The Darkness (Supernatural)

The Darkness, also known as Amara is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Azazel) of the CW series Supernatural. She had a part of corrupting Lucifer.
She serves as one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Cain) of Season 10, the main antagonist of Season 11 and later makes the return as a supporting character in Season 15 where Billie, the current embodiment of Death, reveals that both God and the Darkness must be gone from existance to save the universe from being destroyed by God. This is because if only one loses its life, all comes to an end. Meanwhile, Amara reveals that she and her brother are twins and their separation caused the Big Bang and the creation of all.
As a human incarnate, it was portrayed by Emily Swallow as a grown woman, Gracyn Shinyei as a prepubescent girl, Yasmeene Ball as a pre-teen, and Samantha Isler as a teenager.
== Trivia ==
* Amara is the main antagonist of Season 11.
* Other religions have similar concepts.
** The terrible battle between God and the Darkness bears some similarities with the first day of creation in Genesis (God separated the darkness from the light).
** Erebus and Nyx/Nox in Greco-Roman Mythology, Erebus being the male primordial embodiment of darkness, and Nyx/Nox being the female primordial embodiment of night/darkness.
** The Darkness by far is most similar to Angra Mainyu, the brother of Ahura Mazda from Zoroastrianism. He is considered the opposite of Ahura Mazda and represents elemental darkness and evil.
* Amara's birth in the body of a human baby after she entered the world, and subsequent aging and maturing, closely mirrors the concept of God's birth on Earth as Jesus Christ in Christian mythology; thus, Amara can be thought of as the Darkness's messiah. Unlike Jesus, she sped up her aging rapidly by absorbing souls and she was not (to what we know) immaculately conceived.
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