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{{quote|''"Then God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good."''|'''[[The Bible|Genesis 1:3-4]]'''}}
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It's the more or less obvious conclusion.
Almost ''every'' [[Role-Playing Game|RPG]] does this, some more than others. (It's ''always'' [[White Magic|the holy magic]] that [[Healing Hands|heals]], [[No Cure for Evil|never the dark]].) For characters with light-based powers with this connotation, see [[Light
[[Light Is Not Good]] originated as a subversion of this [[Trope]]. Note, however, that [[Good Is Not Nice]] can also come into play if said hero has an affinity for light, and both
Why having [[Cue the Sun|the sun appear]] is good. Also the reason [[White Magic]] is called that.
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See also [[Holy Halo]], [[Dark Is Evil]], [[Shining City]], and [[Shining Goodness]].
For more chromatic inspiration, see [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]. For light used as one of the [[Elemental Powers]], see [[Light
[[Daylight Horror]] and [[Light Is Not Good]] are subversions of this [[Trope]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Naruto]]'' a colored chapter cover revealed that Naruto becomes yellow with shades of orange when he {{spoiler|enters Chakra Mode}}, as seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20120618061341/http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101107202217/naruto/images/b/bc/Controlled_Form_Naruto.png here].
* Purity goes with light in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', and it becomes a common theme (most easily seen in SuperS).
* [[Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn]] has Syam Vist, a kind old man in white robes and [[The Messiah|Banagher Links]], who pilots a White Gundam known as The Unicorn that is named after a Beast of Light and Possibility
* Angemon and Angewomon of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' are both angelic Digimon with [[Hair of Gold]] who both debuted to promptly easily defeat a powerful dark Digimon with their powers of light. Angewomon takes this almost to ridiculous extremes - her partner is [[The Messiah|Hikari Yagami]], whose first name [[Names to Trust Immediately|translates to "''light''"]], and who uses the Crest of ''Light'' to make her evolve to Angewomon to begin with. Oh, and near the end of ''Adventure'' she started ''[[Power Glows|glowing]]''.
* Most of the heroes in [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] are blondes with gold eyes to boot.
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* [[Superman]] is powered in part by the light of Earth's {{color|yellow|
** And Ultraman.
** And [
* As their [[Badass Creed]] says, [[Green Lantern]]'s light is their power that the worshipers of Evil's might should beware.
** Of course, the GLs co-exist with several groups wielding light that are [[Light Is Not Good|not so benevolent.]]
* One of the most potent spells [[Doctor Strange]] has been known to use channels The Seven Suns of Cinnibus. (Cinnibus being a mystical dimension that does indeed have seven suns.) [[Weakened by the Light|This spell has proven especially potent against vampires.]]
== Film ==
* The Light Side in ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* ''[[Poltergeist (1982 film)|Poltergeist]]''. The medium Tangina says:
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy]]: The Spirits Within'' the Earth's Gaia is a bright pale blue light that is in direct contrast to the angry red of the Phantoms.
* In the first ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' film, Arwen appears to Frodo in a flowing white gown with light radiating out from her. This is just a vision to Frodo but it symbolises that she is good and is there to help him.
* A bit of a no-brainer but the stars in ''Stardust''. They shine when their hearts are full of joy and happiness although {{spoiler|Yvaine actually uses this as a weapon against the witches}}.
== Literature ==
* [[Night Watch (novel)|''Night Watch'']]'s Light Others live and breathe this trope... though, it can be said that the series examines this trope, bends it, reshapes it, subverts it, ''averts'' it, and when all else is lost, the author throws in the towel and pretty much says that all bets are off.
** It's a bit of a deconstruction of [[Character Alignment]] in general, but this in particular: the series features both [[Totalitarian Utilitarian
* The Light in ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' series of novels.
* In the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, the Creator and the Light.
* ''[[
* In mythology and fantasy stories, light (particularly sunlight) severely impairs or even harms monsters.
* The Child of Light (and the Prophecy of Light) in ''[[The Belgariad]]''.
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** Plus the Summer Faeries tend to be fairly benevolent whereas the Winter ones are actively sadistic, although both sides are manipulative and capable of great crimes, when you put the two Courts next to one another it is played fairly straight
* ''The Armor of Light'' by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Magic, Inc.]]'', the heroes storm Hell because light always overcomes darkness (since darkness is merely the absence of light), and they are the forces of Light, so it does not behoove them to sit around reacting to the demonic forcs.
