Dark Is Not Evil/Literature: Difference between revisions

** Dwarven philosophy is chock-full of this. Humans are "enlightened" because they live in the blinding sunshine, Dwarves are "endarkened" and live in the caves, where the eyes are not blinded, but must open as far as they can.

** Although they often serve [[Mad Scientist|morally unconventional]] people, the hideous ([[Cute Monster Girl|females excepted]]) Igors are generally quite pleasant and humanitarian, having become a lifesaving fixture of the medical industry wherever they go. Their Code actively prohibits them not taking steps to save a life (with exceptions if they've been mistreated), and almost every Igor introduced as a character has been likable, well-intentioned and eager to please. In Uberwald at least, Igors are considered quite the eligible bachelors, and Igorinas are always stunning. (Given their obsession with self-improvement and body-part transplants, most people have come to certain... [[Gag Penis|realisations]].)

** A recent addition to the faculty of Unseen University is Dr. John Hix, the head of "Post Mortem Communications." Which is ''not'' Necromancy at all, obviously, because Necromancy is illegal and Post Mortem Communications is not. Hix lives and breathes by this trope, making a conspicuous point of wearing black and showing everyone his very gothy skull ring, as it is apprently his job to do "evil", but only within "acceptable limits", a token dark magician. Hix isn't really evil at all, as the worst of his acts involve the occasional blunt remark that no one else would say aloud because it would be impolite.

* In the ''[[Keys to the Kingdom]]'' series by [[Garth Nix]], the Winged Servants of the Night helps Arthur along in his quest numerous times.