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.

Under the influence of the medicine man White Bull ( also called Ice ) and Grey Beard ( also called Dark ), the Cheyenne went into battle believing that strong spiritual medicine would prevent the soldiers ' guns from firing.

* Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series – A trio of adventurers prevent Eldrith the Betrayer, Mistress of the Onyx Tower, from sending her army of minions into Baldur's Gate, as well as managing to destroy the Tower itself.

* the Dark Eldar, who must consume the souls of others to prevent themselves from dying.

People change forms in the Dark World based on their nature ; without an item to prevent it ( in this case, the Moon Pearl ), Link turns into a pink rabbit.

A well-known example is L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall in which an American archaeologist of the 1930s arrives at Ostrogothic Italy and manages to prevent the Dark Ages by introducing printing and other modern inventions.

However, after a conversation with Batman, where he reveals he knew about Booster's attempts to prevent the crippling of Barbara Gordon, the Dark Knight has long realised that Booster is not the fool he appears to be and offers his friendship.

Plans are currently well-progressed to have the Mackenzie Basin designated as a Dark Sky Reserve, possibly the World's first, that will probably result in strengthening local ordinances to prevent light pollution.

The silent protagonist, Max, is sent on a mission to prevent the evil Darksol, who commands the hordes of Runefaust, from opening the Shining Path and resurrecting Dark Dragon.

Roland also implants in King the suggestion to restart his efforts in writing the Dark Tower series, which he has abandoned of late, claiming that there are major forces involved that are trying to prevent him from finishing it.

Khadgar destroyed the Portal on the side of Draenor to prevent harm to Azeroth, trapping the remaining Alliance forces beyond the Dark Portal in the dying land of Draenor.

In The Dark Is Rising ( 1965 – 1977 ), a series of novels by the British author Susan Cooper, the Old Ones are agents of the Light, born as men and women, whose task is to prevent the Powers of the Dark from taking control of the world.

However, Etemon, who runs his Dark Network across the continent, is also interested in them and attempts to prevent the DigiDestined from obtaining them.

They believe that the Separatists are trying to build a Dark Reaper on Thule, so they all travel to Thule to prevent it from being built.

He had also ordered the Voyager to be shot down to prevent the AAN from detecting the ISDF base on the Dark Planet.

Dark Phoenix was then attacked by a Shi ' ar vessel to prevent her from destroying other stars.

However, by the time of ' Knife of Dreams ' the Dark One's influence has stretched so that the food stores of the whole of the Westland are becoming impossibly spoiled, even through a Power wrought warding which is intended to prevent this ( and has indeed done so for the last couple of thousand years ).

Divatox expresses jealousy and resentment towards Astronema's taking over of the responsibility of destroying the Space Rangers while she and her forces were selected by Dark Specter to constantly move Zordon about from world to world to prevent any of the various Rangers from finding him.

Dark skin probably evolved after humans lost their body fur, because the naked skin was vulnerable to the strong UV radiation as would be experienced in Africa.

Rachel Hawthorne's Dark Guardian novels examine a secret society of werewolves who live peacefully alongside normal humans, are able to initiate the change at will to protect their kind, and generally retain control of themselves when transformed.

In one notable case, " The Tale of the Dark Music ", the unseen monster offers the lead character anything he wants in exchange for humans as food ( which could still be interpreted as a happy ending for the lead character ).

The 1996-97 NBC television series Dark Skies featured an interpretation of the Roswell incident as the starting point of the super-secret government agency Majestic 12 which was involved in a covert war between humans and an alien conspiracy.

However, upon seeing the truth from Dark Beast's memories of his Earth in what happens if mutants controlled the world, Onslaught decides neither humans nor mutants should rule, and intends to destroy both races.

In Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow must choose to do Neutral ( self-work ), Dark ( evil work ) or Hero ( Heroic Work ) in a stage ( i. e. choosing whether to kill all the humans in Dark, kill all the black aliens in Hero or to grab the Chaos Emerald for himself in Neutral ), and depending on what Shadow does, this will affect the next stage played and the storyline.

In the third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Sentinel Prime attempts to use his space bridge pillars to transport Cybertron right next to Earth, to use humans as slaves to rebuild it.

* Instead of trying to escape with the X-Men after freeing Professor X as what happened in the comics, in the film Magneto tries to use Dark Cerebo and the hypnotized Professor X for his goal of eliminating humans, only to be stopped by Storm and Nightcrawler.

It uses stock fantasy races such as humans ( The Empire, Bretonnia, Kislev ), Elves ( Dark Elves, High Elves, Wood Elves ), Dwarfs, Undead, Orcs and Goblins, Vampires, as well as some more unusual types such as Lizardmen, Skaven and the daemonic forces of Chaos.

