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The Dark Side

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The Dark Side	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Evil Counterpart, corrupted version, or evil side of a morally good Sentient Cosmic Force... and a considerable number of non-sentient, non-cosmic forces as well. Evil is addictive; the more of its power you rely on, the more evil you become. The Dark Side is when the temptation to fall has an added oomph. It's more than just the cumulative result of one's actions; there's a corrupting force that speeds things along. This is often the Phlebotinum-powered justification of Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, which results in the Fallen forgetting why they fell in the first place. The Dark Side often promises pleasure with power and respect. Sometimes, the Dark Side even offers itself as the efficacious means to do good, leading to the hero falling to a He Who Fights Monsters situation. Once it gets you, there's an odd tendency to accessorize accordingly. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Like More Than Mind Control, it accelerates the more suppressed urges and wrong choices it has to work with. May be fueled by an Artifact of Doom. May grant Black Magic and work through The Dark Arts. May result in The Heartless. Once it starts to taste good there's no turning back. The trope is named after the dark side of The Force from Star Wars. It's a component of Psychoactive Powers; protective instinct is harder to tap on demand than righteous fury, but anger tends to feed on itself, resulting in Power Incontinence. Of course, there are often also social, mental, moral, and sometimes physical costs that no amount of subterfuge can fully hide but by the time these aspects appear, it's too late. Contrary to what the Well-Intentioned Extremist and Anti-Hero might say, you cannot "fight the Dark Side with the Dark Side" — Heroic Willpower notwithstanding, the consequences will inevitably lead to the user's Pyrrhic Villainy. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Compare With Great Power Comes Great Insanity. Often leads to displays of Drunk on the Dark Side and shouts of "Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!" Also compare Evil Is Not a Toy, where the danger is not moral, but physical. The Dark Side tends to be, but is not always, associated with Discipline in Harmony Versus Discipline for its dominating aspects. Contrast Dark Is Not Evil. The Dark Side comes with its own built-in Aesop about the ends not justifying the means. See also The Dark Side Will Make You Forget, a scenario where a once well-meaning good guy uses the dark powers for good ends, and over time becomes a villain in the process.
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The Dark Side / int_1313ef27	comment	Corruption, the metaphysical force of sin, degeneration and evil, features heavily in Inferno Quest
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The Dark Side / int_16fc4335	comment	In Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar Universe there are hints that the ancient Big Bad Ma'ar may have started out this way.
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The Dark Side / int_1aacbbc9	comment	In the Dragon Age series, Blood Magic (whose specialty is easily-accessible power and Mind Control) has a highly corruptive effect on mages' sanity, as does consorting with demons (but that is more because the demons purportedly strive to corrupt mages in order to possess them). Even blood mages who manage to resist corruption, like Merrill in Dragon Age II, tend to inadvertently cause more harm than good in the long run.
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The Dark Side / int_1beda93b	comment	Gwynn from Sluggy Freelance has this with the Book of E-Ville and (formerly) with the demon K'Z'K.
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The Dark Side / int_1cc09117	comment	Used straight and subverted in Bleach: gaining Hollow powers raises people's upper power (it is stated that shinigami have a maximum power they can attain) and allows them great spiritual growth. But it also risks giving into your Super-Powered Evil Side for a world-class Freak Out!. The Vizard thoroughly beat their dark sides into submission in order to access the power safely, and teach others in their dilemma how to do the same; however, not all people who gain Hollow powers want to suppress The Dark Side.
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The Dark Side / int_1f140feb	comment	In The Silmarillion Sauron started out with good and intelligent intentions, but once he had begun supporting Morgoth as a means to an end, he was slowly corrupted until he became the utterly inhuman force of evil seen in The Lord of the Rings. History then repeats itself with Saruman.
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The Dark Side / int_21f00169	comment	In Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy universe, practicing Black Magic for any amount of time will result in this.
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The Dark Side / int_2b70efd4	comment	The Old World of Darkness, of which the above is the Spiritual Successor, is full of Dark Forces that corrupt their users. Werewolf: The Apocalypse has the Wyrm, the spiritual embodiment of entropy, death, and necessary destruction. Or rather, that's what it used to be, before it went batshit insane and became an Omnicidal Maniac. Nowadays it's a force of subtle corruption and despair, an army of not-at-all-subtle mutants and sadistic monsters, and a spiritual energy fed and strengthened by every atrocity and act of abuse in the world. Its spirits animate countless tainted objects and places all over the Earth. Every emotion of hate, and every act of destruction and abuse a person commits, slightly erodes their soul and makes them more open to the Urge Wyrms, who push them further towards their master. Werewolves who ally with the Wyrm (willingly or not) become sadistic, insane, mutated, fucked-up Black Spiral Dancers. Mage: The Ascension has the various evil forces served by the Nephandi, some of which appear to come from the Wyrm and others of which seem to be Eldritch Abominations from the far edges of the Solar System. Serving them is not healthy for your sanity. The Elohim in Demon: The Fallen have the Torment: the mark of their estrangement from God and/or Grace. Due to the nature of the setting, it's much easier to gain Torment than to absolve oneself from it. And the more Torment you have, the more likely you are (it's in the gameplay mechanics!) to screw up some benevolent deed and turn it into a crime, earning more Torment in turn...
