History WebAnimation / NightmaresInTheDark

* TheChick - Well, sort of.

** OurDemonsAreDifferent - Several different versions exist, and are related. '''Imps''' are Negative EmotionEater spirits, which can be bound by spellcasters to produce BlackMagic. They can also [[DemonicPossession possess]] or be ''consumed'' to turn someone into a physical demon, referred to as a '''Fallen'''. There are Fallen versions of several of the major races, including [[HornyDevils succubi]], [[DealWithTheDevil devils]], {{HellHound}}s, and [[strike:[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Balrogs]]]]-I mean, [[Myth/NorseMythology Fire Giants]], yeah..

* TheHero - Despite being the biggest & strongest among the main cast (instead of TheMario), he's also the lead character.

** WitchSpecies - Both averted and utilized. Anybody can use magic, but the more you use it, [[WhatHaveIBecome the more it changes you]]. 'Monsters' are just people who've been using magic for generations, the changes tend to stack up over time.

** OurElvesAreBetter - 'Young' elves are slender, naturally graceful folk who tend towards nomadic travel, and are often found amongst Gypsies, UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers, and other off-the-grid subcultures. (The 60's were their heyday.)

* OurMonstersAreDifferent - Verging on AllMythsAreTrue. Much research was put into this, including the use of modern fictional sources, such as roleplaying materials, via the use of the LiteraryAgentHypothesis to justify it. One general exception to this rule is cryptozoology, including the stuff from medieval bestiaries. Any monster which could be explained by a garbled description of a real animal, has about high chance of being just that. On the other hand, magic does make some of the tougher real-world connections easier to maintain (and who knows what [[AWizardDidIt a wizard might have done..]]).
** AllTrollsAreDifferent - Played up with the Jaegers, (no, not [[Webcomic/GirlGenius that]] kind), a broad family of monsters that are beastly near-humanoids without any particular animal's features, such as Goblins, Orcs, Ogres, Gargoyles, etc. The name comes from the term 'hunter', as they're also TheWildHunt. (Specifically, they hunt demons and undead.)

* FemmeFatale - Much noise is made over the fact that she's stunningly beautiful, almost to HelloNurse levels. She tends to get her way because of it.

** OurDemonsAreDifferent - Several different versions exist, and are related. '''Imps''' are Negative EmotionEater spirits, which can be bound by spellcasters to produce BlackMagic. They can also [[DemonicPossession possess]] or be ''consumed'' to turn someone into a physical demon, referred to as a '''Fallen'''. There are Fallen versions of several of the major races, including [[HornyDevils succubi]], [[DealWithTheDevil devils]], {{HellHound}}s, and [[strike:[[LordOfTheRings Balrogs]]]]-I mean, [[Myth/NorseMythology Fire Giants]], yeah..

** Donovan ([[TheSpock SuperEgo]]) - He's resistant to the women Mike tries to set him up with, because they're [[BrainlessBeauty brainless bimbos]]. [[spoiler: He ''is'' a [[AManIsNotAVirgin Virgin]], by the way..]]

* {{Gotterdammerung}} - Both straight and averted. There was a previous age when magic was common knowledge and gods walked the earth. Then [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition some people]] [[TheCrusades didn't like that]]. Averted in that the magic is just as strong today as it was then, they just use it in [[{{Masquerade}} more subtle ways to avoid discovery]].

** OurDemonsAreDifferent - Several different versions exist, and are related. '''Imps''' are Negative EmotionEater spirits, which can be bound by spellcasters to produce BlackMagic. They can also [[DemonicPossession possess]] or be ''consumed'' to turn someone into a physical demon, referred to as a '''Fallen'''. There are Fallen versions of several of the major races, including [[HornyDevils succubi]], [[DealWithTheDevil devils]], {{HellHound}}s, and [[strike:[[LordOfTheRings Balrogs]]]]-I mean, [[NorseMythology Fire Giants]], yeah..

This is where he has his first encounter with the {{Masquerade}}, and he begins to explore the magical Underworld, meeting (and fighting with) zombies, [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]], ghouls, goblins, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] and other shapeshifters, and TheFairFolk. He soon learns they have a convenient group term, "'''Wight'''", derived from an old proto-germanic term for any magical creature. (Tolkien appropriated the term for [[OurGhostsAreDifferent a different use]], which led to [[DungeonsAndDragons others]] borrowing the incorrect usage.) {{Youkai}} is actually an accurate parallel term.

** OurDemonsAreDifferent - Several different versions exist, and are related. '''Imps''' are Negative EmotionEater spirits, which can be bound by spellcasters to produce BlackMagic. They can also [[DemonicPossession possess]] or be ''consumed'' to turn someone into a physical demon, referred to as a '''Fallen'''. There are Fallen versions of several of the major races, including [[HornyDevils succubi]], [[DealWithTheDevil devils]], {{HellHound}}s, and [[strike:[[LordOfTheRings Balrogs]]]]-I mean, [[strike:[[DungeonsAndDragons Balors]]]]- err, [[NorseMythology Fire Giants]], yeah..

