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Want to show how good and just your hero is? Then just use this counterpart to Casting a Shadow: Light! This frequently involves healing and divine powers, although this can mean literal light as well. This may overlap with Holy Hand Grenade if the powers in question are used to attack. Like most other types of elemental manipulation, the laws of physics give way to Rule of Cool. Compare Holy Hand Grenade: attacking with goodness and Frickin' Laser Beams: laser guns. Examples of Light'Em Up include:

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  • Light'Em Up
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  • Want to show how good and just your hero is? Then just use this counterpart to Casting a Shadow: Light! This frequently involves healing and divine powers, although this can mean literal light as well. This may overlap with Holy Hand Grenade if the powers in question are used to attack. Like most other types of elemental manipulation, the laws of physics give way to Rule of Cool. Compare Holy Hand Grenade: attacking with goodness and Frickin' Laser Beams: laser guns. Examples of Light'Em Up include:
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  • Want to show how good and just your hero is? Then just use this counterpart to Casting a Shadow: Light! This frequently involves healing and divine powers, although this can mean literal light as well. This may overlap with Holy Hand Grenade if the powers in question are used to attack. Like most other types of elemental manipulation, the laws of physics give way to Rule of Cool. Light has many similarities to fire, producing both illumination and heat. Thematically, however, fire is often presented as a primal or destructive force, whereas light is a protective force that literally illuminates the darkness. In some cases, light and fire overlap and sometimes intersects with electricity as well. All three of these powers may also possess qualities of purification or total destruction, depending on the work in question. See also The Power of the Sun, as, in fiction, a solar power is occasionally a mixture of the powers of fire and light. The Hero is likely to use this, and if so, is likely to be a saint. The hero is likely to learn this from the Big Good or the Obi Wan, who will be the master of this. Alternately, a work may instead use Light Is Not Good, in which case, this may be used by the villain. In that case, similar to how The Sacred Darkness illustrates a way to portray Casting a Shadow in a pure and holy fashion, a villainous or "corrupt" form of light may involve such lovely things as light so bright that it burns out the victim's eyes, causes his flesh to be brutally melted off, etc. A Sub-Trope of Elemental Powers. Usually trumps darkness, though the reverse is also possible. Or both, even. For double the fun, see Yin-Yang Bomb. See also The Power of the Sun, which may or may not be related to this, depending on the setting. Compare Holy Hand Grenade: attacking with goodness and Frickin' Laser Beams: laser guns. Examples of Light'Em Up include:
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