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{{quote|''"Light belongs to shadow, shadow to light
Chasing one another to the very end"''
|'''Bonnie Pink'''|"[[Tales of Vesperia|Ring a Bell]]" (translated)}}
The [[Ideal Hero]] is the champion of all that is good. Thus, [[Light'Em Up|his power will be that of light]], he will dress in [[Light Is Good|white]] or [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience|bright primary colors, like blue and red]], and he will [[Protectorate|rarely take proactive action against the villain, preferring to play defensively]] and [[Barrier Warrior|protect]] and defend the innocent. He will also [[Justice Will Prevail|champion the causes of love, courage, and hope]]. Only natural, such good powers could ''[[Good Powers, Bad People|never]]'' be used for evil!
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Of course, sometimes you have the [[Anti-Hero]], the guy who wields [[Casting a Shadow|the power of darkness]], [[Bad Powers, Good People|powers himself on negative emotions]], and probably has an [[Dark and Troubled Past|angsty past.]] He probably dresses in all [[Dark Is Not Evil|black]], too. In extreme cases, the Dark Hero would like nothing, ''nothing'' better than to wrap his hands around his archnemesis' throat and strangle the life out of him. Think [[Boktai|Sabata]], [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Raven]], and [[Batman]].
But ''our'' guy, the '''Yin-Yang Bomb''' guy, doesn't care about all those things. [[The Red Mage|He uses both]]. Not just that, but often, he will [[All Your Powers Combined|combine them into something higher]] and invariably [[Game Breaker|ridiculously more powerful]]. Dark and light are not evil and good. They're not even diametrically opposed. To resolve the storyline or beat the boss, the hero must grab the reins of both and wield them in a [[Fusion Dance|harmony of fusion]].
A variation uses [[Order Versus Chaos|order and chaos]] instead of light and dark, and another uses [[Harmony Versus Discipline]].
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Unrelated to The Tumor, a bomb from ''[[Homestuck]]'' that looks like a yin-yang symbol. Also unrelated to [[Touhou Project|Reimu Hakurei]] and her yin-yang orbs that she occasionally uses explosively.
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== Anime
* In the climax of the ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' [[OAV]] miniseries, only Parn, wielding both the Holy Sword of Falis and the Demon Sword Soul Crusher, can stop the resurrection of the Mad Goddess Kardis.
* ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'s'' "Broken" right hand represents destruction, his "Protect" left hand protection. Individually, they function as a [[Deflector Shields|shield]], Protect Shade, and his [[Rocket Punch]], Broken Magnum. Combined, they form the [[Finishing Move]] ''Hell and Heaven'', which destroys a Zondar while cleanly removing its core. Less directly, in the [[OVA]], TenRyuJin is the combined form of KouRyu and AnRyu (Light Dragon and Dark Dragon), and [[Big Bad]] [[A God Am I|Palparepa]] matches Hell and Heaven with his own ''God and Devil'', though it's unclear if it really counts except in name.
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* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Kimblee's prefered attack is this. Each hand has tattooed on its palm a symbol; on his right there is a symbol that stands for the Sun, fire and gold, and on his left one that stands for the Moon, water and silver. When he joins both symbols, the result is this ''[[Stuff Blowing Up|literally]]''.
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', {{spoiler|Natsu defeats [[Evil Counterpart|Zancrow]] in this manner; by canceling his own magic, Natsu gains the ability to eat Zancrow's flames. Then he combines his orange dragon slayer flames with black god-slayer flames for a truly brilliant finishing move}}.
* In ''[[
** Also, Acqua of the Back has the powers of being a Saint ''and '' a member of God's Right Seat, which would be mutually incompatible if not for [[Required Secondary Powers|a third ability that removes such limitations]].
* In ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'', there are two types of martial artists; Outward focusing [[The Berserker|Dou]] types that fight aggressively and turn their anger into a source of power, and inward focusing [[Tranquil Fury|Sei]] types, who are calm and calculating and derive their power from inner peace and concentration. And then there is 'Seidou goui', a technique that combines the two for an explosive boost in power but that causes [[Heroic RROD|permanent damage to the body]] if used for too long.
