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The Dark Times

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The Dark Times	comment	In the beginning, when the world was first formed out of dust and ice, before mankind came to dominance, the world was ruled by dark forces, evils beyond imagination, ancient tyrants. Or at least that's what some horror and fantasy stories want you to believe, that before man arrived (and even sometimes after) there were creatures that ruled this world that are now gone. Most often, this is important to the Back Story of a series, giving writers room to introduce remnants of those old evils sealed in a can. Sometimes The Dark Times become The Time of Myths and then lead to Götterdämmerung. Alternatively, the creatures that populated The Dark Times are merely waiting Beneath the Earth until they regain their strength. Examples
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The Dark Times / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: The Lich is heavily implied in "Gold Stars" to be a Living Relic of a group of monsters that predated not only everything in the Universe, but the void before the Universe formed as well.
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The Dark Times / int_1a3a6af1	comment	In the Continuum RPG, the time before 14,000 BC was/is ruled by the civilization of Antedesertium, whose Narcissistic experiments and attacks on the timestream led to their Scorpion Kings becoming Eldritch Abominations, before finally destroying their civilization, triggering more or less a millennium of temporal chaos that led to the creation of the Sahara Desert.
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The Dark Times / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	Hellboy and its spinoff B.P.R.D. give glimpses into such Times, with its Lovecraftian overtones. One of the central plot threads is that Hellboy was supposed to make the Dark Times return, but didn't want to. Unfortunately, it seems as if his Refusal Of The (Villainous) Call is merely a temporary inconvenience to the Things coming back...
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The Dark Times / int_291e9857	comment	Dark Souls. In the Age of Ancients the world was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of gray crags, arch trees, and everlasting dragons.
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The Dark Times / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: The world was besieged by the near-almighty Ten-Tailed Beast centuries ago, until it was sealed and imprisoned by The Sage of Six Paths.
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The Dark Times / int_35e05f2a	comment	The backstory of RWBY is about how mankind was nearly killed by evil creatures called Grimm, whom they managed to drive back by harnessing an energy source called Dust and channeling their Auras for fight capacity. The inhabitants of that world are at least smart enough to prepare for the Grimm's inevitable return.
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The Dark Times / int_42ffb88e	comment	The SCP Foundation universe has the Church of the Second Hytoth, whose adherents believe that before the universe there was a dark time called the "Voru", filled with all kinds of nasty creatures inimical to life. The first universe to be created was destroyed by the Voru; we're in the replacement, i.e. Second Hytoth. The Voru are still around, and attempting to destroy this universe as well, but fortunately seven Physical Gods called the "Koru-Teusa" survived from First Hytoth and stuck around to protect this one. Unfortunately, six out of seven are dead or MIA, and the only survivor may well be on his last legs...
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The Dark Times / int_47bc4e32	comment	American Vampire establishes that 13,000 years ago a beast was set loose upon the Earth. This creature also known as Tiamat, Kur, the First Dragon and the Worm, had spawned several demons that for a thousand years preyed on men like fish on a stream. Until, one man known as Hurin united the people to fight against the Beast and formed the Vassals of the Morning Star. They succeeded in destroying its monstrous spawn and defeating the Beast; however, Hurin suckled from it and became its greatest protector, turning from the order he formed and becoming the very thing he swore to destroy.
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The Dark Times / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: The lore behind Azeroth is that there was once a time when the Old Gods ruled and had four chaotic elemental lords as their lieutenants to strike terror in the hearts of many. The Titans came and put a boot in their behinds, killed one of them, and put the rest and the elementals in solitary confinement. It should be noted that the Titans are pretty much Physical Gods / Precursors in the Warcraft Universe. They created most of the life on Azeroth, and were PISSED when the Old Gods started screwing with their creations, namely the Curse of Flesh which made all of their metallic creatures "Squishy". In fact, this scared them so badly, they left Azeroth with a self-destruct mechanism on the off chance their influence spreads. Better to lose one world then all of them.
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The Dark Times / int_4dccc4bc	comment	Thor: The Dark World: The Dark World of the title is the home of the Dark Elves, a race from before the current universe who wish to return all that exists to this state of non-existence.
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The Dark Times / int_4ef7866a	comment	WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?: The world was originally a barren wasteland inhabited by strange creatures. This all changed with the arrival of the Visitors, who used their powers to change the world into something far more recognizable. The trope gets subverted when it’s revealed that planet’s original inhabitants did not view their world as a wasteland; rather it was a paradise that the Visitors had stolen from them. These creatures, later known as the 17 Beasts, would eventually re-emerge and attempt to return the world to way it once was. This desire has unfortunately led to the current conflict between the beasts and the surviving Visitor created races.
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The Dark Times / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: Middle-Earth has cycled through various dark times when Morgoth and/or Sauron were the dominant forces in the world (perhaps the most notable being in The Silmarillion when Melkor/Morgoth ruled the whole world except for Valinor completely unchallenged — it was only the coming of the elves that inspired the Valar to act against him). The plot of The Lord of the Rings basically consists of Sauron trying to start up new dark times.
