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== Anime and Manga ==
* Sunako from ''[[The Wallflower
* A variation of this trope appears in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. Pride, the shadow homunculus, isn't generally hurt by light; in fact, he is unable to use his powers without a light source. However, if the light becomes ''too'' bright (for example, the light from a [[Trick Bomb|flash bomb]]) he is damaged and his philosopher's stone depleted.
** Beyond that, Pride needs light to use his powers by casting shadows, but he can't approach a ''source'' of light too closely, because the light would illuminate his shadows and destroy them. This is seen when Hohenheim first encounters Pride.
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* ''[[Van Von Hunter]]'' parodies this twice in the same arc. First, a vampire proclaims its invincibility since the moon is up—and doesn't burn until after it's reminded that moonlight is reflected sunlight. Then, the title character tries to distract another vampire until sunrise, and takes so long doing so that the sun sets again.
* In ''[[Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas]]'', Hades is severely damaged by sunlight as long as it's enough to overpower his defenses.
== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[Gremlins]]'': Strong light will hurt them, sunlight will kill them.
* ''[[Nosferatu]]'' is usually credited as the origin of the idea that sunlight kills vampires.
* ''[[Pitch Black]]'': the
* In ''[[Blade]]'', the vampires have some kind of realism - no religious material is involved, but they're are allergic to garlic and silver, and take damage to sunlight. So Blade burns/tortures a vampire with an UV lamp, eventually burning him to death.
** In ''Blade II'', Blade's new sidekick builds UV grenades.
*** Abigail Whistler in ''Blade Trinity'' uses a [[Star Trek|bat'leth]]-like weapon that has a UV beam instead of a blade.
* In the 1985 film ''[[Legend (1985 film)|Legend]]'', the [[Big Bad]] is ''named'' Darkness, and is defeated with sunlight sent with mirrors deep into his underground lair.
* In ''[[The Mask]]'', the eponymous device only works at night.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'':
** In 1st Edition, exposure to sunlight rendered a vampire powerless and killed it in 1 turn (10 minutes). In 2nd edition, sunlight killed vampires in 1 round (1 minute). Spectres in both editions were made powerless by daylight, and both shades and shadow demons were much weaker (and easier to kill) in bright light.
** In Basic D&D adventure IM3 ''The Best of Intentions'', one plane's inhabitants are sentient bubbles who are destroyed if ordinary light falls on them.
** This is true for many subterranean races. Drow and Duergar are weakened (or dazed) by sunlight up until 4th edition. Derro are nauseated by it. [[Mushroom Man|Myconids]] are terrified of sunlight; surface-dwellers don't know exactly what it does to them, but they do know that a myconid will die before leaving the Underdark.
*** A drow's weakness to sunlight extends to their magic items. Drow armor, weapons, and artifacts lose their powers in sunlight, and in some cases, turn to dust. In some versions, this is an intentional design, as drow make sure that if surface dwellers have the audacity to steal their things and succeed, they'd never benefit from them.
** Bodaks took 1 [[Hit Point]] of damage per round they spent in sunlight.
** In ''[[Ravenloft]]'', sunlight is even more lethal for drow vampires than it is for normal vampires or drow, vaporizing them instantly. What's worse, even ''moonlight'' pains them, and even under a new moon, starlight makes them unable to regenerate. Elven vampires are a near-inversion, as they aren't bothered by sunlight, but are harmed by moonlight. Cerebral vampires (a variation who feed on cerebral spinal fluid rather than blood) avert this; while they must rest in their coffins for eight hours out of every 24, those eight hours don't have to be during the day, and sunlight doesn't harm them. ▼
** Dark creepers (aka dark ones, dark folk, or darklings, depending on the edition) are sneaky underground-dwellers whose powers can douse light. Sunlight, however, renders them helpless.
** One of the [[Eldritch Abomination]]s detailed in the Splat book ''Elder Evils'' is Father Lymic, a being from the Far Realm with a peculiar vulnerability to light. Sunlight causes him to freeze solid, imprisoning him within an iceberg that the sun cannot melt, leaving his ability to influence the world very limited. His goal is to free himself by plunging the world into [[The Night That Never Ends]].
* ''[[Ravenloft]]'':
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** One of many possible punishments bestowed by the Dark Powers for evil actions (ie, failing a Ravenloft Powers Check) is sensitivity to light, or even become blinded in daylight. Should this happen and the victim not get the hint, continuing down the path of Evil, further failed checks might result in actually becoming a vampire.
* ''[[Mystara]]'' Shadow Elves are a race similar to drow native to drow; depending on what Edition is being used, sunlight either damages them or applies a penalty to attack rolls.
