place in the Wasteland (which isn't really saying much, but even isolated places like the [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Lucky 38]] and [[VideoGame/Fallout3 Vault 101]] still have signs of deterioration). They also create intelligent life to be used as tools, kidnap people from the surface to experiment on, and more. Even their leader, Father, who [[spoiler:''is your son'']] is at best TrueNeutral, and holds [[spoiler:no affections for you and only freed you from the Vault to see what would happen]]. |
| 118 | ** Similarly, the Sanctuary from before the war is shown as an idyllic, 1950s-esque community. However, other games and lore sources have implied that the life in Sanctuary is either a facade or an outlier, and most of the country was already suffering from resource shortages and succumbing to riots when the bombs dropped. |
| 119 | * ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' has Faith Seed. She dresses in all white, and even sprouts white wings of glowing light while under the hallucinatory effects of Bliss. But she is also a mass murderer, drug queenpin, and master psychological manipulator who has driven dozens, if not hundreds of people to murder and suicide. Not that her brothers are any better... |
| 120 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 121 | ** The spell "Holy" in many installments of the series is a beam or explosion of divine light that burns the target from the astral plane, and is usually earned late in the game. Plenty of adversaries (mostly evil ones, who might even belong to a CorruptChurch) use it on you with impunity. |
| 122 | ** The GBA remake of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' has [[spoiler:the Light Emperor. Specifically he is the "good" side of the Emperor's soul split from the "evil" side in Pandemonium. He tries to take over heaven, and succeeds completely, becoming master of heaven and hell before you even get there. He's still a tosser though]]. |
| 123 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' had the [[DarkIsNotEvil good-guy Warriors of Darkness]] in its backstory, fighting the "Flood of Light" that threatened to burn away all of creation and was every bit as evil and dangerous as the [[BigBad Cloud of Darkness]] that the player-controlled Warriors of Light are now up against. |
| 124 | ** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Exdeath]], despite having a NameToRunAwayFrom, is often seen clad in brilliant blue and white armor. One of his signature attacks, "Almagest," does Holy damage to the entire party. |
| 125 | ** [[MonsterClown Kefka's]] Light of Judgment from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' is essentially a Nuke. His [[OneWingedAngel final form is a man/god/angel bathed in light]], shown in the main page picture. Kefka also talks an awful lot about [[KillItWithFire burning things]], fire being a good example of the destructive side of light. |
| 126 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': |
| 127 | *** Sephiroth is the TropeCodifier for WhiteHairBlackHeart. He used to be a good guy, before he snapped and decided to try and fuse with the Lifestream and [[AGodAmI become a god]] to rule over the Planet. Between him and Kefka, they actually [[FollowTheLeader started a trend of angel-themed supervillains]], with [[OneWingedAngel One-Winged Angels]] even being named after Sephiroth's angelic form. |
| 128 | *** Holy was supposed to save the Planet from Meteor. It was summoned so ''late'', though, that its clash with the Black Magic spell was actually devastating what it was meant to protect, until the Lifestream surged up and helped it destroy Meteor. Even then, Bugenhagen theorized that Holy, a spell that obliterates that which is harmful to the Planet, could have very well destroyed mankind as well, if it judged humans to be harmful. The game's ending was deliberately ambiguous about whether this had in fact happened (with the ending's only post-Holy scene depicting solely non-human characters), but the spinoffs and [[TheMovie sequel movie]] made it clear that humanity survived. |
| 129 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': |
| 130 | *** The [[CorruptChurch Church of Yevon]], which (initially) seemed like a good organization, if a bit bigoted, bringing hope and order to Spira. Then the Maesters showed their true colors, the oppressive antagonist faction who worships a DemiurgeArchetype. |
| 131 | *** There's also Yunalesca, a stunningly beautiful woman with long white hair, fair skin and silver clothes. She was the first summoner to defeat Sin and waits in Zanarkand to await summoners that complete their pilgrimage. [[spoiler: And if they don't do what she says, she has a horrific OneWingedAngel]]. |
| 132 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'': |
| 133 | *** The gods Alexander (light) and Odin (darkness) are in constant opposition. Every few hundred years they break free from where ever they are to fight each other in a "Ragnarok", in an attempt to destroy each other and mowing down anyone in their paths. Showing that DarkIsNotEvil, Odin is the more magnanimous of the two as he, [[spoiler: beseeched by a servant who had repeatedly defied Odin's orders, saves the life of an Empress who was shot with a holy beam meant for him]]. |
| 134 | *** Beastmen summoners are capable of using the Light-based Avatar Carbuncle for their Astral Flow ability, generally with more disastrous results than the [[ElementalRockPaperScissors normal elemental Avatars]]. |
| 135 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'': |
| 136 | *** Light elementals are just as pernicious once roused as their dark brethren, and by the same token, a dark elemental is just as peaceful as a light when left alone. |
| 137 | *** [[FallenAngel Ultima]], the strongest of the main twelve Espers, is a personification of this trope. Her element of choice is light. She has a beautiful, angelic appearance (complete with platinum blonde hair and [[FluffyFashionFeathers a feathery dress]]) -- and is a very tough, powerful boss who uses magick fields to weaken the player, wields very strong Holy magick, and can inflict Reverse on a character and use Renew to KO them. She also led the rebellion of the Espers against the gods. Though you can get her to be on your side if you beat her... |
| 138 | *** The Occuria are essentially the "gods" of Ivalice, who desire order and harmony in their world. However, they are shown to be deceitful tyrants who manipulate mortals with visions of dead loved ones and who urge Ashe to destroy the Archadians, down to every innocent civilian, for defying their will. |
| 139 | ** While more GoodIsNotNice, Lightning from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' is themed around this concept. While she does become genuinely heroic at the end of the game, until then she is a violent, driven and judgemental AntiHero who is trying to make up for ostracising her beloved sister due to her becoming L'Cie. |
| 140 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' takes the light versus dark concept from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' and takes it to a whole new level. The Warriors of Darkness you meet in the 3.1 to 3.4 story line appear to be evil since they claim they're fighting for darkness instead of light, but it turns out [[spoiler: that when they tried to save their own world from darkness, it got flooded with light instead and is nearly destroyed. They're led to believe from the Ascians that killing the Warrior of Light would bring balance back, though Urianger manages to find another way and orchestrates the event from behind the scenes to make it happen.]] |
| 141 | *** The expansion ''Shadowbringers'' takes this concept and runs with it to its logical conclusion: the expansion takes place in The First, [[spoiler: the aforementioned world where the Warriors of Darkness hailed from]]. It's one of several alternate dimensions where the balance between light and darkness has been gravely disrupted. Here, the darkness has been almost completely extinguished by the light, resulting in EndlessDaytime that has given birth to a new breed of EldritchAbomination known as "sin eaters" created from overexposure to the light; in contrast to the voidsent created by overexposure to the darkness of the Void. As such, the player will, themselves, take on the mantle of the Warrior of Darkness in order to restore balance to The First and deliver the realm from the brink of annihilation. Ironically, The First had a whole religion dedicated to the worshipping of Light, which obviously fell out of fashion pretty hard after the Flood. |
| 142 | *** One of the primary antagonists for most of ''Shadowbringers'' is a [[AdiposeRex rich, viciously corrupt ruler]] named Vauthry. He somehow possesses the ability to control Sin Eaters, and has a moral superiority complex over everyone despite being [[MoralMyopia heinously tyrannical]]. [[spoiler: This is because he ''is'' a Sin Eater; more specifically, the final and most powerful of the Lightwardens, [[NonIndicativeName Innocence]]. When you encounter him in combat, you swiftly defeat his humanoid form only to have him change into a [[BishonenLine gloriously beautiful angel.]] Between this and his [[MoralMyopia morally myopic]] ranting, Vauthry is one of the most blatant examples of this trope personified in the entire ''Final Fantasy'' series.]] |
| 143 | *** During the expansion, [[TheSmartGuy Urianger]] has revelations that refute knowledge aetherologists on the Source have about the role of Light and Darkness in the elemental wheel; while originally it was thought that Light was associated with creation and Darkness associated with stasis (and thus stagnation), he posits their beliefs may have it mixed up, with Darkness actually being the element associated with creation and Light associated with stasis. This is because [[spoiler: the imbalance of Light in the First that is leaking back to the Source is the cause of aetherial thinning mentioned during ''Stormblood's'' post-launch patches, and why in Urianger's [[BadFuture dark vision of the future]], the [[DeadlyGas Black Rose chemical weapon]] was able to spread like a plague; the chemical works by halting aetherial flow in a person's body, and with the added Light aether already thinning the aetherial flow across the Source, it becomes a hundredfold more potent.]] This doesn't make light ''bad'' per say -- stasis and order is as important as creation and chaos -- but much like everything else in the First, the abundance of Light is ''definitely'' not helping the heroes' case. |
| 144 | *** In addition, revelations expansion raise a lot of questions about Hydaelyn and the legitimacy of her status as the BigGood; [[spoiler: namely, that she is a Primal rather than a Goddess. Moreso, it was not Hydaelyn who came first, but [[GreaterScopeVillain Zodiark]], summoned by the Ascians to save their civilisation from an inevitable apocalypse. Hydaelyn was summoned in turn to stop Zodiark because the survivors were divided on whether they could trust such a powerful being. Once summoned, Hydaelyn destroyed Zodiark and shattered the Source and its inhabitants into the Thirteen shards, severely weakening their aetheric potential. The few Ascians who survived see Hydaelyn as both a tyrannical and unjust jailer of the very god who saved them, and the destroyer of their cherished homeworld. Of course, [[ArcVillain considering who's recounting the story]] and how they openly admit they're [[MoreThanMindControl tempered to Zodiark]], we're hearing a very biased version of the truth; ''Endwalker'' swiftly reveals that Hydaelyn is a straight-up case of LightIsGood, who [[IDidWhatIHadToDo did what she had to do]] at the very worst, and every piece of "evidence" towards her malevolence that was presented in Endwalker is taken ''waaaay'' out of context.]] |
