Dark Ages - TV Tropes (2024)

"Dark Ages" is a term for the period in European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 to circa 1000, where there is a perception of little intellectual development culturally and the few surviving records of what happened still leave a lot of things unanswered.

You may be interested in the following pages:

• Dark Age Europe, for the historical period as a setting of fiction.
• The Dark Age of Animation, a period from the late 1950s to the early '80s.
• The Dark Age of Comic Books, a period from 1986 to the late 1990s during which comic books trended toward Darker and Edgier content
• Dark Ages, a 1991 Brit Com
• Dark Ages, a 1991 MS-DOS game developed Scenario Software and published as shareware by Apogee Software
• Dark Ages, a 1999 MMORPG by Nexon and KRU Interactive
• Dark Ages, a Ukrainian Ambient band formed in 2004
• Dark Ages, a 2021 6-issue mini-series by Marvel Comics

See also:

• Audience-Alienating Era, a period in a franchise where either a dramatic change of direction or style or a period of stagnation failed to gain traction with the audience, sometimes referred to the “dark age” of a franchise.

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