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* [[Harry Potter|Lord Voldemort]], aka the Dark Lord, is very fond of this trope. His favorite scenes for evil showdowns include an old graveyard (at midnight) and a vast chamber filled with snake statues built far underground. Also Slytherin house, which has a far greater ratio of mean students to nice ones, has a commons room that is noticeably dark and poorly lit compared to the commons rooms of the other houses.
** Lampshaded by Dumbledore, who believes Voldemort is using the darkness and the death motifs to scare his enemies. From what we heard of Slytherin, he wasn't a very pleasant person, and the students who are enrolled in his house are usually very much like him, so it's somewhat justified.
* Specifically averted in the third Honorverse book, The Short Victorious War, in which the future Committee of Public Safety, who have not yet carried out their coup, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|meet in a tennis court]] in an abandoned high-rise--but, while the windows are thoroughly blacked out, the inside is well lit. (Debatably Evil, at least at that point, but the same people become undebatably Evil later on.)
* In [[Robert E Howard]]'s ''[[The Hour of the Dragon (Literature)|The Hour of the Dragon]]'', [[Conan the Barbarian]] is taken to such a place.
{{quote| ''Whether it was day or night the king could not tell. The palace of King Tarascus seemed a shadowy, nighted place, that shunned natural illumination. The spirit of darkness and shadow hovered over it, and that spirit, Conan felt, was embodied in the stranger Xaltotun.''}}
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* [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]: Federation starships are definitely better lit than Romulan, Borg or Klingon ships (even after Klingons became good guys).
* [[Stargate Verse]]: averted with the Goa'uld, the Ori and the Asurans, as all of them had pretty well lit ships. Played straight with Replicators and the Wraith. Seemingly inverted in ''[[Stargate Universe (TV)|Stargate Universe]]'', as the Destiny (and presumably the other very old Ancient ships) is darker than the hostile alien ships were so far.
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* This happens in ''[[Asfour]]'', when Itzik is taken to meet Saragousti. Justified, as {{spoiler|Saragousti has suffered very severe brain damage several years prior, barely moves if at all, and does not speak. Kobi uses him as a dummy boss [[Worldwide Punomenon|quite literally]]; in that scene, he keeps Saragousti seated on a revolving chair with his back to the unwitting Itzik, who is very nervous about the scene.}}
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* [[Big Bad|Morphix]]'s [[Applied Phlebotinum|GLOPP]] factory in [[Duke Nukem]]: Manhattan Project.
{{quote| '''Duke:''' Jeez, you'd think Morphix could afford a few light bulbs.}}
* In [[The Sims|the Sims 3]] sims will get a negative moodlet without proper lighting. Sims with the [[Card
* In the ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' Tiberian series, [[Religion of Evil|Brotherhood of Nod]] bases tend to have very minimal, very stark [[Good Colors, Evil Colors|red lighting]], such that 80% of any given shot is black and the rest red (see the page pic for [[Dark Messiah]] for a typical example). The fanfic ''[[Tiberium Wars (Fanfic)|Tiberium Wars]]'' suggests this is ''entirely'' because [[Big Bad|Kane]] loves hearing his subordinates bang their shins on consoles.
* In [[The Dark Meadow]], monsters won't attack you in any room that has light coming in. (Although a little bit getting in through a crack is OK for them, apparently.)
* The BlackCastle in ''[[An Untitled Story (Video Game)|An Untitled Story]]''. Not only is it [[Meaningful Name|black]], it also has a room [[Blackout Basement|with a faulty lighting]].
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== Web Original ==
* In Legend of Neil, not only is Ganon's lair poorly lit, but also commonly under the effects of fog machines (fog = power], making it damn near impossible to find anything.
* In ''[[The Fantastic Favio Bros (Web Video)|The Fantastic Favio Bros]]'', [[Morally
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