The Darkness (DC Comics)

## Summary

**The Darkness** is the personification of the Primordial Darkness losting its raison d'être when God said : "Let there be light", shaping Darkness into Light. Following this event of the beginning of the creation of the Universe, the Primordial Darkness fled into the Shadowlands, a dimension untouched by the Light of Creation.

But wanting to find his raison d'être, the Darkness entered into Creation where the forces of hell, angels, Etrigan, Doctor Fate, the Spectre were powerless against the Darkness until one aspect of the Presence in Light intervened, and then gave the Darkness its raison d'être when they reached each other to form the yin-yang symbol, meaning that both Darkness and Light are complementary each other.

The conclusion of this event didn't just help the Darkness find out why it exists, but changed the old relationship of the forces that govern Creation embodied by Order and Chaos, seeing each other more as opposite than complementary.

## Stats

**Tier:** **1-B**

**Name:** The Darkness, Absence of God's Light, Evil, God's Shadowpartner, The Original Darkness, The Primordial Shadow, The Ultimate Dark, The Dark, The Shadow Creature, Lucifer

**Origin:** DC Comics

**Gender:** Unknown

**Age:** Predates the concept of time ("The Darkness existed "before Light")

**Classification:** Unknown

**Dimensionality:** **Trans-dimensional**

**Power Range:** **Trans-verse** (The angels were powerless against the Darkness. The encounter between the Darkness and one aspect of the Presence in Light was going to destroy "everything", thus including dimensions such as Heaven involved in the story)

**Travel Speed:** **Irrelevant** (The Darkness is unbound by the concepts of space and time, as it is the the Primordial Darkness preceding the Light Of Creation)

**Combat Speed:** **Irrelevant**

**Reaction Speed:** **Irrelevant**

**Lifting Strength:** **Unknown**

**Punching Power:** **Unknown**

**Durability:** **Trans-verse** (The Light of Creation is the reason why the Darkness took refuge in the Shadowlands after God said : "Let there be light", since the Darkness was not yet aware that it was complimentary to the Light before the conclusion in Swamp Thing #50. Resisted the combined force of the angels)

**Powers and Abilities:** Superhuman Characteristics, Acausality, Conceptual Manipulation, Primordial Darkness Embodiment, Death Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Existence Erasure, Immortality, Size Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Nonexistent Embodiment, Soul Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation

**Standard Equipment:** None

 **Intelligence:** Nigh-Omniscient

**Weaknesses:** Primordial Light

**Note:**

* **Note 1**:

There is the misconception that the Darkness is equal to God. Firstly, it was stated that the arrival of the Darkness in the Creation was part of God plan since the beginning of time.

Therefore, it was part of the Presence that the Darkness finds its raison d'être it following the creation of the Universe that shaped the Primordial Darkness into Light. Therefore, it means that the Darkness relationship is more in regards to Creation itself, being the cause of the loss of the nature of Darkness, than the Presence.

Finally, in Swamp Thing #75, it was stated that that beyond mortal, demigods, gods, the war between Light and Darkness (referring to Swamp Thing #50), matter, all obstacles, there is God, one with the Void.

*To a point where time is no time... and space is no space... where one may silently observe... as God breathes in... and God breathes out. Exhaling his quintessence of perfection.*

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Therefore, the Presence transcends the duality between the Primordial Darkness and the Primordial Light. So, it is a misconception to believe that the Darkness is equal to the Presence with the reasons given above.

* **Note 2**:

The current Lucifer writter Dan Watters asserted that the Darkness is an aspect of Lucifer.

Initially, this assertions does not make sense, but considering the fact that the Sphere of the Gods is a realm of figures of motifs, as I explained in-depth in the blog concerning DC cosmology, the Darkness being an aspect of Lucifer does fit with all the other evidence that figures are aspects of each other, because they share a specific characteristic in common. And there are evidence supporting that the Darkness is an aspect of Lucifer, since there are statements of Lucifer being God's shadow and the shadow of God's light, i.e the Creation.

Therefore, it means that there are interpretations of Lucifer being the Darkness, like there are interpretations of Lucifer being the Devil or Satan. And likewise for Michael being Kali in another belief system.

* **Note 3**:

Although the Darkness and Pralaya share common motifs, Prayla is the aspect of the Primordial Darkness that causes the dissolution of the Universe.