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* ImpliedLoveInterest: It's implied that Dark has a crush on her. When he's introducing Orion to the Night Entities, he calls Dreams the most creative and poetic of them all and says her name softly. At the end of the movie, she tells Dark that she admires his work, and he gives a soft chuckle.
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* MakeSomeNoise: We don't get to see much of her job, but she makes an art out of making noises. It seems as though she amplifies the noises she makes so that they're loud enough to be heard from indoors, as the green light on her body is seen flickering whenever she does this.
* ShoutOut: She's modeled after a Sony Sports Walkman.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: She's the first one to quit their job, and does so angrily.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: She's the first one to quit their job, and does so angrily.
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-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AngelaBassett
The lava lamp-like personification of dreams. Her job is to enter people's subconsciouses and create their dreams.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: She's unearthly beautiful, and always wants to give everyone pleasant dreams.
* DreamWeaver: She uses people's memories and desires to create dreams that inspire them. She is not pleased when Orion's negative outlook starts influencing the dream she's giving someone.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Sweet Dreams, a gentle female Night Entity who looks like she's wearing a long, flowing dress, is a pinkish-purple color.
* InSeriesNickname: She tends to just be called "dreams."
* TheLeader: It seems that she's the de-facto leader of the Night Entities. Sleep and Insomnia only quit their jobs because Dreams did.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: She's already tall, but she becomes giant when she's conjuring people's dreams.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's beautiful and the tallest of the Night Entities. Dark is also implied to be attracted to her.
* TeamMom: She acts like a gentle but firm leader and mother figure to the other Night Entities.
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-->'''Voiced by''': Golda Rosheuvel
The robot-like personification of strange noises heard at night. Her job is to make sounds that wake people up.
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* BrutalHonesty: When Dark introduces Orion to the Night Entities, she makes an "insightfully harsh" comment at Dark.
-->'''Unexplained Noises''': Helping random children to boost your fragile self esteem is not in our job description!
* TheComicallySerious: She takes her job ''very'' seriously? Her job? Making noises that scare children.
* {{Fembot}}: Her eyelashes and voice establish her as feminine.
* MeaningfulName: Her temporary rename, "Debby," means "bee." This is fitting, as she is yellow and busy as a bee.
* MeaningfulRename: When she quits, she feels like she has no purpose in the day and says her new name is "Debby." She isn't called that for the rest of the movie.
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-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/NatFaxon
The bug-like personification of insomnia. His job is to keep people awake.
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* TheCynic: He always thinks the worst of everything, and to keep people awake, he whispers worrisome things into their ears.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: He has dark circles under his eyes, since he embodies insomnia.
* NecessarilyEvil: Insomnia is shown to be this as he targets people who should be awake so they can continue their job or work on their personal dilemmas.
* {{Telepathy}}: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. He would have to read minds in order to know what would get them to stay awake, and he has tapes of people's embarrassing memories.
* VoiceChangeling: He can change his voice into other people's so he can say worrisome things in their ears and keep them awake. He can even speak other languages, like Japanese.
* WingdingEyes: Insomnia's pupils resemble a digital clock display. They're usually both zeroes but they shift through different numbers whenever he stresses out.
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-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AparnaNancherla
The mouse-like personification of quiet. Her job is to absorb all of the sound to make things peaceful.
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* AbstractEater: Quiet does her job by sucking up all the sound out of the surrounding area, nullifying it within her body.
* {{Planimal}}: She may squeak and have hears like a mouse, but she also resembles a dandelion, with her fuzzy appearance and her green tail resembling the stem.
* StealthPun: Her mouse-like appearance is a reference to the phrase "quiet as a mouse."
* TheUnintelligible: Quiet talks in squeaks that the other Night Entities only pretend to understand. Barely audible beneath the squeaks is a whisper, which is more evident when she whispers in Orion's ear at the climax.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: They embody Sleep, Insomnia, Quiet, Unexplained Noises and Sweet Dreams respectively.
