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* SnarkyNonhumanSidekick: The Darklings are a bunch of goblin-like creatures that serve Jackie and have "smart ass" as default personality.
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* StuffedInTheFridge: Jackie gets stuffed as a realistic consequence of her choices.
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* InTheBlood: Depressingly for Jackie's lineage, he descends from a black and twisted line of men that followed destructive paths. His father was a hitman just like him, albeit one completely devoid of sympathetic qualities that Jackie possess and even disturbed a mobster like Don Franchetti. He's damned by both nature and nurture;
** His nature is a genetic talent for killing -- and ''winning'' through killing -- even ''before'' he received his Darkness powers;
-->'''Frankie Franchetti''': First guy you whacked for me, you was ''sixteen.'' Thing I saw about you early on was, you always knew just who to hit an' how hard to hit 'em. You got ''exactly'' the right result. Short time I had you with me, I went from a little guy to the toppa the heap. Just about boss of bosses, I guess, an' we didn't have to wipe out whole families, or act like savages, or make a damn ''mess...'' All we hadda do was kill all the right people.
** His nurture was insane; specifically ''none'' -- every Darkness host dies upon conceiving the next and the birth usually kills the woman who carried him, meaning Jackie is descended from an unbroken chain of orphans -- which is ''not'' conductive to emotional stability.
** His nature is a genetic talent for killing -- and ''winning'' through killing -- even ''before'' he received his Darkness powers;
-->'''Frankie Franchetti''': First guy you whacked for me, you was ''sixteen.'' Thing I saw about you early on was, you always knew just who to hit an' how hard to hit 'em. You got ''exactly'' the right result. Short time I had you with me, I went from a little guy to the toppa the heap. Just about boss of bosses, I guess, an' we didn't have to wipe out whole families, or act like savages, or make a damn ''mess...'' All we hadda do was kill all the right people.
** His nurture was insane; specifically ''none'' -- every Darkness host dies upon conceiving the next and the birth usually kills the woman who carried him, meaning Jackie is descended from an unbroken chain of orphans -- which is ''not'' conductive to emotional stability.
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* VillainousLineage: Depressingly for Jackie's lineage, he descends from a black and twisted line of men that followed destructive paths. His father was a hitman just like him, albeit one completely devoid of sympathetic qualities that Jackie possess and even disturbed a mobster like Don Franchetti. He's damned by both nature and nurture;
** His nature is a genetic talent for killing -- and ''winning'' through killing -- even ''before'' he received his Darkness powers;
-->'''Frankie Franchetti''': First guy you whacked for me, you was ''sixteen.'' Thing I saw about you early on was, you always knew just who to hit an' how hard to hit 'em. You got ''exactly'' the right result. Short time I had you with me, I went from a little guy to the toppa the heap. Just about boss of bosses, I guess, an' we didn't have to wipe out whole families, or act like savages, or make a damn ''mess...'' All we hadda do was kill all the right people.
** His nurture was insane; specifically ''none'' -- every Darkness host dies upon conceiving the next and the birth usually kills the woman who carried him, meaning Jackie is descended from an unbroken chain of orphans -- which is ''not'' conductive to emotional stability.
** His nature is a genetic talent for killing -- and ''winning'' through killing -- even ''before'' he received his Darkness powers;
-->'''Frankie Franchetti''': First guy you whacked for me, you was ''sixteen.'' Thing I saw about you early on was, you always knew just who to hit an' how hard to hit 'em. You got ''exactly'' the right result. Short time I had you with me, I went from a little guy to the toppa the heap. Just about boss of bosses, I guess, an' we didn't have to wipe out whole families, or act like savages, or make a damn ''mess...'' All we hadda do was kill all the right people.
** His nurture was insane; specifically ''none'' -- every Darkness host dies upon conceiving the next and the birth usually kills the woman who carried him, meaning Jackie is descended from an unbroken chain of orphans -- which is ''not'' conductive to emotional stability.
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* HeroicHost: The Darkness is the personification of all evil, and wants to spread chaos. Jackie is certianly capable of such chaos, but tries to keep his casualties to a minimum out of respect for mob code.
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* HeroicHost: The Darkness is the personification of all evil, and wants to spread chaos. Jackie is certianly certainly capable of such chaos, but tries to keep his casualties to a minimum out of respect for mob code.