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The Dark Side / int_30a87a0a	comment	In Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Lyman Taggart wanted to use the supercomputer Overmind to end the ongoing war being proliferated by the Biomechs, but was seduced by the seeming perfection of machines, inevitably becoming the infamous Lord Dread and the very thing he was fighting against. His occasional doubts are dissuaded by Overmind, who brainwashes him with the propaganda of their cause.
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The Dark Side / int_33888a01	comment	In the Drizzt novels by R.A. Salvatore, the Crystal Shard is frequently presented as being made of the Dark Side. So too the sentient sword Khazid'Hea. The Crystal Shard is an interesting and somewhat tragic case, since the true source of its corrupting influence isn't from the evil beings that created it (whom it consumed), but from the lingering sorrow and torment of a ruler who tried and failed to protect his kingdom from invaders with the Shard's power.
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The Dark Side / int_359ffc1	comment	In Endstone, Banestone corrupts through this.
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The Dark Side / int_3c33bf0f	comment	The Elohim in Demon: The Fallen have the Torment: the mark of their estrangement from God and/or Grace. Due to the nature of the setting, it's much easier to gain Torment than to absolve oneself from it. And the more Torment you have, the more likely you are (it's in the gameplay mechanics!) to screw up some benevolent deed and turn it into a crime, earning more Torment in turn...
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The Dark Side / int_41b0198a	comment	Dark Magic in The Dresden Files works like this. See, magic follows your intent and beliefs. So in order to break the Seven Laws of Magic, you have to truly believe that the things forbidden by the laws (Mind Control, murder by magic, Eldritch Abomination summoning, and so forth) are the right thing to do. Because of this, all Warlocks, no matter how good their original intentions, will eventually end up Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. The Council's reaction is classic Shoot the Dog—the penalty for breaking the laws is death the instant the Wardens catch you, unless another wizard vouches for you. In that case, you're on a one-strike-you're-out probation, where any screw-up will mean the deaths of both you and the wizard who vouched for you. Basically, the council is answering "yes" to the question 'knowing what was to come, would you kill Hitler as a child?' The Denarians are another good example of this. They're humans possessed by fallen angels (in the Christian sense), who got that way because they gave in to said fallen angel's temptations. If the host is evil and strong-willed enough, they get neat shapeshifting powers and immortality, along with the Fallen as a partner. If not, then they're trapped in their own minds as the Fallen takes over. Harry experiences this personally when he gets the shadow of the fallen angel Lasciel in his head. She offers him help remembering things, blocking out pain, and translating other languages, which saves his rear multiple times. She also has solutions to any problem he faces—all of which, by strange coincidence, involve Harry becoming a full Denarian. Harry is well aware of this and even quotes Gandalf at her when he refuses. The only member of the White Council that is allowed to violate the Seven Laws is the Blackstaff. The position is named for the black wizard's staff (implied to be a bloodthirsty Living Weapon) that converts the mental corruption into painful-but-workable physical corruption of the flesh, as well as nightmares and a heck of a lot of guilt issues.
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The Dark Side / int_43576f5	comment	Sam spends about three seasons of Supernatural trying to avoid turning to the Dark Side, even making Dean promise to kill him if he ever goes evil. The fourth season, however, finds him drinking demon blood to fuel his demon-provided powers so he can kill Lilith and prevent the Apocalypse after she kills Dean. By the end of the season, thinking he's The Only One who can do it, Sam leaves his brother to go get even more power and kills Lilith, inadvertently releasing Lucifer and starting the Apocalypse.
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The Dark Side / int_453a04b0	comment	An episode of The Fairly Oddparents had Dark Laser offer Timmy a suit of dark powers, hoping to get him addicted to evil and make him his apprentice. It almost works.
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The Dark Side / int_49ad83ee	comment	Warlocks and Deathknights in World of Warcraft, using evil powers to fight evil, are basically under constant threat of this happening, and there are many boss characters that have. Players are immune to this.