* {{Gotterdammerung}} - Both straight and averted. There was a previous age when magic was common knowledge and gods walked the earth. Then [[TheSpanishInquisition some people]] [[TheCrusades didn't like that]]. Averted in that the magic is just as strong today as it was then, they just use it in [[{{Masquerade}} more subtle ways to avoid discovery]].

They have a Kickstarter! See here [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redbladestudios/nightmares-in-the-dark here]]!

They have a [[Kickstarter]]! See here [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redbladestudios/nightmares-in-the-dark here]]!

Nightmares in the Dark is an action/horror/drama UrbanFantasy series currently in development by Red Blade Studios (which is to say, Alex "Warlock" Krumwiede, college student.) Nightmares is his senior thesis project (Or, more accurately, the first episode of the [[FiveEpisodePilot Three Episode Pilot]]), which he intends to develop into a web-based animated series, along the same lines as webcomics.

Nightmares focuses on Donovan Albrecht. By day he works as on-call roving tech-support for a half-dozen firms, offices, and other businesses around the area. By night, he works in his godfather's bar/nightclub, The Sanctum, as doorman and security.

Admittedly, almost nothing of this show has gone public yet, but that's soon to change. Most of the information below is produced from the writer's world bible, excepting major reveals.

The site is [[http://www.nightmaresinthedark.com/ here]]

* TheHero - Despite being the biggest & strongest among the main cast (instead of TheMario), he's also the main character.

* BeastAndBeauty - She gets involved with Donovan in the first episode. She's a model-esque beauty, he's an ex-linebacker beast.

Samantha Carpenter
* PsychicPowers - She's a telepath, which is how she learned about TheMasquerade, and how she finds Donovan.
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]] - Her focus in college was literature and mythology, but somehow those didn't get her a job. Her typing skills did.

* OldMaster - Murdoch takes it upon himself to train Donovan in combat and the rules of the Underworld.

* CityOfAdventure - Currently unnamed, but based on Grand Rapids, Michigan. Chosen for the diverse geography, less than an hour from Lake Michigan, with the downtown split by a major river, with only a 15-minute drive from the downtown urban center to middle-of-nowhere farm country or woods.
* DebutQueue - Not one every episode, but the show takes its time in introducing characters. Most of the above list are introduced over the course of the three-episode pilot, but as only four or five episodes are currently plotted, more characters will definitely show up over time.

* FunctionalMagic - Several different subtypes are used. Most magic is Theurgy, as rituals call on spirits from the SpiritWorld, but since most spirits are non-sentient, it's almost Rule Magic. Some casters will bind spirits to use their powers on command, but these pacts can have nasty side effects. And some will ''consume'' a spirit to gain those powers for themselves, but you ''will'' get changed by this. (This is also how all the different Wight races were created, the changes stack up over time.)

* LifeEnergy - Generally averted. The local variant of healing magic is based around polymorph magic, so it's literally shaping the flesh back into a proper form. Don't think about it too hard.

* {{Muggles}} - Referred to as "Mundanes", "Mundies" for short, or when in publc, "Mondays". (As in, "I hate Mondays.")

* PostVictoryCollapse - This happens to Donovan in the first episode right after his ''second'' encounter with magic, where he was forced to defend himself [[spoiler: from a ghoul, and eventually killed it.]]
* PowersInTheFirstEpisode - Averted. [[spoiler:Unless you count the ''third'' episode, which is technically part of the [[FiveEpisodePilot three-episode pilot]]..]]
* PowerTrio - Mixed, depending on the episode. Donovan is in every episode so far, but who's along with him depends on the situation, and his role. In the first episode:

* TheLancer - Mike plays off of Donovan's seriousness and social awkwardness by being jokey and a {{Casanova}}. If this were a different story, he might've been TheHero.

** AllTrollsAreDifferent - Played up with the Jaegers, (no, not [[GirlGenius that]] kind), a broad family of monsters that are beastly near-humanoids without any particular animal's features, such as Goblins, Orcs, Ogres, Gargoyles, etc. The name comes from the term 'hunter', as they're also TheWildHunt. (Specifically, they hunt demons and undead.)
** OurDemonsAreDifferent - Several different versions exist, and are related. '''Imps''' are Negative {{EmotionEater}} spirits, which can be bound by spellcasters to produce BlackMagic. They can also [[DemonicPossession possess]] or be ''consumed'' to turn someone into a physical demon, referred to as a '''Fallen'''. There are Fallen versions of several of the major races, including [[HornyDevils succubi]], [[DealWithTheDevil devils]], {{HellHound}}s, and [[strike:[[LordOfTheRings Balrogs]]]]-I mean, [[strike:[[DungeonsAndDragons Balors]]]]- err, [[NorseMythology Fire Giants]], yeah..

* PostDramaticStressDisorder - This happens to Donovan in the first episode right after his ''second'' encounter with magic, where he was forced to defend himself [[spoiler: from a ghoul, and eventually killed it.]]

** OurElvesAreBetter - 'Young' elves are slender, naturally graceful folk who tend towards nomadic travel, and are often found amongst Gypsies, IrishTravellers, and other off-the-grid subcultures. (The 60's were their heyday.)