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The Dark Times / int_5e150650	comment	The world of Exalted under Primordial rule may have been this. That's the official story, anyway, but the sourcebooks encourage readers to consider the possibility that the gods may be lying about that part.
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The Dark Times / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: The Earth of the mainstream setting had one of those during the time of the Elder Gods, who came into existence shortly after the planet's formation. After an unknown period of peaceful cohabitation, one of them, Set killed and devoured one of his kin to absorb his powers; others began to imitate him, resulting in an apocalyptic orgy of cannibalistic violence that saw most Elder Gods killed or corrupted by their actions into eldritch abominations. Only four survived — Gaea (mother of Thor), who gave birth to an über-god to destroy her corrupted kin; Set (he of the Serpent Crown); Cthon, who fled said über-god's onslaught to other dimensions; and Oshtur (one of the Vishanti, from Doctor Strange), who'd been away exploring the cosmos since before the whole thing started.
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The Dark Times / int_65af8e08	comment	Thousand Shinji: In the backstory, ancient alien races such as the Ancient Ones and the Angels and powerful deities fought over the galaxy long before the birth of the mankind. The Angels met by the main characters are the last survivors of their wars.
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The Dark Times / int_6858a515	comment	Microscope: Being a game of emerging history, this comes up a lot. Every Period and Event has a Dark or Light cast to it.
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The Dark Times / int_68a5b119	comment	Cal Leandros includes as part of its distant past a time when the world was ruled by various monsters like the Auphe.
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The Dark Times / int_69ceb72e	comment	Devilman: Devilman's backstory involves demons returning after having been dormant since around the ice age.
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The Dark Times / int_6ac55ec7	comment	The second age of the Dungeons & Dragons setting Eberron was the Age of Demons. And they are, in fact, Sealed Evil in a Can Beneath the Earth... In the default setting, the Aboleths, intelligent beings that look like crosses between great fish and cthonic monstrosities, once ruled all the world. How do they know? They have photographic genetic memory. They remember.
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The Dark Times / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda had a time before the founding of the Kingdom of Hyrule when monsters were rampant across the land and people were constantly killing each other in order to get the Triforce. Among those people were a tribe of powerful sorcerers who came closer than anyone else to getting the Triforce. Eventually, the Triforce was sealed away in the Sacred Realm (cf. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past), the monsters were trapped in a magic chest (cf. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap), and the evil sorcerers were cast into the Twilight Realm (cf. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess). The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is the first game confirmed to take place during these times, with the only safe human settlement being in Skyloft; the land below is ruled over by Ghirahim. And Skyward Sword still manages to have a previous Dark Time when an even greater evil (namely, the series' Satanic Archetype) ruled and which Ghirahim is trying to unleash once again.
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The Dark Times / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars has two species who have a long, long list of grievances against an ancient, completely megalomaniac empire of Abusive Precursors. By the time the game takes place, they've suffered a Karmic Death at the hand-flippers of the Liir, but it turns out that they left around a sentient bioweapon as a sort of personalized "fuck you" to the universe. Then in the second game, turns out they were Not Quite Dead after all...
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The Dark Times / int_78dbe0bc	comment	Strengths of the Heart and Mind: Long ago, when the Dark Bonneters (dark versions of the hat spirits in Super Mario Odyssey) ruled the Corona Empire, they ruled by fear, keeping morale low on purpose to make their subjects easy pickings for their possession. Countless victims were possessed and subjected to horrific tortures so their spirits would fade and the Dark Bonneters would have full control over their bodies. These times ended when the Red Berets stormed the capital and killed King Krános, sparking a war which killed most of the Dark Bonneters and forced the rest to set up laws against possessing other species.
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The Dark Times / int_81692f99	comment	A Star Trek crossover event, Invasion! introduced the Furies, a coalition of species that once ruled Federation-and-neighboring space. All the local cultures remember at least one Fury species as their "demons". The Furies were overthrown by the Unclean, who require three things from other species: power cores, DNA, and BRAINS! Unfortunately, each novel's author had a slightly different take on the Furies.
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The Dark Times / int_88a765a2	comment	Romancing SaGa 3 tells of a time when the Archfiend and his servants, the Four Sinistrals, ruled the planet with an iron fist until they were banished back to the Abyss by the Matriarch and her followers. Most notably, the Dead Man's Well at Mazos was created around this time when the demons threw the sick and the elderly down the well until it became a cursed mass grave.
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The Dark Times / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire has the Long Night, occurring 8000+ years before the main storyline begins. Details vary between culture, but all agree that it was a time of literal darkness and a winter that didn’t end. In Westeros, this coincided with the emergence of the Others and their legions of wights. It’s said to have lasted for a generation before a great hero (also different in every culture) with a flaming sword led humanity to victory against the darkness, bringing back the day.
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The Dark Times / int_a5549ed0	comment	In The Bible, it's implied that during the time when the Earth was formless in the first chapter of Genesis, Satan's Rebellion was in progress. While Adam and Eve were initially spared from experiencing this conflict, it all went to pot when they were tempted to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, kicking off a period when humans became increasingly more wicked and started producing giant offspring with angels. Things got so bad that God had to destroy the old world in The Great Flood minus everyone and everything in the Ark.
