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The Darkbane are a race of demonic beings found in the Deep Caverns under Slugterra, serving as one of the main antagonistic factions of Season One and Return of the Elementals. Their main goal is to conquer SlugTerra in order to reach the surface.

Biography[]

The Darkbane are ghoulish creatures living below Slugterra in the Deep Caverns, with plans to conquer Slugterra and then the surface world! Luckily the gateway between the Deep Caverns and Slugterra is protected by the Guardian Slugs.

Appearance[]

Given their skull-like faces, burning red eyes, horns, finlike ears, and fire-based powers (and habitat being deep underground), it's possible that these beings are the basis of surface-dwelling humans' legends about demons. Though it is more likely that the show creators were inspired by traits of demons in the Abrahamic religions when making the Darkbane.

Abilities[]

  • Some Banes have been show to throw lava with their hands, while others use staffs.
  • Immunity to Dark Water: They are either immpervious to the affects of dark water or else already effected by it, able to retain their higher minds in a way Slugs don't.
  • Shapeshifting: Banes, or at least El Diablos Nacho, have limited shape-shifting abilities.  They can change looks, but retain telling traits such as shape, greyed skin, red eyes, and pointed ears.

Weaknesses[]

  • Ghoul Slugs
  • Slug Energy: At least in so much. As they can't get through the barrier powered by Guardian Slugs.
  • Frightgeist Slugs: In "Deadweed" Eli successfully hit El Diablos Nacho with a Frightgeist, where he'd previously shaken off the effects of other Slugs, including being frozen by a Frostcrawler.
  • Fire: Able to ward off most attacks from Slugs, Dark Bane can not go through an Infurnus' flame wall.  Very effective against a single Bane, but not a particularly exploitable weakness when dealing with large numbers of them.

Named Darkbane & Their Positions[]

Appearances[]

Trivia[]

  • In "Light as Day", Brimstone refer to the Shadow Clan as "cousins", implying that the two species are rather closely related. It is also possible that the dark bane Shadow Clan and Elves are all related sharing similar features such as the pointed ears human like postures enchanced physicals prowess, knowledge of slug terra and unnaturally long lives.
  • Dr. Blakk has referred to them as backward and naive, but considering their knowledge of the surface this is obviously false. This likely came from the fact he easily manipulated into going along with his plan of escaping the deep caverns as he himself stated. "They'll do anything when the hint of escape is dangled in front of them"'

Etamology[]

  • The word Bane means "something that causes ruin" so their names likely mean "Dark bringers of ruin".
    • It is worth noting however that when bane is put at the end of a word it usually means it brings destruction to that thing, so their names could mean "Destroyers of darkness", this is most likely an accident.

Gallery[]

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