Lord Darkar

Title: Shadow Phoenix

Class: Deity

Gender: Male

Affiliation: Trix

Powers and Abilities: Umbrakinesis, Shadow Minion Manipulation, Dark Magic, Shapeshifting, Passive Magic Absorption, Metamorphosymbiosis, Realix's Ultimate Power (briefly)

Relationships: Trix (former minions)

Pet: Keborg

Lord Darkar is the main antagonist of Season 2 and is also known as the Prince of Darkness and the Shadow Phoenix. He has only appeared in Season 2, but makes a few cameo appearances in Season 3 and Season 4, and the Season 5 trailer.

Lord Darkar is an ancient deity of pure darkness who was born in the void from before the beginning of the universe and who is the polar opposite of the Great Dragon. Therefore, while the Great Dragon is a source of light, life and energy, and represents Good, Lord Darkar absorbs energy.

It Lord Darkar was the master of the Ancestral Witches and Valtor, and was the one who initially sent them to seek the Dragon's Flame from Domino, therefore being the cause of its destruction, as well as the ultimate cause of most of the events taking place in the first three seasons, the two Movies, and indirectly, the events in Season 4 since the Winx came to Earth after the Wizards attacked Bloom thinking, that she was the last Earth Fairy, having sensed her fairy energy in Gardenia, where she had been sent because Domino was destroyed on Darkar's orders.

Taking into consideration the retcons that started in season 5, he is indirectly responsible for the curse of Sirenix since the Ancestral Witches were his minions at the time, which turned Daphne into spirit without a body. In season 8, he is also indirectly responsible with Valtor's continued survival and who drained many stars of their light, Valtor eventually sought the power of the Wishing Star bringing the Magic Dimension under his threat once again.

Appearance

Darkar looks glowing red and wears armor over his seemingly skeletal body. He also has torn, red glowing fabric on the back of him. It is not possible to see his eyes during the show but they occasionally glow like fire with small pupils or they momentarily lightens with a red spark. His color palette is akin to that of dried blood.

Personality

Darkar is evil, cruel, destructive, violent, cunning, arrogant, manipulative. He did not believe the Winx to be a threat even though they destroyed him. Darkar cares very little about his followers, as he was only using the Trix to get the Ultimate Power, and banished them when they were of no more use to him. Unlike other Winx villains, he rarely does anything himself, as after releasing the Trix he has them, Kerborg, Shadow Avalon, and his monsters do all the dirty work for him until he turns Bloom evil and enters Realix.

Comics

Winx Club

Issue 20: An Evil Wind takes place after the defeat of Lord Darkar. The Specialists clear his castle of dark monsters, and Icy complains that what happened to them is his fault.

Pixie

In Word Magic, Darkar first appears in a flashback when the Pixies remember him kidnapping them, and they also remember his assistants, the Trix. The Tree of Life visualized their images and they attacked the Pixies, but they were then able to visualize the Winx in the Enchantix, so the visualizations of Darkar and the Trix were defeated and disappeared.

Games

Season 2

In both Winx Club: Quest for the Codex and Winx Club: Join the Club, in Relix, the Winx battle Darkar in his phoenix form and destroy him once and for all.

Books

In Il nemico e in pericolo, it was mentioned that the Trix redeemed themselves when they helped defeat Lord Darkar.

Magical Abilities

Lord Darkar is capable of creating his own army of shadow monsters and even shadow clones of people like he does with Avalon. He also turned Bloom into Dark Bloom by using his dark magic/energy. He can fire powerful dark energy beams and create energy shields, and energy bubbles to confine the pixies.

Darkar also has demonstrated t