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%%* Merlyn's turn as an [[WellIntentionedExtremist avenging angel]] who still dresses in holy white on ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'', in the episodes "Inhumanitas" (a dead giveaway by its name) and "The Plague Sower". The fact the latter is a callback to ''Literature/TheBible'' and a reminder that this trope is OlderThanTheyThink doesn't change the fact she's left good behind -- it takes Caleb revealing to her how she's become not so different before she returns to her usual self.
* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Members of the Imperial Security Bureau always wear white uniforms, while their job is to repress resistance against the Empire.
* Jasmine the BigBad of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' Season 4 is an angelically beautiful woman who primarily wears white, is motherly and kind and turns LA into seemingly {{Utopia}} of love and peace. However she’s still a EldritchAbomination in human form who consumes dozens of people at once and [[GlamourFailure beneath her glamor]] she’s maggoty and rotting. When things don’t go her way Jasmine reveals herself to be a petulant and cruel JerkassGod. Angel himself points out, for all her seraphic goals and Utopianism Jasmine deprives people of freewill, which therefore makes her evil in his eyes.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'' has Vorlons, who [[spoiler: look like angels]] and seem to be helping the younger species fight off the evil Shadows. However, it turns out that the conflict is not between good and evil, but order and chaos. Neither extreme is beneficial for the younger species, who are exploited as pawns in a deadly game. Ultimately, [[spoiler:the younger species band together to kick both the Shadows and the Vorlons out of the galaxy.]]
* In ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', the visions involving the Final Five are decidedly ominous even though the Five are clad in white robes and surrounded by white light. In addition, D'Anna is instantly struck down after trying to approach one of them. Yet the actual Five straddle more along the lines of GoodIsNotNice.
* The ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'' episode "[[Recap/BlackadderS2E5Beer Beer]]" introduces Edmund's relatives the Whiteadders, whose piety and holiness stands in stark contrast to arch-cynic Edmund. However, it turns out that they're ''even more evil''. [[spoiler:Or at least she is; he's under a vow of silence and goes along with whatever she says, presumably for fear that she'll turn on him and burn him as a heretic. Until they both get rat-arsed on the eponymous drink.]]
* Homelander from ''Series/TheBoys2019'' is a grand example of this, overlapping with BrightIsNotGood. With his blonde hair, blue eyes, handsome face and bright costume which has white on it (having [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead the American Flag as his cape]]). Homelander seems with his boy scout mannerisms and willingness to baptize others as a practicing Christian as much an IdealHero as Creator/ChristopherReeve's Man of Steel. In actuality however this all just a facade, Homelander is [[BewareTheSuperman no]] Superman, [[DarkMessiah no]] Jesus Christ, nowhere close. He's a horrifically vile murderer, terrifying SmugSuper bully and despicable [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]]. He absolutely doesn't give a shit for the {{Muggles}} whom he is supposed to protect, only wanting his heroic public image to stay intact. This contrasts brilliantly to his {{foil}} Billy Butcher, who is DarkIsNotEvil, being foul and grim on the surface but unlike Homelander deeply heroic and compassionate on the inside.
* There was a series called ''Series/{{Brimstone}}''. It had the same idea as ''Reaper'', in which someone is forced to hunt Hell's souls because [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] owns his soul, with Lucifer being a absolute MagnificentBastard [[ChessMaster who manipulates several parties against each other]] for his own Mephistolicious entertainment. Point was towards the end of the first season, his royal hoofedness shows up in front of the hunter of sinners, and gives a speech about how even the most damned souls can be redeemed. He then looks in the mirror and realizes he looks like Satan, and says to the hero that the first Angel someone sees is the way they perceive every Angel from that point on. Seeing as the show only had one season we never found out if this was Lucifer mucking with the guy or not.
** One character (TheMole) pointed out that she had been a loyal worshipper of Baal, but had been condemned to hell because Christianity had "won" (in the Series, at least).
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Season 4 gives us The Initiative. They're a government agency with sleek, white labs that captures and experiments on supernatural creatures, likely to make the US more powerful.
