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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Black is perhaps the most typical color for evil, or at least the antagonists, to wear. Thus in many stories, the villains will wear largely black clothing most of the time, in contrast to the colors worn by neutral and good characters (which will be at least moderately lighter). This is because in many cultures, black is the color of darkness, decay, and death. Thus even though wearing black doesn't make someone evil, being evil makes it more than likely one is going to wear black. It doesn't matter if it's all the villains, the Big Bad and a few others, or just a group of Mooks that appear for a few episodes, if they wear a large amount of black (even just one noticeable part of their clothing), you know it's this trope. This is also why black is a common color for an Evil Costume Switch. Heck, some Eviler Than Thou villains might wear black when the "lesser" evils don't. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })There's some science behind this. There are studies that show that people that wear black are more aggressive than people who don't. They've also found that black isn't only associated with evil, but also contamination and sickness. These associations give people an instinctive cue that the person wearing black is dominant, and somebody you don't want to mess with. note Note that these associations may be cultural, as historically other colours, including white, had these connatations instead, and in some cases still have, while black is associated with neutrality and even outright heroism in some cultures. This trope very often involves a good chunk of Color-Coded for Your Convenience — whereas villains are dressed in black, heroes or innocent characters will wear white or light and bright colors. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Now since some think Evil Is Cool, then black can also become a cool color, but those don't cover this trope, nor does this trope come into play if the heroes also wear black. This can come into play with a Villain Protagonist though. Trope Relations A Sub-Trope of Good Colors, Evil Colors, Dark Is Evil (since dark is usually shown as black), Dress-Coded for Your Convenience (since this is about clothing color). A Super Trope to Black Knight (as wearing black armor is part of the trope), Black Cloak. A Sister Trope to Red and Black and Evil All Over (which often involves clothing), Paint It Black (which isn't limited to this color), Black Eyes of Evil. Compare Purple Is the New Black, Evil Costume Switch. Contrast Little Black Dress (wearing black is stylish instead of evil), Movie Superheroes Wear Black (because they are still heroes), Dark Is Not Evil, Gold and White Are Divine and Light Is Not Good (when evil wears white). Examples |
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In The Smurfs, Gargamel wears a black robe, in contrast the the (usually) white clothes(?) of the Smurfs, and the more colorful clothes of the good humans. | |
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Master Zalex from Jurassic Strike Force 5 wears nothing but black. The only part of his outfit or body that isn't black are his eyes, which are red. | |
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The Far Side: One strip features "Professor DeArmond—the epitome of evil butterfly collectors," who wears an all-black outfit and carries a black butterfly net. | |
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In Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, most of the prominent villains wear black. The Titans wear it as a Putting on the Reich way of emphasizing their State Sec status and dictatorial ways. Haman Karn, Evil Chancellor of the Neo-Zeon faction based on the asteroid colony Axis, also wears black throughout Zeta and sequel series Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ to go along with her ambitions of Earth Sphere domination. | |
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Team Plasma in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2. In the original gen 5 games they weren't this, but they changed to be like so in the sequels as a way to show that they were now just blatantly evil and not even pretending to be Well Intentioned Extremists. It's especially blatant with Ghetsis's costume change in the same games too. | |
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Some of the playable characters in Death Smiles are, or used to be, evil, such as Casper and Sakura, who both wear black outfits. | |
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In all Winnetou film-of-the-book movies. Winnetou wears beige clothes with blue ornaments and Old Shatterhand wears light brown clothes. All the bandits wear very dark clothes, and one item is usually black, be it a hat, trousers or a shirt. The main antagonist tends to have a completely black outfit in each part of the movie series, though perhaps not for all his scenes. In Winnetou I, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou are not friends yet and Old Shatterhand has to fight with the Apaches. He wears a sky blue shirt, and his friends sport bright colours as well. It was crystal clear he's a good guy, and not only because it's a prequal to Treasure of Silver Lake and everybody in Germany and Eastern Europe knows that those two pals are Heterosexual Life-Partners. | |
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Honor Harrington: In Shadows of Freedom, one (solarian) character is somewhat amused by the tendency of repressive dictatorships to outfit their jackbooted thugs in all black uniforms. This is also a bit of Hypocritical Humor, since the Solarian League's own jackbooted enforcers, the Gendarmerie, wear black uniforms too. | |
