Darkness and Shadows Tropes

Darkness is what happens when there is no light. Shadows are darkness that happens when something gets in a way of a light source, (rather than a lack of a source in the first place).

This simple concept has created many tropes in fiction, although this index is just for tropes that actually related to lack of light, not metaphorical meanings of "dark" and "shadow" (unless a trope involves both the literal and metaphorical meanings).

Compare Evil Tropes, Horror Tropes.

Tropes

 * Big Shadow, Little Creature
 * Casting a Shadow (darkness as part of the Elemental Powers)
 * Censor Shadow (using shadows in place of a Censor Box)
 * Chiaroscuro (light and shadows as a visual artistic tool)
 * Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes
 * Dark Is Evil
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Dark World
 * Darkness Equals Death
 * Emerging From the Shadows
 * Evil Is Not Well Lit
 * Face Framed in Shadow
 * Hollywood Darkness
 * Impossible Shadow Puppets
 * Interacting With Shadow
 * Lightning Reveal (in that what is revealed was in darkness before)
 * Lights Off, Somebody Dies
 * Living Shadow
 * Scary Flashlight Face
 * Shadow Discretion Shot
 * Shadow of Impending Doom
 * The Shadow Knows