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* {{spoiler|The Guardian Angel}} from ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]''.
* While ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has lots of [[Light Is Good]] (unless you're one of the fans who considers Celestia evil), there are some hints that light powers =/= goodness. It is implied briefly that the stars helped freeing [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Nightmare]] [[Lunacy|Moon]], and considering how actual star made beings exist in the forms of [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears|Ursa Minor and Major]], it isn't a stretch to think at least some are actual entities. [[God of Evil|Discord]] also seems to like to teleport by using bright white flashes.
** Celestia ''does'' qualify for this Trope, or more accurately, has the potential to do so if she's not careful, and in "A Royal Problem", the appearance of Daybreaker - [[Enemy Within| Celestia's evil side given life]], much like Nightmare Moon was the same for Luna - confirmed it. (Which means, ironically, Celestia's "dark side" is a being of Light.) This could have potentially turned Celestia into a light version of Nightmare Moon, and - ironically - it was Luna's aid that helped her from succumbing. Yeah, Celestia, [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|if only you hadn't been so quick to judge way back when...]]
* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]''
** Dr. Light, who even makes a joke about it while fighting Raven, the Teen Titans' version of [[Dark Is Not Evil]]. After pasting her with a laser bolt, he asks her, "What, scared of the light?" (Then her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] got him, right after mockingly asking him if he was afraid of the dark. He wound up being so for a while. In a later appearance he fought as usual against the Titans until seeing Raven, at which point he instantly surrendered.)
** Brother Blood wears white and yellow and is quite charismatic. His powers are psychic in nature, but otherwise seems light aligned. Bonus points for [[Word of God]], which states that he was intended to be a [[Foil]] of Slade; while he [[Evil Is Not Well Lit|hides in the shadows]], Brother Blood likes being the center in the spotlight.
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** The furry little animals later return in Imaginationland as part of the Evil Imagination army. They prove to be the most evil of the group, all of their actions involve violent rape, urophilia, or some other horrible thing that [[Even Evil Has Standards|squicks out all other evil creatures.]] The fact that {{spoiler|they're borne from Cartman's imagination}} might come as no surprise.
** The Knights of Standards and Practises from "It Hits the Fan" are [[Knight Templar]] in nature, although they were clearly the lesser evil. The forces of Heaven, while technically good, sometimes get [[Knight Templar|less pleasant]].
* Interestingly, ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' presents dark (well, "yin") as good, and light as evil. Well, more like nice and [[Jerkass]] than good and evil. This is in keeping with Chinese symbolism, in which Yin represents coolness, shade and calm, while Yang represents heat, fire (or sunburn) and passion, and neither is entirely good nor entirely evil.
* A certain [[Freakazoid!]] villain [[Schmuck Bait|whose name is not any mystery]] always carries a [[Light the Way|candle]] when kidnapping his victims.
* Mike [[Meaningful Name|Morningstar]] from ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]''. [[Bishie Sparkle|Sparkly, golden, glittery]] light powers. But to fuel these powers... he sucks [[Life Energy|life-force]] from girls, turning them into his private zombie army. Yes, [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|that does sound familiar]].
** {{spoiler|Until he became the hideous Darkstar, though in one episode he managed to return to his old sparkling self for some moments, by draining the life from his enemies.}}
* Superman villain Luminus from the [[DCAU]]. The Justice Lords may also qualify.
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* The Overworlders from ''[[Chaotic]]'' count for this. Although being contrasted with the [[Dark Is Not Evil|evil-looking Underworlders]] no side is given to be more or less evil then the other.
** In "[[Welcome to The Real World|Chaotic Crisis]]", Maxor, during an attempt to force the Underworlders back to Perim, reveals his intentions to {{spoiler|conquer Earth for the Overworlders}} ( {{spoiler|It was [[All Just a Dream]]}}).
* Daemon, the most powerful villain in ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'', is a brightly colored, speaks with a soft French accent, and is generally styled after Joan of Arc. She also wants to unite the entire Net under her order {{spoiler|and then destroy it, to create perfect order in oblivion}}.
