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The Darkness
From Skylanders Wiki, the Skylands encylopedia
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| The Darkness | |
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| Element: | Dark 
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| Gender: | Male |
| Role: | Antagonist |
| World: | Skylands |
| Attacks: | Brings darkness and evil to Skylands Laser Beams Summoning Shadow Guardians |
| Appears in: | Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Skylanders: Rift into Overdrive Skylanders: SuperChargers |
| Cameos: | Skylanders SuperChargers Issue 1 (mentioned) |
| English Voice Actor: | Ike Amadik |
- “All shall fear and obey me! I am THE DARKNESS!”
- – The Darkness
The Darkness is the ultimate force behind all evil in the Skylanders series, debuting in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. It was previously depicted as a large mass of dark, ominous storm clouds or swirling clump of darkness. The Darkness later returned in Skylanders: SuperChargers as the true main antagonist.
Personality
Between being released and first defeated by the Core of Light, The Darkness appeared to have a destructive and violent personality, and it is unknown if he used to have the same quirks as when his form was restored. In Spyro's Adventure, The Darkness was merely a force of evil and had no defining features or personality. Its only goal appeared to serve Kaos and cause mayhem to Skylands.
In SuperChargers, The Darkness is manipulative, and as his power grows, he begins to develop an actual personality and form. He has a deep and somewhat sultry voice, first appearing to only want to satisfy Kaos's desire for power and as long as the Sky Eater fed The Darkness more magic. In the end, The Darkness proved to be more evil and ruthless than Kaos was, as while he did want the subjugation of the Skylands, The Darkness was even more megalomaniacal and was perfectly satisfied with destroying an entire world to command the universe, and relied on blackmail and aggression to keep Kaos's loyalty. Despite his cruel behavior, he still appears to have a slight sense of humor when taunting Kaos about his mother, and was willing to face the Skylander in a duel without resorting to cheating to prove his superiority.
Abilities
Despite being an evil force, The Darkness and its sinister magic can be controlled by other creatures having malicious purposes, and bestow its power on others. Spyro is the only known Skylander so far to use The Darkness and combine its power with his own to become Dark Spyro, eventually being able to control his power and using the dark magic to fight evil.
In SuperChargers, before it was first damaged by the Core of Light, The Darkness' power was said to be able to "shatter mountains and entire islands with casual disdain". In addition, he was able to summon black spiky vines, fire large laser beams from his mouth, and use dark tentacles that damaged his target with a sizzling noise. Being fed enough Magic in present day, he wasn't at full power, but seemed to have some form of telekinesis to interact with control panels near him and immobilize his foes.
Using the Sky Eater's energy and structure, his powers increased greatly, giving him the ability to alter the interiors of a Rift, summon laser-shooting crystals and create Shadow Guardians.
Story
History
When the Ancients were eagerly exploring the universe using the Rift Engines, they accidentally created a sinister rift engine that opened a portal to a forbidden world. From this portal emerged The Darkness, who proceeded to wreck havoc and unleash dark forces across Skylands. The Skylanders of old held back the minions of Darkness until a solution was made known when the Ancients created the Core of Light, which repelled the Darkness to the dark corners of Skylands.
Although it was gone for now, The Darkness was still out there in Skylands. It played a role in wiping out Voodood's entire tribe when they marched to battle the evil force, resulting with Voodood being the only survivor. When The Darkness attempted to corrupt the Core of Light, its influence nearly consumed Spyro, and it was Master Eon's timely spells that saved the young dragon from a horrible fate. The Darkness also destroyed Boom Jet's homeland, but the Air Skylander managed to rescue the citizens just in time.
Elves who chose to be evil and embraced the effects of The Darkness are called Drow, but they retained their love for nature.
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
For generations, the Core of Light repelled The Darkness until Kaos returned from his exile and destroyed the Core, allowing him to use The Darkness for his own gain to take over and rule Skylands as its emperor. After the Core of Light was restored, The Darkness was repelled once more.
In the 3DS version of Spyro's Adventure, The Darkness came to the Radiant Isles and brought in Hektore, who proceeded to capture the Mystic Seekers and forced them to create the Dark Mirror that shrouded the Radiant Isles from the rest of Skylands. After Hektore was destroyed, The Darkness was driven away.
Skylanders: Rift into Overdrive
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It was revealed that a small, remaining portion of The Darkness was collected after being pushed back by the Core of Light. This fragment of darkness was sealed inside a vial behind an elemental door within the Skylanders Academy where no one can gain access to it. However The Darkness fragment was able to transfer its power to strengthen Kaos, who was locked away in his Traptanium prison after the events of Skylanders: Trap Team. With the help from The Darkness, Kaos was able to leave his cell for short periods of time without the Skylanders knowing. After planning his escape, Kaos and Glumshanks broke open the elemental door within the school and took away The Darkness fragment to be used for their latest evil plan in ruling Skylands.
Skylanders: SuperChargers
The fragment of The Darkness had grown into a large power source for Kaos' Sky Eater. It eventually became sentient, gaining a voice and seemingly seeks to help Kaos rule not only Skylands, but the entire universe. However The Darkness grew impatient with Kaos' negligence in taking matters seriously, informing the Portal Master that the Skylanders were making the Core of Light into a weapon against him. Glumshanks soon pointed out that if The Darkness destroys Skylands, there would be nothing left of Skylands for Kaos to rule over. The Darkness easily manipulated Kaos into siding with him on this goal, eventually driving the evil Portal Master to fire a suspicious Glumshanks.
When Skylands was at its knees, with the Core of Light destroyed by the Sky Eater, Kaos displayed hesitation on destroying Skylands as without it, he wouldn't be able to rule it as he always wanted. The Darkness, having had enough of waiting, forced the evil Portal Master to cooperate by removing the dark powers he had given Kaos. Not wanting to lose his powers, Kaos begrudgingly initiated the destruction sequence of Skylands, satisfying The Darkness, who returned Kaos' powers to him.
After the Skylanders defeated Kaos within the Sky Eater, The Darkness subdued the heroes and commanded Kaos to destroy the Dark Rift Engine to crush their hopes forever. Instead, Kaos turned on the Rift Engine, having had enough of being ordered around. As he was being pulled into the portal from whence he came, The Darkness swore vengeance and it seemed the day was saved once again. Suddenly The Darkness emerged from the dark portal, now using remnants of the Sky Eater as armor in a final assault against the Skylanders. After a lenghty battle, the force behind all evil was defeated for good.
Skylanders SuperChargers Issue #1
Spyro mentioned that The Darkness was locked away, presumably back to his own dimension after his battle with the Skylanders.
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Gallery
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Concept art of The Darkness fighting a SuperCharger in the final battle for fate of the universe
Trivia
- The Darkness bears similarities with the Maelstrom of the now retired MMO LEGO Universe.
- Its role in Skylanders: Giants is reduced greatly. Certain enemies who have been enhanced or created by The Darkness, such as Drow, appear, but otherwise the Darkness isn't mentioned.
- Glumshanks mentioned that The Darkness talks in his sleep.
- It is said that Free Ranger was about to jump into the Darkness until he was stopped by Master Eon.
- Its Skystone reveals it is of the Dark element. However, in the 3DS version of Skylanders: Trap Team, The Darkness attempted to engulf the Midnight Museum's Dark relics in "eternal forgotteness", meaning that it does not encompass the entire Element and seeks to corrupt it as well.
- Though The Darkness' name appears to be a title, it is refered to in games as an actual name, as characters include 'The' when refering to him at all times. Much like in the Pjamja sam games.
- He is the first villain to serve as the final boss after Kaos in Skylanders: SuperChargers.