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In Winx Club the Wizards of the Black Circle all wear black. | |
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The Evil Queen of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs wears a black Ominous Opera Cape over her purple dress. Following her transformation into a hideous witch, she wears all-black, hooded robes - see page image. | |
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Red Sonja: The villain's army wears black armour, complete with Spikesof Villainy. | |
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Cucumber Quest: The Nightmare Knight is the Big Bad of the comic, and he's a Black Knight clad in all black armor. | |
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In Naruto, one of the Akatsuki's distinguishing traits is that each member wears a black cloak. | |
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In the comedy The Villain, the eponymous villain wears black. | |
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Community: In "A Fistful of Paintballs", a mysterious shooter called only the Black Rider appears, "network television handsome" guy played by Josh Holloway dressed in all black with badass stuff like a black cowboy hat or bandolier with paintball bullets who takes one student after another. He was hired by the City College, Greendale's nemesis. There is a Running Gag that Abed keeps referring to six time lines that were created when Jeff used rolling a dice to decide who will go to get pizza. In the darkest time line, they all wear black, which was at first a sign of mourning. Later the study group turns evil and they transform into supervillains who wear black, mostly leather. Abed is still a good guy underneath, but he looks like the others and wears a long black robe. His look is completed with a black evil goatie. |
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The G.I. Joe franchise has seen many versions of Destro and The Baroness wearing black. Many versions of Cobra Commander himself, including the Marvel comics in the He's Back moment, have traded his blue outfits in for black versions. | |
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A Perfect Murder: Murderous Steven always dresses in black whereas his wife Emily whom he intends to have killed is usually dressed in white. | |
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Princess Tutu: Princess Kraehe as a nemesis, who wears a black dress opposing Tutu's white dress, although she is a Dark Magical Girl, with the typical Heel–Face Turn. Mytho dons a black outfit after his Face–Heel Turn. |
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Snidely Whiplash wore a black top hat and cape in Dudley Do-Right. | |
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In Power Rangers in Space the surviving Psycho Rangers briefly take on (never before seen) human form. To remind us that they're evil, they're wearing black leather jackets and black pants. And colored undershirts so we know which one is which, so Psycho Black is wearing only black. | |
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Supernatural In the episode "All Hells Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, E22), the Yellow-Eyed Demon wears a black shirt, black jacket, and dark jeans. Crowley wears a black suit over a black shirt, although with a blue tie. He was a human but after death became a powerful demon. |
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Played with in the 2008 Chess in Concert. The Soviets are coded black and the Americans white, and the protagonist, Anatoly, is Soviet, so black is good, or neutral at worst. At least for the first act. Anatoly defects late in Act I, and the Soviets are the antagonists from that point onward, so black is evil. This is pointed up by the fact that Viigand, the Soviet antagonist of Act II, wears the exact same shades of black that Anatoly wore in Act I. | |
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To the extreme in the Italian cartoon West and Soda, which parodies the Spaghetti Western: when Johnny, the good guy, finally goes on his revenge spree, he changes his clothing from white (the standard good guy outfit) to black. | |
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In Discworld, black is the required color for members of the Assassins' Guild, whose members have included the very evil Teatime and the Anti-Villain Lord Vetinari, who still wears shabby black robes. Though the trope is played with as the Guild are sometimes shown as neutral, a source of Black Comedy, or even an actual force for good in the world. It's also averted by the witches, who wear black (well, Magrat and Tiffany don't) but are even more of a force for good in the world. | |
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Charmed: The sheer majority of demons on the show are basically human-looking goons who throw Fireballs and wear black. In fact, pick any episode and there's a good chance the Monster of the Week is a (usually male) demon or warlock in black clothing. | |
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Replicant: Serial killer Edward "The Torch" Garrote dresses in all black clothes, whereas his 'good' clone is dressed in more heroic colors like blue and brown. | |
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In Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth wears a black outfit with steel touches. He wears this prior to his Face–Heel Turn and seems to be a fairly common colour choice for SOLDIER, who are, on a whole, a Punch-Clock Villain group. | |
