Darkrai (Mystery Dungeon)

is the main antagonist of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. Though he mainly appears in the post-ending plot, he is revealed in the end to have orchestrated the events of the entire game.
Although normally genderless, this Darkrai is referred to as a male; however, during gameplay it is treated as genderless.
==Biography==
Darkrai desires to shroud the world in darkness and Cresselia has long pursued him to order to stop his ambitions, but Darkrai always managed to evade capture. For his first attempt, he somehow accessed Temporal Tower and sabotaged it so would collapse and cause the planet's paralysis. He also somehow discovered mission of Grovyle and the Player to change history and entered the time stream when the two traveled back in time. He attacked the two in an attempt to get rid of them, but the Player took the brunt of the attack and the resulted in them being separated from Grovyle, being turned into a Pokémon, a developing compete amnesia. Grovyle mistook the attack for turblence as was completely unware of Darkrai's interference.
However, the scheme to destroy time was ultimately thwarted by the efforts of the Player, Partner, and Grovyle, so Darkrai set his sights on disrupting the fabric of space which would eventually lead to the world being trapped in a unending nightmare.
Some time after the Player completes Aegis Cave, Darkrai begins disrupting the fabric of space inside a forest, but he is forced to move on when Cresselia closes in on him.
He then begins making his move against the Player and Partner so they won't interfere with plans again. He uses his power over dreams to make it seem like he is Cresselia and claims the Player and Partner are creating in a distortion in space and must be cease existing. He also traps Azurill inside one of his unending nightmares. When the Player and Partner enter the nightmare with the help of Drowzee in order to find out why Azurill won't wake up, Darkrai, in the guise of Cresselia, appears and once again states the two must disappear. However, before he can act, Drowzee interrupts and Darkrai, still appearing to be Cresselia, leaves after promise to see that the Player and Partner disappear.
Darkrai then enters the dreams of Palkia, the ruler of space, and deceives him into believing the Player and Partner are the ones distorting space outside of his control so he destroy them. While Palkia does take the Player and Partner to the Spacial Rift to dispose of them, he is defeated by them and trapped inside a nightmare. Darkrai then takes the two inside the nightmare so he, under the guise of Cresselia, can once again try to get rid of them. When the Player and Partner decide to sacrifice themselves in order to save the world, Palkia grows suspicious as he was told the two were malicious and villainous and the two's actions contradict this. The Player also realizes something is strange about the situation and the true Cresselia appears and reveal's Darkrai's deception. Darkrai then challenges the Player and Partner to face him at Dark Crater.
When the Player, Partner, and Cresselia reach the bottom of Dark Crater, Darkrai appears and reveals his involvement in Temporal Tower and the Player's transformation into a Pokémon and their amnesia. He then offers to let the two join him in his mission towards shrouding the world in darkness and the Partner seemingly takes his offer. However, the Player realizes that they are really in a nightmare concocted by Darkrai, and they break free of it and injured Darkrai in the process. Darkrai then summons a group of minions to aid him and they battle the Player's team. In the end, Darkrai and his minions are defeated, but Darkrai opens a dimensional hole so he can escape. However, Palkia appears seeking justice against Darkrai and destroys the dimensional hole immediately after Darkrai enters, creating an event similar to what happened to the Player and Cresselia suspects it will yield a similar result, banishment to some unknown place with complete amnesia. Cresselia also states that with no memories of his evil plans, Darkrai's threat to the world has been ended for good.
==Personality==
Unlike most versions of Darkrai, this one isn't misunderstood or reclusive, instead he is pure evil and wants to shroud the world in darkness. He is described by Cresselia as cowardly, always working from the shadows, always feeling when facing confrontation, and setting a trap the one time he decides to fight his enemies. Fitting his cowardly nature, Darkrai relies on manipulation and deceit to deal with obstacles in his path and main uses his power over dreams and nightmares to do so. When Darkrai's escape is thwarted by Palkia, he experiences the same incident the Player did, which results in total amnesia. Without his memories, Darkrai's evil and twisted mind is supposedly turned into a blank slate with no trace of evil ambitions left.
Darkrai's power stems from darkness and this power grows when the world is unbalance, such as the fabric of space being distorted. Darkrai uses this power to trap others in unending nightmares and can even distort space and create dimensional holes.
== Trivia== 
*Despite being dark type he can go through walls he is the only one which isn't a ghost type capable of doing this.
*A Darkrai appears as a boss in on Distress mountain in Super Mystery Dungeon, but its relationship to this Darkrai is unknown. In addition, New art depicting Darkrai was made for the game.
Category:Mystery Dungeon characters
Category:Dark-type Pokémon
Category:Mythical Pokémon