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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: About a hair's breadth away from a [[Downer Ending]]. {{spoiler|Jackie finally surrenders himself to the Darkness during an eclipse in order to take out Paulie and his army of mooks. Jackie's personality is consumed entirely by the Darkness, but he's given a few moments to see Jenny one last time before he goes. It's implied by the "light in the darkness" lines that it may not be completely over for him, either... [[Hope Spot|hopefully]].}}
** However, according to the sequel's intro, Jackie has managed to suppress The Darkness in-between games.
* [[Bland
* [[Blatant Lies]]:
{{quote| '''Berserker Darkling''': I want to kill someone.<br />
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: All four of the darklings in the game have their idiosyncracies, but the Berserker darkling is particularly unhinged. Even better, it's voiced by [[Richard Horvitz]].
{{quote| "'''I LIKE PENGUINS!'''"}}
* [[Cold
* [[Convenient Eclipse]]
* [[Cross Melting Aura]]: In the first game, a solar eclipse supercharges Jackie's powers to the point where light bulbs (which would previously need to be shot or smashed) start exploding just by his very presence.
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* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Sometimes. The Darkness sometimes speaks in a low, gravelly tone, but sometimes uses a high, menacing hiss. One thing's for sure, it always sounds ''incredibly'' disturbing.
* [[First Person Ghost]]: Averted, Estacado's lower body is fully visible.
* [[First
* [[
* [[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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* [[Have a Nice Death]]: Depending on when and where you die in the game, you're treated to a series of warped, distorted images of the next location in the game while the Darkness hisses something cryptic, usually about how it's not going to let you die.
* [[Hell Is War]]: The Otherworld in the first game is a nightmarish, unending version of [[World War I]] that Anthony Estacado is stuck in.
* [[Hey
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: Averted in the first game; areas without light can go completely pitch-black (but using your powers lets you see in the dark.) Played straight in the sequel; "dark" areas are so well-lit it's sometimes hard to figure out where the lights are at a glance.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: It is implied that the Darkness [[Dark Is Not Evil|wasn't originally evil]], but having to deal with human hosts for millenia (what with their wars, and greed and sickness) [[Humanity Is Insane|has driven it insane]]. [[Unreliable Expositor|Though this is learned in the Darkness' own realm, so it could be just another]] [[Mind Screw]] on its part...
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* [[Show Within a Show]]: Jenny and Jackie can watch ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' in its entirety, as well as several full-length TV shows that are now public domain.
* [[Second Hour Superpower]]: Jackie's Darkness powers don't manifest until after the first level in the original game.
* [[Self
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: In the game, the Kamikaze Darkling's attack is to run up to the target, pull the detonator off his back, push the plunger and explode.
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: {{spoiler|Jenny. She's barely a character, and pretty much is Jackie's primary angst source in the story.}}
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* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: {{spoiler|Jenny}}
* [[Torture Technician]]: Shrote proves his credentials in this field when he manages to capture Jackie.
* [[Useless Useful Spell]]: The game lets you use a couple of types of automatic weapons, but all firearms are useless compared to the [[One
** ''The Darkness II'' places greater emphasis on gunplay, complementing it with The Darkness' mostly melee-based powers.
* [[
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: But you can also go around being a [[Kick the Dog|dog-kicking]] asshole [[For the Evulz|slaughtering civilians]], and the only thing that changes peoples reaction to you is whether or not you're in Darkness mode... which is to say, random people in the subway will always be nice to you even if you've killed most of [[Big Applesauce|New York City]] in incredibly brutal ways, as long as you don't have [[Combat Tentacles]] sprouting from your back and shoulders. [[Somebody
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The Angelus was originally planned to make an appearance in the first game, but was cut from the final release. It is frequently mentioned in the sequel {{spoiler|and is revealed to be Jenny in the ending}}.
* [[World War I]]: Whenever Jackie {{spoiler|commits suicide on Holy Ground}}, he goes here - or at least to a hellish domain inspired by it, with immortal British soldiers condemned to die over and over again and German zombies who are little more than snarling beasts in uniform. One of the Brits suggests that none of them are actually real.
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: In the hell that Jackie finds himself, the Brits have been fighting World War I for ''centuries''.
** [[Fridge Logic|Somehow]] inverted at the same time, as Jackie's segments there take minutes-hours of gameplay when days pass in the real world.
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* [[Benevolent Boss]]: The second game shows Jackie to be this to the Franchetti crime family, taking the time to talk to his hitmen and getting to know them. He even offers his condolences when a hitman loses someone.
* [[But You Were There and You And You]]: The Asylum of the second game is populated and staffed by twisted reflections of people Jackie knew in the real world: Tony, Dolpho, Swifty and even Johnny Powell appear as patients; Vinnie, Chief, Frank, Eddie, and Mr Peevish are orderlies; Jenny is one of the nurses; Jimmy the Grape and Brother Victor are doctors. Also, the Darkling makes a surprise appearance as a human janitor, the only key to his true identity being his hunchback and Cockney accent.
