* The concluding scene in The Dark Knight, where Two-Face holds Gordon's family at gunpoint, is reminiscent of the Year One scene where Gordon's family is at danger from The Roman and Loeb's men.

According to Irish mythology, Donn, or the Dark One, is the Lord of the Dead and father of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, whom he gave to Aengus Óg to be nurtured.

Several horror films, Kairo, Dark Water, Yogen, the Grudge series and One Missed Call met with commercial success.

One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was Henry Morton Stanley of " Dr. Livingstone, I presume " fame, as he was a principal explorer of " The Dark Heart of Africa ", particularly the Congo.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Morgoth of The Silmarillion as well as Sauron, the King of the Nazgûl and the others of the Nine Riders from The Lord of the Rings, Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter series, Lasky's Kludd and Nyra of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks's Warlock Lord of The Sword of Shannara, Jordan's Dark One of The Wheel of Time, and Eddings ' Torak of The Belgariad and Zandramas of The Malloreon, Rick Riordan's Kronos of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Goodkind's Darken Rahl and Emperor Jagang of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Moragon, and Paolini's Galbatorix of The Inheritance Cycle.

Over the course of the game, a lone Aes Sedai must track down a robber following an assault on the White Tower, and prevent the Dark One from being released prematurely.

The evil in Shadar Logoth, which was born out of pure hate for the Shadow and the Dark One, attracted and reacted with the taint of saidin, and the two forces annihilated each other, removing the taint from saidin.

Among the many films that have copied this formula are Under Siege ( terrorists take over a ship ), Snakes on a Plane ( poisonous snakes take over a passenger plane ), Speed, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Derailed ( hostages are trapped on a train ), Sudden Death ( terrorists take over an Ice Hockey stadium ), Passenger 57, Executive Decision and Air Force One ( hostages are trapped on a plane ), Con Air ( criminals take over a transport plane ), and Half Past Dead and The Rock ( criminals or terrorists take over a prison ).

One of them, the " Dark Lord of the Dance ", shows Voldemort teaming up with Harry on Broadway.

One daughter, Gwladus Ddu, (" Gwladus the Dark ") was already married to Reginald de Braose of Brecon and Abergavenny, but with Reginald an unreliable ally Llywelyn married another daughter, Marared, to John de Braose of Gower, Reginald's nephew.

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One day, the hero escapes and, by chance, overhears the Dark Lord and Julius in their plans to seize the power of Mana.

Gandalf's investigations revealed it to be the One Ring forged by the Dark Lord Sauron.

It opens with a powerful drum improvisation by Williams, followed by Mclaughlin's " Dark Prince " and Jaco's " Continuum ," Tony's original composition " Para Oriente " and Mclaughlin's " Are You the One?

IGN Comics ranked The Dark Knight Returns # 2 on a list of the 25 greatest Batman graphic novels, second only to Batman: Year One, also written ( though not drawn ) by Miller.

Skroob sends Dark Helmet ( Moranis ) to complete this task with Spaceball One, an impossibly huge ship helmed by Colonel Sandurz ( George Wyner ).

Dark Helmet takes Spaceball One to Druidia, and transforms the ship into Mega Maid, a giant robotic maid with a vacuum cleaner that begins sucking the air from the planet.

When Spaceball One begins to undergo its metamorphosis into " Mega Maid ," Dark Helmet exclaims " Ready, Kafka?

* In The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, set during Holmes's three-year fake ' death ', Holmes encounters Moriarty during his trip in Tibet, where he learns that Moriarty is actually the Dark One, a former Tibetian mystic possessing great psychic powers who lost his memories in an attack on the Dalai Lama, only for his near-death experience on the Reichenbach Falls to restore his memory, albeit leaving him horribly crippled and disfigured by his injuries.

One ends with the line, " Dark Languages Rarely Survive ," followed by a woman saying, " Das nicht zu Hause sein " twice.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

In the Maha Samaya Sutta, the defeated antagonist of the Buddha, Mara also known as " Namuci " or the " Dark One " is described as an Asura whose army consisted of " Sensual passions, Discontent, Hunger and Thirst, Craving, Sloth and Drowsiness, Terror, Uncertainty, Hypocrisy and Stubbornness, Gains, Offerings, Fame and Status wrongly gained, and whoever would praise self and disparage others " ( Sn 3. 2 Padhana Sutta ).

One of his better known roles was in The Dark Command, where he portrayed the villain ( loosely based on American Civil War guerrilla William C. Quantrill ) opposite John Wayne, Claire Trevor, and a young Roy Rogers.