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The Dark Times / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project, as it builds upon Japanese Mythology, mention an era where terrible Youkai ruled the land of Gensokyo until they were pacified by the ancestors of the humans. In a subversion, the majority of those youkai still exists today, content to be left alone because the humans Outside refuse to believe in their existence anymore. Well, this is all coming from Hieda-no-Akyu...
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The Dark Times / int_a73a2606	comment	Children of an Elder God: Cosmic horrors ruled the Earth in the far past. The story happens because they're returning... and they don't particularly care about the ape-like creatures infesting their ancestral homeworld.
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The Dark Times / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 has several Dark Times: the aftermath of "The War in Heaven" stands out when all life was enslaved under the rule of the C'tan, until a plague of Eldritch Abominations killed 99% of all living things. By most series' standards, Warhammer 40k is entirely made up of Dark Times. 40k subverts this trope by having the present be the Dark Times with the past for the Imperium and the Eldar being depicted as glorious golden ages undone by their own pride. Since then it just keeps getting worse. Played with in regards to the Dark Age of Technology, which is named as such because it was the most technologically advanced humanity has ever been. It's called that because, like the original definition for the Dark Age, very little is known about it.
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The Dark Times / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer Fantasy had a fairly brief Dark Times, the period between the Old Ones' fall unleashing the Chaos gods, and the High elves succeeding in mostly closing the Warp Gate that let Chaos in. Of course, everything still sucks, but Chaos doesn't dominate the majority of the world anymore.
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The Dark Times / int_c4282b71	comment	The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic season 3 premiere has the reign of King Sombra for the Crystal Empire. The crystal pony that Twilight interviews admits that while part of her amnesia is due to Sombra's curse, the other part may be suppressed based on how awful his rule over them was. Which would make perfect sense considering that the brief flashback earlier in the episode prominently displayed the enslavement of the entire population of the Empire by the height of Sombra's power. In "Hearth's Warming Eve", the ponies of the past nearly faced extinction as the Windigoes fed on their hatred to turn the entire landscape into a frozen wasteland. What makes this example worse than the others is that the ponies ultimately only had themselves to blame for the situation instead of an Evil Overlord.
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The Dark Times / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who has the "Dark Times," in the beginning of the universe, a time of "blood and magic" with the Carrionites, the Racnoss, and the Great Vampires. The Weeping Angels are also implied to have originated during this era. There are "the Dark Times" of Gallifreyan history when Gallifrey was ruled by the Pythia before she was overthrown by the triumvirate of Rassilon, Omega, and the Other.
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The Dark Times / int_cfb3439a	comment	In Brütal Legend, the First Ones lived in darkness because they could not bear the sight of their own hideousness. When Ormagoden brought light and fire to the world, they trapped and killed him. The Titans rose from his blood and made them into servants, but when the Titans disappeared, they used remnants of the Titans (like nail clippings) in a ritual to remake them, and only got a pale imitation: humanity. The First Ones used humanity as slaves until the beginning of the game proper, when Eddie Riggs arrives in the World of Metal to help the leader of the human resistance get his movement going.
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The Dark Times / int_d3c4a6ce	comment	In Trials of Mana, mention is made of a dark time when the Benevodons roamed the land, causing widespread destruction.
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The Dark Times / int_db96ded4	comment	In The Legend of Korra mid-season two-parter "Beginnings", before the time of the first Avatar, the physical world was overrun by spirits, many of them hostile to humans, forcing them to live in cities on lion turtles. Although the lion turtles were able to give their citizens the power of element bending, it wasn't much help against the power of the spirits, especially when corrupted by Vaatu. These times came to an end when the first Avatar, Wan, decided to let the vast majority of spirits return to their place of origin, the spirit world, and let them be unable to return by sealing the portals between the physical and spirit worlds.
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The Dark Times / int_e293455a	comment	This idea actually evolved through Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel — in early Buffy, the Old Ones were implied to be merely waiting for a chance to come back and continue their reign, but by the time we came to late Angel and actually met one (Illyria), they were shown to have mostly killed one another and now are sealed away in specially-designed sarcophagi.
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The Dark Times / int_e2b86487	comment	Midkemia of The Riftwar Cycle was ruled for an untold amount of time by the Valheru, beings who arose long before the coming of the younger races and even the gods. They were enormously powerful and, at the time, not so much consciously evil as totally amoral. They lived out their time by sporadically killing one another, enslaving entire races, and periodically riding out to slaughter and sack entire worlds. Their conflict with the newly created gods and their expulsion after their defeat is a vital Backstory point.
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The Dark Times / int_f489fad2	comment	Hinted at in the Creepypasta "Genetic Memory".
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The Dark Times / int_f74b5f80	comment	Many of the races on Babylon 5 had legends concerning the last war with the Shadows 1,000 years ago: most of the Narn telepaths followed G'Quan to war and never returned; the Minbari almost lost the war until the timely arrival of Valen and a replacement base of operations; the Markab spoke of the "great darkness" defeated long ago several episodes before they were conveniently wiped out by a plague.
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