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'''Bender:''' That drizzler!|''[[Futurama]]'', "The 30% Iron Chef"}}
Basically, The Dark Arts are any science, discipline, magic or martial combat style<ref>(or all of the above, as an [[Unholy Matrimony]] of [[Supernatural Martial Arts]] [[Martial Arts and Crafts|And Crafts]] [[Magic From Technology|From Technology)]]</ref> that is deemed by society in general and the establishment in particular as a Bad Idea.<ref>(For some reason, actual artistic techniques are rarely considered a Dark Art)</ref>
In other words, if there are [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]], you can expect someone to have thought it would be cool to make an [[Evil Is Not a Toy|easy to read how-to book on it]]. The "Dark" Art might [[Dark Is Not Evil|not necessarily be evil]] or dangerous, but there's always at least some cause to consider these powers/skills potent and not to be left open for everyone to learn.
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* Everything in the [[Scale of Scientific Sins]]
* [[Touch of Death]]
* [[Turned Against Their Masters|Robotics]] and [[
* [[Sleazy Politician|Politics]]
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
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* The magic-users of ''[[Rental Magica]]'' has the set of taboo, mainly prohibiting things that either turn the user into an insane [[Blob Monster]] more often than not (including [[Came Back Wrong|resurrection]]) or cause a massive area contamination. A plain magical crime (like slaughtering the whole village to get a lot of zombies quickly) apparently isn't lumped with it. Of course, there's an opposition, [[For Science!|Ophites]].
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|Forbidden Jutsu]] are any jutsu that are either too dangerous (e.g. FRS, which nearly destroys Naruto's arm) to perform, or plain immoral (e.g. Edo Tensei, which involves human sacrifices), preferably some combination of the two. Bear in mind that ''normal'' jutsu include [[Mind Rape|mind attacking illusions]], fireballs and lightning attacks used for assassination, any of which can kill the user if used too much. That's an idea of how bad these can be.
* The Cybderdarks in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''. Apparently the wrong set of children's playing cards exude evil energy and can give people heart attacks.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* [[Necromancy]] is the most common Dark Art of fantasy, occuring at almost any setting where magic exists.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' has the Seven Laws of Magic laid down by the White Council that bar against certain types of magic; the penalty for breaking any of them is death. These laws prohibit: using magic to kill a mortal, [[Necromancy]] (specifically, ''human'' necromancy), [[Time Travel]], [[Baleful Polymorph|changing another's shape]], [[Mind Rape]], enthrallment of another, or summoning [[Eldritch Abomination|Outsiders]].
** Note that [[Mind Reading]] is considered to ''be'' [[Mind Rape]], when done through human wizardry, and any kind of death spell (as opposed to lethal combat magic) is
** Over the course of the series, the perspective presented on these has expanded from "even accidentally infringing on the Laws will irrevocably twist you into a two-dimensional villain who needs to be put down" to "okay, so there ''are'' a few people who break the Laws and stay sane, which means finding and killing them early on is even ''more'' important". A reasonable (if disappointing) attitude for a governing body to take, especially one which explicitly states its laws are not intended to reflect any society's conception of morality or justice.
* In ''[[Dragaera]]'' normal sorcery is done by manipulating the energy of raw chaos which has been filtered through the Imperial Orb. Elder sorcery is done by ''directly'' manipulating raw chaos, and by imperial edict practicing it carries the death penalty, because making a blunder with raw chaos... well, the results would be Bad with a capital B. Of course, this doesn't prevent several of the main characters from dabbling in elder sorcery.
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** adventure C2 ''The Ghost Tower of Inverness''.
{{quote|Duke Justinian: Hodar, you dared to defy a royal order and continued to dabble in sorceries which I had forbidden to all the people of my realm.}}
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** ''[[Dark Sun]]'' defilers who power up magic by [[Power At a Price|leeching life out of the land]] aren't tolerated by anyone - including most other defilers - and because of this any magic not clearly of divine type is looked upon with some suspicion at best - that is, when the people know the difference at all.
** In 4th Edition, the [[Deal with the Devil|Warlock]] and classes with the Shadow power source are this.
* ''[[Champions]]'' supplement ''The Blood and Dr. McQuark''. People on the planet Ea are forbidden to use magic or powers that involve interdimensional travel because it could lead to the unleashing of [[Eldritch Abomination
* Blood magic and Toxic/Insect shamans in ''[[Shadowrun]]''.
* ''[[The World of Darkness]]'' settings ([[Old World of Darkness|Old]] and [[New World of Darkness|New]]), [[Crapsack World|naturally]], are full of those.
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** Although other magic schools serve to light people on fire or freeze them alive, hurt or even kill them by tormenting them with visions and so on.
** According to one codex entry, the Tevinter archons of old were taught [[Blood Magic]] by the Old God Dumat the Dragon of Silence. Since an Old God is basically an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that happens to look like a dragon this makes [[Blood Magic]] even more unsettling.
* ''Emperor of The Fading Suns'' starts with the fractured Empire where remaining powers [[Lost Technology|lost most advanced technologies]] and Church, true to [[Fading Suns|the setting]], proscribing what's left of that semi-randomly ("The Patriarch has deemed X odious to humanity"), sending Inquisition to making sure no one studies prohibited things (of course, since a ship cannot land immediately after jump, the player has a turn to switch those labs toward innocent pursuits, losing the ongoing research). The flavour text shows the common level as rather moronic (the guy belligerently insist that plagues are caused by demons, etc), but at the start they tend toward sensible caution - most disliked and already proscribed technologies are bioweapons and extreme augmentations
** Amusingly, obvious derivatives of proscribed things may be used without problems - e.g. development of Archangel fighter needs Cyberpilot, which in turn requires proscribed technology
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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