Dark is Evil

Culture concept

Dark, black, or simply dimmer things are depicted as evil or evil things are consistently clothed/colored dark and anything that becomes evil gains darker coloration.

games

platforms

Alternate name: Black is Evil

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition

X360 2012-05-09

PS2 2006-04-20

X360 2010-05-14

WIN 2011-11-18

LIN 2011-11-18

PS3 2009-10-23

SWTC 2018-08-09

Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal

WIN 2002-07

Transformers: War for Cybertron

WIN 2010-06-22

Kingdom Hearts

PS2 2002-03-28

Alan Wake

WIN 2012-02-16

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

GC 2004-11-15

This could be generalized to "color of evil" or something similar where a specific color denotes this. Red is notably common, though more often associated with anger/hate in that regard than evil itself.

Commonly manifests with whole species being named "dark" something in reference to how Evil they are.

Milder instances are where evil things explicitly prefer darkness, making it their domain and associating it with being evil (no good character/being would prefer darkness in similar manner in the setting).

See also: Evil by default

Parent group

Childish

Games by year

The first Dark is Evil video game was released on March 28, 2002.

Capcom, EA International and Mojang published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		5
X360		3
Linux		3
PS2		2
Mac OS X		2
GameCube		1
Wii		1
PS3		1
Switch		1

Most common companies