History Headscratchers / TheDarkness

* Why in the game Jackie spent his childhood in an orphanage w

** In one story arc there was a RunningGag where [[DepravedHomosexual Wenders]] (a former minion of Sonatine's who is aware of Jackie's predicament) keeps offering to [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "serve" him]] by suggesting that [[GayOption there's one sex act that has no chance of pregnancy...]]

* so, near the end of the second game [[spoiler:Jackie gets tricked and gets thrown into an iron maiden to keep him in place until The Siphon can completely drain the Darkness from him. While it makes sense that he isn't instantly dead by the time the darkness is drained, how does he still stay alive later on when the Darkness is completely drained from him? The Darkling compares him to a cactus when he's released, and he doesn't have the darkness keeping him alive anymore, so how is he not only able to stand up and move, but also take MORE bullets to his person?

* Why in the game Jackie spent his childhood in an orphanage w

* Why in the game Jackie spent his childhood in an orphanage when he has an aunt?

* Why doesn't the Brotherhood just put flashlights on their guns? It seems like a more efficient and effective way to counter Jackie than having certain members lug them around on their shoulders.

** It's most likely them just underestimating it due to seeing Jackie as nothing more then a young idiot who doesn't know what he's getting into. Considering The Darkness was around since the very beginning of existence, it's not very likely that it's bluffing when it says it's unimaginably powerful.

* During the Total Darkness arc, The Darkness went on and on about how incomprensibly powerful and ancient it is, yet many supernatural beings that Jackie encounters give him snide remarks about how inferior he and his power is.Dracula called it nothing more than shadows and imps, and the personification of darkness, the Magus, called it a party trick. Was The Darkness being self important when it made itself sound like the ultimate force or does Jackie's [[UnskilledButStrong lack of skills]] make others assume he doesn't have that much power? You would think that other Eldritch Abominations could at least sense what's in Jackie before they deem him a minor threat.

* During the Total Darkness arc, The Darkness went on and on about how incomprensibly powerful and ancient it is, yet many supernatural beings that Jackie encounters give him snide remarks about how inferior he and his power is.Dracula called it nothing more than shadows and imps, and the personification of darkness, the Magus, called it a party trick. Was The Darkness being self important when it made itself sound like the ultimate force or does Jackie's [[UnskilledButStrong lack of skills]] make anothers assume he doesn't have that much power? You would think that other Eldritch Abominations could at least sense what's in Jackie when they deem him a minor threat.

* During the Total Darkness arc The Darkness went on and on about how incomprensibly powerful and ancient it is, yet many supernatural beings that Jackie encounters give him snide remarks about how inferior he and his power is.Dracula called it nothing more than shadows and imps, and the personification of darkness, the Magus, called it a party trick. Was The Darkness being self important when it made itself sound like the ultimate force or does Jackie's lack of skills make anothers assume he doesn't have that much power? You would think that other eldritch forces could at least sense what's in Jackie when they deem him a minor threat.

*** Not to mention that The Darkness wants to be the one in control of Jackie and not vice-versa. Apart of that is having the option to just go to the next host. They flipped-flopped on wether or not the current Darkness user dies at the moment of conception (as it was initially), at the moment of birth or merely that they lose their powers at the moment of birth (as seen in the lastest issue I've read, which is several years old by this point). In that last example, Jackie's father keeps his Darkness powers up until Jackie is born, at which point he's killed by the people he was attacking just a moment before.

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** WHy doesn't Jackie just have a vasectomy? Or would the Darkness repair that as if it were an injury?

** Yes that has been brought up when Jackie was dating one [[CartwrightCurse girl of the week]].

** Schrote sent the few remaining "good cops" in first?

* In the game, the police ambush Jackie at a church where he has agreed to meet [[TheDragon Eddie Shrote]]. They cut the lights before piling in wearing full SWAT gear. Of course Jackie's powers being fuelled by darkness, they get slaughtered. Until halfway through the fight, where Eddie suddenly calls out "hit the floodlights, he can't do that shit in the dark!". So if Eddie knew Jackie's weakness, why'd he cut the lights in the first place? Yes, he might have only figured it out during the fight by watching how Jackie either avoided it, or shot out all light sources. But during the church fight, all the lights have already been cut, so there's no light for Jackie to avoid. Eddie was more likely to have guessed Jackie's weakness during the other few times he see's Jackie in action (such as when Jackie chased him through his own police station, a set-piece where, if the player is smart, he'll shoot out every light he comes across). So what, did Eddie just think it'd be funny to feed some of his few remaining SWAT personnel (Jackie having slaughtered more than half the force at this point) to the EldritchAbomination empowered HitmanWithaHeart?