* Diane Duane's [[Young Wizards]] series works with this considerably, especially in the first book, although they play with it increasingly through the series and {{spoiler|at the end of the third book have a decisive Redemption arc where it is shown that Dark Does Not Have To Be Bad. Of course, the fact that the Powers don't live within linear time means there are still loads and loads of incarnations of the Lone One running around being evil for books and books more, but they've finally given him the chance to start going home.}}
* [[
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Too bright for mortal vision.'' }}
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[
* In Teresa Frohock's ''[[Miserere:
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Exalted]]'' gives us The Unconquered Sun, the divine embodiment of virtue and righteousness, created by the Primordial of dickery solely because he wanted to find out what would give him purpose. And boy, did he succeed there, as the Unconquered Sun saw that the Primordials were yoking Creation about and helped lead the struggle to overthrow them. His chosen, the Solar Exalted, are supposed to be like this... [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|save for that little Great Curse thing]].
* Sun gods in ''[[Dungeons
* The white colour in ''[[Magic:
** In terms of characters wielding [[White Magic]], the most famous are heroic, but there's a sufficiently large amount of paranoid [[Knight Templar
* Both [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] and played straight with the Living Saints of [[Warhammer
== Theater ==
* [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Macbeth]]'' invokes it:
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Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet grace must still look so.'' }}
== Videogames ==
* Dr. Light, the good scientist in ''[[Mega Man (
* The Light Side in ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* ''[[Dungeons
** ...actually, any good angel in any story.
*** Pre fourth edition
* The arrows of light from the ''Zelda'' games. In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
** This trope is sprinkled liberally throughout the games as a whole. Many of the climatic scenes involving Link use dramatic lighting to grand effect - just watch any of the Master Sword sequences. Probably most prominently displayed thematically in ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun and mother of all life, in ''[[
* "I know now, without a doubt, ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' is Light!"
* In [[Warhammer
** Not quite this trope, as the Great Crusade in the [[Horus Heresy]] novels was about bringing humans all over space from the darkness of superstition and religion into the Emperor-given light of science and rationality.
* The power of the Holy Light from the ''[[
* In ''[[Alan Wake]]'', light is ''so'' good that [[Trick Bomb|flashbang grenades]] are [[Weakened
** The sheer brightness from the lighthouse in the second DLC "The Writer" is very much [[One
* In ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'' video game, evil ghosts cannot inhabit a lit room. Every puzzle in the game is figuring out how to light up the current room.
*
* The
** [[Final Fantasy I
** ''[[
** While [[Final Fantasy IV
** The white materia, Holy, in ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
* Lux and Leona from ''[[League of Legends]] fit this to a T, the former having light based skills while the latter has sun-symbolism.
* Palutena of ''[[Kid Icarus]]'' is the good goddesses of light. Her sister, in contrast, is the [[Dark Is Evil|evil goddesses of darkness.]] [[The Hero]] of the game is also rather light aligned with his own antagonistic [[Shadow Archetype]] to deal with, though he is aided by a shady [[Anti
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Bird Boy]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20110403051135/http://bird-boy.com/volume-1-page-2 The great hero overcomes the villain to free the light again]
* ''[[Sinfest]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311113018/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=97 As radiant as God's light itself]
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== Western Animation ==
* Oddly, [[What Measure Is a Non
* In ''[[Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled]]'', Rapunzel, a gentle, caring girl who is a [[Friend to All Living Things]], loves daylight (as well as starlight) and has shining golden hair because her mother ingested a flower that had grown from a drop of ''liquid sunlight''.
* This trope is played straight in most of the movies from the [[Disney Animated Canon]]
* [[Spoiled Sweet|Stella]] from ''[[Winx Club]]'' gets her powers from the Sun (well, and the Moon, but mostly the Sun), and most of her attacks consist in casting beams of light.
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== Other ==
* In [[Bionicle]], every sentient character has a dark side and light side, representing of course good and evil. These could be tapped into, to obtain either light or shadow powers, and naturally, shadow is easier to master, and makes one corrupt. To those who have light or shadow powers from the get-go, obtaining the opposite "element" can prove difficult, since the two powers tend to cancel each other out.
* The Transformers' [[First Church of Mecha|god]], Primus, is often referred to as the "Lord of Light", and the [[MacGuffin|Matrix of Leadership]] is meant to [[Transformers:
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