Damien Darkblood - Why he matters

I think people really underestimate him, he though of everything, leaving clues behind in their house for someone to find.

The thing is, Damians impact on the shows events are actually important. Before he had been sent home by cecil he left behind his notes for debbie to find, not unlike the character he riffs from Rorschach’s journal containing the truth at the end of watchman. Leading omnimans own wife to crack the case in the demons place and force the false hero accelerate his plans and go at odds with cecil. It wasn’t darkbloods hand that solved the case, but he left juuust enough impact to force the rest of the cast to be pulled out of secrecy.

He's there so the audience isn't left completely hanging. Someone who's there voicing what the audience knows, while we look forward to it being revealed to the whole cast. Without Darkblood we would all be eagerly waiting, and frustrated by the lack of acknowledgement for 7-8 episodes.

"We didn't kill him, we just sent him back to Hell" "....Isn't that worse?" ^_^

His definitely got to come back

It’s amazing how a show can reuse the most popular character archetypes and still be successful...

I don't think the show is done with him just yet, at least that's the impression I was given. After he was sent back to hell, they showed that something of his presence was still in the Grayson's closet.

Damien Darkblood should become his own series, damn I loved that character.

Damien darkblood, perhaps more than most characters embodies the undercurrent of unfairness within the series and comics. His tragedy is pretty much a reskin of Incredible's struggle. When mark and his father butt heads in the last episode the fight is dramatic and hideous as a train wreck we cant look away from. Mark is incredibly powerful, a hero who by this point has saved the world and is arguably the next most powerful being on the planet after his father. Damien Darkblood is a powerful force for investigation and hunting down evil, probably the second best on the planet. But the gulf of power between 1 and 2 is just as stark between Damien and Cecil as it is between son and father. Damien never had a chance either. And it is a dark reflection that this kind of dynamic is all over the place in the show, and in real life. Everyone has a talent, but not everyone is einstein or Lincoln. Every kid knows it. There is always that one mid who no one can touch on the football field, or knows more than everyone else in science, or finished the math homework while in class because she was bored. Its neat to see it in multiple times from multiple contexts within one series

I’m happy they aren’t staying to close to the comics I love Darkblood and I know they didn’t bite Clancy brown for 9 minutes

I love how he talks with broken English and his accent. I laughed at 90 percent of his dialogue.

Seeing Damian sent back to hell hurt, low-key my favourite character

I think Darkblood's character exists to tell the viewer to complicate their thinking. Characters in this show are not going to be black and white. They have many motivations and ideas that cause them to operate in the gray most of the time

I also think that Darkblood is a pretty solid noir detective character akin to J.J. Gittes from Chinatown. Gittes sticks his nose in an investigation, nearly losing it. He then loses his love interest by the end, accomplishing nothing and actively making the situation worse. Darkblood literally gets sent to hell for doing something noble. That kind of hopeless pessimism is a huge staple of film noir

One of the best characters in an animated series. Such a badass

His concept alone is so interesting, he could carry his own show.

This character needed more and he needs a story explaining about what happened to him

I love his character and when cartoons do the whole film noir thing, so cool. I feel like firstly he's got some serious skills at least in the comics, so far as he seems nearly immortal. I feel his backstory is super interesting too. Also I feel like he's probably done plenty of good before his time on the show. I imagine he's a world renowned detective.

I view the whole conflict between Damian and Cecil as a retelling of the objective morality vs moral relativism. Remember rorschach died in Watchmen cause he was unwilling to go along with ozzy's plan to trick the world into peace. Damian similarly refuses to look the other way when he knows the truth

We need him back......