Eric Burdon (Dark Eric)

**Eric Victor Burdon also known as Dark Eric Burdon or only Dark Eric** is one of the main characters of The Animals Series franchise, being the both leader and lead singer of The Dark Animals and is the main antagonist of the franchise (including both series, The Animals Series and The New Adventures of The Animals). Dark Eric is considered the dark blue-themed villain and is the most ruthless villain from The Dark Animals.

He is the both the mean leader and lead singer of The Dark Animals and evil version of original Eric Burdon, the main protagonist of the franchise series. Dark Eric is the dark blue-themed villain and is the most ruthless villain from The Dark Animals. After episode 93/94, he returned to being both Dark Erica's boss and ally as well as friend.

## Eric Burdon (Dark Eric)

* S10-Current
* Blue Pants
* Current Outfit V2
* Snake Eric
* S3-S7 Outfit
* S8-S9 Outfit
* Starting Evil Childhood
* Cheating Runner Outfit
* S1-S2 Outfit
* Teen
* Kid
* Alternative Hairstyle
* Wolf
* Demon
* Elf
* Christmas in Danger
* Winter Christmas Outfit
* Eric Burdon Former Outfit
* World Cup
* Prison Outfit
* Breaking Friends
* Eric's Alternative Old Outfit Style

### Aliases

Dark Eric, Boss (by his friends), Eric (by his friends), Burdon, Wolf Dark Eric, the leader, the bossy leader (by Dark Dave, sometimes) , Flora Newcastle (female disguise)

### Relatives

Matthew Burdon (father, deceased), Rene Burdon (mother, deceased), Irene Burdon (younger sister, deceased), Eric Burdon (good counterpart), Cleopatra (pet)

### Affiliation

The Dark Animals (friends and minions), Cleopatra(his female pet snake) and Dark Erica (his female version)

### Occupation

Criminal
 leader and lead singer of The Dark Animals
 Dark Erica's boss and ally
 Supervillain

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England

## Appearances

### Debut

The Dark Animals, the evil counterpart of The Animals (The Animals Series, non-canon series)
 The Dark Animals are on the streets again (The New Adventures of The Animals, official and canon series)

## Appearance

Dark Eric is identical to the original good Eric Burdon, having the same appearance as his good self, with the same black hair, Caucasian (white) skin, nose, green eyes, however his outfit is different. He wears a black/dark-blue jacket/shirt, with an entirely dark blue sleeve, wears a yellow cord under his neck, his bracelets are black and dark blue, his pants are black, and his sneakers are black and dark blue.

In his new outfit, Dark Eric wears a black jacket, his blouse is a plaid blouse (like Dark Chas), but in black and dark blue colors, he wears predominantly black pants and sometimes wears dark blue pants (seen in tenth season, where he wears both colors, black and dark blue) with black and dark blue shoes or sneakers.

## Personality

In episode 52, we get to see his child and teen version of himself with the rest of the Dark Animals.

Being a villainous version of the original Eric Burdon, Dark Eric is extremely psychopathic, cruel, sadistic and without any remorse for his meanness or petty attitudes. Since he was a little boy, he has always been mean and created problems for other children at the daycare center along with the Dark Animals who also caused trouble.

His cruel personality over time was increasing more and more, until in adolescence, Dark Eric became more evil starting to kill, since at the time, in his childhood, his crimes committed were incrimination and robbery.

Dark Eric is the typical mob boss and gang leader. He is in fact the most feared member of the Dark Animals, being the most sinister, cruel, psychopathic, sadistic, ambitious, vengeful, villainous, arrogant, sarcastic and very evil, whose favorite pastime is tormenting The Animals, especially Eric Burdon who is his good-guy self, as well as plotting crimes not only against Burdon but anyone who gets in his way. He is an unscrupulous criminal, who with his gun threatens his victims just for his sadistic pleasure, in addition to that his objective is revealed that he wants to harm the people around him like The Animals for example, who wants to dedicate himself to being a criminal , a psychopathic terrorist who feels no remorse over his actions or the evils he commits. He enlists the help of The Dark Animals to do his dirty work. Dark Eric also sees himself as a treacherous and cunning being, as he manages to manipulate individuals like Mike Jeffery in exchange for making him rich, this implies that Dark Eric also has an interest in money and intends to use it or not for dirty deals. In his wolf form, he gains a predatory personality, wanting to chase The Animals, devouring them and trying to steal Hilton's wand to turn him and the Dark Animals back into humans. Dark Eric is the pure representation of Burdon's evil negative feelings, and he is pure evil, since he doesn't seem to be interested in good or becoming friendly, on the contrary Dark Eric feels disgust and repugnance of feelings like kindness and kindness, throughout the series, with each evil deed that Dark Eric and the Dark Animals commit, the more cruel they become, proving that they are irredeemable villains.

