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Fire produces light, but in fiction the two concepts couldn't possibly be furthest apart. Fire is seen as essentially chaotic, either through its destructive nature or through its association with the warmth and dynamism of life and emotions. Light by contrast is orderly, for better or for worse. Fire is emotion, light is reason. When demons or mutants or dragons need something to breathe, what do they get? Fire. When angels, paladins and dragons need to cast holy spells, what do they use? Light. Art is fire, art's censorship is the blank whiteness associated with light. Even the positives are at odds: light is the happiness of childhood, fire is the passion of romantic love. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This dichotomy is ultimately rooted in Abrahamic theology, with God being associated with heavenly light while demons are with hellfire. Most modern media being western or west-influenced, this set of values stuck, well into the more secular era. Other cultures and religions by contrast see little difference between light and fire; Neoplatonist musings describe fire as intellectual and orderly, East Asian religions see fire and light as essentially the same thing in the concept of yang and Zoroastrianism, speculated to have ultimately influenced the moral dichotomy of Abrahamic religions, still sees fire as an agent of good and prayers to it are as valid as prayers in sunlight. Sometimes, fire is used as a replacement for darkness, since both share demonic imagery. However, fire can just as easily be independent from darkness as it is from light; in this case, fire usually gets the chaos side of things while darkness gets the void, death and undeath. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Compare Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition. Can lead to Light Is Good and Evil Is Burning Hot, but inversions are also common, particularly if fire is treated as more rebellious and free in comparison to an oppressive light. |
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In Tolkien's Legendarium light is strictly divine, while fire is the symbol of evil, particularly of Sauron, dragons and balrogs. | |
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In Exalted the light-wielding solar exalted are contrasted by the green hell princes, which use (green) fire. | |
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In Stargate SG-1 the Ori faith is symbolised by fire while its opposers the Ancients are associated with white light. The latter introduced the concept of fire being evil to humanity as means to combat the former. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra there is a clear distinction between the fire and energy the firebenders manipulate and the light of Raava and other spirits, the former being chaotic while the latter is pure order. Curiously, the sun is more associated with the former than the latter. | |
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In Magic: The Gathering red is one of the two enemy colors to white (the other being black, obviously). Red symbolises chaos, emotions, passion, art and the elements of fire and lightning, while white symbolises order, justice, tyranny, civilization and the elements of light and the sun. Curiously both get earth as an element as well. | |
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Young Justice (2010) represents the lords of order as light associated as in the comics, manifesting in golden radiance. The lords of chaos, however, trade darkness for fire, manifesting in blood red radiance and mostly using fire attacks. | |
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Digimon Frontier: The Digimon Spirits of fire and light are wielded by Takuya and Koji respectively. Takuya is Hot-Blooded, impulsive and approachable while Koji is aloof, reserved and prefers solitude. | |
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Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft: One of the most iconic cards from the Classic set is Ragnaros the Firelord, a legendary fire elemental that can't be ordered to attack but does 8 damage to a random enemy at the end of its turn. When the Whispers of the Old Gods expansion was released, while many of the cards were Eldritch Abominations with a theme of corruption, Ragnaros gained an uncorrupted form called Ragnaros the Lightlord, which randomly heals an injured friendly character for up to 8 hitpoints instead. | |
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