* CharacterDevelopment: They're not that fond of Dark at first, but by the end of the movie, they learn to appreciate him.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Insomnia is green, Quiet is white, Sweet Dreams is purple/pinkish, Sleep is blue, and Unexplained Noises is gold.
* ColorContrails: They leave behind contrails matching their colors as they fly. Sleep's contrails has Zs and Insomnia's has numbers.
* {{Motifs}}: [[https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/bring-on-the-night-a-detailed-look-at-the-stunning-lighting-and-vfx-work-in-dreamworks-orion-and-the-dark-237424.html Some of them are based on real-world objects]]. Sweet Dreams is based on a lava lamp, Sleep is based on a stuffed animal, and Unexplained Noises is based on a Sony Sports Walkman.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Gender-inverted. Including Dark, there are only two guys on the team. The others are girls (Quiet's gender is hard to tell at first, but she is referred to with she/her pronouns at one point).
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-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/NatasiaDemetriou
The personification of sleeps. She helps people get to sleep each night.
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* CatchingSomeZs: Unlike the other Night Entities, Sleep fittingly leaves behind a trail of Z's whenever she flies.
* InstantSedation: Sleep puts people to, well, sleep quickly by using magical items including a magical chloroform rag.
* ShoutOut: Sleep is designed after a {{Muppet}}.
* SignatureHeadgear: She always wears a nightcap, which helps show that she gets people to sleep.
* {{Sleepyhead}}: She's prone to dozing off in the middle of doing something.
* TapOnTheHead: How Sleep does her job does not look pleasant, like [[VorpalPillow using a pillow to smother someone unconscious]] or a chloroform soaked rag. Orion moves to stop her when she's about to use a (magical, spectral) hammer on a baby.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Sleep is a blue female Night Entity with an unmistakably feminine voice and [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics noticeable eyelashes]].
* UnexplainedAccent: She somehow has a Russian accent.
* VorpalPillow: One of her tactics to get someone to sleep is to smother a pillow on them.
* WouldHurtAChild: She's willing to use a hammer to get a baby to sleep.
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-->'''Voiced by''': Mia Akemi Brown, Creator/ShannonChanKent (adult)
Hypatia is Orion's daughter.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Hypatia is stated to have an interest in poetry. When she inserts herself into her father's story, she uses a new poem to rally the Night Entities to return.
* ChildProdigy: Like her father when he was her age, she is very astute.
-->'''Hypatia''': Fear of the dark is an evolutionary adaptation that people developed to protect themselves from nocturnal predators.
* CosmicMotifs: She continues the space theme from her father. She is named after an ancient astronomer, has stars around her room, and goes to the planetarium where her father works.
* ForegoneConclusion: Her design gives away the fact that Orion succeeds in courting his childhood crush Sally.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Non-vulgar example. Hypatia is a very perceptive and insightful little girl, something an adult Orion comments on more than once.
* GirlishPigtails: She had pigtails when she was younger, but when she grew up, she changed her hairstyle.
* GenreSavvy: She is aware of why Orion is telling her the story, and assumes that the story will be simple and have a DancePartyEnding (probably SelfDeprecation at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation constantly using that trope).
-->'''Hypatia''': Parents love simple stories like that because whatever problem the character has, it all gets fixed, and then they don’t have to worry about it anymore. Orion meets Dark. Dark’s not so bad. Orion isn’t afraid of him anymore, then there’s a dance party.
* HiddenDepths: She turns out to be an ''excellent'' poet.
* LikeParentLikeChild: She and Orion are alike in many ways, like how they were both very smart as children and had a fear of the dark. Hypatia even inserts herself into the story because she thought that she and her father would be friends if they were the same age.
* MeaningfulName: She's named after an ancient philosopher and astronomer from Alexandria, and is very wise beyond her years.
* NervousWreck: She has some of this but toned down compared to Orion, mostly sharing a fear of the dark and anxiety expressing her feelings with others.
* PrimalFear: She has a fear of the dark, which is why he tells her a bedtime story to help her get over it.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: She makes very insightful comments for someone her age.