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Superman: Doomsday. When Superman returns to Metropolis to take on his evil clone, he's wearing a black Superman suit to absorb as much solar energy as possible. As per this trope, Jimmy Olsen assumes that an even more evil Superman has arrived to make things worse. | |
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Savages Crossing: Serial killer Phil wears a dirty black suit. | |
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Averted by Luke in Return of the Jedi, though he was embracing his inner darkness and defeating it. Played with later in that when he rejects the Dark Side, his shirt is torn and the white underneath is exposed. | |
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The eponymous villain in Warlock is the only character to wear completely black attire, which only makes his blond hair more noticeable. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion: Homura becomes the devil, making her already dark color scheme even darker as she turns evil. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid loves this trope: Early on, the heroes are menaced by a villain who looks like a black version of the title character, and simply refer to him as "the black Ex-Aid" before they finally learn his name: Kamen Rider Genm, AKA Kuroto Dan, president of Genm Corporation and supposedly their ally. Later in the series, the Big Bad Kamen Rider Cronus gets two of the heroes to Face–Heel Turn and join his side. One of them (Hiiro Kagami/Kamen Rider Brave) switches from his white labcoat to a black business suit; the other (Kiriya Kujo/Kamen Rider Lazer) wears a black version of his normal clothing and gains a new Rider form with more black armor pieces. Hiiro later turns out to be an inversion as Cronus gives him a new Super Mode that's predominantly white and gold with an angelic motif; ironically, his last Super Mode had a "demon king" motif and used darker colors like maroon and black because it represented a Fallen Hero, while this new one represents the same hero finding redemption and becoming good again. Subverted with Taiga Hanaya, so called Dark Doctor, who wears black military clothes or black scrubs. He starts out as Jerkass with a massive ego, but time and Morality Pet softens him into Jerk with a Heart of Gold. He went through so much crap that putting up a Jerkass Façade is essentially his way of keeping it together. Parado wears black coat and mostly acts like a Psychopathic Manchild operating on Blue and Orange Morality. Another Ending movie trilogy has Another Parado, his Evil Twin note Ex-Aid is such a story that it gives (former) Distaff Counterpart their own Distaff Counterpart and an Evil Twin matching a ( former) Evil Twin. whose outfit is a Palette Swap that turns it completely black. |
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Maleficent, the evil fairy of Sleeping Beauty, wears a long black cloak with black horns. She even calls herself the "Mistress of all evil". | |
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Maleficent: The title character starts the movie wearing a tan dress, then switches to the iconic black robe after her Start of Darkness. She later pulls a Heel–Face Turn, but continues to wear the black robe. | |
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In 300, the Persian warrior elite known as the Immortals wear all-black uniforms with creepy silver masks. They're the most dangerous of all of Xerxes's warriors and are soon revealed to literally be monsters. In 300: Rise of an Empire, the whole Persian navy is wearing black. | |
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In Superman II, the Terrible Trio of Ursa, Non, and General Zod all wore black, contrasting with the white of other Kryptonians, and Superman's Primary-Color Champion outfit. | |
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HYDRA of course in Captain America: The First Avenger, but inverted when Steve Rogers wakes up in the future; when he starts getting aggressive the door opens and black-clad SHIELD mooks enter. Steve naturally assumes the worst and throws them through the wall. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: HYDRA of course in Captain America: The First Avenger, but inverted when Steve Rogers wakes up in the future; when he starts getting aggressive the door opens and black-clad SHIELD mooks enter. Steve naturally assumes the worst and throws them through the wall. Thor: Ragnarok: Hela's outfit is a combination of black with green patterns. Even without her pitch-black helmet on she looks remarkably gothic. |
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Thor: Ragnarok: Hela's outfit is a combination of black with green patterns. Even without her pitch-black helmet on she looks remarkably gothic. | |
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Fallout 3, the evil mercenary armies of Talon Company wear a custom variant of Combat Armor painted black. | |
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The Peacekeepers from Farscape wear black armour or uniform. The villain Scorpius is dressed all in black, as well. | |
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Kung Fu Hustle: The Axe Gang wears stylish black suits. | |
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The villain of Big Hero 6, Yokai, wears a black trench coat and a black zip-up suit, further emphasized by the bright colors that the heroes wear. | |
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The Walking Dead: Negan, the leader of a large group of hostile survivors called the Saviors, wears a black leather jacket. | |