| 145 | *** Patch 5.2 has Eden Shiva when Ryne channels the Warrior of Light's memories of Shiva into herself to become a Primal like Ysale did. Unfortunately she loses control and besides having Shiva's ice powers, she switches into a Light version based on her image of Hydaelyn that threatens to start a second Flood of Light on the First. After defeating her, she freezes the entire party and herself until [[DarkIsNotEvil Gaia]] breaks into the boss arena and breaks the party and Shiva out so the raid can finish the job before she ends up starting that second Flood of Light. |
| 146 | ** Patch 5.3 has this with Elidibus channeling [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI The Warrior of Light]] as his true form, fully revealed as a Primal of the Ascians. Before getting to him in the Crystal Tower, he called down infinite Shades of Heroes from across time and space to attack the First on the basis that you are the Warrior of Darkness, just to wear you down.]] |
| 147 | * In ''VideoGame/TheFinalFantasyLegend'', [[spoiler:the final Boss, the Creator, is not only light, but is {{God|IsEvil}}, and attacks with what is essentially the light of God]]. |
| 148 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' also relies heavily on this trope, as most of the main villains could fit this category in a way or another. All of the Shrine Knights and the high-ranking members of the Church of Glabados fit this trope well. The last boss in particular [[spoiler:is the reincarnation of a false saint with a whole corrupted religion revolving around him/her/it]]. |
| 149 | ** All of the Totema bosses of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' use are healed by Holy, and some use it too. One of the game's most powerful swords does Holy-elemental damage, much to the dismay of many players who went into the final battle with it equipped. |
| 150 | ** In ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasyOperaOmnia'', the player party is made up of characters across the series who wander through space-time rifts called Torsions, and Mog scoops up the ones who bear the "light" to join the ever-expanding party in closing te Torsions. In Chapter 6, however,it is revealed that [[spoiler:the "light" includes the power to ''open'' Torsions as well, meaning that the antagonists who are running around flooding the world with monsters are as much Warriors of Light as the heroes are]]. |
| 151 | * ''VideoGame/FindingLight'': The FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Zamas, can use light spells like Holy, Smite3, and Judgement despite being the god of chaos]]. |
| 152 | * If you get betrayed '''''anywhere''''' in the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series, 2:1 odds are that it was by a bishop, cleric, paladin, light magician... you get the point. |
| 153 | ** The entire series uses both this and DarkIsNotEvil, because classes specializing in healing or light magic are quite frequent in the enemy armies, including among their often flatly evil bosses, and classes specializing in dark magic can be good. (In fact, in ''every'' chapter of [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight the first game's]] second half, expect at least one Cleric with a Reserve Wand.) However, there's still a tendency towards the nastiest magical characters being [[BeautyEqualsGoodness hideous]] and/or using [[DarkIsEvil dark magic]], and the reverse for the good side. |
| 154 | *** It's explained that light magic draws its power from [[ReligionIsMagic faith]], and that dark magic draws its power from knowledge, creating a sort of religion-science dichotomy between the two. If you'll notice, even the most evil of Bishops (like Kenneth or Riev) have absolute faith in the villains, and most of the series' dark magic users (at least since ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Binding Blade]]'') have been extremely intelligent bookworms, regardless of their alignment to good or evil. The series tries to avoid the subject of religion for the most part, but Kenneth laughs at the idea of gods, cementing the idea that the object of a light magic user's faith doesn't need to be [[PureIsNotGood divine]]. |
| 155 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', The most evil and irredeemable character, Riev, is the Bishop class and uses incredibly powerful light magic. |
| 156 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]'', you have to take down a corrupt bishop who stole a heron. He uses one of the most powerful light spells in the game. Said character also happens to have an army of other light magicians with him. |
| 157 | ** The Black Knight's mighty sword Alondite appears to use the light element. The Black Knight even explains to Ike at one point that his sword was forged by the goddess herself and its twin sword is the only one that could ever hope to defeat it. |
| 158 | ** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]'' uses this as well as OrderVersusChaos. The villains of the game are the Begnion Senate, which is obviously modeled after the medieval Catholic Church. All of the senators are the Bishop class and use light magic. One of them uses ''corrupted'' light magic. [[spoiler:Ashera, Goddess of Order, is the final boss, as she wishes to punish the world with the light of judgment, and our heroes team up with the (very nice) Goddess of Chaos to stop her]]. The OrderVersusChaos page explains this all very nicely. |
| 159 | ** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Three Houses]]'' plays with this trope with [[spoiler:Archbishop Rhea/Seiros, otherwise known as The Immaculate One.]] In most of the game's routes, [[spoiler:Rhea has been known to commit questionable acts, but remains as the BigGood nonetheless.]] However, in the Crimson Flower route, [[spoiler:Rhea goes absolutely berserk upon what she believes to be Byleth's betrayal by siding with Edelgard in the Holy Tomb, and undergoes SanitySlippage, becoming the BigBad of that route.]] |
| 160 | * The Hammer of Light from ''VideoGame/{{Freespace}}'', a group of ScaryDogmaticAliens who believe that the BigBad Shivans are gods (the Shivans [[OmnicidalManiac kill them just as quickly they do everyone else]]). |
| 161 | * ''VideoGame/{{Furcadia}}'''s "Light Primes" are generally not nice. For example, Viveravus, the good god of colors and the twilight, literally tore Tallus to itsy bitsy pieces with his own two hands [[spoiler: in public, at Mycrofts of all places, regardless of what the game canon says. Tallus did not even fight back, he just kept trying to defend himself against an unprovoked attack against an angry drunk god. This happened in front of a bar full of horrified mortals. He also threatened to attack said mortals]]. Also, meeting many of the light primes in person can be a shock [[spoiler: most of them are jerks. Aristaya, the goddess of good dreams, is a regal ice queen, M'rill the sun goddess is full of herself and will rob you blind, and Chim will challenge you to games at which you will almost certainly always lose. The rest of the gods can be even worse...]]. |
| 162 | * ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'': The two final games of the trilogy have the Will, a race of extradimensional {{Winged Humanoid}}s who look like angels, and while at first they try to come across as benevolent, in reality they've destroyed countless civilizations when they judged them "unworthy", and plan to reset the entire universe by causing what's essentially a Big Crunch as they consider the current one a "failure". |
| 163 | * In ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', if you're playing as Aether, the male PlayerCharacter [[DarkIsNotEvil whose outfit is predominantly brown]], [[spoiler:then the leader of the Abyss Order will be Lumine, his sister, whose outfit is predominantly white.]] |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/{{Gift|2001}}'': Little Clears and light where Little Darks live. Also green light which drains all magic powder from Gift's staff and red light which reduces his movement speed and jump height. |
| 165 | * In the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series, among the gods who oppose Kratos there is Helios, the god of the sun, and Hermes, who has his hair made of light. and Zeus who is a GrandpaGod with a light glow One could argue that [[spoiler: they were corrupted by the evils of PandorasBox]], but the only god who seems to have been significantly affected was [[spoiler:Zeus]], so it may just be that they are that way. |
| 166 | ** Some of the lesser foes, like the desert sirens, Perseus and undead sentries also use light attacks, throwing golden light at Kratos. |
| 167 | ** Ares (whose facial hair is literally fire) is confirmed to be an actual {{Jerkass God|s}} in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension'', when it's revealed that he conspired with the Furies to violently take over Olympus. The Furies wear flashy golden jewelry made of the broken promises of their prisoners, and their prison itself does most of its work in bright sunlight. |
| 168 | ** The BigBad in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' is none other than [[spoiler:Baldur, the Norse God of Light]], who is presented as a violent and psychotic PsychopathicManchild that also happens to be [[NighInvulnerability almost invincible]]. |
| 169 | * ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' uses this trope for the Apollo Sanctum, which is bathed in light so intense it will kill your party without somebody wearing the correct equipment to provide protection. [[spoiler: The light around the Apollo Lens is so fierce that even the Umbra Gear cannot protect the person who has to fire it. [[TearJerker Manly]] [[HeroicSacrifice tears]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath ensue]]]]. |
| 170 | * In ''VideoGame/GrandiaII'' the [[spoiler:Pope of the popular religion]] turns out to be helping to revive Valmar (the game's {{Satan}} analogue) because [[spoiler:contrary to the world's standard mythology, Granas (the "God"/CrystalDragonJesus of said popular religion) ''lost'' the ancient "Battle Between Good and Evil." Said Pope also seems to actually be ''much more evil than Valmar'', and sought to revive the "devil" to steal its power and make himself into a replacement for the long-dead Granas]]. Mareg's religion doesn't believe in complete evil or good (much to the disdain to one character) and is proved correct when the "real" history of the gods is shown to the heroes. |
| 171 | * In ''VideoGame/GuildWars: Prophecies'', the White Mantle (dressed, appropriately, in swishy white and gold getups) initially seem like great guys. They welcome a band of refugees from a formerly-enemy country, give them a nice patch of land, spend lots of time fighting the undead menace that has recently risen, recognize (and promote) talent, even among foreigners, and search the peasantry for those with magical talents so that those peasants can be educated and their talents developed. Turns out, though, that [[spoiler:all those talented peasants are being sacrificed to golden, floating, not-really-gods, the undead were attracted by an artifact the White Mantle shouldn't have been messing with in the first place, and other Evil Things were afoot, ultimately caused by the dark god Abaddon, who has been trying to break his prison and destroy the world since the other five gods caged him up about a thousand years ago]]. Their counterparts the Shining Blade, with an equally bright name but more practical clothing, are pretty straightforward, though. |
| 172 | * ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': |
| 173 | ** The Covenant are ScaryDogmaticAliens who use a lot of light in their culture. TronLines abound in their architecture, the Prophets claim to be the guiding light of the Covenant, and they mostly use plasma weaponry, often employing their ships'{{Wave Motion Gun}}s like a BoltOfDivineRetribution. |
