Who is Image Comics "The Darkness?" Ancient Raw Power
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- This video explores the abilities, powers, and origin of the Image Comics character "The Darkness." From the dark living power's ancient battles with it's counterpart "The Angelus," helping create the balancing Witchblade, settling into brutal family's bloodlines for human hosts in positions of power, giving it's host immense physical and mystical powers, controlling an army of "Darklings," Jackie Estacado becoming the most recent host of The Darkness, to legendary DC Comics crossover titles with Batman and Superman; Let's take a look at this Image Comics Anti-hero, and powerful avatar of an ancient force. This includes a short, canon character biography and my own opinionated "Sage Rating," which I use to give ratings of comic books and science fiction characters.
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Working on the Darkness was one of the high points in my career and I dig seeing so much of my Art used in this video. Thanks!
Will there be a d3?
Hey Joseph, I'm a big fan since the 90's, it's awesome to see your comment on this video! Love your inks, keep up the fantastic work!
Congratulations for your work
Reminds me of Spawn
Thank you for blessing us with this amazing comic book characte. Jackie Estacado is hands down my favorite character out of any comic book franchise!
"The Darkness" is literally the edgiest thing you could possibly name a character.
Chris D
Apocalypse and Onslaught are pretty metal when you think about it.
What about Darkseid? It's literally Dark Side.
The Lords of chaos will have words would be
Also devoid
The de-creator
Fun fact: batman was actually the one who convinced Jackie to become a better person by turning franky into the cops which is what lead to his girlfriend being killed. I wonder how bad Batman feels about unintentionally causing the death of Jackie’s girlfriend.
i would love to see a movie based on the darkness.
yeah,the games story is pretty good,most cool things are books.
There is a game on it :)
It’s called Venom lol
So would I man!
Game wasn't bad
The games really nerfed him...
Poodle same thing I said lol you dont get even half of this shit. Even if you somehow upgrade Jackie he still was nowhere near this powerful in the games.
if they add all of his powers he would be OP and unbalanced.
Exactly you can't make a game where you just one shot everyone and can't die that would not be fun and make a very linear gameplay
well first off the games had to make him weaker for it to be fun and not god mode simulator and second the games take place before he grasps the full extent of his power
@Colin zzstu Majors 2 actually
Can't wait till Darkness 3. This and prototype were my fav action games on 360
There ain't gonna be Darkness 3 RIP in pieces
your into antihero too?
Wonder if you'll be able to watch full movies in game again. Idk why I thought that was so cool. 😂
You're not the only one.
Prototype was the shit. I agree they are wonderful games.
"if we keep fighting we'll both die"
"LET'S BANG INSTEAD"
"hell yeah!"
+MisterTbone - 😅 Crazy, bro!... crazy. 😎
Along with Spawn, The Darkness is easily my favorite comic book character ever. A 10 rating is perfect, well done again!!
i wonder if the darkness can beat spawn in a fight
@@waynejulian277 that if he can make holy weapon in i dont think the darkness can die
@@noahdestroyer7978 it seems like it would be an even match because the darkness gets completely nulled in any source of light
Id love to see it turned into a movie as well! I wonder though who could play Jackie?
@@tivionte961 you could have the angelus or the sovergin brainwash spawn
As a former wielder of the darkness, I can attest to how awesome it is.
LOL! Dude... I like that! Your comment gets a 10! Legendary!!! LOL! Good one!
Facts
Just imagine creating a proper game for this and how huge the skill tree would need to be
what if the darkness and spawn merged into one being XD
That would be cool
I'd imagine he'd name himself Spawness, or the Dark-Spawn, or, maybe, just maybe, the Darkpawn.
That would be the most OP thing in comics history!!!!
Evil would retire
Batman can bench 1000lbs. Must be on some comic book steroids lol
+César Briceño - Yeah... Batman is a bit of a beast!
César Briceño Or mutated via radiation.
New Sage Yeah a BIT of a beast
LOL! Ok. Ok. You're right... Don't let me get ahead of myself!
I wouldn't be surprised if Alfred was secretly slipping Bruce roids in his food for yrs. Now that would be a great story line. LoL
So darkness is literally a mixture of Green Lantern & Venom
Ohh Man! we need R-rating Darkness movie 4 sure ! One of my favorite characters as well.many thanks bro!