** One of the titles Glory's minions call her is "The Shining Light". She's also blonde-haired in her human form.
** Darla too, though more so on ''{{Series/Angel}}'' where she features more. She's a blonde who is usually dressed in high fashion outfits in bright colours. When she is resurrected on ''Angel'', she becomes a vampire again while wearing a pure white dress. Averted when Darla post HeelFaceTurn appears as a spirit to her son Connor pleading with him not give into evil by killing a innocent girl, she’s a case of LightIsGood there.
* This is touched on in ''Series/{{Carnivale}}'', as there seems to be no moral dimension for being the Creature of Light or the Creature of Darkness; the latter just seems to spread calamity around himself whether he wants to or not. The current Creature of Light is a decent, albeit extremely reluctant guy, but his predecessor is ruthless, manipulative and cruel. Interestingly, he's not beautiful in the slightest, despite being associated with Light, and prefers to hide behind a curtain or make himself invisible to keep the shroud of mystery around himself.
** Samson also mentions it in his pilot monologue: "...A false sun explodes over Trinity..." This is a reference to the Trinity Test of the first atomic bomb (a perfect RealLife example of this trope).
* In ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', the destroyed reactor sends up a luminous beam of blue light up to the heavens, which is described as beautiful by uninformed citizens watching from a bridge three kilometers away. When Professor Legasov sees the blue glow in daylight, he is horrified. It's radiation so strong that it is ''ionizing the air'', and anyone who gets close to it is almost guaranteed to die a hellish death from Acute Radiation Syndrome. Even Legasov and Director Shcherbina, despite not getting inside the reactor building themselves, are guaranteed an eventual death by cancer for spending so much time near it.
%% * ''Series/CloakAndDagger2018'': Tandy has light-based powers that give her the ability to summon light daggers and see the hopes of people she touches (to contrast Tyrone's darkness powers). Not only is Tandy the more morally ambiguous of the pair (being a shameless thief and con artist), but her powers are more offensive in nature. Even her ability to see hopes isn't always a good thing -- [[AmbitionIsEvil some people have truly terrifying hopes]].
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
** In Season 3, Wilson Fisk wears predominantly white three-piece suits after he is released from prison, just like he does in the comics.
** Vanessa Marianna predominantly wears white and gray shades of clothing. Then in Season 3, upon her return from exile abroad, [[spoiler:she orders the murder of Ray Nadeem]].
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': Amongst the Hand leaders, Alexandra and Sowande prominently dress in lighter colors, white being the most prominent. Sowande, who runs a gang that recruits desperate black men from Harlem to do the Hand's dirty work (and then kill them when they are no longer useful), is even nicknamed on the streets as "White Hat" owing to his white wardrobe.
* The Tarrs in ''Series/{{Defiance}}''. Like all [[SpaceElves Castithans]], they have white skin and hair, as well as golden eyes, dress all in white or light grey, and have an entirely white house. However, they're basically the town's equivalent to the Corleones. The Castithans themselves also count; when they led the Votan they kept the other races in subservient positions and [[spoiler: attempted genocide on the Irathiants, herding them into caves and then gassing them.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Time Lords, DependingOnTheWriter, and the Doctor even more so. Half the time he's being portrayed as Jesus, half the time he's committing highly dubious acts without actually realizing he's doing something wrong. His perceived morality varies from Doctor to Doctor, but should never be deduced from his manner and face.
** The Daleks have dabbled in this on a couple occasions.
*** The Imperial Daleks. Don't let their [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine white bodies with gold features]] fool you, they're still the same hyper-racist, genocidal megalomaniacs.
*** The now iconic bronze and gold Daleks first seen in Russel T. Davies Doctor Who revival. [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSlA-Wmq6iw1WobogaLm2Rv-nCRI8M7sHJylQ&usqp=CAU They look truly majestic]] and NaiveNewcomer [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Rose actually trusts the first one she meets... before it breaks of its bounds and kills dozens of people]].
*** The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks New Paradigm]] Daleks, [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRZE7R0_ak43GgSO-Sq2U2vS4YDlFiyfWM5Wg&usqp=CAU with their bright and shiny paintjobs]]. Still [[AlwaysChaoticEvil total]] [[OmnicidalManiac bastards]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight "Ghost Light"]] has Light, who wants [[spoiler:to kill everyone and everything, because we keep changing and that's just confusing]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42']]: The enemy is a malevolent [[GeniusLoci star]] with killing light.