| 174 | ** The Forerunners' technology is almost all bright and shiny, with HardLight being integral to their architecture, ships, weapons, etc. Though they believed themselves to be the galaxy's caretakers, they were in practice imperialist AbusivePrecursors, though mostly of the BelievingTheirOwnLies type. |
| 175 | * ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': The infection that destroyed the kingdom that the Knight is exploring manifests itself as a sickly orange glow. Weaker enemies have glowing orange eyes and bleed orange when you hit them. Enemies with advanced infection are covered in glowing pustules, and certain areas that have fallen to the infection are covered in glowing MeatMoss thick enough to block passages. [[spoiler:In the GoldenEnding, you fight the creator of the infection. Her first appearance is as a glowing sun in the background in a dream world, and her attacks use [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine white swords and golden energy blasts]].]] |
| 176 | * The final bosses of the ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead 2'' and ''3'' are magnificent shiny quicksilvery creatures bearing a striking contrast with the usual shambling rotten and untidy lot of the zombie army. They are still dicks though. |
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| 180 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Infernal}}'', [=EtherLight=] uses a lot of white, pale grey, and shiny blue, but is the antagonist for most of the game. Not everyone working for them is evil, but they're certainly not all good. |
| 181 | * In ''VideoGame/Inside2016'', bright light is ''never'' a good thing. Running through it always means an instant death or alerting enemies who will charge after you like a bat out of hell. Oftentimes, it's even used as an ambient warning, like a bright single lamp over a hallway that leads to an area where a threat is waiting, or a brightly lit room being an area where guards are lurking. |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/Jak3'': |
| 183 | ** Count Veger is a WellIntentionedExtremist and KnightTemplar who seeks to become "the glorious light that burns away the shadows." This includes [[DarkIsNotEvil Jak himself]], who has already saved the world two times. |
| 184 | ** Jak's own Light form comes complete with a set of angelic wings. While its powers are mostly based on defense rather than offense, it still enables Jak to wreak havoc, for example by using [[TimeStandsStill Flash Freeze]] and then [[MoreDakka shooting everything in sight]]. |
| 185 | * ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven'' features [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Heaven Ascension]] [[GreaterScopeVillain DIO]] and his Stand, The World Over Heaven, which has the ability to [[RetGone erase history and reality]]. |
| 186 | * ''VideoGame/JourneyOn'': Chosen One Subject XIV is a boss monster who falsely believes themselves to be the true wielder of the Holy Sword and will fight to prevent Selena from claiming it. They can use imitations of the holy skills that Selena can learn if she obtains the sword. It's implied that they are a failed Ashkar experiment to control the sword. |
| 187 | * Despite [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI the first game]] taking a straight "light is good, and dark is bad" angle, most of the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series affirms that light and darkness are simply sources of power. What you ''do'' with them is completely up to you, and later games introduce light-wielding villains. |
| 188 | ** One of the [[ArcWords arc phrases]] of the first game: "The closer you are to the light, the greater your shadow becomes." |
| 189 | ** The Keyblade of Heart carried by [[spoiler:Ansem-possessed Riku]] was forged from the hearts of the seven Princesses of Heart. [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver One look at the thing]] will tell you that it's ''not'' a weapon of good. |
| 190 | ** Angel Stars are a species of TheHeartless described as being born from Holy magic and resemble a cross between a spark plug and, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an angel]]. They're also only found in TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, a graveyard of worlds consumed by the darkness. |
| 191 | ** In ''Chain of Memories'', Zexion tries to kill Riku with blasts of light. |
| 192 | ** Master Eraqus from ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' starts off with shades of KnightTemplar. It gets worse, but by the time ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage 0.2]]'' rolls around he MIGHT have become TheAtoner. |
| 193 | ** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', [[spoiler:Xehanort rips out the Light from Sora and wields it during the final battle. His new plan for Kingdom Hearts is also an example -- he has come to believe that the hearts of people are the true source of Darkness and thinks that using the light of Kingdom Hearts to purge the worlds is the best way to bring about true peace. In other words, he wants to ''kill everybody in existence with light.'']] |
| 194 | ** [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Xemnas]] is the most prominent example. His powers are literally laser beams, lightsabers and nothingness. His final form, has his usually black cloak turn white with black stripes. Suitable, since his pocket dimensions are mostly large voids of white emptiness. |
| 195 | * Orochi from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters97'', who is a white pants-wearing white haired {{Bishonen}} who can call lightning from the sky and blasts his opponents with light as one of his super moves. |
| 196 | * ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': |
| 197 | ** The recurring boss Galacta Knight, in contrast to Meta Knight, is pink and has bright white angelic wings. Despite this, he's so powerful that he was [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away long ago]] because of it (one game even mentions he's capable of blowing up planets ''as collateral damage''). More often than not, he's also one of the hardest bosses one can face in any game he appears in. |
| 198 | ** In ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'', the final boss, [[spoiler:[[BackFromTheDead Zero Two]]]], has an angelic design, complete with "feathery" wings and a halo. |
| 199 | ** The main antagonist of ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', [[spoiler:[[WickedWasps Queen Sectonia]]]], is associated with light and creation. In fact, there's no apparent traces of darkness on her [[spoiler:even in both of her "Soul of Sectonia" forms]]. |
| 200 | ** ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''[='=]s final boss, [[spoiler:[[AIIsACrapshoot Star Dream]]]], is bright white with TronLines, and has an angel/heart motif. Despite this, it's one of the most destructive forces in the universe, with a goal of destroying all organic life in the universe, and possibly other universes. |
| 201 | ** ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'' provides the most straight example with its Final Boss: [[spoiler:Fecto Elfilis, the UltimateLifeForm. It sports a very bright and colorful design that resembles an angel with halo-like antlers and [[EarWings ears resembling angel wings]]. The final battle is fought in a bright sunset sky, complete with a music track that features a OneWomanWail and a pipe organ to add to its "holy" presence. However, Fecto Elfilis proves to be ''the'' most evil entity in the entire ''Kirby'' franchise, [[BadBoss due to the way it treats its minions]] and the fact that it has the ability to feel compassion and love (which is what its other half Elfilin is), [[ForTheEvulz but just doesn't care and prefers to conquer all worlds instead]].]] |
| 202 | * In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', Jedi Master Atris has an all-white motif: her robes are white, her hair is white (and she's rather pale with blue eyes), and keeps six servants who also have white hair and white clothing. She lives on a snowy white polar ice cap. She's positioned to contrast a Sith Lord on the [[CoversAlwaysLie game disc and promo art]]. She is also bitter and sanctimonious, extremely nasty to the player character, and manipulates the hell out of the Handmaiden who sees her as a ParentalSubstitute. [[spoiler:The only reason she's not actually a Sith is because she's way in denial. One chat with Kreia and she happily starts throwing around Force Lighting]]. |
| 203 | * Throughout ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'', historians, priests and various worshipers speak of the Moon Child, a [[ChosenOne saviour]] reincarnated once every one hundred and eight years to bring holy bliss and purity to the world: however, for the past ''eleven thousand years'', the Moon Child has been killed by a nightmarish demon known only as "The Black Monster." Well, with [[ClicheStorm all the cliches at work]] in this game, you'd expect that your ultimate goal in the last disc is to kill the Black Monster and help the latest incarnation of the Moon Child purify the world, right? Wrong. It turns out that [[spoiler: the [[DarkMessiah Moon Child]] is really the misplaced soul of the [[EldritchAbomination Virage Embryo]], the God of Destruction. And once the two are reunited, the world will indeed be purified... by being completely destroyed]]. |
| 204 | ** The game's mechanics take it even further: [[spoiler: Each character is associated with one of 7 elements. Your first archer and healer, Shana, turns out to be the Moon Child herself. What is her element? Light]]. |
| 205 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 206 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', where [[spoiler: the Twilight Realm would have stayed peaceful if not for Ganondorf, who despite being associated with darkness in other games, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters still technically comes from the realm of Light]]]]. Ganondorf is the BigBad of the whole series, and he was one of the three people blessed with a piece of the Triforce. He also fights with a sword of Light in [[spoiler:''Twilight Princess'']]. |
| 207 | ** Very little is known about [[spoiler: the Fierce Deity]] from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'', but when you get his mask, you get the message "Could its dark power be as bad as [[EldritchAbomination Majora?]]" |
| 208 | ** In ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', Ganondorf of all characters gets a Darkness/Light version of his Great Swords called the Swords of Renewal as his Level 4+ weapon in Definitive Edition. This is probably a reference to the Sword of Sages that he used in Twilight Princess. |
| 209 | * Platform/WiiWare title ''The Magic Obelisk'' has the main character as a tree spirit who must remain in the shade, or else he will turn into a tree, resulting in GameOver. |
| 210 | * ''[[VideoGame/MagicalVacation Magical Starsign]]'' assigns a starsign to everyone, including antagonists. Most of the Space Police is of Light, and a sizeable chunk of them cooperates with the pirate otters. |
| 211 | * ''VideoGame/{{Manafinder}}'': King Vikar refers to himself as a Holy King, but he's really a tyrant who exiles his subjects over petty reasons. [[spoiler:As the FinalBoss of Starkas's route, he use use Enlight on himself to add a light elemental magic hit to all of his attacks.]] |
| 212 | * ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'''s Cerberus troops wear all white. They're also human-centric [[spoiler:indoctrinated]] terrorists. |
