The ability to possess a dark heart. Variation of Strong Heart and Evil Embodiment. Opposite of Pure Heart.
Also Called
- Black Heart
- Heart of Pure Corruption/Darkness/Evil/Shadow
- Impure Heart
- Tainted Heart
Capabilities
Users possess a heart devoid of good, light, virtue, etc.
Applications
- Apathy- Close oneself off from the hearts of others.
- Corruption Inducement- Able to taint those are truly good.
- Contaminant Immunity - To some heart related diseases.
- Enhanced Charisma - Some people just can't stay mad at you.
- Evil Empowerment - Let the darkness guide you.
- Good Immunity - Resist good by a heart of pure evil.
- Hate Empowerment - People do crazy things when angry.
- Inner Darkness Externalization - Feel the darkness as it smothers the light around you.
- Powers Via Object - If object requires malice of heart.
Associations
- 2nd Heart
- Ambition Manipulation
- Artificial Heart
- Corruption Manipulation
- Guardianship
- Heart Entity Physiology
- Indomitable Will
- Strong Heart
- Strong Soul
Limitations
- May be incapable of good, even by their own fluition.
- May possess an unstable existence as "shadow cannot exist without light."
- May be vulnerable to Purification.
Known Users
Western Television
- Rumpelstiltkin (Once Upon a Time)
- Lilith Page/Lily (Once Upon a Time)
Western Animation
- King Sombra (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
Video Games
- Vanitus (Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep)
- Lilith (Darksiders 2)
Gallery
Due to hundreds of years worth of evil deeds, Mr. Gold/Rumpelstiltskin (Once Upon a Time) suffers from a heart clouded by darkness, his heart being consumed by it until there was nothing left but the darkness.
In order to keep Emma's fate devoid of evil, her parents transferred her opportunity for darkness into Maleficent's unborn daughter Lily (Once Upon a Time), her life forever cursed with darkness and bad choices.
King Sombra (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) is the tyrannical ruler of the Crystal empire "whose heart was black as night."