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* AuthorAvatar: Mike has the same looks and name as the lead designer/producer.[[note]]This is an EnforcedTrope, as Mike used his name as a temporary placeholder, but the president of Cyberdreams Patrick Ketchum found the name so fitting that he made it a PermanentPlaceholder. Not only that, but with Mike playing himself, this also means they could also save money from hiring an actor.[[/note]]
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* DirtyCop: He was fired from the Dallas Police for taking bribes.
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* {{Jerkass}}: He's rude and condescending to Mike, up to out right telling Mike he hopes "they fry his ass". [[spoiler:This is especially galling considering Larson likely knew Mike was innocent due to his own involvement in the Dark World cult.]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: He's rude and condescending to Mike, up to out right outright telling Mike he hopes "they fry his ass". [[spoiler:This is especially galling considering Larson likely knew Mike was innocent due to his own involvement in the Dark World cult.]]
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* CreepyMonotone: Paul always talks He has a very monotonous voice when he's talked to outside his house.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Why ''does'' he have [[spoiler:dozens of chests of drawers]] piled up ina monotone.his house, anyway?
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Why ''does'' he have [[spoiler:dozens of chests of drawers]] piled up in
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* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: By the end of ''Dark Seed II'', Mike discovers [[spoiler: almost everyone in town had been getting some from [[ReallyGetsAround Rita]]... except for [[ButtMonkey Mike himself.]]]]
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* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: By the end of ''Dark Seed II'', Mike discovers [[spoiler: almost [[spoiler:almost everyone in town had been getting some from [[ReallyGetsAround Rita]]... except for [[ButtMonkey Mike himself.]]]]
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* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler:Jimmy Gardner, who conspired with Ms. Ramirez to kill her husband and was planning to do the same to Mayor Fleming]].
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* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler:Jimmy Gardner, who [[spoiler:He's the hired killer Slim goes on about; he conspired with Ms. Mrs. Ramirez to kill her husband husband, and was planning working with Melissa to do the same to Mayor Fleming]].
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* AbusiveParents: Abusive might be a stretch, but she's certainly quite nasty to her son. Granted, this is ''Mike Dawson'' we're talking about.
* LiesToChildren: [[spoiler:She lied to young Mike about locking his closet to keep monsters out]].
* LiesToChildren: [[spoiler:She lied to young Mike about locking his closet to keep monsters out]].
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Her accent sounds vaguely European, but narrowing it down further is virtually impossible.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: He babbles nonsense about stock conspiracy theories, but Mike realizes he knows about the Ancients and the DarkWorld. [[spoiler:Except Mike is the one who brought up the Ancients first, and Slim is possibly just a lunatic]]. Some of his theories, like those of the satanic cult and a hired killer in the town, [[CassandraTruth later turn out to be true]].
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: He babbles nonsense about stock conspiracy theories, but Mike realizes he knows about the Ancients and the DarkWorld. [[spoiler:Except Mike is the one who brought up the Ancients first, and Slim is possibly just a lunatic]].
** CassandraTruth: Some of his theories,like those of [[spoiler:specifically the satanic cult and a hired killer in the town, [[CassandraTruth and satanic cult]], later turn out to be true]].true.
** CassandraTruth: Some of his theories,
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* NiceGuy: Probably the only human character who is consistently respectful to Mike without humoring his delusions.
* TheShrink: A psychologist specializing in hypnotherapy, and a good one at that. He genuinely wants to help Mike, and grows increasingly concerned as Mike seems to grow more and more detached from reality.
* NiceGuy: Probably the only human character who is consistently respectful to Mike without humoring his delusions.
* TheShrink: A psychologist specializing in hypnotherapy, and a good one at that. He genuinely wants to help Mike, and grows increasingly concerned as Mike seems to grow more and more detached from reality.