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What do you get when you cross a well-dressed mafia hitman with an ancient demonic power that gives him the ability to summon tiny foul-mouthed gremlin thingies to do his bidding?
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What do you get when you cross a well-dressed mafia Mafia hitman with an ancient demonic power that gives him the ability to summon tiny foul-mouthed gremlin thingies to do his bidding?
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* CoolVersusAwesome: The Darkness vs Dracula! This version of the Count is so badass that it dismisses Jackie and The Darkness as something below him and gets the better of Jackie in their brawl.
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** Previous Darkness users that were actually competent enough and didn't turn self-destructive like Danny Estacado had the potential to become this trope such as Lord Cardinale from ''Medieval Spawn / Witchblade'' that terrorized the Iberian penisula during Medieval Times with his armies of Darklings.
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** Previous Darkness users that were actually competent enough and didn't turn self-destructive like Danny Estacado had the potential to become this trope such as Lord Cardinale from ''Medieval Spawn / Witchblade'' that terrorized the Iberian penisula peninsula during Medieval Times with his armies of Darklings.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Yeah, it's a comic book. No, it is most definitely not for kids.
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* SnarkyNonhumanSidekick: The Darklings are a bunch of goblin-like creatures that serve Jackie and have "smartass" as default personality.
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* DrinkOrder: Jackie is somewhat unique amongst his mafioso brethren in that he doesn't drink alcohol at all.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Yeah, it's a comic book. [[CaptainObvious No, it is most definitely not for kids]].
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* HolyIsNotSafe: From a regular human's point of view, the Angelus can be just as cruel and alien as the Darkness.
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''The Darkness'' was one of Top Cow Productions' crown jewels of the [[TheNineties 1990]]s' DarkerAndEdgier trend, created by Marc Silvestri, along with some assistance from Creator/GarthEnnis (who wrote the first comic arc) and David Wohl. The hitman in question is known as Jackie Estacado, adopted son of don Frankie Franchetti, and from the first few panels of the first issue, was obviously not disturbed by the lifestyle into which he had been brought, and actually relished it. However, as soon as his [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday 21st birthday]] came to fruition, he inherited the evil known as the Darkness, which granted him abilities beyond his wildest blood-spattered dreams, the most infamous being the Darklings, the aforementioned little gremlin bastards that act somewhat as his multiple tiny alter-egos that are mostly interested in spouting off politically incorrect commentary and humor, but can disembowel an enemy at a moment's notice if Jackie commands it.
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''The Darkness'' was one of Top Cow Productions' Creator/TopCowProductions's crown jewels of the [[TheNineties 1990]]s' DarkerAndEdgier trend, created by Marc Silvestri, along with some assistance from Creator/GarthEnnis (who wrote the first comic arc) and David Wohl. The hitman in question is known as Jackie Estacado, adopted son of don Frankie Franchetti, and from the first few panels of the first issue, was obviously not disturbed by the lifestyle into which he had been brought, and actually relished it. However, as soon as his [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday 21st birthday]] came to fruition, he inherited the evil known as the Darkness, which granted him abilities beyond his wildest blood-spattered dreams, the most infamous being the Darklings, the aforementioned little gremlin bastards that act somewhat as his multiple tiny alter-egos that are mostly interested in spouting off politically incorrect commentary and humor, but can disembowel an enemy at a moment's notice if Jackie commands it.
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* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: The only thing that keeps Jackie from being a CompleteMonster; he actually ''believes'' that the mob is supposed to be Film/TheGodfather films. He's NiceToTheWaiter, he would NeverHurtAnInnocent, and when he says IGaveMyWord, he ''means'' it. Doesn't mean he's not a vicious killer, an unrepentant pervert, or a greedy, narcissistic BastardBastard -- it just means he refuses to hurt anyone whom he doesn't feel deserves it. That's a vague guideline, too.
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* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: The only thing that keeps Jackie from being a CompleteMonster; he actually ''believes'' that the mob is supposed to be Film/TheGodfather films. He's NiceToTheWaiter, he would NeverHurtAnInnocent, and when he says IGaveMyWord, he ''means'' it. Doesn't mean he's not a vicious killer, an unrepentant pervert, or a greedy, narcissistic BastardBastard -- it just means he refuses to hurt anyone whom he doesn't feel deserves it. That's a vague guideline, too.