| 213 | * [[spoiler:Copy]] X from ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' and [[spoiler:Lumine]] from ''VideoGame/MegaManX8'', which take on angelic forms during their boss battles. The [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Classic series]] has Bright Man and Flash Man who also have light-based powers, and they're antagonists (though Bright Man is one of Dr. Cossack's creations, who attacked Mega Man due to Wily's manipulations). |
| 214 | ** There's also the [[LightEmUp light-themed]] Mavericks from the ''X'' series, such as Sting Chameleon, Neon Tiger, Cyber Peacock, Izzy Glow/Shining Firefly and Optic Sunflower. ''Especially'' [[AxCrazy Optic Sunflower]]. |
| 215 | ** Serpent and [[spoiler:Master Albert]] from ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' when Megamerged with [[ArtifactOfDoom Model W]] are clad in white and gold armor, the latter in particular taking on an angelic form. Fittingly, [[spoiler:Model W's "original self" [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Dr. Weil]] predominantly wore white and gold, albeit mixed in with [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]]]]. |
| 216 | ** Laser Man from ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork4RedSunAndBlueMoon'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin specializes in light-based attacks]], but he is [[BigBad Dr. Regal]]'s [[NonHumanSidekick Navi]], complete with a CardCarryingVillain personality. |
| 217 | * The Boss in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', a defector to the Soviet Union who wears an all-white sneaking suit. However, even when she's beating the crap out of Snake in every scene she's in, the game gives her an incredibly sympathetic treatment, ending with going over her backstory and beliefs. [[spoiler:Subverted even more when it turns out that she wasn't even a real defector, but a tragic scapegoat]]. |
| 218 | * In ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'', it becomes very clear by the end that [[spoiler: the wraith Celebrimbor]] wanting to be the "Bright Lord" of Mordor (as opposed to Sauron's status as Dark Lord) is NOT a good thing. For all of his bright colors and intention of overthrowing Sauron, he's willing to mind control hundreds of Uruk-Hai (who scream in terror and despair as he does so), chastises Talion for his attachment to his murdered family and attempts to convince him to abandon his allies and love interest. Flashbacks reveal that he actually succeeded in [[spoiler: stealing the One Ring from Sauron]] and raised an army to fight him. He would have won except that the ring flew off his finger to return to its true master as he was about to strike the final blow. The finale reveals that he's going to try to [[spoiler: forge a new One Ring to destroy Sauron for good.]] He says this as [[spoiler: Talion's]] eyes turn orange with the reflection of the fires of Orodruin (Mount Doom), the same way that Sauron's eyes glowed orange in his elven body in the flashbacks. |
| 219 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', [[spoiler:the [[TrueFinalBoss Darker Lord]] has glowing, porcelain-white skin and wears a luminant cloak, and the [[OneWingedAngel Darkest Lord]] takes the form of a [[FaceOfTheSun gigantic sunlike disc]], contrasting against the [[DiscOneFinalBoss Dark Lord]]'s dark purple robes.]] |
| 220 | * ''VideoGame/MonsterGirlQuest'': At first, the setting seems to be LightIsGood and DarkIsEvil; the angels, humans, and the BigGood, [[{{God}} Goddess Ilias]] (blonde hair, blue eyes, gold and white clothes, three sets of wings, a halo), embody the light, while the BigBad MonsterLord and the monsters embody the dark. But then, Luka, in addition to meeting plenty of [[DarkIsNotEvil good monsters]], encounters Ilias Kreuz, a terrorist group that worships Ilias and slaughters monsters, [[VanHelsingHateCrimes even the good ones]], in [[TheFundamentalist her name]]. [[spoiler: To make things even worse, it’s later revealed that Ilias [[GodIsEvil approves of this]], as from the beginning, she has been the true BigBad who despises and has tried to wipe out monsters, only wishes to keep a controlled population enslaved to keep the world's global dark energies in balance (as the "Six Ancestor's Great Seal" that she used by threatening the Six Ancestors and Alice I by destroying the world if they didn't agree. They agreed, but left a failsafe around in case the Goddess broke her promise in that, if she eradicated a massive amount of monsters, the dark energies emitted by said slaughtered monsters would accumulate around the world and eventually activate said failsafe, breaking the seal completely), and even caused the Slaughter of Remina. Ilias decides by the end of chapter 2 to [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate not just monsters, but even humanity as well, replacing it with something else entirely]] (whom she "implies" to have created, but of course it's just another lie and in truth it was Promestein who created this new race called the "Replicants") [[DisproportionateRetribution as punishment for those who don't blindly follow her tenets]]. The Monster Lord [[LoveInterest Alice XVI]], by contrast, [[GoodAllAlong only wanted monster-human coexistence to remain in peace.]] Oh, and she has such a '''[[SarcasmMode truly wonderful]] [[SlasherSmile smile]] [[https://i.imgur.com/M3WzdSe.jpg as well once she initiates her genocidal campaign toward humans and monsters]]'''.]] |
| 221 | * ''Mystery Chronicles: VideoGame/OneWayHeroics'' replaces its predecessor's [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Darkness]] with the Shine Raid, a wall of light that destroys everything it touches. |
| 222 | * Vigoor from ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden''. His first form looks like a stone angel. |
| 223 | * The BigBad of ''Noctropolis'' is revealed to have Light powers in contrast to the hero's [[DarkIsNotEvil Darkness powers]] and explains [[spoiler:his diabolical plan of [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] an [[DownTheRabbitHole everyday guy from another world]] into becoming his successor as the titular city's main superhero just so he would be exposed to AppliedPhlebotinum so the BigBad can use him as a catalyst for turning more AppliedPhlebotinum into a CosmicKeystone (or PowerUp) of Light. After this EvilGloating the hero recovers from being an UnwittingPawn by calling on [[DarkIsNotEvil forces of Darkness]] to save the day]]. |
| 224 | * Destroyman in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' appears to be a {{superhero}} and claims to fight with honour...but it's not hard to see that he's one of the most dirty fighting, AxCrazy assassins that Travis has to fight. |
| 225 | * From ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': |
| 226 | ** [[spoiler:Mindt/Arcanette]] pretends to be a Cleric (who have access to [[LightEmUp Light-based powers]] when playable) and wears the same white and light bue robes that other Clerics do. She's actually [[spoiler:the leader of the Moonshade Order]] and a massive manipulator. |
| 227 | ** [[spoiler:Claude]] has long white hair and wears a white coat. However, he's easily one of the most evil characters in the game, [[spoiler:fathering hundreds of Blacksnakes and letting them kill each other off just so one of them can replace him as Vide's vessel. He's heavily implied to have raped many of his children's mothers as well]]. |
| 228 | * Fortinbras, the BigBad from ''VideoGame/OnimushaDawnOfDreams'' comes to mind. All of his attacks are light-based, and he even walks onto the battlefield wearing all white. He specifically refers to himself as the 'God of Light'. Conversely, the main character is sometimes known as the 'Oni of the Ash'. |
| 229 | * ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'': TheReveal of the story's GreyAndGreyMorality has an [[ObliviouslyEvil unintentional]] example. [[spoiler:Around 3/4th of the game, you find out that the reason Kuro went on a rampage is because the light the Spirit Tree was using to find Ori charred her children alive without her being able to save them, part of it is revenge, but the other motivation is [[MamaBear protecting her last surviving child.]] As mentioned in the [[Fridge/OriAndTheBlindForest Fridge page]] It took years for the Spirit Tree to find out the damage done by him setting the night sky ablaze. If Kuro hadn't forcibly halted him, there is no indication that he would not have continued to set the night sky ablaze until Ori came home. Which wouldn't work since he was being raised by Naru to whom the action was a threat. There is a reason for why the narration says Kuro was protecting her last remaining child, the Spirit Tree was an active threat, if again, a [[NonMaliciousMonster non malicious one]]]]. |
| 230 | * Emperor Solarius from ''VideoGame/OverlordII'' has a sun motif and he is dedicated to the extermination of magical beings. |
| 231 | * Taken literally in ''VideoGame/ThePath'', where a light at the edge of the forest means that you are approaching some infinitely creepy {{tableau}} [[spoiler: if not your character's metaphoric psychosexual death]]. |
| 232 | * ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV'' has this as a major theme toward the end of the game. [[spoiler: The Great Light, the creator god of Algo, is not shown to be good, just not straight-up evil. The main character, Chaz, has a moral objection to the expectation that he and his companions should do the Great Light's bidding, being that the Great Light itself abandoned the solar system ages ago, and that doing so would make them no different from Zio, the cult leader/evil wizard who killed his mentor figure. More directly, though, the elemental Light creatures are few in number, live in idyllic, magical crystal castles, are immortal figures made of glowing fire. De-Vars, Sa-Lews, and Re-Faze embody Strength, Courage, and Anger respectively, and while they're all pleased that that the heroes triumph over them, they do make a point of trying to crush them in order to make sure they're worthy of the task of saving the universe. Re-Faze in particular is willing to isolate, trick, traumatize, and insult Chaz in order to test his mettle]]. In the end, only good can truly triumph over evil, and good can only exist in the human heart. |
| 233 | ** All the Light elemental attacks are pretty hardcore. In PSIV, if it looks like a laser, you can expect it to do some pretty hefty damage. In a couple of boss fights, the wussy second-level Githu technique (it's basically a yellow laser that goes bzweeoon) does more damage than most melee attacks. |
| 234 | ** A similar theme occurs in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarUniverse'', only taking the light from aloof to outright evil. The Ancients, who have represented the light element, and directly opposed to the darkness of SEED are eventually revealed to have been, with some exceptions, a race of tremendous jerkasses lead by a man so incredibly twisted it's implied he [[MoralEventHorizon raped and killed one of his (many) wives]] who view current humans as nothing more than vessels for their resurrection. To illustrate the point further, this leader styles himself as "the Sun King." |
| 235 | ** And again in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', though the spectrum widens. The Photoners were an ancient civilization who utilized Xion's knowledge to expand across the universe and develop scientific wonders, and yet they were also the cause of everything wrong in the series with their rampant amoral experimentation, including the creation of the Falspawn, the Dark Falz and the Profound Darkness. Luther in particular was a colossal prick who continued his experimentation across [[BodySurf multiple bodies]] and manipulated ARKS from the shadows in his mad pursuit of the omniscience granted to Xion by the AkashicRecords. [[spoiler:To say nothing of the Photoner remnants faction led by Shiva, the self-proclaimed Goddess of Annihilation who seeks to destroy all creation in a fit of pique; in a bizarre take on this trope mixed with DarkIsEvil, she is an artificial Photoner created as host to the Profound Darkness itself, and the nature of her creation grants her near-infinite photonic absorption capabilities, rendering all of ARKS' weaponry useless in direct confrontation against her.]] |