Instant competition for the box office success of Deadpool! LOL! And THANK YOU!
The Darkness, Fathom and Witchblade got me into comics. Once I developed a love for them, my dad revealed that he also love comics, he showed me his collection of a ton of Golden and Silver age Marvel comics, and a ton of other old DC comics. It was amazing, I love my dad, and how he kept his collection from me until I found comics on my own.
He’s one of my favorite non marvel or DC characters, which are Bloodshot, Spawn, and Dredd.
I also want to see him crossover with Alex Mercer.
This would make a sick movie. If the Spawn movie is a hit, this is going to get a Hollywood fast track.
eon001 There is a game you can play :)
I hope Holliwood leaves this the hell alone. Enough comics and spectacular characters raped by those idiots ( see Dark Phoenix, raped twice, just to name one)
@@RejectedInch yeah but some have studios have managed to pull it off the marvel cu of course even DC has done better with wonder woman aquaman and shazam
Burning Cloud your blooming Hollywood for something that's your fault?
Burning Cloud you're blaming Hollywood for something that's your fault?
Has spawn and the darkness ever fought each other? And are they anyway connected?
They aren’t connected one bit. Jackie is an Italian mafia member, while AI Simmons was an US Marine
@@Enriquez520 I can see a us marine being picked to fight mafia drug trade
@@xxedgy_outsiderxx9978 One could slaughter a Mafia group.
The two would not cross as the creators never agreed to a collaboration.
This is one of the american comics that I can respect as an idea.
The power of this thing is to do/create ANYTHING his wearer wants, but doesn't come with an instruction manual.
The problem becomes the wearer. With his doubts, insecurities and subconsciousness.
The fact that he's not omnipotent (even if he could) is woven INTO the story, unlike 99% of the DC characters where the author has to make the people "forget" what they can do to have a story that makes a lick of sense.
You feel like this thing is dark and evil, and can summon treacherous little bloodthirsty monsters that cannot wait to stab you in the back? DONE.
You suspect that it has a will of its own, and wants to use you for evil? DONE. Enjoy a dark personification of your power that taunts you and tries to trick you.
You think it can make you a god? DONE.
The protagonist has been giving more than one hint at the fact that it's actually a formless, aimless, infinite source of whatever you want. Kinda hard to silence your subconscious/imagination after you involuntarily created your own problems. A part of you will always suspect that it's out to get you, and doesn't completely listen to you. And so it does.
I love this game
+Bisketgaza617 bunskull - Well get your drinks... It's just getting started! 😎
me two. the darkness is awesome.
Bisketgaza617 bunskull I still find it weird that xenomorphs live in this universe
Bisketgaza617 bunskull Same, wish we'd get a reboot of the game that still stays faithful to the story and graphical violence with an optional 3rd person perspective
The Darkness is a awesome game.
I just came upon this to learn more about the video game. Now i’m finding out “The Darkness” fought DC Superheroes. This is badass and needs to be a movie.
DC and Marvel......
DC = Batman and Superman.
Marvel = Wolverine and Hulk.
The fact that we never got a movie based on this comic is a travesty
Sooo spawn and this guy would be an unbeatable fight. Or a great fight.
You didn't mention much about Jackie and Sarah's relationship, and how it produced Hope.
Along with the Broken Trinity series, that stuff was fairly important.
But awesome movie overall.
Channel is still relatively new. So back then I was even MORE of a rookie! 😅 Thanks for the compliment though. And I'm still "evolving" to this very day! 👍 Have a good one!
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I'm a simple guy: I see good content, I like it
I see great content, I sub.
And if I really enjoy it, I comment on it.
My man! 😎
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Bro I recommend so many people to ur channel fam .. keep doing yo thang fam 🙏🏾🙏🏾💯💯
+Celestial King - Thanks bro! You know it's appreciated! 👍And I'm gonna keep 'em rolling! 😎
i so wish they'd do a Spawn/The Darkness crossover and not like the Medieval Spawn and Witchblade crossover i mean one with the main characters, Al Simmons Spawn meets Jackie Estacado The Darkness, ones a mobster one kills mobsters so their reason for fighting is right there. it would be so AWESOME!!!!
