History Characters / TheDarkCrystalOtherCharacters

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: At the end of the film, they ascend to the skies after being made whole again, though it's more likely they're [[OurTeleportationIsDifferent simply returning to their homeworld]].

* EnergyBeings: Maybe. They certainly look the part, but not a lot of information is given about them compared to their splintered selves, and they're never shown walking through physical objects or anything, so they may simply be perfectly corporeal organisms that happen to be bioluminescent. While they do appear slightly transparent in the Movie, they do not display this trait in the comics, so that may have simply been an FX side effect. SkekGra refers to their form as "not crude flesh".

* EnergyBeings: Maybe. They certainly look the part, but not a lot of information is given about them compared to their splintered selves, and they're never shown walking through physical objects or anything, so they may simply be perfectly corporeal organisms that happen to be bioluminescent. While they do appear slightly transparent in the Movie, they do not display this trait in the comics, so that may have simply been an FX side effect.

* {{Conlang}}: Podling language in the film uses Serbian words (or Croatian, or Bosnian — they're very similar languages), but is pronounced with an accent more akin to Russian.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He isn't seen again after Aughra leaves the observatory at the end of the only episode he appears in.

* FlamingHair: They have fire instead of hair as one of their most distinctive feature.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Unlike most events that fall under this trope, Lore is turned off in the same way one would turn off a machine. The Heretic [[InnocentlyInsensitive not understanding how doing this would upset the Gelflings]], especially Brea, who Lore was programmed to protect and whom she had grown deeply fond of. However, by the end of the season, it's possible Hup may restart him.

* InterspeciesRomance: Seems rather attracted to Deet.

** [[AllThereInTheManual The expanded universe states]] that when they were first created, they were a perfectly even combination of the male and female sexes as an incarnation of Thra's biosphere, but most depending on the material, the male part of her was either burned away by the same Great Conjunction that destroyed her eye or withered with time.

** [[AllThereInTheManual The expanded universe states]] that when they were first created, they were a perfectly even combination of the male and female sexes as an incarnation of Thra's biosphere, but most of the male part of her was burned away by the same Great Conjunction that destroyed her eye.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Constantly yelled at by Aughra when he's just trying to do his job. Aughra especially [[DontYouDarePityMe doesn't seem to like it]] when he tries to show concern for her. In general, though, she treats him nicely and he seems to live a good live, quite the opposite of the Podlings employed at the Castle of the Crystal.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Part of why he reacts the way he does with Deet and Rian, as he seems infatuated with Deet, to the point of saying "Deet always beautiful" when she asks him how she looks when in disguise.

* NotQuiteTheRightThing: They were exiled, but given a clause that explained they could return if they mastered the darker aspects of themselves. To do this, they spent centuries perfecting a process that would theoretically burn their undesirable traits away. Because of this, all it took was a bit of nostalgia on the part of one of them to completely compromise their entire ritual.

* BizarreAlienPsychology: Implied. urSkek society is highly collectivistic, which to greatly simplify things meaning that the Community is considered more important than the individual, and individuals value collective unity more than individuality. That's not the bizarre part, since 90% of Earth cultures have been that way. The bizzare part comes later. Anyway, their society is ''so'' Collectivistic that any deviant behavior is considered Heretical, the appropriate punishment for which being banishment. According to them, "Mastering One's darker self" is what it means to be an urSkek (probably mere hyperbole, like when philosophers ask what it means to be human), to the point that when the particular urSkeks we meet in the franchise tried to monkey around with their world's Crystal (which to be fair could reasonably warrant banishment ''regardless'' of how collectivistic your society is), they were banished and only allowed to return once they had, indeed, mastered their darker selves. The bizarre alien psychology part is that, considering they had to devise a magical purification process that would only work when the suns aligned, AND that the entire thing was screwed up for ''everyone'' just by ''one'' of them getting a bit nostalgic, "mastering one's darker self" probably isn't as simple for an ursSkek as just working through their emotions and learning restraint or humility.

* InsectoidAlien

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: At the end of the film, they ascend to the skies after being made whole again.

* BizarreAlienPsychology: Implied. urSkek society is highly collectivistic, meaning that the Community is considered more important than the individual. That's not the bizarre part, since 90% of Earth cultures have been that way. The bizzare part comes later. Anyway, their society is ''so'' Collectivistic that any deviant behavior is considered Heretical, the appropriate punishment for which being banishment. According to them, "Mastering One's darker self" is what it means to be an urSkek (probably mere hyperbole, like when philosophers ask what it means to be human), to the point that when the particular urSkeks we meet in the franchise tried to monkey around with their world's Crystal (which to be fair could reasonably warrant banishment ''regardless'' of how collectivistic your society is), they were banished and only allowed to return once they had, indeed, mastered their darker selves. The bizarre alien psychology part is that, considering they had to devise a magical purification process that would only work when the suns aligned, AND that the entire thing was screwed up for ''everyone'' just by ''one'' of them getting a bit nostalgic, "mastering one's darker self" probably isn't as simple for an ursSkek as just working through their emotions and learning restraint or humility.

* BenevolentAlienInvasion: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. They did uplift the gelflings from roughly hunter-gather-level technology to mideval-level, but they also bribed Thra's MotherNature GeniusLoci into abandoning her children, since the urSkeks coveted Thra's crystal. Then when they spilt into the urRu and Skeksis, their urRu halves basically wander off to becoem amish hermits for the next thousand trine, with the Skeksis halves remaining in charge. From there, the Skeksis' rule starts out benevolent, then gradually slides through BreadAndCircuses, and then in the series we see it finally achieve the state of full-blown despotism that its in during the movie.

The "son" of Aughra. He was also born from Thra and is curious about the planet. Unlike Aughra who was more reserved, Raunip was more outgoing, adventurous and inquisitive, leading to him to befriend many of Thra's races, especially the Gelflings, and earning the ire of the urSkeks.

* WhatTheHellHero: At the very least. Sure, those who remain don't get called out, but the sentiment is still there, resonating through both the film and the series. They came, they saw, they royally screwed everything up and then... apparently yeet themselves out of Thra without so much as an apology? (Except maybe for any who somehow didn't conjoin near the Crystal, at least.) What the hell? A quick heal, a brief explanation for what happened (with the air of "oopsie" at most) is... scarcely a "sorry, maybe we can come to an agreement on reparations and repairs?", guys. What happened to collective responsibility, dear you couldn't-even-have-fused-without-those-you-genocided collective screw-ups?

* HumanSubspecies: Gelfling subspecies that is, with Gelflings being the closest species Thra has to humans. Firelings evolved from them, presumably because they were exposed to the heart of Thra.

* WhatTheHellHero: At the very least. Sure, those who remain don't get called out, but the sentiment is still there, resonating through both the film and the series. They came, they saw, they royally screwed everything up and then... apparently yeet themselves out of Thra without so much as an apology? (Except maybe for any who somehow didn't conjoin near the Crystal, at least.) What the hell? An explanation for what happened is scarcely a "sorry, maybe we can cone to an agreement on reparations and repairs?", guys.

* WhatTheHellHero: At the very least. Sure, those who remain don't get called out, but the sentiment is still there, resonating through both the film and the series. They came, they saw, they royally screwed everything up and then... apparently yeet themselves out of Thra without so much as an apology? (Except maybe for any who somehow didn't conjoin near the Crystal, at least.) What the hell?