* [[Cold
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|The Angelus. It appears to have chosen Jenny as its host well before Jackie manifested the Darkness. Jenny's death in the first game and Jackie's subsequent drive to save her from the Darkness in the second game lead Jackie to unwillingly condemn himself to Hell. It doesn't even bother to fight him. Jackie, for his part, wasn't planning to fight her ''anyway'', because he's kinda savvy himself.}}
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Butcher Joyce barely gets screen time and only optional dialogue, whereas he had a mission devoted to him in the original game.
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* [[Fastball Special]]: In ''The Darkness 2'', Jackie can lift the Darkling and fling him at enemies. [[Funny Moments|The Darkling is not amused]].
* [[First Person Ghost]]: Played straight, as opposed to the first game.
* [[First
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* [[Five
** The [[Big Bad]]: Brother Victor
** [[The Dragon]]: Mr Peevish
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** [[The Dark Chick]]: Swifty
** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: The Darkness (Or at least, the Brotherhod ''tried'' to make it this)
* [[Five
** [[The Hero|The]] ([[Anti
** [[The Lancer]]: Inugami, master swordsman and part of an entire bloodline of [[The Atoner|Atoners.]]
** [[The Smart Guy]]: J.P. Dummond; physician, [[Witch Doctor]], Darkness Scholar, and wielder of the [[Magic Staff|Midnight Stick]]. For good measure, he's one of the more eloquent team-members.
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** [[The Chick]]: Shoshanna, a Mossad agent who [[Hates Being Touched]]. The only one of the group with a strictly-ranged Darkness weapon in the form of a handheld double-barreled shotgun. Fights [[Guns Akimbo]] as a result.
** Jackie and his lieutenants also function as this, for the most part:
*** [[The Hero|The]] ([[Anti
*** [[The Lancer]]: Vinnie, Jackie's [[The Consigliere|Consigliere]].
*** [[The Smart Guy]]: Johnny Powell, who provides most of the information on the Darkness, the artefacts found in the game, and the Brotherhood.
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* [[Large Ham]]: The Darkness itself, dear ''God''. Fittingly, the second game has it literally [[Chewing the Scenery]] on occasion (figuratively...all the time). The (cockney?) British Darkling as well, though not ''quite'' as much.
** The Vendettas characters definitely qualify, with lines such as: "This pain tastes... sweet", "THE HOUND FEELS NO PAIN!!" and "YOU MEN AND YOUR LITTLE TOYS!!", among others.
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: Finding yourself something to use as a shield, be it [[Super Strength|a torn off car door]], a street sign, or an actual combat shield, is useful in gameplay for a few extra hits. Then again, there's also the fact that [[Throwing Your Shield Always Works]] if you get a good hit.
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: What happens to people who die by [[Spell Blade|Gun Channeling]] or [[Unrealistic Black Hole|Black Hole]].
* [[Mad Bomber]]: Dolpho. In the co-op campaign, he always provides the explosives needed for the missions. For good measure, there's a good chance he's legitimatly insane, given that he spends his free time taking potshots at pigeons, and Jackie won't allow him out of the house.
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* [[Multinational Team]]: The characters of the Multiplayer mode in the sequel consist of a [[Violent Glaswegian]], a Japanese swordsman, a [[Badass Israeli|Mossad agent]] and a Cajun [[Witch Doctor]].
* [[Multiple Endings]]: In the second game. The last time Jackie visits the asylum, he can either choose to stay with Jenny or {{spoiler|jump off a ledge. Either one is still a [[Downer Ending]], but the former is more of an [[And I Must Scream]] moment, because it means that Jackie has become the puppet of The Darkness. The latter turns the whole game into a [[Shaggy Dog Story]].}}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In the second game, {{spoiler|by freeing Jenny's soul from the Darkness, the Angelus has possessed her and leaves Jackie behind in Hell.}}
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Johnny Powell seems truly fascinated by some of the relics that Jackie brings back to the penthouse, calling the soul-destroying [[Artifact of Doom|Abysmal Maw]] "dark magic at it's sexiest," referring to the Dark Man statue as "[[Sarcasm Mode|this sexy guy]]," and upon seeing the Sister of Light, he remarks that Jackie always brings him the nicest things. That said, he does get a little bit agitated around some of the more visceral artefacts, and sounds quite disgusted when he reveals that the Reliquary of the Blessed Blood is supposed to contain {{spoiler|Jesus' foreskin}} but in reality, it contains {{spoiler|the foreskin of a guy named Miles from South Hammingtonshire.}}
* [[Off With His Head]]: The Daisy Pop Hitman execution.
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** Shoshanna has [[Hand Cannon|Arm of the Night]].
** Jimmy uses the [[An Ax to Grind|Dark Axe]].
* [[Year Outside, Hour Inside]]: Each asylum segment takes only a few minutes, but varying amounts of time pass in the real world while he's there. He's once there for four days.
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