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* GreaserDelinquents: Some students dance around dress like this.

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* GreaserDelinquents: Some students dance around dress dressed like this.

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* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: Not only in the lyrics. In the music video, light sources (the moon, illuminated rooms, the literal "bright eyes") are contrasted with the dark elements (the silhouettes, the darkened hallways, even the nocturnal setting).

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* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: Not only Twofold:
** Lyrics-wise: The singer refers to the presence of her lover's "love like a '''shadow'''" over her; that she is "always
in the lyrics. '''dark'''"; and they "are giving off '''sparks'''". In the final verses, she sings about how "there was '''light''' in [her] life", but "now there's only love in the '''dark'''".
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In the music video, light sources (the moon, illuminated rooms, the literal "bright eyes") are contrasted with the dark elements (the silhouettes, the darkened hallways, even the nocturnal setting).
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* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: Not only in the lyrics. In the music video, light sources (the moon, illumninated rooms, the literal "bright eyes") are contrasted with the dark elements (the silhouettes, the darkened hallways, even the nocturnal setting).

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* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: Not only in the lyrics. In the music video, light sources (the moon, illumninated illuminated rooms, the literal "bright eyes") are contrasted with the dark elements (the silhouettes, the darkened hallways, even the nocturnal setting).
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* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: Not only in the lyrics. In the music video, light sources (the moon, illumninated rooms, the literal "bright eyes") are contrasted with the dark elements (the silhouettes, the darkened hallways, even the nocturnal setting).
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"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a 1983 Music Video by Music/BonnieTyler. While the song is a {{Silly Love Song|s}}, the video is quite different. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo here]].

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"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a 1983 Music Video song by Music/BonnieTyler. While the song is a {{Silly Love Song|s}}, the video is quite different. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo here]].
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"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a 1983 Music Video by Bonnie Tyler. While the song is a {{Silly Love Song|s}}, the video is quite different. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo here]].

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"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a 1983 Music Video by Bonnie Tyler.Music/BonnieTyler. While the song is a {{Silly Love Song|s}}, the video is quite different. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo here]].

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* WingedHumanoid: A boy has large wings.

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* WingedHumanoid: A boy has large wings.wings.

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!!!"Total Eclipse of the Tropes":

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!!!"Total !!"Total Eclipse of the Tropes":
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* TheEighties: The music video consist of just about every single 80s music video tropes.

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* TheEighties: The music video consist consists of just about every single 80s music video tropes.
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* TheEighties: The music video consist of just about every single 80s music video tropes.
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* UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball: Some students dance around dress like football players. In a ''UsefulNotes/{{Brit|ain}}ish'' boarding school.



* RandomEventsPlot: Stuff just ''happens'', and no explanation is ever offered.



* SurrealMusicVideo[=/=]RandomEventsPlot: Stuff just ''happens'', and no explanation is ever offered.

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* WingedHumanoid: A boy has large wings.
* WomanInWhite: Bonnie, except when she wears a suit to greet some students at the end of the video.

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* WingedHumanoid: A boy has large wings.
* WomanInWhite: Bonnie, except when she wears a suit to greet some students at the end of the video.
wings.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: ''Ninjas'' in a school!

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: ''Ninjas'' in a school! Also about 90% of the video, [[LiteralMusicVideo like the angel guy who cops a feel towards the end]].
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"Looks like" is not a Shout Out.


* ShoutOut: The floating curtains in the hall she walks down look like this to Cocteau's ''La Belle et la Bête''.
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* DramaticWind: It might be easier to find shots where there ''isn't'' a wind machine directed at Bonnie.
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* ShoutOut: The floating curtains in the hall she walks down look like this to Cocteau's ''La Belle et la Bête''.
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* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Well, boarding school of ''weirdnesss'', at least.

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* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Well, boarding school of ''weirdnesss'', ''weirdness'', at least.
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The song is the {{Trope Namer|s}} for TotalEclipseOfThePlot.

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* RuleOfCool: Downplayed, but, it's as good an explanation as any for what is happening here.
* SelectiveObliviousness: It isn't until Bonnie encounters the one boy at the end with Glowing Eyes that she gets a sense that something is wrong.


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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Some boys making a toast with what is clearly wine.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: ''Ninjas'' in a school!

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"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a 1983 MusicVideo by Bonnie Tyler.

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"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a 1983 MusicVideo Music Video by Bonnie Tyler.Tyler. While the song is a {{Silly Love Song|s}}, the video is quite different. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo here]].


!!!"Total Eclipse of the Tropes":
*UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball: Some students dance around dress like football players. In a ''UsefulNotes/{{Brit|ain}}ish'' boarding school.
* {{Animal Motif|s}}: Doves appear for no explained reason.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Well, boarding school of ''weirdnesss'', at least.
* GlowingEyes: Some of the students, one of whom can ''fly'', literalizing the hook "Turn around bright eyes."
* GreaserDelinquents: Some students dance around dress like this.
* {{Ninja}}: Some appear in the video.
* SurrealMusicVideo[=/=]RandomEventsPlot: Stuff just ''happens'', and no explanation is ever offered.
* WingedHumanoid: A boy has large wings.
* WomanInWhite: Bonnie, except when she wears a suit to greet some students at the end of the video.
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[[caption-width-right:316:"Turn around..."]]



"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a 1983 MusicVideo by Bonnie Tyler.

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