History Main / OurDarkMatterIsMysterious

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': Dark Matter is the game's most powerful gemstone, doing a fixed 9999 damage to any target, in a game where the highest boss HP is 65,535. It's also very hard to obtain as there are only a few sources in the entire game, one of them being the {{Superboss}} Ozma.

* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' introduces the Dark Multiverse to the DCU, a realm of dark matter and dark energy inhabited by nightmarish versions of various heroes.
* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, people with CastingAShadow powers sometimes refer to the weird shady stuff they summon as "dark matter". It seems to drain all light and heat from the immediate vicinity, and can vary in consistency between "syrupy" and "hits like a bullet from a compressed air gun".

* ''Literature/Aeon14'': FasterThanLightTravel is accomplished by transitioning to [[SubspaceOrHyperspace an alternate layer of spacetime]] called the dark layer where dark matter has physical form. Dark matter is depicted as pure unadulterated mass that drifts like icebergs according to gravity patterns and tends to be denser inside star systems. It's also fed on by {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that live in the dark layer and have been known to eat ships as well. As such, it's very dangerous to transit into the dark layer inside a star system.

-->'''Kakine''': The Dark Matter that I produce is a substance that does not exist in this world. I don't mean it hasn't been discovered, but that it should ''theoretically'' exist; I mean, it actually does not exist. Matter that doesn't exist operates under laws which don't exist. Like say, turning the light from the sun into rays that can kill a man.

* Parodied in one of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books, where, after discussing the notion of a mysterious form of matter that makes up most of the universe, the narrator concludes that it must be the paperwork.

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'' uses dark matter as its go-to AppliedPhlebotinum for SuperEmpowering. If there's a metahuman then chances are they were hit by dark matter at some point. Most notably the STAR Labs [[MagicalParticleAccelerator Particle Accelerator]] explosion was a MassSuperEmpoweringEvent that released dark matter all over Central City.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E12DarkMatters Dark Matters]]", the commercial transport ship ''Nestor'' is thrown out of hyperspace into a starless void. In this void, they find a huge quantity of dark matter and two ships, the UNS ''Slayton'' and an alien ship. Everyone on both of those ships is dead. An apparition of Captain John Owens of the ''Slayton'' appears to the crew of the ''Nestor'' and tells them that their "souls" are trapped in the pocket of space created by the dark matter. As such, they cannot move on to whatever comes next, whether that be Heaven, Hell or oblivion. The same fate has befallen the aliens.

* Dark matter is featured in the MMO ''Ogame'' as the in-game currency. It can be bought with real money and is often found when you send ships in expedition missions.

* From ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
** Parodied in [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1212-j SCP-1212-J]] where it's pointlessly included in the object just because it's cool.
** Played straight in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2460 SCP-2460]] where the Black Knight satellite is an agglomeration of thousands of normal matter objects that were anomalously converted into dark matter and since they only interact via gravity, phase through each other constantly.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': An evil clone of Jimmy Neutron once duplicated the entire planet and everyone on it, but used a "dark matter chip" to turn the whole dupe-Earth into a world of {{Card Carrying Villain}}s. After he snapped the chip in frustration, it unleashed a huge black billowy cloud that began to swallow everything around it.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has a whole story arc about a race of beings from Andromeda made of "dark matter", with which the Milky Way galaxy is currently at war. Other than the whole being alive thing their [[ShownTheirWork pretty close to how dark matter is believed to actually work]] given that they are invisible, low density enough that they can grow to the size of planets, and interact with the baryonic universe mostly by gravity.

* In the ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'' campaign setting, the Earth passes through a high concentration of dark matter. The total amount of magical and psionic energy increases and gates to other dimensions open up, allowing weird monsters to come through.