--->BURN WITH ME.
** The Weeping Angels, {{angelic|Abomination}} statues which kill you by teleporting you into the past and feeding off of potential abstract energy.
** [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]: The Hosts are shiny white-and-gold angel robots designed to help the passengers. Their true purpose is to kill the passengers and crew to LeaveNoWitnesses.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary "Silence in the Library"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]]: The Doctor and company wind up chased by swarms of {{Living Shadow}}s controlling bright white spacesuits.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight "Midnight"]] has the light be literally killer. Life is thought to be impossible on Midnight's surface, which raises the question: Who's that knocking?
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Flesh and Stone"]]: The [[NegativeSpaceWedgie crack in time]] that appears in the wreck of the ''Byzantium'' emits bright white light with the power to {{retgone}} whatever it touches, and people looking at it feel weird and sick.
* The antagonist in the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Crackers Don't Matter" wanted ''Moya'' to generate as much light as she could, and used hypnotic patterns in the light generated within the ship to set the crew against each other. We don't find out what he wants the light for, only that it has something to do with what his species wants and they seem to be a threat to everyone else (even though, after he's killed, we never see anything like it again).
* Stella from ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'' is the only blonde in the Winx girls, and frequently in light-coloured outfits. She's however an AlphaBitch, self-centered and emotionally abusive to Sky. [[spoiler:Thankfully she becomes a DefrostingIceQueen]].
* The Alliance in ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' puts on a pretty face, makes everyone believe that what they are doing is for the greater good of all mankind, when in reality they're [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans drugging entire planetary populations into starving themselves to death for "peace"]] (though this was unintentional), dispatching [[KnightTemplar agents authorized to kill entire settlements of non-combatants to cover up embarrassing secrets]] and [[MindRape cutting up the brains of children to turn them into psychic assassins]].
* ''Series/FirstKill'': Elinor is a {{depraved|bisexual}} [[LesbianVampire bisexual vampire]] who seduces and fatally feeds on men or women with no qualms. She's a beautiful fair-skinned blonde young woman who's outward manner is entirely sweet.
* ''Series/TheFutureIsWild'' has bioluminiscent [[ThreateningShark sharks]] appropriately called Shark''opaths''.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones''
** House Lannister deserves an honourable mention. A smaller house of Blondes from the sunny south that dons the very heroic colour scheme of red and gold and have a lion in their crest would have easily passed as the good guys in any Anglophone HighFantasy story (especially when contrasted to the rugged, gloomy-looking, black-favouring Starks)... instead of the dysfunctional, incestuous, backstabbing schemers that they actually are.
** The Red Woman preaches the faith of the Lord of Light, which for some reason [[ReligionOfEvil demands sacrifices]] in the form of burning people alive, uses shadow magic and ominous threats and rather fanatically insists on a "one true god" while people in Westeros speak of old and new gods and seem fine with people believing in one or the other.
** White Walkers are not really cool guys.
* Light seems to be a major theme of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' villain Adam Monroe, even after he becomes a FallenHero. So much so that the episode where he is killed is called ''Dying of the Light''.
* In one of the Season 6 '[[MonsterOfTheWeek Immortal of the day]]' episodes of ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', the villain is the head of a global charity organization, always seeking donations and preaching hope, charity and mercy. When he ambushes the main character in a carport with two henchmen, this bit of dialog happens:
-->"What about hope, charity and mercy?"\\
"[[BondOneLiner This is Mr. Hope, and this is Mr. Charity. Mercy has the day off.]]" ''*shooting commences*''
* It wasn't played up a lot in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', and it was a role in [[TheWoobie Charlie's]] play, not his actual persona, but this kicks in when you realize ''Dennis'' of all people was cast as Dayman in Charlie's play/demonstration of his memories of being implicitly molested. Dayman himself isn't evil being "a master of karate and friendship for everyone" (that would be Nightman), but Dennis is the person playing him.
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** The main villain of ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'', N-Daguva-Zeba, looks nearly identical to Kuuga's Ultimate Form except that he's nearly pure white where Ultimate Kuuga is nearly pure black. Even in his human guise, Daguva is a teenager dressed completely in white.
** ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'''s [[TimeMaster Odin]] is a mindless servant of [[BigBad Shiro Kanzaki]], who serves as his personal proxy in the Rider Battle. His golden armor and familiar [[ThePhoenix GoldPhoenix]] give him a regal appearance, which contrast with his purpose of rigging the tournament in Shiro's favor.
** The Orphnochs of ''Series/KamenRider555'' are all entirely white when in their true form, and while many of them are heroic, plenty of them are complete monsters, from [[TheDragon Kitazaki]] to [[BigBadWannabe Murakami]]. In ''[[NonSerialMovie Paradise Lost]]'', there's also Kamen Rider Psyga, whose suit is noticeably white compared to all of ''555''[='s=] other Riders, despite its user, [[TheBrute Leo]], being a professional assassin who treats his job like a game, hounding down members of the Resistance more for his amusement than for pay.
** ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' has the white armored Kamen Rider Ixa, who is modeled after a Knight Templar. The two primary users of this suit, Keisuke Nago and Iritate Kengo, behave like a KnightTemplar and a {{Jerkass}} respectively. In Nago's case, he indiscriminately killed a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Fangire]] despite said Fangire's desire to live peacefully among mankind, while Kengo is a little bit too eager to take [[TheHero Wataru's]] life, despite them previously being friends. They both get better through CharacterDevelopment though.
** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' has Katsumi Daido, AKA Kamen Rider Eternal, a pure-white Rider, who is a zombie soldier who seeks to turn everyone in Fuuto into [[CameBackWrong Necro-Overs]] just like himself. The only other user of Eternal's power, Jun Kazu, the [[VisionaryVillain Utopia Dopant]], is a member of Foundation X who sought to resume the [[FinalSolution Gaia Impact]] after it was interrupted.
** ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'': [[BigBad Wiseman]], leader of Phantoms, is nearly pure white aside from the purple gemstones on his body. He's also [[spoiler:this doubly so in his [[RunningBothSides alter ego]] as the White Wizard, who is white with bright gold highlights.]]
** Several characters in ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' have the power to transform into the white and gold Gamma Ultima form. None of these characters are good guys.
** ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': [[OmnicidalManiac Kamen Rider Evol]]'s final form is Black Hole, which is predominantly white and has a creepy SlasherSmile on top of that. It's in this form that Evol also has the power to create planet-destroying black holes.
** ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'': [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Ark-One]]'s costume is nearly pure white aside from its glowing red eyes and ''literally'' runs on ThePowerOfHate. [[SubvertedTrope That being said]], the only thing [[spoiler:Aruto]] uses it for is to defeat a destructive terrorist with much worse goals than him.
** ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'': Kamen Rider Evil/Live is wielded by a JekyllAndHyde pair and flips forms to match whoever's in control, with black or white armor to match. Live's upgrade, Holy Live, switches to an even brighter white and blue palette, and comes after the Jekyll of the pair successfully separates from and kills his Hyde. Without his evil side, however, Live quickly turns into a KnightTemplar who's far more dangerous than the relatively petty acts of villainy that Evil got up to.
* The Light Fae in ''Series/LostGirl'' are only good by comparison to the Dark in that they have some rules about feeding off humans. One of thier leaders, The Blackthorn describes as much in the episode: I Fought the Fae (and the Fae Won)
--> "Humans are food. We eat from them or we die. Now the Dark Fae, they tend to kill for pleasure, not just need...We're more like your Native American hunters. We respect the kill. Won't over-hunt. Don't eat the young."
* The BigBad in 'Series/{{Neverwhere}}'' is [[spoiler: the angel Islington]], who (at least in the original TV miniseries) wears a white robe and lives in a chamber filled with lighted candles.
* That episode of ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' where Alex was interrogated using a mind altering drug and she sees her evil self "Alexandra", representing what her life would have been if she had never met Nikita. Alex wore [[DarkisNotEvil black jogging pants and sweat shirt]] while "Alexandra" wore this pure white sable fur coat.
* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', when she was young [[Literature/OneHundredAndOneDalmations Cruella De Ville]] looked and sounded like an innocent, wide-eyed ingenue; complete with cascading blonde curls and a pretty white dress. In reality however, she was a SerialKiller.
