Jackie’s reference is the Darkness from the Darkness Game series The Darkness II is a first-person shooter video game developed by Digital Extremes. The game is the sequel to The Darkness and based on the comic book series published by Top Cow Productions. The player controls Jackie Estacado, a mafia hitman who possesses a mysterious power called "the Darkness" that grants him supernatural abilities and a pair of Demon Arms. Jackie Estacado is the current human host of the Darkness, which awakened within him on the night of his 21st birthday. Jackie is an Italian-American ex-contract killer of the Franchetti crime family led by his "uncle" Paulie Franchetti. Jackie spent the two years learning about The Darkness, as well as how to contain him. Darkness is the soul of the void of chaos which predates Creation. When God allowed the light into the emptiness, the Darkness was pushed back and forgotten. Driven mad by bitterness, the Darkness took possession of living human vessels, tearing its way through human history. She is a purely malevolent demonic entity of some kind and is clearly a sociopathic creature which only gets pleasure from negative emotions, killing any non innocent human being, and the sexual appeal of some human females. The entity is extremely cunning and violent, able to manipulate its hosts into doing its bidding. It also has a sadistic personality, taunting and insulting its hosts as well as tormenting and violently executing its enemies. It views humans in a manner similar to animals and will blatantly refuse to manifest in areas with multiple civilians. Having lived through thousands of human hosts, each more sadistic and violent than the other, caused the Darkness to go completely insane. The Darkness is the antithesis of the Angelus (Light) in every way; including their requirements for possessing a vessel. Whereas the Darkness requires the body of a man to manifest on Earth, the Angelus requires the body of a woman. The purposes for this preference in gender is unclear.