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* TheShrink: A psychologist specializing in hypnotherapy, and a good one at that. He genuinely wants to help Mike, and grows increasingly concerned as Mike
* DirtyOldMan: We first meet Larson when Mike interrupts him making out with one his patients. [[spoiler:And he was having an affair with Rita.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He's rude and
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* NiceGuy: Probably the only human character who is consistently respectful to Mike without humoring his delusions.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: He babbles nonsense about stock conspiracy theories, but Mike realizes he knows about the Ancients and the DarkWorld. [[spoiler:Except Mike is the one who brought up the Ancients first, and Slim is possibly just a lunatic]]. Some of his theories, like those of the satanic cult and a hired killer in the town, [[CassandraTruth later turn out to be true]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: She pretends to be a good Christian woman, but [[spoiler:she paid Jimmy Gardner to off her husband just so she could get his money.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: She decries the moral degeneracy in Crowley, all while being one of the worst people in the town.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Her murdering her husband seems like it has something to do with Rita's murder. It doesn't.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: She pretends to be a good Christian woman, but [[spoiler:she paid Jimmy Gardner to off her husband just so she could get his money.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: She decries the moral degeneracy in Crowley, all while being one of the worst people in the town.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Her murdering her husband seems like it has something to do with Rita's murder. It doesn't.]]
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* TheGoodDoctor: He genuinely wants to help Mike, and grows increasingly concerned as Mike seems to grow more and more detached from reality.
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* CorruptHick: The sheriff in ''Dark Seed II''.
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%%* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Paul]] in ''Dark Seed II''.
* AlmostDeadGuy: [[spoiler:In ''Dark Seed II'', Paul gives tons of exposition as he dies.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Paul sure seems like a nice fella, doesn't he? Sure, he likes watering his lawn a lot, but who doesn't enjoy gardening? Too bad he's part of a demon-worshipping cult.]]
* AlmostDeadGuy: [[spoiler:In ''Dark Seed II'', Paul gives tons of exposition as he dies.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Paul sure seems like a nice fella, doesn't he? Sure, he likes watering his lawn a lot, but who doesn't enjoy gardening? Too bad he's part of a demon-worshipping cult.]]
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* BeneathSuspicion: He mentions that people let things slip around him, since they think he's an insane fool.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: He babbles nonsense about stock conspiracy theories, but Mike realizes he knows about the Ancients and the DarkWorld. [[spoiler:Except Mike is the one who brought up the Ancients first, and Slim is possibly just a lunatic]].
* HearingVoices: He says as much in his first conversation with Mike.
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* BeneathSuspicion: He mentions that people let things slip around him, since they think he's an insane fool.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: He babbles nonsense about stock conspiracy theories, but Mike realizes he knows about the Ancients and the DarkWorld. [[spoiler:Except Mike is the one who brought up the Ancients first, and Slim is possibly just a lunatic]].
* HearingVoices: He says as much in his first conversation with Mike.
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* TookALevelInDumbass: Mike in the first game was smart enough to figure out how to defeat the Ancients on his own. In ''II'', he has to cheat at carnival games meant for children.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In the first game, Mike's voiced narration gave the impression of a guy who was pleasent and happy-go-lucky about his situation. In ''II'', he's a whiny, selfish, incompetent jerk even to the people who are trying to help him. It is somewhat justified from his being traumatized by the events of the first game.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In the first game, Mike's voiced narration gave the impression of a guy who was pleasent and happy-go-lucky about his situation. In ''II'', he's a whiny, selfish, incompetent jerk even to the people who are trying to help him. It is somewhat justified from his being traumatized by the events of the first game.
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It's never made clear what exactly he really is, whether he's Mike's Dark World counterpart, one of the Ancients, or a figment of a Mike's imagination.]]
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:He presents himself as Mike's only friend who's trying to help him solve Rita's murder. He's anything but, having been the one to actually murder Rita and frame Mike. Maybe.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Mike by knifing him from the back.]]
* InvisibleToNormals: No one besides Mike seems to notice him. Slim attributes him punching out Jimmy Gardner to Mike and at the end [[spoiler:neither the Sheriff or Deputy notice him standing right in front of them next to Mike and Dr. Sims dead bodies.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: A jazzy theme plays whenever Jack shows up in ''Dark Seed II''.