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Albert Wesker from Resident Evil, while not this trope normally, starts embracing it in the fifth installment - with a longcoat made of pure black leather, as well as black inner getups, gloves and boots. The only thing that isn't black would be his hair and his eyes. | |
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Ganondorf of The Legend of Zelda almost always wears black in his Gerudo form, whether it's a suit of armor or a flowing robe. | |
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This is very common among evil speedsters in The Flash (2014). Eobard Thawne still wears a yellow Reverse-Flash costume like his comic book counterpart, but it has black leggings and gloves on the show. When out of costume, he almost exclusively wears black. Zoom wears a pitch-black costume covering him from head to toe. Edward Clariss/The Rival wears a black suit similar to Zoom's, but it's covered in dark orange lines. Savitar usually wears a dark silver set of Powered Armor, but he has a black zip-up jacket and a black pair of trousers beneath it. |
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In Gawayn, the Duke's outfit is dominantly black. | |
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Firmly averted in The Lord of the Rings (and Tolkien's Legendarium more generally): although Sauron's forces often wear black, black is also the traditional colour of Gondor. | |
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Final Fantasy IV Golbez wears variable dark blue or black armor Depending on the Artist. He continues to wear his dark armour even after his Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Final Fantasy IX, Evil Overlord Garland wears a futuristic suit of black armor with matching cape. This is in sharp contrast to Kuja being a Man in White. | |
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Averted in Starcraft II, where Raynor's signature skull-helmed Power Armor is entirely black. The main human villains are colored purple (Confederacy), red (Sons of Korhal), and white (UED). | |
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Death Note: Misa, despite her childlike behavior and appearance, is secretly evil and wears Gothic clothing, especially a Gothic lolita-like maid outfit. Mello, the Anti-Hero of the second half of the series, wears black pants and a black shirt. The only outfit we see Ryuk wearing is compiled of black, chains, and all sorts of other things. Oh, he's a Shinigami, which tips you off that he's evil. The Villain Protagonist, Light, typically wears a black shirt and upgrades to a black suit in the Mello/Near arc. |
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In The Wheel of Time, all the myrddraal wear black, as do some of the Forsaken, most notably Ishamael and Semirhage. Inverted by a couple of the other Forsaken, Lanfear and Demandred, the former of whom wears white and silver all the time, and the latter of whom shows up for the Last Battle decked out in armor of those colors. | |
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In The Wizard of Oz the Wicked Witch of the West wears black. This is in contrast to Glinda the "good" witch we meet who wears pink. | |
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Black Adam, Shazam's archenemy, predominantly wears a black and yellow uniform. | |
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Dragon Ball Super has Goku Black, some kind of mass-murdering Evil Twin of Goku who dons a black gi. It's Future Bulma who came up with the name, specifically because of his wardrobe, which might be short for "Goku in Black". | |
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In Ben 10, Kevin Levin usually wears black clothing and is evil. At least in the original series. However, in the sequels, he's become less evil, but still wears black clothing. | |
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The Quest of the Unaligned: Crown Prince Alaric wears a black security uniform and has black hair, despite being The Hero. This Word of God post confirms that this was an explicit and deliberate Inverted Trope. Gaithim wears a black robe and is a hoshek, or mage of Darkness. |
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Spider-Man: The symbiote costume, known for corrupting Spidey and later being worn by supervillain Venom, is a black version of the regular Spider-Man costume. | |
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Pokémon: Team Rocket's members wear black with red "R" emblems, while Giovanni is depicted in the games wearing black suits. In the anime he wore orange at first, but switched to black in Best Wishes when he and Team Rocket became major antagonists again. James and Jessie, two of the main antagonists of the anime adaptation, wore white uniforms and were mostly used as comical relief in the seasons before Best Wishes season. In that season, they get noticeably more competent and evil, and of course, they switch to black clothing. When they switched back to their regular white-and-red uniforms, they get noticeably less competent. Team Plasma in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2. In the original gen 5 games they weren't this, but they changed to be like so in the sequels as a way to show that they were now just blatantly evil and not even pretending to be Well Intentioned Extremists. It's especially blatant with Ghetsis's costume change in the same games too. Team Skull in Pokémon Sun and Moon wear black clothing as well. Likely because they're not even trying to be remotely subtle, and pattern themselves off American gangs. The Dark-type, called the Evil-type in japan, is made up of primarily black-colored Pokémon or Pokémon with at least a little black. You can count the Pokémon with Dark as their primary type (Darkrai, Sneasel, Umbreon) on one hand. Most with Dark as their secondary type (Crawdaunt and Shiftry) are differently colored, however. |
