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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 [[~~Colour~~-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!

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!

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]].

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** It's worth noting that in ''GGG'', destruction isn't necessarily an "evil" power—GaoGaiGar's original form, Genesic, is a god of destruction, with the explanation that destruction is necessary for new beginnings, and allows for "the challenge of a new hero."

** In ''[[Super Robot Wars]] K'', [[Gun X Sword|El Dora V]] gains a finishing move which is a visual shoutout to Hell and Heaven. Its name? ''El Inferno Y Cielo''. Regrettably, El Dora Soul does not retain it.

* ''[[Slayers]]''

** The final [[Big Bad]] of ''Slayers TRY'' is the fusion of Mazoku Lord Darkstar and its opposing god Volphied. It took the a spell that combined the powers of Ruby Eye Shabranigdo and Flare Dragon Celphied, channeled through the Dark Star weapons, in order to defeat him. The spell had the effect of a complete rebirth, allowing Filia to raise the [[Big Bad]] as a child.

** In ''Slayers NEXT'', the [[Shrinking Violet|timid]] [[The Medic|white mage]] [[White Magician Girl|Sylphiel]] mastered the powerful [[Black Magic]] spell [[Wave Motion Gun|Dragon Slave]] just to impress the guy she liked.

* ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'': Light-wielding Koji had to take on Koichi's dark powers to give the team the edge needed against [[Fallen Angel|Lucemon]], who had learned to combine darkness and light into his ultimate attack.

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* ''[[Naruto]]''

** 4-Tails Naruto's chakra cannon attack is depicted in the anime as a dense concentration of spheres of both red Kyuubi chakra and Naruto's blue chakra.

** Also, ''senjutsu'', or "Sage Energy", is a fusion of a shinobi's chakra and of [[The Force|the all-present energy of the world around them]]. Incredibly difficult (and [[Gone Horribly Wrong|very]] [[Taken for Granite|risky]] if messed up), but [[Took a Level In Badass|the]] [[Super Mode|results]] are worth it.

** Also, ''senjutsu'', or "Sage Energy", is a fusion of a shinobi's chakra and of [[The Force|the all-present energy of the world around them]]. Incredibly difficult (and [[Gone Horribly Wrong|very]] [[Taken for Granite|risky]] if messed up), but [[Took a Level in Badass|the]] [[Super Mode|results]] are worth it.

** He also briefly mixes Sage Mode with his Kyuubi chakra.

** Izanagi uses both Yin and Yang chakra, {{spoiler|Yin from the Sharingan, Yang from the genes of Senju}}. Instead of a [[Fantastic Nuke]], it allows the user to [[Reality Warper|warp reality]].

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* On some occasions, the ''[[Green Lantern]]'' Hal Jordan has picked up Sinestro's yellow ring and used it on combat.

** The last time he tried during the ''[[Sinestro Corps War]]'', Hal put on all the rings that his hands could hold and all-out attacked Sinestro with them. Sinestro just shrugged, took control of all that yellow light and sent back to him. Hal apparently can control fear a bit due to his stint as Parallax's host, but Sinestro has much more experience and control.

*** It's not so much controlling fear as it's the wearer's ability to instill fear in others; hence why Batman was among the first to be offered a ring, his whole persona is based on instilling fear into his enemies. Hal has the same potential, both because many still fear what he will do if he ever wants to regain the power he held as Parallax and also because of the fear he spread while gaining said power.

** He has also briefly wielded a green and blue together as well that; while they're not opposed to each other, they hold different objectives and their bearers have different methods.

** Played straighter in ''[[Blackest Night]]'', which sees [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Guy Gardner]] become both a [[The Berserker|Red Lantern]] and a Green Lantern at the same time. Since they were fighting superpowered zombies that could only be destroyed by both a Green Lantern and a non-green Lantern, this is very handy.

*** What made that a Yin-Yang Bomb is that Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Laira had both ended up as Red Lanterns, and had stopped being Green for the duration. Seeing how [[Green Lantern|one]] is fueled by willpower and self-control, and the other is powered by losing self-control, operating both is probably a bit tricky.