Barad-dûr was built by Sauron, the Dark Lord of Mordor, with the power of the One Ring, during the Second Age.

Sauron reassumed his role as the Dark Lord and placed the One Ring on his finger, claiming dominance over all the Rings of Power and their bearers.

" At the end of the album, the recording of " Outside the Wall " cuts off abruptly, as the man says " Isn't this where ..." This demonstrates a cyclical nature to the concept of the album, much in the way that The Dark Side of the Moon opens and closes with the sound of a heartbeat.

The period when the Khazars had their greatest power corresponded with the European Dark Ages, and took place at a very important time for the creation of capitalism.

In part of her Marvel Comics career, the character Jean Grey had undergone an enormous increase in her power, which under the new name Dark Phoenix made her increasingly dark in character until she consumed a whole star and caused the death of billions of beings on a planet orbiting that star.

The 1980s began with the comic's best-known story arc, the Dark Phoenix Saga, which saw Phoenix manipulated by the illusionist Mastermind and becoming corrupted with an overwhelming lust for power and destruction as the evil Dark Phoenix.

Of course, the difference lies in order of power — while many D & D adventures focus on allowing a band of heroes to prevail over a Dark Lord ( much as in the spirit of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula ), no such victory over the Dark Powers is conceivable.

Stanley wrote in Through the Dark Continent that " the savage only respects force, power, boldness, and decision.

During the Third Age, recognizing that an outright confrontation with Sauron ( Melkor's beloved Maia ) would be disastrous, the Valar sent the Istari to Middle-earth with the intent of giving counsel to Men in their resistance to the growing power of the Dark Lord.

He attempts to acquire a legendary crystal that would allow him to wield even greater power, but, although Moriarty acquires the crystal, boosting his powers and healing his injuries, he is defeated when it is revealed that Holmes is partly possessed by the spirit of the Dark One's old rival, allowing Holmes to wield similar powers to Moriarty's and delay him long enough for Holmes's ally, Huree Chunder Mockerjee, to knock the crystal away from Moriarty and into Holmes's hands, allowing Holmes to turn Moriarty's powers against him, vaporising his body and destroying him once and for all.

While on this journey, Kyle learns that seven Dark Jedi are intent on finding the " Valley of the Jedi ", a focal point for Jedi power and a Jedi burial ground.

The seal was placed to imprison a dark wizard named Ganon in the Dark World, which was once the Sacred Realm before Ganon invaded, obtained the legendary Triforce, and used its power to turn the realm into a land of darkness.

The clone bodies aren't quite as good as his original body and waste quickly due to the decaying power of the Dark Side of the Force.

They are supposed to be noble men who fell to the evil power of the One Ring becoming wraiths bound to the Dark Lord Sauron.

Successful power metal acts exist in other European countries such as Spain ( Dark Moor, Phoenix Rising ), France ( Heavenly ), Russia ( Catharsis ), Greece ( Firewind ) etc.

( Time, 23 March 1987, " Farewell Dark Prince ") However, he has been quoted saying that ; " I really resent being depicted as some sort of dark mystic or some demonic power .... All I can do is sit down and talk to someone ...." ( The New York Times, 4 December 1977, Jackson Aide Stirs Criticism in Arms Debate, Richard L. Madden )

It is stated in Sonic Unleashed that the planet has been in an endless cycle of destruction and resurrection since time immemorial: a monster known as Dark Gaia hibernates within the Earth's core, absorbing power from the negative energies and emotions of humanity, and destroys the planet when it emerges, and its counterpart, Light Gaia ( a. k. a. " Chip "), defeats it and restores the Earth.

In the game's plot, Doctor Eggman, hoping to use Dark Gaia's power to build his empire, breaks the planet open himself and awakens both Light and Dark Gaia ahead of schedule ; as a result, Dark Gaia's body splits apart, and Light Gaia develops severe amnesia.

During the Dark Ages, many Europeans believed that the power of witches, demons, and spirits caused abnormal behaviors.

The Dark Ride is the ninth studio album by the German power metal band Helloween, released in 2000.

However, Rand al ' Thor says it's possible to channel the True Power ( the source of power controlled by the Dark One ), claiming that the guardian " Blocks the One Power ... the One Power only.

Shortly before the full onset of the Breaking, the Last Aes Sedai council charged Someshta with guarding over The Eye of the World sanctuary, where several artifacts of great power were housed, along with one of the seals on the Dark One's prison.