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*NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: The only thing that keeps Jackie from being a CompleteMonster; he actually ''believes'' that the mob is supposed to be Film/TheGodfather films. He's NiceToTheWaiter, he would NeverHurtAnInnocent, and when he says IGaveMyWord, he ''means'' it. Doesn't mean he's not a vicious killer, an unrepentant pervert, or a greedy, narcissistic BastardBastard -- it just means he refuses to hurt anyone whom he doesn't feel deserves it. That's a vague guideline, too.
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* FemaleAngelMaleDemon: The human host of The Darkness is always male, and the human host of The Angelus is always female. Also, even though angels are predominantly female and demons are predominantly male, a few exceptions are occasionally shown, like the male cherub angels.
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* AntiHero: Jackie goes back and forth between this and VillainProtagonist. He's a horrible murderer who gets people killed via collateral damage but in the first Witchblade Crossover is genuinely horrified at the prospect of having killed an innocent man.
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* AntiHero: Jackie goes back and forth between this and VillainProtagonist. He's a horrible murderer who gets people killed via collateral damage but in the first Witchblade Crossover is genuinely horrified at the prospect of having killed an innocent man. In the Batman crossover, he actively refuses to kill Batman despite their power discrepancy, since it was completely different killing a good man rather than the mafia scum he normally works with.
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-->'''Frankie Franchetti''': First guy you whacked for me, you was ''sixteen.'' Thing I saw about you early on was, you always knew just who to hit an' how hard to hit 'em. You got ''exactly'' the right result. Short time I had you with me, I went from a little guy to the toppa the heap. Just about bos of bosses, I guess, an' we didn't have to wipe out whole families, or act like savages, or make a damn ''mess...'' All we hadda do was kill all the right people.
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-->'''Frankie Franchetti''': First guy you whacked for me, you was ''sixteen.'' Thing I saw about you early on was, you always knew just who to hit an' how hard to hit 'em. You got ''exactly'' the right result. Short time I had you with me, I went from a little guy to the toppa the heap. Just about bos boss of bosses, I guess, an' we didn't have to wipe out whole families, or act like savages, or make a damn ''mess...'' All we hadda do was kill all the right people.
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* InTheBlood: Depressingly for Jackie's lineage, he descends from a black and twisted line of men that followed destructive paths. His father was a hitman just like him, albeit one completely devoid of sympathetic qualities that Jackie possess and even disturbed a mobster like Don Franchetti. May be as much nurture as nature -- every Darkness host dies upon conceiving the next, the birth usually kills the woman who carried him, meaning Jackie is descended from an unbroken chain of orphans -- not being nurtured at all is ''not'' conductive to emotional stability.
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* InTheBlood: Depressingly for Jackie's lineage, he descends from a black and twisted line of men that followed destructive paths. His father was a hitman just like him, albeit one completely devoid of sympathetic qualities that Jackie possess and even disturbed a mobster like Don Franchetti. May be as much He's damned by both nature and nurture;
** His nature is a genetic talent for killing -- and ''winning'' through killing -- even ''before'' he received his Darkness powers;
-->'''Frankie Franchetti''': First guy you whacked for me, you was ''sixteen.'' Thing I saw about you early on was, you always knew just who to hit an' how hard to hit 'em. You got ''exactly'' the right result. Short time I had you with me, I went from a little guy to the toppa the heap. Just about bos of bosses, I guess, an' we didn't have to wipe out whole families, or act like savages, or make a damn ''mess...'' All we hadda do was kill all the right people.
** His nurtureas nature was insane; specifically ''none'' -- every Darkness host dies upon conceiving the next, next and the birth usually kills the woman who carried him, meaning Jackie is descended from an unbroken chain of orphans -- not being nurtured at all which is ''not'' conductive to emotional stability.
** His nature is a genetic talent for killing -- and ''winning'' through killing -- even ''before'' he received his Darkness powers;
-->'''Frankie Franchetti''': First guy you whacked for me, you was ''sixteen.'' Thing I saw about you early on was, you always knew just who to hit an' how hard to hit 'em. You got ''exactly'' the right result. Short time I had you with me, I went from a little guy to the toppa the heap. Just about bos of bosses, I guess, an' we didn't have to wipe out whole families, or act like savages, or make a damn ''mess...'' All we hadda do was kill all the right people.