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The Dark Side / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Parodied and subverted in Homestuck. After her mother dies and she learns something about the Horrorterrors Rose goes "grimdark". Although this changes her appearance and prevents her from speaking normally, her personality is seemingly unchanged... though she understandably wants to kill the Reality Warper who killed her mother.
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The Dark Side / int_526d4c5c	comment	Naturally appears aplenty in Knights of the Old Republic, with its Jedi themes. The Sith in general appear to like to be as evil as possible, and their view on how it's rational to do things may even be corrupted by the Dark Side. There are a couple of occasions where you are questioned about the right course of action to take from a Sith perspective, and the right option always seems to be the most evil one available. For example, they rationalise why you need to do the You Have Failed Me trope, and make sure to Shoot the Dog even if it's not strictly necessary. There's also the story of Darth Revan, where it's not entirely clear whether the fallen Jedi with fearsome intellect and immensely strong personality was a puppet of the Dark Side or made it his puppet; it has been suggested that his plan of becoming the galaxy's bad guy in order to toughen up the Republic for the inevitable invasion of the True Sith was really a rational move, but then again, that's exactly what he would think if he was corrupted by the Dark Side in the way described above.
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The Dark Side / int_5755b96a	comment	Subverted with Vaarsuvius in The Order of the Stick and his/her soul splice with the spirits of three psychotic mages in order to stop the black dragon threatening V's mate and children, but also out of pride. Vaarsuvius was told the soul splice would have an effect on alignment, but after the Moral Event Horizon is crossed, this is revealed to be a lie set up to give V an excuse to do something that the elf would have otherwise avoided.
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The Dark Side / int_58907201	comment	In Sinfest Satan talks it up after a failure at temptation.
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The Dark Side / int_5e150650	comment	Ebon Dragon Infernal Charms, in Exalted. There are a lot of other morally dubious Charms, spells, and supernatural abilities, but only the Ebon Dragon's Charm trees will steadily impair your ability to act in an honest, moral fashion as you progress along them. (Granted, Infernals are one of the "villainous" factions to begin with, but they're entirely possible to play heroically, and Eclipse Solars and Moonshadow Abyssals can learn their Charms...)
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The Dark Side / int_5e99f5e5	comment	In Kingdom Hearts, this is represented by the "power of Darkness", which eventually corrupts all of the main villains and The Rival Riku. Later games establish that Dark Is Not Evil (sort of), allowing Riku to retain his good guy status and his cool Darkness powers. It was also stated that Riku really is a special case, Darkness always corrupts and recovering from it to the extent Riku did has only ever been done by him and him alone, And even getting there still took him inheriting his powers from someone who was falling to the darkness when he was given the spark and losing his body to it, and the manifestation of his inner darkness still haunts him five games and three years later.
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The Dark Side / int_65479a6e	comment	The Midnight Express were billed from there.
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The Dark Side / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Tends to happen when you start using spells with the "Evil" descriptor in Dungeons & Dragons. Note: the descriptor is there for a reason. The "Evil" descriptor is a bit misleading at times; Spells such as "Phantasmal Killer", which is Mind Rape in everything but name, does not have the descriptor, while spells such as "Deathwatch" which gives you a little timer to tell when the person you cast it on dies, does. In Dungeons & Dragons evil isn't just a word but a literal component of existence, which means that evil spells use physical capital-E Evil as an ingredient. Casting Phantasmal Killer against a group of children would still be evil, but since it doesn't actually invoke Evil as a spell component, the spell itself is as morally neutral as a Fireball or Lightning Bolt.
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The Dark Side / int_6c6b89db	comment	In Supergirl story Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, Supergirl's school's Principal—who is Mr. Mxyzptlk in disguise—encourages Belinda—who is pretty much an evil or at the very least jerkass counterpart of Supergirl—to succumb to her petty, mad and mean-spirited side.
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The Dark Side / int_6e1d5f36	comment	The darker aspect of Delvian mental powers in Farscape, especially in the episodes "That Old Black Magic" and "Rhapsody In Blue". All in all, Delvian priests have a worrying tendency to turn to the Dark Side, for as they train for purity and gain more control over their abilities, they become more vulnerable to darker impulses; if they succumb to these, they will very quickly go insane.
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The Dark Side / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Firebenders have all been taught to fuel their bending with anger, enhancing their warlike tendencies and giving many of them anger management problems. Late in the series Zuko learns to use the sun instead, and Iroh may have been doing the same all series. Even Aang's first Firebending teacher viewed it as a wholly destructive power. Even Waterbending can have darker uses, as in being able to Bloodbend any living creature, or rip out the water within them. The Legend of Korra introduces an actual dark side. Darkness is a spiritual essence in and of itself, represented by the spirit Vaatu, who corrupts other spirits into becoming dark spirits and serve him. While humans aren't ostensibly corrupted, giving in to negative emotions like anger is to be overwhelmed by darkness. A darker side of Airbending is shown when Zaheer sucks out all the oxygen in the Earth Queen's body, then suffocates her by forming said oxygen into a dome around her head.
