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Most often, this is important to the [[Backstory]] of a series, giving writers room to introduce remnants of those old evils [[Sealed Evil in a Can|sealed in a can]]. Sometimes '''The Dark Times''' become [[The Time of Myths]] and then lead to [[Gotterdammerung]]. Alternatively, the creatures that populated '''The Dark Times''' are merely waiting [[Beneath the Earth]] until they regain their strength.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', the past has been completely censored by the World Government. The ability to read the hieroglyphs that the ancients wrote is enough to make the World Government use the most powerful attack known to mankind to completely wipe an island off the map.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In the ''[[Continuum]]'' RPG, the time before 14,000 BC was/is ruled by the civilization of Antedesertium, whose narcissistic experiments and attacks on the timestream led to their Scorpion Kings becoming [[Eldritch Abomination]]s, before finally destroying their civilization, triggering more or less a millenium of temporal chaos that led to the creation of the Sahara Desert.
* The second age of the ''[[Dungeons
** In the default setting, [[Eldritch Abomination|the Aboleths, intelligent beings that look like crosses between great fish and cthonic monstrosities]], once ruled all the world. How do they know? They have photographic genetic memory. ''They remember.''
* The world of ''[[Exalted]]'' under Primordial rule may have been this. That's the official story, anyway, but the sourcebooks encourage readers to [[Alternate Character Interpretation|consider the possibility that]] [[Unreliable Narrator|the gods may be lying about that part.]]
* [[Warhammer
** By most series' standards, Warhammer 40k is entirely made up of Dark Times.
** Arguably 40k subverts this trope by having the present be the Dark Times with the past for the Imperium and the Eldar being depicted as glorious golden ages undone by their own pride. Since then [[It Got Worse|it just keeps getting worse]].
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** Then in the second game, turns out they were [[Not Quite Dead]] after all...
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'': The lore behind Azeroth is that there was once a time when [[Eldritch Abomination|the Old Gods]] ruled and had chaotic elemental lords as their lieutenants to strike terror in the hearts of many. The titans came and put a boot in their behinds, killed one or two of them and put the rest in solitary confinement.
** It should be noted that the Titans are pretty much [[Physical
* ''[[Touhou]]'', as it builds upon [[Japanese Mythology]], mention an era where terrible [[Youkai]] ruled the land of Gensokyo until they were pacified by the ancestors of the humans. In a subversion, the majority of those youkai still exists today, content to be left alone {{spoiler|[[Death of the Old Gods|because the humans Outside refuse to believe in their existence anymore]]}}.
** [[Unreliable Narrator|Well, this is all coming from]] [[Reincarnation|Hieda-no-Akyu]]...
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[My Little Pony:
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