The image comics all these guys need a movie now
I wonder though who would be good to play as Jackie?
@@sexydudeuk2172 Ashton Kutcher, Adam Driver or Kit Harrington...
Since Jackie has long hairs, the actors are all long haired and fit perfectly for that role.
@@JoniXDeejayTube except none of them look 21
Invincible has a tv show
DC characters are too OP man, that's why it's a little hard for them to make a good DCEU movies. Animated is enough though
by: N the Darkness isn’t DC
Whenever I look at Jackie in his Darkness armor, I think to myself, "Is this what Nightwing would look like if he were Spawn?"
It is !
@@turtleanton6539 I Always More Venom But To Each It's Own.
*Lists multiple strengths and invulnerability*
*Gets shot to death by guys with handguns in the video-games*
Clearly, something was lost in translation.
He doesn’t die darkness puts him back together sides the games are Jackie’s early years
@@GnosisZX And why does the darkness put him back together?
Oh yeah, cause he fucking died!
@@GnosisZX the games aren't cannon to the comics.
He does not have the darkness armor in the games
@@LondonLock the games gimp him soooooooooooo HARD
Their making a new Darkness Comic Series and releasing it next year in January
JACKIE ESTACODO IS BACK BABY!!🤘
It would be cool if Jackie was in Injustice 2. I bet his super move would be epic!
KnightsEnd he isnt dc
Same with Sub Zero
君殺したいDærk I but image/top cow comics do crossover with DC and Marvel every now and then
Nah in mk 11 he'll have ths bloodiest fatalities
Jim Lee helped Co found image and he works for DC. And image is a partner company of topcow. And Spawn is in it.
But that will mean they'll end up giving Spawn his creation tier powers. Nothing will be a match, not even the darkness at full power. Spawn is multiverse creator crazy powerful.
looks like ALUCARD
You do realize the comic creator who made this now is top cow as well just giving that studio some love, they also are working on the warframe offical comic
An animated series in the vein of Invincible would be amazing and would suit the more fantastical elements more than live action
Man how come we never got a movie based on The Darkness ??
I could easily see a trilogy
Who wants darkness in MK 11
Knight 777 I do!!!
Always wanted to know more about this character thanks for giving me this info
+godspeed - No problem man! I'm glad, because that's what the channel was made for! Thanks for your support, and have a good one!
Do u want him for injustice or mortal kombat
youngstert yes but think it would work more for mortal kombat
Hello darkness my old friend
My favorite Marc silvestri creation, ripclaw any razor close 2nd & 3rd
+docreg - Yeah. He's a beast! Those two are both on the list, as well. They'll be coming!
Sounds similar to Spawn
yeah image comics that same typically gritty and dark stuff
+Vincent Taylor - Yeah... He kinda does. It's funny tho... Haunt "feels" the same as both of them too! Well it's good to recycle!
Vincent Taylor except it's completely better, darkness is the limit.
Vincent Taylor or charlie murphy
Well there is a bunch of characters that are also alike
Hey boss, love your content. Could you do a who is on Midnighter? That would be awesome if you could.
Thanks for the compliment! He's on the list. It may take a while to get to him, but the vid will come around! Have a good one!
“Through you, I am born! You are nothing but my puppet.”
Anytime I read the comic book, I always think Kirk Acevedo as Jackie and Mike Patton’s voice as the Darkness.
Surprised you haven't done witchblade yet.
On the "to-do" list, bro! 😎👍
I really enjoyed the accompanying video game series based upon the character.
Invincible War
Yay the darkness aka Jackie estercardo
+Tevya Smolka - Yep. The man! 😎
I would love to see a third game, especially after that cliffhanger in the 2nd game.
RrrrRRRrrrrriiiiiiiiisssssssSSSSE, Jackiiiiiie!
same here man
where are darkness 3 damn it
I hope the reason is because they are trying to make it good. Like a a good story like the first one and the abilities of the second one and hopefully they don't give it the graphics of the second one
This elemental force along with its current host Jackie are two of my favorite image comics characters along with the witchblade and it’s current host Sarah.
issue 181... When they messed it all up.