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The Dark Side / int_7dc73376	comment	The Force Unleashed In the alternate ending of you can choose to kill Darth Vader and take his place as the Emperor's right-hand man. However, you then decide to kill the Emperor to elevate yourself further, but he sees it coming and mangles you to the point that you had to be put into a suit like Vader was, and are forced to serve as his apprentice indefinitely.
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The Dark Side / int_834197b2	comment	An excellent example of the power of Chaos, is the Horus Heresy novel Fulgrim. Fulgrim starts out as a Primarch, the settings' equivalent of a human archangel, and a great lover of art of all kinds. In the end, the least of his depravities is creating art with the blood and screams of his victims. Throughout Fulgrim's descent into madness, he never fully realized what was happening, and every step on the way makes absolute, reasonable, bone-chilling sense.
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The Dark Side / int_83443877	comment	Even Morgoth originally just wanted to be more like Daddy and create some stuff all on his own. When he discovered that he couldn't, he threw a bit of a hissy fit and tried to knock over all of Daddy's toys.
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The Dark Side / int_83d22e9e	comment	In Marvel's World War Hulk: X-Men, Cain Marko succumbs to the lure of being an unstoppable force once again, and his own innate desire for destruction, which leads to his return as The Juggernaut of old by fully embracing the power's evil nature.
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The Dark Side / int_88b580f0	comment	Werewolf: The Apocalypse has the Wyrm, the spiritual embodiment of entropy, death, and necessary destruction. Or rather, that's what it used to be, before it went batshit insane and became an Omnicidal Maniac. Nowadays it's a force of subtle corruption and despair, an army of not-at-all-subtle mutants and sadistic monsters, and a spiritual energy fed and strengthened by every atrocity and act of abuse in the world. Its spirits animate countless tainted objects and places all over the Earth. Every emotion of hate, and every act of destruction and abuse a person commits, slightly erodes their soul and makes them more open to the Urge Wyrms, who push them further towards their master. Werewolves who ally with the Wyrm (willingly or not) become sadistic, insane, mutated, fucked-up Black Spiral Dancers.
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The Dark Side / int_88fce462	comment	The King of Fighters universe has Orochi, a Sealed Evil in a Can, which granted its power to several characters, who have the ability to enter the "Riot of the Blood" state when they lose control. Iori Yagami is the prime example of this kind of character.
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The Dark Side / int_89f4bc45	comment	One of The Undertaker's Red Barons is "The Man from the Dark Side." More on-topic, he also served a "higher power" during the Attitude Era as part of his "Ministry" phase. It even caused a Worked Shoot situation where it was claimed his character was starting to bleed into his real life (which resulted in his real name, "Mark", being used on-air for the first time in WWF).
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The Dark Side / int_8ddaf763	comment	In Fear Itself, Colossus, in a desperate bid to save the X-Men from a jacked-up Juggernaut, absorbed the Cyttorak crystal into his own body, becoming the new Juggernaut. He is now struggling to hold on to his humanity and prevent Cyttorak from completely possessing him. Judging from some previews of Avengers vs. X-Men it's going to be a losing battle... All of this turns out to have been his own sister Magick's scheme to make him realize that she isn't his innocent little sister anymore. By allowing him to be Juggernaut for a while (she could have freed him at any time with her own powers), she made Colossus experience firsthand how the Dark Side changes people.
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The Dark Side / int_8ffd1b86	comment	The Dark Dimension in Doctor Strange (2016), ruled by Dormammu. Dormammu is very much The Corrupter, offering eternal life to his followers who drink on this dimension's power (what they often forget is that it's an eternal life of suffering). The Ancient One managed to use said dimension's power to stay young and live hundreds of years without succumbing to Dormammu's will, while Kaecilius and his followers became servants of Dormammu, as shown by the cracked skin around their eyes.
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The Dark Side / int_90103ef2	comment	In Coming Up Violet high school popularity is treated a lot like this. This is made all too evident when Abby tries to convince Violet to usurp the Alpha Bitch's power and ends up sounding very much like Chancellor Palpatine.
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The Dark Side / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: The so-called True Power, which is drawn directly from the Dark One, is highly addictive. Only the very upper echelon of the Dark One's flunkies are allowed to use it, and only one of them does so on a more than completely desperate basis, as they're all afraid of the side effect: going utterly around the bend (the one who does use it is already nuts and a major nihilist to boot—he doesn't care about the consequences). Saidin, the source of power for male magic users, is also considered to be this in-universe, but that's because the Dark One managed to layer corruption over it, causing anyone who uses it for long to go completely Ax-Crazy and then die a horrible death that's never seen, but described as being essentially rotting while you're still alive. Late in the series, Rand maanges to fix it.