*** Played still straighter in ''War of the Green Lanterns'', in which Guy Gardner manages to wield a red ring and a violet ring together, the two colors at the farthest extremes of the Emotional Spectrum. They represent rage and love, making this the most strongly opposing ring pairing.

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** In the recent novel tie-in to [[The Old Republic]], ''Revan,'' when {{spoiler|Revan recovers all of his memories and thus his full knowledge of the Dark Side, his most powerful Force technique is to simply gather up as much of both as he can hold... and smash them together. it's enough to knock back an enemy who is fighting with the Dark Side energy of an entire world's population}}

* It takes a while to get there, but this trope becomes the entire point of the end of [[Brandon Sanderson]]'s ''[[Mistborn]]'' trilogy. The prophecied [[The Chosen One|Hero of the Ages]] destined to {{spoiler|combine the powers of Ruin and Preservation}} could be male or female based on the ancient grammar. {{spoiler|It turns out he's a eunuch instead}}.

** In addition, this trope is the secret of the immortality of the [[Big Bad]] of the first book. The first book reveals two [[Functional Magic|magic systems]]: Allomancy, which works by ingesting various metals and consuming them to get temporary power-ups, and Feruchemy, which works by saving up a person's own attributes like strength or health in metals and consuming them later in an [[Equivalent Exchange]]. Both are [[Inherent Gift]]s. Allomancers are generally more dominant in society and more oriented towards combat, but we're told that Feruchemy has its own strengths and weaknesses and can do things that Allomancy can't. In the end, {{spoiler|we learn that if someone is both an Allomancer and Feruchemist, they can store up their own youth and health in metal and consume it over time with much greater efficiency, making them effectively immortal}}.

* Defied in ''[[The Bible]]''. As 2 Corinthians 6: 14 puts it, "For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?".

** It may refer to spiritual light and darkness. But then, people fighting with light and dark powers isn't exactly recorded...

*** Actually, it's an analogy referring to physical light and darkness, not figurative. It's saying that righteousness and wickedness are as alike as light and darkness (meaning mutually exclusive), not that righteousness = light and evil = dark.

* Ursula K. Le Guin's ''The Left Hand Of Darkness'' makes a poem about this (about the larger theme of balance in general): "Light is [[Title Drop|the left hand of darkness]], and darkness the right hand of light." They're one and the same.

* [[The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant|Thomas Covenant]] becomes one of these in the second trilogy finale ''White Gold Wielder'' when {{spoiler|he attempts to burn the venom out of himself by walking in to the banefire but instead fuses with it to make himself an alloy of wild magic and venom, restoring his mastery over the power.}}

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== Tabletop Games ==

* The Shadow Sun Ninja prestige class in ''[[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]]''.

* The Shadow Sun Ninja prestige class in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.

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* Judas in ''[[Tales of Destiny]] 2'' wields a dark dagger and a light dagger. He also is proficient at both light and dark-type spells, which really doesn't make too much sense, as his elemental affinity is technically Earth.

* Shing (light) and Kunzite (dark) in ''[[Tales of Hearts]]'' have a [[Combination Attack]] called ''Senanreppajin'' - in kanji, "Flash Dark Tearing Break Sword". It's activated by synchronizing two of the best multihit elemental sword moves they have.

* In the [[~~PlayStation~~ 3]] version of ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'', Yuri and Flynn's combination mystic arte, Bushin Soutenha, has them team up and fire a beam of intertwined darkness and light at their victims.

* In the [[Play Station 3]] version of ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'', Yuri and Flynn's combination mystic arte, Bushin Soutenha, has them team up and fire a beam of intertwined darkness and light at their victims.

* ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]''

* Jak from ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' gains both [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Dark Eco]] and [[Touched by Vorlons|Light Eco]] powers over the course of the story. Though not referring to him directly, he is even told that "the two types, light and dark, when combined form great energies."

