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* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "[[Recap/FatherBrownS1E5 The Eye of Apollo]]", Kalon, the sinister cult-leader, wears beautiful and pristine white robes, in contrast to Father Brown's scruffy black cassock.
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** The Orphnochs of ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'' 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 Faiz'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.

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** The Orphnochs of ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'' ''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 Faiz's ''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.
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* 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.

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** 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]].

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** One episode had Data and the Enterprise ''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 ''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 ''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]].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]].

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* 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.



* Homelander from ''Series/TheBoys'' 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 the American Flag as his cape). Homelander seems with his boy scout mannerisms and willingness to baptise 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 is deeply heroic and compassionate on the inside.
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* ''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.
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* ''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.
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** 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 intense and troublemaking on the surface but displays HiddenDepths and a real [[HiddenHeartOfGold compassion]] to those whom he's close to.
** [[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 Vecna.]]

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** 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 on the surface but and even has satanic iconography, yet displays heroic HiddenDepths and a real [[HiddenHeartOfGold compassion]] to those whom he's close to.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.]]
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* 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.]]

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** The Orphnocs of ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'' 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 Faiz'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.

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** The Orphnocs Orphnochs of ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'' 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 Faiz'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/KamenRiderWizard'': The White Wizard presents himself as GoodIsNotNice at the best of times, but as the series goes on it becomes increasingly clear that he's not particularly good either. In fact, he's actually also [[BigBad Wiseman]], [[RunningBothSides having manipulated both sides]] for his own goals. His Wiseman identity ''also'' fulfills this trope, being nearly pure white aside from the purple gemstones on his body.

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** ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'': The White Wizard presents himself as GoodIsNotNice at the best of times, but as the series goes on it becomes increasingly clear that he's not particularly good either. In fact, he's actually also [[BigBad Wiseman]], [[RunningBothSides having manipulated both sides]] for his own goals. His Wiseman identity ''also'' fulfills this trope, being leader of Phantoms, is nearly pure white aside from the purple gemstones on his body.body. He's also [[spoiler:this doubly so in his [[RunningBothSides alter ego]] as the White Wizard, who is white with bright gold highlights.]]



** ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'': Aruto's descent into FallenHero territory near the end of the show is also marked by his donning a new costume that's nearly pure white aside from its glowing red eyes. Said costume ''literally'' runs on ThePowerOfHate.

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** ''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'': Aruto's descent into FallenHero territory near the end of the show is also marked by his donning a new [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Ark-One]]'s costume that's is nearly pure white aside from its glowing red eyes. Said costume eyes and ''literally'' runs on ThePowerOfHate.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.


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** ''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.]]

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