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The Dark Side / int_94d1f095	comment	In Trollz, one of Simon's plans had Sapphire fall prey to this. Coaxed by a magic mirror, she grew narcissistic and power-hungry, deciding she didn't need her friends anymore. She did have regrets about it, and apologized once things were set right.
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The Dark Side / int_95e58696	comment	Mahou Sensei Negima! has Negi learning Black Magic so that he'll be able to protect his students, and it's implied that there's a real risk of the power taking control. It's also used more humorously, as Evangeline will attempt to "turn Negi to the dark side'' whenever the opportunity presents itself. It hasn't worked yet. She touches this with almost everybody she comes into contact with, and has noticeably affected some of them (including Negi) — the catch is that this setting weighs heavily on the side of Dark Is Not Evil. Her version is more aesthetic choice and antisociality with Dark Side corruptive qualities than what the (other?) villains in the series possess.
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The Dark Side / int_9ba3174f	comment	In A.L. Phillips's The Quest of the Unaligned, elemental Darkness is inextricably entangled with each of the four elemental magics, and mages except for the orahs, who "live aligned with light alone" constantly have to fight its pull. Additionally, it is possible under certain extreme circumstances to become a hoshek, a mage aligned with pure darkness. This grants almost unlimited power, at the cost of becoming completely psychotic and utterly evil. The last hoshek to be created destroyed half of Caederan before finally being defeated.
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The Dark Side / int_9edf7c1d	comment	Does appear, however, in an issue of What If...? in which the symbiote latches on to the Punisher after Spider-Man rids himself of it, and attempts to corrupt the Punisher into killing Spider-Man. Subverted, however, in that the Punisher — who is already a pretty dark character anyway — is having none of it, manages to gain control of the symbiote, and informs it that if it ever tries to make him hurt an innocent again, he'll kill them both.
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The Dark Side / int_a825da3e	comment	Averted in Magic: The Gathering, were the many colors of mana are neutral, even Black. There are spells and groups like the phyrexians that corrupt people's personalities, but magic by itself isn't a corrupter.
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The Dark Side / int_a944b4bb	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: Anyone who gets near (much less uses) the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings. Gollum is the example of how far things can go. Many of them start out with good or at least neutral intentions—Isildur wanted an heirloom to commemorate his hard-won victory over Sauron, Gandalf and Galadriel are tempted to use it to free Middle-Earth from Sauron and Boromir actually tries to steal it to protect his homeland, Sam dreams of creating a great and beautiful garden—but unless they give the thing up relatively early (an extraordinary feat of willpower only two characters ever willingly accomplish) it will turn them into another Dark Lord or get them killed. In The Silmarillion Sauron started out with good and intelligent intentions, but once he had begun supporting Morgoth as a means to an end, he was slowly corrupted until he became the utterly inhuman force of evil seen in The Lord of the Rings. History then repeats itself with Saruman. Even Morgoth originally just wanted to be more like Daddy and create some stuff all on his own. When he discovered that he couldn't, he threw a bit of a hissy fit and tried to knock over all of Daddy's toys.
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The Dark Side / int_a9cb14fc	comment	It is in the very nature of Ravenloft, the Demiplane of Dread, to addict and reward whoever acts evil. Though it also acts as their prison. In fact, the Dark Powers of Ravenloft don't reward evil, they actually punishes it horrifically, by dangling the evil person's greatest desire just out of reach. For all eternity.
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The Dark Side / int_ac67074d	comment	Raven in the first season Teen Titans episode "Nevermore". Her inner darkness took control of her, that's why she pulled Dr. Light under her cloak with all the black tentacles and did something horrible underneath. All with glowing red eyes and the nastiest smile she's ever had in the show. It's a deep internal struggle though, and she's mortified when she snaps out of it. Though the glow comes back and she snarls with sharp teeth when asked what she'd done to him.
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The Dark Side / int_ac8b90f5	comment	Mage: The Ascension has the various evil forces served by the Nephandi, some of which appear to come from the Wyrm and others of which seem to be Eldritch Abominations from the far edges of the Solar System. Serving them is not healthy for your sanity.
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The Dark Side / int_afeeacf6	comment	Considered by itself, Episode VII: The Force Awakens actually averts this: Kylo Ren has spent quite enough time serving the Dark Side of the Force, and he is intellectually convinced that this is the right thing to do — but it has not corrupted him into total evil and made him forget his human attachments. Instead he is still, in an ironic inversion, tempted by the Light Side.