* WaxingLyrical: As if the ending wasn't already balmy enough, at the end of ''Dark Seed II'' [[spoiler:Jack/the Shapeshifter]] suddenly paraphrases Music/TheBeatles when he explains his true nature: [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin "I am you, and you are me, and we are all together!"]]]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:There's no way to discuss him without learning he's the murderer and behind the events of whole game.]]
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:He presents himself as Mike's only friend who's trying to help him solve Rita's murder. He's anything but, having been the one to actually murder Rita and frame Mike. Maybe.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Mike by knifing him from the back.]]
* InvisibleToNormals: No one besides Mike seems to notice him. Slim attributes him punching out Jimmy Gardner to Mike and at the end [[spoiler:neither the Sheriff or Deputy notice him standing right in front of them next to Mike and Dr. Sims dead bodies.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: A jazzy theme plays whenever Jack shows up in ''Dark Seed II''.
* WaxingLyrical: As if the ending wasn't already balmy enough, at the end of ''Dark Seed II'' [[spoiler:Jack/the Shapeshifter]] suddenly paraphrases Music/TheBeatles when he explains his true nature: [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin "I am you, and you are me, and we are all together!"]]]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:There's no way to discuss him without learning he's the murderer and behind the events of whole game.]]
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* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Mike by knifing him from the back.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: A jazzy theme plays whenever Jack shows up in ''Dark Seed II''.
* WaxingLyrical: As if the ending wasn't already balmy enough, at the end of ''Dark Seed II'' [[spoiler:Jack/the Shapeshifter]] suddenly paraphrases Music/TheBeatles when he explains his true nature: [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin "I am you, and you are me, and we are all together!"]]]]
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* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Mike by knifing him from the back.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: A jazzy theme plays whenever Jack shows up in ''Dark Seed II''.
* WaxingLyrical: As if the ending wasn't already balmy enough, at the end of ''Dark Seed II'' [[spoiler:Jack/the Shapeshifter]] suddenly paraphrases Music/TheBeatles when he explains his true nature: [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin "I am you, and you are me, and we are all together!"]]]]
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* PoliceAreUseless: He's so utterly incompetent that he not only fails to notice a demon-worshipping cult right under his nose, [[spoiler:but also fails to prevent the murders of most of the cast.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:Depending on how you interpret the ending, Butler was right to suspect that Mike was Rita's murderer.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:Depending on how you interpret the ending, Butler was right to suspect that Mike was Rita's murderer.]]
* DirtyOldMan: He's not only married to a woman young enough to be his daughter (given Mike's statement about Fleming being his father's former business partner and the fact Melissa Fleming was in Mike's class in high school), [[spoiler:he was also having a very kinky affair with Rita.]]
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* EldritchAbomination: Not so much in the Dark World, but if Mike fails to stop it, then in our world it grows into a gigantic, unstoppable abomination that consumes the life force of the entire planet to sustain the Ancients.
* EldritchAbomination: Not so much in the Dark World, but if Mike fails to stop it, then in our world it grows into a gigantic, unstoppable abomination that consumes the life force of the entire planet to sustain the Ancients.
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[[folder:Mike Dawson]]
* AuthorAvatar: Mike has the same looks and name as the lead designer/producer.
** {{Averted}} in the sequel; the real Mike Dawson had nothing to do with it.
* ChivalrousPervert: In the sequel, Mike probably ''assumes'' he is this.
* ClassicalAntihero: In ''Dark Seed II'', Mike Dawson becomes one; a whiny, cowardly manchild, whom nobody (in-universe) seems to like.
* DullSurprise:
** The CD version of the first game added voice acting, leading to Mike narrating everything in the same nonchalant voice, from washing up in the morning to wandering around a DarkWorld full of monsters.
** Mike also has his moments in ''II'', notably when talking to [[spoiler: Paul, who is dying in his arms.]] He asks him a series of questions in the same vaguely curious tone he normally uses.