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* In ''[[Dai no Daibouken]]'' this is the basis for Pop's most powerful magic attack, Medoroa: generate fire with one hand, ice with the other, and combine them to shoot a beam of annihilation that can destroy [[Made of Indestructium|orhicalcum]]
== Card Games ==▼
* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' there are "white" cards and "black" cards, which are powered by light/life/order and darkness/death, respectively. But printed guides heavily stress that they do not represent "good" and "evil", they can both be used at the same time. A combination of enemy colors in general can be seen to fit this trope, as can cards that are all 5 colors.▼
** To wit: [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=151083 Unmake], one of the best removal cards in type at the time of writing, is cast with three mana of either black or white and is considered a black/white card; it had a predecessor in the Apocalypse expansion called '''[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=19135 Vindicate]'''. Lest we forget, there was also the [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=47453\].▼
** Multicolor-focused sets often have White-Black as an option. For instance, in Ravnica, the white-black Guild is The Orzhov Syndicate, who are in charge of business (or, to be more precise, a religion which is ''also'' a business), and are run by ghosts.▼
*** A rundown of enemy-color pairs: White/black is harsh, controlling, and often cruel. Blue/red is high weirdness and mad insight. Black/green is decay, life coming from death. Red/white is an army, equal parts discipline and fury. Green/blue is biology, either mutation or studying new life.▼
*** The ultimate Yin Yang Bomb is probably the ability on the Legacy Weapon artifact. One mana of each color to exile any single card.<ref>For non-[[Mt G]] players, Exile was previously called "removed from the game", i.e. deader than dead, but this was changed after a number of cards were printed that could return things from the RFTG zone. Nowadays, similar to the Graveyard (where killed creatures and cards discarded from hand go), but referenced by fewer cards and much harder to get things out of.</ref>▼
*** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=179496 Progenitus] could also be considered as one, as it takes two of each color mana to summon but is also one of the most powerful creatures in the game.▼
** More generally, gold-colored cards that require more than one type of mana to cast and creatures with abilities that require a color besides their own to use have been a staple of the game for quite a while, and are almost always designed to be stronger than equivalent single-color cards of the same cost, since they require you be able to produce multiple colors of mana and thus be more open to resource deprivation. Even before ''that'', players themselves were encouraged to field more than one color to cover the weaknesses built into each one (including spells which can severely handicap a person whose cards are all of one color).▼
* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' card game plays with this, the main example being the now infamous "[[Game Breaker|Chaos]]" archetype (which has been banned for years but radically shifted the metagame), consisting of three monsters summoned by removing from play a Dark-Attribute monster and a Light-Attribute monster. One of these, Chaos Sorcerer, provides the page picture. There are plenty of cards that act similar, but the most prominent example is the appropriately named "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Light and Darkness Dragon]]", a monster that has ''two'' attributes (Light and Dark, obviously) simultaneously. That and, well, [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090618032117/yugioh/images/7/78/LightandDarknessDragonYG01-EN-ScR-LE.png just look at it]▼
▲== Comics -- Books ==
* In the Top Cow Universe, the ''[[Witchblade (Comic Book)|Witchblade]]'' is the balance keeper between the forces of Light and Darkness. As a result it has traits of both its parents, the Angelus and [[The Darkness]].
* Elixir in ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' has one hand that heals and one hand that kills for his powers.
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* In [[Final Crisis|Superman Beyond]], Quantum Superman fuses good matter Superman and evil antimatter Ultraman into a [[Mind Screw|hyper-contextual amalgamation of two symmetrical concepts]] and then they power a giant Superman thought-robot and beat up the personification of [[Darker and Edgier|Grimdark]].
* ''[[Pride High]]'' has Lightspot, a faculty member who controls both light and darkness. The darkness power allows him to teleport by traveling through the shadow dimension, which has been hinted to be a very evil place.
== Literature ==
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* In ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant]]'' Valkyrie Cain sort-of becomes this when {{spoiler|she takes up Necromacy}}.
