History Characters / TheDarkness

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* EntitledBastard: Paulie is someone who has no loyalty but expects it in return. He pretty much expects everyone to sit back and take his bullshit. When he attempts to kill Jackie, he gets more pissed off that Jackie is taking revenge. When the two fight, he alternates between trying and threatening to kill Jackie and begging him to let him live.

* SadBattleMusic: While he's begging for his life in his ZeroEffortBossBattle. Not necessarily because ''he's'' tragic, but because his death is the last one [[OmnicidalManiac The]] [[EldritchAbomination Darkness]] needs to take him over. Luckily, the sequel shows Jackie retook control before it could go on a genocidal rampage.

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* NiceGuy: Compared to his colleagues at least and provided you're on his good side. Whenever he talks to Vinnie or Johnny on the radio he is always polite and seems happy to have found a follow scholar of the Darkness in Johnny.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Jackie is greatly respected by the mafia and most of the citizens of New York.

* AnAxeToGrind: His Dark Axe.

* MsFanservice: Even by the standards of the series. Her original arc feels like an excuse for the artist to draw scantily-clad fantasy nuns getting [[FetishFuel restrained]] in various different ways, including on the cover art.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Jackie crucifies her and her comrades as a warning.

* JokerImmunity: Jackie [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] has an aversion to killing women, so the couple times he managed to trounce her and her sisters-in-arms he spared them the gruesome dismemberings typical of the series and just restrained them (albeit in a rather [[UnwillingSuspension painful and humiliating fashion]]). Trying to avoid a severe case of this trope is probably part of the reason she was PutOnABus in ''The Darkness'' despite growing into one of the more recurring Top Cow characters.

*** [[spoiler: It was also a case of BackForTheDead.]]

Descended from Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ, The Magdalena is an assassin born and bred to serve the Vatican in times of duress.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: "Magdalena" is actually a job title, and there are multiple Magdalenas running around at once.

* JokerImmunity: Jackie [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] has an aversion to killing women, so the couple times he managed to trounce her and her sisters-in-arms he just restrains them (albeit in a rather debilitating and humiliating fashion). Probably why she only scarcely appears in the series she originated in despite the Vatican originally being set up as a major antagonist.
* MindRape: Has the supernatural power to make her victims hear the screams of those they killed, in an attempt to do this. Unfortunately the people she tries this on are Jackie and Angelus, both of whom are far to sociopathic to care.
* MsFanservice: Even by the standards of the series. Her original arc ended with her suffering immense ClothingDamage and subjected to some sort of gratuitous [[FetishFuel bondage predicament]] in almost every issue she appeared in.
* NonProtagonistResolver: Magdelena gets possessed by Angelus but proves to be TooSpicyForYogSothoth and drives her away. Angelus never appears again in the main series, so Magdelena wound up resolving that entire plot line.
* SpinOff: Appeared in other Top Cow series until she was popular enough that they announced she was getting her own movie. It was eventually canned and they settled for giving her her own comic series for a couple years.

* TheFundamentalist: She is fanatically devoted to her faith due to being sheltered all her life and constantly spits off HolierThanThou dogma while fighting

* MsFanservice: Even by the standards of the series. Every appearance in ''The Darkness'' ended with her suffering immense ClothingDamage and subjected to some sort of gratuitous [[FetishFuel bondage predicament]].

* TheFundamentalist: The Sister Marielle incarnation is fanatically devoted to her faith due to being sheltered all her life and constantly spits off HolierThanThou dogma while fighting
* HolyHitman: The Vatican's finest

* CuteMonsterGirl: She is the same kind of being as the Darklings, i.e. the shadow beings summoned by Jackie, except she is human looking and more attractive.

Voiced by Mike Starr and Phil Idrissi* AdaptationDyeJob: His beard is red in the comics and black in the games.

* TheAtoner: Part of a bloodline of one. His sword [[CoolSword Kusanagi]] was once used in the slaughter of one thousand innocent souls and a such each new bearer of the sword is cursed to feed it one thousand wicked souls to redeem it. The big catch however, is that for each day Kusanagi goes with out feeding, the bearer loses one year of their life.

* YouKilledMyFather: And the his mother and his two year old little brother while he was ForcedToWatch. As a result he hates the Brotherhood with a passion.

* BadassBeard
* CombatMedic:
* DeadlyDoctor

* [[JerkassGods Jerkass God]]: And that's putting it lightly.

* [[JerkassGods Jerkass Goddess]]: She doesn't care about the humans as much as destroying the Darkness, in the game she is mentionned to have burned a brotherhood member so hard his soul turned to ash because he had to free the Darkness from their makeshift prison as it was causing the Brotherhood to go mad with bloodlust.

* [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight Never Bring A Sword to a Gun Fight]] Some enemies mock him for his. [[CurbStompBattle He swiftly proves them wrong.]]

* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Axe Always Works]]: Well, when said axe can be summoned back to his hand it's a viable tactic.

* AGodAmI: She was worshiped as a sun goddess by the Incans and the Shinto. And she claims God and Jesus are both redundant in her presence.

Voiced by William Salyers

* GravityMaster
* [[JerkassGods Jerkass God]]
* KillHimAlready:

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily

* OmnicidalManiac
* TheSociopath

* BadassBookworm: Intelligent, well-spoken and effortlessly keeps pace with a MasterSwordsman, a [[BadassIsraeli trained Mossad agent]] and a [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers drunken homicidal Scotsman]].

* HateSink: Big time. The Darkness is a vile being with no sympathetic traits and takes pleasure in being cruel and sadistic at every oppotunity.