Basically knull before knull was written by marvel
Hell yea his a 10 he's gone up again heavy duty characters batman,Superman,hulk,pitt, and wolverine
Yep! Pure BEAST! Period.
New Sage hell yea bro my favourite character of all time glad u did a vid of him he deserves to be known.
Out of the 5 he can’t beat hulk and putt don’t know much about him batman and wolverine he could just bring in a black hole or fly them up into space.superman would be a challenge but he could probably win hulk he is immune to it heard it was because of magic
cerjomaks darkness powers can manifest anywhere where there dark so he can spawn a giant darkling inside of hulk. He's done that to ppl before
Joel Chapa yea but did you see the comic he couldn’t do anything to him
Melanin.
Who will win, the Darkness vs Spawn??? 🤔🤔🤔
creating narcotics from his bodily fluids....eew. XD
+Stephan C - I know right! Same thing I said! 😒
considering 'bodily fluids' are usually used in place of (well, you have a rough idea what it is but has to be g- rated) .... lost track of eew for that one XD
Александр Царуш Fr?
Александр Царуш what? He can do that tho?
Muffn Man I'm sleep 🤣🤣😂😂😂
Image really didn't quite grasp that its not always the powers of a character that make them interesting, but how they over come their weaknesses. Having a character that is so powerful that 99% of their enemies have no hope of winning kind of makes them boring. Look at Pre Crisis superman vs Spider-man at the same time.
He got a 10
+So Gone Beast - I know... He left me no choice! 😅😎
@@NewSage who do you think that would win in a fight spawn or the darkness
They're the version of CLOAK AND DAGGER of Marvel Blessings and HUGS! 👑💜
Damn! How remember reading Darkness, Witchblade, Fathom, Tomb Raider from Top Cow. Man, those were good times. Good times indeed. Thanks for the video. Keep up the great work. 👍😎
batman, who is in peak human condition *BENCH PRESSES 1000 LB* i hate to inform everyone, that is well beyond peak human condition!
Jenny's artwork has always been a favorite throughout 90s comics. The games did a good job of personifying her.
They need a multiverse with:
1.The darkness
2.Hellboy
3. Savage Dragon
4. Pitt
5.witchblade
What I don't understand is why would he give the only way out of hell to Jackie like he don't want to get out of all that pain
LOL! Good one.
Exactly
I remember reading "The Darkness." It started off great. As time went on, it got more and more convoluted. LOL!!!
I didn't know one of my favourite Xbox 360 games came from IMAGE COMICS
BadAss Character!!! 💀👻👌👍👍
I just looked it up and The Darkness's power source is actually The Great Darkness, the living primordial darkness before creation that is a force in DC Comics that is reawakening and finally back in play for the first time since the 1980s Swamp Thing story. We're finding out that while The Great Darkness was dormant since the first Crisis, several pieces of itself, at least one we know of so far confirmed, have broken off from it and entered reality. Four others they insinuated could be pieces at the end of Infinite Frontier are The Empty Hand from Multiversity, The Upside-Down Man, Nekron, and The Dark Heart of Eclipso. With The Great Darkness we awakened they made it very clear that all four of those villains will be back into play in the next big event they're working towards next year. And now with the DC Multiverse being an entire Omniverse of Multiverses now as of the end of Death Metal I wouldn't be surprised if because of where the spine story of DC lore just arrived at, as of the conclusion of Infinite Frontier, that we don't see this guy again in DC Comics in the near future, maybe even as another key player in the coming event.
Dear God that was a mess and a half to read. Thank you for reminding me why I avoid comic book lore like the plague.
@@ginge641 Oh yeah, lol good idea, stuff can tie the knots in your brain into knots, and then those knots into knots.
@@aarn321 It's what happens when you spend 60+ years with a continuity and go "but what if I added this?" for that entire stretch.
Sounds similar to spawn
The darkness iss a musd read. U wuickly get drawn into the fosld in two pages. The stakes rlwaus seem real. The hero is rlways a chasacter in the forld not the end all ke all of the wirld. Its underdog with a ave in the hole vertus tont of ppl who are bullies
I thought The Darkness was from Top Cow??