* ''Series/PaperGirls'': The antagonist Old Watch soldiers all wear white uniforms.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Samaritan is an {{artificial intelligence}} with a dominantly white interface and a [[NamesToTrustImmediately name to trust immediately]]. It personifies both AIIsACrapshoot and BigBrotherIsWatching.
%%* In ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', [[spoiler:Princess Serenity]].
* ''Series/RaisedByWolves2020'': The Mithraic religion apparently worships the god "Sol" and has a sun as its holy symbol. Their prayers frequently reference light. However, everything we learn about their beliefs suggests that it's a cruel and merciless religion.
* The final seasons of ''Series/StargateSG1'' saw villains in the Ori, ascended beings posing as gods (fire gods, really, but they do a lot of light stuff) [[strike:and]] trying to convert the Milky Way galaxy to their religion (Origin) so they can use their collective faith to power-up and take out the [[NeglectfulPrecursors Ancients]]. Their religion seems pretty Christianity-inspired, including having their own holy book (The Book of Origin) and inducing immaculate conception in a major character.
** However, the Ori fire motif was eventually contrasted with the soft-white light of the Ancients, who also inserted the concept of "fire is evil" into almost every human culture.
** But the Ancients themselves, while not evil are Stupid Neutral NeglectfulPrecursors.
** In the fourth season, a beautiful, optical illusion-y light was used as an "opium chamber" by Goa'uld. It accidentally snared the main characters after its former users were gone. Although it wasn't the light itself that caused it, the device emitted radiation. The light was just "entertainment" for while the Goa'uld were stoned.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'':
** Season 4 gives us Jason the archetypal handsome, blonde, blue-eyed basketball captain with a beautiful cheerleader girlfriend, who wears a white (and green) letterman jacket and is AHeroToHisHometown and seemingly LovableJock. His very first scene is him giving a Steve Rogers-esque RousingSpeech to the whole school explicitly honouring those who have died in the previous years, [[PetTheDog including the unpopular Barb]]. Yet in his following scenes we see that Jason isn’t all he’s cracked up to be, being aggressive and sneering to unpopular groups like the D&D playing Hellfire club labelling them as freaks. Upon learning his girlfriend Chrissy had been found dead in Eddie’s trailer, [[SanitySlippage all the radiance drops from Jason]] as he goes on a rampage assaulting and threatening anybody remotely connected to Eddie and even stirs up a WitchHunt. Even his FreudianExcuse: his love for Chrissy is soured since its revealed he didn’t really know her and was ignorant to her [[AbusiveParents suffering]], furiously claiming during his VillainousBreakdown to Lucas before trying to kill him, that if Chrissy needed help, [[BelievingTheirOwnLies she would’ve gone to him]] [[CrazyJealousGuy not to Eddie]]. This makes Jason a good {{foil}} to [[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown Eddie himself]] who is DarkIsNotEvil being on the surface intense and troublemaking and even has satanic iconography, yet displays heroic HiddenDepths and real [[HiddenHeartOfGold compassion]] to those whom he cares about.
** [[spoiler: The same season has the white-uniformed orderly who cared for Eleven when she was 9, a handsome blonde young man who shows her kindness the rest of her PsychicChildren siblings didn’t. He even helps her escape and she repays the favour by removing the PowerLimiter from his neck. Unfortunately this proved to be a mistake, as the young orderly is really Henry aka One, the BewareTheSuperman StrawNihilist who proceeds to murder all the other children with his own PsychicPowers, getting his white uniformed soaked with blood as Eleven discovers what he really is. After giving Eleven an WeCanRuleTogether which she refuses, Henry is banished to the Upside Down by her and becomes the DarkIsEvil HumanoidAbomination BigBad Vecna.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** One episode had Data and the ''Enterprise'' computer infected by a program from an archeological artifact, forcing the ship's crew to play out an ancient ritual of a sun and moon exchanging places in the sky -- from day to night, in this case. The ritual depicted the soothing, gentle moon convincing the harsh, burning sun to leave the world in peace for a time, to keep the sun from destroying everything.