| 236 | * ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' has April May. A pink, cutesy lady who turns out to have a terrible temper and is an accomplice to murder, with a boss who equally counts for this trope - a pink-clad sparkly CorruptCorporateExecutive. Also, both [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'' and [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', who [[spoiler:dress in white and look adorable and delicate despite being both [[TheSociopath vicious masterminds without a shred of regret]]]]. |
| 237 | ** [[spoiler: Simon Keyes]] from ''Investigations'' is an arguably milder example, wearing a bright jacket and, well, ''working as an animal tamer in the circus''. He's also a ManipulativeBastard who orchestrated the events of the entire game behind the scenes. |
| 238 | * ''VideoGame/PilgrimRPGMaker'': Master Alice is blonde and wears a bright blue dress and red bow, but is a HumanoidAbomination and the BigBad who steals souls. [[spoiler:Though the body is indicated to be not hers, but that of a girl she [[DemonicPossession possessed]].]] |
| 239 | * In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', [[spoiler:Trias the [[FallenAngel angelic deva]]]], the final ArcVillain, desires nothing more than to aid the Heavens in recognizing and combating the threat posed by the fiendish Lower Planes… so he decided to get the Lower Planes to wage bloody war on them. In his opinion, a honest war against a hated enemy is better than the cowardice currently shown by the Upper Planes by avoiding the conflict or by selling weapons to different enemy fractions in fear they'd turn on them if they stopped fighting amongst themselves. Thus the evil fiends deserve what they get… and the Upper Planes deserve the pain they get for not treating evil as a true threat, and casting him out. |
| 240 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': |
| 241 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' give us Cyrus, a villain named after the sun (at least in most translations), who is a KnightTemplar type. Depending on the version you play, he's either a straight-up OmnicidalManiac or [[CryForTheDevil a good bit more sympathetic]] (but still evil). However, the PC's, Lucas and Dawn, also have names with light themes, so they largely avert the trope. |
| 242 | ** Subverted with Reshiram from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' however. In ''Pokémon Black'', it serves the hero. In ''Pokémon White'', it serves N, leader of Team Plasma, but he's actually an AntiVillain. By the time ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon White 2]]'', [[spoiler:N's made the [[HeelFaceTurn transition]] to full-fledged hero]]. |
| 243 | *** Team Plasma is rather strongly based on Christianity, with their Templar-like uniforms, talk about "saving" Pokémon, and use of the Chi Rho, an ancient symbol used to represent Jesus, as a symbol. They're also a deranged hypocritical terrorist cult [[spoiler:being manipulated by a fraudulent leader in his attempt to gain power]]. |
| 244 | ** The fifth Generation also introduces Litwick, Lampent and Chandelure, an evolutionary line based on artificial light sources (a candle, a lamp and a chandelier). Don't be fooled by their mesmerizing flames, or else these could get powered with ''your'' life energy. |
| 245 | ** The Fairy type introduced in Generation VI is mostly made up of stereotypically cute and girly Pokémon and most of their attacks involve light in some way (Dazzling Gleam and Moonblast for example). However, some of the Pokedex entries describe them as displaying traits [[TheFairFolk that very much show their namesake]]. The Tapus are the defining example; they may be Alola's Legendary Guardians but they are also fickle and perfectly willing to mess with, attack or kill the people they are supposed to protect as much as help them. |
| 246 | ** [[spoiler:The Aether Foundation]] in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' wear bright white uniforms and have an outward goal of caring for injured Pokémon; [[CaptainObviousReveal no one was surprised to learn they were the real villains]]. Their leader [[spoiler:Lusamine]] might also be one of the most disturbing and evil villains in the entire franchise. |
| 247 | *** Introduced in the same game is the Ultra Beast Nihilego, who is a bright white and looks the most delicate and non-threatening of the group. In truth, it secretes a PsychoSerum that makes it incredibly dangerous, and it's thought to be non-sentient, making it an amoral parasite acting on little more than pure instinct. [[spoiler:It is also the GreaterScopeVillain.]] |
| 248 | *** [[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon The sequel]] introduces another character that is light and bright but destructive: [[spoiler:Necrozma, the black prism Pokemon which absorbs Solgaleo/Lunala and becomes Ultra Necrozma, a light dragon bent on devouring light from worlds, and has a SecretArt which is pretty much a FantasticNuke]]. To be fair for that character, [[spoiler:it wasn't always so violent, not until it got broken by ancient humans in the story]]. |
| 249 | ** Zig-zagged with the BigBad of ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus''; [[spoiler:Volo is an AxCrazy GodhoodSeeker whose EvilCostumeSwitch puts him in a white outfit and makes his golden blond hair flow a bit, while his SignatureMon is Togekiss, an angelic Fairy-type associated with friendship and peace. However, the ''other'' Pokemon he's associated with is the Ghost-type Legendary Giratina, a shadowy SatanicArchetype primarily associated with darkness]]. |
| 250 | * All four of the floor bosses from ''VideoGame/PrincessPeachShowtime'' are based on objects that emit (or in one case, reflect) light: Disco Wing is a disco ball, Light Fang is a bank of stage lights, Purrjector Cat is a film projector, and Spotlion is a spotlight. |
| 251 | * The little angelic boy named Emilio Michaelov in ''VideoGame/PsychicForce''. At the first glance, he's a timid boy who just had tremendous power of light, but good hearted. Then he gets {{brainwashed}} and then turns into an AxCrazy psycho working for the bad guys. His good self still struggle to prevail over his evil self, [[spoiler:but ultimately fails]]. |
| 252 | * ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' has a downplayed example in the form of Micah Bell. While he's primarily associated with the colors [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]], he's rarely seen without a white hat, which is often worn by the "heroes" of classical Western stories. In addition, [[spoiler:he wears a white suit during the Van der Linde gang's robbery of a bank in Saint Denis, a stark contrast to his fellow gang members who wear black and grey suits]]. But despite all this, he's a [[AxCrazy psychotic outlaw]], an [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain unapologetic bigot]], and ultimately [[spoiler:[[TheMole a rat who sells the gang out for his own selfish benefit]]]]. |
| 253 | * ''VideoGame/Reverse1999'' has the St. Pavlov Foundation, a magical organization dedicated to sheltering, educating, and training young magical children, arcanists, to use their power for the good of the world instead of falling down the many dark paths they could be lured into. The campus is made of white granite often accented with gold, cleaned frequently to make them sparkle in the light, and the uniforms of their school children, instructors, staff, and field agents are oftentimes pure white accented with some darker greys. Their motto and speeches also oftentimes invoke the images of light and guidance from the "darkness" of the world. However, as the saying goes, the brighter the light, the darker the shadow, and the Foundation is willing to lie, cover up dire secrets like the apocalyptic "Storm" from the public, kidnap people that threaten to break their lies, and emotionally and psychologically manipulate and break their young wards into loyal puppets. [[spoiler:They're not above killing them if they prove to be too much trouble, too.]] |
| 254 | * The guardian faction from ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}''. They're the chosen of the world's gods, live well and faithfully, yet they're [[KnightTemplar genocidally zealotic]] towards anything that shows a sign of heresy. They're also very, very quick to lose their minds; for example, in the Defiant version of the BadFuture instance "Fall of Lantern Hook", where the world is being assaulted by [[PlayingWithFire Maelforge]], they completely lose it and start throwing everyone, innocent, guilty, believer and heretic alike into the fires. |
| 255 | * Gehn from ''VideoGame/{{Riven}}''. He wears an immaculate white-and-gold militaristic uniform, with gold-colored buttons, and gold embroidered rank-like branch symbols. He keeps his book-writing desk in the same fashion, which is a gaudy, almost temple-like gold and white-marble structure in his office on Age 233. Did we mention he tried to kill Atrus, his own benevolent son? ([[spoiler:Which he does in one of the bad endings.]]) As part of a FreudianExcuse, he is a TragicVillain, who grew up ostracized from his fellow D'ni (because his mother was human, and his father a full-blooded D'ni), and watched his home empire fall. However, his knowledge of the Art of writing the D'ni's mystical Linking Books has given him a [[AGodAmI deity complex]], where he sees the worlds that he writes as his own divine creations (rather than worlds that already exist), and the peoples of those worlds worth no more than insects. |
| 256 | * The Archangel, one of the Accursed in ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'', is 'an angel burdened with the sins of others', who tries to get revenge on the gods of Asgard. |
| 257 | * ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'' [[spoiler:Iris Sepperin is blonde]] and has a golden castle, gold mechs, and a OneWingedAngel form with seraph wings, but is the most evil villain in the series who pitted RKS against TheEmpire, [[ForTheEvulz just for the fun of it]]. |
| 258 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'': |
| 259 | ** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Commander]] [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Zilyana Zilyana]], one of the bosses in the [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Gwd God Wars Dungeon]], hands down stands out in a setting were many characters suffer from BeliefMakesYouStupid with her utter [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalism]]. Her God, Saradomin, in spite of being [[GodOfOrder the god of Order and Wisdom]], is at his best an ambiguous WellIntentionedExtremist and at his worst a tyrant who can be ''very'' cruel to those who offend his sense of pride. On the other hand most of the gods are prideful beings. Most of the negativity he gets in and out of universe is from people fed up with his HolierThanThou attitude and well... DoNotTauntCthulhu. |
| 260 | ** The goddess Seren, embodiment of Light energy, draws direct parallels between her and her estranged {{Dark|IsNotEvil}} brother Zaros. While he inspires slavish loyalty, her nature forces people to love her, and: |
| 261 | ---> ''"Love is just as deadly as an emotion as it is a wondrous one. Just as it can bring people together, it can also lead to unbearable pain and a complete loss of self. I do not blame him for wanting to escape that."'' |