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The Dark Side / int_b373a206	comment	From Green Lantern, we have several examples. Parallax, the living embodiment of fear, who corrupted Hal Jordan into a maniac, and tried to do the same to Kyle Rayner. Sinestro, who was corrupted—not by Parallax, but by trying to bring order to his home planet by creating a tyrannical rule. He later allied himself with Parallax to try bringing order to the entire universe. The Red Lantern Corps, whose rings are powered by the wielder's own rage. The Star Sapphires are powered by love, with much the same addictive effects. The Orange Lanterns whose powers are derived from greed, and the Black Lanterns the "darkest" of the Lantern Corps in general, being dedicated to death and darkness, with all its members being undead. Subverted and averted with the Orange and Black Lanterns respectively. The Orange Lanterns are nothing but energy constructs that take the form of Agent Orange's many victims. Then again, all of them were beings driven by greed in the first place, which is what drew Agent Orange to them, so it still sort of fits. Agent Orange himself is a prisoner of his own power, hopelessly addicted to it and unwilling to ever let go of the Orange Lantern Battery which contains Ophidian the Greed Entity despite the unending hunger it inflicts upon him. The Black Lanterns are nothing but corpses animated by the rings themselves which are all mere extensions of Necron's will. There's no trace of the people that used to be those bodies.
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The Dark Side / int_b9b796cf	comment	In the last route of Fate/stay night, Angra Mainyu's corruption of the Grail causes Sakura to undergo this kind of transformation after she suffers an Attempted Rape by her adopted brother. Any of the Servants she corrupts instead of killing outright, including Saber and Berserker, undergo a shift to The Dark Side along with her.
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The Dark Side / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Somewhat predictably for the setting, Warhammer 40,000 takes this trope and hurls it screaming over the edge in the form of Chaos. The result? There's no Light Side—only a sort of Gray Side, and the actual Dark Side is sentient. A sentient, extremely intelligent, masterfully manipulative, and very powerful Dark Side that occasionally takes matters into its own hands when mortal pawns aren't getting the job done. However, the greatest defense everybody has against Chaos is itself, since it or its major manifestations will always turn on itself(/each other). Happens quite a bit to radical Inquisitors, who feel that using demonic powers or weapons to fight Chaos is a good idea, and don't quite understand that those are in fact good ways to get corrupted by Chaos. Especially because many Radicals have to employ evil methods to acquire such means. An excellent example of the power of Chaos, is the Horus Heresy novel Fulgrim. Fulgrim starts out as a Primarch, the settings' equivalent of a human archangel, and a great lover of art of all kinds. In the end, the least of his depravities is creating art with the blood and screams of his victims. Throughout Fulgrim's descent into madness, he never fully realized what was happening, and every step on the way makes absolute, reasonable, bone-chilling sense. Dark Eldar started out as the most hedonistic members of their species, culminating in an orgy so huge it squicked a Chaos God into existence. Because of their inability to contain such urges, they cannot use the same disciplined mindset to keep their souls from said Chaos God (as due to how he was born he instantly takes the soul of any Eldar upon death unless it was protected) nor do they have a god to protect them like the Harlequins. The end result is that each Dark Eldar have to go into further depravity to fuel their agelessness, essentially tossing the suffering of others in place of their own souls. Unlike other examples, some Dark Eldar can actually get the discipline to leave this lifestyle and become either Exodites, join a Craft World, or get accepted into the Harlequins. Conversely, Craftworlders and Exodites (especially those on the Path of the Outcast) are not immune from the temptation, and can lose themselves in the Dark Eldar ways as well.
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The Dark Side / int_bd310eaa	comment	Played for laughs in El Goonish Shive:
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The Dark Side / int_cb6abea3	comment	Many characters in Yu-Gi-Oh! and GX fall into some Dark Side's trap, usually by trying to use an Artifact of Doom or something Powered by a Forsaken Child (i.e. Marik, Dartz, Akunadin, Saiou, Judai), sometimes with good intentions (Yami Yugi used the Seal of Orichalcos partly to save his Dark Magician Girl, Fubuki used his Superpowered Evil Side to try to save Ryo). They start confident they'll be able to control what they unleash, but inevitably, the power's/object's inherent darkness is controlling them. Light can function the same way. A malignant celestial radiance known as the Light of Destruction tried to destroy the world via brainwashing cult in Season 2. Even after its defeat, it continued to be referenced thereafter as one of the most dangerous forces in existence.
