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[[File:Chaos_Sorcerer_3114Chaos Sorcerer 3114.jpg|link=Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|frame|[[Dark Is Not Evil|Darkness]] and [[Light Is Not Good|Light]] - two great tastes that go great together!]]

{{quote|''"Light belongs to shadow, shadow to light<br />

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 [[ColourColor-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!

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]].

== Anime &and Manga ==

** It's worth noting that in ''GGG'', destruction isn't necessarily an "evil" power -- GaoGaiGarpower—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."

* ''[[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.

** 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 Inin Badass|the]] [[Super Mode|results]] are worth it.

* In ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu noMagical Index]]'', all attempts to allow a person to use both magic and esper powers have ended in failure, except for {{spoiler|Tsuchimikado Motoharu}}, and he has to be very careful not to kill himself with his powers.

*** 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.

** 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.

** 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|Inherent Gifts]]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}}.

*** 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.

== GamebooksTabletop Games ==

*** Palom and Porom's Twincast works off this concept, as do a couple of [[Combination Attack|Bands]] in the sequel, ''[[Final Fantasy IV the After Years|Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]'': Rosa and Rydia's "Holy Burst", Cecil and {{spoiler|Golbez}}'s "Ultima Spark", and Palom, Porom, Rosa, Leonora, and Rydia's "Infinity".

{{quote| '''Cecil''': (during his EX Burst) Light and darkness cast aloft!}}

{{quote| '''[[Final Fantasy X|Jecht]]:''' Light, Dark, just make up your mind!}}

** In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Birth By Sleep]]'', Master Xehanort preaches the virtues of this path to Terra, telling him that Eraqus's way of shutting out and killing the darkness is just as wrong as succumbing to darkness entirely, and that the right way to protect the worlds is to wield light and darkness in equal measure. {{spoiler|He's full of crap. The possible truth of his statements notwithstanding, he's only telling Terra this so that he can get him to give into darkness. His written intention for wanting to start the Keyblade War is to forge a new world with the two powers in balance, but thus far, he's only shown alignment with Darkness, and obsession with its power.}}

* In the [[PlayStationPlay 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.

* In ''[[Legend of Legaia|Legaia 2]]'', the [[White Mage]] turns out to be a powerful sorceress -- muchsorceress—much to her own surprise -- andsurprise—and the first special technique she masters is "Big Bang," which combines dark and light forces in an unblockable, non-elemental explosion. Her attack-line is actually "Power to Create! Power to Destroy!"

** 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 [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]. It's cursed just like the Evil Ring, but it's the only ring that can only be equipped to the hero, and in battle it perfectly complements the White Ring. The Evil Ring is ''only'' a [[Disc One Nuke]].

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

* The [[Neglectful Precursors|Xel'naga]] temple in ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]] [[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 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.

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

** 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 [[Yin-Yang Bomb|Yin Yang Bombs]].

** 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 [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]. (As of ''Wrath of the Lich King'' it's also possible for a multispeccing priest to have a Holy build (usually for healing) and a Shadow build (for damage) to switch between as appropriate, becoming a Yin Bomb or a Yang Bomb as the circumstances call for.)

* ''[[Mana -Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy]]'' has this as the ultimate [[Combination Attack]] of the two leads, Raze and Ulrika (who were granted powers by the Light and Dark Mana, respectively).

* In ''[[DemonsDemon'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.

* 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.

** 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.

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