** Another episode, "Justice", has the ''Enterprise'' discover a utopian planet of healthy happy people who wear white and [[EternalSexualFreedom freely enjoy sex]]. Everything seems peaceful and perfect until Wesley gets sentenced to DEATH for [[AllCrimesAreEqual accidentally breaking a greenhouse window.]]
** The [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpRdCjnTKs_GZEvFzBjOzGv3Xj221nGryU8g&usqp=CAU Crystalline Entity]] counts, it’s a beautiful glowing white crystal being that produces a lovely humming noise, most of the ''Enterprise'' crew found it wonderful. This doesn’t change the fact it was destroying numerous planets and was actually an ally to Data’s EvilTwin Lore and [[ItCanThink even fled when he was defeated]].
* In the ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' episode "Ghosts of Illyria", the crew are infected with a strange virus that already wiped out a colony of Illyrians. The virus drains the body of Vitamin D, leading to those infected to become more and more desperate to get light, leading to extreme things like Hemmer trying to transport the mantle of a planet into the transporter room of the ''Enterprise'' and La'an trying to initiate a warp core breach. Oddly, Una is the only one not infected by this, [[spoiler:because she's an Illyrian herself, who is genetically modified -- [[NoTranshumanismAllowed a major no-no in Starfleet]] -- and the Illyrians who died on the colony were those who tried to remove those modifications and were infected]].
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' makes a point out of doing this with all the angelic characters featuring from Season 4 onwards:
** Early in the series, an "angel" [[spoiler: actually the ghost of a priest]] made people commit murders [[WellIntentionedExtremist for the sake of considering them evil]]. He manifested himself surrounded by light, [[spoiler: something unusual for a ghost.]] Played with, as all the people he killed fully deserved it, and the ending implies that the "angel" was right about his murders being God's will.
** Contrast the Winchester's angelic ally Castiel with Uriel in "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester!" Uriel is fully willing to destroy the {{Adventure Town}}s that Sam and Dean have stumbled upon to stop the demonic baddie of the week from being raised (and a seal to the BigBad's prison destroyed in the process), and he openly refers to humanity as "mud monkeys." Notably however Castiel would have helped destroy the town if ordered to, it's just he would have felt bad about it.
** There's also Zachariah and his lackeys. At first, they just seem like smug, superior {{Jerkass}}es. And they are. [[spoiler: They also ''want'' to set off the apocalypse. Or as Zachariah called it, "A cosmic enema."]] Zachariah also has another wonderful moment later: When [[spoiler: Michael]] needs consent to take over [[spoiler: Dean's]] body, Zachariah gets persuasive. [[spoiler: Not content with giving Dean stage 4 stomach cancer and ensuring Bobby will never walk again, he cheerily announces "Okay, then let's get really creative. Let's see how Sam does without his lungs."]]
** Zachariah does mention, however, that heaven's plan was being kept secret from the "grunt" angels, implying many of them wouldn't have gone along with it if they had known.
** In the [[SeasonFinale Season 4 finale]], the ending makes a large change as it fades to white instead of black. Guess who's shining radiance is approaching? [[spoiler: [[BigBad Lucifer.]]]] Also, in the flashforward episode, [[spoiler:Lucifer in Sam's body]] wears a perfect white suit and shoes.
** Remember the Trickster? Liked teaching people lessons in very cruel ways, stuck Sam in a time loop and killed Dean every single day? [[spoiler: He's the ArchangelGabriel.]] And he's on their side.
** The [[SeasonFinale Season 6 finale]] shows that even "good" angels are [[SixthRangerTraitor really evil]]. Dear God. It turns out that [[DarkIsEvil Crowley really is evil]] and [[YinYangBomb working with Castiel]] to [[AGodAmI become the new God and Devil]]. And he's also working with the ArchangelRaphael because he suspects that [[TheStarscream Castiel will betray him]]. He's right, and Castiel ends up becoming the new God, but he allows Crowley to live because he needs him. Castiel, though, feels betrayed that Dean didn't trust him to work with demons! In fairness, the [[{{Hypocrite}} Winchesters]] have certainly done so often enough.
** Crowley reminded us early on that Lucifer is an angel. However, Lucifer only created the demons (from human souls) to prove to God just how debased humans really are. Lucifer himself feels nothing but contempt for the demons.