* FailureHero: Mike takes a massive dive into this between games. While he's fairly intelligent in the first game and handles the situation without much trouble (he even has enough sense to [[spoiler:get out of jail on his own recognizance]] if you play the game correctly), in the second game he seems incapable of accomplishing several basic things on his own:
** He has to use DarkWorld gadgets to win ''carnival games''. To be fair, the Wheel of Fortune might have been rigged, but there's no indication shooting gallery and the ring toss were.
** His plan to get the sheriff out of his office comes to a dead halt when ''he can't afford a twenty cent pay phone''.
** The big reveal at the end is that [[spoiler:the closet in Mike's bedroom, which holds the last Dark World portal, was never locked - his mother just pretended to lock it when he was a kid]]. Which means [[spoiler:at no point in his life had Mike ''ever'' tried to open that door before]]. Even his mom makes fun of him for that.
** Even after all he does in the game, his [[spoiler:"victory" can barely be called one, despite stopping the invasion. Several characters end up dead or hating him during the course of the plot, and no matter what your interpretation of the ending is, things don't look good for Mike's future.]]
* LoserProtagonist: In ''Dark Seed II'', almost everyone hates Mike Dawson, and a large portion of his quest is ''figuring out how to cheat at carnival games.'' He never even had enough sense to [[spoiler:attempt to open a closet that he believed to be locked in his room before he gets a flashback vision revealing that his mother had been lying to him about it the entire time.]]
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: Mike keeps what happened to him at the mansion a secret in the second game because of how bizarre it would be to explain it all. Of course he's pretty forward about the truth to his therapist Dr. Sims, who naturally doesn't believe him.
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!!Crowley, Texas
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* DullSurprise: Rita's "scream of terror" as she falls to her death comes more across as someone going “Ahhhhhh” in a very bored tone.
* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: By the end of ''Dark Seed II'', Mike discovers [[spoiler: almost everyone in town had been getting some from [[ReallyGetsAround Rita]]... except for [[ButtMonkey Mike himself.]]]]
* WhoShotJFK: One of Slim's theories for why Rita was killed: to cover up the truth of this event.
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[[folder:Paul Cooper]]
%%* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Paul]] in ''Dark Seed II''.
* AlmostDeadGuy: [[spoiler:In ''Dark Seed II'', Paul gives tons of exposition as he dies.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Paul sure seems like a nice fella, doesn't he? Sure, he likes watering his lawn a lot, but who doesn't enjoy gardening? Too bad he's part of a demon-worshipping cult.]]
* CreepyMonotone: Paul always talks in a monotone.
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[[folder:Jimmy Gardner]]
* ConvenientComa: In ''Dark Seed II'', Jimmy gets put into a coma when Jack punches him.
* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler:Jimmy Gardner, who conspired with Ms. Ramirez to kill her husband and was planning to do the same to Mayor Fleming]].
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[[folder:Jack]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Mike by knifing him from the back.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: A jazzy theme plays whenever Jack shows up in ''Dark Seed II''.
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[[folder:Mrs. Dawson]]
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Her head explodes before she could tell Mike what's going on.]]
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* CorruptHick: The sheriff in ''Dark Seed II''.
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!!Dark World
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* MrExposition: This Darkworlders explains what the Dark World and the Ancients are to Mike in the first game.
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* CutsceneBoss [[spoiler:In ''Dark Seed II'', the Behemoth is killed by Mike in an extremely flashy cutscene.]]
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[[folder:Mike Dawson]]
* AuthorAvatar: Mike has the same looks and name as the lead designer/producer.
** {{Averted}} in the sequel; the real Mike Dawson had nothing to do with it.
* ChivalrousPervert: In the sequel, Mike probably ''assumes'' he is this.
* ClassicalAntihero: In ''Dark Seed II'', Mike Dawson becomes one; a whiny, cowardly manchild, whom nobody (in-universe) seems to like.