* In ''[[Shadowrun]]'', "Awakened" creatures (including metahuman variants) could have special allergies, such as to sunlight. Creatures with that allergy included the banshee (undead elf), barghest (dog-like), ghouls (humans infected with a magical virus), vampires and wendigo (orks infected with a virus).
* Darklings from ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' are humans who were reshaped by [[The Fair Folk|the Gentry]] into nightmares, terrors, and other creatures of twilight. As a result, they take a penalty to using Contracts (magical powers) during the day, one that gets worse if they try it while in direct sunlight.
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** The Big Poe in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures]]'' is an [[Expy]] of Jalhalla, with the first form (known as "Mask Poe" in Japan) even taking the exact shape of Jalhalla's mask and using his flame attack, while the second form's face has similar markings. Both forms are weak to light - the first is defeated by slashing at it after the Links freeze it using one of four switch-activated torches, while the second battle requires them to manually light a set of four torches at once, rendering Big Poe vulnerable. {{spoiler|Once hit, however, he'll inhale the Links right into his body, where they have a bit of time to track down and attack his true form (which you first see hopping away after the first form was defeated).}}
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', Hylian light is not only painful for Twili, but nearly fatal as seen in the case of Midna's cursed form.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]]''; Undead foes (Stalkoblins, Stalmoblin, Stalizalfos, and the Stalnox) only come out at night, unable to stand the sun. The same is true for them in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom]]'', but not for Gibdo, an odd type of undead who are active during night and day.
* A dragon boss in ''[[Golden Sun]]: The Lost Age'', Serpent, is weakened significantly the more sunlight you reflect onto him by making use of the environment. Without that he is nigh-unbeatable.
** The various [[Demonic Spiders]] in ''Dark Dawn'' are said to suffer from an extreme case of this, in that they can't emerge in lit areas—but when the Grave Eclipse goes down, they come out en masse. [[It Got Worse|And that's just the start...]]
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* Chaotic units in ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'' are weakened by light; generally, this is sunlight provided by the day-night cycle, but some special illuminated hexes (such as lava tiles) and powerful light-magic auras can achieve similar effects.
* ''[[NetHack]]'' has [[Gremlins|gremlins]], based on the movie franchise of the same name and sharing similar trait, including a weakness to light. Using the light spell (or its scroll and wand equivalents), breaking wands of light or directing any light sources near them actually inflicts minor damage and causes them to flee.
* In ''[[Don't Starve]]'' this seems to be the case with Charlie at first. She can only attack the player in complete darkness, and retreats if the player manages to make a light in time. However, she also will not attack if the player has some means of seeing in the dark, like Woodie can in his Cursed form, or anyone wearing Moggles. Thus, it's possible she is ''not'' weakened by light, but is afraid of being seen.
* In "The Teal Mask" DLC of ''[[Pokémon Scarlet and Violet]]'', [[Intrepid Reporter]] Perrin wants the player to help her find the Blood Moon Beast so she can take its picture - this larger-than-average Ursaluna seems to hate light, being completely nocturnal and only appearing on foggy, overcast nights. Which causes a problem when you find it, [[Oh Crap| as Perrin uses a camera with a flash]]... Meaning you'd best come ready for a Pokemon battle against [[Bears are Bad News|an angry Ursaluna]] here.
== Web Comics ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''Wulffmorgenthaler'', where a vampire is [[Exaggerated Trope|burned to ashes by UV light]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120129180044/http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/2010/01/27/ in a tanning bed].
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'' [http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-04-19 vampires are the counter-examples] to the wonderfulness of [[The Power of the Sun]]. Whether vampires actually exist in that 'verse or not is unknown.
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20121031134202/http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/01-05.html the moon's disappearance has been hardest on the poor, because it kept creatures of darkness at bay.]
* In ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', vampires have the same vulnerability to sunlight as most the traditional type, but because not all students at Charybdis Academy are nocturnal, there's a spell in place around the school grounds that nullifies this weakness. Layla takes the opportunity to sunbathe during lunch break, and as a result, lacks the typical deathly pallor of most vampires.
== Web Original ==
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* [[Big Bad|Mumm-ra]] from [[Thundercats]] 2011 has this as his [[Weaksauce Weakness]], though interestingly enough [[Thundercats|his earlier counterpart]] didn't.
* In the ''[[Teen Titans]]'' episode "Haunted", Robin is infected by a gas that gives him nightmarish visions of Slade stalking and hunting him. Eventually, however, he realizes these visions can only exist in the dark. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome| "Light's out, Slade," he says, flicking the light switch on and causing the villain to disappear.]]
* The ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' episode "Night of the Shadowbeasts" (from the 2002 version), the eponymous beasts not only hate sunlight, but moonlight as well. To use them, Skeletor causes a volcano to erupt, filling the sky with smoke and ash.
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[[Category:Vampire Tropes]]
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