* In a segment of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror VI", Homer gets trapped in a 3D dimension. When Reverend Lovejoy asks if he sees a light Homer says yes and the Reverend instructs him to "Head into the light my son." Cue the sound of electricity and Homer screaming in pain.
* I nIn a ''[[ThunderThunderCats (1985 Catsseries)|ThunderCats]]'' episode, the titular feline heroes are faced with two aliens: one is a gruff, armored reptilian(?) and the other is a gentle-voiced, delicate golden robot in white robes. The golden robot claims he's being hunted by the reptile (either they're at war or it's a cop chasing a criminal); naturally the opposite is true.
* Although [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|good]], the Air Tribe from ''[[Gormiti: theThe Lords of Nature Return]]'' resort to anything to defend their people, fitting well on the [[Knight Templar]] aspect of this trope; {{spoiler|this is exploited by the Fire Tribe, which convinces them to do a [[Heel Face Turn]] on the backstory of the series, with not very pleasant results}}. Being modelled after fairies and angels, and with white, yellow/gold and bright blue as their main colouration pattern, they look rather pleasant compared to the other tribes, which have quite [[Dark Is Not Evil|grotesque]] members. An actual Light tribe exists in the franchise; they just haven't showed up in the series. Since the show is quite [[Animesque]], it wouldn't be surprising if they were [[Knight Templar]]-ish as well...
* In ''[[Cats Don't Dance (Animation)|Cats Don't Dance]]'', Darla Dimple looks like a sweet, cute little girl that wears pink and or other light coloured clothes, she is [[Blondes Are Evil|blonde and has blue eyes]], and she even goes as far as playing the role of an angel in a movie. Sure she must be innocent and sweet, right? '''WRONG'''!!!!
* Stimpy's conscience in ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''. A Jiminy Cricket [[Expy]] who appears in a burst of light and goody goody sounding music, offering platitudes with a twisted attempt at a warm facial expression and demeanor. He's really a dense, dangerous, domineering jerkwad who himself abuses Ren against his ''own'' conscience when he sees Ren pick on Stimpy, and leaves Ren entirely alone otherwise despite having been lent to him to be his temporary conscience (since Ren ordinarily has none).
* On ''[[Young Justice (Animationanimation)|Young Justice]],'' the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] (so far, at least) are a council referring to itself as the Light. So far its leaders are not seen directly except as bright silhouettes on computer screens. [[Superboy]], who was created by them, originally wore a white version of Superman's costume before [[Dark Is Not Evil|switching to a black one]] after his [[Heel Face Turn]].
* Little Suzy, the usually pretty blonde little girl often spouting cute nonsical words and adorable in almost everyone's eyes on ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' ...is actually a monster. She makes Candace's life a living hell whenever she's around to the point of Candace becoming frightened of her. This also applies to Buford. "Justified" in one episode where she tells Candace that it's just how she acts in order to control her older brother... which doesn't make it any better.
* The [[Big Bad]] in [[Batman Beyond]]'s first season, Blight, emits a bright radioactive green glow. This contrasts with Batman, who is dark, and can even turn invisible.
* [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]: [[The Empire|The Fire Nation]] has this secondary to [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]. [[The Power of the Sun]]? Check. [[Lawful Evil]] tendencies? Check. The best Firebenders use of [[Shock and Awe|Lightning Bolts]]? Check. Subverted with the [[Light Is Good|the good Firebenders]].
** Amon from ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]''. He wears a white mask with gold patterns and a sun symbol, has a [[Knight Templar]] goal, and uses {{spoiler|a type of bending of divine origin}}.
* Miss Power from [[Word Girl]] looks like a superhero but anything but heroic about her...
* In ''[[She-Ra and the Princesses of Power]]'', {{spoiler|Light Hope, [[Names to Trust Immediately| by her very name]], seems to be trustworthy, especially to fans of the original series. [[Adaptational Villainy| She is not]]. While her cold and creepy demeanor is an early clue of her [[Knight Templar]] views, Light Hope's morals have been further corrupted by [[Abusive Precursors| the First Ones]], genocidal beings who seek to turn Etheria itself into a super-weapon [[A Nazi By Any Other Name| that can "purify" the rest of the universe]] [[Final Solution| by "cleansing" it of "impure" races]].}}
 
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