He is
is he from DC? PLS I NEED REAPLEY
No he’s from Top Crow Comics. But he did crossover with Batman and Superman. (He shed blood to the man of steel with one punch)
@@Enriquez520 thx
Witchblade, spawn and the darkness are the face of image and are in my top 5 Favorite comic superheros
Imagine a pick up line like that, "Aye girl, so we don't mutually destroy each other, let me hit it..."
Dude you are amazing !!!. Please do a video on Witch Blade !!!!!!!!
We should bring a team together to bring light to the darkness series and give it the fame that it deserves
no some d-bag aliens will come and be "holier than thou" and preach about light and wholesome goodness to the darkness. that be hilarious being preached on how to be better human being by an xeno! 🤣 and he probably an italian catholic too😂
I want it to be in a new video game PS4
Batman can't bench no damn thousand pounds. That's just a myth like he's a demon that criminals spew about lol
LOL! The same thing I said... at first! Then I realized that you can't sleep on Bats. He's a beast! You know he's got that quote: "... Because I'm Batman..." LOL!
New Sage batman has to laugh at some of his myths though. He and Alfred just going back and forth about the words on the street lol
To be fair the real life world record for bench press is 1075
His suit looks like a mix of the winter soldier and aquaman/namor
Why is superman fighting the darkness? SPECTOR couldn't hold up against him but for only a min.....Darkness is on level with ANTI-Monitor....
Because it’s DC. Whatever dc hero you put up against Superman he’ll aways win. But at least Jackie made him bleed
The day always gets better when I hear you say "Hi everybody!"
My dad had all the comic books, i was reading them when i was a kid
I wonder if Dazzler, Dagger (from Cloak and Dagger) or other light emitting superhumans can hurt The Darkness.
so its basically like a Scarab that blue beetle has
+morgen dikmen - 🤔 ... More or less... Yep! 😅
why do we not have a new game 😢
$$$
So basically he's an evil lantern in image universe
he'd be a cool addition to that dark justice league team, though i guess he's mostly a bad guy but still fun
+Babidi - Interesting idea! If DC could acquire him, they MAY be able to write in an Anti-hero. Maybe Marvel could throw him in as an, occasional, powerhouse with the Dark Avengers! 😅
No anti-heros. We need villains that are actually good at what they do and don't get defeated all the time.
10? WTF? You gave Galactus a 10 does the darkness just not have any competition?
😅👍 Within Image Comics he's kinda The Man! Power AND influence, too! Even had his own GOOD video game back in the day! 😎👊
franky estecado should have been added to the brightest day darkest night and have him be a good counter to certain lanterns.....idk
New sage your channel gives me more specific information than most websites I look up
You cut out the end of his story... and how Hope came to be
+Dwight D - Yeah. It's always awkward to decide where to end the lil character backstory I provide. Many times I could ramble on for 30-40 minutes worth of info! Although I often do it, the point is really to not focus on storylines and just primarliy do their origins/abilities... Get sucked in every time! 😅
When's the movie coming out?
Jackie Estacado vs Venom
I love this series and the games. I hope they consider making the darkness 3 or we get a short film
short films are very possible but i need too research the games more i’ve only started the first one, brought them both and pondered if i should play it or not. But the time is now for The Darkness 3
Mind you when he fought Superman he was still an amateur with his powers & nowhere close to being as powerful as he would later become in his prime
JohnBlack ZER0 who powerful is Jackie on his prime ??
I alway thought Darkness was cool. I never read the comic or played the game, so I never knew how powerful he was or his connection to WitchBlade.
You should do Grendel, though I don't know if he's from DC/Malibu or Dark Horse comics.
"A bitch-press..." 1:21
The darkness is published by Top Cow not image
Yeah. 👍🏽 It's an imprint of Image Comics. Meaning that it falls under the "umbrella" of Image; along with several other brands that those 90's artists/writers branched off to do on their own. 🤓
*darkness is stronger then superman at night or in shadow, superman only won during a battle due to the sun coming up, darkness could let superman bleed and thus kill him*
Sounds like an OC
Man, the video game is *way* different.
Who's the big guy they keep showing around 5:50?
Pit
Great video. I love the Darkness