* DullSurprise:
** The CD version of the first game added voice acting, leading to Mike narrating everything in the same nonchalant voice, from washing up in the morning to wandering around a DarkWorld full of monsters.
** Mike also has his moments in ''II'', notably when talking to [[spoiler: Paul, who is dying in his arms.]] He asks him a series of questions in the same vaguely curious tone he normally uses.
* FailureHero: Mike takes a massive dive into this between games. While he's fairly intelligent in the first game and handles the situation without much trouble (he even has enough sense to [[spoiler:get out of jail on his own recognizance]] if you play the game correctly), in the second game he seems incapable of accomplishing several basic things on his own:
** He has to use DarkWorld gadgets to win ''carnival games''. To be fair, the Wheel of Fortune might have been rigged, but there's no indication shooting gallery and the ring toss were.
** His plan to get the sheriff out of his office comes to a dead halt when ''he can't afford a twenty cent pay phone''.
** The big reveal at the end is that [[spoiler:the closet in Mike's bedroom, which holds the last Dark World portal, was never locked - his mother just pretended to lock it when he was a kid]]. Which means [[spoiler:at no point in his life had Mike ''ever'' tried to open that door before]]. Even his mom makes fun of him for that.
** Even after all he does in the game, his [[spoiler:"victory" can barely be called one, despite stopping the invasion. Several characters end up dead or hating him during the course of the plot, and no matter what your interpretation of the ending is, things don't look good for Mike's future.]]
* LoserProtagonist: In ''Dark Seed II'', almost everyone hates Mike Dawson, and a large portion of his quest is ''figuring out how to cheat at carnival games.'' He never even had enough sense to [[spoiler:attempt to open a closet that he believed to be locked in his room before he gets a flashback vision revealing that his mother had been lying to him about it the entire time.]]
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: Mike keeps what happened to him at the mansion a secret in the second game because of how bizarre it would be to explain it all. Of course he's pretty forward about the truth to his therapist Dr. Sims, who naturally doesn't believe him.
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!!Crowley, Texas
[[folder:Rita]]
* DullSurprise: Rita's "scream of terror" as she falls to her death comes more across as someone going “Ahhhhhh” in a very bored tone.
* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: By the end of ''Dark Seed II'', Mike discovers [[spoiler: almost everyone in town had been getting some from [[ReallyGetsAround Rita]]... except for [[ButtMonkey Mike himself.]]]]
* WhoShotJFK: One of Slim's theories for why Rita was killed: to cover up the truth of this event.
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[[folder:Paul Cooper]]
%%* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Paul]] in ''Dark Seed II''.
* AlmostDeadGuy: [[spoiler:In ''Dark Seed II'', Paul gives tons of exposition as he dies.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Paul sure seems like a nice fella, doesn't he? Sure, he likes watering his lawn a lot, but who doesn't enjoy gardening? Too bad he's part of a demon-worshipping cult.]]
* CreepyMonotone: Paul always talks in a monotone.
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[[folder:Jimmy Gardner]]
* ConvenientComa: In ''Dark Seed II'', Jimmy gets put into a coma when Jack punches him.
* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler:Jimmy Gardner, who conspired with Ms. Ramirez to kill her husband and was planning to do the same to Mayor Fleming]].
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[[folder:Jack]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Mike by knifing him from the back.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: A jazzy theme plays whenever Jack shows up in ''Dark Seed II''.
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[[folder:Mrs. Dawson]]
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Her head explodes before she could tell Mike what's going on.]]
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[[folder:Sheriff]]
* CorruptHick: The sheriff in ''Dark Seed II''.
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[[folder:Dr.Sims]]
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[[folder:Mayor Fleming]]
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!!Dark World
[[folder:Keeper of the Scrolls]]
* MrExposition: This Darkworlders explains what the Dark World and the Ancients are to Mike in the first game.
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[[folder:Shapeshifter]]
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[[folder:Behemoth]]
* CutsceneBoss [[spoiler:In ''Dark Seed II'', the Behemoth is killed by Mike in an extremely flashy cutscene.]]
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