Darkness (Supernatural)
The Darkness is a female television character who features in Supernatural.
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Biography
The Darkness was a primordial entity born in the beginning of existence as the twin sibling of God. Some time after, God created many worlds to show The Darkness that there could be more than just the two of them, but she would always destroy them. Eventually, God created the four Archangels and battled The Darkness in 'a terrible war'. Whilst even together they couldn't destroy her, they managed to defeat her; God and his Archangels tricked her and eventually sealed her away with a mark that would later be called the Mark of Cain, though they only barely managed to lock her away. According to herself, Lucifer and God conspired to seal her away, and she implied it was her trust in Lucifer that led to her downfall. God then gave the Mark to Lucifer, his favorite angel and most valued lieutenant, to guard and protect, and the Darkness had been locked away ever since. The Mark, however, began to exert its own will and revealed itself to be a curse. It corrupted Lucifer, leading to a chain of events that would see Lucifer refuse to bow down before humans and be cast out of Heaven. According to Death, the Darkness existed before the Universe, light, and even God, her younger brother. She is credited as a powerful, amoral, and horribly destructive force. Amara herself later reveals that Death either lied or told the Winchesters what they needed to hear. In reality, Amara and Chuck were twins whose separation and Amara being locked away created the Universe, the Big Bang.
Death revealed to Dean the existence of the Darkness, which he calls 'a horribly destructive, amoral force' when Dean requested that Death remove the Mark of Cain. Death warned that God and the archangels defeated the Darkness and locked it away with the Mark acting as lock and key for its prison and the Mark must not be removed without first passing it on or the Darkness will be released. After Rowena performed the Mark of Cain Removal Spell, the Mark was removed from Dean's arm. Shortly thereafter, lightning bolts punched holes in the ground from which the Darkness emerged and swept over the Impala as the Winchesters tried to get away. Her release caused such strong disturbances in Hell, that Lucifer's Cage was damaged as a side effect, which eventually allowed Lucifer to influence the outside world. Shortly after breaking out of her prison, she spared Sam and Dean's life and in a vision, thanked Dean for freeing her. She mentioned that she already helped him and Dean helped her. Bound for eternity, they will always help each other. When Dean told her that he already knew about the Darkness from Death, she was confused as she didn't know Death nor did Death know her. At the same time, her release caused the residents of Superior, Nebraska who encountered her smoke form to become Rabids. While Sam worked to find a cure for the Rabid infection, Dean took Jenna Nickerson and a baby named Amara who was born during the release of the Darkness to safety. Unknown to Dean, Amara had taken the baby as a vessel with baby Amara sporting the Mark of Cain on her left shoulder as the adult Amara did in Dean's vision. After Crowley returned to his vessel, his demons informed him of a disturbance in Lucifer's Cage that was believed to be a warning from Michael or Lucifer about the Darkness.
Following the Darkness' release, Sam continued searching for a cure for the people infected by her. His search led him to find that Holy Fire cured her victims. At the same time, Dean and Jenna Nickerson brought Amara to Jenna's grandmother's house in Cedar Raids, Iowa. After being put into a crib, Amara telekinetically moved objects in the room around, ultimately impaling blocks in the wall before Jenna and her grandmother with a demand to feed her. Jenna's religious grandmother called for an exorcist, but got the King of Hell Crowley posing as a priest. Crowley informed Dean that he could sense the being in the house, calling it powerful, old and dark. As Jenna tried to sooth Amara, the baby ate her soul, causing the soulless Jenna to kill her grandmother. After checking on Amara and seeing the Mark of Cain on her chest, Dean realized that she's the Darkness, but he and Crowley got distracted by Jenna who revealed that Amara ate her soul. As Dean and Crowley were distracted, Amara aged into a young girl, put on some kid's clothes left in the room and departed, noticed briefly by Crowley. After Crowley killed Jenna and Dean incapacitated the demon, he went to kill Amara, only to find her gone. Crowley, intrigued by "the child who eats souls," tracked Amara down the next day and offered her a family he kidnapped to feast upon.
After finding Amara, Crowley took her to his lair where he assigned her a demonic 'nanny' and began educating her about what has happened since she was locked away. He essentially spoiled her with literally whatever she asked for so as to assure her allegiance. Amara, for the most part, proves complacent and calm, asking Crowley many questions about the world God created while she was learning but expressed a slight fear of him. She even came to call Crowley "Uncle Crowley" despite the fact that she was eons older than him. However, she dodges Crowley's questions about her own plans while conversing with a reflection of her vessel in a mirror behind Crowley's back. Amara was constantly hungry for souls to consume, which Crowley at first happily and later reluctantly facilitated by feeding her random demons in deceased vessels. Amara's appetite only grew to greater levels and eventually resulted in her consuming both of her demonic nannies and her taking on an older form, much to the concern of Crowley. When Crowley tried to dissuade her from consuming more demonic souls, she became angry and demanded to be fed.
