The Dark Arts: Difference between revisions

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** [[Power At a Price|Has a really ghastly price to use.]]

** Can only be obtained by [[Human Sacrifice|evil activities]].

* All its [[Potential Applications]] are [[Bad Powers Bad People|destructive.]]

* All its [[Potential Applications]] are [[Bad Powers, Bad People|destructive.]]

** All the products end up [[Gone Horribly Wrong|Going Horribly Wrong]]. [[Turned Against Their Masters|Robots rebel]], [[Came Back Wrong|resurrections are botched]], [[Psycho Serum|superpowers cause insanity.]] Basically, if you can build a [[Fantastic Aesop]] out of it, it's this.

* The Dark Art represents a threat to the establishment because it:

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* [[Creating Life]]

* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]

* Anything when it's done [[For Science]],

* Anything when it's done [[For Science!]],

* [[Came Back Wrong|Resurrection]]

* Everything in the [[Scale of Scientific Sins]]

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* [[Sleazy Politician|Politics]]

So, just who practices the Dark Arts in spite of all these dangers? Lots of people/things, actually. If it's magical, then an [[Evil Sorcerer]], if it's a science then a [[Mad Scientist]] of course, and if it's a martial art then the [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] is likely to know it. Expect them to learn their craft in the [[Academy of Evil]]. Even though the only crime in art is bad taste, the [[Mad Artist]] usually knows how to drive viewers mad (in the bad way) with their art. A hero ''might'' be able to "redeem" the Dark Arts, or at least [[Yin Yang Bomb|use them]] without becoming damned/addicted when the [[Godzilla Threshold]] is crossed.

So, just who practices the Dark Arts in spite of all these dangers? Lots of people/things, actually. If it's magical, then an [[Evil Sorcerer]], if it's a science then a [[Mad Scientist]] of course, and if it's a martial art then the [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] is likely to know it. Expect them to learn their craft in the [[Academy of Evil]]. Even though the only crime in art is bad taste, the [[Mad Artist]] usually knows how to drive viewers mad (in the bad way) with their art. A hero ''might'' be able to "redeem" the Dark Arts, or at least [[Yin-Yang Bomb|use them]] without becoming damned/addicted when the [[Godzilla Threshold]] is crossed.

== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

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*** Not dropped, Negi isn't even {{spoiler|human}} anymore due to overuse of Magia Erebea. Of course, that just seems to mean he has it on permanantly.

* Human transmutation from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]].''

* 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]].

* 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.