He also dislikes disobedience and fighting among the Dark Animals, as it was the first time in season two of The Animals Series that he and Dark Alan first got into an argument, insulting each other, but later both apologizing. Dark Eric only has respect and cares only for the Dark Animals and his female pet snake, and a respect and good relationships to his henchmen are also his friends, but outside the relationship with them, he is cruel, insensitive, inhumane, mean with other relationships with other people like Mike Jeffery or The Animals.

He doesn't care if someone like Mike Jeffery or The Animals dies or is injured by him or one of his henchmen, showing his vile, heartless, despicable and evil nature.

Dark Eric (still in wolf form, in season two of The New Adventures of The Animals) initially treated Dark Erica and the Dark Angels coldly and with contempt, but later in episode 26, apologizes to his female version and the Dark Angels and then invites her subordinate and her friends to ally with the Dark Animals. Dark Eric and the Dark Animals changed his opinion of The Dark Angels due to the fact that they were attracted to and in love with them initially.

Dark Eric is in turn the most sinister, sadistic, ruthless and cold-hearted member of the Dark Animals as well as shown to be the most ambitious of the group.  He is frivolous and unscrupulous and uses any means to achieve his goals even if it is by force or on the basis of trickery.  His image as head and leader of the Dark Animals increases a lot and his criminal career has also increased and gaining fame and discontent from London criminals, they believe that the worst member of The Dark Animals is in fact Dark Eric, because he is the one who plans, orders and organizes to carry out atrocities to achieve its objectives.  He is very persistent and insistent on his plans, he has a highly dangerous obsession with destroying The Animals, especially his good version.

Dark Eric, also in his wolf form, also became power-hungry and his cruel personality increased even more, as he and his friends overpowered an army of wolves, and even managed to turn all of The Animals (except Burdon) into his temporary minions. until they themselves manage to get rid of the Dark Animals' orders and take Hilton's magic wand back.  He is probably the most power-hungry member with the most ambitions, the second member who also has ambitions is Dark Chas.  He is also authoritative, and does not like his orders or leadership to be questioned.  He is indeed the cruelest member of the Dark Animals and is often cruel and aggressive of his own free will.  His favorite symbol is ice, which reflects his cold and cruel personality.  He has a female dark blue snake named Cleopatra.

When he and The Dark Animals become healers, his evil personality still remains the same, only he is now more confident in his plans now that he can use dark magic to kill his victims.  He is in fact the most controlling and competent member of the group.  In addition to having traits of an extremely power-hungry, evil and ambitious villain.  He's also quite smart.

However, he and the Dark Animals only become healers during The Dark Animals Mini series and the fourth season of The New Adventures of The Animals Series.  It is seen that in the last episode, the episode 4 of mini series, he despairs when he sees that his friends no longer have black magic to practice their evil spells.

His best friends are Dark Hilton and Dark Chas, due to the fact that the duo hang out more and spend more time with him than the other Dark Animals like Dark John, Dark Alan or Dark Dave and is the main trio of the Dark Animals.  He seems to enjoy and enjoy Dark Hilton's dangerous antics and Dark Chas' intimidation of his victims as he did with Burdon and Mike Jeffery.  He can also be sarcastic as Dark Alan and sly and a little funny as Dark John.  Besides, as already mentioned, Dark Eric is serious and competent in his ambitious goals.  He is also very competitive with The Animals or with other prisoners, in addition to being an excellent manipulator and excellent at pretending and making dramas to manipulate or get something he covets, whether power, money, crime or even popularity from him and his friends.

If his leadership or authority is questioned, he doesn't think twice about arguing with those who criticize his way of leading his group like Dark Alan at times.  He has a sadistic and twisted way of seeing good and evil.

And when he reacts to Dark Alan's taunts, Dark Eric loves to see when Dark Alan's plans go wrong and his succeed, which he reacts with a slight taunt to Dark Alan as well, the sooner the two are on an evilly friendly term and on rare occasions both fight.

He becomes frustrated and angry when he discovers that he and his friends are no longer healers and no longer have access to magic, shown in the fourth and final episode of The Dark Animals Miniseries and laments that they are no longer healers, yet his desire to antagonize Burdon and The Animals is very strong and he does not give up trying to make the lives of The Animals hell, showing that he is very insistent on getting what he wants and when the ambition in his plans he does not hesitate to do it all over again .  Dark Eric is proud and does not accept losing or giving up on his plans even if he and the Dark Animals are defeated.  He has a strong personality, but an immature and mocking one.