== Live-Action TV ==▼
* Common theme in the [[Robin Hood]] ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'' series. Robin and his sword Albion are specifically said by Herne the Hunter to have the "power of light and darkness".▼
* One episode of ''[[Charmed]]'' had Phoebe and Paige traveling to a [[Mirror Universe]] and fighting their [[Evil Twin]]s. The battle between the two Paiges causes explosions due to their opposing powers colliding. Later, they team up with their evil twins and form "The Power of Four" by combining their powers to devastating effect.▼
==
▲=== Card Games ===
▲* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' there are "white" cards and "black" cards, which are powered by light/life/order and darkness/death, respectively. But printed guides heavily stress that they do not represent "good" and "evil", they can both be used at the same time. A combination of enemy colors in general can be seen to fit this trope, as can cards that are all 5 colors.
▲** To wit: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090517064618/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=151083 Unmake], one of the best removal cards in type at the time of writing, is cast with three mana of either black or white and is considered a black/white card; it had a predecessor in the Apocalypse expansion called '''[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=19135 Vindicate]'''. Lest we forget, there was also the [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=47453\].
▲** Multicolor-focused sets often have White-Black as an option. For instance, in Ravnica, the white-black Guild is The Orzhov Syndicate, who are in charge of business (or, to be more precise, a religion which is ''also'' a business), and are run by ghosts.
▲*** A rundown of enemy-color pairs: White/black is harsh, controlling, and often cruel. Blue/red is high weirdness and mad insight. Black/green is decay, life coming from death. Red/white is an army, equal parts discipline and fury. Green/blue is biology, either mutation or studying new life.
▲*** The ultimate Yin Yang Bomb is probably the ability on the Legacy Weapon artifact. One mana of each color to exile any single card.<ref>For non-[[Mt G]] players, Exile was previously called "removed from the game", i.e. deader than dead, but this was changed after a number of cards were printed that could return things from the RFTG zone. Nowadays, similar to the Graveyard (where killed creatures and cards discarded from hand go), but referenced by fewer cards and much harder to get things out of.</ref>
▲*** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=179496 Progenitus] could also be considered as one, as it takes two of each color mana to summon but is also one of the most powerful creatures in the game.
▲** More generally, gold-colored cards that require more than one type of mana to cast and creatures with abilities that require a color besides their own to use have been a staple of the game for quite a while, and are almost always designed to be stronger than equivalent single-color cards of the same cost, since they require you be able to produce multiple colors of mana and thus be more open to resource deprivation. Even before ''that'', players themselves were encouraged to field more than one color to cover the weaknesses built into each one (including spells which can severely handicap a person whose cards are all of one color).
▲* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' card game plays with this, the main example being the now infamous "[[Game Breaker|Chaos]]" archetype (which has been banned for years but radically shifted the metagame), consisting of three monsters summoned by removing from play a Dark-Attribute monster and a Light-Attribute monster. One of these, Chaos Sorcerer, provides the page picture. There are plenty of cards that act similar, but the most prominent example is the appropriately named "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Light and Darkness Dragon]]", a monster that has ''two'' attributes (Light and Dark, obviously) simultaneously. That and, well, [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090618032117/yugioh/images/7/78/LightandDarknessDragonYG01-EN-ScR-LE.png just look at it]{{Dead link}}
=== Gamebooks ===
* ''[[Lone Wolf]]''
** In book 7, ''Castle Death'', the owner of said castle, Lord Zahda, uses a Lorestone and a Doomstone.
** [[Lone Wolf]] himself can wield a holy weapon like the Sommerswerd and infernal weapons like Helshezag. (Theoritically not at the same time, but that doesn't stop some players to have houseruled [[Dual-Wielding]].)
▲== Live-Action TV ==
▲* Common theme in the [[Robin Hood]] ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'' series. Robin and his sword Albion are specifically said by Herne the Hunter to have the "power of light and darkness".
▲* One episode of ''[[Charmed]]'' had Phoebe and Paige traveling to a [[Mirror Universe]] and fighting their [[Evil Twin]]s. The battle between the two Paiges causes explosions due to their opposing powers colliding. Later, they team up with their evil twins and form "The Power of Four" by combining their powers to devastating effect.
