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[[AC: Spinoff/Reboot Films]] [[note]]not technically part of the Dark Universe but reboots of the same IP, often with plans outright taken from them[[/note]]
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* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: The Egyptian God Set, who is also {{Satan}}. By the end of ''The Mummy'', he remained sealed inside Nick Morton.]]
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* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Egyptian God Set, who is also {{Satan}}. By the end of ''The Mummy'', he remained sealed inside Nick Morton.]]
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* VillainProtagonist: AvertedTrope. The monsters who are truly evil were set to be antagonists in the films. How this would have played out for each monster would have been determined as the franchise went on, if it had.
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* VillainProtagonist: AvertedTrope.{{Averted|Trope}}. The monsters who are truly evil were set to be antagonists in the films. How this would have played out for each monster would have been determined as the franchise went on, if it had.
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->''"Welcome to a new world of gods and monsters."''
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And then ''The Mummy'' came out, underperformed at the box office, and was panned by critics. After over a year of silence about the project, Universal announced in January 2019 that the Dark Universe [[StillbornFranchise was completely scrapped]] in favor of letting directors work on smaller, individual projects starring the classic Universal horror characters. This led to a theoretical third iteration of the Dark Universe in all but name, starting in 2020 with [[Film/TheInvisibleMan2020 a smaller-budget reboot]] of ''The Invisible Man'' co-produced by Creator/{{Blumhouse|Productions}}, written and directed by Leigh Whannell (''Franchise/{{Saw}}'', ''Film/{{Upgrade}}''), and made without the involvement of Johnny Depp. That film's success led to the repurposing of an earlier Dark Universe concept as a comedy in 2023's ''Film/{{Renfield}}.''
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And then ''The Mummy'' came out, underperformed at the box office, and was panned by critics. After over a year of silence about the project, Universal announced in January 2019 that the Dark Universe [[StillbornFranchise was completely scrapped]] in favor of letting directors work on smaller, individual projects starring the classic Universal horror characters. This led to a theoretical third iteration of the Dark Universe in all but name, starting in 2020 with [[Film/TheInvisibleMan2020 a smaller-budget reboot]] of ''The Invisible Man'' co-produced by Creator/{{Blumhouse|Productions}}, written and directed by Leigh Whannell (''Franchise/{{Saw}}'', ''Film/{{Upgrade}}''), and made without the involvement of Johnny Depp. That film's success led to the repurposing of an earlier Dark Universe concept as a comedy in 2023's ''Film/{{Renfield}}.''Film/{{Renfield|2023}}.''
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To the classic Franchise/UniversalHorror films, [[UrExample the earliest example]] of a SharedUniverse in cinema. The classic Universal Horror monsters were loosely connected through crossover films. Following ''The Mummy'' there has been some consideration as to whether the franchise would have needed to follow the modern "cinematic universe" model [[TropeCodifier as codified by]] the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse or blend closer to the original as it goes on. However while the setting over this door is closed, its replacements might very well still make the shift themselves.
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In 2024, it was announced that the Dark Universe branding would be resurrected for a horror-themed section of Ride/UniversalStudios’ Epic Universe expansion to their Orlando resort.