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Willow: All of Bavmorda's men wear black armour. General Kael complements his with a scary bone mask. | |
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Night Nurse: Nick, the child killing chauffeur, wears a daunting black (almost Gestapo-looking) uniform. | |
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Star Wars: The Sith wear black cloaks, and Darth Vader wears all black. The "good" Jedi prefer brown robes and white tunics. Averted by Luke in Return of the Jedi, though he was embracing his inner darkness and defeating it. Played with later in that when he rejects the Dark Side, his shirt is torn and the white underneath is exposed. Imperial uniforms go back and forth on this. At the top are Darth Vader and the Emperor, who do indeed wear black. Below them are the officer corps, who favour a dark grey. Below them are the white-armoured Stormtroopers and the black-armoured TIE Pilots. First Order forces in The Force Awakens add shiny chrome armour for high-ranking stormtroopers and paint the TIE fighters black. |
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Imperial uniforms go back and forth on this. At the top are Darth Vader and the Emperor, who do indeed wear black. Below them are the officer corps, who favour a dark grey. Below them are the white-armoured Stormtroopers and the black-armoured TIE Pilots. First Order forces in The Force Awakens add shiny chrome armour for high-ranking stormtroopers and paint the TIE fighters black. | |
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Game of Thrones: Tywin Lannister, it's especially notable since his family colours are red and gold which is how his children usually dress. His daughter, Cersei, also abandons her family colours for some black leather numbers that look a lot like Rule 63 versions of what her father wore when she commits mass murder by destroying the Sept of Baelor and crowning herself Queen Regnant. Sansa illustrates a darker turn in her character by donning a black dress. Creepy schemer Littlefinger clearly approves of her new look and her desire to play the game of thrones, but Sansa later proves she is still one of the good, heroic characters. |
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In the Dracula adaptation starring Bela Lugosi, his black Ominous Opera Cape with a High Collar of Doom became iconic of villains and the Classical Movie Vampire. | |
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Deryni: Deryni Alaric Morgan (a good guy with 0% Approval Rating) deliberately wears all black. The fact it is his heraldic color doesn't excuse him. | |
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End of Days. After Satan takes a Tall, Dark, and Handsome host, he walks around in a black longcoat and later appears in a Black Cloak during the Satanic bedding ceremony. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean, it's played straightest with Blackbeard. Other evil characters, notably Ian Mercer, have largely black outfits, but everything Blackbeard wears matches his facial hair. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Black Legion, arguably the most powerful and evil Chaos Space Marine Legion whose color of choice is written on their name. The Slaanesh-devoted Emperor's Children, whose colors are black and... hideous hot pink (or purple Depending on the Artist). Due to centuries of self-inflicted sensory abuse, clashing colors are one of the few things that still grab their attention. Averted by the Deathwatch (the Imperium's elite anti-xenos Space Marine squads who forgo their Chapter colors for all-black armor) and the Black Templars, who are firmly on the side of goo- on the Imperium's side. |
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The Vitalizer from "Clockpunk and the Vitalizer" is dressed head to toe in black, save his gray mask. Contrast Clockpunk, also wearing black (though lined with silver). | |
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In The Great Race, Professor Fate and Max wear black (and their car is also black). Although this is a comedy, they are still the villains. | |
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A year before the nWo formed, this was played with to one of the founding members, Hulk Hogan, after the Dungeon of Doom shaved off his mustache. Hogan wore all black and was presented as the "Dark Side of Hulkamania." | |
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Blackadder, Prince Edmund Plantagenet and Duke of Edinburgh, adapts an all-black outfit once he becomes The Black Adder. Most of his descendents likewise attire themselves in black, though much of the time they are just Jerkasses and some characters that are easier to define as flat out ''evil'' are not dressed in black or even dark colors. In fact, the fourth one is never seen in black, rather wearing a soldier's tan uniform. | |
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Played for laughs in Mystery Skulls Animated where Lewis's prankster little sister Cayenne wears all black with a horned hairband and flames painted on her black cowboy boots in contrast to the rest of her family's white and pink color scheme to emphasize what a terror she can seem like to the victims of her pranks. | |
