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*** Yes, but there are occasional cases in which there is a double subversion.
* The usage of expressions like "black hearted" or "black sheep" to define evil dark characters ''while reffering to this trope'' (example: reffering to the evil [[Magic: The Gathering|Golgari]] members on this very page as "black hearted"). Hum, guys, you realise the hypocrisy of that, right?
** The distinction between "dark" as evil and "dark" as dark is a real one, like the distinction between "fly" as an insect and "fly" as a pants zipper. Just as someone who says "fly" to mean an insect needn't be called hypocritical for also calling a pants zipper a "fly," one can easily switch between the two definitions of "dark." (Consider, for instance, ''[[Gunga Din (film)|Gunga Din]]'', which comments on how the dark-skinned title character would be classified as "white" in morality.)
** Besides, many of those terms are antiquated, from times when people were much more superstitious about things like the darkness and omens of evil.
* When stories have this trope as the main theme, it also usually carries the moral that not everybody has bad in them. These stories also tend to have [[Light Is Not Good]] uber-evil hypocritical [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] for villains. Why?
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