History Videogame / TheDarkness

* BigBadWannabe: Despite being a powerful mob boss, Paulie is this in shades. He doesn't stand a chance against Jackie so he runs off, hides and gets his men to do all the dirty work for him, and most of the evil deeds Paulie commits end up working against him, since it causes his own men to turn against him and helping Jackie, leading to his downfall at the end.

* EvilIsPetty: Just about all of the evil things Paulie commits is done over an incredibly childish reason. For starters he tries to have Jackie killed all because he questioned the way he does things and later blowing up the orphanage Jackie grew up in just to further spite him. He is also mentioned to kill people if they look at him the wrong way or if they disagree with him over something (such as a baseball game).

* StupidEvil: Paulie's downfall at the end of the first game is a direct result of his own despicable behavior, such as mistreating his own men (who end up turning against him), killing them or abusing them for the slightest of reasons, and committing atrocities such as blowing up the orphanage and killing [[spoiler:Jenny]].
** Eddie Shrote also counts, since he thinks it's a wise a idea to taunt Jackie over the death of [[spoiler:Jenny]], which is just TemptingFate, considering that Jackie has the darkness on his side.

* StupidEvil: Paulie's downfall at the end of the first game is a direct result of his own despicable behavior, such as mistreating his own men (who end up turning against him), killing them for the slightest of reasons, and committing atrocities such as blowing up the orphanage and killing [[spoiler:Jenny]] .

* MeanBrit: The Darkling that accompanies Jackie through almost the entire second game. It has a British accent, speaks with British idioms, and wears a tattered shirt with the Union Jack on it. Why it has a cat-skin for a hat is unknown...

* FantasticNoir: The tone, atmosphere, and plot (especially the {{Private Eye Monologue}}s) of the game resembles a mix of {{film noir}} and {{lovecraft lite}}

* {{Expy}}: In one of the nightmare levels, you have to kill a big demon creature that bears a striking resemblance to the Shambler from {{VideoGame/{{Quake|I}}. This is possibly not a coincidence, since Jerk Gustafsson, one of the lead designers for ''The Darkness'', is a very big Quake fan.

* Expy: In one of the nightmare levels, you have to kill a big demon creature that bears a striking resemblance to the Shambler from VideoGame/Quake. This is possibly not a coincidence, since Jerk Gustafsson, one of the lead designers for ''The Darkness'', is a very big Quake fan.

* FiveBadBand: The Brotherhood
** The BigBad: Brother Victor
** TheDragon: Mr Peevish
** TheEvilGenius: Mr Graves (the money behind the Brotherhood)
*** Victor has more aspects of this though, somewhat of an EvilCounterpart to Johnny.
** TheBrute: Mr Bragg
** TheDarkChick: Swifty
** TheSixthRanger: The Darkness (Or at least, the Brotherhood ''tried'' to make it this)

* AffectionateNickname: The Darkling calls Jackie "Monkey".

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: {{Lampshaded}} in a conversation between Butcher Joyce and another mobster, who both agree that "that fuckin' thing of his" was what made Jackie the Don
* BackFromTheDead: Jackie, for the third time in the series. [[spoiler:And the fourth. And the ''fifth''.]]

* BenevolentBoss: The second game shows Jackie to be this to the Franchetti crime family, taking the time to talk to his hitmen and getting to know them. He even offers his condolences when a hitman loses someone. It's a notable contrast to the complete self-serving monster his predecessor was.

* DownerEnding: Doubles as a BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jackie manages to free himself from The Darkness and rescue Jenny's soul from hell, complete with touching reunion. . . and then The Angelus - which had been kept there by The Darkness as well - shows up in the after-credits epilogue, co-opting Jenny and returning to Earth to enact some seriously righteous smiting while essentially condemning The Darkness and its host to their fate. Jackie doesn't even lift a finger to counter her, and winds up stuck in hell for the time being, once again separated from Jenny...]]
* EasyLevelsHardBosses: Well, the boss fights aren't especially hard, but the fact that you can't heal your health in many of them (due to there not being any Mooks around and therefore no hearts to eat) does create a significant amount of challenge, especially if you've been going through the game by chaining executions together to constantly heal.

