Basic Trope: The lights go off in a room, and when they turn back on, someone has died.
- Straight: In the Mansion of Troperia, the lights suddenly go out when everyone is having dinner... and when they go back on, everyone finds that Von Trope has been murdered!
- Exaggerated: When the lights turn on again, everyone in the room has been killed.
- Downplayed:
- When the lights turn on, it's revealed that Von Trope is missing/injured.
- When the lights turn on, it's revealed that something was stolen.
- Justified: The murderer wanted it to be difficult to identify them, so they turned off the lights in order to hide this.
- Inverted:
- For some reason, the murderer waits until the lights have turned back on to commit the act.
- The scene is filled with dead bodies. Suddenly lights go off and when they turn back one, one of the bodies is alive.
- Subverted: Von Trope seems dead, but is actually just resting.
- Double Subverted: Then the lights go off, and Duke Bob is killed.
- Parodied: The murderer ends up stumbling around in the dark and fails horribly at the act.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The murderer doesn't kill anyone in the dark.
- Enforced: No lights means no visual effects needed, which means less budget needed for the scene.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: The mastermind of a Deadly Game turns out the lights until a murder is committed, in a bid to get people killing each other as quickly as possible.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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