Sam informed Dean that there was no sign of the Darkness, worrying Dean that the Darkness was still out there somewhere getting stronger. While sleeping, Sam was visited in a dream by a being taking the form of his father who warned Sam that "The Darkness is coming" and only the Winchesters could stop her. However, he refused to elaborate on how she could be stopped. Dean later learned from the Nachzehrer Deputy Donelly that he knew of the Darkness, didn't believe it could be stopped by anyone and was building an army to try to survive for as long as possible. The Winchesters were left worried by the fact that even the monsters were scared of the Darkness. While investigating a series of strange murders in Fall River, Massachusetts, Dean learned from Len Fletcher that he encountered Amara outside of the Lizzie Borden Hotel and Museum. After chatting with him briefly, Amara then devoured Len's soul, which subsequently extinguished his passion for Borden altogether and robbed him of his conscience. Dean realized from Len's description and his own experience with baby Amara that Amara was growing by feeding on people's souls and that the killer was another of her soulless victims. Sydney, the killer, told the Winchesters that she met Amara outside of a bar where Amara made Sydney feel bliss before consuming her soul when Sydney called Amara an angel which Amara had found insulting. Sydney planned to offer up the Winchesters to Amara who she sensed was close by, but was killed by Len before she could harm them further. The Winchesters later left Fall River to pursue Amara, but as they drove away, Amara emerged from out of a treeline, smiled and said "bye Dean. I'll see you soon."
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Amara transitioned through multiple forms. She began as an ominous black void before condensing into a newborn infant. Quickly aging into a young girl dressed in dark attire, she retained an aura of unnatural poise and maturity. In her human form, Amara had dark brown hair and fair skin. As an adult, she appeared as a striking woman with long dark hair, often clad in flowing black gowns that emphasized her embodiment of shadow. Despite her humanlike appearance, her eyes and aura conveyed the depthless void of her primordial nature.
In personality, Amara embodied bitterness, jealousy, and a deep longing for recognition from her brother, God. Her cruelty manifested in casual annihilation of humans and angels alike, viewing them as distractions or flawed constructs. However, beneath this exterior was a vulnerability born from rejection and centuries of imprisonment. Her bond with Dean revealed her capacity for empathy and affection, though twisted by her cosmic perspective. By the end of her arc, Amara displayed forgiveness and a willingness to embrace balance, showing that her destructive drive was rooted in hurt rather than pure malice.
Amara was both wrathful and inquisitive. Her earliest actions reflected hunger and vengeance against those who had imprisoned her, particularly God and His angels. Yet her interactions with Dean revealed a softer, more vulnerable side, desiring companionship, understanding, and reconciliation. She oscillated between rage and longing, between an urge to annihilate and a desire to belong. Ultimately, her personality represented the duality of her being: the cosmic counterforce to Creation, yet also a being seeking connection
Due to her imprisonment, Amara had no knowledge or understanding of how God's universe worked. However, after feeding on various souls and studying important points in human history, she finally came to the conclusion that her brother had 'screwed up' when he made the world, saying that Heaven, Hell, good, evil, and even people seemed unimportant. When she was first released, she intended to remake the world as she saw fit: a world where nobody had to suffer, and instead lived blissfully for eternity. However, she also wanted to destroy everything that her brother had created to make him suffer.
Amara expressed resentment toward her brother, God, declaring creation itself to be a flawed experiment she intended to reclaim into nothingness. Ultimately, her confrontation with God ended not in combat but reconciliation. Dean served as the mediator between them, convincing Amara and God to heal their relationship, leading her to restore balance rather than obliterate the universe.
Powers and abilities
She was one of the two fundamental components of reality itself, the other being her brother God. If one of them was destroyed then reality would cease to exist. As the Darkness, Amara’s powers were virtually limitless. She commanded void-like energy that could unmake matter, consume souls, and unravel divine constructs. She demonstrated immunity to angelic smiting, holy weapons, and even archangels, placing her on a tier above nearly all known celestial beings. Her abilities included soul absorption, energy projection, reality distortion, and apocalyptic-scale influence over nature itself, such as dimming the sun. While ultimately balanced by God’s power, Amara stood as one of the most formidable entities in existence, embodying entropy and shadow as the sister to creation itself
In essence and abilities, Amara embodied primordial Darkness, a fundamental force predating the universe. Her powers included the consumption of souls to fuel her growth, instantaneous annihilation of celestial beings, resistance to all weapons and wards of Heaven and Hell, and reality-bending destruction at a cosmic scale. She was also bound to Dean by a metaphysical link, making her impervious to his harm and allowing her emotions to resonate with his.
The Darkness is immortal. Even the combined power of all the angels caused her no permanent harm. She was also unfazed by a Hand of God-empowered Lucifer. However it's been stated that she can die as she asked her brother God to kill her. She has displayed significant tolerance for extreme physical and psychological trauma. This was seen when, despite the combined massive attacks from Rowena and other witches, demons, angels and Lucifer, she was still able to move and walk up to God, and, upon facing the possibility of being trapped once again, was able to overcome her own weakness and easily overpower and fatally wound God.
As Amara matured, her destructive power became more deliberate and far-reaching. She razed towns and villages, consuming the souls of their inhabitants to amplify her essence and feed her return to full strength. Her abilities allowed her to summon storms, unleash waves of darkness that shattered holy wards, and nullify divine protections. In her confrontations with angels, she demonstrated her superiority by obliterating entire angelic hosts with effortless bursts of power, leaving Heaven’s armies broken and terrified.
Notes
- The Darkness was created by Eric Kripke where her adult form of Amara was portrayed by actress Emily Swallow where she featured in the setting of the Supernatural universe.
- The character was inspired by the Great Darkness from DC Comics.
Appearances
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