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| 265 | * The BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Sam And Max|FreelancePolice}}'' Season 1, [[spoiler:Hugh Bliss, is a self-help guru who wears all-white, is a kindly old man/aging blissed-out hippy, and uses rainbow-colored magic]]. He's also building a giant mind-control beam on the moon designed to make everyone on Earth as happy as he is. [[spoiler:Turns out, he's a sentient colony of space-faring bacteria that feeds on human happiness]]. |
| 266 | ** Best part about that? You get to stop the BigBad, which ''necessarily'' means turning the world into a CrapsackWorld again. Defeating the BigBad changes the mind-control beam. Instead of everyone acting oh-so-very happy and cheerful and kind, everyone on the planet is acting like [[HeroicComedicSociopath Max]]. ''And'' the only way to "cure" the hypnotized happy-crazy people is by ''punching them in the face''. Max gleefully spends the credits doing so. Of course, punching everyone in the face is definitely necessary. |
| 267 | * The main threat in the Egypt arc of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' is the cult of the Aten, an ancient sun god...and incidentally also an EldritchAbomination with goals including burning the entire world to cinders. Atenists also tend to [[MadnessMantra ramble about their god's divine light a lot]] in combat. |
| 268 | ** The Roman cult of Sol Invictus got corrupted by [[TheCorruption the Filth]] too. And then there's the ReligionOfEvil ChurchOfHappyology expy, the Morninglight Cult. It seems like any time people worship the sun, the Filth shows up. |
| 269 | * Played straight by Mori Motonari in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' who refers to himself as "Child of the Sun," and is a Light-elemental character (which means he can break enemy defences). Except that he's TheChessmaster and a psycho-sadistic {{Jerkass}} who [[LackOfEmpathy couldn't care less about his soldiers' welfare]] so long as they just do as he commands, treating them like disposable pawns to further his own ambitions. Exemplified with the fact that in-game, he can actually attack his own allies, a trait shared only with [[PsychoForHire psychopath]] Akechi Mitsuhide. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Oichi, the series' poster girl of DarkIsNotEvil, in the spin-off ''VideoGame/SengokuBasaraX'' who goes on to say that his "light is a lie" if they ever face each other. |
| 270 | ** Subverted with another Light-elemental character: Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He's cruel, ruthless, and willing to [[MoralEventHorizon kill his own wife to achieve more power]], but he is a WellIntentionedExtremist (noble goal behind cruel action). And unlike Motonari, Hideyoshi actually shows his charisma to his soldiers and cares about them (especially [[OnlyFriend Hanbe]]). |
| 271 | ** Imagawa Yoshimoto, though not evil, is a DirtyCoward whose only connection to Light is merely his love for {{Disco}} and as such summons light shows for attacks. |
| 272 | ** In general, ''Sengoku Basara'' seems prone to give the "Light" element to unsympathetic characters, like Otomo Sorin and Honganji Kennyo. There are still good examples, though (like [[AllLovingHero Ieyasu]] and [[JusticeWillPrevail Nagamasa]].) |
| 273 | * ''VideoGame/ShadeWrathOfAngels'' have the ethereal, benign-looking Angel of Faith, who's constantly shrouded in an aura of pure, angelic light... and is actually the Dark Angel who destroyed the rest of her kind, sparking a war in heaven several millennia ago. Even with the revelation of her true, sinister identity, she's still made entirely of shinning golden energy. |
| 274 | * In the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series, the lead protagonist is often a Dark innate character, who naturally takes more damage from holy spells. [[BastardBastard Nicolai Conrad]], a priest from the Vatican who uses holy magic, is TheDragon and, of all the characters in the game, [[spoiler: successfully deals with Yuri via the Holy Mistletoe]]. |
| 275 | * In the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games there are usually the alignment choices of Law (Light), Chaos (Dark), and Neutral (Whatever) (each having their own advantages and flaws). Law's flaws are that the rules are too strict and harsh, and that anybody who doesn't obey the rules must be eliminated. In fact the only reason the Chaos alignment exists is to stop the Law alignment's tyrannical reign. |
| 276 | ** In fact, most of the high law forces consisting of Judeo-Christian Angels are insane and almost make the Chaos or Neutral forces look like saints. You might as well as say "Light is Evil" in this case. |
| 277 | ** Some ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games additionally have a Light/Neutral/Dark alignment axis. This refers to the mythological reputation of the entity as something to be reviled or revered, and has no bearing on its actual morality -- the below-mentioned YHWH and his higher-ranking Angels are as far along the Light axis as you can get, and are petty, self-centered megalomaniacs. |
| 278 | ** Especially seen in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'' and ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Nocturne]]'' where YHWH is the true ending's final boss in the former and a total douchebag in the latter. |
| 279 | ** Light as an elemental spell. In the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' subseries, Light's main form of offense is insta-kill spells, identical to Dark except for their element. Sometimes seemingly Light-oriented personae will learn both Light and Dark spells. Whether or not these spells are effective, Light as an element can be pretty dang cruel. |
| 280 | *** [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos]] from ''VideoGame/Persona2: Innocent Sin'', has Light-based spells when he [[spoiler: poses as both Hitler and his Persona, as well as when he takes over Jun's/Joker's body]]. |
| 281 | ** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', there are a couple of incredibly malevolent Light spells. Amaterasu's ''Godly Light'' instantly destroys ''80% HP'' of everyone in your party who does not null Light. Kagutsuchi's ''Vast Light'' and ''Infinite Light'' are both monstrously powerful Almighty moves, meaning you can't null them and they will hurt if they don't outright vaporize everyone. ''Radiance'' can obliterate entire parties with one casting. ''Thunderclap'' and ''Holy Wrath'' can mow everyone's HP to half. Metatron's ''[[EyeBeams Fire of Sinai]]'' not only deals random Almighty damage, but can also extend to insta-kills. So yes, pretty dang cruel. |
| 282 | ** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'': |
| 283 | *** Mitra's ''Light of Order'' is a OneHitKill to a random demon in your active party. {{Iron|y}}ically, Mitra's alignment is Dark-Chaos. |
| 284 | *** Metatron's ''Judgment Light'' insta-kills with 80% efficiency, for those not weak to Light. |
| 285 | *** Also plot-wise, [[spoiler:Zelenin]]'s transformation into an angel practically turns them into a walking demon-slaughtering human-brainwashing machine. Who ''enjoys'' the whole thing. It is creepy even if you're going for the Law ending... |
| 286 | ** Some shadows in the ''Persona'' series can cast incredibly dangerous [[LightEmUp Hama]] attacks that can instantly kill your party members. |
| 287 | ** In ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'' one of the boss battles takes place in a church against a shadow who's taken the form of four-armed monster preacher who rides a coffin and has a face like an evil scarecrow with his lips sewn shut. He uses a very powerful attack if you refuse to vow not to perform a certain action such as an attack or a special attack. |
| 288 | ** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'': |
| 289 | *** [[spoiler:Goro Akechi caused a bunch of mental showdowns killing tons of people in the process. His first boss fight has him used light attacks with Robin Hood (aka one of his Personas).]] |
| 290 | *** When you get the true ending, you'll face off against [[spoiler: Yaldabaoth,]] a god described as being the manifestation of humanity's subconscious desire for order, warped to the point where he no longer cares for the human cost or morality of said order; in his view, humans are little more than livestock and lemmings for him to rule over and command due to their stupidity. He initially takes the form of the [[spoiler:Holy Grail, which starts off as black before the flow of wishes for him to dominate the world revitalize him and turn the cup gold.]] After [[spoiler:the flow is cut off and the Grail defeated, the cup]] merges with his arena to become a giant version of his Shadows, [[spoiler:a robotic, faceless angel]] who can manifest a golden gun, a church bell, a holy sword, and a bible book in each of his four arms. [[spoiler:Satanael, the protagonists' ultimate Persona, finishes him with a Sinful Shell to his head.]] |
| 291 | *** The ''[[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]'' expansion's third term scenario also adds [[spoiler:Maruki, who wasn't exactly evil, per sec, but whose actions to save the world by fulfilling humanity's real greatest desires will inevitably degrade into ModernStasis, because he just went straight into reviving dead parents of the Phantom Thieves, turning [[AnimalisticAbomination Morgana into a human]], or basically undo every event that results in human suffering so humanity will forever live in happiness. And his Persona or power source is Azathoth, who uses numerous light-based attacks when you confront him, with one such attack being a Bless-type attack named "Eternal Radiance". And Azathoth evolves into Adam Kadmon, which is the personification of infinite light from the [[UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}} Sefirot]].]] |
| 292 | ** In ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'', [[spoiler:the EMMA application evolves into a PhysicalGod once consuming enough desires, creating a benevolent, but misguided Demiurge who believes that people desired her to think for humanity, because it can only process people asking her for advice when she was still a mere conceirge application. When fought, the application first appears as a bird-like angel in pure white, then a straight-out AngelicAbomination who also summons minions named after the ten circles of the Sefirot. Many of her attacks are light or laser-based as well.]] |
| 293 | ** In ''VideoGame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'' The final boss is [[spoiler:Enlil, an administrator of the collective unconsciousness who "protects" depressed people by heaping them with more depression in the form of documentary movies made of pure negativity. Although unlike Yaldabaoth she appears to be actually trying to protect people, she's just making them more of a depressed mess than they already are. And not only Enlil is actually a well-revered god of justice in actual Mesopotamian myth, her OneWingedAngel form appears as a giant, saintly-looking and muscular eagle god.]] |
| 294 | * The God from ''Franchise/SilentHill''. She is depicted as a solar deity that will bring Paradise to humanity. Yet everything supernatural on Silent Hill, which most likely is her work, is twisted, evil and ugly, and her followers are at best insane. And, more directly, [[spoiler: The Incubator, which has a radiant, divine appearence]]. |