-->'''Hypatia''': We should be able to look at the real sky at night. They build a city that blocks out the stars, then they put up fake stars to look at?
-->'''Orion''': That’s… That’s a really profound thought, sweetie.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: InUniverse. She helps her dad make up the story as they go along. Hypatia somehow [[SelfInsertFic inserts herself into the story near the end]], and it isn't until a grown-up Hypatia has her own son and passes the story onto him that they ''finally'' figure out an ending to it.
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!!Main Characters
[[folder:Orion]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JacobTremblay, Creator/ColinHanks (adult)
The protagonist of the movie. He's scared of everything, especially the dark.
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* AbsurdPhobia: Some of his fears are very unusual and impossible to happen, such as getting cancer through the phone.
* AfraidOfClowns: He is afraid of murderous gutter clowns.
* BrattyHalfPint: The Night Entities are annoyed by Orion's presence, especially since he's so disruptive to their work.
* BullyMagnet: He constantly gets picked on by other kids for always being scared. He has a list of the people who bully him. There's even one girl who always sends him threatening letters on his birthday even though she moved away.
* CharacterDevelopment: Over time, he stops being scared of Dark, and learns to just "feel the fear" when he does something that's scary.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler:He eventually married Sally, the girl he had a crush on as a child]].
* ChildProdigy: He knows a lot of big words for someone his age, and suggests reading ''Literature/InfiniteJest'' for a bedtime story. He can also speak fluent Japanese.
* CosmicMotifs: He is associated with space in general. He is named after a constellation, his class is going on a field trip to the planetarium, [[spoiler:and when he grows up, he works at a planetarium (not the same one from the field trip)]].
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: When he's showing the other Night Entities how great light is, he unintentionally offends Dark by suggesting that he's the one holding them back. Later, Orion tries to clarify what he meant by using the GrassIsGreener adage, but that just leads to the other NightEntities wanting to go into the daylight even more, abandoning Dark.
* FriendlessBackground: He doesn't have many friends and is constantly bullied at school. However, he later becomes friends with Dark and the other Night Entities.
* GlassesOfAging: [[spoiler:When he's an old man, he starts wearing glasses]].
* GoodParents: [[spoiler:In the future, he's a great father to Hypatia, telling her a bedtime story to help her overcome her fear of the dark, listening to her, and even letting her insert herself into his story]].
* HairstyleInertia: [[spoiler:He keeps the same hairstyle throughout his life]].
* InSeriesNickname:
** Due to his habit of being afraid of everything, Orion has become infamous with the nighttime entities to the point of being referred to as "The Screamer".
** Richi Panichi calls Orion "Cryin' Orion" for the same reason.
* InterspeciesFriendship: He, a human boy, becomes best friends with Dark, a Night Entity, as well as the other Night Entities.
* IronicName: Orion is afraid of the dark, but is named after a constellation that is only visible at night.
* KiddieKid: Downplayed. While he is a ChildProdigy and he constantly nitpicks a cartoon for being unrealistic, he's still afraid of the dark and still needs bedtime stories to go to sleep. However, the story he wanted to read was a novel written by Creator/DavidFosterWallace (likely ''Literature/InfiniteJest'', since it was a {{Doorstopper}}).
* NervousWreck: Orion is filled with anxiety and fears of unlikely events.
* PrimalFear: His fear of the dark is what kickstarts the story.
* PuppyLove: He has a crush on his classmate, Sally. [[spoiler:They get married in the future]].
* ShrinkingViolet: He is very nervous around Sally and can't work up the courage to talk to her.
* {{Spoonerism}}: One of Orion's many fears. He often refuses to speak in class when he knows the answer, or even say good morning, out of worry that he'll swap the letters by accident.
* StellarName: He is named after the constellation.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: InUniverse. [[spoiler:The film's main plot is actually a bedtime story that an adult Orion is telling to his young daughter, Hypatia, and they both work together to make it up as they go along. Plot elements are added at random and dropped just as quickly.]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/PaulWalterHauser
The living embodiment of the dark.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the book the Dark is depicted with having some blue and stars on him giving a night sky look while in the movie he is completely dark shaded.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Dark is a dark being who is meant to represent all darkness.