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The Dark Side / int_ce1f7b52	comment	Picking up the theme from its literary counterpart above, in The Dresden Files RPG breaking any of the Laws of Magic invites attention from the Wardens and pushes player characters closer to NPC status...but each "Lawbreaker" power (one per Law and automatically acquired upon breaking it) then also provides a bonus towards actions breaking the same Law of Magic again.
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The Dark Side / int_d3cc710e	comment	Blue Rose: Sorcery — meaning most forms of ritual magic, as well as ordinary Inherent Gift magic if used in certain unethical ways — works almost exactly like the classic Star Wars Dark Side.
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The Dark Side / int_d5bdc32e	comment	The Shun Leep martial arts style from Gold Digger is so badass it has its own dark side for those who don't have the self control to master the higher techniques. It's not even a magic-related style! It just makes fighting so euphoric, and actively addictive, you stop caring about little things like whether your opponent lives.
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The Dark Side / int_d5f03f8d	comment	Worms has a rather odd take on the Darkside being defensive by burrowing into the terrain and gaurding yourself with girders, it's still fighting dirty as you can burrow down and unleash an Armageddon if you have one.
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The Dark Side / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra introduces an actual dark side. Darkness is a spiritual essence in and of itself, represented by the spirit Vaatu, who corrupts other spirits into becoming dark spirits and serve him. While humans aren't ostensibly corrupted, giving in to negative emotions like anger is to be overwhelmed by darkness.
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The Dark Side / int_e293455a	comment	Willow in season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when she abandons all restraint from using magic, even Black Magic. Subverted in that you have to go through the Dark Side, survive (not explode) and come out the other end to be on the real Light Side. Also, in season 3, Angel warns Faith "You don't know the price of evil". Her response: "I hope evil takes MasterCard". Angel's conversions to Angelus don't count as they are instant and involuntary. But he goes dark in season 2, in a tantrum over not being able to save Darla. For example, he lets a room full of lawyers get eaten by vampires. That's dark, isn't it? Isn't it? Well, they are lawyers. The point behind Angel and the gang being recruited to run LA branch of Wolfram and Hart in Season 5 is basically this troope, even if they insist that they did so to do good. It is strongly implied (and occasionally stated more or less explicitly by several characters) that the Senior Partners want Angel (and his friends) to willingly choose the evil side for "good" reasons. Spoofed in Season 6 when Spike encourages Buffy to walk with him on the Dark Side — which consists of Spike playing poker for kittens while Buffy gets drunk and makes snarky comments. Things become more serious later on in the season when Spike wrongly assumes (or convinces himself) that Buffy's depression and desire for rough sex means she wants to abandon her life and join him on the Dark Side. His failure to understand the complexity of her emotions has serious consequences for both of them.
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The Dark Side / int_e4732abc	comment	The Wraith Enzyme in Stargate Atlantis, though Ford has yet to venture into full-on Darth Vader territory. And probably never will, because his character has seemingly been forgotten by characters and writers alike. While they Never Found the Body, the implication that Ford died in his last appearance was fairly obvious. They left just enough of an opening for him to be brought back if the writers decided to do so, but they never did.
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The Dark Side / int_e863cc41	comment	In Mega Man Battle Network 4 and 5, the Dark Chips will make its user addictive to it and, eventually, corrupt the Navi into the darkness. In gameplay terms, when you use them repeatedly, the chips will force themselves up to the first selections of chips whenever you initiate a battle; oh, and you'll permanently lose your max HP by 1 each time you do that.
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The Dark Side / int_ebffc81f	comment	Sometimes it is more explicit, however: Mage: The Awakening has Abyssal powers offering gifts to mages who serve them, while Promethean: The Created has the eroding force of Flux and the Refinement of Flux, Centimani.
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The Dark Side / int_ee829854	comment	The Secret Society in House of Anubis soon bring in the newest teacher into their ranks (leading to his face heel turn). Season 3 has, what the heroes call, Team Evil. They eventually also start corrupting people into their team, by locking them into a sarcophagus and stealing their soul for the god Ammit to devour. They are even worse when you discover they took the soul of one of the Sibuna Members themselves. While this could be considered mind control, the members who had their soul lost openly admit that power feels good and are all glad that they lost their conscience, while the rest of them feel that way anyways.
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The Dark Side / int_ef661e97	comment	The Satsui No Hadou or "Surge of Murderous Intent" from Street Fighter, which both Ryu and Gouken have to deal with and which Akuma has embraced (the idea being that to truly reach one's potential as a fighter, the idea of mercy and honor cannot substitute for winning at all cost). Evil Ryu and Oni represent the Drunk on the Dark Side component.
