The Darkness is a dark, monstrous and malevolent force of nature that threatens the very existence of the magic world of Coventry and it plays a major role in the 2005 Disney Channel Original Movie Twitches based on the Twitches book series by Scholastic Press. Thantos DuBaer was the one behind the Darkness and its attacks on the mystic kingdom as he tries to usurp the throne from his good brother King Aron and seeks to destroy his own nieces.