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Doctor Who Classic: The Master as portrayed by Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley wears all-black unless he's in disguise. Even the Master's TARDIS console room is identical to the Doctor's, but with black surfaces. The villain in "The Five Doctors" deliberately changes into black clothes when putting his evil plot into action. |
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"Devious" Diesel, one of the main antagonists of Thomas the Tank Engine is painted black. | |
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Blake's 7. The Federation Gas Mask Mooks wear black overalls, black gasmasks and carry black weaponry. Travis wears all black leather, and even when he's forced to leave the military is usually seen wearing black clothes. Avon, the most morally ambiguous member of the heroes, is often seen in black leather as well. However it was deliberately averted by actress Jacqueline Pearce who decided to have Servalan, the Big Bad of the series, be a Woman in White (though she changes to black halfway through the series). | |
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In The Thief and the Cobbler, the Evil Chancellor Zigzag wears a mostly pitch black robe, with minor gold edges. | |
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F-Zero has Black Shadow. As if his name wasn't already a clue, he is the ruler of the ominous Black Shadow Group and his outfit looks a lot like Batman's, except with big, demonic horns just to drive the point further home. | |
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Team Skull in Pokémon Sun and Moon wear black clothing as well. Likely because they're not even trying to be remotely subtle, and pattern themselves off American gangs. | |
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The Karate Kid: The Cobra Kai members who bully Daniel wear black martial arts uniforms. | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Ares, god of destructive war, favors a black leather get-up. Any and all servants of Hera (an antagonist to Hercules) are most likely wearing black leather and skull-motif armor. |
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In Yaiba the Moon Princess Kaguya wears black clothes (although shaded purple in the anime), which still counts despite including a Playboy Bunny outfit trimmed with white fur. | |
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The Legend of Frenchie King: The outlaw Louise and her gang of sisters always deck out entirely in black when committing their robberies. Morally speaking, they are still A Lighter Shade of Black compared to the also black-clad, inhumane Dr. Miller. | |
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From Once Upon a Time: Black features prominently◊ in the Evil Queen's wardrobe. After her Storybrooke counterpart Regina tries to redeem herself to its citizens, this is reflected in her wardrobe changes: she wears more gray shades and more color. | |
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In Scanner Cop II, Carl Volkin is notably the only villain in this entire series to go around entirely in black. | |
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Rolli – Amazing Tales: The Trashers all wear black cloaks that resemble waste bags as well as black helmets/hats. | |
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Cowboys From Hell by Pantera: "Bad guys wear black, we're tagged and can't turn back." | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Evil Faith wears black outfits. When Xander and Willow become vampires in Wish!verse, they wear black leather. When the real Willow pretends to be vampire!Willow she steals the latter's black clothes. Also, in the last three episodes of Season Six, Willow dons black clothes and "dyes" her hair black as she embraces black magic. Caleb, The Dragon in Season 7, wears black as he's a fallen priest. However he also points out that it's slimming. |
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Richard of Looking for Group is one of the protagonists, but he's also an undead sorcerer who actually needs to do evil acts to maintain his powers. He wears a black robe and hood. | |
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In Street Fighter, Akuma by default wears either a black or dark purple gi. When Ryu becomes Evil Ryu, he's also depicted with a black gi (which becomes tattered in the fourth installment). M. Bison also wears a black cloak over his red outfit, although he tosses it off when the matches begin. | |
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Winnowill from ElfQuest wears a black dress (trimmed with white fur) most of the time in her initial appearances and tops that off by having long, black hair. Even the warning nickname later given to her, "The Black Snake", contains the color and her harmful magic is referred to as "Black Sending". | |
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In Warlock: The Armageddon the next Warlock kills a side character and steals his clothing, noting with approval that it's black. | |
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Kingdom Hearts, Master Xehanort's clothing is primarily black and grey, while the members of the Organization wear black cloaks. | |
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The Last Starfighter: Xur wears black, in contrast to his father and the other Rylians, whom he betrayed, wearing white. | |
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Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Conan the Destroyer, all villains are fond of black leather armour. | |
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