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* InTheBlood: Depressingly for Jackie's lineage, he descends from a black and twisted line of men that followed destructive paths. His father was a hitman just like him, albeit one completely devoid of sympathetic qualities that Jackie possess and even disturbed a mobster like Don Franchetti. Seems like the Darkness never picks normal or decent folks as hosts...
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* InTheBlood: Depressingly for Jackie's lineage, he descends from a black and twisted line of men that followed destructive paths. His father was a hitman just like him, albeit one completely devoid of sympathetic qualities that Jackie possess and even disturbed a mobster like Don Franchetti. Seems like the May be as much nurture as nature -- every Darkness never picks normal or decent folks as hosts...host dies upon conceiving the next, the birth usually kills the woman who carried him, meaning Jackie is descended from an unbroken chain of orphans -- not being nurtured at all is ''not'' conductive to emotional stability.
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* GenreShift: The first issues of the Darkness are more of a comedy action book than a horror action one. The characters were far more violent; and the dialogue was laced with SeinfeldianConversation's and frequent references to pop culture. Furthermore the stories were more eccentric and quirky, standing in stark contract to the realism of later issues.
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* GenreShift: The Creator/GarthEnnis wrote the first issues of the Darkness are story arc, which is why it's more of a comedy action book than a horror action one. The characters were far more violent; violent and the dialogue was laced with SeinfeldianConversation's and frequent references to pop culture. Furthermore the stories were more eccentric and quirky, standing in stark contract to the realism of later issues.
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-->'''Jackie:''' Oh, yeah.
-->'''Kirchner:''' But you're still going to kill me.
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-->'''Kirchner:'''you.\\
'''Kirchner:''' But you're still going to killme.
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'''Jackie:''' Oh, yeah.
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** However, he's told that he can eventually create {{Artificial Human}}s as good as any woman - given enough time to practice his powers. Later it changed so that he will not die until the baby is born - evidenced in that his grandfather tried to kill his grandmother to prevent his own death.
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* DudeShesLikeInAComa: [[spoiler: Don Franchetti to his daughter, Appolonia while she's comatose.]]
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** Previous Darkness users that were actually competent enough and didn't turn self-destructive like Danny Estacado had the potential to become this trope such as Lord Cardinale from ''Medieval Spawn / Witchblade'' that terrorized the Iberian penisula during Medieval Times with his armies of Darklings.
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* PygmalionPlot: Besides [[MookMaker creating living constructs to serve them]], both the Darkness and the Angelus had the power to create concubines to satisfy their romantic and sexual desires. Angelus is shown surrounded with an all-female harem and several Darkness users made their own since having sex with normal females would lead to their deaths, as their powers would pass to their offspring at cost of their own lives. Jackie is pulled out of his HeroicBSOD after being told he CantHaveSexEver when hearing about this ability, though its very hard to learn and takes practice: he tries creating female darklings, but botches the attempts several times and ultimately needs outside help to successfully create the perfect woman for himself. [[spoiler:Its revealed that this was all part of the Darkness itself, who deliberately designed these women so their users could breed a pure Darkness being devoid of any humanity]].
* RealityWarper: Jackie, to a [[KryptoniteFactor limiteddegree]].degree]], since they can do anything they want in the complete absence of light.
* RetCon: It was originally established that as soon as Darkness users had a woman impregnated with their seed, they would drop dead. Later issues changed this to their deaths only happening the moment their own children is born.
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* RetCon: It was originally established that as soon as Darkness users had a woman impregnated with their seed, they would drop dead. Later issues changed this to their deaths only happening the moment their own children is born.
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* CantHaveSexEver: It is stated that if Jackie ever conceives a child, he will die, making each and every one of his sexual encounters after he becomes the Darkness a game of RussianRoulette; even non-vaginal sex is an incredible risk as it's repeatedly stated that the Darkness is carried in his ''sperm'' meaning if one errant spurt could still kill him, a vasectomy would be quickly nullified by his enhanced healing, it's entirely possible that his blasted demon sperm could regenerate a woman with tubal ligation...
