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Spoilerrific trope listing for the first season of ''[[Darker
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* '''[[Anyone Can Die]]''': A ''lot'' of the core cast is dead at the end of the first season.
▲* [[Anyone Can Die]]: A ''lot'' of the core cast is dead at the end of the first season. {{spoiler|Though Mao turns out to have been [[Not Quite Dead]].}}
** In fact, it's often something of a surprise (and a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|relief]]) when most of the characters focused on in a two-episode arc manage to survive intact.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The genocide against Contractors has been defeated and some leaders of [[The Syndicate]] are dead or imprisoned. On the other hand, a lot of characters have died, and while it's theoretically good that Contractors are now revealed to the public, there is the obvious danger of what an evil Contractor could do. Finally, it seems plausible that there are still Syndicate leaders alive who could threaten the protagonists in the future.
* [[Blood
* [[Board to Death]]: Wei, to the Chen Long Tang executives.
* [[Conspiracy Redemption]]: Turns out Evening Primrose was trying to prevent a genocide of all contractors that the group Hei had been working for was planning. Hei has a bit of a temper tantrum at the suggestion that Amber, who he hates for whatever happened between them in South America, may actually have the moral high ground.
* [[Contract
* [[Cooldown Hug]]: Hei, to Amber, when she asks if he's ''sure'' he doesn't want to go through with her "destroy Japan for the sake of the contractors" plan.
** And Mai and her father in episode 4, though [[Interrupted Cooldown Hug|it get interrupted]].
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* [[Dead Star Walking]]: Chiaki seems like she will become a major character and/or love interest for Hei, but not only is she dead by the second episode, she isn't even the real Chiaki.
* [[Dies Wide Open]]: Havock dies with her eyes open, and the final sign that Hei's attitude toward her has changed is that he closes them before going after those responsible.
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Havoc, ready to die but not to use her power again; Wei, fighting Hei while knowing the outcome and helping him as the last action; Amber, [[Ret
* [[Eleventh
* [[Engineered Public Confession]]: Kirihara manages to catch Director Horai's [[Motive Rant]] on tape, and the timely arrival of first Hei and then Saito and Kono ensures that he doesn't manage a [[Karma Houdini]].
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Nick fits in having the same electric power as Hei and a similarly sensitive personality, but also possessing a Contractor's willingness to kill. Wei might also qualify, in that like Hei, he is Chinese, and seems to be the Contractor who most enjoys murder, in contrast to Hei, who is one of the more pacifistic.
* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: Harvest, from the manga, [[You Fail Biology Forever|fails biology forever]].
* [[Faking the Dead]]: Hei in ep.10. He got his own blood all over his mask and threw himself off a building to fool Wei, only for Wei to have a bit of a nasty surprise when the Black Angel of Death [[Dynamic Entry|crashes through a window]] a few minutes later, kicks him in the face and electrocutes him [[Hoist
** It's also pretty clear that Mina Swami thought he died in the explosion that ensued when he got the Meteor Shard from Nick.
*** Not to mention in episode 2 when he was shot.
* [[Follow That Car!]]: Played with. April vs. Amber; Maki marked the sidewalk where they were standing and blew it up as soon as April got in a cab to follow them.
* [[Fusion Dance]]: [[Dead Little Sister|Bai]] somehow lives on inside of Hei, granting him her electrical powers without having to pay a remuneration or lose his human emotions.
* [[Gainax Ending]]: Episode 25 bears more than a passing resemblance to the final episode of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' especially the "congratulations" segment.
* [[Genocide Dilemma]]: Let PANDORA destroy Hell's Gate, killing every Contractor and Doll on the planet, or trigger the Tokyo Explosion and prevent them from ever trying it again, wiping out Japan in the process? Hei, naturally, [[Take a Third Option|finds another option]].
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Considering who he had been working for up till that point, one might suspect that November 11 was still carrying out his job as a double agent when he switched over to Evening Primrose. This was intitially true, but when he finds out the actual truth about MI6's plans, really DOES turn.
* [[Journey to
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Surprisingly subverted at the very end. Eric Nishijima is backstabbed by his boss, his boss is then exposed by Kirihara. However, season two shows that not everything is resolved with their Organization.
* [[
* '''[[Kill
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Schrader. He's actually a [[Affably Evil|nice and chatty guy]], but thinks it's really great idea to indiscriminately eradicate some portion of humanity (thus cornering said people into trying [[Throwaway Country]] trick just to stop him) ''and'' bet the whole Earth (it's already ''all'' under [[Alien Sky]] undeniably connected to Gates and Contractors, remember?) on the validity of his theories. [[For Science!|In a single experiment]]. Which is supposed to be [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup|non-repeatable]] even if successful. Why not, indeed?▼
▲* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Schrader. He's actually a [[Affably Evil|nice and chatty guy]], but thinks it's really great idea to indiscriminately eradicate some portion of humanity (thus cornering said people into trying [[Throwaway Country]] trick just to stop him) ''and'' bet the whole Earth (it's already ''all'' under [[Alien Sky]] undeniably connected to Gates and Contractors, remember?) on the validity of his theories. [[For Science|In a single experiment]]. Which is supposed to be [[No Plans No Prototype No Backup|non-repeatable]] even if successful. Why not, indeed?
** It helps that his reaction to Hei interfering in an attempt to destroy the Gate, leaving [[The Syndicate]]'s plan shot to hell, is absolute ''glee'' that he got something so cool to study the results of.
* [[Magical Defibrillator]]: Literally, but as such not quite an example of the trope. Bertha stopped Hei's heart briefly, only to quickly learn that this isn't the most effective way of taking down someone who can generate enough electricity to immediately start it again.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Kirihara's boss (of the Contractor-hunting police) is also the boss of [[The Syndicate]], which has been planning a genocide of the Contractors from the very beginning.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Subverted. The [[Mad Scientist]] thinks that his plan has been stopped because Amber and company blew up his particle accelerator, but it turns out his bosses had made a backup copy. He compliments them for doing this and not letting him know.
* [[One Last Smoke]]: Subverted twice. November decides that since he's dying, for once he ''doesn't'' have to smoke, and later, Hei stops Huang from having a cigarette when he says goodbye before the latter's [[Dying Moment of Awesome]].
* [[Reality Warper]]: In a way Amber's power, as she can alter time, as well as Hei's/Bai's which involves altering matter on a quantum level.
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* [[That Man Is Dead]]: "''The man you knew as Li no longer exists''." This doesn't stop her from calling him that every time she sees him afterward, though.
* [[Time Stands Still]]: Amber's power.
* [[Tomato in
* [[Tragic Monster]]: When Mai goes Moratorium, she causes a lot of unintentional damage, including burning her best friend and her dad to death.
* [[Two Siblings in One]]: Hei and his sister
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* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: Amber plans for Wei to be killed by Hei. If Wei didn't dramatically die up against the Gate's wall, or if he was electrocuted, our heroes would never have gotten inside. But then, she ''can'' see the future...
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