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* [[Mortasheen]]'s [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/jabbersnatch.htm Jabbersnatch] uses a low-level version of this, being able to absorb all light in its vicinity to turn itself into a solid black Silhouette. It uses this power to be a [[Things That Go Bump in the Night|highly effective boogeyman]].
* The Shadow Queen, a Type 2 villainess in the ''[[Champions]]'' adventure ''The Great Supervillain Contest''. She had Darkness powers, including the ability to solidify, project, and merge with shadows.
* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' has a number of Type 2 monsters that create and/or use darkness and shadows as weapons, such as the shade, shadow dragon, and shadow mastiff. The shadow demon was a type 3/4 monster: it was more effective in darkness/shadow but couldn't create or manipulate it.
** ''Player's Option'' ("AD&D 2.5") introduced the school of Shadow, on par with elemental and Force magic, and Shadow Mages specialising in that.
** D&D 3.0 introduced the Shadowdancer [[Prestige Class]]. Again, [[Dark Is Not Evil]], though it does synchronize well with the Thief class.
** The 3.5 book ''Tome of Magic'' introduced the Shadowcasters, which were just like they sound, an entire class based on the use of shadow magic.
** One of the power sources for ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' 4th Edition is Shadow, which is the dark half of arcane magic. (borrowing the ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' Shadow Weave concept) So far, Assassin is the only class released that makes use of this power source. Now, however, any class can technically pull in power from it with certain feats; some classes may pick up shadow powers and/or have their own variant of the class that almost exclusively pulls from it; and there are a few races that have ties to shadow.
** [[Forgotten Realms]] AD&D2 sourcebook ''Wizards and Rogues of the Realms'' introduced "Shadow Walkers" as a Thief kit. 3.5e ''Shining South'' has "Crinti shadow marauder", which is a cavalry variant of Shadowdancer.
* Mentioned in the backstory of the ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' universe, but sadly not playable on the tabletop, are the Umbra, a strange race of aliens that look like completely black spheres. They have the power to manipulate any shadows in the vicinity, turning them into [[Combat Tentacles|huge toothy tentacles]] that tear people to pieces. And they can do this to ''any'' shadow. [[Nightmare Fuel|Even the ones in your pupils]].
** The Dark Eldar have "darklight" weapons that use some kind of energy that resembles tangible darkness mined from other dimensions.
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' had a minor chaos god named Obscuras (see more [http://www.goblin-online.net/download/obscuras.txt here]) whose powers were mainly based on shadow, and who could grant to his followers the ability of seeing without requiring light. Some people can still obtain powers based on shadow without worshipping him, however.
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* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has 'Darkness' as a stock [[Elemental Powers|elemental damage type]] and a very common powerset. Its flavour text mainly involves 'drawing power from the Netherworld' and draining souls and such, but [[Dark Is Not Evil|it's equally available and used by heroes as well as villains]]. In game mechanics, Dark sets actually tend to be along the lines of [[Combo-Platter Powers]], but are very powerful when used right.
* Dark Jak in [[Jak and Daxter|Jak II]] is capable of funneling Dark Eco through his body as a result of two years worth of experiments that pumped it directly into him. The Dark Eco takes the form of lightning, and all of his powers are somewhat electricity based with a purple hue.
* The elemental affinity of the main protagonist of [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]], Ragna the Bloodedge, is darkness. This is also the case for Hazama, as most of his non-chain snake attacks seem to be surrounded with dark energy.
* The Darkness element mage skill set in ''[[Dragon Age]]''.
* In ''[[Arcana Heart]]'', both [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|Lieselotte]] [[Enfante Terrible|Achenbach's]] and [[Cute Witch|Yoriko]] [[Robe and Wizard Hat|Yasuzumi's]] default arcana's, [[Living Shadow|Gier]] and [[The Grim Reaper|Dieu Mort,]] deal with Darkness element powers.
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