The player takes the role of a survivor of a faction of humans known as the Tograns, whose society was decimated after their homeworld became engulfed in the civil war between the Freedom Guard and the Imperium ( who were once both the Sprawlers and the Jovian Detention Authority ( JDA ) from Dark Reign 2 respectively ).

However, the 1000 years of the reign of the humans are about to end at the Dark Moon, and so once again all sides are striving for domination.

These Old Ones are similar to the ones in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series: humans born with unusual mystical powers and dedicated to a never-ending struggle against the powers of darkness and evil.

There are currently six races in the world of Lineage II: the Humans, who are similar to modern-day humans and who have all-around balanced characteristics ; the Elves, who have superior dexterity, movement, and casting speed, but weaker offense ; Dark Elves, who have higher magic and melee attack capabilities ; Orcs, who have higher HP and MP but slower movement ; Dwarves, who are powerful melee attackers and master craftsmen ; and Kamael, who are humanoids with single wings and gender-specific job classes.

The story is set in the " Dark Ages ", a term referring to the time since Vandels appeared and started attacking humans.

The story is set in the futuristic city of Neotopia, a happy peaceful place where humans and robots co-exist, until the Dark Axis, an evil force from another dimension, arrives.

A few years later a rogue quicksilver ( a human-like creature that can transform into a silver being ) and a rebel Dark angel / stygian ( an experiment gone wrong that created humans with wings ) escaped into the wastelands to hide.

The Republic of Heaven, in Philip Pullman's philosophical fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials from 2000, refers to the idea that humans must build their happiness in the here and now, and that the official Church's emphasis on the afterlife is no more than a diversion by the powerful to repress the common people, even by the monarchical sound of its name: the Kingdom of Heaven.

* Ba ' alzamon ( meaning ' Heart of the Dark ' in the Trolloc language, a name assumed by the quasi-bound Ishamael ; humans learned it and assumed that it was the Trolloc name for the Dark One, hence the misunderstanding in the first three novels that Ba ' alzamon was the Dark One himself )

* Footage of the episode Dark Rain is used out of context, it is supposed to use the video clip of babies to show that they have been cloned and experimented on, but in the actual Dark Rain story these babies were actually mutants birthed by humans who were supposed to be sterile due to contamination.

Dark light seems to affect the psyche of humans and members of other humanoid species.

Patchen envisions a Dark Kingdom which `` stands above the waters as a sentinel warning man of danger from his own kind ''.

The same conclusions can be drawn from the other physical evidence of the Dark ages, from linguistic distribution, and from the survivals of early social, political, and religious patterns into later ages.

It has also been recently suggested that the rapid climatic collapse, marking the Akkadian Dark Age, may have been responsible for the religiously prescribed prohibition against the raising and consumption of pigs that spread through the Ancient Middle East from the end of the third millennium BC.

Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and its sequel The Dark Knight are set during the same timespan and adopt several elements directly from the graphic novel.

* 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.

* Dark roux: The Acadians inherited the roux from the French.

This journal was continued under a new title but with the numbering continued from No 1, thus the first issue of The Dark Eidolon: The Journal of Smith Studies, ( Necronomicon Press ) is numbered " 2 " ( it appeared June 1989 ).

Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Illustration from The Dark Blue by D. H. Friston, 1872

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.

* " Dark Star ", by Beck from The Information

* " Dark Star ", by Cinema Bizarre from ToyZ

* " Dark Star ", by Crosby, Stills & Nash from CSN

* " Dark Star ", by Delerium from Faces, Forms & Illusions

* " Dark Star ", by Hypnogaja from Truth Decay

* " Dark Star ", by I Am Kloot from Natural History

* " Dark Star ", by Mike Oldfield from Tubular Bells II

* " Dark Star ", by Tarja Turunen from What Lies Beneath

It was the final game branded by Sega of America under the Deep Water label, employed for games featuring adult content such as this and Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side.

Dark matter came to the attention of astrophysicists due to discrepancies between the mass of large astronomical objects determined from their gravitational effects, and the mass calculated from the " luminous matter " they contain ; such as stars, gas and dust.

Dark matter's existence is inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter and gravitational lensing of background radiation, and was originally hypothesized to account for discrepancies between calculations of the mass of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the entire universe made through dynamical and general relativistic means, and calculations based on the mass of the visible " luminous " matter these objects contain: stars and the gas and dust of the interstellar and intergalactic medium.

* " The Enemy ", song from the album Damage Done by Dark Tranquillity