* EvilSoundsDeep: As in the original.

* FirstPersonGhost: Played straight, as opposed to the first game.

* ForeShadowing: Throughout the mutilation, you will, occasionally, find relics relating to [[LightIsNotGood The]] [[EldritchAbomination Angelus]], [[DarkIsEvil the Darkness's]] DistaffCounterpart. Some of them detail that's she's been gone for a LONG time. [[spoiler: That's because the Darkness imprisoned her, and when it imprisoned [[TheLostLenore Jenny's]] soul, she found a host. And we all know where THAT went. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Way to go,]][[SarcasmMode The Darkness]]]]
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: In the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, you find 2 Relics; one of which is "The Prism of the Brothers", the container created by the Brotherhood to hold [[LightIsNotGood The]] [[EldritchAbomination Angelus]]. It disturbs [[TheSmartGuy Johnny]], or in his words, 'scares the fuck out of him', that the Prism doesn't give off vibes similar to the Angelus, like it never held her. [[spoiler: Guess who else is waiting for you at the end of the game?]]

* NightmareFetishist: Johnny Powell seems truly fascinated by some of the relics that Jackie brings back to the penthouse, calling the soul-destroying [[ArtifactOfDoom Abysmal Maw]] "dark magic at it's sexiest," referring to the Dark Man statue as "[[SarcasmMode this sexy guy]]," and upon seeing the Sister of Light, he remarks that Jackie always brings him the nicest things. That said, he does get a little bit agitated around some of the more visceral artifacts, and sounds quite disgusted when he reveals that the Reliquary of the Blessed Blood is supposed to contain [[spoiler: Jesus' foreskin]] but in reality, it contains [[spoiler: the foreskin of a guy named Miles from South Hammingtonshire.]]

* NoGearLevel: [[spoiler: After Jackie loses The Darkness, he has to fall back to his mundane weaponry until he can steal some of his power back from Mr Peevish]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Frank and Eddie. And you have to [[spoiler: decide which of them dies]].

* FirstPersonShooter

* BlatantLies:

* ConvenientEclipse

* GoodThingYouCanHeal

* TheyWereHoldingYouBack

** ''The Darkness II'' places greater emphasis on gunplay, complementing it with The Darkness' mostly melee-based powers. For example, the Black Hole is now effectively an enemy drop grenade, instead of an AOE spell, so to speak.

* StupidSacrifice: The Darkling sacrifices itself to open the door to the roof for Jackie in the Asylum, dying after being exposed to sunlight...but Jackie wasn't actually disabled in any way at the moment. He could have simply just opened the door on his own.

* OrganicTechnology: [[spoiler: When you more ore less commit suicide and go to hell, the guns used by it's inhabitants are rather [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/thedarkness/images/a/ac/DarknessII_2012-07-21_22-23-14-21.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120804100325 flesh]]-[[https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/thedarkness/images/4/4b/DarknessII_2012-07-21_22-24-01-56.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120804100500 like]]. While they don't shoot anything organic but they do shoot Darkness bullets.]]

* * OrganicTechnology: [[spoiler: When you more ore less commit suicide and go to hell, the guns used by it's inhabitants are rather [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/thedarkness/images/a/ac/DarknessII_2012-07-21_22-23-14-21.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120804100325 flesh]]-[[https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/thedarkness/images/4/4b/DarknessII_2012-07-21_22-24-01-56.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120804100500 like]]. While they don't shoot anything organic but they do shoot Darkness bullets.]]

* FirstPersonShooter

* DownerEnding: Doubles as a BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jackie manages to free himself from The Darkness and rescue Jenny's soul from hell, complete with touching reunion. . . and then The Angelus - which had been kept there by The Darkness as well - shows up in the after-credits epilogue, co-opting Jenny and returning to Earth to enact some seriously righteous smiting while essentially condemning The Darkness and its host to their fate. Jackie doesn't even lift a finger to counter her, and winds up stuck in hell for the time being, once again separated from Jenny. . .]]