Pkmn:Darkrai (character)

Darkrai ダークライ
Character's information
Location
Species	Darkrai
Gender	Male
Age
Status	Alive
Family
Occupation
Title
Background information
Earliest Mystery Dungeon appearance	Explorers TD (2007)
Latest Mystery Dungeon appearance	Super MD (2015)
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Designed by

Darkrai (Japanese: ダークライ, Darkrai) is a character in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. He made his debut appearance in  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness in 2007.

Darkrai is the true main antagonist of the Explorers Titles, preferring to operate in secrecy and shadows. Darkrai pulls strings like a puppet master, instead of getting his own hands dirty.

Biography

Personality

Darkrai is a mysterious character in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games; he's cunning, smart, and does whatever it takes to reach his goal of turning the world in darkness and ruling it. He doesn't feel emotion for others nor does care what happens to Pokémon after the world is turned to darkness. Darkrai is a mastermind of events, so he likes to stay behind the scenes, though he's not afraid to take matters into his own hands.

History

Explorers Titles

Darkrai wants to turn the world into darkness by destroying Temporal Tower and destroying time itself, though not seen in the main story, he later explains that he was the one behind it all. Darkrai also was the one that turned the Hero into a Pokémon, and also separated Grovyle and the hero during their time travel before the start of the story.

In the Post-credits story, he tries to destroy space. He disguises himself as Cresselia, to make Palkia believe that the hero and the Partner are the enemies only to be saved by the real Cresselia. The next time he's seen is in Dark Crater Pit, where he tries to mind control, the Hero only for them to resist. After his failed mind-control attempt, a fight is started. After being defeated in the fight by the Hero, their Partner, and Cresselia, Darkrai tries to escape, only for Palkia to attack. Palkia's attack causes Darkrai to lose his memory. He can later be found in dungeons and recruited, with no memory of his past or actions.

Appearances

Animations

Team Go-Getters	Time and Darkness	Beyond Time and Darkness	Gates to Infinity			Special Videos
			1	2	3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗

Games

Darkrai appears in  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness. Darkrai appears in  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. Darkrai appears in  Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon. He can join the player's team. He's not connected to anyone in the Connection Orb.

Rescue Team			Explorers			Adventure Squad			Gates to Infinity		Super MD
Red	Blue	DX	Time	Darkness	Sky	Blazing	Stormy	Light
✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗		✓

Manga

Ginji's Rescue Team	Explorers of Time and Darkness	Blazing Exploration Team	Go! Expedition Society Juniors!
✗	✗	✗	✗

Gallery

For all of the Darkrai art used across the wiki, see: Category:Darkrai

Official Artwork

• 

  Explorers of Sky guidebook official artwork.

GamesPortraits

• 

  (2007)
  Darkrai in Explorers of Time and Darkness.

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  (2007)
  Darkrai Portrait in Explorers of Time and Darkness.

Trivia

• Despite being referred to as a male in the story of the Explorers titles, Darkrai doesn't have a gender in gameplay, as most Legendary Pokémon don't.

In Other Languages

Language		Name
English		Darkrai
Japanese		ダークライ Darkrai
French		Darkrai
Spanish		Darkrai
German		Darkrai
Italian		Darkrai
Korean		다크라이 Darkrai

References

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