In episode 41, Dark Eric says that he liked the idea of becoming a married woman's lover and that he intends to seduce and flirt with women to destroy relationships and suggests that his friends do the same, as they did with Gloria Pinshead. Dark Eric proposed the plan to become Gloria Pinshead's lover in order to steal and get money to make his money savings grow again.

He is very sadistic and mocking , as seen along with the Dark Animals mocking Jimmy Pinshead, an African-British businessman calling him a ''cuckold'' for the fact that Gloria, his wife, had cheated on him with Dark Eric and The Dark Animals.

After revealing to Pinshead that he used Gloria as a way to get rich, he called his former lover stupid, saying that she was naive to have believed in trusting criminal people like him and the Dark Animals.

Dark Eric is described as one of the most cruel, vengeful, arrogant, cold dangerous, calculating, homicidal, murderous and sadistic villains in the series.

It is revealed that he and the Dark Animals have hypnosis ability, shown in episodes 67 and 68 of the fifth season, showing that he and the Dark Animals can manipulate and control the Animals through hypnosis.

In the past, Dark Eric no longer seems to provoke or mock his own partner and friend, Dark Alan, as he also stopped provoking Dark Eric and Dark Chas, as the relationship between the three improved a lot and remained a trio of evil partners, whose objective is to antagonize (kill or persecute) The Animals. Although, Dark Eric is provocative, sarcastic and mean towards Eric Burdon, his kind version and also mean and hostile towards the Dark Animals. At the end of episode 93, Dark Eric finally admitted that he likes Dark Erica, his female version, he truly fell in love with her, which could indicate that Dark Erica will once again be his ally, friend and now his possible romantic interest.

However, despite showing that he is in love with Dark Erica, his female version, at the very end of episode 93 to episode 94, his passion for her is fleeting and therefore, in fact, he never loved her, although he intends to see Erica as his ally, henchman and friend. In the following episode, 95, he is seen laughing, after Dark Alan and Dark Chas mock the romantic feelings of The Animals, which implies his sadistic and merciless personality is seen, as mocking the romantic feelings of The Animals, although he admitted his passion for Dark Erica in episode 93, however his passion is temporary and he and his friends return to mocking anyone's romantic feelings (except the Dark Angels, who are the only ones who deserve their respect.

He is also shown to be a manipulative trickster, when he suggests to his friends in episode 95, where he and the Dark Animals appear dressed as the "Girly Girls", as part of the plan to separate both: The Animals' friendship and the end of the band. He assumes the identity of Flora Newcastle, leader and vocalist of the Girly Girls to trick Eric Burdon and force his good self to fight with his friends, in relation to the girls, to see which member of the ''Girly Girls'' ' It is the most beautiful.

Dark Eric is also willing to cheat in games, to achieve his victories shamelessly, just like the rest of his partners. He and his friends seem to take pleasure in cheating and deceiving opponents and also other people who are victims of their evil.

Furthermore, it is seen that he has great patience to devise his plans, especially in the seventh season, as he always maintains his coolness and calm, for his plans to break up The Animals (both breaking up the band and making the band break up). your friendship). However, he can be irritated and extremely angry when things don't go the way he wants, as Dark Eric is evil by nature, probably since birth, as we see in episode 52, where he and his friends were already evil, despite of still being children at the time. He cannot stand anyone getting in his or the Dark Animals' way, as he is willing to kill anyone who gets in the way of his evil plans.

He also likes power, ambition and thirst for revenge, which is a very common trait of extremely evil villains like him and the Dark Animals.

He also delights in torturing and deceiving The Animals in general, especially Eric, his benevolent version, to prove how much of a cheater he is. Several times, he has tried to kill The Animals, and he tries to kill The Animals for his dark purposes: either not only out of rivalry, but also to take their place and force The Animals' fans to listen to his dark songs or for something more serious and dangerous, such as dominating England or the world.

Dark Eric is sadistic, ambitious, he likes ambition and power, in addition to murdering anyone who gets in front of him (the majority of his victims being, he murders for pleasure and fun) and his evil has no limits, he will not rest until achieve your goals, whether by deceiving, manipulating, cheating or killing your victims to get what you want.

Dark Eric and his friends were born evil and therefore, he and his friends try to kill The Animals just for the fun and pleasure of being evil, and he also likes to make them hell, even if he doesn't achieve his goals like usurping their place and forcing their fans to listen to their songs or conquer the world, Dark Eric and the Dark Animals have the option of making the lives of their good counterparts hell as their occasionally and frequent objective, often for no reason, as well as one of their main objectives if their evil plans fail.