| 295 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'', the Light element was introduced in [[VideoGame/SkylandersTrapTeam the fourth game]] alongside Dark, and here, it is clearly demonstrated that both this trope and DarkIsNotEvil is in full effect. There are [[LightIsGood Light-elemental Skylanders]] and [[DarkIsEvil Dark-elemental villains]], but at the same time, there are Dark-elemental Skylanders and Light-elemental villains. Of the Light-elemental villains, no one demonstrates this trope better than the Doom Raider of the Light element: Luminous. His skin is yellow and combined with his helmet, his head looks similar to a blazing sun (fitting, as the Light element is associated with [[StarPower stars]] to contrast the Dark element being associated with [[UnrealisticBlackHole black holes]]), he wears a white outfit complete with a [[SuperheroesWearCapes cape]], his name comes from the Latin word for light, and his {{Leitmotif}} is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfLf1Sd6VPI jazzy tune]] that wouldn't be out of place from ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'' or ''VideoGame/Persona5''. His powers are similarly light-based, able to fire beams of light, call down crystals from the sky, or summon a special crystal that fires a laser of its own. However, Luminous is a violent extremist who won't hesitate to destroy whatever or whoever stands in the way of his quest to extinguish all darkness in the world, and was willing to steal the light of Radiant City to do so. Fittingly, one of his quotes twists a commonly holy saying into a dangerous threat. |
| 296 | -->''Let there be light! PAINFUL light!'' |
| 297 | * In ''VisualNovel/TheSongOfSaya'', Fuminori sees almost everything and everyone around him as horrific {{Eldritch Abomination}}s due to brain damage from a car accident that also killed his parents. [[spoiler:The only exception is the titular Saya, who appears to him as a [[EtherealWhiteDress beautiful girl in white]] and becomes his main reason to keep on living. She's the ''true'' EldritchAbomination that his warped senses see as perfectly normal]]. |
| 298 | * Solaris, the final boss of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', is a solar deity who is literally made of light energy. He fights by shooting white laser beams at the player. Ironically, according to Solaris' character backstory, he's actually a combination of two lesser beings of different elements; Iblis, a giant lava/fire creature, and Mephiles, a bizarre shadow being. |
| 299 | ** In fact, Solaris was the original being. Iblis was the embodiment of his pure unrestrained power and Mephiles was his consciousness, which was probably shadowy and dark due to how ''supremely pissed off'' Solaris was at being experimented on. |
| 300 | * [[spoiler:Taki]]'s, [[spoiler:Siegfried]]'s, and [[spoiler:Cassandra]]'s endings in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur IV]]'' touch upon the fact that the titular spirit sword can easily be just as dangerous and manipulative as its darker counterpart and precursor, Soul Edge. |
| 301 | ** This is confirmed in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur V]]'' with the appearance of Elysium, Soul Calibur's personification in the same vein as Soul Edge's Inferno. Soul Calibur wants order, and doesn't care how it gets it. |
| 302 | * In ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions'', Mysterio uses the power of light in the first phase of the final battle. |
| 303 | * The Khalai Protoss of ''Franchise/StarCraft'' certainly qualify. In contrast to the more kind, individualistic [[DarkIsNotEvil Dark Templar]], the light-aligned Khalai/High Templar are blind, arrogant [[TheFundamentalist religious zealots]]. The Khalai are also the war-mongers among the Protoss, in contrast to the peaceful Dark Templars. During the course of the series so far, the Khalai Protoss have declared war on the Dark Templar three times, while the Dark Templar have yet to declare war on the Khalai, just wanting to be left alone. The Khalai Protoss ''do'' get better, though, most likely because nearly all of the Judicators and Conclave leaders were killed during the Zerg invasion of Aiur. Aldaris was the last of the "old order", [[spoiler:and he gets killed by Kerrigan after starting another war among the Protoss]]. All of the LawfulStupid fundamentalists were killed off, and only the ones more willing to change their ways and work with the Dark Templar survived. |
| 304 | * The BigBad of ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', the Sith Emperor, shows his face for the first time in the game's lead-in webcomic (he'd been nothing but a hologram in previous promotional material) and he's... a serene, clean-shaven young man, almost monk-like, dressed in a brilliant white cloak. [[SarcasmMode Certainly he won't be a problem, right?]] Of course, that's simply a body that he's possessing at the time. |
| 305 | ** Just as it is possible for [[DarkIsNotEvil Imperial and Sith characters to be Light-sided]], it is possible for Republic and Jedi to be Dark-sided. A Dark-sided Trooper is a KnightTemplar who follows all orders no matter how ruthless while a Dark-sided [[LovableRogue Smuggler]] is a vicious crimelord in the making. In Imperial storylines, Jedi antagonists have a tendency of being either preachy whiners or self-righteous hypocrites who are just barely avoiding falling to the Dark Side (and in the case of Nomen Karr of the Sith Warrior storyline, you get to fully push him into embracing the Dark Side in your final confrontation with him). |
| 306 | ** This also extends to the Eternal Empire from the ''Knights of the Fallen Empire'' expansion onward. Their architecture is magnificent, their colors blue, gold, and white, but they are unquestionably the villains, and [[spoiler:the Sith Emperor is leading them in disguise.]] |
| 307 | * Gill from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' is the brightly colored leader of TheIlluminati who can attack using a large flash of light with a rainbow. He also has aspirations of being a AllLovingHero. |
| 308 | * Combining "value-neutral elements" with "too much of a good thing" gives us the Sun Rune in ''VideoGame/SuikodenV''. Properly sealed away, it provided light and perpetual fertility for the Queendom of Felena. Like all True Runes, it has a will of its own, however, and if [[BlessedWithSuck taken into someone's body]], it seems to slowly [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity twist them]] into an imperial tyrant. Ultimately, it may be one more case of that universe's take on OrderVersusChaos. To be fair, the Sun Rune, Dawn rune, and Dusk Rune come as a set, and it is explained in the course of the game that the Sun Rune will not corrupt its bearer if said bearer also possesses the other two runes. Since a major plot point is that one of the runes has been stolen, we never actually see this... |
| 309 | * ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'': The Dawn Machine most certainly qualifies, being a gigantic clockwork device that illuminates a huge part of the underground cavern that is the Neath, bringing some manner of sun back to the British Empire. This does ''not'' mean this is a good thing; watching it emulate a sunrise in the horizon is good reason to duck and cover before the light starts chipping away at your sanity, and if you dare sail close to it your diary entries will be replaced with [[MadnessMantra THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN]] ad infinitum. [[spoiler:Fittingly, it was built when an offshoot of the Navy found out the Stars (as in actual stars, our sun included) imposed their laws upon the universe through their light, and thought "we should get in on that." This thing is a theoretical RealityWarper engine. A ''sentient and malevolent'' RealityWarper engine]]. |
| 310 | ** This is carried over in ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies''' Clockwork Sun [[spoiler:(which is strongly implied to be built from the Dawn Machine)]]. The light it pours over Albion not only brings as much insanity and addiction as sunlight and the Dawn Machine (eliciting the very same MadnessMantra), but also has the gruesome effect of turning things and people into ''jagged glass''. Lastly, the Clockwork Sun is described by many as a terrifyingly hateful entity. |
| 311 | ** Real sunlight is itself shockingly dangerous. A Neath-dweller like yourself can be instantly killed by exposure to sunlight; even precautions like staying indoors and under cover won't keep you safe for long. It also [[SanityMeter reduces your terror]], which can lead to ''[[DescentIntoAddiction sunlight addiction]]''. |
| 312 | --->''The memory of the light is always with you. [[PressXToDie Go on. Open a box.]]'' |
| 313 | ** The Chapel of Lights, on the outside, seems to be an ordinary church that offers free meals to visitors. Trying the food and attending a service will rapidly reveal that the god they worship is [[ImAHumanitarian The Drowned Man.]] |
| 314 | ** The entities the Dawn Machine was built to emulate aren't that nice themselves. [[spoiler:The light of the Judgements, including the Sun, enforces the laws of reality, and they're really, really keen on enforcing a very rigid cosmic hierarchy -- with themselves at the top, naturally.]] |
| 315 | *** The power of light can be readily discovered in ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'' by [[spoiler:Attacking The Sapphir'd King. You can do almost no damage before he changes the laws so that you don't exist. As the light washes over you, you are simply excised from reality with no ability to fight back.]] |
| 316 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', the Dream Stone is light and colorful, and the "good counterpart" to the Dark Stone. This does not stop its Spirit from being a massive {{jerkass}} who refuses to tell Mario, Luigi, and Dreambert where the Stone is and tries killing them with a giant drill machine. |
| 317 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': |
| 318 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': Tabuu, the BigBad of ''The Subspace Emissary'' mode, resembles an angel. |
| 319 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': Galeem, the BigBad of the Adventure Mode in ''Ultimate'' called World of Light, is a... [[EldritchAbomination thing]] that seems to be made of a bright orb surrounded by bright angelic-looking wings that attacks with light beams capable of vaporizing anything they hit. [[spoiler:Then we are introduced to Dharkon, his [[DarkIsEvil dark counterpart, who is still as evil]]. For the TrueFinalBoss, you have to make sure [[DualBoss NEITHER]] of them succeeds in their [[MeleeATrois mutual fight]]]]. |
| 320 | * ''VideoGame/SwordOfPaladin'': In the Aggressor side story, [[spoiler:the aliens have access to the Laser skill, which deals light damage. They're also waging war against humanity for refusing to submit to them as lab rats.]] |
| 321 | * ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' |
| 322 | ** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'', [[spoiler: Elraine]] [[spoiler:is a holy priestess who frequently goes out to heal the common people in exchange for little Lens donations, but]] resurrected Barbatos and [[spoiler: Judas]] and offered them [[DealWithTheDevil the chance to be seen as heroes and get everything they desired in exchange for killing any hero who might challenge her plan]] to revive [[spoiler:Fortuna]] and turn the world into a TerminallyDependentSociety. [[spoiler:Fortuna]] herself also qualifies, as she goes completely insane once she's told [[spoiler:humanity doesn't need her]]. |
| 323 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' at first seems to [[LightIsGood avert]] this trope, seeing how the Sophie, the heroine, has powers related to light, and the BigBad prefers CastingAShadow. But later it turns out [[spoiler:Sophie was more or less a LawfulNeutral [[AmnesiacDissonance before her amnesia]] and tried to kill the BigBad. The villain at first acted in self-defense and then became a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. In the end, he does a HeelFaceTurn and befriends the heroes]]. |
