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[[File:The_Darkness_cover_7959.jpg|frame|Embrace the Darkness]]
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{{quote|''You're the monster...''|'''Jackie'''}}
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* [[Bland-Name Product]]: The game has "The Green Olive Grove" restaurant.
* [[Blatant Lies]]:
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'''Gunner Darkling''': I am unfamiliar with the concept. ''[Attacks a mook.]'' Maybe not, I guess. }}
* [[Bloody Hilarious]]: The Darklings are [[Comedic Sociopathy|psychopathic]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloudcuckoolanders]].
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: More than anything, one gets the impression that the Darkness simply ''does not understand'' how people work -- physically or mentally -- beyond their capacity for receiving and causing suffering.
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** Hell, the Darkness expected him to be pleased after it forced him to {{spoiler|[[Forced to Watch|watch Jenny be murdered]]}} because this would "make him stronger" and it seemed utterly bewildered when he chose instead {{spoiler|to kill himself}}.
* [[Black and Black Morality]]: Johnny lampshades this in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Run5PYOy5ZQ Vendettas trailer]. Jackie might have the moral high ground, but that's damning with praise considering some of the stuff he does and the company he keeps.
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* [[Border Patrol]]: By all means, head directly into the subway tunnels. [[Too Dumb to Live|See what happens]].
** The Darkness mocks you when you do this, saying something along the lines of "this is not a very good idea..."
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** The first Darkness power, Creeping Dark, can move further with each level, and the NPCs are notoriously incapable of hitting it. Furthermore, after making a kill you can eat the heart of your victim to refill Darkness energy to full. This combination makes it possible to clear entire rooms without entering them through most of the game.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: All four of the darklings in the game have their idiosyncrasies, but the Berserker darkling is particularly unhinged. Even better, it's voiced by [[Richard Horvitz]].
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* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: At one point in the game, Shrote captures Jackie and tortures him by taking a power drill to his face; [[Nightmare Fuel|this scene is shot from Jackie's POV.]]
* [[Convenient Eclipse]]
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* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Uncle Paulie shows shades of this but Shrote easily takes the cake as it takes him all of two seconds to figure out that the Darkness is vulnerable to light. From then on he sets up ambushes using floodlights and knocks Jackie out with flashbangs. Bonus points for making sure Jackie had multiple lights shining on him while he was interrogating him and stops his [[Mooks]] from indulging in [[Just Between You and Me]]. Paulie on the other hand just straps some floodlights to the front of his secret hideout and calls it good.
* [[Defiant to the End]]: While being tortured by Shrote, most of Jackie's dialogue options involve flinging insults at the nearby cops. True, {{spoiler|Jackie actually intended to die on this particular mission}}, but it's pretty impressive considering that Jackie is managing to speak with a ''hole drilled through his face.''
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* [[Dirty Cop]]: Tons of 'em. Jackie has disdain for said cops as well as for the mobsters who partner with them, since it dirties both of them.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Both games end very, ''very'' badly for Jackie.}}
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* [[Forced to Watch]]: The Darkness holds Jackie helpless while {{spoiler|Paulie shoots Jenny in the head}}.
* [[For Inconvenience Press One]]: One of the collectible phone numbers.
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* [[Good Hurts Evil]]: Good ''irritates'' evil. The Darkness refuses to manifest itself around the subway stations full of normal people, and if you try it'll complain that it finds the people too boring to attack; the Darkness is attracted to darkness, and even the metaphorical darkness of the heart is preferable to it. When meeting Jenny for the first time:
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* [[Good Old Ways]]: Jackie receives aid [[Badass Grandpa|from the]] [[Cool Old Guy|old]] [[Cool Old Lady|guard]] [[Retired Badass|of the]] [[Retired Monster|Mafia]].
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]
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