Eric cites his story that he was ''ignored'' by his parents because they preferred his younger sister, it was a false story to ''move'' John Steel to see if he is naive to believe his ''false moving story'', the same thing with his friends who say they were ''neglected'' by their parents was also a lie just to deceive and make John look like a fool and naive like Hilton, showing the purely evil nature of Dark Eric and his friends and that they are truly evil, as they are evil versions of The Animals.

Eric's relationship with the Dark Animals is a ''sibling'' relationship. Since they are always together and one of them is rarely seen alone hatching the group's evil plans or each member's evil plans.

Dark Eric also loves his pet, Cleopatra and when he discovered that she can talk, shown in episode 99, he fell even more in love with his pet and that with his pet that is half magical, she can also help in his evil plans.

Interestingly, his pet Cleopatra is the leader of The Dark Snakes, just as Dark Eric is the leader of The Dark Animals.

In the ninth season, he and his henchmen become more aggressive and more power-hungry, after acquiring snake abilities, after each member of the Dark Animals was bitten by one of his snakes (The Dark Snakes).

Dark Eric is extremely and highly arrogant, in the tenth season, in episode 138, he laughs and mocks Valentine, believing that he would never hit him, as a result, Dark Eric is slapped by Valentine, as a result, Dark Eric gets angry and wants to take revenge on Valentine for the slap he received from the guitarist, transforming into a half-serpent to try to kill him and swore to kill Valentine if he looked for him or any of the Dark Animals. As each episode passes, his arrogant, vile and vengeful nature is shown to show why he is the evil embodiment/counterpart of his good counterpart.

Showing his arrogant, ambitious and obsessed with power or evil personality, Dark Eric, when his plans to conquer the world fail, his objective becomes to avenge and torment Eric Burdon and his friends to show his villainy and cruelty, to put the fear in other villains.

## Trivia

* Of all the members of The Dark Animals, Dark Eric is the most villainous and he represents the typical gang leader.
* Despite being the main antagonist of the series, Dark Eric is the secondary antagonist of the eighth season episode ''Dave's Killing'', where the episode focuses on his lackey Dave and how Dave became a killer like Eric and the others. Dark Animals.
* His favorite symbol is ice.
* He is the shortest member of the Dark Animals.
* He is the member of The Dark Animals who tried to kill The Animals the most, especially Burdon, which proves that he is the most homicidal member of The Dark Animals.
* He is the second strongest member and is the second most aggressive member of the group after Dark Chas.
* He and Eric Burdon, his good counterpart both was born in Newcastle upon Tyne like Chas and Dark Chas.
* His female snake is Cleopatra who is the leader of The Dark Snakes.
* He is also the most fashionable and vain member of The Dark Animals.
* Is revealed in The New Adventures of The Animals: Breaking Friends special, who he is also a fashion designer who creates evil outfits for him and his friends. His original casual outfit and his Friends casual outfits himself create.
* Dark Eric is the overall true main antagonist (or primary antagonist, as well as lead antagonist) of The Animals Series franchise, this includes spin-offs such as The New Adventures of The Animals. This is due to him being the leader of the Dark Animals and being the cruelest member of the Dark Animals, and being the main villain.
* He and Eric Burdon were born on the same day May 11th, however they are from different years, Burdon is from 1941 and Dark Eric is from 1942, which means that Dark Eric is one year younger than Burdon, Eric is 23 and Dark Eric is 22 years.
* Dark Eric and Eric have the same favorite color: blue, but in Dark Eric's case, his color is more towards a darker blue.
* His favorite ice cream is blackberry (representing dark blue).
* Eric is good and Dark Eric is evil.
* Eric loves kindness and gentleness, Dark Eric loves evil and revenge.
* Eric and Dark Eric are leaders of their groups, in addition to being the main vocalists/lead singers.
* Eric and Dark Eric are the shortest members of their groups.
* Both Burdons are the same real-life Eric Burdon, the difference is that one of them, in this case Dark Eric has an evil personality, that is, only Dark Eric is evil, while Eric is good as his real-life version.
* Like his good counterpart, his full name is Eric Victor Burdon.
* He is the most evil member of The Dark Animals, due to his cruel personality, being the coldest, cruelest, most aggressive member and being the leader of the Dark Animals.

## Gallery

Dark Eric in his enemy and good counterpart current outfit (Eric Burdon's outfit)Dark Eric and his female pet snake, Cleopatra aka CleoDark Eric in his prison outfit.Dark Eric in his look of The Special: Breaking FriendsThis is Dark Eric in his second version of his jail outfit without sleeves and dark blue locks on his hair.