* BlackCloak: He wears a black cloak to emphasize that he's the Dark, but unlike other examples, DarkIsNotEvil.
* DarkIsNotEvil: In fact, he’s a friendly, jovial fellow who just wants to teach Orion some courage.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Once the other Night Entities quit and realizing how lonely and dreary his job is without them, Dark decides to quit and accepts being erased once Light catches up to him. However, he later comes back when he is retrieved from Orion's memories]].
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Though he's nominally a friend to the other Night Entities, they're annoyed at his attempts to convince the world that he isn't so bad, and later ditch him when they hear about how great the day is. However, by the end of the movie, they learn to appreciate Dark and what he does.
* HatedByAll: Billions of people worldwide are afraid of him, and he even keeps track of all of them. He admits that it's giving him a complex, and he is saddened when he overhears a little boy saying that he hates the dark.
* InterspeciesFriendship: He becomes buddies with Orion, a human boy.
* TheMovieBuff: He seems to really like movies. He has made a short film about himself, but it didn't get into Sundance.
* PsychologicalProjection: Light accuses him of projecting his insecurities onto him.
-->'''Light''': It’s always the same routine with you, man. I show up, you feel inadequate, then you start to project your insecurities onto me. Every day, I bring brightness and hope to the world, and you bring the exact opposite.
* SecretlySelfish: Though Dark tries to act like his quest to help Orion overcome all of his fears, especially him, is a truly altruistic goal on his part, the rest of the nighttime entities accuse him of being this by trying to use it as a way to help boost his own fragile self-esteem— which is a pretty fair accusation since, in addition to keeping multiple lists of all of the numerous children and people that are afraid of him with him at all times and showing clear resentment and envy towards his much more beloved and popular counterpart, Light, kidnapping Orion for a 24-hour joy ride isn't even the first time that Dark has tried to make the rest of the world like him more through a crazy, hair-brained scheme.
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%%Light
%%Sally
%%Richie Panici
%%Tycho
!!Main Characters
[[folder:Orion]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as an old man.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oatd_old_orion.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JacobTremblay, Creator/ColinHanks (adult)
The protagonist of the movie. He's scared of everything, especially the dark.
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* AbsurdPhobia: Some of his fears are very unusual and impossible to happen, such as getting cancer through the phone.
* AfraidOfClowns: He is afraid of murderous gutter clowns.
* BrattyHalfPint: The Night Entities are annoyed by Orion's presence, especially since he's so disruptive to their work.
* BullyMagnet: He constantly gets picked on by other kids for always being scared. He has a list of the people who bully him. There's even one girl who always sends him threatening letters on his birthday even though she moved away.
* CharacterDevelopment: Over time, he stops being scared of Dark, and learns to just "feel the fear" when he does something that's scary.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler:He eventually married Sally, the girl he had a crush on as a child]].
* ChildProdigy: He knows a lot of big words for someone his age, and suggests reading ''Literature/InfiniteJest'' for a bedtime story. He can also speak fluent Japanese.
* CosmicMotifs: He is associated with space in general. He is named after a constellation, his class is going on a field trip to the planetarium, [[spoiler:and when he grows up, he works at a planetarium (not the same one from the field trip)]].
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: When he's showing the other Night Entities how great light is, he unintentionally offends Dark by suggesting that he's the one holding them back. Later, Orion tries to clarify what he meant by using the GrassIsGreener adage, but that just leads to the other NightEntities wanting to go into the daylight even more, abandoning Dark.
* FriendlessBackground: He doesn't have many friends and is constantly bullied at school. However, he later becomes friends with Dark and the other Night Entities.
* GlassesOfAging: [[spoiler:When he's an old man, he starts wearing glasses]].
