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Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss
Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss is FromSoftware's 2012 DLC expansion for Dark Souls, debuting in the PC Prepare to Die Edition and set in past Oolacile, adding bosses Artorias, Manus, Kalameet, and Sanctuary Guardian; later bundled in Dark Souls Remastered.
Dark Star (film)
Dark Star (1974) is John Carpenter's feature debut, a low-budget USC student film turned sci-fi comedy about a bored spaceship crew, co-written with Dan O'Bannon and later reworked into Alien.
Dark Sun
Dark Sun is a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting on the desert world of Athas, first published by TSR in 1991, centered on survival under sorcerer-kings.
Dark Times (album)
Dark Times is the sixth studio album by Long Beach rapper Vince Staples, released May 24, 2024 on Blacksmith/Def Jam, his final Def Jam album; 13 tracks in about 35 minutes covering fame, survivor's guilt, and Black struggle.
Dark tourism
Dark tourism, also called thanatourism, is travel to sites of death, disaster, or atrocity such as concentration camps, genocide memorials, and disaster zones; terms coined in 1996 by Lennon and Foley and Seaton.
Dark Tourist
Dark Tourist is a 2018 Netflix documentary series, New Zealand's first Netflix original, in which journalist David Farrier visits 28 dark tourism sites across eight region-themed episodes; it scored 70% on Rotten Tomatoes and was not renewed.
Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity, formerly Septic Broiler, is a Swedish melodic death metal band formed in Billdal near Gothenburg in 1989, one of the Gothenburg sound's three pioneers with At the Gates and In Flames; The Gallery (1995) is its landmark album, and Endtime Signals (2024) its latest.
Dark triad
Dark triad: set of three subclinical personality traits, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, coined by Paulhus and Williams (2002). Not a diagnosis; linked to manipulation, crime, and workplace harm, with the Dark Tetrad adding sadism.
Dark trion
A dark trion is a charged exciton in a semiconductor whose recombination is spin-forbidden, giving it a lifetime hundreds of times longer than bright trions.
Dark Urge
The Dark Urge ("Durge") is Baldur's Gate 3's fully customizable Origin character: an amnesiac Bhaalspawn child of Bhaal, guided by Sceleritas Fel, who can embrace or resist murderous urges and gain the Slayer form.
Dark Victory
Dark Victory is a 1939 Warner Bros. melodrama directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Bette Davis as dying socialite Judith Traherne, with George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, and Ronald Reagan; three Oscar nominations, remade as Stolen Hours and a 1976 TV film.
Dark warehouse
A dark warehouse, also called a lights-out or autonomous warehouse, is a fully automated warehouse where machines handle storage, picking, and dispatch without human presence.
Dark Water (2005 film)
Dark Water (2005) is Walter Salles's American supernatural horror remake of Hideo Nakata's 2002 Japanese film, based on Koji Suzuki's novel Honogurai Mizu no Soko Kara, starring Jennifer Connelly as a mother haunted by dark-water leaks on Roosevelt Island; released July 8, 2005 by Touchstone, 105 minutes, PG-13, $25.5 million US gross.
Dark Water (仄暗い水の底から) (2002 film)
Dark Water (仄暗い水の底から, Honogurai mizu no soko kara) is Hideo Nakata's 2002 Japanese horror film, adapted from a Kōji Suzuki short story, starring Hitomi Kuroki as a divorced mother haunted in a damp apartment by a drowned girl; remade in Hollywood in 2005 with Jennifer Connelly.
Dark Waters (2019 film)
Dark Waters (2019) is Todd Haynes's legal thriller starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, who fought DuPont over PFOA/Teflon water contamination in Parkersburg, West Virginia, based on a 2016 New York Times Magazine feature.
Dark wave
Dark wave (darkwave) is a post-punk-derived music genre from the late 1970s and early 1980s, blending new wave pop with gothic rock's dark themes; synthesizer-based, spanning 100–130 BPM, from Clan of Xymox to Boy Harsher.
Dark web
The dark web, also called Onionland, is the portion of the internet reachable only through anonymizing networks like Tor, used by journalists and dissidents but also hosting criminal marketplaces.
Dark Web (disambiguation)
The dark web is the hidden part of the web hosted on anonymity networks like Tor, reachable only with special software, and known for both illicit markets and legitimate uses.
Dark Winds
Dark Winds is an AMC psychological thriller (2022–present) adapted from Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn & Chee novels, created by Graham Roland, starring Zahn McClarnon as Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn in the 1970s Southwest; five seasons, all-Native writers' room, 100% Rotten Tomatoes.
Dark Wings, Dark Words
"Dark Wings, Dark Words" is episode 2 of Game of Thrones season 3 (April 7, 2013), written by Vanessa Taylor, directed by Daniel Minahan, adapting A Storm of Swords chapters and introducing the Reeds and Lady Olenna Tyrell.
Dark Woke
Dark Woke (#DarkWoke, Woke 2.0) is a slang term and hashtag combining progressive politics with aggressive, uncivil rhetoric, popularized on X in January 2025 after Trump's inauguration; earliest May 2022 use, Dark Brandon-inspired, tied to Democrats' combative messaging.
Dark-eyed junco
Dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis), also called snowbird, a common North American forest sparrow with about 15 subspecies including Slate-colored and Oregon forms, lumped from up to seven species in the 1980s; population roughly 630 million.
Dark-field microscopy
Dark-field microscopy, also called dark-ground illumination, is an optical technique in which only light scattered by a specimen forms the image, showing unstained living cells bright against a black background.
Dark-field X-ray imaging
Dark-field X-ray imaging is an X-ray technique that forms contrast from X-rays scattered by microscopic structures in an object, revealing details invisible in standard absorption images.
Dark-field X-ray microscopy
Dark-field X-ray microscopy (DFXM) is a synchrotron imaging technique that maps crystal orientation and strain inside bulk samples in 3D, introduced by H. Simons and colleagues in 2015.
Dark-sky preserve
Dark-sky preserve: a protected area certified for natural night-sky darkness, chiefly via DarkSky International's International Dark Sky Places program (parks, reserves, sanctuaries, communities), founded 2001 with Flagstaff, Arizona as the first city.
Darker than Black
Darker than Black (黒の契約者, Kuro no Keiyakusha) is a 2007 Bones original anime directed by Tensai Okamura, about Contractors with powers who pay remunerations; Hei, BK-201 the Black Reaper, works amid Tokyo's Hell's Gate; a 2009 sequel, Gemini of the Meteor, followed.
Darkest Dungeon
Darkest Dungeon: gothic roguelike turn-based RPG by Red Hook Studios, released January 19, 2016, known for its stress and Affliction system, Death's Door, permadeath, and narrator Wayne June.
Darkest Hour (film)
Darkest Hour (2017) is a Joe Wright biographical war drama, written by Anthony McCarten, starring Oscar-winning Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in May 1940, covering his decision to fight Hitler rather than negotiate, with noted historical liberties.
Darkest Hour / Wake Thy Power
Darkest Hour / Wake Thy Power (also "Darkest Hour, Wake Thy Power") is episode 5 of Marvel's Agatha All Along, released on Disney+ October 9, 2024; written by Laura Monti, directed by Rachel Goldberg, it covers Agatha's trial, Alice's death, and reveals Teen as Billy Maximoff.