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The Dark Side / int_f00d733b	comment	New World of Darkness is filled with powers that slowly corrupt and tear into those who call upon them. In many cases, simply being supernatural leads one into temptation — the average Humanity of an elder vampire is around four, which is about the point at which even murder doesn't look like that much of a big deal anymore. Sometimes it is more explicit, however: Mage: The Awakening has Abyssal powers offering gifts to mages who serve them, while Promethean: The Created has the eroding force of Flux and the Refinement of Flux, Centimani. The Gangrel clan from Vampire: The Requiem get their own special variant. Any vampire can "ride the wave" and give into their Beast, but Gangrel can enter "the Red Surrender," a state where the Beast takes over and they become much more powerful. The downside? It's addictive. You can break the addiction though through sheer willpower, and end up becoming a Genius Bruiser; you become more connected to your humanity by telling the Beast where to stick it, and get bonuses to mental stats (called the Red Denial). The downside? It feels about as pleasant as hearing nails on a chalkboard, and chewing tinfoil at the same time. Denying the beast feels awful.
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The Dark Side / int_f74b5f80	comment	The Shadows in Babylon 5 start their work by tempting and corrupting powerful people. Their Arc Words are "What do you want?" When their Mouth of Sauron asks this of the Centauri ambassador Londo, Londo casually answers that killing every Narn in Centauri territory would be a good start. After they actually do it and Londo gets the credit, he finds himself getting pulled deeper and deeper into questionable moral territory, as he now owes quite a bit to some very powerful creditors who aren't shy about collecting.
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The Dark Side / int_fa00b130	comment	Parodied in Spongebob Squarepants when Barnacleboy tells Mermaidman he's crossing over to the Dark Side. It's then shown that half of the Krusty Krab restaurant is in a veil of utter blackness, to the point where we can't see anything within.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Avengers Arena (Comic Book) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Darkseid (Comic Book) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Ninja High School (Comic Book) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade (Comic Book) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992) (Comic Book) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Transformers (Comic Book) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Transformers (Marvel) (Comic Book) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
A Sticky Situation / Fan Fic	seeAlso	The Dark Side
FallingTheFateOfAhsokaTano	seeAlso	The Dark Side
Harry Potter And The Boy Who Lived / Fan Fic	seeAlso	The Dark Side
The Bitterness Trilogy / Fan Fic	seeAlso	The Dark Side
Between My Brother and Me (Fanfic) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Clone Musume (Fanfic) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Friendship Is Grievous (Fanfic) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
New Beginnings (Fanfic) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Star Wars: The Sith, Zero (Fanfic) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Hill of Swords (Fanfic) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Doctor Strange (2016) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Party Monster / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Revenge of the Sith	seeAlso	The Dark Side
Revenge of the Sith / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Empire Strikes Back / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Masque of the Red Death / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Master of Disguise / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Men Who Stare at Goats / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Rise of Skywalker / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Dragon Age (Franchise) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Street Fighter (Franchise) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Bastard Operator from Hell / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Coldfire Trilogy / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Dark Lordâ€”The Rise of Darth Vader / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Darth Bane / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Dreamblood Duology / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Imaro / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Jedi Apprentice / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Overheaven / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Bartimaeus Trilogy / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Lightbringer Series / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Scholomance / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockC	seeAlso	The Dark Side
Dichter And Denker	seeAlso	The Dark Side
IWillProtectHer	seeAlso	The Dark Side
KiAttacks	seeAlso	The Dark Side
KickTheWrongDog	seeAlso	The Dark Side
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	The Dark Side
ShonenUpgrade	seeAlso	The Dark Side
SuburbanShootout	seeAlso	The Dark Side
TheDarkSide	sameAs	The Dark Side
Death Note (Manga) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Prétear (Manga) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (Manga) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Razia's Shadow (Music) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Mad Scientist Wars (Roleplay) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
House of Anubis / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Flash (2014) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Blue Rose (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Chronicles of Darkness (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Fading Suns (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Mutant Chronicles (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Old World of Darkness (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Orpheus (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Promethean: The Created (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Star Wars d6 (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Dresden Files (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Vampire: The Requiem (Tabletop Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Brand (Theatre) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Armello (Video Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Blade & Soul (Video Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Divinity: Original Sin II (Video Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Gladius (Video Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Grandia II (Video Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Realm of the Mad God (Video Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom (Video Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Spyro: A Hero's Tail (Video Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus (Video Game) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Aventures (Web Video) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Brent Smalley's Videogame World (Web Video) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Th3Birdman (Web Video) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Quest For Geekdom (Web Video) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Vision of Escaflowne Abridged (Web Video) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Star Mares (Webcomic) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
NFL Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Trollz / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Hulk Hogan (Wrestling) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
Jake Roberts (Wrestling) / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side

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