** Naomi is attractive, has a somewhat cold, but brightly-lit office and is very much a prim angel. She is not really any nicer than Zachariah, just not as obvious about enjoying cruelty.
** Most demons have BlackEyesOfEvil and appear when not possessing someone as [[DarkIsEvil thick black smoke]]. However, certain demons who hold a position of power within Hell have unique eye colours: Azazel has dark yellow, and Crowley has blood red… but Lilith, the very ''first'' demon, has eyes of solid white.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and its adaptation ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
** ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'': [[BigBad Galactic Empress Meadow]], ruler of the planet-ravaging Zone Empire, takes the form of a floating white face surrounded by a brightly-colored rainbow mane. It's later revealed [[spoiler:this was invoked by the Zone's [[TheManBehindTheMan true leader]] Vulgyre, who created Meadow's illusion because his true form as a disgusting BotanicalAbomination was too monstrous to attract followers.]]
** Nakadai Mikoto AKA [=AbareKiller=] from ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' could as well be the poster boy for this trope. He is the white ranger of this series, is a very charismatic and successful surgeon and saved the life of the red ranger of the series by performing an operation on him. This would indicate he is a kindhearted hero who values the lives of others... except he isn't in the slightest, as he stays evil for the majority of the series. After gaining his white ranger powers, Mikoto only uses them for his own twisted entertainment, no matter how many innocent people are hurt by it. His only motivation for this, is because he is bored and misses excitement in his life. He even manages to become the leader of the actual villains, just to alleviate his boredom. This makes him currently the only ranger in ''Sentai'' to voluntarily use his powers for evil for the majority of the series. This trope also applies to the villain Lijewel, whose costume has a slight angelic or priestly vibe to it, as well as being predominantly white.
** This trope also applies to Mikoto's ''Power Rangers'' counterpart, Trent Fernandez from Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder, but not to the extent as Mikoto himself. Trent pulls his HeelFaceTurn much sooner and is only evil because his powers caused him to turn BrainwashedAndCrazy. The whole light vs dark thing is turned on its side, with the White Ranger being Trent's SuperpoweredEvilSide and the Black Ranger being freaking ''Tommy.'' The same series also has the Evil White Ranger Clone, who, like it says, is a clone of Trents white ranger form.
** Brajira from ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' is a fallen angel whose true form has four white wings, while his face looks the most human of all the villains. As he is an angel himself, he is able to use exactly the same powers as the angelic protagonists do, only stronger. His ultimate plan involves causing a mass extinction event on earth, so he could remake the planet in his image.
* ''Series/TenMilesOfPeachBlossoms'': The Heavenly Lord is usually wearing bright colours and lives in a palace in the clouds. But he also has Shao Xin locked away because she wants to marry his son, and he refuses to let Ye Hua see his mother unless he does an ImpossibleTask. And then there's the way he treats Bai Qian...
* ''Series/TrueBlood'''s [[CorruptChurch Fellowship of the Sun]] is a fanatical mega church that is [[KnightTemplar raising an army]] to make war on all vampires. It's led by a preacher in a white suit. And their version of TheDragon is not above committing rape to make his point.
** And they recently added Faeries to the list of creatures. Faeries that [[spoiler: kidnap their half-human offspring and keep them blissfully drugged]].
* Zogu from ''Series/UltramanGaia'' initially appears in the form of a giant angelic woman. Appearing when Gaia and Agul are having a great deal of trouble with a swarm of Kaiser Dobishi, she wipes out the swarm and recharges the power of the Ultras...[[HopeCrusher all so she can crush Gaia and Agul at their strongest.]]
* ''Series/{{Willow}}'': [[BigBad The Crone]] dwells in the Immemorial City, an eerie place [[EndlessDaytime with no night]]. The entrance into the lair of the Wyrm, the being that she serves, is bathed in light too, while its "milk" also glows. At the end of Season 1 as well she claims the Wyrm will usher in "new light" to the world. None of it makes her less clearly evil.
* ''Series/WordOfHonor'': Wen Kexing frequently wears light colours, but he's the Master of Ghost Valley and will kill anyone stupid enough to get in his way.

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