| 324 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': |
| 325 | *** The major villain, [[spoiler:Mithos, is a FallenHero, and his main form of attack carries over into his villainous style]]. Appearing as a {{bishonen}} angel with wings of multifaceted crystal, he uses mainly Light based attacks, and has a very specific vulnerability. What is it? Why, darkness! In fact, all the angels [[spoiler:except Kratos and Yuan]] have that weakness. |
| 326 | *** Only two of the Summon Spirit boss fights result in a GameOver when you lose, one being the humanity-hating Volt, and the other is the Luna and Aska battle, and Luna and Aska are the Summon Spirits of Light. They're the last Summon Spirits to form a pact with, and since [[spoiler:Kratos]] is on the previous floor, there's no opportunity to leave and level up. So a Game Over is the only logical end to a lost battle. |
| 327 | ** The final form of Duke, the last boss of ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', has a mystic arte that ends with a move that looks like Estelle's Sacred Penance, called Brave Vesperia, a compilation of your seven party members' Mystic Artes. Shame the [=PS3=] version of the game doesn't add Flynn's and Patty's Mystic Artes. However, despite his [[PowerGlows shining appearance]], Duke is not actually light-elemental. And despite being the FinalBoss, [[spoiler: he really is good in the end]]. |
| 328 | ** The grand majority of antagonists in ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' are associated with light and wear white clothes with gold lineaments. They're also high-ranking members of the CorruptChurch that started to rule the world with an iron fist. Unfortunately, they're also VillainsWithGoodPublicity. Of particular note of this trend are [[BigBad Artorius]] and [[spoiler: Innominat, the Fifth Empyrean and the one associated the most with light...and is also tasked with resetting the world whenever there is too much Malevolence.]] |
| 329 | * Zigzagged with Kazumi Mishima from ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}''. Compared to her son and grandson, her Devil form is downright angelic, as it turns her skin and hair white, and gives her phoenix wings. She was sent to assassinate Heihachi Mishima to purge evil from his family, but she was pretty ruthless about it, and this revelation, combined with him being forced to kill her in self-defense, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy actually led him to become the evil man he is today]]. |
| 330 | * Umber Gnawbone of ''VideoGame/TelepathTactics'' is a [[LightEmUp photokineticist]]. He's also a ruthless crime boss. |
| 331 | * ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}} 2'' had the Burning Dawn ninjas who want to leave their life of darkness behind and embrace the light. Special mention goes to the psychopath Suzaku. He is the Phoenix and symbolizes light, flame, and rebirth. [[spoiler:He gets reborn as [[DarkIsEvil Onikage]]]]. |
| 332 | * ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': |
| 333 | ** In the game, you have the Hallow biome, which is a polar opposite to TheCorruption and [[EvilIsVisceral Crimson]], with multicolored trees and a permanent rainbow, but infects other biomes exactly the same way, and its inhabitants (which include pixies and unicorns) are just as nasty as their Corrupt counterparts. Despite this, the non-playable characters do not seem to mind it that much (they are willing to live in houses set up in the Hallow, but not the Corruption or Crimson; the Dryad treats the world having a high Hallow percentage as a good thing) and it cannot replace mud like the Corruption can. It's a downplayed example -- not considered ''as bad'' as the evil biomes, but still a spreading world-infection with powerful enemies. |
| 334 | ** Played straight with the Hallow's Empress of Light OptionalBoss, a colorful fairy-like humanoid that uses rainbow attacks [[CuteMonsterGirl and easily one of the least monstrous-looking bosses in the game.]] She is still described in the Bestiary as being a tyrant that wants to get rid of anything "impure," which is implied to be anything non-Hallow. |
| 335 | ** The Paladin is a miniboss that can be found in the dungeon post-Plantera. Despite its bright color scheme, it's just as willing to kill the player as all the other skeletal mobs infesting the dungeon. |
| 336 | * Tenshi of the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' series is the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TouhouHisoutenScarletWeatherRhapsody''. She's a Celestial, essentially the series' version of an angel. She also caused the various incidents in that game, from causing tons of weather disturbances to threatening to unleash a massive earthquake. Why? Because she found heaven boring and so she decided to endanger all of Gensokyo ForTheEvulz. Light is a {{Jerkass}}. |
| 337 | ** Reimu, the amazing flying {{miko}} and main heroine of the series, is also an unrepentant {{jerkass}} at times (see the "Reimu is a bitch" [[MemeticMutation meme]]), and the newer {{miko}} player character, Sanae, has wandered into SheWhoFightsMonsters territory. |
| 338 | ** ''VideoGame/TouhouSeirensenUndefinedFantasticObject'' had at least two holy characters (Shou Toramaru, avatar of the god Bishamonten, and Byakuren Hijiri, a Bhuddist nun turned magician youkai who was responsible for Shou becoming Bishamonten's avatar) who favor youkai over humans and oppose the heroines. |
| 339 | *** Well, more like is opposed by the heroines. She just gets out of an eternity of imprisonment for no reason and suddenly lasers and amulets everywhere! |
| 340 | ** Also, any Touhou with [[EnergyWeapon laser]] [[BeamSpam attacks]] sort of [[ScrappyMechanic invokes]] [[HitboxDissonance this]]. |
| 341 | * ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': |
| 342 | ** The game features eight elemental beings called Benevodons that caused destruction and had to be banished before the world could be created. During the course of the game, they all get revived and it's your job to bury them again. Light, like any other element, has its own Benevodon: Lightgazer, an [[FacelessEye eternally staring floating eye]] occupying a ruined "City of Light." |
| 343 | ** For a DarkIsNotEvil counterpart to the Benevodons, the game also features eight elemental spirits who help you out. Shade, the slightly scary-looking spirit of darkness, is just as friendly and helpful as any of the others. |
| 344 | * ''VideoGame/VengefulGuardianMoonrider'': |
| 345 | ** Photondrifter is a Guardian with the [[LightEmUp power of light]] and he's a GloryHound who kills the Commission's enemies for the glory and honor. From the giant missile he's transporting, it seems like he wants to ''nuke'' Iwondonilo City. Moonrider outright calls him a murderer before the fight starts. |
| 346 | ** In contrast to [[DarkIsNotEvil Moonrider]], [[spoiler:Sunseeker is a golden-coloured Guardian with [[ThePowerOfTheSun sun-based powers]], who wishes to replace the current dystopian regime with his own reign of terror by having the powerful biomechanical Guardians rule over the humans]]. |
| 347 | * The Orokin Empire from ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' enthusiastically embraced GoldAndWhiteAreDivine in their design aesthetic. They were also AbusivePrecursors who indirectly caused pretty much everything bad that's happening in the solar system: their cloned race of slave laborers [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters rebelled]] and became the totalitarian Grineer Empire, their terraforming drones rebelled and fought the Empire in the [[GreatOffscreenWar Old War]], and their attempts to fight said drones led them to [[spoiler:experiment with ChildSoldiers]] who [[RuleOfThree rebelled]] and killed the Orokin off for good. About the only thing that can't be pinned on them is the creation of the Technocyte virus, responsible for the [[PlagueZombie Infestation]], but they were still dumb enough to try to weaponize the virus during the Old War. |
| 348 | * In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the Light is worshipped by adherents of many races who believe it to represent all that is good. However it is not itself good but rather an amoral force of nature. To channel the Light, practitioners must believe they are doing the right thing. This allows for evil Light users to exist, as long as they think they are good. Even genuinely benevolent users can fall into dangerous fanaticism. Many story points show this: |
| 349 | ** During ''Legion'', Xe'ra, the Prime Naaru and perhaps greatest representative of the Light, [[spoiler:tries to forcibly "redeem" Illidan despite his protests.]] Even Velen's faith is shaken by this questionable action. |
| 350 | ** The Scarlet Crusade is comprised of paladins, priests and others who follow the Light, but they are fanatics who exterminate anyone they believe to be tainted by the plague of undeath. Some of their torturers will [[FateWorseThanDeath heal their victims back to full health only to torture them again]]. |
| 351 | ** The blood elven paladin (the Blood Knights) once derived their powers from a kidnapped being made of pure light. At the end of ''Burning Crusade'', their leader renounced Prince Kael'thas and his evil ways and obtained the blessing of another naaru. |
| 352 | ** In ''Battle For Azeroth'', the Mag'har Orc recruitment mission shows that in the Alternate Draenor of the Iron Horde, the Naaru came to Draenor and radicalized the Draenei, making them into an evil reflection of the Lightforged that fought the Burning Legion. When Draenor fell on hard times, they blamed the Orcs, and started a program of JoinOrDie that began overrunning the planet, much like the Iron Horde themselves had done. |
| 353 | ** This trope is literally the case for Forsaken (and all other undead) -- the Light is not only excruciatingly painful for them to be exposed to but prolonged use will degrade the necromantic magics keeping dead men walking. This causes them to regain their senses -- [[GoneHorriblyRight which means tasting their rotting flesh, smelling their purile stench and feeling the maggots burrowing inside them]]. |
| 354 | ** ''Wrath of the Lich King'' introduced the Val'kyr, who look like classical angels, but are described in-game as "fearsome creatures made of pure nightmare" and help the Lich King to raise undead minions. ''Legion'' redeemed them in part, revealing that many still served their original role of guiding the spirits of the dead to the god Odyn. |
| 355 | ** Rukhmar the Sun Goddess's powers are associated with the rays of the sun, though her appearance is much darker. |
| 356 | * [[spoiler:Zanza]] from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' is positively angelic in appearance. Upon exiting [[spoiler:Shulk's body]], he appears bathed in golden light and dressed in elaborate white-and-gold clothing. Not to mention the floating golden halos that accompany him everywhere. He is also a malicious, tyrannical DemiurgeArchetype and [[spoiler:the true villain of the game]]. |
| 357 | * The EvilEmpire of ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' is the Sacred Empire of Solaris. Despite being populated mostly by slave labor and an upper-class of unrepentant douchebags, native Solarians are mostly light-haired, most wear white clothing, their military Gears and vehicles tend to be white. Solaris ''itself'' is white. White is also a major motif of Deus, the DemiurgeArchetype who the empire worships as their god, and his component parts. |
| 358 | * ''VideoGame/ZanZarahTheHiddenPortal'': |
| 359 | ** Wild Light fairies will attack you on sight, just like fairies of any other element. |
| 360 | ** [[spoiler:The White Druid, the supposed BigGood of the land, turns out to be the BigBad.]] |
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