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But if the matchstick is depleted, or the batteries or fuel runs out, the light extinguishes and everything is suddenly pitch black. Cue the monsters, the traps or the sentimental/sexual plot twist.
 
The trope is possibly semi-[[Justified]], if we are to consider [[Watsonian Versus Doylist|the difference even a faint light source would make to someone whose eyes have already accommodated to the darkness]]. Compare [[Hollywood Darkness]], where the ostensible light source is either natural or completely inexplicable... And [[Unnaturally Blue Lighting|usually blue]]. Often appears in the same context as (and immediately after) [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]]--it—it wouldn't be much of a [[The Reveal|Reveal]] if a darkness-shrouded monster stayed darkness-shrouded after the candle was lit.
 
Contrast [[Chiaroscuro]], where everything looks like it was actually lit by a candle.
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