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Well...no one actually mentioned them doing bad things; in fact, they may actually be [[Good Samaritan|pretty good guys.]] It's not like they keep pet dogs exclusively for [[Kick the Dog|kicking]]. Despite any [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience|images that may have been burned into our minds]], creepy appearances and killing people actually [[Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind|don't have much to do with each other]]. It's not [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]], because the species, for the most part, isn't protesting the do-gooders. Unfortunately, however, people can still judge them [[Fantastic Racism|based on their looks]]. Expect some [[Van Helsing Hate Crimes]].
This trope can be a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]] or [[Averted Trope|aversion]] of several other tropes depending on how it's played, including [[Beauty Equals Goodness]], [[
The extreme form of this is [[The Sacred Darkness]], where Dark is not just ''not Evil'', but is in fact equally as holy and Good as Light is typically perceived to be. In situations where [[The Sacred Darkness]] exists, however, [[Dark Is Not Evil]] is '''not''' an absolute certainty, and the usual caveats about [[Light Is Not Good]] still apply.
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