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* The Shadow Sun Ninja prestige class in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* You run across quite a few Darkspawn Emissaries and Blood Mages in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' with skill in healing in addition to their [[Black Magic|darker powers]], which makes them much more obnoxious to fight since they've got the Creation-school healing to let them keep throwing out the Entropy-school hexes for longer.
* In ''[[Demon's Souls]]'', the greatswords Soulbrandt, which becomes stronger if its wielder's soul is demonic, and Demonbrandt, which becomes stronger if its wielder's soul is untainted, can be forged together into the Northern Regalia, a greatsword that is at its strongest if its wielder's soul is purely demonic ''or'' untainted.
* The combination of holy and dark energy in ''[[Monster Girl Quest]]'' yields incredible power, and is the source of {{spoiler|the villains' [[One-Winged Angel]] forms}}. In ''[[Monster Girl Quest Paradox]]'', the {{spoiler|Apoptosis}} race have innate access to both forms of energy, as do {{spoiler|Nero and Neris}} due to being descended from both monsters (dark-aligned) and angels (holy-aligned).
== Web Comics ==
* At the end of the "Storm of Souls' arc, ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' had to fight Celesto Morgan, the Champion of Chaos and Darkness. Celesto assumed that Dominic was the appropriate counter for him -- the Champion of Law and Light. But no, he was the Champion of Balance, imbued equally by Light (thanks to his brother, Gregory, a powerful White Mage), Law (through Klo Tark, a master of mind-magic), and Dark (through the [[Anti-Hero]] Necromancer, Rillian). When Celesto strikes him with an attack concentrating the pure Chaos of the Storm of Souls, Dominic [https://web.archive.org/web/20120630100203/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-04-11 absorbs it]. However, it's soon revealed he needs to take it a step further by gaining the physical elements--which {{spoiler|Leafette's [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} provides him.
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' depicts the Buddha as a cheerful [[Cloudcuckoolander]] that confounds God and the Devil alike.
* Pella in ''[[Looking for Group]]'' gives Cale a gift of two swords, named Good and Evil. [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/377 Cale represents the balance between them.]
* The Tumor in [[Homestuck]] is a literal example, being a giant bomb with a black and white coloration similar to the yin yang symbol. Its power annihilates two {{spoiler|universes by combining them together, leaving an enormous power source know as the Green Sun.}}
== Web Original ==
* Centigrade, a superhero from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' uses both [[An Ice Person|ice-based powers]] and [[Playing with Fire|fire-based powers]] to fight crime.
* In the [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] fan flash movie ''Nazo Unleashed'' this trope is invoked against the titular [[Big Bad|Nazo]] in his Perfect form. After both Super Sonic and Dark Super Shadow get soundly curbstomped one after the other, [[The Hero|Sonic]] (light) and [[Anti-Hero|Shadow]] (...well, shadow) use Chaos Control to [[Fusion Dance|merge into]] Hyper Shadic, who proves strong enough to challenge the "darkness" that is Nazo.
== Western Animation ==
* Equinox's schtick in ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', going as far as wearing a Yin Yang symbol on his chest. His costume was half black and half white, and he tried to maintain the balance between Chaos and Order (naturally going insane in the process).
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* Thermal shock; super-heat a piece of glass or ceramic, and then quickly introduce it to extreme cold, and watch what happens.
* [[Real Life]] famously mixes good and bad, and would any of us trade it? One might even go so far as to say it's ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|the bomb]]''.
* Mixed states in bipolar disorder.
** Bipolar disorder ''itself'' is this, regardless of whether "mixed" states occur. People affected by the "classic" Bipolar I have a high suicide rate, and when they attempt suicide it's often at the end of a manic episode just when the first signs of depression start to appear: While their mood starts spiralling downwards, they still have enough energy to try and kill themselves, which will no longer be the case once they are in full-blown depression. Similar for mixed mood states, which can be very dangerous and unpredictable because patients may be in a bad temper while having a lot of energy (cue [[Unstoppable Rage]]), or may switch rapidly between high and low energy and mood states.
* In chemistry, mixing substances with completely opposite properties (e.g. a strong oxidizer and a strong reducer, a strong acid and a strong base) is usually the best way to get [[Stuff Blowing Up|violent, unpredictable]] reactions.
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