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* EyeScream: With CHOPSTICKS!!!
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* FreudianExcuse
* FromASingleCell
* FromASingleCell
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Jackie, and any of his enemies of a supernatural persuasion.
* {{Gorn}}
* {{Gorn}}
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* GunsAkimbo
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Apollonia. Sort of.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Apollonia. Sort of.]]
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* HearingVoices: The Darkness.
* HeroicHost: The Darkness.
* HitmanWithAHeart
* HeroicHost: The Darkness.
* HitmanWithAHeart
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* InTheBlood: The Darkness, that is...
* JamesBondage: In one crossover with ''Comicbook/{{Witchblade}}''.
* JamesBondage: In one crossover with ''Comicbook/{{Witchblade}}''.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Applies to many of Jackie's hits.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: Often.
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* LivingShadow
* LonelyAtTheTop
* LovecraftianSuperpower
* LudicrousGibs
* MadScientist: Kirchner
* MadeOfPlasticine
* TheMafia
* LonelyAtTheTop
* LovecraftianSuperpower
* LudicrousGibs
* MadScientist: Kirchner
* MadeOfPlasticine
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* MobWar
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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The Darkness.
* MrViceGuy: Jackie
* MuggingTheMonster: HilarityEnsues.
* MrViceGuy: Jackie
* MuggingTheMonster: HilarityEnsues.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
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* NighInvulnerability
* NightmareSequence: In the game and in the comics.
* NightmareSequence: In the game and in the comics.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown
* NobleDemon
* NotBloodSiblings: Jackie and Appolonia.
* NobleDemon
* NotBloodSiblings: Jackie and Appolonia.
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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Kirchner
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* OutOfTheInferno: In the "Empire" arc.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Jackie
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Jackie
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* ScaryShinyGlasses: Kirchner
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* SecretLegacy
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* SiblingRivalry: Jackie and Appolonia
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* SmugSnake: Apollonia.
* SnarkyNonhumanSidekick: The Darklings.
* SociopathicHero: Jackie
* StayingAlive
* SnarkyNonhumanSidekick: The Darklings.
* SociopathicHero: Jackie
* StayingAlive
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* {{Stripperific}}: The Angelus
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* SuperPowerLottery: Jackie
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* TallDarkAndSnarky: Jackie
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* TortureTechnician: Mister Vespasian.
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* VillainsOutShopping: Frequently...
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* VirginPower: Much to Jackie's dismay.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Often
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Compare the Darkness with [[Creator/HPLovecraft the Haunter of the Dark]] of the CthulhuMythos.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Compare the Darkness with [[Creator/HPLovecraft the Haunter of the Dark]] of the CthulhuMythos.Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
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A whole lot of {{Badass}}, that's what.
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A whole lot of {{Badass}}, badass, that's what.
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->'''Jenny''': What's this ''Darkness'' you keep going on about?\\
'''Sonatine''': I'll try and put it in idiot's terms. Have you seen ''Star Wars?''\\
'''Jenny''': Well... yes.\\
'''Sonatine''': The Darkness is the Force on crack.
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*** However, he's told that he can eventually create {{Homunculi}} as good as any woman - given enough time to practice his powers. Later it changed so that he will not die until the baby is born - evidenced in that his grandfather tried to kill his grandmother to prevent his own death.
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* AxeCrazy: Jackie (and pretty much everyone else). Jackie's BlueAndOrangeMorality amounts to a stylized version of the mafia's own. Drugs and murder are okay but not killing people outside of the business.
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* AxeCrazy: Jackie (and pretty much everyone else). Jackie's BlueAndOrangeMorality amounts to a stylized version of the mafia's own. Drugs and murder are okay but not killing people outside of the business.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality or EvilVersusEvil: Jackie is a merciless bastard whose only redeeming features are a disinterest in hurting innocent bystanders and a familia
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* BlackAndGrayMorality or EvilVersusEvil: Jackie is a merciless bastard whose only redeeming features are a disinterest in hurting innocent bystanders feature is love for his adoptive sister and a familiavague preference for being a [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters stylized mobster]]; Drugs? Fun and profitable. Mass slaughter of rival families and/or cops? Fun and profitable. Killing someone outside of the business? No thanks.