* GoodParents: [[spoiler:In the future, he's a great father to Hypatia, telling her a bedtime story to help her overcome her fear of the dark, listening to her, and even letting her insert herself into his story]].
* HairstyleInertia: [[spoiler:He keeps the same hairstyle throughout his life]].
* InSeriesNickname:
** Due to his habit of being afraid of everything, Orion has become infamous with the nighttime entities to the point of being referred to as "The Screamer".
** Richi Panichi calls Orion "Cryin' Orion" for the same reason.
* InterspeciesFriendship: He, a human boy, becomes best friends with Dark, a Night Entity, as well as the other Night Entities.
* IronicName: Orion is afraid of the dark, but is named after a constellation that is only visible at night.
* KiddieKid: Downplayed. While he is a ChildProdigy and he constantly nitpicks a cartoon for being unrealistic, he's still afraid of the dark and still needs bedtime stories to go to sleep. However, the story he wanted to read was a novel written by Creator/DavidFosterWallace (likely ''Literature/InfiniteJest'', since it was a {{Doorstopper}}).
* NervousWreck: Orion is filled with anxiety and fears of unlikely events.
* PrimalFear: His fear of the dark is what kickstarts the story.
* PuppyLove: He has a crush on his classmate, Sally. [[spoiler:They get married in the future]].
* ShrinkingViolet: He is very nervous around Sally and can't work up the courage to talk to her.
* {{Spoonerism}}: One of Orion's many fears. He often refuses to speak in class when he knows the answer, or even say good morning, out of worry that he'll swap the letters by accident.
* StellarName: He is named after the constellation.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: InUniverse. [[spoiler:The film's main plot is actually a bedtime story that an adult Orion is telling to his young daughter, Hypatia, and they both work together to make it up as they go along. Plot elements are added at random and dropped just as quickly.]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/PaulWalterHauser
The living embodiment of the dark.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the book the Dark is depicted with having some blue and stars on him giving a night sky look while in the movie he is completely dark shaded.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Dark is a dark being who is meant to represent all darkness.
* BlackCloak: He wears a black cloak to emphasize that he's the Dark, but unlike other examples, DarkIsNotEvil.
* DarkIsNotEvil: In fact, he’s a friendly, jovial fellow who just wants to teach Orion some courage.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Once the other Night Entities quit and realizing how lonely and dreary his job is without them, Dark decides to quit and accepts being erased once Light catches up to him. However, he later comes back when he is retrieved from Orion's memories]].
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Though he's nominally a friend to the other Night Entities, they're annoyed at his attempts to convince the world that he isn't so bad, and later ditch him when they hear about how great the day is. However, by the end of the movie, they learn to appreciate Dark and what he does.
* HatedByAll: Billions of people worldwide are afraid of him, and he even keeps track of all of them. He admits that it's giving him a complex, and he is saddened when he overhears a little boy saying that he hates the dark.
* InterspeciesFriendship: He becomes buddies with Orion, a human boy.
* TheMovieBuff: He seems to really like movies. He has made a short film about himself, but it didn't get into Sundance.
* PsychologicalProjection: Light accuses him of projecting his insecurities onto him.
-->'''Light''': It’s always the same routine with you, man. I show up, you feel inadequate, then you start to project your insecurities onto me. Every day, I bring brightness and hope to the world, and you bring the exact opposite.
* SecretlySelfish: Though Dark tries to act like his quest to help Orion overcome all of his fears, especially him, is a truly altruistic goal on his part, the rest of the nighttime entities accuse him of being this by trying to use it as a way to help boost his own fragile self-esteem— which is a pretty fair accusation since, in addition to keeping multiple lists of all of the numerous children and people that are afraid of him with him at all times and showing clear resentment and envy towards his much more beloved and popular counterpart, Light, kidnapping Orion for a 24-hour joy ride isn't even the first time that Dark has tried to make the rest of the world like him more through a crazy, hair-brained scheme.
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%%Sleep
%%Insomnia
%%Quiet
%%Unexplained Noises
%%Sweet Dreams
%%!!Others
%%Light
%%Sally
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