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** And in ''Soul Calibur IV'', Talim's final weapons (she uses a pair of "elbow blades") are Soul Edge and Soul Calibur: one in each hand. Kilik's ultimate weapon is Embrace of Souls, a fusion of Soul Calibur and Soul Edge that leaves both swords inert (though still powerful), in staff form.

* In ''[[Castlevania]]: Order of Ecclesia'', the item crash between a light glyph and a darkness glyph (except for Dominus) results in a literal, and very powerful, Yin Yang Bomb.

** It's also a [[Game Breaker]]. 4 hits of that attack and within 10 seconds you've just beaten the final boss.

** {{spoiler|Albus}} also uses his "Balance Cannon Shot", firing a light projectile and a dark projectile which whirl outward in a helix. It hurts.

* The [[Neglectful Precursors|Xel'naga]] temple in ''[[~~Starcraft~~]] [[Expansion Pack|Brood War]]'' requires both the Uraj crystal, powered by High Templar energies, and the Khalis crystal, infused with Dark Templar power, in order to activate and blow everything within a wide radius straight to Hell on the armageddon express.

* The [[Neglectful Precursors|Xel'naga]] temple in ''[[StarCraft]] [[Expansion Pack|Brood War]]'' requires both the Uraj crystal, powered by High Templar energies, and the Khalis crystal, infused with Dark Templar power, in order to activate and blow everything within a wide radius straight to Hell on the armageddon express.

** This wasn't the first time, either. Tassadar channeled High and Dark Templar powers simultaneously to [[Heroic Sacrifice|kill the Overmind]]. (Mind you, having [[Ramming Always Works|a Carrier take a nosedive into the thing]] couldn't have hurt.)

** Technically he didn't nosedive. he used it as a channel device to launch a pulse

*** The Twilight Archon in ''Starcraft 2'' was planned to be this, a combination of a Dark Templar with a High (Light) Templar. Then the unit was replaced by the normal Archon, the only difference is that now it forms as a combination of any two Templar units regardless of their alignment. So it ''can'' be a yin-yang bomb, but doesn't have to be.

* ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' inverts this trope. If a character chooses moves with opposing elements in the same turn, the elemental damage cancels out, and the combined result is weaker than an equivalent turn made from moves with non-opposing elements.

** The prequel plays this straight by revamping the combat system. Several EX Combos use elements opposed to each other, including Guillo's tremendously powerful light and darkness combos.

* Django of ''[[Boktai]]'' is of both Solarian and Lunarian blood, which lets him wield light while being extremely resistant to darkness. Nevertheless, he's bitten by a vampire {{spoiler|his father}} in the second game and becomes "half" vampire. He gains enough control that he can shift between normal and vampire mode at will.

** This symbolism is broken in the [[No Export for You|third game]] where his [[Karma Meter]] decreases the more he uses his vampiric self.

** Done straight in the final boss of the first game and the second to final boss of the second game where {{spoiler|Both Django and Sabata use their respective Light and Dark guns to power the pile driver and use the Wild Bunch attack, and in the second game where Sabata uses his black hole attack to pin down a strong and agile boss so Django can use his Gun Del Sol and deal a lot of damage.}}

** Also done straight in ''Boktai DS'' (''[[Boktai|Lunar Knights]]''), where the entire point is for Django and Sabata to work together.

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== Real Life ==

* Most of the universe is composed of Matter. [[Antimatter]] is its exact opposite. Mixing the two will invariably result in annihilation, a technical term meaning all their mass is converted to energy (photons). Keep in mind that the energy of an object is the mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light (E=mc^2). You get a very big boom. Fortunately, most of the anti-matter in the universe seems to have exploded already.

** Which is, by the way, one of the great mysteries of physics. Theoretically, the amounts of matter and antimatter in the universe should have been equal, resulting in complete annihilation of the universe. The disparity of matter and antimatter still puzzles physicists.

*** Not so mysterious anymore, there are several observed phenomenon that favor matter over anti-matter.

* Thermal shock; super-heat a piece of glass or ceramic, and then quickly introduce it to extreme cold, and watch what happens.

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