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'''Darkness''' was the absence of [[light]]. According to the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]], "in the dark, we are all [[invisible]], and all [[blind]]". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Last of the Colophon (audio story)|Last of the Colophon]]'') Leela further explained that darkness needed light to define it, meaning that darkness could take form only with the presence of a source of light. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Darkness of Glass (audio story)|The Darkness of Glass]]'')

The [[Twelfth Doctor]] held a deep respect for the dark, noting that "we'd never see the [[star]]s without it". ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'')

[[Dark planet]]s were worlds which received almost no light, but which were nevertheless capable of supporting [[life]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Planet (short story)|The Dark Planet]]'')

According to [[Joseph Holman]], [[human]]ity by its nature avoided darkness, and craved the light. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Darkness of Glass (audio story)|The Darkness of Glass]]'') Indeed, not just humans but almost every species in the [[universe]], according to the [[Tenth Doctor]], had an irrational [[fear]] of the dark. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'') This was a primal fear, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'') associated with [[childhood]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]'')

The [[Sensorite]]s, due to a unique feature of their eyes, were blind in the dark and therefore terrified of it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'') The inhabitants of the [[Planet of Light]] were unused to darkness, as their world's three suns provided perpetual light. When darkness did occur, which was once every three hundred years when all three suns were [[eclipse]]d, the inhabitants would go [[madness|mad]] with fear and destroy their civilisation. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[World Without Night (comic story)|World Without Night]]'')

According to [[Owen Harper]], who had experienced [[death]], after life there was only darkness. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking (TV story)|Dead Man Walking]]'', ''[[A Day in the Death (TV story)|A Day in the Death]]'')

While darkness generally impaired [[vision]], some people, with an ability for [[night vision]], could see well in the dark. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Halflife (novel)|Halflife]]'', ''[[Tragedy Day (novel)|Tragedy Day]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Darkness of Glass (audio story)|The Darkness of Glass]]'')

Human [[eye]]s generally adapted to darkness in time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cloisters of Terror (audio story)|The Cloisters of Terror]]'') Humans could also [[evolve]] larger eyes to accommodate for complete lack of light, as they did once on a [[planet (White Ghosts)|planet]] given light only once every thousand years. [[Plant]]life on this planet also developed to grow rapidly, through [[photosynthesis]], during this brief span of [[sunlight]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[White Ghosts (audio story)|White Ghosts]]'') [[Gallifreyan]]s could also see far better in the dark than [[human]]s could, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|Timewyrm: Genesys]]'', ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') whereas humans could adjust better to darkness than [[Sensorite]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'')

The [[Vashta Nerada]], as creatures of [[shadow]], thrived in the dark, while light could easily drive them away. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'' / ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Vashta Nerada (audio story)|Day of the Vashta Nerada]]'')

Conversely, the [[Shadow Demon]] could only act when sufficient light allowed for darkness. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Darkness of Glass (audio story)|The Darkness of Glass]]'')

In her attempts to return to [[N-Space]], [[Rose Tyler]] observed a "darkness" spreading through realities. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]],'' ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')