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{{quote|''"Light belongs to shadow, shadow to light
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* 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.
** It's worth noting that in ''GGG'', destruction isn't necessarily an "evil"
** 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]]''
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** 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.
*** [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).
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** 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
*** 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.
** At one point, a green and yellow ring chose Mother Mercy at the same time, but she quickly decided to reject the yellow ring.
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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
* 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...
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== 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
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* ''[[Grandia II]]''. Good and evil were necessary to win the game, as you had a holy priestess with you and an evil demon, both in the same person, and you, being the hero, were kind of the neutral mix of both. May also apply to the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|who is both the pope of the same holy religion as the priestess, and embodies the same devil entity as the demon chick -- cranked up to 11, obviously}}
* Wisp of ''[[Knights in The Nightmare]]'' has the power to switch the "Battle Phase" between Law and Chaos at will, which causes its Knights to execute different attack patterns. Also, the amount of [[Power Crystal]] (required to [[Limit Break|Break Out]]) dropped by enemies depletes over time, but returns to full when the Phase changes, forcing Wisp to switch between the Phases in order to keep up the assault.
* In ''[[Legend of Legaia|Legaia 2]]'', the [[White Mage]] turns out to be a powerful
* Wes from ''[[Pokémon Colosseum]]'', with his Espeon and Umbreon.
** Solrock and Lunatone, also, who you face in a double battle with Liza and Tate in ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]''.
* ''[[Shining Force]]''
** You need to get the Sword of Light and the Sword of Darkness to use as keys to get the Chaos Breaker, a [[Sword of Plot Advancement|plot-important]] [[Infinity+1 Sword]].
** If you explore ''during'' Michaela's battle, you'll find the White Ring, Black Ring and Evil Ring. Though it may not sound like it, the Black Ring is the
** ''Shining Tears'' has a system where you pair off in battle with a Light- or Dark- aspected partner, and your alignment is shifted to the opposite thanks to your Yin/Yang rings.
* ''[[Soul Calibur]]''
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* A long part of Albion's gameplay requires the player to retrieve two scrolls that together, hold the knowledge to combine magic and technology, which are polar opposites of each other. The end result is {{spoiler|a magical seed that can absorb nuclear energy and grow into an entire jungle in just a few minutes, spurting vines strong enough to crush an otherwise indestructible supercomputer, and overgrow the mining facility it controlled.}}
* In ''[[Touhou]]'', Reimu's Yin Yang Orbs are likely the most literal example of this trope one will find.
** Yukari's power over boundaries seems to be all about this. "Mesh of Light and Darkness" "Curse of Dreams and Reality", "Balance of Motion and Stillness" etc etc. So basically her power is a myriad different
* Dante from ''[[Dante's Inferno (video game)|Dantes Inferno]]'' uses the holy cross and the infernal deathscythe.
* In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] IV'''s expansion ''The Gathering Storm'', one of the protagonists uses [[Order Versus Chaos|order and chaos]] magic together, and his campaign involves seeking a Yin-Yang-related artifact that will power both.
** Another protaganist is able to use a combination of white magic and necromancy.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', balance-specced druids switch back and forth between solar- and lunar-based spells as one of their main mechanics. Their signature move, Starsurge, is a powerful blast formed by fusing the power of the moon and sun.
** Priests have holy spells to heal and buff allies or smite enemies, but also rather evil-sounding shadow spells that can [[Agony Beam|inflict extreme pain on enemies]], [[Mind Rape|or liquefy their very mind.]] They can switch between Shadow and Holy magic at will, but they technically can't use both at the same time. The proportion of "Yin" and "Yang" used so by a priest depends on the amounts of talents he or she has learned in the appropriate spell school, with a Shadow/Holy hybrid spec being the closest thing to a true
** There is also the Mage, capable of casting both Fire and Ice spells.
** The announced Monk class has a "Light Force and Dark Force" system, in which you use Chi to generate either force, and you can use both.
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