In Computer and Video Games
- In several games produced by Square, including Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, and Final Fantasy X, dark matter exists as a powerful magical element, enabling certain kinds of major attacks.
- In Quake 4, the most powerful weapon is called the Dark Matter Gun.
- In many of the Kirby videogames, Dark Matter is an evil entity from space that possesses characters, such as King Dedede, to do its bidding.
- In the video game, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Samus Aran's "Dark Beam" fires blasts of Dark Matter. The beam consists of a cloudy purple aura which (when fully charged) has the capacity to immobilize certain hostile entities in dark matter.
- In Shining Soul II and Golden Sun: The Lost Age, dark matter is used in forging very powerful but cursed equipment.
- In Universe at War: Earth Assault, the Masari use Dark Matter as a weapon. Dark Matter is also used as shielding for the Masari in the form of Dark Matter armour.
- In the game Super Mario Galaxy, there is dark matter in Bowser's Dark Matter Plant. It is portrayed as a purple-black fluid that disintegrates Mario upon contact, killing him instantly.
- In the Nintendo DS game, Draglade, Dark Matter is a substance that can control living being's minds.
- In Turok: Evolution, there are Dark Matter Cubes that can be used as weapons. In one form, they disintegrate whatever touches the explosion. In its second form, it sucks everything in its radius in.
- In the Dark•Matter campaign setting for Alternity and d20 Modern dark matter influences the power and frequency of paranormal phenomena and psionic abilities in humans.
- In the game LittleBigPlanet, dark matter is used as a material for making things float and can be used as an anchor to hang things off of.
- In the game series Mass Effect, dark matter and subsequently dark energy is manifested in the form of "Element Zero" and used for Faster than Light travel and seemingly instantaneous transportation across light years.
- In League of Legends, a character by the name of Veigar has an ability known as "Dark Matter", which summons a dark meteor/orb of matter to fall from the sky after a short delay, severely injuring whoever is struck by it.
- In Hybrid (Video Game), players join one of two factions, the Paladins and the Variants, in a large global conflict over control of dark matter as an energy source.
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