Darkus

For the Bakugan: Battle Brawlers Green Ability Card version, see Darkus (Card).

Darkus refers to elemental power of shadow and dark energy. Bakugan that belong to Darkus have a wide variety of shapes, from quadrapedal dragons to floating eyes and demons.

Legacy

Original symbol

Darkus, Darkon (ダークオン, Dākuon^?) in the Japanese version, is the attribute of Darkness found on Bakugan.

Gameplay

Darkus Bakugan have a large variety of G-Powers and Ability Cards so there are many ways to use them. The strongest Bakugan of this Attribute is a Scaboid with 1300 Gs. The current Soldiers are Alpha Hydranoid, Knight Percival, Linehalt, Infinity Helios, Orbeum, and Skytruss.

Attribute Relations

• Diagonal Relation - Pyrus
• Side Relation - Aquos and Haos
• Triple Node - Ventus and Subterra

Bakugan Battle Brawlers

Exedra was the Legendary Soldier of Darkus, until he gave his Attribute energy to Percival and then the Bakugan evolved to Knight Percival.

Notable Users

Brawler	Partner Bakugan
Alice Gehabich/Masquerade	Reaper, Hydranoid → Dual Hydranoid → Alpha Hydranoid
Ace Grit	Percival → Knight Percival
Shadow Prove	Hades, MAC Spider
Ren Krawler	Linehalt
Barodius/Mag Mel	Dharak → Phantom Dharak → Razenoid → Evolved Razenoid
Anubias	Horridian
Spectra Phantom	Infinity Helios
Chris	Clawsaurus
Wiseman	Betadron, Mutabrid, Kodokor
Shun Kazami	Skytruss & Orbeum
Marduk *From the Bakugan: Battle Brawlers video game	Vladitor → Battle Ax Vladitor

Bakugan Dimensions

Darkus playstyle in Bakugan Dimensions was unique because its Gate Cards were stackable; so if you play one on top of another, the first one would not be dispelled. Most of these gates also boost the power of Darkus attacks. They could also drain stats and ignore defenses, but they also didn't have any fast attacks without having prerequisite stat advantages (i.e. winning in agility).

Their Fighting Styles were:

• Darkness Falls
• Darkness Falls 2
• Solemn Night
• Balance of Power
• Strike from Shadow
• Gate Controller
• Darkened Waves (Darkus and Aquos)
• Light in the Shadow (Haos and Darkus)

BakuTech! Bakugan

Brawler	Partner Bakugan
Raichi Kuronashi	Destroy Munikis → Zero Munikis → Hollow Munikis → Zeta Munikis , Sechs Tavanel
Zakuro	Dio Sivac, Bone Skuls, Seis Tavanel, Sanzu Hollowbos
BB	Infinity Dragonoid
Karashina	Borg Mahisas
Shade of Odos	Dagger Odos
"Zakuro"	Seis Tavanel

Color Scheme

Darkus has a color scheme of a black body with purple trim, with mainly red, light blue, yellow and green as the third colors. Sometimes the colors may include gold and silver.

Comparision between Darkus energy color from Season 1-2 and Season 3-4

There are also Flip Darkus Bakugan that are mainly purple with black trim and mainly white with black trim.

The Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders color scheme is still mainly black, but with sickly green highlights instead of purple, though purple remains a tertiary color.

Trivia

• The symbol of the Darkus attribute is derived from the Han character for darkness, 闇 (yami, 闇^?).
• In the Battle Brawlers series:
  • Only three female characters use this attribute: Alice Gehabich, Taylor, and Chris.
  • Only Spectra is dressed with a costume of a single color: black, in his Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge appearance.
  • The majority of Darkus brawlers are either antagonists or redeemed antagonists; the only exception is Ace Grit.
  • The only main antagonists that did not use Darkus were both from New Vestroia: Spectra Phantom (arc 1) and Zenoheld (arc 2), both of whom used Pyrus.
  • More than half of the Baku Sky Raiders that appear are Darkus-attributed.

Reboot

Darkus (ダーカス, Dākasu^?) is one of the six elemental Factions that Bakugan can belong to. It is the Faction of dark energy. The region on Vestroia where Darkus Bakugan reside is known as Darkavia.

New Darkus Symbol

Notable Users

Brawler	Partner Bakugan
Lightning	Howlkor (Main) Artulean Phaedrus Tretorous Ferascal (Main during Geogan Rising) Geogan Montrapod
Magnus Black	Nillious Fangzor Webam Eenoch Geogan Hyenix
Kurin	Garganoid Nobillious Skorporos Krakelios
Strata the Hunter	Skorporos
Cee	Mantonoid
Col. Armstrong Tripp	Cloptor
Everett Ray	Garganoid Centipod Geogan Sluggler Demorc Oxidox Geogan Ghost Beast

Independent
Ninjiton

Physical Game

Gameplay

For a list of all cards in the Darkus Faction, see Category:Darkus Cards.

Released Bakugan

Battle Planet

For the list of all released Darkus Battle Planet Bakugan, see Bakulog (Battle Planet)#Darkus.

Armored Alliance

For the list of all released Darkus Armored Alliance Bakugan, see Bakulog (Armored Alliance)#Darkus.

Geogan Rising

For the list of all released Darkus Geogan Rising Bakugan, see Bakulog (Geogan Rising)#Darkus.

Etymology

The root word for this attribute in both English and Japanese is the English word dark, which itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic word derkaz.

Notably, this is the only attribute whose name is derived from an English word.